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10 June 2012

JudgeMe In which we post a personal case of something that can be perceived as either cool or a bit pathetic.[More:]
Rules of the game are that people are allowed to emphasise the loser aspect. In a friendly teasing manner of course. So don't post something in which you're invested too much.
I'll go first:

Exhibit A. When I need to clean the bathroom I do that when I'm showering and use the showerhead to thoroughly rinse everything.
Judgement 1: autonomous out-of-the-box thinker. Always a fresh original approach.
Judgement 2: evidence of having been living as a bachelor for too long and loss of decorum. Indeed out-of-the-box, but the box is in this case "what's cool and socially acceptable".

Judge me!
posted by jouke 10 June | 11:54
Exhibit A. I cannot eat a piece of fruit by just biting into it. I have to cut it open and remove any seed, stone or core before I eat it. For apples and pears I use a melon baller to remove the seeds.
Judgement 1: not wasteful, because I only throw away the inedible parts.
Judgement 2: excessive, unnecessary prissiness resulting from finding a caterpillar in a pomegranate as a child.

Judge me!
posted by Senyar 10 June | 13:55
Heh
posted by jouke 10 June | 13:57
jouke: Creative, resourceful, "green" and efficient.

Senyar: Finding a caterpillar is way better than finding half a caterpillar. As a fellow fussy eater, I congratulate you on your precise dissections and your attention to detail.

posted by Kangaroo 10 June | 14:40
Exhibit A: I eat the same breakfast every Sunday. Two farm raised eggs over easy, two slices of whole wheat toast, one sweet pink grapefruit, sectioned, and black coffee.

Judgment 1: Healthy locavore choice.

Judgment 2: Seriously boring person stuck in a Food Rut.
posted by bearwife 10 June | 15:54
Kangaroo is very kind. :-)
posted by jouke 10 June | 23:25
Exhibit A: There are new phones where I work that do complicated fancy things, including voice mail. The manual is incomprehensible, so I don't know how to listen to the voice mail, and the damn light won't stop blinking -- I see it out of the corner of my eye when I'm trying to work. So I covered it with black paper and tape so I can't see it.

Judgment 1: I am a free spirit who will not be ruled by others who wish to cage me with their stupid telephones and stale messages.

Judgment 2: I am an annoying luddite who really needs to step it up and be a part of the 21st century.

Judgment 3: I am not a team player and shouldn't be allowed in the work place.

Judge away . . . .
posted by JanetLand 11 June | 09:07
Haha.
posted by jouke 11 June | 11:38
I have been wearing the same pair of jeans every day (except "I am giving a talk" days) for the past month or two of otherwise somewhat stressful travel and other business. I've washed them once or twice.

Judgment 1: Not having to pick what I am going to wear every day frees up precious brain cycles for other things when I have very few brain cycles to spare. Also, these jeans look decent on me.

Judgment 2: Dude, gross.
posted by jessamyn 11 June | 17:52
I guess that's a perk of working from home.

Also: americans call women 'dude'. Sounds strange when you're not used to it. Like me.
Although it does sound like dudeous behaviour.
posted by jouke 12 June | 00:29
I pick Judgment 1 for all.

WOO!
posted by occhiblu 12 June | 00:32
Occhiblu, that's the socially desirable answer. But I know you're secretly judging us. Which makes it even worse.
Which reminds me: we Nederlanders have the reputation among expats of being blunt. Somebody pointed out that in a Dutch company when your colleagues don't criticise you there's probably something brewing politically. No news is bad news.
posted by jouke 12 June | 01:56
I hired someone to clean my house, who is arriving in half an hour.

Judgment 1: frees up my time to do what I'm good at, creates work for local businesswoman (who runs a cleaning firm employing 6 people).

Judgment 2: what, you can't even keep your own house clean? You don't even have children. What right do you have to call yourself an adult human being?
posted by altolinguistic 12 June | 02:46
no judging here, alto. the mister and I have been discussing doing just this, in fact. reasoning: more time to ride bikes!
posted by lonefrontranger 12 June | 13:52
lfr: judgment 2 is just what's been going on in my head! But having got home and seen the results (she did far more in two hours than I would have done, and her hourly rate is a third of mine) I have NO REGRETS.
posted by altolinguistic 12 June | 14:09
alto: #1, because we have a cleaning service, too, and I can't judge other people on not being able to clean their own apartments/houses when I also don't like to do the chore.
posted by TrishaLynn 12 June | 14:44
Similar to altolinguistic:

Yard guy comes by every two weeks to cut the grass & edge

Judgment 1: I have the wiggle room in your budget, why should I be stuck outside in 90+F weather on a Friday evening or Saturday morning mowing grass in the summer, he does it on a consistent schedule and it looks so much better than when I do it

Judgment 2: lazy lazy lazy. It's not like you're doing anything special with the extra time you gain (like clean your house)

I keep considering finding someone to clean my house but don't. Though it may become a moot point if I like the steamer a friend lent to me as much as I do my dyson stick vac. The kitchen floor is my kryptonite.
posted by bluesapphires 12 June | 15:59
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