What's mildly irritating you today?

[footfootfoot]

Let toad ebay them for you! Or use them to inspire your minions.

[glatt]

Yeah, I checked ebay to see what they are worth. They aren't worth the trouble.

[Sundae]

Diz is being really needy today.
Has to be held like a baby, and when he is, he licks my ear and my cheek and smacks his licky-chops really loudly.

Grrr.

I still love him.
Eugh - just shifted him round (typing one-handed) and he started licking my neck.

He goes bye-bos at 12.00. Thank goodness.
I have a bathroom to clean and photos to upload.

ETA, having taken a photo.
Of course Diz is used to the camera. As soon as I switched it on the tell-tale sound motivated him to pose.

[footfootfoot]

Where does he go at 12?

[IamSam]

To that big kitty litter box in the sky?

[Sundae]

We have cat-shifts, because Diz is a bully. Sigh.

Mia is more of an outdoor cat. She comes in at about 06.30 - depends on my schedule - but if I'm working that's about right. She goes to bed about 08.30, by choice, so Diz gets the run of the house.

Diz goes to bed about 12.00.
If I am not home he's ready for it.
If I am home he's pretty much ready for it anyway as he gets half a handful of beebles and he knows it. From about 11.00 he's woawing and fussing.

Switch over again at 20.00.
Mia doesn't have as much time in the house as she is much older and she prefers to be out at night anyway. When she's in she wants to sleep.

None of us (humans) are really happy with it, but the boy can be a terror

[footfootfoot]

Those young turks...

[Lamplighter]

So I finish shopping at our local chain "we carry everything" store, and go to check out.
One cashier is working (feverishly), and another is just standing there doing nothing behind her register.

Another staff comes by and asks why she is not checking.
"It won't let me sign in... it says I have to wait another 5 minutes"

MY GOD ! A computer program that won't let an employee even start work !

The only lightness was when the customers in line all began laughing or cussing, according to their own natures.
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[DanaC]

There's a constant, low level (or sometimes much louder!) misogynistic buzz on social media (and across the internet) with jokes about domestic violence and rape, or just disdainful about women and their sexuality, vile comments posted in reply to women blog writers and sites dedicated to distributing naked photos of ex-girlfriends with the derision in the comments flowing freely.

It just is what it is.

In some settings, sexist jokes can be funny. Like for instance, when one of you guys tell one of us girls to go make a sammich. It's funny because it's aware and plays with the boundaries we have all set for each other in humour. Likewise, I have laughed at rape jokes, depending on the joke - there are ways of being funny about that without further degrading rape victims or offering tacit acceptance of rapists.

Each joke, each picture, each slight, on its own is often not very much. But they aren't made in isolation from each other. Together they combine to make a very unpleasant bubbling undercurrent to our popular culture.

It isn't just the obvious stuff, either. It infects our mainstream media. Female politicians whose press coverage seems to consist mostly of an analysis of their hairstyles and fashion sense, newspapers covering rape stories with a prurient focus on what was done to the women, as well as a tone that implicates the victims as somehow responsible for what happened to them.

It's everywhere, all the time. Most depressingly, women engage in it too. Often as viciously. Women's magazines (mainly written by women, but often with a man at the head of the publication) are some of the worst culprits for creating a culture disdainful of women, hyper-critical of their physicality and solidly centered on assumptions of womanhood realised through male attention and approval.

Anyways...that's just a little context: what's irritating me is a post on facebook that appeared in my timeline. An old school chum I haven't spoken to for years. Posted by a woman:

a girl comes home to find her boyfriend blow drying his his willy. "what are you doing " she asks he replies "warming your dinner you ungrateful cow "!!

Seriously. What's the fucking point of anything?

[DanaC]

Oh bollocky bollocks, here's another. Same woman:

hubby says"i fancy kinky sex,can i cum in Ur ear?"wife says"NO i might go deaf" hubby says"i been cumin in ur mouth for 20years &ur still fucking talking!!"

[ZenGum]

Was that the whole joke? Pretty lame.

If it had built up a bit, with the couple arguing about whose turn it is to cook, or about how she's out working so he should make dinner etc, and then have the punchline it could have been better.

No need to call her an ungrateful cow, tho. I think it'd come across funnier as a hopeless-male-trying-to-be-good-but-failing-dismally sort of twist.

The background static ... yeah, it's there.

[DanaC]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

Was that the whole joke? Pretty lame.

If it had built up a bit, with the couple arguing about whose turn it is to cook, or about how she's out working so he should make dinner etc, and then have the punchline it could have been better.
.

You're right. i was trying to work out why that joke irritated me, when much naughtier ones around the same theme have made me laugh. And it's the nastiness and aggressive tone of it unmitigated by a broader scene.

[ZenGum]

That second one is horrible just for the language abuse. :p

Seriously, there are times when it is right to object to that sort of thing. You don't have to cause a big scene, but let them know you don't like it.

Groups and individuals determine their guidelines about behaviour through this kind of feedback, and at least a bit, it works. We've seen it here in the last year.

tl;dr: smack that bitch down!

[DanaC]

I suppose I should be grateful it's not the same person as the one posting a combo of crystal waving unicorn wisdom and anti-muslim humour, That's quite enough cognitive dissonance for anyone to handle.

[Pete Zicato]

Here's one I heard much like the first one, but much nicer.

A young couple get married and move to a different city where the husband has obtained a job. The wife who was still looking for employment got into the habit of making elaborate dinners. The husband tells the wife, "You don't have to make these elaborate dinners. We can live on Loooooove. She keeps making the dinners and he keeps telling her they can live on Looooooove.

The next night he comes home to find his wife naked, sliding down the bannister. "What are you doing honey?"

She turns to go up one more time. As she slides back down she smiles and says, "Warming dinner."

Not very funny here because you all knew what was coming.