Best posts made by Aria

@miss-demeanor said in RL Anger:

@aria I would be happy if so-called 'office blouses' didn't have such lowcut necklines that I feel like I should climb a pole. Since when did 'business casual' mean 'conservative stripper'?!?!

Also, fuck all these different sleeve lengths with the crazy cuffs. Regular cuffs or french cuffs, otherwise fuck off with that shit. And don't even get me started on how if I want a blouse that will fit my chest, it apparently means I should also have goddamn monkey arms that stretch out three feet. Apparently I am not allowed to be busty without being crazy tall and long-limbed.

Ahahaha. I'm 5'3", overweight, and have 38DDDs. The clothes that fit me: exactly none. Even from places where I've sent in my measurements to order custom-fit clothes, their seamstresses are somehow like, "No, that can't be right! I'm going to adjust this. Preferably right in the boobs so every shirt ever is stretched awkwardly across her chest and makes weird bunchy lines near her armpits! This season's look: fat and trashy."

Nah, bitch. That's exactly right. I realize the entire fashion industry is designed to make women not want to look like me, but no matter how many billions of advertising you pump out, I'm still here. Please send me what I ordered and stop fucking around.

@sockmonkey Ohh, I didn't think they'd take your advice. I was thinking more like... that, accompanied by a sickeningly sweet fake smile, might make it clear that you're completely sick of their shit while also allowing you to not be overtly mean or confrontational.

@miss-demeanor Eating within about the first two hours of waking up -- unless I skipped dinner entirely the night before, and sometimes even then -- just makes me feel ill. It's not just you. I promise.

@karmageddon said in Celebrities that are Dead To Us:

And, in case it's important to note for anyone not interested in clicking the link, it's a scene from the tv series Extras. Pretty sure Patrick Stewart is an upstanding guy iRL. Would be bummed out if he weren't.

I realized what it was a few seconds in. Thank God, because there was immediate dread when I saw the reply.

@lithium said in Good or New Movies Review:

Science took one to the kidney there.

I spent a fairly large chunk of The Force Awakens mentally screaming "THAT IS NOT HOW SUNS WORK."

I watched it this afternoon. I'm not going to pretend this is some cinematic classic, but I liked it just fine and thought it was a fun spin on both genres. Would watch more.

@cupcake While most Swedish volunteers were SS, not all were. His grandfather wasn't, so I'm not really sure what he could've reported and what may or may not have been done about it without evidence for an obvious charge.

ETA Answers to Questions:
@surreality Serving in the SS in any form, save as a conscript, was an offense that could be tried. After Nuremburg, it was declared a criminal organization because of the acts it committed, so yes, if you were Joe Bob -- or since it was German, Josef Wilhelm -- SS tank mechanic, you could be tried. If you weren't in the SS, not so much. The Wehrmacht as a whole was largely given a pass at Nuremberg; a few specific people were tried, but it was mostly high-ranking officers as you stated.

@Lithium Sweden was officially neutral during WWII, and did a great deal to rescue Denmark's Jews. Not to mention Raoul Wallenberg's actions in Hungary. Which Swedes are all very proud of -- now. What is often not mentioned is how much iron ore they shipped to Nazi Germany, which was something like ten million tons per year, and was crucial to Germany's war efforts. (Like, my dad is a gunsmith by hobby -- and a machinist by trade -- and to this day collects Swedish Mausers over German ones because of the higher quality steel.) There was also a Swedish Nazi party at the time, and membership in it was not always motivated by anti-Semitism, particularly during the 30s. Germany and Russia were the major powers in the Baltic, and the Swedes haaaaaaaaaaaated the Russians and had a tendency to go to war with them for a few hundred years, so anyone giving the finger to the Soviets held some appeal.

@misadventure Ohhh, I'm well aware. I mean, would this still be a bit of a pain in the butt to do either way? Yes. Would I find it significantly less annoying if they asked me, I don't know.... a week or so advance, and freely acknowledged that yes, I'm doing them a free favor and maybe they can get my back the next time I'm out of town? Yeeeeeeeeeeup.

Crush my heart, why don't you?!?

I really kind of want to get a speed bag. But with my luck and coordination, I'll just end up giving myself a black eye....

@thenomain

Ohh, I freely acknowledge that I can be a pedantic pain in the ass. But that one annoys me not because "OMG, someone is wrong on the internet!"

That one annoys me because the sheer level of political ignorance, and moreover the pride in political ignorance, is a fair part of why my country is a volcanic explosion of "What the fuck?!?!" right now. So, yeah. Yeah, I'mma point that one out every. single. time. Usually followed by my, "So. Have you ever collected unemployment/do you hope to collect social security when you retire?" thought experiment.

Haha! Found it. Some of the terms may be wasted on people who aren't SCAdians or Medieval history nerds in general, but you'll still get the point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb3zqj0c8TY

Dear Coworker --

There are 127 people in our department and only two admins responsible for their support. If you're going to send me an email asking me about the logistics and set up of a room for a big meeting you're having and whether or not the room can accommodate that, and if I can make changes for you if it's not set up that way....

Kindly tell me which fucking room on which fucking day for which fucking meeting. I neither keep tabs on the minutiae of ~65 people's work day, nor have yet to develop my psychic powers.

<3,
Aria

@cupcake said in Good TV:

Basically, if I wanted to pick a piece of media to help someone understand what I go through, Crazy Ex GF is what I'd show them.

.....Mine was Titus, for a long, long time. Especially the scene where he swears off dealing with his deranged parents and walks off stage at the end of his monologue, only to end up picking up the phone to deal with his mom again, because she's his mom.

Fortunately, I've met Christopher Titus (about three times) and he is equally awesome and hilarious in person, and we've had a few chats about what it's like to come from hideously dysfunctional families.

@scar @surreality

DUDE. Manayunk has gotten expensive. Nevermind how this person managed to purchase any property at all, how she managed to purchase property there is just... what? WHAT?

@JinShei I am so, so sorry about the loss of your puppies. Even hearing about other people losing dogs I've never met makes me go all watery-eyed.

@surreality said in Random links:

@thenomain If you want squint-worthy: any time I try to google some location in my state, Delaware, I have to tell google that no, I don't mean Delaware, Ohio, goddammit.

Now that is sad right there.

I live in Philadelphia. Yet every time I type my home address into Google to get directions from my house, it somehow assumes I'm looking for a house with the same street name/number in Ewing, New Jersey and tries to autocomplete that address. Apparently, far more people are conducting searches for <blank> Road in Ewing, a relatively small town, than in Philadelphia -- a city of over one million people.

What??

....I kind of logged in here today just to tell all of you that I would play the fuck out of an Altered Carbon MU*. I love this show. I love this setting. So, so, so much. +1 to all previous mentions of its inherent goodness.

So since I'm on an upswing and want to stay on an upswing, I need recommendations for TV shows that are not complete fucking downers (I'm looking at you here, Black Mirror) that already have several episodes -- or preferably at least a season -- out.

Said recommendation doesn't need to be all happy sunshine and bunnies that doesn't touch on serious things ever, given that one of my favorite shows right now is Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, but it definitely needs bits of fun and humor to drag me out of noir sci-fi dystopia land for awhile.

So I started The Good Place last night and am now halfway through the first season. Kudos!

Also, @surreality? Jesus Christ yes, on the Black Mirror. I made it to the "Hang the DJ" episode, which is a pretty positive one, and was like, "Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah, I'mma just pretend the series ended here. Later, bitches!"