Stuff I saw on the internet last week: "I am Narcissus and my little zoom square is my lake"
Happy Monday! As we usually do on Mondays ‘round these parts, let’s look at a bunch of neat stuff I saw on the internet last week.
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On last week’s episode of I Hate It But I Love It, Jocelyn and I continued Listener Request Month by talking about The Sound Of Music, specifically a lot of the liberties the movie took with the Von Trapps’ family story, how messed up it is that Maria walked down the aisle to a song about how much she sucks, and we finished the episode off by me making a joke that made Jocelyn lose her mind. You should subscribe, if you wanna be cool! (You can subscribe to I Hate It But I Love It in all the usual places, including Apple, Spotify, Stitcher, and Pocket Casts.)
I know I seem to promote Jon Blair’s sketch comedy all the time, and I am, but that’s just because he’s actually hilarious and you should know that. The final episode of Now More Than Ever is out and it’s just excellent, and you should absolutely watch it.
TWEETS!
And this last tweet is a few months old but I only just saw it and it’s one of the most delightful videos I’ve ever watched — it’s like a positive roast:
REDDIT!
Yeah, you’re an asshole for kicking your stepson out of his room so your biological daughter can move in there:
Lately, Carly has asked me if she can stay with me full time. She and her dad are just not getting on and she'd prefer living with me. This means that the majority of Carly's things will be at our place. She has a lot more things than Kyle and would most likely need more space. That's why I thought it'd be a better idea to have Kyle move into Carly's slightly smaller bedroom downstairs and Carly can move into the attic bedroom…
Kyle is not a fan of the idea and has been complaining about how he needs the space to work on his uni projects. I told him that he is more than welcome to use the dining room as we rarely ever use it and we can clean out one of the storage cupboards to store the dummies in. I think that Kyle is being a bit over dramatic about this as I'm not kicking him out into the street…
I love this video of a young man teaching a boy how to skateboard.
And this video of a man showing how to bathe a baby, using a very cooperative cat as a stand-in.
Good lord, divorce this motherfucker:
My husband and I had a conversation where my stance was "I can get past the fact that you forgot our anniversary, but you're not seriously still going to your parents' house now you know?" and his stance was "I'm sorry that I forgot but I've now made plans with them and I can't cancel last minute and it's not like we had anything special planned, and we can always do something tomorrow".
I then told him to go fuck himself, and he responded that this was clearly a hormone thing (because pregnant) and he'd talk to me once I calmed down. I then called him a prick and he left.
To quote one commenter on this post, “I have many ideas for why your girlfriend would want you to stop hugging your sister and none of them are good.”
Last night, my girlfriend (35F) was staying over, and we were sitting on the couch. [My sister] Abby said she was going to bed, so I gave her a hug. After my she went inside, my GF said that it was really weird and that I was babying Abby. She told me I shouldn’t hug Abby anymore.
Anyone whose girlfriend dresses like Miss Frizzle should thank the stars every day that they hit the goddamn jackpot:
On Friday, she helped my mom with something after work and she was still in her weird dress. I have told her before I don’t like when she dresses that way, but she tells me I don’t have to like it, but I have no right to tell her how to dress. I was upset she went out like that with my mother, and told her that my mom said she was embarrassed and to ask that she please not dress like that again if they’re going out. I was not expecting her to call my mom and apologize. When my mom asked what she meant, she told her what I said. My mom was furious, explained she doesn’t have a problem with how my girlfriend dresses and thinks it’s great she spends extra time doing things to engage her students. My mom then yelled at me for lying to my girlfriend and trying to throw her under the bus because I was being an insecure jerk.
My girlfriend and I got into a huge fight. I said she should be embarrassed to be seen in public like that. She said the only thing she was embarrassed by was me. She hasn’t spoken to me or done anything for me since.
And also, this video made my heart explode.
TUMBLR!
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ARTICLES!
‘I Love My Boyfriend, But I Can’t Trust Him With Money’, The Cut
A Nameless Hiker and the Case the Internet Can’t Crack, Wired
“Do We Serve Water in This Bar?” An Oral History of ‘Coyote Ugly’, The Ringer
How the Polls Got the Election Wrong, According to One Pollster Who Got It Right, Slate
At dinner parties and game nights, casual American life is fueling the coronavirus surge as daily cases exceed 150,000, The Washington Post
How The Nugget Couch Became Supreme Drops For Moms, BuzzFeed News
That’s all for me today, gorgeous. Talk to you soon!
Love,
Kat
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