Stuff I saw on the internet last week: "the microwave in the lunch room was coin-activated."
Happy Monday all! Sorry I didn’t write more last week, but honestly, I still haven’t really been doing very much except watch Dimension 20, which is delightful and compelling as hell. When I hyper fixate, I really hyper fixate. But I DID still see things on the internet last week, so here we go.
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TWEETS!
REDDIT!
This one has it all: Violating boundaries! Projecting your own issues onto a completely different situation! Blaming your wife for your mistakes!
I just thought that my wife and MIL were stuck in this conflict and needed one meeting to at least open up to tackle this issue. Especially before our son is born.
I arranged for dinner at a restaurant on mother's day. My wife thought it was just 2 of us but I kept giving her hints about the person I was expecting. My MIL arrived and next thing I knew my wife got up from her seat and started yelling infront of everybody. I told her that her mom tried many times to reconcile but she was being unfair with her grudge holding attitude and not giving her a chance for a sincere talk.
This thread about weddings that were ruined is a weird combination of funny stories and just really, really sad stories — here’s a funny one, though:
my ex-wife's grandmother was in her 90s, in a wheelchair. While we're up at the alter, she won't shut up about the flowers and they might need water. She's not talking quietly to her neighbor, she's yelling in her old lady voice. She didn't have dementia, she was very with it ... she had no volume control or what she was doing was inappropriate. She thought the flowers need water. THEY LOOK TERRIBLE!! She yelled. One of the cousins, without saying anything, got up and started to just wheel her out. WHERE ARE WE GOING?!?!?? She yelled. We all got chuckle at grandma and went on with the ceremony.
Speaking of weddings, this person held a family dinner the same night as their sister’s wedding (?!) and doesn’t understand why she’s mad:
The wedding began at 11 am and the dinner was scheduled to begin at 5pm. I do live about an hour from the venue, so I knew most people would be on the road by 4 pm but I figured that seeing as the wedding started at 11, 5 hours would be plenty of time for everyone to visit and mingle with Jess at the actual wedding.
At around 4:30 Jess called me, completely irate, yelling, swearing and just generally saying harsh things about how I’d stolen her guests and ruined her day in multiple ways, especially since I didn’t invite her and Jay to the dinner (again, the fiancé that I don’t get along with).
Another wedding one (this theme isn’t on purpose, I swear) of families crossing boundaries:
my mother-in-law invited us to the wedding of one of her friends as proof that all was forgotten [after we elopes]. she said she would pick us up so that we wouldn’t get lost which was weird, but we didn’t suspect anything.
The day of the wedding we arrived at the location and see that everything is still being putting up so we figured we were a bit early and should help but then I saw my family and some of my in-laws, turns out it was OUR wedding and they had planned it to be a surprise they already had a dress, church, food, dj, everything. Of course, we were shocked as we were very vocal that this is not something we wanted then they told us that since we were driven there, we wouldn’t be able to leave and should just be grateful. Here the story becomes too long to fit the 3000 limit so too summarize we called a friend to pick us up and we left.
Hoooooly shit this woman fucking sucks:
This Saturday I turn 19, and my dad and she came to give me my present early. She got me a dress that was extremely tiny, like an XS (When I am visibly an L), and she proceeds to tell me "Happy early birthday! I bought it 1 size smaller so you can motivate yourself into losing some weight, so no need to have cake today or Saturday haha. And no exchange is possible so you can have more motivation!".
A good thread about people who quit their jobs on their first day and why:
When the microwave in the lunch room was coin activated.
TUMBLR!
(via sratwars, thread found here.)
(via corpish, thread found here.)
(via al-jamilsisters, thread found here.)
(via just-shower-thoughts, thread found here.)
(via thefingerfuckingfemalefury.)
TIKTOKS!
Possibly the greatest T-shirt ever made.
The Ontario Summer version of the “one of you will betray me tonight” meme.
“Asking my boyfriend to do a task that makes no sense.”
A kitten who really wants some string cheese.
LOOK AT THE LITTLE BABY.
That is one impressive cranium.
The story of Tammy the Face Ghost.
“Proving my theory that you can do the Macarena to any song.”
“I just learned that red face paint stains skin…”
No, wait, THIS might be the greatest T-shirt ever made.
ARTICLES!
DIARY: Shouts, a hurried evacuation, and then the bombs came, AP News
Long Before Divorce, Bill Gates Had Reputation for Questionable Behavior, New York Times
‘The Woman in the Window’ Should Never Have Seen the Light of Day, The Ringer
‘Dazed and Confused’ and Hooking Up, The Ringer
Myspace Tom got it right, The Verge
Lil Nas X: 'At first I felt a sense of responsibility. But now I just don't care', GQ
The Crucifixion of Courtney Stodden, The Verge
That’s all for me today, gorgeous. Talk to you soon.
Love,
Kat
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