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There is a new Pottery Barn Teen Harry Potter collection that I think would be more accurately named the Pottery Barn "Grown-Ass Adults Who Wish They Had $1900 to Spend on a Stupid Bed and $260 to Spend on a Fancy Blanket" Harry Potter collection.

@wretched So now that I'm on my phone with autocorrect and some of the pain killers have worn off.....

My friend was having her annual Christmas party. About halfway through, she set a candle out onto the table and lit it. The very crowded table where we were unwrapping all our gifts. I didn't realize there was a tiny lit candle nestled among all the glasses, and I'm pretty sure I was the one who knocked a bit of tissue paper too close. And the thing about tissue paper is that not only does it go up fast, it turns into little floating pieces that are still on fire, so it spread very quickly to other paper and other wrappings and books that were all over the table.

The only drinks left at hand were alcoholic, we didn't have anything nearby to smother it with, and dropping it on the floor to stomp it out was not an option because that was carpet also covered in wrapping. Everyone else was panicking and I have no idea where she keeps her fire extinguisher, so I went with the only option I figured I had if I wanted to keep everything on the floor and the nearby Christmas tree catching and having the whole dining room go up. I grabbed everything that was on fire and ran to the kitchen sink and flipped the tap on.

Unfortunately, I did this with bare hands, so now I have 2nd degree burns over about a quarter of my left hand. The right one is mostly fine, thank God. I'm right-handed, and very quickly discovering what a pain in the ass it is to do things like eat, put on a bra, and button your coat with one functioning hand. Huzzah, fine motor skills.

Dear Jackass with the Fireworks -

That was LAST night. And the 4th of July. Not every fucking holiday and whatever number of days after your stash lasts, or a smattering of random Friday/Saturday/Tuesday (because why the hell not, I guess?) nights from Memorial Day through the middle of September. But hey, thanks for terrorizing my dog. I always appreciate that.

Sincerely,
Your Neighbor Who is Seriously Considering Letting Said Dog Shit in Your Yard if I Find You

I was trolling around Audible looking for something to spend my last credits on so I can cancel my subscription and save some dollars. In the process of doing so, I discovered that there is a version Foucault's Pendulum narrated by Tim Curry.

YOU'RE WELCOME.

@tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@aria I'm with the pup on this one. I fucking hate fireworks.

ETA: Especially when they're close, and they're those crappy ones that sound like gunshots.

I generally like fireworks, and even firecrackers! But I don't particularly appreciate them going off on random days, especially for several days in a row at random after-dark hours, sometimes at midnight or later. Doubly so because I live in a neighborhood where "firecrackers or gunshots?" is a game we play every summer. There's definitely a balance to be struck between "being the asshole who ruins everyone's fun" and "being reasonably angry at obnoxious behavior", but I feel like this is the latter.

@mietze said in RL things I love:

TFW your 17 year old asks if we can do a family dinner out and then all go run around to all the geeky stores at the mall together for their birthday (while they spend their own money not yours) with all their sibs and hang out after the little goes to bed to play a round of betrayal legacy. Def worth dumping all the online schedule for. It's making me teary eyed actually.

Tackle that kid and squeeze all the goodness and love out of them while you can! And if they get embarrassed by you having all the feels at them, good. Embarrassing your teenager until they fling a three syllable "Mo-ooo-om!" at you is your job as their mother.

@paris Soooo......

Check out:

Scandinavian Folk Metal
Heilung (as mentioned)
Wardruna (you may know them from the Vikings TV show)
Faun (some of their stuff, not all)
Skald

Of those, Wardruna is by far my favorite. Take care with this genre and it's overlap with Viking metal, where you tend to run into a lot of supremely racist fuckheads, which violently angers my Norse-loving little heart.

Mongolian Folk Metal
Tengger Calvary
Altan Urag (they were discovered through a friend who has a Master's in languages from the region)
Nine Treasures

@coin said in Good TV:

@aria said in Good TV:

@coin Yeah, I give a lot of credit to Penn Badgley for responding to people that liked is portrayal of Joe with basically what amounts to "He killed four people. What else is there to say?" when a lot of actors would probably just enjoy the attention.

Penn was good casting for multiple reasons, first and foremost his usual calm and collected manner of facing inappropriate fans, and second, the whole thematic Gossip Girl connection which had me rollin'.

I think I may be the only person on the planet who didn't watch that show, though I considered it after hearing that. Does it hold up, do you think? I already know THE BIG SURPRISE ENDING that supposedly made no sense.

@Ghost said in RL Anger:

My friend has gotten into investigating for MUFON and he's trying to tap my SO and I as "ghost hunters" with him.

Fuck. My. Life.

I kind of want to know what that is, but also generally don't type random shit from MSB into my Google search. You jerks are how I learned what incels are.

@Ghost Ohh, WOW. That's, like, a train-wreck of amazing insanity. And I really do mean that in the best possible way. It's getting harder and harder to find any good conspiracy theorist nutjobs to slurp delicious schadenfreude from these days because post-recession, you can't really tell who is legitimately going on deranged rants about international bankers and who is just waving a giant red flag of anti-Semitic bullshit that they can fuck off with.

While these are all SUPER ENTERTAINING ideas, I'm getting married at City Hall.

I think there may be some problems with this "wedding gun" plan, specifically the numbers of cops on site at all times.

@Ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Auspice

and we will hold him gingerly until the end of his watch.

Jesus Christ, now I'm crying.

Gany, I am so, so, so sorry. It aches to lose a dear friend, and I know that feeling of barely contained frustration/hysteria about not being able to do anything to help quite well. Except for what you're doing. It really is a kindness to take on the pain of ending his. This is doing everything you can for him, even if it doesn't feel that way right now.

HOLY SHIT, YOU CAN INVITE GRITTY TO YOUR WEDDING.

(I invited Gritty to our wedding.)

I am already getting automated texts for the 2020 presidential campaign.

Fuuuuuuuck you.

Current ones? No. However, previously? Yes.

There was a season where if I watched the hockey game, my team lost. If I listened to it on the radio, they won. This was an extremely frustrating year.

Also, it rained every Friday my freshman year of college. I don't know why, it just did. Sometimes it was all day. Sometimes it was only a few minutes. Sometimes it was in the middle of the night. But every single Friday. More often than not, my friends and I would be hanging out on the dorm steps and watch a parade of girls who got all dolled up for a frat party stumble home, soaked and shivering. By the end of the first semester, hearing "Bring an umbrella - it's Friday" was not uncommon in my group of ladies.

@Ghost said in Superstitions:

Hey, I suffered, too. They traded Simmonds.

Why would you remind me?! Are you trying to ruin my Friday, fucker?

<insert crying gif>

Thank you, helpful tall dudes in the grocery store. My tummy would be an emptier place without you.

@jibberthehut said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Aria that site combined with i think the site is "a bra that fits" that has you do a bunch of measurements laying down, standing up, bent over, etc etc. They produce a pretty accurate sizing and can also via those number tell you if you have shallow boobs etc etc and what to look for.

Those two sites keep the ladies in style and comfort and not frumpy and matronly and all on budget! Especially for us larger bust gals.

Yep! I did one of those tests and discovered that with my particular shape, buying the lined bras I was used to wearing was actually making my fit significantly worse than buying unlined ones with stretchy elastic along the top edge of the cup and double seams to avoid that weird pointy-Madonna-boob vibe that some unlined cups have. SO MUCH BETTER.

@Ganymede said in Good or New Movies Review:

I finally saw Us.

It's a good movie, but it's not as good as Get Out.

Plus, I figured the "twist" out about 10 minutes in.

When @insomniac7809 and I saw it, there were several people out in the hallway/restrooms afterwards complaining that the movie didn't make sense. And I don't mean the premise, which had a bunch of holes in it that you just kind of have to shrug and go along with. I mean they didn't understand the ending, where there's an entire flashback that literally explains what and how the "twist" happened.

I can only assume the people in the theater were morons.

@surreality said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Aria I'm sure it was his attempt at an erudite 'tits or gtfo', agreed. It's why 'maybe if you try to pronounce the lines in the guttural grunt-language throwbacks like you understand, it may translate' seemed about right.

...and it really does kinda nail it. I definitely remember the days of feeling 'Gf Ggffh', that's for sure.

Applying the same theory to the line mine is on, it sounds like a surprisingly groan-heavy, drawn out version of "DEFEAT" with a solidly irritated "UGH" at the end. Which is about accurate for describing the experience.