TattleTeeny

He really is. But then, in some of his THs, he seems OK-ish and kind of quirky?

OOOOH, you are not helping me to not lose my mind! Haha, I came in here all hopeful that someone had solved this for me!

This Eric can’t be serious. Surely he must be deliberately playing the role of a villain crossed with a bumbling oaf?

I think it’s more about manpower or something else like that (or maybe even language barriers, judging by the phone reps; it’s difficult sometimes). For one thing, my previous providers have online services. And this current provider links to actual health info and claims, you just can’t get customer service/administrative help online. If there are secure online portals that doctors use to communicate with patients about actual private matters (and it’s great; I rarely ever call an office!), surely an insurance provider can allow a customer to contact them online with mundane policy questions, even if it’s just a message that prompts a rep to call on the phone. Security concerns or not, writing a paper letter to an insurance company about a pressing coverage matter is not at all efficient for the customer.

It looked normal to me. Most stencils for portraits look like a mess of lines. To be honest, that tattoo came out better than I expected, based on the other tattoos I’ve seen on Bravo shows.

Oh my god, I know. My stupid health insurance provider is this way; the Contact Us section of the website has a customer service phone number and not even a fax number, but... a physical address...TO WRITE TO!

I don't know that I would care; Robert Palmer can and I still despise that song, haha!

I totally relate to James's issues about leaving the pets. I have it too, and my cats have not been through what Hippie has. I couldn't care less that Sheana plays with makeup with her kid. Fuck it, lots of people do that. I did when I was little and I barely wear makeup now -- somehow, despite playing with it, I never quite learned how to be adept at it (or even patient enough to allow myself to become adept at it, haha!).

Ugh, this almond milk commercial with the guy singing Simply Irresistible is annoying is so many ways. First, and least, I hate that song. Second, the guy is just annoying for no good reason I can think of (so that’s on me, I guess). But mostly it’s the kid who yells “Mom?!” like he’s tattling on his dad. I mean, I just said I don’t like that dad, but does he not have every right to sing and dance in his home if he feels like it? What is the mom going to do about it — and why would she want to do anything about it?

Hopefully, the allergist will do the patch tests. They're super annoying* but they typically can find the issue, whether it's food, something outdoors, or an ingredient in a soap or another kind of skin or cleaning product. *Especially if you are allergic to the adhesive of the actual patches -- that was a fun 2 days.

I feel like the point (or a point) is that the food for the dog is made of the same quality of ingredients as would be used to make food for a human (or at least a reasonably health-conscious human) and out of fresh things that need to be refrigerated. as opposed to shoved into a cabinet or under a sink. But it's also playing around with the generally agreed-upon image of what the term "dog food" conjures: this is not little hard brown pebbles, so it's not "dog food [as a concept]" though it is "food for a dog." And then, on top of that, it's trying to appeal to the "pet parent" who places their pet's needs on par with the needs of the humans in their lives (I'm not mocking that at all; I am super guilty of it and not sorry about it!). I think they may be trying to get too many themes (all valid, IMO) into one short little ad?

This is driving me crazy: Saanich. I cannot figure out what I watched semi-recently that was also set in Saanich and I am going to lose my mind.

The whole show was so much more carefully crafted in the original iteration. Now it seems like a generic sitcom.

If I was a different kind of person, I could probably just act as if there was nothing to take care of? I was more like that when I was younger.

Hmmm, not sure that would work on the stretchy fabric band -- and I will have to see if that would affect the sensor on the back of the device itself. But maybe that's an idea. Oh, seemingly out of nowhere, I have also developed recurring perioral dermatitis, which is just sooooooo attractive and cute. Just finished my second round of antibiotics for it and hopefully it was one -- or rather two -- and done. WHYYYYYY, you guys, is there always some shit or another to be worried about and taken care of?! OK, I know that's life. But sometimes, no, I don't want to!

YIKES! I actually forgot about my biggest peeve today: my Fitbit is killing my skin, man. I have tried everything. The inside of my wrist is upset by the band -- fabric, plastic, metal, whatever. All of them itch and irritate my skin. The outside of my wrist is constantly raw and/or bleeding from the actual Fitbit. I like it and want to use it but I don't know what to do anymore.

Haha, yesssss! I also think about the irony of the homophobes labeling anyone as deviants and perverts...as they literally fixate on the sex lives of others!

I get what they are going for with the dog food semantics. I could call a banana "dog food" as well if i was intending to give it to my dog -- and I guess I could then say that I was eating dog food if I decided to eat that banana myself (just an example; I have no idea if a dog is supposed to eat bananas). I guess, though, that they could have spent more time figuring out how to express the "wordplay" idea better. ETA: I can't think of examples at the moment, but this kind of thing annoys me fairly often in commercials -- like an idea that falls flat because of unclever wording that seems to have been thrown together, while some of us are watching and thinking "why wouldn't you have just said Blah Blah Blah instead?"

I have a friend who was way into the whole essential oil thing, oh my goodness. And she came over one day to talk to me about them. I bought from her a couple that I have always found helpful for various things, but I had to flat-out tell her that I despise selling shit and that I wasn't interested in using my free time for it at all. Honestly, we'd known each other for years and I am certain she was 95% ready for that reaction, haha! I am full of peeves this weekend. First, I had to get a new phone yesterday and oh my effing god, of course none of the previous and necessary accessories work anymore. About halfway through that infernal process, I was asking myself if I could just live with my old busted-ass phone. But heyyyyyy, there's a restocking fee (!!!) once they take your new one off the shelf and I would eventually need to do this whole thing anyway. Blech. Second, that specific aspect of hypocrisy wherein someone says how much they hate a behavior or an attitude while doing that behavior/attitude exactly right that second. Also, sort of related, the notion of "shoving it down my throat" when those being accused of doing the shoving are simply existing, perhaps [gasp!] in public (especially when the "shovees" consider themselves to be of a tougher-cookie variety than the so-called shovers).

You know what — NM. I didn’t intend to offend anyone’s sensitivities or hurt any feelings.

Ha! Just note that it wasn’t me who mentioned what I’m eating or not eating, nor was it Darlene in the context of the show. (Also, we don’t all care what other people eat…though, predictably, other people do love to tell me about burgers and bacon or whatever — always with the bacon.) Regardless, I’ll assume that vegan Darlene knows it’s in no one’s best interest to foist one specific diet onto a campus's worth of people.

It definitely does; in my experience, the self righteousness comes from the meat people. For instance, Darlene actively sought out burgers to serve, yet here we are talking about vegan ”enthusiasm.”

Someone has to make them. Maybe she figured she could help the restaurant while also helping the cafeteria.

How is she pushing veganism when they're serving hamburgers? Sorry, I get a little incredulous about that tired old "pushy vegan" trope.

He also said some weirdo thing about cutting Mya in half, while he was sitting around with a knife on his leg. Obviously I know it was in jest, but I have a "thing" about even joking like that about animals. I fixate on it and it makes me sad.