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  • Chipmunk415Chipmunk415 member
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    TwoDimes said:
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    Forgot about this one....a local toyota dealership is trying to drum up business, especially as part of the big push lately for corollas....

    Their method? Put together this ridiculous mash up commercial of photos/footage of the car, pricing, the dealership name, deals, and intersperse sexy/cool pictures....to club music. The kind of music often heard blaring from late teens/early twenty somethings without any words.

    It's irritating. as. hell.

    I always laugh at this kind of stuff and then wonder if the person funding the advertisement realizes the irony: the only people who would enjoy this commercial are probably too young and poor to be buying a new car. The people who would actually be in the market for a corolla are too off-put by the commercial for it to be effective!
    I should note that FI's and my response to this commercial is to always do ridiculous, stiff, dance moves. Our cats look at us like we're insane when this happens.
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  • HisGirlFriday13HisGirlFriday13 member
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    My buns are chapped, my gears are ground, and my tits are grated because: 

    -- I live in Central PA. We are going balls-to-the-wall on weather/snow/cold. I was called in early Saturday and Sunday (it never snowed either day), I have to stay late all week (no snow in the forecast), and I'm expected to be all-weather-all-the-time on social media. People, it's January in Central PA. Cold happens.

    -- DH's grandmother has started in on our plans for Easter, and doesn't like our answer (we're going to our own church but we will gladly attend lunch at her place and bring a dish, or meet her out somewhere), so she has decided to start nagging us about what we're doing and why it's not right and how she doesn't have many Easters left, and obtw, 'Easter is an important holiday for Christians, and don't we know that?' Well, yes, because we are GOING TO OUR OWN CATHOLIC MASS ON EASTER SUNDAY. 

    -- DH's brother and FSIL and their wedding plans that aren't and their bazillion breaches of etiquette and their ridiculous requests/requirements/suggestions, all of which mean my plans for V-Day are on hold until or unless they can get their effing shit together.
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  • pumpkinsandturkeyspumpkinsandturkeys member
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    HisGirlFriday13 said:
    My buns are chapped, my gears are ground, and my tits are grated because: 

    -- I live in Central PA. We are going balls-to-the-wall on weather/snow/cold. I was called in early Saturday and Sunday (it never snowed either day), I have to stay late all week (no snow in the forecast), and I'm expected to be all-weather-all-the-time on social media. People, it's January in Central PA. Cold happens.

    -- DH's grandmother has started in on our plans for Easter, and doesn't like our answer (we're going to our own church but we will gladly attend lunch at her place and bring a dish, or meet her out somewhere), so she has decided to start nagging us about what we're doing and why it's not right and how she doesn't have many Easters left, and obtw, 'Easter is an important holiday for Christians, and don't we know that?' Well, yes, because we are GOING TO OUR OWN CATHOLIC MASS ON EASTER SUNDAY. 

    -- DH's brother and FSIL and their wedding plans that aren't and their bazillion breaches of etiquette and their ridiculous requests/requirements/suggestions, all of which mean my plans for V-Day are on hold until or unless they can get their effing shit together.
    Ohhh, Grandma. I wondered when she'd make another appearance.

    Also, I'm waiting for BIL and FSIL to tell you that there's a v-day-themed dress code for their nuptials. THAT would be classic.


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  • Cookie PusherCookie Pusher member
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    pumpkinsandturkeys said:
    Also, I'm waiting for BIL and FSIL to tell you that there's a v-day-themed dress code for their nuptials. THAT would be classic.

    I would totally show up in something covered in red glitter. After all, it's the gift that keeps on giving!
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  • JCbride2015JCbride2015 member
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    HisGirlFriday13 said:
    My buns are chapped, my gears are ground, and my tits are grated because: 

    -- I live in Central PA. We are going balls-to-the-wall on weather/snow/cold. I was called in early Saturday and Sunday (it never snowed either day), I have to stay late all week (no snow in the forecast), and I'm expected to be all-weather-all-the-time on social media. People, it's January in Central PA. Cold happens.

    -- DH's grandmother has started in on our plans for Easter, and doesn't like our answer (we're going to our own church but we will gladly attend lunch at her place and bring a dish, or meet her out somewhere), so she has decided to start nagging us about what we're doing and why it's not right and how she doesn't have many Easters left, and obtw, 'Easter is an important holiday for Christians, and don't we know that?' Well, yes, because we are GOING TO OUR OWN CATHOLIC MASS ON EASTER SUNDAY. 

    -- DH's brother and FSIL and their wedding plans that aren't and their bazillion breaches of etiquette and their ridiculous requests/requirements/suggestions, all of which mean my plans for V-Day are on hold until or unless they can get their effing shit together.
    I will be forever confused on why Grandmother thinks Catholics aren't Christians.
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  • HisGirlFriday13HisGirlFriday13 member
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    @pumpkinsandturkeys, honestly, a themed dress code would be probably the least egregious of the options they have thus far thrown at us.

    -- it's going to be at an MDJ (Magisterial District Judge, aka JOP), sometime on V-Day. They haven't told us which MDJ (there are 10 in our county) or what time, so our whole V-Day is in limbo.

    -- there's going to be an after-party, at a local chain steakhouse, but it's pay-your-own-way, except we should plan to pay for their meals

    -- we have been voluntold we're picking up gma, taking her to the MDJ, taking her to dinner, then taking her home again, because she wants to come but can't drive herself and "we owe them" because they drove to our wedding -- nevermind that they told us in advance that they weren't going to be coming to the rehearsal because, and I quote, "We have better shit to do than drive up there for a day."

    -- gma later wants to have a pot-luck reception for them in which "the family" is invited and brings gifts, because gma has given gifts to these people as they got married and their kids as they got married and by God these people now owe her grandkids something. BIL and FSIL just want cash, as they have stated repeatedly.

    -- BIL wants a religious ceremony with his pastor, but FSIL doesn't go to church, so she doesn't want that, and they're fighting over whether to have it blessed in BIL's church, but if they do, it will be done in the church during the Sunday service (that's the church's policy/tradition on blessings) and we're expected to attend that AND take gma because "we did it for your wedding." Well, yes, but our wedding was on a Sunday afternoon and not during your own church service and it was the ONLY ONE WE HAD.

    And that's just the parts I know about. DH is apparently shooting down horrible ideas they propose and not telling me about them because he's afraid I will (a) go apoplectic and (b) 'tell all your Knotties about it and they'll laugh."

    Well duh.
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    HisGirlFriday13 said:
    @pumpkinsandturkeys, honestly, a themed dress code would be probably the least egregious of the options they have thus far thrown at us.

    -- it's going to be at an MDJ (Magisterial District Judge, aka JOP), sometime on V-Day. They haven't told us which MDJ (there are 10 in our county) or what time, so our whole V-Day is in limbo.

    -- there's going to be an after-party, at a local chain steakhouse, but it's pay-your-own-way, except we should plan to pay for their meals

    -- we have been voluntold we're picking up gma, taking her to the MDJ, taking her to dinner, then taking her home again, because she wants to come but can't drive herself and "we owe them" because they drove to our wedding -- nevermind that they told us in advance that they weren't going to be coming to the rehearsal because, and I quote, "We have better shit to do than drive up there for a day."

    -- gma later wants to have a pot-luck reception for them in which "the family" is invited and brings gifts, because gma has given gifts to these people as they got married and their kids as they got married and by God these people now owe her grandkids something. BIL and FSIL just want cash, as they have stated repeatedly.

    -- BIL wants a religious ceremony with his pastor, but FSIL doesn't go to church, so she doesn't want that, and they're fighting over whether to have it blessed in BIL's church, but if they do, it will be done in the church during the Sunday service (that's the church's policy/tradition on blessings) and we're expected to attend that AND take gma because "we did it for your wedding." Well, yes, but our wedding was on a Sunday afternoon and not during your own church service and it was the ONLY ONE WE HAD.

    And that's just the parts I know about. DH is apparently shooting down horrible ideas they propose and not telling me about them because he's afraid I will (a) go apoplectic and (b) 'tell all your Knotties about it and they'll laugh."

    Well duh.
    Sigh.

    Also, why must he deprive me of laughs? I need them so. Silly DH.


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  • pumpkinsandturkeyspumpkinsandturkeys member
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    Hahaha amazing. I love it. I think we would be great friends in real life haha


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  • vollebellvollebell member
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    My buns are chapped for the opposite reason as most of you...

    I WANT IT TO BE COLD!!!! I'm sick and tired of it being winter and hot! WE ARE IN A WATER CRISIS CLOUDS!!!! I would like to not have the state tell me when I can and can't use water.

    Also, I'm with you guys on the slamming of kitchen cabinets, my neighbors are bad about it.
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  • pumpkinsandturkeyspumpkinsandturkeys member
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    @volleball -- you can have the cold. One more day of -30 (or lower) will make me scream, and we've got another 10cm of snow headed our way this weekend :(


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    I am so glad I went back and read all the things here I missed. :D
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    I have a number of conservative people on my facebook, family included. 

    If I see one more thing about Obama secretly being a Muslim I swear to Allah....

    Yes I really do know people like that. They really exist, not just in Colbert spoofs. I don't love Obama- there are much better reasons to dislike him than that and saying that shit just makes you sound like a redneck skinhead douchenugget.

    I hid my mom's feed because I couldn't take it anymore. Ignorant shit like that is ALL she posts about and she can't even be bothered to check with snopes to see if she's being an idiot first.
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    HaileyDancingbear said:

    FiancB said:
    I have a number of conservative people on my facebook, family included. 

    If I see one more thing about Obama secretly being a Muslim I swear to Allah....

    Yes I really do know people like that. They really exist, not just in Colbert spoofs. I don't love Obama- there are much better reasons to dislike him than that and saying that shit just makes you sound like a redneck skinhead douchenugget.

    I hid my mom's feed because I couldn't take it anymore. Ignorant shit like that is ALL she posts about and she can't even be bothered to check with snopes to see if she's being an idiot first.
    I'm getting sick of the general hatred towards Muslims.  Hate the terrorist groups, not an entire religion with plenty of perfectly nice people who have nothing to do with them!  Every religion has nut cases who follow it, take the westboro baptist church for example.  Bunch of loons.  But that doesn't make every single Christian a bad guy. 
    People need to learn how to specify who they're actually mad at rather than aim their hatred towards an entire group.
    I think I'm tired of people's over generalization when making a judgement of anything at this point. People are so individualized that it seems ridiculous to attribute one quality to a mass of human beings sometimes. It's ridiculous, especially when it is pertaining to religious differences.
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    @glitterwitch22 Yes, I mentioned it and the engineer checked it out. Something with the risers in the walls and the heating system.

    I've lived there 3.5 years and this is the coldest of all the winters, so now that I know, it's not going to bother me. Most of the irritation was just not knowing!!

    A building needs at least one paranoid, light-sleeping resident to notice things are "off" to prevent further issues, right? :) 
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  • Kristen625Kristen625 member
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    You know what grinds my gears?  During the snowiest winter in years, people who have lived in the midwest for their entire lives love to say "When is your wedding?" to which I answer "The end of May." They follow up with "You know, its snowed in May before."  Gee thank you.  I know I don't have control over whatever weather we may have the day of our wedding, but could you please not say things like that to me?  It worried me enough because so many people had said it that I googled it.  Thankfully none of it was any kind of measurable snow and it was all in the beginning of May (except for once in early June, but again, it wasn't measurable.).  If people could please stop telling me about horrible weather in May, that would be great.  Thanks.
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    Kristen625 said:
    You know what grinds my gears?  During the snowiest winter in years, people who have lived in the midwest for their entire lives love to say "When is your wedding?" to which I answer "The end of May." They follow up with "You know, its snowed in May before."  Gee thank you.  I know I don't have control over whatever weather we may have the day of our wedding, but could you please not say things like that to me?  It worried me enough because so many people had said it that I googled it.  Thankfully none of it was any kind of measurable snow and it was all in the beginning of May (except for once in early June, but again, it wasn't measurable.).  If people could please stop telling me about horrible weather in May, that would be great.  Thanks.
    Agreed! I always hear, "Oh, May is a lovely month... when it's not freezing and raining." Yeah, yeah. And June, July, and August are lovely months when they're not rainy or stiflingly hot and humid, and the rest of the year is a crapshoot in Canada. Deal.


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  • WinstonsGirlWinstonsGirl member
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    Please.  I've lived through snow in every month except July.  Yup, even in August for 2 freak days.  It could always snow on your wedding 

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    pumpkinsandturkeys said:
    Kristen625 said:
    You know what grinds my gears?  During the snowiest winter in years, people who have lived in the midwest for their entire lives love to say "When is your wedding?" to which I answer "The end of May." They follow up with "You know, its snowed in May before."  Gee thank you.  I know I don't have control over whatever weather we may have the day of our wedding, but could you please not say things like that to me?  It worried me enough because so many people had said it that I googled it.  Thankfully none of it was any kind of measurable snow and it was all in the beginning of May (except for once in early June, but again, it wasn't measurable.).  If people could please stop telling me about horrible weather in May, that would be great.  Thanks.
    Agreed! I always hear, "Oh, May is a lovely month... when it's not freezing and raining." Yeah, yeah. And June, July, and August are lovely months when they're not rainy or stiflingly hot and humid, and the rest of the year is a crapshoot in Canada. Deal.
    My wedding is in July in north Florida. EVERYONE is like "oh, you know north Florida is hot in July, right?". I want to scream back at them-"You know my father has cancer and this is the first date we could get for our venue and it is more important for me to have him there than to wait 6 months till it cools off". I tend to just reply "we have air conditioning!"
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  • PolarBearFitzPolarBearFitz member
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    I don't know why everyone feels the need to offer a 'weather observation' when anyone mentions their wedding date. I have seen it happen a number of times when someone mentions the day they will get married.

    There could always be 'weather' but thank you to you and your expert meteorology (to all the 'it's hot in Florida' or ' It might snow in Canada' opinions you all have had to hear). I am proud to announce weather is weather on this day and whenever!
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    PolarBearFitz said:
    I don't know why everyone feels the need to offer a 'weather observation' when anyone mentions their wedding date. I have seen it happen a number of times when someone mentions the day they will get married.

    There could always be 'weather' but thank you to you and your expert meteorology (to all the 'it's hot in Florida' or ' It might snow in Canada' opinions you all have had to hear). I am proud to announce weather is weather on this day and whenever!
    To me its like telling a first time pregnant woman pregnancy/birth horror stories.  Keep that kind of thing to your self.  I've never been pregnant, but I have seen that happen so many times to new moms.  Can't we all just congratulate one another when it is happy news??!!!
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