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16 April 2014

SHOUTING THREAD well, maybe venting thread→[More:] I'm not really feeling shouty so much as I need to vent and per usual, I can't really go into any detail, so I'm just going YELL ABOUT THE LACK OF ETIQUETTE AND COMMON DECENCY IN TEXTING PEOPLE YOUR DELUSIONAL BAGGAGE BEFORE 10 AM. BUT GOOD GOD IT IS BETTER THAN COFFEE TO GET ONE UP AND GOING.

EVERY PART OF THAT FIRST SENTENCE INFORMS THE OTHER. MAYBE OTHER PEOPLE DON'T GET TO BE HIGH AT WORK, YA SIMPLE BITCH. THIS IS WHY PEOPLE DIG VIGILANTE JUSTICE AGAINST THE RUDE.

Please feel free to vent the things you'd say to people twere it timely and appropriate. Or maybe we could just swap targets, very strangers on a train. Criss cross.

post by: ethylene at: 12:19 | 8 comments

THE GIFT OF PEOPLE NOT GRASPING IRONY IS THAT YOU NEVER HAVE TO LIE AND IT IS AMUSING TO THOSE WHO DO GRASP IT. THE FORMER NOT KNOWING WHY THE LATTER LAUGH BUT JOINING IN ANYWAY.

posted by ethylene 16 April | 12:51

Just tacking this here for the hell of it, because I'm no longer getting comment email alerts, i don't know about you people, on the criss cross thing--

How would people feel about signing up for a kind of email pen pal booster thing?
Personally, I have a hard time making myself do things that i would have no problem doing for somebody else, so i find myself in this position of asking a friend to "kick me in the ass" about running some errand or doing some task and visa versa. So I was thinking, what if we had other members email or text us those things we need some kick in the ass to get to, whether it was, "Did you take your fish oil" or "DO YOUR BACK EXERCISES, DEADBEAT" or "Mail those things today" or "Hey, it's time to organize those ungodly piles of paper that make you look like a hoarder--"

Get the picture?
Thoughts? Opinions?

posted by ethylene 16 April | 13:10

It would be better if someone would actually DO the things I hate doing for me.

posted by Kangaroo 16 April | 17:21

I WISH PEOPLE WOULD EFFING LISTEN THE FIRST TWO OR THREE TIMES I TELL THEM THAT THE THING THEY WANT ISN'T THE THING THEY NEED.

I think between me and the person's actual boss that we got across the point that if you make something "easy" on the front end, you can end up making life worse for the people and things on the back end. And they really won't appreciate it.

As for motivation - I have no idea. I might could try it for one or two things? It's sounding like almost a life-coach situation if you're turning your whole life over to the hive mind, but if two people agree to bug each other about doing leg lifts or laundry or something, that could be productive.

posted by lysdexic 16 April | 21:32

OH MAN WHEN WAS OUR LAST SHOUTING THREAD

THIS IS ALL SPECKLET'S FAULT FOR DESERTING US FOR MOTHERHOOD

posted by Eideteker 16 April | 22:44

I LOVE SHOUTING THREADS!

posted by chewatadistance 17 April | 12:08

I'M SICK OF THIS SHIT! I WANT MY LIFE TO STOP BEING AN ENDLESS GRIND OF ONE FUCKING DISASTER AFTER ANOTHER! WHAT'S NEXT, FUCKING LOCUSTS OR SOME SHIT?

posted by dg 17 April | 16:04

WHAT DG SAID!!

posted by Melismata 18 April | 12:53

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