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9 years ago @ octopus pie - #935 + 936 - i won't b... · 0 replies · +15 points

Will's big goofy grin and googly eyes are what did it for me. Perfect.

9 years ago @ octopus pie - #931 - i won't have it · 2 replies · +18 points

I am... afraid of an impending Hannah explosion.

The cabin retreat is supposed to be a work thing.

Eve will probably go innocently thinking it's a fun friends thing. But even that won't happen if it becomes a she and Will kiss-cabin thing.

Sooo Hannah's gonna be annoyed on work and friend fronts.

9 years ago @ octopus pie - #926 - biological impe... · 0 replies · +4 points

Yeah, she's being way flippant here. I think all the love talk is getting to her, but hey, at least she can't bring down Will's ebullience.

9 years ago @ Clever Manka - Thursday link dump · 0 replies · +2 points

In the ambient noise department, I also recommend http://www.ambient-mixer.com/mobile-download. The app is very helpful when you're internet-free.

There are fewer things nicer while sitting in an airport listening to Important Business Guy take an Important Business Call than putting on your headphones and being on a ship at sea instead. Ahhh, bliss.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 1 reply · +36 points

Uuuugggh OF COURSE it falls on you to be on top of everything in their lives and create detailed plans and schedules for him, because that's the mom's job, *obviously* and the dad can't be expected to have a calendar of their activities figured out. Eyeroll.

It's so not fair that you have to be the only one doing this, and I wish you could just throw up your hands and let him handle it, and laugh when he screws up... but of course, it's your KIDS that are getting screwed up, so you can't.

:( Hopefully he realises he fucked up and gets it together for the rest of the month. Hugs to you.

9 years ago @ octopus pie - #913 - select bus · 0 replies · +4 points

I dunno, I think she woke up with the sunrise, really early, because no-curtains. And Greg is still blissfully sleeping it off in his becurtained bedroom, through no fault or intention of his own.

I've been both Eve and Greg in this situation, so I don't begrudge either of them. Though when I was the Eve I didn't have the breakup-entire-place-in-the-universe-questioning going on, so I tend to bustle around cleaning the apartment and making breakfast.

9 years ago @ octopus pie - #913 - select bus · 2 replies · +12 points

Don't worry, it's not. Meredith has said that there are about 6 months left.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 1 reply · +12 points

Aw. You have reminded me of the people I've met from not-North-America while camping around the world who BOGGLE at the prospect of camping in Canada. They get wide-eyed and ask, hushed, "Aren't you afraid of... bears?!"

The scale of scaredness is definitely a thing they do not understand, often having only seen WHEN BEARS ATTACK!!! scare videos. I explain patiently that a) Canada is a big place and the bears are pretty spread out, b) If you make noise, don't leave food out, and don't try to go near them, they probably won't go near you, and c) You're more likely to encounter a nasty raccoon who just wants your marshmallows. I then undermine the message by adding that, in case of grizzly, all bets are off and you're fucked.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 1 reply · +26 points

Nah, money and liking nice things does not a douchebag make. It's the tone of the article. The sheer number of paragraphs dedicated to describing and self-congratulating for his largess. The thesis is "you don't need to buy a house to be successful", but it's so bogged down in everything else (probably on purpose, trying to generate clicks, comments, and hate-reads.)

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 18 replies · +58 points

Ugh that Big Spender douche. For those unfamiliar with the shit-show that is Toronto/Vancouver real-estate, the whole point of the article is that the guy COULD afford to buy a house (the average actually shitty house, maybe former crack-shack in those markets is well over a million) but doesn't want to. This very important message is undermined by his CONSTANT POSTURING.

THAT'S FINE, YOU CAN ABSTAIN FROM HOUSE BUYING AND SAVE YOUR MONEY WITHOUT BEING A COMPLETE DOUCHE AND BRAGGING ABOUT HOW BIG OF A DOUCHE YOU ARE. I couldn't even finish it because every new paragraph was just more bragging about being a total douchecanoe with the occasional "oh yeah, you don't need a house to be happy" appended.

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