Susan, sometimes I find that google or yahoo searches don't give me what I'm looking for too, but some people on the board use certain sites/shortcuts that you wouldn't normally think to use that give better results. I personally have no qualms about asking people here about something.

Me neither. And I certainly don't mind answering questions on my own areas of expertise--it lets me feel I'm being virtuous and helpful while also getting to show off a little, so it's all good.

I wouldn't have minded the LJ post so much if I hadn't already gotten my question answered several times over, or if it'd been in the tone of, "Here's this neat site I found if you need similar info in the future." But it was more like, "Why are you asking stupid questions here when you could just google?" so I'm all irrationally pissy about it.

Also, you googling instead of asking doesn't tell me anything. And it often happens that someone will bring up a question on something that is new and interesting, or that I'd also wanted to know but didn't think to ask.

Susan, I checked the post, and the person in question has rubbed me the wrong way before (not in direct interaction, but observing her interacting with other people), so I'd shrug it off.

Nobody's mentioned Lake Chargoggaggoggmanchaugagoggchaubunagungamaugg yet?

I think I will lead a happy life if I do not ever allow bleach or bleach solution to touch my skin. Seeing as how I do not plan to perform barehanded surgery in my living room, or other bizarre emergencies that might require the sudden application of cleaning products.

It's difficult to do this, as bleach is a vital part of my bathroom cleaning regimen and tends to get on me regardless of glove usage. But I can (thankfully) say that I've never applied it deliberately to skin as part of a grooming regimen.

I think the key to Lara Flynn Boyle's magic powers or lack of same WRT bleach is it was such an odd rumor, and concerned a subject sufficiently gross that people didn't want to spend time thinking about it. By contrast, getting drunk/high, naked, and overly chummy with an unwilling stranger on a transcontinental flight in front of multiple witnesses is the sort of thing that will have tabloid editors dancing in the streets like performers in a Busby Berkeley musical.

Nobody's mentioned Lake Chargoggmanchaugagoggchaubungungamaugg yet?

And it's pronounced Lake WTFdon'teventryit.

As far as I can tell, there's no place online you can buy a hair shirt.

This seems like an obvious gap. Where do holy hermits get their supplies?

Where do holy hermits get their supplies?

I thought they made it with their own hair, ala the Manson Wives.

Where do holy hermits get their supplies?

meamaximaculpa.com is for sale, if anyone's looking to fill an obvious niche....

I was going to say. If you care enough to wear a hair shirt, you care enough to grow your own materials to make a hair shirt.

I bet you do not even use a sewing machine when assembling it. (N.b. I have no idea how you actually make a hair shirt, but with a regular shirt, you would use a sewing machine, wouldn't you?)

Of course, I always wondered about "useful" things made out of hair, because anyone who has been to a barber shop knows hair is actually quite itchy and unpleasant. Which is the point, with a hair shirt (or anyway, suffering is the point), but what about horsehair couches? Do these people not believe in padded springs or goosedown or frelling cane chairs for crying out loud? You've got to make a couch out of horse hair??