Diagonally or horizontally?
I cut mine properly.
Vertically.
Why is vertical sandwich-cutting so rarely seen as a viable option?
Come on! It’s the only way to attain any approximation of sandwich symmetry, and therefore it’s the best way.
Since it’s the best way, it’s my way.
And since it’s my way, it’s the right way.
QED
Out of all the companies I’ve had to deal with, T-Mobile is the only one I’ve never had a problem with. I had an issue this month with a change I made online to one of our plans not going through properly, so I called up customer service a minute ago, didn’t have to wait on hold for more than three seconds, and spoke to a very pleasant lady who fixed the issue without any hassle. WTF, it actually put me in a better mood, unlike, say… Comcast, who just seem 100 times worse than I already thought they were (so, whatever 100 x abysmal is) in comparison. YMMV, but I’m actually so confused and surprised to receive helpful and polite customer service for once, that I had to post about it for posterity… T-Mobile owns our souls for the next two years (at least, I think that’s the max it can jump to every time you switch to another promotional plan), but I don’t think I mind. I’ve dealt with a couple other mobile providers, and um… no thanks (AT&T/Cingular, I’m looking at you).
So nyah!
I hate, hate, hate social networking sites. I think everybody knows that by now. I don’t really see the point of them. I’m not terribly interested in actively meeting anyone new online, and I don’t need to sign up to yet another site to add the same people I’ve already added to MySpace, Facebook, Friendster, and whatever the fuck. They know where to find me. I don’t need yet another blog on yet another social networking site, because I have my own website (and unless I crosspost everything 87 different times, or limit myself to only one networking site and somehow force everybody I know to check it, only a subsection of the people I know are going to see a blog entry on any given site, anyway).
But I will say this for social networking sites: they’re a terrific whitelisting tool. I rarely get spammed with add requests on any of the sites I’m a member of, and it’s very easy to deny comments and messages from non-friends on most of them, so I rarely get any spam at all. And since most of the people I know are crazy, and communicate almost exclusively through such sites and not through e-mail… I have not received even one invite to Quechup, because next to no one has my contact information in their address book (and the people who do, such as my mother, don’t really go in for social networking sites).
Despite that, I still prefer that you bastards e-mail me! I like the ability to backup, sort, search, store, and basically do whatever the hell I want to do with my messages. And I don’t like having to rely on third parties, especially ones (like MySpace) that frequently don’t work when you need them to. Plus, POPFile works pretty darn well at sifting through the shit for me. Spam almost never makes it to my inbox, even though I’ve just recently deleted my logs and filters to start fresh.
The one good thing about spam is… if you don’t regularly get a lot of e-mail (I have notifications for things like MySpace, Facebook, etc. turned off, and don’t get much personal mail), it’s a good way to discover sooner rather than later if there’s a problem with your mail server. If it wasn’t for spam, that kind of thing could take me weeks to notice! Especially if the problem was intermittent.
Dude tried to centre the buckle over his fly, which is wrong to begin with. And then he missed.
I will laugh at you if you do this, because it makes you look like an asshat. It puts your entire outfit off-kilter, even if someone doesn’t necessarily notice exactly why.
Especially if you don’t match your belt and shoes.
Whatever.
In searching for photos to explain this complaint, every single person that I found doing things the stupid way was male. Why is that, I wonder. Pay attention, ya doofs!
Sometimes I wonder if I pay too much attention to relatively-pointless details. But then I figure, I don’t really have anything major to complain about, so I’d probably be pretty out of luck for a hobby. Plus, menfolk. The womens, they will notice these things. You will lose points.
Now… out into the city, to inaudibly click my tongue and invisibly shake my head at people on the train.
(The sort with a conventional buckle, anyway).
The buckle should not be in the centre.
Not.
In.
The.
Centre.
It belt should be placed (more or less) so that the midpoint between the loop and the exposed half of the buckle lines up with the button on your fly. The photo above shows correct placement.
And since Flickr is an asshole, and doesn’t easily allow me to blog more than one photo at a time, hang on a second…
Because I’m accustomed to regularly licking my bathroom mirror.
Seriously, America. Calm the fuck down. There are very few situations that actually call for the use of antibacterials. Cleaning your windows is not one of them. The germs are not going to leap off of the glass and attack you. Besides, if you’re in the habit of cleaning your house with products like this, if they do leap out at you, the ones that will be left to do so are going to be crazy evil superbugs of death, because the 99.9% of the germs that you massacred are out of the way, giving greater opportunity to the really nasty stuff to take over (okay, one person’s OCD isn’t likely to fuck things up that badly, but when it’s an entire country…)
The same thing goes on inside your body, if you take antibiotics unnecessarily. What’s scarier — the possibility of relatively harmless bacteria being allowed to do its thing (and just maybe benefiting the immune systems of you and your children while they’re at it), or the possibility of new drug-resistant strains of disease emerging because of America’s collective germophobia (search Google for drug resistance and be afraid). Last I heard, none of these products actually prevents anyone from becoming sick, anyway. You’re wasting your time and money. At least you have a false sense of security?
P.S. I’ve just finished reading Riddled with Life: Friendly worms, Ladybug Sex, and the Parasites That Make Us Who We Are by Marlene Zuk. It would be a good book for anyone having trouble overcoming their fear of OMG germs!!! to read. We evolved alongside germs. Our bodies, for the most part, know how to deal with them, and in some cases, actually need them. Your digestive system, for instance, would not be at all the same, and if you’re female, without friendly bacteria to fight off the nogoodniks, you’d have a constant yeast infection and a nasty case of bacterial vaginosis to boot. Fun fun fun! According to Dorion Sagan and Lynn Margulis in their book Garden of Microbial Delights, “Fully 10 percent of our own dry body weight consists of bacteria, some of which, although they are not a congenital part of our bodies, we can’t live without.” And just think about how many germies are squiring around on your skin right now. Not to mention the parasites in your eyebrows!
Look, geniuses. The words “tips” was not originally an acronym for “To Insure Prompt Service”. For one thing, it would have to have been TEPS, because the proper word is ensure, not insure. For another thing, you’re not going to ensure prompt service by giving someone a tip as you’re leaving. See how that doesn’t make sense? If that was the purpose, you’d tip at the beginning of the meal.
You now have no excuse for ever saying this to me again, Internet.
I was just talking to someone about my hydro bill. I managed to correct that one before getting asked what the hell a hydro bill is, but it inspired me to add to my list of Canadianisms I use that might confuse someone, because there are still ones I’ve just found out about (i.e. pencil crayons), and I was wondering if there were more. Here are some random ones I found on the interbutts. I’m sure some of these are used here, but I have no idea which ones those might be, because they’re all so familiar.
Oh, and…
Okay, I’m too lazy to figure this out myself right now, because a quick Google search didn’t instantly turn up the answer (if there is one). Is it possible to get StumbleUpon to stop showing me stumbles that consist of a single Jpeg? Because I really don’t care for them, and it ruins the entire thing for me. 2 out of 3 stumbles are images. Lame!
