Small Things That Make You Frown 2.0

[Bcat]

My peacock mug broke! 

Oh no! 

[Fireball]

My peacock mug broke! 

Oh no! 

  Good to see you're posting again, Ms B! Though this is not a thing that makes me frown.

[Bcat]

My peacock mug broke! 

Oh no! 

  Good to see you're posting again, Ms B! Though this is not a thing that makes me frown.

[Dānu]

My peacock mug broke! 

I didn't know peacocks drank from mugs.

[Fireball]

My peacock mug broke! 

I didn't know peacocks drank from mugs.  

Understandable. If one drinks coffee from a coffee mug, what does one consume from a peacock mug!? 

[Aliza]

My peacock mug broke! 

I didn't know peacocks drank from mugs.  

Understandable. If one drinks coffee from a coffee mug, what does one consume from a peacock mug!? 

Shit! 

[SYZ]

Trying to squeeze the last bit of sauce out of these type of bottles... can't be done.

[TonyAnkle]

Trying to squeeze the last bit of sauce out of these type of bottles... can't be done.

Unscrew lid and insert tongue. Job done.

[Little Lunch]

I use centrifugal force.
Make sure the lid's on properly unless you want a red ring...in the kitchen. :-)

[Phaedrus]

Trying to squeeze the last bit of sauce out of these type of bottles... can't be done.

Is ketchup so expensive that you must squeeze out the last drop?

If that's the case, add water to it and shake.

[Aliza]

Trying to squeeze the last bit of sauce out of these type of bottles... can't be done.

No, and this irritates me as well. It's wasteful. We pay extra for the convenience packaging, and there's a blob at the end that simply won't come out.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

My peacock mug broke! 

Couldn't find any many of peacocks, but here's one big horny mother.

[Aliza]

My peacock mug broke! 

Couldn't find any many of peacocks, but here's one big horny mother.

I saw that one while I was searching. ...Wonder if it's microwave and dishwasher safe.

Finding a good peacock mug is proving very difficult. Most of the mugs on the market I could just as easily get from Zazzle with a random picture from the internet. I might have to stumble upon the perfect mug as I did the last one. 

[Dānu]

How do they hollow out the peacock to make the mug?

[Chas]

The only way to schedule a Covid vaccination is through a website.  At this time, the only people other than medical and first responders, is people over 75.   
Yeah, 'cause they have mad computer skills.   It will shortly open up to those over 65 with a co-morbidity or two.

Be that as it may, the fucking website is hard to navigate and doesn't work.
The governor said "Just keep trying."

No, you shithead, fix the fucking website and tell us when it's fixed.

[c172]

My heater doesn't work.

[Free]

Since Aliza just posted the Small Things That Make You Smile 2.0, I figured I'd make a new version of my second most successful thread over on TFTSNBN. As for a small thing that makes me frown, why not start with the fact that my most successful thread over on TFTSNBN has been stolen here by Vera. I curse her to an afterlife of eternal translating of shitty erotica for this grievous sin.

What small things make you frown?

Oily peanut butter.

[Bucky Ball]

The only way to schedule a Covid vaccination is through a website.  At this time, the only people other than medical and first responders, is people over 75.   
Yeah, 'cause they have mad computer skills.   It will shortly open up to those over 65 with a co-morbidity or two.

Be that as it may, the fucking website is hard to navigate and doesn't work.
The governor said "Just keep trying."

No, you shithead, fix the fucking website and tell us when it's fixed.

One other thing I've been hearing about is ... if you know someone at a school, or a site where they are distributing them, or anywhere else you know they are giving them ... if you show up at the end of their day, almost all of them have a few extra doses they don't want to waste, and you can get one of those, (which automatically then puts you in line for dose two. I've been hearing some people are finding a way to get one that way.)

[Chas]

The only way to schedule a Covid vaccination is through a website.  At this time, the only people other than medical and first responders, is people over 75.   
Yeah, 'cause they have mad computer skills.   It will shortly open up to those over 65 with a co-morbidity or two.

Be that as it may, the fucking website is hard to navigate and doesn't work.
The governor said "Just keep trying."

No, you shithead, fix the fucking website and tell us when it's fixed.

One other thing I've been hearing about is ... if you know someone at a school, or a site where they are distributing them, or anywhere else you know they are giving them ... if you show up at the end of their day, almost all of them have a few extra doses they don't want to waste, and you can get one of those, (which automatically then puts you in line for dose two. I've been hearing some people are finding a way to get one that way.)

[Vera]

It would appear that I've spent my last two bike rides (well, half of the second one anyway) listening to what turned out to amount to little more than torture porn with a thin, fuzzy sy-fy (no, it does not deserve the word science-fiction) veneer

I guess coming up with a coherent, at least marginally scientific PLOT is much harder than just stringing together your sick sadistic fantasies and passing it off as science-fiction

[Vera]

Trying to finish the book I've been struggling with for three months (!!!)... with a nasty, nasty headache. It couldn't have waited one more measly day But knowing how little is left I just want to be done with it... though this is my so called gap-filling - trying to think of all those hard things I didn't want to waste too much time thinking about when translating and editing.

Also, this incredibly crappy trilogy has been nominated for a Hugo award (pretty sure a huge part of it is because it's "muslim".. though the only "muslim" thing about it are the names... it is just more of the same old trite Western fantasy (she even uses modern-day American slang even though it's supposed to take place in Egypt two centuries ago. She is just *this* bad) and nothing AT ALL like the rich world of 1001 Nights which I happen to love.

Oh, and I thought the Hugo awards were (or used to be) for science fiction not the infinitely inferior fantasy. Then again, they are already lumping the two together into the abomination that is "speculative" fiction. Screw this noise. It's bad enough that quite a bit of "science" fiction is, as Ted Chiang puts it, adventure stories with lasers.

[Vera]

I saw that one while I was searching. ...Wonder if it's microwave and dishwasher safe.

Finding a good peacock mug is proving very difficult. Most of the mugs on the market I could just as easily get from Zazzle with a random picture from the internet. I might have to stumble upon the perfect mug as I did the last one. 

Time to head to Guatemala, methinks:





(Came to bitch about getting one of my days' long headaches several days before I'm supposed to finish my stupid stupid book, but in light of my previous post here.... )

[Vera]

Earrings on babies and toddlers.

[SYZ]

Council parking officers standing by meters with only 2 or 3 minutes left on them.     

[Tres Leches]

Earrings on babies and toddlers.

I never saw that until I moved to California. It's accepted in Mexican culture to pierce babies' ears at birth or soon after. I thought it was odd at first but now I'm just "meh".
Caring for a newborn has enough tasks already without monitoring a newly pierced ear for infection. Moms are judged no matter what they do but piercing ears is a mostly harmless practice, I think.