Stuff I saw on the internet last week: "watering the pianos"
Happy Monday! It’s July now, so that's… the passage of time. I don’t have a snappy intro this week. Onto internet things!
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On last week’s episode of my podcast I Hate It But I Love It, Jocelyn and I concluded Hate It Bullock I Love It month (a whole month of Sandra Bullock movies) by looking back at While You Were Sleeping, a delightful romcom that manages to be both charming and creepy at the same time. And Bill Pullman is SO HOT in it! Then, for July, we’re doing Spy Movie Month, beginning this Wednesday with The Bourne Identity. You should subscribe! (You can find I Hate It But I Love It in all the usual places, including Apple, Spotify, Stitcher, and Pocket Casts.)
TWEETS!
REDDIT!
Ooh, a husband who doesn’t do any of the work but still loves to complain? Where do I sign?
My wife was chirping away on the phone last night with her sister about the new house and decorating stuff she wants to do, and I just realized how much all this gross over the top positivity is grating on me. After she hung up, I told her that. How her constant upbeat excitement is really irritating, and can she just tone it down because the house isn't even that great. She blew up at me, saying this has been a really stressful time with all the work she had to do from search to closing (admittedly, she did most of the work, I basically just signed whatever I had to sign and showed up to the closing).
An AskReddit thread on very basic knowledge that people found out way too late in life:
My 31 year-old girlfriend thought islands don’t touch the bottom of the ocean.
This is just very, very weird — even the commenters are confused:
All I wanted to do was stay over at his apartment because I was in the city that night working later than normal and I didn't want to have to book a hotel or stay at my friend R who is kinda gross and only has a futon. So I emailed the boss and he ripped me a new one. I thought it would be ok and it could potentially take our relationship to the next level, we could've chilled watching our favourite reality tv shows and I would make a few of my special burgers for him and his GF. He said it isn't normal to ask your boss to stay over and definitely not normal for me to be in his words "fantasizing" about what we'd do.
“You are NOT welcome at our wedding, but we would still like to have our wedding at your house”:
It became quite a drama and didnt hear from her for over a month until now. She told me they’re going to couples counseling and that the wedding is still on. But Rick requested that I not attend. It sucks but I totally get why he wouldn’t be comfortable. Then I asked the obvious question, where are they going to hold the wedding then? To my surprise she said they still want it at our place.
A satisfying story of pro revenge:
For several days I tried phoning until one morning he answered the phone and said "listen, I'm not ever going to pay you and there is nothing you can do about it", then Bob hung up…
She usually brings her kids over several times a week to visit and/or have my parents babysit while she goes grocery shopping or other errands. I'm not really a kid person--don't plan on having any myself, and I can tolerate hers in small doses. Before, when I lived on campus, this wasn't really an issue. Now, however, I feel like I never get a break from kids. My parents don't allow them in my room, but when they're here I can't go out and relax in the living room since they're in there. My room is fairly small, and I don't like being cooped up in it all day when they visit. Yesterday, when my sister picked up the kids, they decided to stay for dinner, which meant I had even less time without them. I asked my sister if she would limit their visits to a max of twice a week while I'm here, in order to respect my needs.
TUMBLR!
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TIKTOK!
Um, HOW would he be proven to be better, sir???
A woozy kitty still feeling the anesthesia.
This guy found his dream girl.
Watch Hank Green’s brain break.
This TikTok story is a rollercoaster and I’ve watched it three times.
Watch this one all the way to the end.
Shaming the fashion choices in the Twilight novels.
“Bro, that’s just the basis of visual sensation.”
Through careful deductive reasoning, I have tentatively concluded that this dog got into the garbage.
ARTICLES!
Police officer assessed by fake psychologist after complaining of sexual harassment, CBC (this story is NUTS)
‘Give Black people credit’: Black TikTok stars strike, demand credit for their work, L.A. Times
The Unending Allure Of the Tattoo Boyfriend and the Pretty Girlfriend, Jezebel
You Really Need to Quit Twitter, The Atlantic
“Sex/Life” Is The Worst Show I Have Ever Seen, And I Have Watched All Of Television, BuzzFeed News
‘This is a food bank now’: Workers seized a McDonald’s in France, Washington Post
The Secret History of Gavin McInnes, Vanity Fair
And ICYMI: Britney Spears’s Conservatorship Nightmare, The New Yorker
That’s all for me today, gorgeous! Talk to you soon.
Love,
Kat