I am still sick as a dog –more specifically, as a sick dog — so I thought I’d share the misery with you all by sharing this, what is possibly the most depressing ad for paper cups ever devised. Who knew that the solution to “the problem that has no name” was Dixie cups?
Mr. Show offered an updated take on this ad technique with their classic Mayostard/Mustardayonnaise ad parodies:
Glad to hear that you’re heading into the doctor if things don’t improve, David. Chest infections are definitely something to be careful with and I hope that you get it taken care of. There is a nasty 2 week cold going around, at least where I live, but it’s relatively harmless, other than the fact that it makes you feel like crap for longer than it should.
Something that always helped me was to boil a pot of water with cloves and eucalyptus and then inhale the vapor. It loosens up some of the crud in there and feels really soothing. I did that every day through radiation and until my esophagus and bronchial tubes healed. It helped SO much.
The ferrets send their best wishes for you to feel better soon. I think the cats would too, but they’ve passed out on my legs.
David, sounds like you’ve bronchitis-induced asthma. been there, had that. Go to the doctor & get something to ease your tubes. And feel better soon.
David, I’m joining everyone to tell you to go to the doctor. My brother once left his bronchitis untreated and he ended up in the hospital with pneumonia. Take good care of yourself!
OT but there is the creepiest Nice Guy TM “Rush Hour Crush” doing the rounds :
How many levels of “ick” is that?
@titianblue: that is really icky. I’m not sure how much more entitled you can get than:
Please turn around so we can discuss my briefs.
Weirwoodtreehugger: That’s me. That guy was something else.
Thanks sparky, that looks like a likely candidate. It was one of those weird things, and it may very well have been an experimental/newbie, I don’t quite know what to call it, but not-on-the-market-type drug because I went to Johns Hopkins, so we had a lot of that kind of thing going around. I have always wished for it again, because it was seriously a miracle, it knocked everything right out.
Gute Besserung David!!!!!!
The best mayonnaise I’ve ever had was a chipotle-lime aioli that was used as a dipping sauce for Sweet Potato Fries. So good.
Was washing twenty glasses a day a thing? I have trouble believing that grandparents and their 5 children generated 20 glasses on a daily basis.
@transcommie Avocado chocolate pudding is really good, but you have to remember to use lots of cocoa and let it set overnight. If you don’t let it set it tastes like you would first imagine. However, after setting the chocolate overpowers the avocado and it ends up being a great option for lactose-free pudding.
Also, it works better if you use a “real” sugar and not splenda or other zero-calorie sweetness. I used honey and it worked out very well.
Re: Bacon
I’d been buying pre-made pizza doughs infused with basil, which were delicious, and when I saw them offering pre-made pizza dough infused with bacon… well, I’m not the most bacon-crazed of men, but I did buy one.
Sadly, the bacon doesn’t survive the freezing and thawing and cooking with its flavor intact. Back to basil-infused pizza for me.
Hang in there, David. I’ve had bronchitis with pleurisy; fun, fun. They gave me strong antibiotics every time, plus cough syrup with codeine, which made sleeping a lot easier. But then, I was coughing up great green gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts, too. Nth-ing everybody’s advice to see your doctor and get whatever meds you can.
As for bacon-all-the-fuck-over-EVERYTHING, that’s just wrong. Especially if it’s dessert. I have spoken, and that is all I have to say on the matter. >solemn look<
Me too, augzz. Bacon itself just grosses me out.
Have to say I find this thread refreshing as it may be the first and only non-explicitly-vegetarian corner of the Internet I have found that is not all “Bacon Worship Forever. “
I truly can’t stand mayonnaise. Both the flavour and the texture really put me off. I can handle a little bit in things like tuna salad, where it binds the ingredients together, but if there is enough that I become aware of its presence it’s almost impossible for me to eat.
Basil-infused pizza shells, on the other hand, sound amazing.
Hellkell: You did very well shooting that troll down. He’s on Jezebel a lot and has some very bizarre ideas. He has some ridiculous theory that Eastern European women don’t like Eastern European men anymore because Eastern European men are too masculine and hairy and the media has convinced women to go against nature and become attracted to feminine looking men like Justin Bieber. Also, all British people have an elfin appearance. He’s like an MRA/Evo psych type that dropped too much acid.
WWTH (is that an OK shortening of your nym?): He went from zero to c*nt in six seconds, didn’t he? So much for his “reasonable” veneer.
Re: the Jezebel article
Oh, hellkell, you took on that guy? We need to make you a super-person costume. My skin crawls reading his responses. His views on basically everything he comments are so smug, and he hangs around Jezebel to mansplain everything in the most fucked up ways possible, to purposely make women feel as subhuman as possible while playing the nice guy card.
zippydoo: I knew I should’ve just ignored him, but he is so very awful. I fed him till he had a meltdown, which didn’t take long for such an internet tough guy.
So . . . since now everyone else needs to know, I’m sure, so I’ll ask . . . what did you say to this dude, hellkell?
I told him that not getting sex on demand wasn’t a plot devised by women to destroy his manhood, and that if he’s not dating grown-ups who can communicate, perhaps the problem lies with him. He then called me an asshole who couldn’t read, so I told him that not only could I read what he’d written, but that he was repulsive, and I could see why relationships might pose a challenge.
I’m pretty sure that is the same guy who claims that porn is a Jewish plot to destroy Christianity and likes to imply he’s a psychologist of some sort but gives lie to that by internet-diagnosing people left and right (did you guys know Belle Knox has borderline personality disorder? It’s true, you can tell because she does porn and has self-harmed!). He’s so weird and awful that it kind of circles back around to hilarious for me.
David, I hope you get awesome medications that knock this thing right out of your system.
Everyone, do not mess with hellkell; she will hand you your ass in a spectacular fashion. On the other hand, if you ever have a chance to see hellkell hand a troll hir ass, take it. ‘Tis a thing of beauty, and a joy forever. With copious swears. XD
@hellkell
I know the feeling of needing to answer. I usually end up peering into the dark abyss of a human soul lacking all empathy and compassion and end up feeling sick inside, especially knowing this is someone who has relationships with other people. So I can’t usually cause them to reveal their true colours unharmed. But I feel immensely satisfied when others do get them to melt down.
And, no surprise, he’s an extremely racist guy too. What a winner.