Stuff I saw on the internet last week: "youe fooule…. youe insouelente cowèurde"
It’s Monday again! But it’s a very special Monday for me, because I’m actually getting my second dose of the vaccine today, and I am so fucking pumped. And now, stuff from the internet!
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TWEETS!
REDDIT!
Jesus Christ, this guy:
I told my husband that I've put his portion aside for when he got back from the gym so he could go ahead and eat if me and the girls were going to be late. I called him at the salon and he said he got home and had his dinner and was doing some work in his office.
At 8 p.m. me and the girls returned home and I quickly went into the kitchen to reheat dinner because we were so hungry I opened the fridge and the food I prepared was gone. I asked him and he said he felt hungry after eating early and ate our dinner. I was angry, kept thinking what we were going to eat. I kept looking for other option and when I asked about other foods he kept shaking his head saying we already ran out of this and ran out of that. I bluntly said he was selfish to eat the girls dinner. He said he couldn't help it, he's always hungry.
Holy shit, this is scary and I would have kicked him out the first night:
His plane ticket was only $50 and he said when I picked him up at the airport that he’d bought a one-way ticket. That made me uneasy because I’d assumed he’d be here for just Memorial Day weekend. I insisted that he leave the weekend after Memorial Day at the absolute latest, but he said he wanted to keep his options open and would book a flight later. I wanted him to leave after Memorial Day weekend was over because I have a busy job. He wanted to stay longer because the plane ride was 2 hours each way (aka a long one)…
After I told him he had to leave, he sobbed and called me “terrible” for making him buy an overpriced return plane ticket ($100) for the next day. He said I misled him by influencing him to think I wanted to be his girlfriend and that he came all the way to visit me (and I live near DC where there’s a lot to do) and not to see landmarks.
You know it’s gonna be bad when the parent immediately describes their kids as angels (click here to view the whole conversation):
Ah, having a personal problem and making it someone else’s problem:
My wannabe chef brain can't really handle anything less than everyone gobbling down excessive portions of my food and telling me how great it was. If I don't get that, I will actually get anxious and start overthinking how I prepared the dinner to figure out what I did wrong for that person to not like my meal…
The next time I spoke to Mary, I brought it up with her. I told her I thought Jake would be a better fit for my dinners, but I'd still invite her to other non-dinner type activities and get togethers.
Parentification is abuse, and I feel bad both for this girl and her siblings:
When my parents had my sister they approached being a sibling as a job and they stuck with that story for the rest of my childhood. They said it was my job to teach them things, to look out for them, look after them when needed, then it was help with homework, walk home from school and walk to friends houses when they wanted to go. Then it was my job to plan and take them out for sibling time. It would be my job to always have space and time for them, whenever they needed it. That as the big sister I owed them that.
And my siblings were more than happy with that. When I lived at home they always demanded my time or attention. I had to help with homework every day. And most of it is regular sibling stuff. But they came to expect me to drop everything for them the way a parent might. Like if they were struggling and I was in the middle of my homework I had to stop doing mine to help with theirs. Or if I had plans and they wanted to go someplace, I had to cancel my plans.
TUMBLR!
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TIKTOK!
“THERE it is.”
When there’s a hitchhiker hiding in the back seat.
I tried this with my cat and he squirmed so hard that I had to put him down before I even got him close to the wall, so he must be a genius.
Another house with a secret door.
“Do you want to watch the new Bo Burnham comedy special with me?”
“I guess I just got fired from the new Wes Anderson movie.”
Two best friends playing in the park.
“Don’t let your cat pet you and see what she does.”
“Good, how are you?”
“You can add lyrically inept to to your long list of off putting personality traits.”
ARTICLES!
People In Tulsa Are Marking 100 Years Since The Massacre That Killed Scores Of Black Residents. Some Survivors Are Still Alive, BuzzFeed News
In Aftermath of Zoom Dick Fiasco, Believer Staffers Say, Bosses Used Public Records Law Against Them, Vice
How Olivia Rodrigo Flipped The Disney Script, BuzzFeed News
“Nostalgia Is A Hell Of A Drug”: Will Gawker’s Swashbuckling Style Survive Upcoming Relaunch?, Vanity Fair
How the World Ran Out of Everything, New York Times
That’s all for me today, gorgeous! Talk to you soon.
Love,
Kat
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