TattleTeeny

In terms of "talking to" more than one person at a time, which I am assuming the ad is doing, it works. I don't know the exact wording used or implied, obviously, but I assume the deal is for customers "[who are] 55 and [also customers who are] up [from 55]." Not great, granted, but I run into this all the time in my work for a whole mess of reasons (old copy that would have to be rereviewed by legal to change, time/space constraints in the ad, a deliberate need for vagueness, a higher-up who thinks the prose is just so beautiful and moving and perfect as is, and will not stoop so low as to take an editor's advice...).

Me too. And I don't really borrow books because I tend to bend the spine and pages of my own; I don't want to accidentally/reflexively do it to someone else's.

Honestly, I stopped sharing them. I found that some people assume that if you've read it, you don't want/need it anymore, as if that's for them to decide. Some people would pass a book along to someone else and one person I know, a former coworker who is fine and good in most other capacities, left a book of mine on a plane by mistake. She did apologize, but had no replacement book and no promise to get one for me (I would have said not to bother, but still). Somehow the not returning of possessions is more peevish to me than the not returning of borrowed money. I kind of expect that money isn't going to be returned if the person who needs it is in a financial bind to begin with. And while I like to have my money to use when I want to, it usually doesn't have a specific purpose (or meaning) like some possessions do.

I like it better than the one where a person is spreading jelly on the cracker SO MESSY! Oh my god, the sticky.

Yeah, @Ancaster, have it checked when you can. I still have no idea what initiated the broken foot bone that ruined a large chunk of 2023 for me (including, and I am not even remotely kidding, what I believe is a bit of PTSD to this day; I even hate just talking about it here). Because I hadn't experienced much pain outside of the couple of days that prompted me to go to the doctor, the doctor thinks it was a minor thing that became exacerbated due to my lack of staying off it (because of the lack of pain). Meanwhile, my friend Rob had his foot run over by a car recently. He was bruised and in a decent amount of pain, but not broken! WTF?

If the dog food is as good as they say, it's probably better than lots of people foods out there. I once opened a can of cat food years ago -- just mass market stuff, nothing special or high-end (I was younger and poorer, with a lot less info at my fingertips) and there was a legit whole shrimp in it, like you'd see on a tray at a party! Also, it didn't have that obvious pet-food smell; it just smelled seafoody. My friend and I were like, OK, I guess if we ever find ourselves in extremely dire grocery straits, we have an option, haha! I'm not saying that the fact that there was an obvious shrimp means the food was extra healthy (again, I know more now about pet nutrition needs than I did then), but it was a surprise!

No! I am so mad at me! But I feel like it was almost surely either a crime drama (possibly something in the vein of The Sinner or Cruel Summer) or a true crime doc. Aesthetically, I am picturing gray and dismal. I am trying to recall if I have ever seen an episode of any number of true crime shows that maybe covered this particular story, but that could be anything...

It isn’t—I’ve never seen that. But thanks anyway!

But why? Perishable stuff goes in the refrigerator -- what is so hard for someone, dog owner or not, to understand? And what the hell does someone think will happen because a dog's food is in there? It's not like it's plopped in there, just loose on the shelf. Luckily/hopefully, these assholes are limited to commercials; I'd like to believe that I don't know an actual human who has this issue. I wouldn't sever ties with someone who was initially confused. But I would if they believed that I shouldn't store my dog's food properly. Sometimes I put my cats' food in the refrigerator. No one cares!

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.