I worked as a prep cook in a relatively nice restaurant and i actually did the classic, ‘accidentally used salt out of the wrong bin instead of sugar in the recipe’ thing. I made blueberry brioche with caramel sauce with a cup of salt.

Guys will just wear something for it’s practicality - it’s been a difficult road to getting my boyfriend to let go of the cargo shorts., he really does like all the pockets for gardening, woodworking,etc.

My kickboxing, MMA instructor - who is married but they swing/are in an open relationship (he also has a girlfriend) so eh, i don’t feel so bad.

I used to work in animation, which, clothing wise, is around sweatpants to a step above. One woman i worked with would wear heels while walking through the wooden loft studio, it was incredibly startling in the otherwise quiet studio (everyone wore headphones while working). She sat near the owner’s office and he…

Random:

I think his short stories and novellas are the ones that mostly fall into the ‘great’ territory. And Misery.

I almost choked to death twice. Once, at 25,alone, while chewing on the end of a mechanical Staedler pen and accidentally inhaling the cap. In a split second i determined the cap was 50% in there and decided not to try to swallow it - i kept my throat open after the inhale and flipped my head upside down. The cap fell…

Yeah, from kindergarden to grade 8 everyone brings their lunch to school and put it in a cubby and then you eat your lunch at some random tables or occasionally desks.

Oh just forgot - in Canada (well at least the cities i lived in?) generally don’t have cafeterias for junior public school students - everyone brings them from home and eats at tables/desks. So my mom made them and then i did for school from about the age of 7 and up. I think school lunches (served by the school) is…

This. I used to use MSN for work in a studio as it was the best way to ask people about locations of files quickly because everyone had earphones on all the time (besides using it socially). One day it occurred to me that i could probably type without looking so i gave it a try and i was right. 

I grew up near a city in Canada that has a large German population and they have a meats company which provides deli meats everywhere. I grew up eating liverwurst and though generally my school lunch sandwiches were really boring, those liverwurst sandwiches were my favourite. I don’t like condiments much (and still…

I highly recommend ‘The 7th Continent’ and it’s even better when you don’t know anything about it going in. A great comment on consumerism and the nuclear family - some truly shocking stuff near the end. It’s even based on an actual family that did the same things to themselves - Haneke read about it in a newspaper.…

I watched Cache in a film class and became an instant Haneke fan. I don’t always like his films but at least, most of the time, he’s pushing the boundaries of *something* and antagonizing someone. He doesn’t phone it in.

Creepy overprotective dads are always terrified that some teenage boy is going to see and treat his daughter the way he himself sees and treats women. That’s why they’re like that.

i saw enough tacky Pnina shit on Say Yes to the Dress to last me a lifetime. Gluing fake crystals onto lingerie does not a wedding dress make (unless you’re a Vegas Stripper getting married, to which i say go for it).

I got the best mashup ever randomly off Kazaa and have since lost it and there is no record of it on Google i can find.

An opossum was under the deck (landlord too cheap to fix it) and my Portuguese neighbour saw it and tried to explain what it was. “Big! White and black! Thick tail, like rat. Black eyes!” I was like, what the hell is that animal...? And then later i saw it, waddling on the lawn - huge opossum, *extremely pregnant*,…

My boyfriend had a family of raccoons in his garage for a few days last spring. At sundown we watched mom racoon scale the garage door down to the ground and twittered encouragement to her 3 babies. They were adorable rounds of fluff, taking turns hanging off the back fence before off to their buffet of garbage.

I used this phone up until 2 years ago when i felt forced to get a regular smartphone. I hate the smartphone - having to worry about taking care of it, updating it etc. I still have the old one which still worked after 7 years - if i’d drop it the battery would just pop out the back and nothing ever broke. I really…

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