I like the ruffles.

Kaylee ,'Shindig'


Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Vortex - Jul 21, 2013 7:10:29 pm PDT #29916 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

I didn't mind strangers cleaning my laundry, but I would have minded someone I knew (or had to look in the eye) seeing it.


Trudy Booth - Jul 21, 2013 7:18:09 pm PDT #29917 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

I assume that the folks at my Wash & Fold see enough laundry that mine (or anybody's) is pretty uninteresting to them.


Burrell - Jul 21, 2013 7:39:18 pm PDT #29918 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Thank you, Ginger and Lee, I may well take you up on that offer. We have a doctor in the family, which always helps at times like this.

I suspect the first couple months are going to be focused on the surgical wound site. It's so big that they didn't close it, just covered it with some newfangled surgical gel and a vacuum-suctioned bandage. One of those things I'd think was cool if a student was writing a paper on it, but I find confronting it in RL a little daunting.


Connie Neil - Jul 21, 2013 7:40:05 pm PDT #29919 of 30001
brillig

My stains aren't that interesting, either, but I don't have a Wash & Fold near me.


Zenkitty - Jul 21, 2013 8:23:51 pm PDT #29920 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

I loved using a wash-and-fold laundry pickup-and-delivery service when there was one near me. Now I have a washer and dryer in my house and I can't justify using a service. Basically I'm lazy and I want someone else to do all the household chores for me because I'm lazy and I suck at them anyway. None of my stains were interesting enough for me to worry about a laundry professional seeing them. They've seen worse, and stranger.


meara - Jul 21, 2013 8:57:55 pm PDT #29921 of 30001

Ugh. I emailed the friend on facebook who posted pictures of the "cholo" party, and was like "Um, I saw you posted some pictures, and I just wanted to let you know that a lot of people are going to find that pretty racist" essentially (I was trying to find a nice way to say it) and her response was "Oh, thanks, but the people who hosted were hispanic, it was their idea, and my friends just have that sense of humor, some people might find it offensive but they don't!" and I'm like "...." OK, guess I'm not one of your friends, because damn. If they hosted a blackface party would you go to that too?

(I should add that she had previously posted pictures of hanging out with some friends (people I don't know) earlier in the summer when one of them was wearing one of those horrible faux-Indian headdresses of feathers? But it didn't seem to be a theme party, and I didn't want to immediately hold her friends against her. But now I guess I will...)


meara - Jul 21, 2013 9:02:05 pm PDT #29922 of 30001

Oh yay--I posted about my disappointment on Facebook (though with her blocked, and not calling her out by name) and one of our mutual friends commented that she, too, had noticed it, and was glad I called it out. Yay, mutual friend, even if not yay original friend.


WindSparrow - Jul 21, 2013 9:03:03 pm PDT #29923 of 30001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.

I fold my clothes straight out of the dryer on the grounds that if I never get around to taking out of the basket and putting them in drawers, at least they are still folded. But then my work uniform is t-shirts and jeans and I have flowery t-shirts for dressy occasions.


Scrappy - Jul 21, 2013 9:35:24 pm PDT #29924 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

We hang a lot of stuff to air dry, but the rest gets taken to the bed and folded there. We try to get everything put away after each weekly wash. Otherwise cats and/or dogs get to it somehow, and all the work is wasted.


Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 22, 2013 1:35:07 am PDT #29925 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Is it possible to be more preppy? [link]

Add a pastel sweater wrapped around the shoulders and a tennis racket in hand. Or substitute capri pants and boat shoes.