The First World Whinging Thread

Every once on a while while snooping, I'll find my dads slide rule from university, and I'll bug him to show me how to use it. Every once in a while he'll oblige, but more often than not he'll just hand me my phone and tell me that it works better.

 

I'm at that weird age where I remember all this old tech but never used it. Apart from CDs and DVDs, which I still use all the time. (One of the reasons I'm hesitant about getting a new laptop is that they don't seem to make them with DVD drives any more.) And people still use USB sticks all the time. Lots of people in my writers' group store their work on them.

 

Raking leaves in a high wind sucks, especially if the wind is blowing against where you need to put the leaves. Raking leaves in a high wind and light rain bites.

 

Going from sucks to bites? Sounds progressively horrific.

 

Or stimulating depending on what you're into.

 

Don't threaten me with a good time, big boy.

Apologies in advance.

 

Big boy, huh? Well, I mean, I'm no Ron Jeremy, but booty shorts are difficult to pull off some times.

 

Ron Jeremy: License to Fill

I immediately regret making that joke.

In what way that regret manifests... well, that'll be left up to interpretation.

 

What I don't understand is, when you decide to get your hair permed and you show the stylist a photo of a woman with loose curls, she goes ahead and wraps up the rods with little wisps of your hair so you come out looking like you got out of the shower and did nothing with it. And this is after she's seen pictures of models looking like that and said, repeatedly, "That's too curly."

Then you let her show you what your hair will look like if she styles it with a curling iron, and she tells you you have to style it every day with a curling iron, unless you want the aforementioned straight-from-the-shower look.

So now you tell me? I don't remember that from the last time I got a permanent, back in the early 1990s. Hellsbells, if I have to mess around with a curling iron (which I'm not good at and don't have time for), I may as well have just done that with my straightish hair and not bothered with the perm.

Of course the loose curl she gave me with the curling iron got squished out over Saturday night, so my hair just looks bushy. Experimented with recurling it after lunch, with minimal success.

And then I watched a YouTube vid telling me I shouldn't be using a curling iron on permed hair at all.

I'm stuck with how it looks until Tuesday morning. That's the first I can wash my hair without the wave coming out.

 

All the movies I want to watch are on channels I don’t subscribe to. Woe is me.

 

I thought you meant literally pulling them off, but now I'm not sure.

 

No-one came to inspect my beautifully clean flat.

But hey, at least I was awake to wish my crush a happy birthday in exchange for a crumb of her attention. (She called me "beautiful"!)

 

It's always nice when you can drop a breadcrumb to a person you fancy. A running "I LIKE YOUR FACE" and then dive into a pool of something. Hopefully nothing dangerous or gross. Metaphorical diving and such.

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My whinge is I've now seen the Neil Gaiman Master Class ad twice and I know my will is being tested. Do I buy myself a Christmas present? Or do I just sigh and look longingly out the computer window at Mr. Gaiman and go back to my needlework?

 

Amazon's cross-listing of items internationally is starting to piss me off. Looked up some tiny little ball bearings, basically the size of watch batteries (6mmOD, 3mm ID, 2.5mm thick). 3 bucks apiece, which is within the realm of reason.

$40 shipping, arrives sometime mid-February.

Just fuck off if that's how you want to roll. $40 shipping for something that would fit in a padded mailer. Looks like it's off to the RC shop for me tomorrow. I really punished myself at the gym today, so it won't be a crisis if I don't get in a full workout tomorrow.

 

I've decided to update my look, so I'm looking at tons of new clothes and honestly, now I wish I had more money. Way more money. Student loans were not made to cover shopping sprees.

 

Vintage!

 

Try dating someone that's roughly the same size as you.

 

Where do you think I got this sweater from? Pyjamas don't really leave much to the imagination, but if that's a problem then you really shouldn't me looking, masher!

 

Now that's an insult I haven't heard since Tom & Jerry!

 

Hey! Whatever happened to Mashers?

 

I miss him.

 

Last I knew of he got banned for something, but I suppose he could come back
if it was a short ban, if he wanted.