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:
It fills the goddamn gap.
Auggziliary: That’s hilarious! I took a peek at the source code and couldn’t figure out what was causing it.
Speaking of being free to move your labor to a better location, I guess airfare is also free, as are moving vans and deposit on a new place.
I’m actually pretty worried about the gap in my resume. I haven’t worked in over a year, and it’s purely because of terrible coworkers, family conflicts, mental illness, and an inability to quickly learn all of the languages and software I need for a lucrative job (which is also tied to my mental problems). I have no idea what I can say on my resume, and if I’m completely frank, I’m afraid people are going to see me as a burden more than anything else. Then again, I have no experience with writing resumes, so maybe I’m worrying about nothing.
Oh my. If anyone is bored and cares to laugh at a troll there’s another Jez troll named triggerarnin who is claiming we have white men to thank for women’s rights and that because everyone knows who Queen Elizabeth I is, there can’t be any sexism in the way schools teach history.
http://jezebel.com/new-educational-standards-teach-kids-that-history-conta-1550345470/all
Or is it just me that is in the mood for a hate read today?
In my family, we use the red Solo plastic cups.
Then we wash them, and re-use them, because it’s cheaper that way. But, hey! If you break a red plastic cup, it’s a lot less messy than shattered glass, and cheaper and easier to replace, too. We always have a matched set.
I love the mustardayonnaise commercials.
I just can’t help thinking of mayo as Satan’s spooge. Sorry, mayo lovers, the texture just bothers me.
That’s OK, we all have our texture issues. Mayo I like, Miracle Whip is disgusting.
I can’t stand mayo, either – unless it’s a very light amount.
I’m kind of anti-condiments when it comes to sandwiches in general actually. Pesto I will accept, or hummus in a pita that’s filled with stuff, but other than that, nope.
Regarding badminded perceptions of Asian women, the tumblr Creepy White Guys displays a variety of horrible messages sent by white guys trying to ‘get’ Asian partners. Apparently, denigrating Asian men is a popular theme.
Discriminating hires on the basis gaps on their resumés is so screwed up. “Hmm… I see you haven’t had an income in quite a while. In that case, I’m going to make sure you continue not earning an income.”
Ally, you are in a tough space right now, but I think you will be OK in the long term since you’re planning on doing more schooling. Recently out of school is recently out of school and I don’t think it matters that much what you were doing beforehand. (Not that getting a job as a recent graduate is easy!)
For anyone curious about the weirdness on that sewing page, it’s caused by super broken tag nesting leading to recursive em font size calculation. Basically each line is contained inside the previous line, and tells the browser “my font is 17% bigger than whatever I’m inside”.
So… not a coded warning about the upcoming needleworkpocalypse, then. Well that’s good news.
I used to like mayo okay until…
@Viscaria:
Thankfully, no. But I have learned a new trick for if a client ever asks for a mundane website that becomes gradually more intense and alarming.
Preach it! That stuff is nasty no matter how many times they say it’s just “zesty”
I wanted to post a video that I know you would love to see then, but it’s not on youtube. 🙁
But there is this tv show (double the fist – a very strange Australian show) that had a mayonnaise eating challenge. They’d give a person $50 if they could eat a large jar. No one ever got the money.
That’s a relief, especially if it turned into the knitpocalypse too.
Fifty bucks? That’s a pathetic prize!
Ally, I have gaps in my resume too. I found this article here which was helpful.
http://money.howstuffworks.com/business/getting-a-job/10-things-to-leave-off-your-resume.htm
Basically, you just highlight what you did and know, and visually minimise the dates – smaller font, lighter grey etc. I was surprised by how much resume design has changed since I last designed one. When I was your age they were 3 pages and very boring. Now they’re all 1 page and can be quite visually interesting.Because you’re forced to cull, it actually gives you a lot of control over exactly what you include.
Have you ever seen the show? That was probably half their episode budget 🙂
Scram, time’s wingèd chariot! I’ve got Dixie cups!
I’m quite fond of mayonnaise. It’s the things it envelops that I don’t really care for (tuna, crabmeat, lobster).
Oh dear!
I don’t like mayo, because the texture reminds me of GROSSNESS WARNING AVERT YOUR EYES: pus. However, I love, love, love custard, which is even more like it. I don’t get it either.
I was looking at a job posting board the other day, and one company had two positions posted: one for a Journeyman [Trade] for $44 per hour, and another for Unticketed Journeyman [Trade] for $33 per hour.
It’s actually illegal to work as an unticketed (aka unlicensed, unregistered) tradesperson here. Somebody’s going to get spanked for that, and unfortunately, it’ll almost certainly be the lowest-paid schmoe in that chain of command, who was just doing what they were told.
RE: trans commie
I can’t imagine why anyone would want to get those bacon ice cream shakes from Denny’s.
The very thought makes me feel ill. (Sweets are hard. Bacon is hard. Ergo, putting the two together is DEATH.)
RE: wordsp1nner
I was always more of a sausage person myself.
OHOHO! *rimshot*
RE: titianblue’s quoting of the asshole
I’m training to be a barrister, you’re ignoring me for a barista.
Aw, poor baby hates the thought that the “lesser” people might be more attractive.
RE: AK
porn is a Jewish plot to destroy Christianity
…wooooooow. That’s ALMOST as doofy as the “sodomy killed the dinosaurs” bullshit I read yesterday! And the “buttsex killed the Romans” I read before that…
RE: katz
Last night I was just reading advice for the long-term unemployed that they should find unpaid work in their field to keep from having gaps in their resume.
Not gonna lie, part of why I do art and writing so incessantly was because I was terribly frightened of the idea of having gaps in my resume due to being disabled. It’s like, I have enough barriers between me and the normal workforce, MUST NOT ADD MORE.
Also, hey, might be different for chemists, but folks are also trying to hire someone they can actually work with without murdering them. I would see someone who takes care of animals and volunteers as a plus! (Note that I’ve mostly worked shitty customer service jobs, though.)
So you don’t like misogyny, that’s cool. What is your opinion on gay men? Just wondering.
Even grosser than mayonnaise is the wonderful Kiwi invention, sweetened condensed milk salad dressing. I used to get so offended at my mother making it because it was a waste of delicious condensed milk.
I like aioli, though, probably because garlic makes nearly everything better.
Most customer service jobs are shitty. It’s because you’re providing service to customers, and they’re all assholes. Not all at the same time, but sooner or later, if you’re a customer, you’re going to be an asshole to the person trying to help you. We all do it. I feel shame afterward, but I can’t seem to stop myself in the moment.
I knew it! I knew it! The dreaded word g0ys really does mean what it looks like!
Not even that, as I read it – she was trying to buy a coffee in his coolstorybro tale.
Note to dud(e)s: we aren’t out in public pretending to do stuff while we wait for you to decide we’re good boner material. We have actual lives, something you apparently don’t.
Nested blockquote win! Take that, blockquote monster!
Preach. I really try not to be an ass to a customer service person, and they have to be pretty egregious for me to get pissy, but it’s happened. I know it’s a person who’s not properly trained and doesn’t get paid enough to really care.
I even see the lack of training where I work, and there’s nothing better than someone yelling at me because our customer service blows goats. I can listen to them and apologize, but that’s about it. It drives me nuts that companies don’t put more into training.
I don’t speak for anyone else, but my mental image of a barista is a lot cuter than my mental image of a barrister.
Definitely.
Wait, why are you using the “c” word?
This is good advice. The last time I tried to debate a Tumblr MRA, she kept insisting that there was no misogyny on AVfM, and all the direct quotes from Paul Elam I showed her were somehow actually said by feminists. That’s when I decided we were obviously inhabiting such different realities that further conversation was pointless.
Of course, you occasionally meet them IRL, too. I once had a clinic protester tell me that the pregnancy rate was higher for women on birth control because they’re having more sex. Definitely not a member of the reality-based community.
Lurk Moar. (/oldmeme)
And less likely to be an entitled ass.
I mean, he might be a gay man who’s wondering if he’s welcome in this space, which is fair given that there are feminist blogs that prefer to be women (or non-men) only. But if he’s taken the two seconds required to read the sidebar, he must know the blogger’s a man, so…
RE: Alex
So you don’t like misogyny, that’s cool. What is your opinion on gay men? Just wondering.
I’m a gay man. What is it you want to know?
RE: Kittehs
I knew it! I knew it! The dreaded word g0ys really does mean what it looks like!
You know, I was trying so hard not to make that joke…
RE: tumblr fights
Oh man, I don’t dare get involved, because tumblr is such an awful platform to have a conversation on! You can never find anything again, you have to reblog the WHOLE FUCKING CONVERSATION, and one blip and you can miss a response and keep fighting old data. Why so many people use it for just that, I have no idea.
Alex, in case you are a gay man/ally who is honestly wondering whether zie would be welcome here, yes, you most certainly are.
But that’s a kinda odd question.
Alex:
If you’re not trolling, straight answer: there are plenty of men on this site, and several of them are gay.
If you are trolling, what on earth are you talking about?
No, no, the trick is you have to pair them up with a dedicated caster who can keep them buffed and healed. Then they’re amazing.
RE: katz
No, no, the trick is you have to pair them up with a dedicated caster who can keep them buffed and healed. Then they’re amazing.
I must concur. It’s how my system runs! 😀 (No, seriously, I’m the system tank, and hubby and younger sibling run buffs and heals for me.)
And if Alex turns out to be asking because he thinks feminists thinks being attracted to men is misogyny, I am going to be mighty disappointed.
See, I did it to spare you, ‘cos I CARE. 😉
That, or I can’t resist temptation.
Alex, assuming your question is sincere, you are only unwelcome here if you’re a bigoted (AKA sexist, racist, ableist, heterosexist, cissexist, etc.) jerk who makes highly inappropriate comments like death/rape threats and deliberately tries to trigger people or make them feel unsafe. That’s it. Being a gay man won’t get you banned or ostracized here.
Where I work, it’s more that management implements decisions in such a secretive and ass-backward manner that the front-line staff can’t answer questions, so they piss off the customers, who complain to management, who shit on the front-line staff for having poor customer service skills. I mean, training on customer service is good and helpful. But when your management doesn’t give a shit about their customer base, no amount of excellent customer service skills (by non-management people) is going to fix that.
We actually had a program cancelled, and I was instructed NOT to inform the enrolees until I saw the press release. There was no press release. The program disappeared from our website without a trace. I had to beg for permission to let these people know that they would not be getting their product, and I was very sorry, and would be happy to refund their money, but no, there was no replacement product, and I was very sorry. And now I’m getting all pissed off again, and should probably shine my resume up some more.
O_O *shakes head* o_O Nope. Does not compute.
And if you would prefer a queer answer, we have those, too 😉
Eeee, cute little googly-eyed emoticon! What else can I make?
o_O O_o 🙂 😀 🙁 >:/ :p
Okay, well. That answers that.
Use a capital O, not a zero
Also, probably an underline and not a period.