Cannot tell if win or lose
Feb. 22nd, 2013 03:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaberett- around these parts, the phrase "nobody LIKES ME everybody HATES ME going down the garden to SET UP AN OKCUPID ACCOUNT" has gained common currency. This morning I had cause to invoke it, and actually went to OKCupid. To my horror, from my point of view on sign-up forms, FetLife is actually less faily than OKCupid. Given that FetLife includes "Trans - Male-to-Female" etc as standalone gender categories... ye-ah.
- the surname "Adhemar" has just turned up as the legit honest-to-goodness name of an active researcher in approximately my field. Shit.
- fret fret fret
- burnt the tagine, and the horrible gooseberry crumble is so horrible I'm not sure I'm going to be able to convince anyone to eat it (made in a desperate attempt to use up both flapjack crumbs and five tins of gooseberries in syrup I inherited; please don't ask)
+ made enough food yesterday to last us for a while, including RED BEAN PASTE, which means I had RED BEAN PASTE AND CONDENSED MILK ON CRUMPETS for breakfast it was GRAND
+ Station Cycles got in the 24x1" inners I asked them for, sold them to me for £4.99 a pop, and were all round fantastic. i♥them
+ my dreaded brown envelope from the DWP arrived... telling me that I was entitled to DLA, it had been automatically renewed, etc. I do not even know what to do with this, other than flail squeakily a lot
+ all our shower gel now has "MANLY MAN MAN MAN MAN MAN MAN MAN MAN MAN" written on it in permanent marker
- the surname "Adhemar" has just turned up as the legit honest-to-goodness name of an active researcher in approximately my field. Shit.
- fret fret fret
- burnt the tagine, and the horrible gooseberry crumble is so horrible I'm not sure I'm going to be able to convince anyone to eat it (made in a desperate attempt to use up both flapjack crumbs and five tins of gooseberries in syrup I inherited; please don't ask)
+ made enough food yesterday to last us for a while, including RED BEAN PASTE, which means I had RED BEAN PASTE AND CONDENSED MILK ON CRUMPETS for breakfast it was GRAND
+ Station Cycles got in the 24x1" inners I asked them for, sold them to me for £4.99 a pop, and were all round fantastic. i♥them
+ my dreaded brown envelope from the DWP arrived... telling me that I was entitled to DLA, it had been automatically renewed, etc. I do not even know what to do with this, other than flail squeakily a lot
+ all our shower gel now has "MANLY MAN MAN MAN MAN MAN MAN MAN MAN MAN" written on it in permanent marker
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- Are you plotting to replace Rincewind? I feel like there have to be better academic aspirations than that. Just because someone has to teach fretwork doesn't mean it has to be you. And "Egregious Professor Of Cruel And Unusual Geography" and "Chair of Experimental Serendipity" both sound like more fun.
- It can't be nearly as horrifying as the charcoal flapjack
+ Someday, I should learn to make red bean paste! Well, actually, I probably shouldn't, because then I'd eat it all the time, and I gather it's mostly sugar. Also, crumpets!
+ Yay!
+ Congratulations again!
+ ...
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Date: 2013-02-22 04:33 pm (UTC)However, the match algorithm is spot on. It can't assess attractiveness, but as Valkyrie puts it, it's jolly good at finding people you'd like to have a pint with.
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Date: 2013-02-22 04:56 pm (UTC)From my outside perspective, that sounds like enough win to counter all the lose. Also the shower gel highly amuses me.
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Date: 2013-02-22 06:22 pm (UTC)(shower gel: now with added context)
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Date: 2013-02-22 06:20 pm (UTC)namely, this one brand is separated into shower gel that is FOR MEN (you can tell coz it says MEN on it, and some of it is flavoured with habaneros, because THAT'S a fantastic way to wake yourself up in the morning) and shower gel that is clearly for ~ladeez~ (you can tell because it is scented and shelved with the ~ladeez~ stuff and has like explanatory labels on declaring which ones are vegan and which are fairtrade and so on and so forth)
... we decided that "a manly shower" is a desirable thing in the same sense of "a good morning" (in part because another mutual friend's smaller sibling is in the habit of declaring MANLY things that are good), ergo all the shower gel is labelled
... this explanation brought to you while I crabbily go "where the hell are my safety goggles" while taking a break from applying my hammer to my penknife, which in its turn is a distraction from FIXING MY HOLE PUNCH, which in its turn is a distraction from actually doing work...
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Date: 2013-02-22 07:20 pm (UTC)Turn on the jets, full-on, with a fine disregard for the apocalyptic gurgles from the plumbing and the barges stranded on the riverbed as ALL THE WATER is diverted to its fit and proper purpose.
Stand beneath the freezing cataract, gasping in the savage pleasure known to proper he-men in the wilderness, beat your chest and bellow out the challenge of the Alpha Male, hairy savage, silverback, Lord of the Jungle.
Then turn the big red tap and luxuriate in the technical superiority of Modern Man: HOT WATER.
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Date: 2013-02-22 11:26 pm (UTC)The Showa Era
Date: 2013-02-22 11:50 pm (UTC)Suffice to say that I emerge, singing manfully in an agreeable baritone, dry myself off vigorously with a rough cotton towel, comb the luxuriant hair on my buttocks into a neatly-matching pair of respectable and manly partings, and begin my day of manly labour invigorated, clean, and reaffirmed in my essential manliness.
In other news, and in an actual reply to something you referred to in your blog: I seem to be the only person I know who actually likes gooseberries. I am particularly fond of Demijohn's gooseberry liqueur, which has been described as the distilled epitomy of gooseberry 'hairiness'.
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Date: 2013-02-23 12:34 pm (UTC)