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!