"The guy from The Shining was a bitch."
It’s Monday! Again! Some more! It feels like we just had a Monday a week ago. Last week I finally got my under-desk treadmill repaired, and Craig was kind enough to put together my new 80”-wide electric standing desk, which is a true thing of beauty. Now I can work while using the treadmill or using my office chair, without changing desks. I love it. Anyway, here’s some internet stuff.
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Erotic thriller month continues on I Hate It But I Love It
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TWEETS!
REDDIT!
Y’all, where are these men getting their education?
He comes over and we eat then sit down on the couch to pick a movie when he says that it sucked that I was on my period Then he said how he thought it was so strange that women give birth through the vagina but have periods from their butts.
I have NEVER heard of this and the entitlement and audacity are stunning:
Tom asked me if I had emptied one of the rooms so I could turn it into a nursery yet, I was confused by his question and asked him why. He said that he expected me to, I asked why again, he looked at me and said that every decent grandmother prepares a nursery at her home specifically to welcome her grandson as a new member of the extended family. Then went on to give examples of how common this tradition is.
Oof, dude, calling it “regular food” is not the way.
I told her that I didn't like Indian food, and she told me not to worry, she wouldn't force me to eat anything. That it's just for her meals, and that she'd made separate meals for me. I asked her if she could simply not cook Indian food at all in our house, because the smell is so pungent, and if she'd cook regular food instead.
The update to this one is mostly good, but arrrrgh it starts out being so frustrating:
He comes back and tells me he did not buy me cake because it "would be weird to buy both his sister and me cake because it's not my bday". Disappointing, but okay. I go back to work and I guess my face showed annoyance or stress because next thing he says is "Are you really mad I bought my sister cake and not you?". I tell him no. He insists and says, "You're mad I bought my sister cake and not you." He's always had a tendency to insist of his perception of what the other person feels, and my patience runs out as well. I tell him, "I'm not mad you bought your sister cake. I'm mad you didn't buy me cake." Voices start to escalate and his insistence that my frustration is on him buying his sister cake is something I can no longer tolerate, so I walk out.
TUMBLR!
(via blinkpen, thread found here.)
(via roswell-newton-vargas, post found here.)
(via wirthenwud, thread found here.)
(via imlizy.)
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TIKTOKS!
Pandemic baby tries on shoes.
Some great advice on what women want for Valentine’s Day.
Finding this WHILE ON CAMERA is really something. Check the comments for updates. (I don’t care if it’s fake; don’t @ me.)
She’s out here living all of our romance novel fantasies.
Tiny kitten in a sock sweater.
Learning the emo accent. (Here’s a great article about the accent.)
What an apex predator.
Watch a corgi get his boots put on.
When a group of kids decide to play the “Terry Fox Game” but just… don’t really get it.
ARTICLES!
What to know about the battle over Wisconsin health care workers now playing out in court, Post Crescent — This is some BULLSHIT
'How I Met Your Father' tries to learn from a 'Mother' of mistakes, NPR
#1364: “Gender is elusive, and I cannot teach it to you, Mother!”, Captain Awkward
Noom Isn’t Reinventing The Diet Wheel, BuzzFeed News
You Quit. I Quit. We All Quit. And It’s Not a Coincidence., New York Times
That’s all for me today, gorgeous! Talk to you soon.
Love,
Kat