Part of the reason that was so annoying is that there was never any way of knowing when your local grocery or drugstore would have that next issue–or even if they would–and whether your parents would bring you back in time to get it.
Comedians who have frequent moments in their sets for “applause breaks”. I’ve witnessed a female comedian in the middle of her set randomly explain “And I think sex worker should be legalized not criminalized!” And get a massive applause breaks, and I’ve witnessed Jeff Dunham go “And let’s give some applause for our soldiers overseas!” And get a massive applause breaks.
Like who gives a shit? Who is this applauding benefiting? Just get back to the jokes!
I’m with you on the jeans. I haven’t worn jeans since high school. They chafe in the popliteal area, at least they do for me. Sweats, pajamas, and yes, even dress slacks, are way more comfortable than jeans.
Huh. I will rarely wait until mid-morning to take a shower. I hate it when I do that. I would be just in sweat pants. And I don’t find them comfortable. I prefer jeans or heavy Carhart shorts.
It’s totally phycological, I know. I just don’t feel ready for my day. Or I should be sick or something to not get dressed. Shoes too.
“Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others!”
I don’t get super-long acrylic nails. I don’t see how anyone can function in them. Using a cell phone or computer keyboard, putting on makeup, writing, picking up anything. Do the wearers think they are attractive or sexy? Because to me they are hideous and grotesque. Let’s not even talk about hygiene or what can get stuck under them. 
Oh sheese yes. Those long nails are disgusting. Fake eyelashes are just kinda funny IMHO. Your not fooling anyone. At least they don’t need a baseball cap I suppose.
Fashion is a funny thing, and some folks feel obligated or pressured to follow the trends.
I have a great 2 panel comic I cut out of a newspaper decades ago. A guy is answering a questionnaire.
Panel 1 - Q: What is your most important fashion accessory
Panel 2 - A: Denial
I can’t help but find this funny. I was never a regular viewer of soap operas and the only time I really saw them was when I visited my aunt’s house as a child and teenager. I might see an episode on Christmas Eve and not see another until Easter - but I wasn’t lost and it didn’t matter that I hadn’t been watching for the previous three or four months , not in the way it would if I had missed one episode of The Wire. Soap operas were basically meant for people who would miss episodes and/or not give episodes their full attention, which seems to be the opposite of what you dislike.
What’s so odd about people’s objection to and dismissal of soap operas (and I was never a fan either) is that the (melo)dramatic and even tabloid-esque plot points of infidelity, betrayal, death (even murder), illegitimate births, sibling rivalry, incest, the rise and fall of fortunes, crime and punishment, forgiveness, return to the family, etc., are also found in Grand Opera and throughout the Bible. These are things that human beings do, and we as humans are interested in how these events come to pass, how they work out, and what happens to the people. Go figure.
I can see some of them - grapefruit flavored vodka doesn’t seem that different from drinking this. And the flavored beer I think depends also - the hard lemonades and iced teas are technically beer ( they are malt beverages) but they don’t seem weird to me in the way that something like Bud Light Lime does. Although that’s probably because I assume that something called Bud Light Lime tastes like beer with lime added and that could be wrong.
And if you don’t have the “soap opera” elements, a different set of critics will dismiss it as just a brainless action flick.
It’s not the subject that makes a soap opera a soap opera. It’s the style.
Girl, preach. Especially the “coffin” shape that’s the style these days.
I get that the rounded oval that I think of as attractive is hideously outdated or whatevs, but the new nail shape is … vulgar? Unflattering?
Also, does ANYone keep all five nails the same color anymore, or is it mandated by law that the 4th (“ring”) finger get a contrasting color and/or elaborate pattern?
Cheap lagers (to me) taste better with a lime wedge added. Last night I picked up a pizza for our dinner. I also grabbed a six pack of Bud Light Lime so that we could drink it before the end of summer.
It (to me) is a great boat beer. When we are on the water I like to put a case on ice along with a few limes. This was the first summer in many years we didn’t have a pontoon boat, so we hadn’t had any Bud Light Lime.
When I was a night psych crisis interventionist for a college, the counselor on the opposite shifts and I would try whatever drink was currently implicated in students’ extreme drunkenness/drunken meltdown/drink-induced psychiatric issue. Most were disgusting and we wondered why anyone would drink them rather than just getting a bottle of cheap vodka if the goal was just to get trashed.
Probably because they were in denial about wanting to get trashed.
At times there may have been some social pretense, yes. A lot of times it would be 2:00 AM, “WOOOO! BLASTED ALL NIGHT! FUCK YOU! YEAH! [vomit on someone else’s door].”
You must be a pianist, because, to a violinist or guitarist, that’s the third finger. We don’t count the thumb.
Don’t you judge me!! { sob }
It’s the commercials. Long ago, when ‘house’ wives would watch them, they put on a lot of commercials for… soap. Things that the ‘house’ wife would buy.