I want to be underwhelmed—Winter is Coming

Where were we?

For the past few days I've been happily indulging in some decadent cookies. The word "decadent" is actually in the name. Delicious treat for only 120 calories.

Upon further inspection of the nutritional label, they are actually 120 calories per HALF a cookie.

Rat bastards and their duplicitous labels.

Rat bastards!

Well, the last thread lived beyond 600. Don’t look if you’re easily whelmed.

Oh look, Firefox just auto-updated again. I think it's down to once a day now.

I’m scratching my taint

Nothing to show your gut like a neon colored Halloween costume. My eyes! I need a diet

[quote]I’m scratching my taint

Then you smelled your fingers...

Today, Spectrum Cable TV began their "Sounds of the Season" Christmas music.

I love Christmas music but it occurred to me that if I don't pace myself, I'll be sick of it by Thanksgiving.

I’m blasting Xmas music tonight. I’m also mental.

I made bread pudding today and making lemon sauce for it.

I just had a V8

It's finally raining in California so I pulled my car out of the garage and parked it in the driveway.

I don't care about the teams playing in the World Series but I tuned in anyway and Xfinity is having technical difficulties.

My hands are itchy.

^ my pussy's itchy!

Eating gummy bears while drinking strong hot coffee made in a vintage percolator.

I ate some crackers, but I don't want to turn this into a Weight Watchers meeting.

I was triggered by the fatso at R17.

Well, I PRETENDED to be triggered. Like everybody else does.

But really, she's fat.

^ the seams of your caftan looked stretched to their limit too.

^ But I remind everyone that's this is probably just Winter Weight - so as not to whelm.

I'm thinking about getting the Christmas tree and ornaments out of the attic this weekend.

I'm smoking a bowl and listening to various Halloween-themed episodes of radio's Jack Benny, Burns and Allen, etc. No, I'm not a hundred years old, I'm 43. Same thing, I suppose. It whelms.

While I listen and occasionally chuckle, I am making a Costco list. It's semi-whelming but I'm not going until Monday.

I'd like a cup of licorice tea, but that whelms.

At the end of my day I set my mattress to reading position and use my robe as a snuggie as I read Datalounge on my tablet. Otherwise my arms get cold. I know you're not supposed to look at screens in bed but it's my favorite way to decompress.

What's on your Costco list, R22? I could use some ideas.

I roasted a frozen chicken today because it the weather was cooler and I didn't mind having the oven on for a couple of hours.

it's gonna be, like, 70 here until Sunday so winter isn't coming yet.

It's 74 degrees in Great Lakes country, nowhere near Winter temps. The only proof of Autumn are the colorful trees and piles of leaves. We're still enjoying Summer. The Earth must be off its axis and yet I'm happily underwhelmed at the temperature change.

[quote]I just had a V8.

I could have had a V8!

I feel like it's "time to make the donuts".

Is that a stealth poop reference?

I just ate four kalamata olives.

I left the jar on the counter just in case I want four more.

I finally cracked the code on how to cook beans (using dried beans). I just made some pinto beans and they're really good. I do an overnight soak *plus* the other method of bringing pot to a boil, turning the heat off and letting it sit for an hour. (Then stove back on and simmer.)

Black beans, I need to try again. I have a hard time with those.

White beans, like navy beans, are easy to get them soft. That's why when you buy canned white beans, they're all blown-out, i.e., too soft.

How long did you suck your mom’s tits?

My dog hates my singing. He doesn't howl, he licks my face to get me to shut up.

My cats love for me to sing to them, r34. I am not very good at it, though.

At 43, I have realized that the voice I use to speak to cats is just the Squiggy/David Lander voice from Laverne and Shirley. No wonder cats look at me like I am special needs.

If you find yourself in the vicinity of an Aldi, the frozen Tiramisu is good as are the Profiteroles.

My trips to the bathroom are going better and the color has returned to normal. That black hue for three days had me wondering because colon cancer runs in the family but then I remembered the squid ink in the pasta Sunday.

I'm going with the pork chops for dinner.

Squid ink cures colon cancer?

It’s a cephalopod miracle!

I'm on the couch with a cat on my lap. He only curls up if there's a blanket involved. Fusspot.

I went to Kroger’s equivalent of Aldi - Ruler Foods today to check out the race.

Let's not be "Let's be the 'I want to be underwhelmed--Winter Is Coming" thread thread.

Because underwhelming the underwhelmed takes the opposite of effort.

Too tarsome.

Another bump on my face.

Getting older is like knowing what a collapsing field pumpkin experiences before a hard freeze. What's next? Mice?

R32, I think that’s how my Mom made black-eyed peas. Overnight soak, boil, then let them sit, and then simmer.

R32 I believe those are the instructions on the back of the bag of dried beans. You could have saved a lot of guesswork by just reading the instructions.

R32, I am not one to quibble but beads are cooked to be tender, not "soft."

If I make one medical and one dental appointment by next Wednesday, I will buy strappy brown boots.

Self-bribery can be such a slippery slope.

Strappy boots, like this?

R48, I like refried beads!

R45, Yes, the wee beasties!

R37, Thanks a lot. My fat self did not need this info!

R35, Good enough for cats (not "Cats")!

Me? I forgot about their being in the oven so burnt to charcoal my French Fries (Ore-Ida, if you must know. And yes, I have real potatoes in the house. Your point?).

I refuse to whelm myself by describing my shoes until I’ve made these appointments. It shouldn’t be hard. It’s telephone stuff, right? I’ll grow a pair and get a pair of boots. It’s been ten years since my last dental appointment…. No big deal.

Watching NYPD Blue. I can't decide if Jimmy Smits is handsome or if his face is too bony.

I have a Mississippi Pot Roast in the crockpot. I only use half the packet of ranch dressing and half the packet of au jus gravy and find that works just fine and less of a sodium bomb.

Why not just leave out both, use salt free beef or vegetable broth and then salt to taste?

Then add some sour cream just before serving.

[quote]Why not just leave out both, use salt free beef or vegetable broth and then salt to taste?

Because it then it wouldn't be "Mississippi" Pot Roast!

Chuck Roast

Packet Ranch Dressing (I use half)

Packet Au Jus Gravy (I use half)

Pepperoncinis to taste (I use six)

Stick of Butter (I use half)

Some pepperoncini juice to taste (I use a tablespoon, maybe two).

Crockpot, 8 hours, done.

[quote] It’s been ten years since my last dental appointment…. No big deal.

That is a big deal. Ten years is a long time to go without seeing a dentist.

R58 you should ask how many teeth he has

I'm thinking about listening to Atom Heart Mother again. Saves me having to think about anything for half an hour or so.

Today I bought two pairs of winter boots. One ankle boot and one more of a slip on shoe but thick and with good grips. Also bought wool socks. Lying down now.

I cant find bright green kitchen tongs anywhere. What is wrong with this world?

[quote]Today I bought two pairs of winter boots. One ankle boot and one more of a slip on shoe but thick and with good grips. Also bought wool socks. Lying down now.

As one would. And should

The NYT crossword today included the clue “Predatory relatives of coral”. They expected us to be able to spell Amenones . . . Anemones . . . AMENHOTEP . . Whatever.

I’m having Bibimbap for dinner.

It’s so fucking windy! Gusts up to 50 mph overnight into tomorrow. I hope a big gust of wind doesn’t blow up my ass!

I bought a dozen eggs and I'm gonna try the Kenji Lopez-Alt method of making easy-to-peel boiled eggs.

You put the eggs into a pot / pan of already-boiling water (just about 1 inch of water).

He said that this works better than putting the eggs into cold water and then bringing everything (eggs and water) up to a boil at the same time.

I'll report back on how this works.

I'm trying to lose a couple of pounds and I need to have little snacks on hand.

[quote] I hope a big gust of wind doesn’t blow up my ass!

I hope a big gust of wind doesn’t blow out of your ass!

Be careful around that boiling water, r67!

Last night, I got fucked by a daddy in a detached garage/workshop during a wind and rain storm.

Today, I'm taking it easy because even a good fucking is whelming. I'm watching Dallas and Falcon Crest today.

I might cook breakfast but scrambling eggs seems whelming.

Kenji Lopez-Alt's egg-boiling method worked (eggs into water only after water starts to boil). Peeling eggs was easier. I cooked the eggs for 8 minutes, which is a little bit soft. If I had gone longer, they probably would have been even easier to peel.

I bought 3 Envy apples and those were an expensive disappointment. One was mealy and I threw it out. The other 2 were just OK.

I put my ballot in the dropbox today. This is a red state, so it is all but worthless, but I still feel better voting.

I finally used the power washer I bought some time ago. Discovered the bricks on my front stoop are red, not grey, not that it matters. Satisfying, but now my back hurts, so I ate an edible.

R73, can you use that power washer on cars?

Next wash day, I am swapping my summer cotton percale sheets for my winter cotton flannel sheets.

The nippy mornings were whelming me.

R75 I bet you’re insufferable

^ take your whelming accusations to another thread R76

I’m in the mood for an arrrrrrrrea rrrrrrug - something in camel with maroon and black about as wide as the kitchen floor.

Yes, r74.

Fuck off

I finally unpacked the Crockpot I ordered and filled the two boxes it came in with charitable donations.

The hose on my Waterpik broke tonight. I considered buying a replacement hose, but reviews said the water pressure was weaker. I found the same model on eBay for about 50 bucks. The other one lasted about five years.

R82, are you talking about the Waterpik for teeth?

[quote]Fuck off

Again, you appear to be failing to comprehend the point of this particular thread.

I wanted to watch more Dallas tonight but there's too many storylines going on. I'm whelmed by 1982 and prefer to read the Mary Rodgers memoir instead.

Yes, R83. Sorry, I forgot about the other stuff they make. The new old stock model I bought was cheaper than the newer ones on Amazon.

I took three Briggs Meyer personality tests three times and got two different answers while waiting for Big Rain to come, falling from Gray Sky

[quote]while waiting for Big Rain to come, falling from Gray Sky

MARY!

I just awoke from a dream where I was wearing two different shoes---and one wasn't even on the correct foot!

R73, Good thing you didn't eat an inedible. Bleagh!

I’m on the toilet downloading

Gig speed r91?

I have been putting off button sewing FOR MONTHS. But today was the day.

As a reward and to forestall whelming myself, I am going to eat at the Chinese buffet today.

[quote]I have been putting off button sewing FOR MONTHS. But today was the day.

I'm always tempted to toss out clothing that requires button replacement. Something about sewing on buttons whelms me.

Me too.

i bought merrell hiking shoes 1/2 priced with great reviews.

I finally started on ky mending pile last night. One down, 3 to go. Probably take me a year to complete...

Sewing buttons is ABU for me, too, R94. (Anything But Underwhelming)

I’ve been watching old episodes of Endeavour. Last night was an episode set in a hospital where a nurse was killing patients with a dose of insulin. Then I watched The Good Nurse on Netflix and it turned out to be about a nurse killing patients with a dose of insulin.

Small world, huh?

88 keys r99. 88 keys.

Huh?

I ordered a Beard King Beard Bib Apron Cape from Amazon. It will be here Nov. 10th.

This handy dandy invention was featured on Shark Tank. I don't watch Shark Tank but this anorexic dermatologist on Youtube who shops for skincare products at drugstores, Target, Walmart and dollar stores came across a knock off at Dollar Tree and it piqued my interest. My Dollar Tree didn't have it so I went ahead and splurged on the original from Beard King. I ordered it in black. There was a "deluxe" version for $20 but I went with the "lite" for $15.00.

I never remember to use the extra bucks on my CVS receipts. Today I went to CVS to buy mouthwash and a few other incidentals. At the cashier counter I, for once, remembered my rewards! However, upon reading the fine print, I see that the total purchase had to be more than $12 for the discount to apply. Sigh. Suddenly the darling cashier told me that my total was more than twelve dollars. (Everything is so expensive now due to inflation.) She took the receipt and entered it. It worked!

Then she frowned. There was a problem. Turns out one of my items was on sale and that nullifies the coupon. She was sad and apologized. I was a little disappointed since it would have meant I was getting one item totally free but then FREE can be whelming.

R103 what were your other incidentals?

I'm not sure how tolerant I should be of the ammonia smell in the "International Fish Market" here. It's strong but I don't know if it's a cultural thing. You can smell it on the street and when people pass out at the bus stop they drag them into the place because it works like smelling salts. I just don't want to walk the extra two blocks to the next one because of the opium smell, because I had an issue in Thailand for a while, you know. No offense.

Just exactly what part of that post was supposed to be underwhelming r105?

I just took Carafate for my horrible ulcers

R103 Thanks for asking! The other incidentals were a small bag of cheddar cheese popcorn, dental floss, and a bottle of Castle Rock Pinot Noir. How could I not figure that the ten dollar bottle of wine wouldn't put me over $12 you ask, and rightly so. This is where it gets truly underwhelming. I assumed the alcohol didn't count in my total. But it did! On the other hand, it was that very alcohol that was on sale that cancelled the discount!

I’m resting

That Beard Bib makes me laugh. I use my FLOWBEE for beard trims.

I decide my desired length, attach the correct guard, and trim by beard. All clippings go into the vacuum. No clean up.

Could not be easier.

R108 was meant for R104

I'm bloody starving, but it's nearly midnight here, and I'll feel like such a fat ho if I have a snack now.

R111 You may have meant it for R104 but we all enjoyed it.

I'm on day 5 of not drinking. I thought I'd be overwhelmed by withdrawal but so far any effects are underwhelming, and I couldn't be happier!

Well done, R114!

At 64, I finally am an adult, I bought a white porcelain gravy boat.

If you want to see juvenile obesity in action, look no further than the punk ass juvenile crows in my apartment’s parking lot.

I provided the end of a rich chicken stew with plenty of meat and different vegetables, These little assholes opted for leftover tourist shit from 7Eleven.

Finished raking and disposing the leaves today.

[quote] These little assholes opted for leftover tourist shit from 7Eleven.

There are entire books written about how intelligent crows are and I even tried to read one but the only thing I've ever see them do is eat garbage. Underwhelming.

^ Look at this, guys...

Tomorrow we fly over and shit all over this guy's car and everything else he owns!

AND WE WILL REMEMBER YOU AND DO IT OVER AND OVER!

I just ate a Lindt Caramel Milk Chocolate Truffle bar. It was very good. It was only 98 cents, I regret not buying two....or three.

[quote]I just ate a Lindt Caramel Milk Chocolate Truffle bar. It was very good. It was only 98 cents, I regret not buying two....or three.

Look at it this way: You also would have regretted eating three at one time.

I’m drinking my daily fresh brewed glass of green tea with lime and one pump of Torani Pure Made sweetener

I’m drinking a large tumbler filled with cherry cranberry Crystal Light soft drink mix with a plastic candy cane stripe straw. Lots of ice cubes too. Hee hee.

^^my bad. Cherry pomegranate Crystal Light

Dreading all the election craziness of tomorrow.

I've been highly unmotivated all day. Don't feel like cobbling together any kind of a dinner so I'm going to Culver's and grab a burger. Their custard Flavor of the Day is Cappuccino Cookie Crumble which I've had in the past and liked. I'll probably stop at The Fresh Market on my way home.

I wish I could drink the peach iced tea Crystal Light but it works like a diuretic on me.

My cat does not understand Daylight Savings Time and its effect on dinner time.

Winter is underwhelming when it’s 77 in Providence in November as it was today.

Providence, OTOH, is underwhelming all year long.

R131 is not H.P. Lovecraft.

^ “that’s”, not “what’s”.

We should invite Chris Hayes to join us

Throw in that frozen lasagna! Dig in! Shove it past your chops!

R129 I piss all day long because I drink copious amounts of coffee, tea and Evian

Just applied a dab of StriVectin crepe control hand crea, on my hands.

I cannot put off going to the grocery store any longer. I am out of everything.

I meant to go to sleep an hour ago. Somehow, I ended up watching part of a real-time animation of Titanic sinking instead. Curse you, Internet!

I spent all afternoon and part of the evening reading That Girl and Phil. I had to take a break because Marlo's antics and language were too whelming.

Henceforward I have stopped clicking on any links to Twitter while surfing DL.

Elon's mercurial insanity was whelming me.

I just now found on my back deck a bag of delivered Wegmans groceries, including deli turkey.......

From September 28th.

Pee-YEW!!

Pardon my nosiness, but do you not go out on your back deck regularly? Or were you away?

R142 does not look anything like an "Abner" to me Gladys.

R143, No, I don't. And it's fabulous, if I do say so. But I prefer being inside my house, WCIS.

LOL, R142. You never wondered where your delivery was? Slightly related, a couple of weeks ago, I ordered Popeye's from Door Dash. My condo building has a main front door; I also have an attached garage. Usually, my DD is left at the front door; delivery person rings the buzzer to let me know my delivery has been made. The Popeye's Dasher left my food in front of my garage. At least he left me a pic cuz I would never have thought to look there.

My underwhelming comment - I'm working in my home office and Coz is sleeping on the couch. He like to be with me.

My Thermapen food thermometer died. It led a good life, 7 years. If I recall correctly I paid $80 for it and well worth it.

In a moment of frugality, I replaced it with a $15 Thermopro. Normally $20 but I got it during an Amazon "flash" sale. Seems fine but definitely won't last 7 years. Larger, brighter read out and little magnets on the back to attach it to the fridge. I won't be attaching it to fridge as I don't like clutter of any sort. Everything must be in drawers or cabinets NOT on counters or dangling from appliances.

Where do you keep your penis r147?

[quote]Where do you keep your penis [R147]?

Touche!

I went to vote and to pick up some consolation carbs for tonight and I saw a guy wearing a “Let’s Go Brandon” t-shirt at the supermarket. It’s going to be a long night.

And remember, R147, when storing a penis in the most appropriate place,

Douche'.

I’m getting ready to enjoy a cup of Bigelow orange spice tea.

^ Is Orange Spice similar to Orange Pekoe (a thoroughly underwhelming tea BTW)?

I had cheerios for dinner.

Winter is icumen in,

Lhude sing Goddamm,

Raineth drop and staineth slop,

And how the wind doth ramm!

Sing: Goddamm.

Skiddeth bus and sloppeth us,

An ague hath my ham.

Freezeth river, turneth liver,

Damm you; Sing: Goddamm.

Goddamm, Goddamm, 'tis why I am, Goddamm,

So 'gainst the winter's balm.

Sing goddamm, damm, sing goddamm,

Sing goddamm, sing goddamm, DAMM.

R153 it’s an herbal tea

I feel the need to read up on Yggdrasil. What a cool name.

Making popcorn now.

You might enjoy Neil Gaiman's [bold]Norse Mythology[/bold], R157. It's really readable; I'm sure he compiled while researching American Gods.

I received an email from my supermarket rewards program wishing me a happy birthday and gifting me a choice of free bar cake or half gallon of their store brand ice cream. It was a nice surprise since my birthday isn't in November. I just use random birthdates when I sign up for rewards cards. I opted for the cake, carrot to be specific. Downside is there will be no freebies during my actual birth month.

R142, how did you miss that the groceries you ordered on Sept. 28 never arrived?!

R160 - I have a longtime friend, a gullible shopper, whose computer was DESTROYED by a multitude of viruses that were introduced there by her addiction to online grocery store coupons. When I investigated, to help her see if we could get it fixed, I think there were over 300 such viruses in her machine. I told her to stop falling for the "savings" they promised. I later learned that "coupons" are a well-known source of such digital infections, just like porn. Just pointing that out...

I filled a Pyrex bowl with water and lemon wedges and put in the microwave for 5 minutes or so.

My microwave is now lemony fresh and all the splatters wiped right off.

i woke up at 4 am today. I'm tired of junk sleep.

woe is me. i'm such a stupid bitch.

I had a sugar cookie shake from Shake Shack. It was festive and delicious.

Everybody wipes their ass on each other

[quote]Everybody wipes their ass on each other

Pics please.

Of the underwhelming variety, of course.

Please, let's just change the subject.

Stop using me I’m done god is love

It's November, I'm in Scotland, and it was warm enough today to go out without a sweater, let alone a jacket. What the fuck, climate?

Read the thread title. Winter is Coming.

I took care of a bunch of stuff today.

Feelin bitchy

I wasn’t raped after all

Congratulations?

See how you are?

Christmas is coming the goose is getting fat. Please put a penny in the old man’s hat. If you haven’t got a penny, a half penny will do. If you haven’t got a half penny then God bless you.

124, that sounds good.

I just took 10ml of Carafate. Damned ulcers are murder.

R124, that sounds good. Thanks for the idea of lime and green tea.

R181 I buy real lime juice in the plastic lime container in the produce section at Dierbergs.

Then I add 2-3 Kirkland signature green tea bags to 1 cup of boiling water. Steep 2 minutes then pour over tall tumbler of fresh, filtered ice cubes. Then a squeeze of real lime (or lemon) juice. I add one squirt of Torani pure made sweetener made from stevia and monk fruit. I enjoy this everyday with my lunch.

I’m a lover not a fighter.

Actually, I’m a damned good lover and fighter.

I replaced the battery on my iPhone 6S Plus. I had been using the original battery up until now. I took it to a small shop. I had read the reviews on Yelp and the shop owner was replying to a lot of the reviews. That made me a little nervous. Anyway, my phone is now charging up. We'll see if this is an improvement. I was nervous about having it done, due to it not being Apple (small shop) and due to all that information on my phone.

I did three loads of laundry today.

Ha! Not to be a one-upper, but I did 3 loads of laundry as well.

Wouldn't you have to have done four loads of laundry to be a one-upper, R186?

True, R187, but I'm thinking about the other stuff I also got done today.

I sprinkled fire ant killer on two mounds today. Hate those little bastards. They whelm me big time.

I'm writing a novel set in 1982-84 in Portland, Oregon, where I live. The protagonist is a Datalounger type who lives for his TV shows and to get into his head, I like to re-create iconic prime time TV schedules by watching certain shows on certain nights.

Tonight, I'm doing November 10, 1983:

CBS: Magnum PI (I can't stand the Rick character)

NBC: Gimme a Break (the mayor sexually harasses Nell!) and Cheers (Carla wants to fuck a man with a heart condition)

CBS again: Knots Landing (Gary married Abby right after divorcing and then shagging Valene the day before)

R161, I just figured they had been delivered to a wrong address. When my instructions say "Leave at side garage," and the person would need to walk right past said garage to a closed fence gate to my backyard and deck, why would I think he or she did that?

did you get a refund?

Syrup guy inspired me to order a Torani cane sugar syrup for my morning coffee and iced teas. No more little grains of sugar at the bottom of the glass for me!

I'm drinking a Waterloo Grape sparkling water.

It's quite good. I feel like a little kid drinking a grape soda.

Only zero sugar, zero calories.

ZERO!

I need to do laundry and I sort of need to go shopping, but it’s cold and rainy.

R192, Didn't ask for one. Insta-cart is a pain.

It's raining here. Good for my new plantings.

insta has given me refunds and no service fees for other issues easily.

learn how to chat or don't pass out on vodka while waiting for the delivery, toots!

Haha! R197 caught me with my vodka and OJ!

I have post-nasal drip

My ass is sore from my bf fucking me too hard

I made home made tortillas because I didn’t want to go to the Whelming Store. They were okay but made a floury mess all over the counter.

You should be jealous; I have nicely sliced vegetables for my chili bean soup because I went on a vegetable slaughter spree last night while making fajitas.

I tried a Jones orange soda today - it hit orange with perhaps a little cream. Not as sharp as Nehi or Fanta.

I had a bowl of Black Bean soup with some sour cream on top...very hearty and satisfying.

I made popcorn and hot chocolate before settling into a double feature of Dallas and Falcon Crest. That old cowboy Ray Krebbs is on trial for mercy killing that hot snatch Timothy Patrick Murphy.

I took my window screens out for the winter but it’s 70 degrees and I am so hot I can’t fall asleep. I want to open the window but afraid bats and/or bugs will fly in. I guess I have to run the A/C.

Sleigh Bells Ring, R U Listening?

I don’t think I could pull off a bolo tie.

would you choke yourself?

[quote]I don’t think I could pull off a bolo tie.

Generally, only lesbians can really pull off a bolo tie without whelming.

I wear a bolo tie with a longhorn skull on it when I eat in Indian restaurants. Cuz I'm an American.

i'm a bit whelmed. instacart brought me a chicken. i guess they bought it for themselves. they never contacted me back.

gross and bloody, from a 20 year veggie. i swear i could smell the blood even in the fridge. i'm boiling it for my dogs. now, i'm not deconstructing it. and dogs don't need chicken bones. the broth! ugh

i'm whelmed.

I'm out of Bragg's Apple Cider Vinegar. Last time I got the 16 oz. bottle, next time I'll get the 32 oz. bottle.

Nap time.

I’m hungry. Go get me a snack.

That Bragg’s apple cider vinegar is the best on salads. I won’t go back to the store brands in plastique bottles.

R205 Where do you live where bats would fly in your open windows?

I have lost interest in Wordle.

Just boil a cup of water and a cup of sugar together for simple syrup…

I think I’ll make a vegetable soup for dinner.

My interest in Wordle is waning, R217, but I still feel compelled to do it every morning.

I had not seen Wordle mentioned anywhere on the internet since mid-October until this morning. I think it's safe to say it's GONE. Good.

I spent yesterday getting a new computer started. It took so long, I didn't get around to doing the Times Spelling Bee.

I found Wordle slightly more interesting this morning because I solved it in two guesses.

I bought an Iphone 12 today and can't text anyone who has an Android phone. I give up so I'm underwhelmed. Goodbye all my Android friends.

R218 For simple syrup pls don't boil the water and sugar. Simply heat it on med so sugar is dissolved and mixture thickens slightly. When it starts to bubble at the edges of the pot, remove from heat.

The produce section of the market was raked over today.

My lunch companion cancelled because he was sick with a cold , so I made Shake 'n Bake pork chops and finished my re-watch of season 2 of Stranger Things. I lament the excellent Sichuan I was looking forward to.

I can’t watch Family Feud anymore. I watched it so much during the lockdown that now I think of it as lockdown TV.

R227, you should have still gone to get some Sichuan food, at least some takeout. I recently ate in a sushi restaurant by myself. I was getting my phone battery replaced (I posted about it, above) and waited / ate in the sushi restaurant. One waitress was rude, the other waitress was really sweet and helpful, even though it was "just me."

It's Sunday night and I am watching Murder, She Wrote. "Hit, Run, and Homicide" from S1. Special guest stars Van Johnson and June Allyson!

Jessica's ass is huge. It's whelming.

Yes—I felt rather foolish when I read the ingredients on the Torani bottle. At least it’s pretty.

My cat is sat facing the wall and looking up. He's a genius. What can I say?

Still staring at the wall. He obviously thinks the shadow cast by the lamp is prey. Imagine if he lived on the savannah and had to source his own food.

Stuffing my prolapse back inside

Starting my "watch what you eat" time so that I don't gain 8 lbs. by the end of the year. I won't call it a diet but I am being conscious of that I'm eating with the holidays coming up. Trying to focus on chicken, fish, and the occasional steak and vegetables for meals.

Like r235, I am watching what I am eating.

Specifically, I am watching myself eat crisps, chocolate and biscuits. I’m the size of a spacious family home. It’s moderately whelming.

Room for a pony r236?

My lawn service is comprised of a guy in his early 50s and his two sons.

Today they brought along an elderly man who is helping with blowing and raking the leaves. Must be grandpa, there's a family resemblance.

I hope grandpa is doing this of his own free will and this isn't some kind of elder abuse I'm witnessing.

Do the sons take off their shirts when it’s hot? I like that.

[quote]Do the sons take off their shirts when it’s hot? I like that.

Why yes, yes they do...

Dad is in good shape too.

I too have a father/son team handling my lawn. The son is a firefighter, but he doesn’t skin.

It snowed last night. It looks nice on the trees, but my yard is patchy and the roads are totally clear. It was, in other words, an underwhelming precipitation event.

Target has some Marks & Spencer of London chocolates and cookies as of 11/16.

^^^adding: available on-line 11/16. Photos and description already up. Some products already out in stores.

Of London? Does it say that on the packaging?

Target.com says "imported from Britain" and they have a whole write up about the store and launch of limited collection for the holidays.

These folks review the two products they bought.

ok, cool. Just had never heard the 'of London' tag for M&S before (they are a British brand) so I was wondering if they marketed them differently in the U.S.

^^^ my bad with the "of London". Don't know why I said that.

^^face it. You’re limited.

To R227, I use "Shake& Bake" on bone-in thick cut Pork Chops all the time.

Add my secret spices& fresh rosemary on top. Perfect!!

I'm exhausted with all the excitement on this thread.

I want underwhelmed.

That’s the way people would say it here in Pennsylvania, where people often don’t use “to be” with want or need. I don’t like it, but it’s really common (not the specific expression “I want underwhelmed” obviously but in sentences like “the cat wants fed” or “the sidewalk needs shoveled”).

My bank changed from Visa to Mastercard and I don't like my new debit card's design. It has a beach hut on it. And the information is on the back. (Pic taken from twitter.)

^That’s horrid.

I always thought Lawry's seasoned salt was trashy, but I bought some recently and I like it on baked potatoes.

I donated blood yesterday and I’ve been slightly lightheaded all day today. Feeling much better after having a bowl of soup though.

R250 you just like rosemary because of the MARY

R224 I had the same problem. It's a carrier issue. They need to transsfer your phone number and activate your new phone and sim card. It took me two fucking days to get this done! But it does work. First, make sure you have an active sim card.

I’ve been switching back and forth between Endeavour and Inspector Morse and I’m feeling a little lost in time. Dare I add Inspector Lewis to my carousel?

[quote]I always thought Lawry's seasoned salt was trashy, but I bought some recently and I like it on baked potatoes.

It's been a key ingredient in Chex Party Mix since the 1950s.

[quote]^^face it. You’re limited.

How rude!

I have an itch inside my left ear. Bothersome but not yet whelming.

My cat won’t stop wet-nosing me. Ew.

R258 Thank you. I'm finally connected to the world and can text anyone I damn please. I'm whelmed.

R260 I love Lawry salt on popcorn.

My mom used to make the Chex mix, but I don't remember her using Lawry's seasoned salt.

It's 80 here daily. What's this winter of which you speak?

Florida is no longer part of the U.S., R267, since Bugs Bunny cut it loose.

I love prawns.

I just decided my Mini Cooper needs a Union Jack roof decal.

When you dispose of credit or bank cards, cut the chip in half and then cut the rest in strips. Dispose pieces in more than one garbage cycle

I am currently reading two books, one chapter at a time each.

That would whelm me, R272.

It is very windy in Portland this morning. Wind whelms me. To counter the whelming, I made coffee and am watching Dallas. Southfork is in flames and Lois Chiles is pretty.

For breakfast, a doppio, a pound of shortbread, another doppio. I'm going to be whelmingly larger if I don't watch myself.

My grocery delivery included a surprise tube of Aim toothpaste. I didn't order it and I wasn't charged for it. I use Sensodyne and regret it if I stray. I'll just put the Aim in the guest bathroom.

What's a doppio? Too whelmed to google

A double espresso, bluntly (I looked it up earlier).

Sorry about that, R273. I hope my re-filling two water jugs at the supermarket today doesn't have a similar effect.

I could use some afternoon coffee, which is rare.

My cut-off time is usually 12:00pm, out of respect for my sleepy-time self.

I had a Coke Zero sugar

I hate my new hand soap in the bathroom. It smells like mothballs.

My asshole is a wonderland

R282 I also dislike my handsoap. It's supposed to foam and smell like lemon but it doesn't do either. I'm underwhelmed.

Best handsoap I have ever used.

Not particularly foamy, but wonderful scent and rinses off cleanly.

I just use Aveeno body wash for my hands. It’s the same soap I use for my entire body. I even use it on my hair, sometimes.

My baby apartment spiderplants need more sun than this dark shithole receives. I may take them to work and settle for pothos.

Pothos alays gave me a skeevy vibe - like I should have a bong and burn marks on the wall.

What about a ZZ plant? My coworker had a window-less office and this plant was bushy, healthy, and cool-looking.

R288 I love the pot!

ZZ plants are easy but extremely toxic to dogs and cats, which could be overwhelming.

Thanks R290. The plant looks fake in the photo -- maybe that's an option, R287? Buy a beautiful pot to display a lifelike fake plant?

I won’t have pets - I’m away most every day. I don’t want weird imprisoned pets. If I ever bounce on my head repeatedly, I’ll adopt a pet and purchase a medical license from my therapist.

My asshole is delicious

I've come to expect the price of every shart to be substantial in at least the boxer briefs, but when it hits the outside of the trousers I begin to wonder if I should change my very, very, very spicy and hot diet.

R259 reminded me of it.

If zucchini ever write, produce, direct, and star in a crime stopper programme, I will be listed as a serial zucchini killer who has left a slime trail of death throughout these united states.

And, because I’m a man of my times, I’d sit for the interview, “Yeah, they looked good. I bought them from a slaver and put them in my fridge to die. I toss them out all the time.”

I was a toddler in the heyday of Dallas and Falcon Crest, but I have a fondness for watching each as a double feature on Friday nights. They really are perfect Friday night shows.

Dallas subjected guest star Christopher Atkins to the indignity of being fixed up with Charlene Tilton.

They really do write Melissa on FC like she's an undiagnosed bipolar.

No stealth scat trolling in here, please.

My new fridge was delivered today.

My previous fridge didn't even last 2 years before dying.

Modern appliances are trash.

[quote]My asshole is delicious

Exactly how limber are you?

Winter pussy

Is there a way to screen potential posters on this thread because the eyerolling due to asshole and shit posts is giving me a headache.

My portable speaker is red.

Easiest thing to do is to block the annoying poster, R301.

R301 you should pull the string of your tampon and see what happens afterwards

R303 I’m wondering if you can assist r301 with her tampon change? Just pull the string.

I just made my mom's hot dish and put it in the oven.

I'll be eating that the next several days while I make all the preparations for Thanksgiving.

This thread just makes me want to get drunk & high now.

A co-worker got a Shipt membership for 40 or 50% off on Black Friday last year.

I'm hoping they have the same deal this year as I'd like to add Shipt to my repertoire of deliverers.

R306, You dare post without describing the "hot dish?!

It is 33 degrees in Portland. I have a trial subscription to the online archive of the newspaper for my nearby hometown (which is sinister and horror movie-like in an entirely different way than Portland is). My best friend (a woman, who I refuse to call my hag) and I are writing a graphic novel involving retail-themed horror and cults and witchcraft in a one-stop shopping center (think the PNW Fred Meyer chain) across multiple timelines. Thus, I've spent my weekend going through scores upon scores of old ads and newspaper coverage of chain expansion and on-site tragedies and weirdness, as well as locating grainy photos of salesfloors in the 1970s and 80s. We worked there as teens in the 90s.

Working there was whelming. Researching the place for horror purposes: pleasantly underwhelming.

^TMI. Overwhelming.

Once I posted it, I felt whelmed. Point well taken, R311.

Yeah r310 that’s a cluster fuck.

I dunno r310. I had no problem with your post. Totally underwhelming.

As someone who worked for a Koch grocery chain owner, I can add the the following visual:

You’re 15, not stoned, walking to the deli. There’s a stretched curly phone cord that disappears into the bathroom. You hear yelling and then a flush. Mr. Koch comes out in a spume of decayed earth - ice cream bar in one hand and phone in the other.

Happy Sunday!

Catch the guy wearing only jorts in r310’s pic

[quote] I just ate a Lindt Caramel Milk Chocolate Truffle bar. It was very good. It was only 98 cents, I regret not buying two....or three.

I just bought one of these Lindt caramel bars. Self checkouts were closed and I went to a regular cashier. There were a bunch of candy bars, as usual, in the cashier area. These Lindt bars were 4 for $5. I bought just one to figure out if I like it. I'll report back, later.

Carmel M&Ms are the only small size candy available lately - I devour whatever I buy, so the share size is too much.

I’m trying to cut out sugary snacks. Wish me luck.

^You forget all about it, as long as you stick with it. Of course, you'll start eating fruit all day long, but it's good for you.

[quote]Of course, you'll start eating fruit all day long, but it's good for you.

In some ways, but eating fruit all day long would certainly spike your sugar intake.

^I've been down this route and eating fruit during the day is NOTHING compared to eating candy. Maybe if you have really bad diabetes, but if so you know you've got no business eating candy anyhow.

I just took some Miralax

There’s definitely a limit to how much fruit I can eat. The same is not necessarily true for cookies.

My stomach has been gurgling for two days. It's not hunger.

I've never gurgled before.

Should I be concerned about this sudden onset gurgling?

[quote]My stomach has been gurgling for two days. It's not hunger.

Are you the guy who's been eating all the fruit? That could explain it.

[quote]Are you the guy who's been eating all the fruit? That could explain it.

No, I'm not fruit guy.

Re stomach gurgling, give it a few days. I doubt you have anything to worry about, at least as far as stomach cancer is concerned. That's not typically how it first manifests (loss of appetite, queasiness, lethargy), based on my father's extensive experience with the subject.

Gurgler, are you eating anything that’s sugar-free? My gut gurgled to the point it felt like an avalanche once when I was eating candy that had sorbitol in in.

r328, thank you for the kind response, I appreciate it.

If it’s a case of bad nerves for the holidays, just remember that nobody gives a fuck about turkey.

The "Goodbye to my friends" thread about Joe's end of life is a testament to the fact that so many DLers are sweet and kind in the overall scheme of things.

Not underwhelming but we don't have an overwhelming thread and I don't feel like starting one.

Gonna wrap my head and head to the grocery store.

Watching S2 of Ray Donovan on Showtime. S1 was on yesterday. I loved this show when it first came on. I'd forgotten how many stars were in this show over the years.

Reporting back on the Lindt caramel truffle bar. It was good, just like the truffle balls, but in a different form. I prefer the truffle balls, so will stick with the balls.

Pizza is my favorite flavor of goldfish.

That's funny, R336, because goldfish is my favorite flavor of pizza!

I have to pee into a bottle for 24 hours. Jealous?

What is this winter of which you speak?

Please refer to the state as Free Florida.

R340 = Guv Ron bitch. But, yeah, I get sarcasm so I assume you are also a Floridian?

God forbid

OP, winter is HERE not coming.

Has you heard about the MAGAt boycott of Coke products because the corporation is deemed "too woke"?

Interesting, R268, as US Senate was at the top of my ballot last month.

In other words, you're a fuckhead. I really hate the idea of the fact that you imply that because I'm a US citizen I can't vote for federal representatives

I’m watching an episode of Vega$ starring Robert Urich as Dan Tanna. I feel like having some Jiffy-Pop, a box of Tony’s Pizza Rolls & a double Black Russian.

I just ordered lasagna for pickup up.

I outdid myself with frying juicy chicken thighs tonight. Once the dishes were done, I sliced up some lemons, oranges, and an apple and simmered them in a pan of water on the stove. My grandmother taught me to do that and it "smells like Christmas." Now it's time for Little House on the Prairie and then bedtime.

[quote]OP, winter is HERE not coming.

Actually, the winter solstice doesn't arrive in the Northern Hemisphere until December 21st.

I’m going to stay in bed today.

I can feel a migraine coming on.

At least that's what I'm telling everyone.

The curse?

I did not shave today. The skin on my face feels dry.

R348, no clove or other spices?

Thinking of picking up an apple pie for Thanksgiving dessert. I'm hoping to find maybe a half pie or a small pie. I also have an Italian bakery within walking distance. Maybe I'll see what they have.

I’m probably going to buy a new laptop today. My old one caught fire and died, and I’ve been caught in a nightmare between Dell and FedEx, the latter of which may be the most incompetent company I’ve ever dealt with.

I’m supposed to send the laptop back to Dell, but the computer died before I could remove all my accounts and passwords (in a Word document).

There’s no porn, but it’s been handled so incompetently so far, I think I’ll just buy something new.

Fedex is highly incompetent in my area also. On the plus side, I've met neighbors I otherwise would not have met due to them delivering my packages they received and vice versa.

I was going to cancel a credit card that I don’t use and I found I had 98000 points which can be used at Apple for a 25% discount so I ordered an Apple Watch Ultra and Air Pods Pro for free!

I still use an iPhone X but I read that next year’s iPhone is going to be the one to get, so I passed on a free iPhone 14 Pro Max.

I need to empty the dishwasher, but I don’t want to, so I’m lying on my bed instead. I’m thinking I might have breakfast for dinner: bacon and eggs.

I bought the new laptop I spoke of in r355, but I’m feeling exhausted, so I’m going to set it up later.

I'm walking over to WalMart for a few last minute things. It's in the 50's here in northern NJ so the walk should be a nice one. The unwashed in WM will be another story.

R357, what's supposed to be so good about the iPhone 15? I probably need to start shopping for a new phone.

R355, yikes, I wouldn't want to send back a computer that still had all of my passwords & other stuff on it. Too bad about FedEx. UPS in my area is more common. I think Apple uses FedEx.

I’m 6’4 with a 4 inch cock

Not sure r361. Allegedly it’s going to be a redesign,while the current phone is just an update of the last one.

I am watching Perry Masons from the first season on, and Prime/Paramount+ don't have every episode. They skip a few.

So much for being a completist, because I'm not going back to DVDs.

I ruined my soda bread.

I forgot the soda.

I drew a line in the sand.

Well, at least you didn't forget the bread r366!

I'm back from my walk to WalMart. The store wasn't as crowded as I expected it to be. Was looking for regular, run of the mill apple cider vinegar. The shelf was wiped clean except for the large, glass bottle. I didn't buy it because it would have been to heavy to carry home with my other things.

Did you know they sell a pre-made ACV cleanse with cayenne pepper in it? Almost bought it by mistake.

I was about to run over to Costco to pick something up, but I came to my senses. Can you imagine?

r357 that was overwhelming.

[quote]I can feel a migraine coming on.

Are you Darrin's mother and is it a sick headache?

Wondering if having oatmeal for dinner tonight and a late breakfast tomorrow will act as a prophylactic against all the cholesterol I will consume tomorrow.

Costco would have been a bad idea.

I'm guessing no, R373.

[quote] The shelf was wiped clean except for the large, glass bottle. I didn't buy it because it would have been to heavy to carry home with my other things.

Aww, Cosmo / R369, I wish I could've given you a ride home with that heavy stuff.

Going to any food store in the last 3 days before Thanksgiving is a mistake.

I went shopping on Monday morning and it was okay.

I saw two rabbits, and a white-crowned sparrow, in my backyard this evening.

I made hot chocolate and am sitting down to watch A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (Peppermint Patty needs to learn some damn manners) and then A Garfield Thanksgiving. The cat has no interest in this. She prefers Dallas.

I very much WANT to be underwhelmed so I'm not going to watch the national news until after the Thanksgiving holiday. The recent shootings are too much to bear right now.

I think I'm going to start buying / wearing fragrance, again. I stopped when Covid hit. I'm missing my L'Eau D'Issey (Issey Miyake). It's going to be an early Christmas present to myself.

R382 I miss Paloma Picasso. I know it's considered a female scent but it was a great pheromone. The formula changed years ago.

I thought I had no weed for the holiday, but had enough leftover to make a good bowl. It's making me giggle and eat spinach dip with Ritz crackers and sing along to the 70s hit "Lotta Love." My best girlfriend and I can't get together tomorrow, but we're texting back and forth throughout the night. Definitely not a fag hag, more of a sister.

r382 I just recently bought myself a bottle after not wearing it for more than a decade! Love the scent of it.

I'm watching/rewatching "That 70s Show" on Peacock.

I'm now in the 8th (and final) season, which is after both Topher Grace and Ashton Kutcher had left the series.

I was delighted (but not whelmed) to discover that Mary Tyler Moore did a 3-episode story, where she played a local newscaster named Christine St. George - who is a complete narcissistic bitch.

And MTM manages to play her as a really funny and likeable bitch.

[quote]I think I'm going to start buying / wearing fragrance, again. I stopped when Covid hit. I'm missing my L'Eau D'Issey (Issey Miyake). It's going to be an early Christmas present to myself.

We applaud this decision.

^ Try mixing it with a little DDT...you know, for odor and vermin-control purposes in the crotchal area...

[quote]Definitely not a fag hag, more of a sister.

Who are you to decide her identity?

Wow, I hadn't logged onto this thread for a couple of days, and there are 145 new posts.

I'm going to read a few now...then maybe take a nap...

I just watched an early episode of "That Girl", a/k/a "That Cunt"...

Ann is meeting Donald's parents for the first time and entertaining them for Thanksgiving dinner, along with her parents and Donald, in her small-ish apartment (it's actually quite spacious but the decor is dingy and sort of Lebanese-ish)..

Ann is cooking both a turkey with sage stuffing (in her own kitchen) and a goose with oyster stuffing, in her neighbors kitchen - her kitchen is too small for both. But of course, she mixes up the stuffing - so she has turkey with oyster stuffing and goose with sage - oy vey...

Samantha Stephen's mother-in-law plays Donald's mother too

^ I've noticed that Marlo appears to have gone to the Lucille Ball School of Comedy

She mugs into the camera; she whines; she makes faces; she runs around frantically;

She doesn't shout her lines to the back of the theatre - but she rips off Lucy in every other way - even saying, "Oh Donald!" and "Oh Daddy!" in an impersonation of Lucy's "Oh Ricky!"

It seems Marlo's comedy training consisted of watching a bunch of ILL reruns with a note pad.

^AND was also Cloris Leachman's actual mother-in-law.

^ that Mabel Albertson broad got around!

P.S.

Wouldn't you have loved to see Mabel and Cloris interacting after a few bottles of wine at an actual family holiday dinner.

I'm speculating that Marlo Thomas cast Ted Bessell to be her romantic partner on "That Girl", in the hope that his big nose would make her own honker look smaller.

Did you ever notice how Marlo had a different female neighbor/sidekick on nearly every episode?

I'm becoming overwhelmed at how suddenly this is turning into a Marlo Thomas thread.

I’m sitting 🪑 on the throne- as it were - as I’m typing this.

Wish it weren't

For my unwhelming Thanksgiving wish, I would like everyone to experience a ghost shit

The cat woke me at 6 and I made coffee, adding cinnamon and lemon. Thanksgiving Movie Marathon begins with 1985's Back to the Future and I'm staging my various ingredients along the kitchen counter.

We see you stealth scat troll. Please don’t.

^ While I share your aversion to the stealth scat troll, isn't a "ghost shit", or the absence of any shit, the antithesis of a scat thread?

[quote]I'm becoming overwhelmed at how suddenly this is turning into a Marlo Thomas thread.

I understand that you're feeling whelmed, R397, no one wants to deal with a cunt when trying to avoid whelming feelings...

But you can gently remind yourself that she's an 84 year-old cunt with no power over us...

I slept in and woke up feeling relieved I don’t have to do anything to prepare for Thanksgiving except pick up my order later and heat it up. I set the table last night, my two guests arrive at 3:00 and I have a charcuterie plate before we sit down for dinner.

Heading out for a hike before picking up the food.

I got a new TV - an early online Black Friday deal

But I found learning the remote, setting up my streaming accounts...just TOO whelming.

Why must it be so complicated?

There is an entire population of rich weirdly-shaped clothing consigners.

If your arms and shoulders are tiny, but your midsection stretches the fabric on your sweaters, you should not advertise the fact online. I don’t care if it is hermes - you had it tailored for a freak.

R406 sometimes setting up those accounts takes a full reboot, depending what they are. That's what I had to do to get Disney+ to work. Prime amd Netflix were no problem and came preloaded on the tv.

My movie marathon continues (with dinner at 3), with Dolores Claiborne.

[quote]But you can gently remind yourself that she's an 84 year-old cunt with no power over us...

Marlo Thomas is 85 now.

Thanks, R376! I tend to overestimate how heavy things are. But it was good cardio for me.

R383 r385 let your trans flag fly

Holy shit! The West Wing is airing on HLN!!! It’s currently 9:38 pm ET.

I'm going to walk over to my freezer in the garage and take out a package of frozen Tilapia I bought at Trader Joe's to defrost on Friday evening so I can cook it for lunch on Saturday.

I like Christmas lights. Probably the only thing I like about the Holiday.

I had two pieces of pie and coffee. Now I am falling asleep watching White Christmas. Ro Clooney is pissed at Der Bingle because she thinks he's making a fool of General Waverly.

I made meatloaf this week and froze half of it before baking.

This will come in handy later.

I ate too much hummus.

I've been reading too much about the BRF - for three nights in a row I've had a continuing dream that Prince William has come to stay with my family, but my brother is keeping him all to himself and won't let me meet him.

I'm watching too much Dallas, The other night, I had a dream that I met the late actor Ken Kercheval. He's been dead three years. What's next, Mabel Normand? John Gilbert?

I plucked the highest facial hair ever on my face, about an inch about my nostril, to the left a bit. I'm taking hair growth pills but don't want it there.

Finally figured out how to get all the Thanksgiving leftovers in the refrigerator.

I just watched a Drew Barrymore movie made for cable a few years ago.

It was so-so.

[quote]I had two pieces of pie and coffee. Now I am falling asleep watching White Christmas. Ro Clooney is pissed at Der Bingle because she thinks he's making a fool of General Waverly.

Ro had a point. "What Do You Do With a General (When He's No Longer a General)" is one of Irving Berlin's worst songs.

I can't stand later Der Bingle. So lazy and smug.

Not that I care.

Do people swarm Costco on Black Friday?

It's possible, R426. They do have those sale booklets.

The topic of Trump did not come up once at Thanksgiving. Ahhhh!

For lunch I ate Trader Joe's Quinoa Cowboy Veggie Burgers and now I'm sitting at my computer passing copious amounts of wind 🌫

I just delivered a food baby from my asshole. Holy shit for real. But now I feel like going for a run before it gets dark.

Do you really think your post was underwhelming, R429? Do better.

R431- I'm not even going to swat that fly 🦟

I'm going to go upstairs now and take a nap.

Maybe if we ignore the stealth scat trolls, they’ll get bored and infect a different thread.

Good advice, R434. And it seems that most posters in this thread already ignore them.

I shit a whole boat load after thanksgiving

I’ve got the theme music to Mama’s Family stuck on loop inside my brain.

Spent an hour today trying to fit a pair of French doors I found in the street into a two door Mini Cooper. It worked, eventually.

^^French whores?

Is brown rice really superior to white?

I just had a Cool Blue Gatorade and it was quite good.

I WISH, R439! But that would have been whelming for SURE. 😂

"Winter is Coming" - that's pretty whelming.

Tomorrow I am buying 10 vegan chocolate bars for stocking stuffers. Then I am making toilet paper roll Christmas trees.

How crafty of you, R444! When I was a kid, I made tabletop Christmas trees by folding in pages of a Reader's Digest. They were all the rage back then.

[quote]They were all the rage back then.

It still makes me angry to this day.

It was more than 50 years ago, R446. I think you need to let it go.

I made a Christmas tree out of styrofoam balls & toothpicks one year.

[quote]Tomorrow I am buying 10 vegan chocolate bars for stocking stuffers.

R444, Did ten people offend you in some way? Is this a passive regressive version of a lump of coal? Are you a minion of Krampus? Please, I must know!

I'm going to take my 4.2 mile walk now then come back and have a mug of ginger tea.

I woke up at 4:30 am. Got up drank 3 mugs of coffee and oatmeal for breakfast. Now it’s 8:30 am and I’m tired. Going back to bed for awhile

^Getting up before 5 a.m. is almost always a big mistake.

You are on my naughty list r449.

^^R444

First Christmas 'request' from Alexa: "Listen, the Snow is Falling" - Yoko Ono

Alexa should be shot.

I just love USPS Informed Delivery.

An informative email shows me what is in my mailbox each day and I can then make an informed decision as to whether or not I want to get dressed and trudge all the way down to the end of the driveway and fetch said mail.

I decided today's miscellaneous items were not worth the hike.

Also, I've accomplished zilch today. Unless you count checking my email to see what is in my mailbox.

I have Informed Delivery for my P.O. Box, so it's even more handy (since the Post Office is a couple of miles away).

I’m usually pretty generous when it comes to such matters, R457, but I don’t think that counts.

I was fiddling with my watch while descending the stairs. I guess I’m too old for such acrobatics. I fell down the last two steps. Apparently no serious injuries, but my knee and big toe hurt.

A Reader's Digest Christmas tree, but not mine. I spray-painted mine green, glued on some glitter and skipped the red fuzzy balls.

[quote]First Christmas 'request' from Alexa: "Listen, the Snow is Falling" - Yoko Ono

Alexa is clearly fucking with your head.

did it last thru sigmond and the sea monster?

The top story on BBC News Online right now is "Leonardo DiCaprio lauds birth of bison calf"

r460 more importantly, did the watch survive the tumble?

Yes. It’s built to survive.

Today I made chickpea spread for lunch on Monday.

[quote] skipped the red fuzzy balls

No self-respecting Datalounger ever skips the RED FUZZY BALLS!

You’re one of the living. Whose gonna make it tonight?

^^Who’s

R469, your post seems like it would be the name of a Bryan Adams song.

^^Tina Turner - One of the Living from the Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome soundtrack.

[quote]Heading out for a hike before picking up the food.

R405 A hike sounds overwhelming, not at all like a 'walk' which barely whelms.

I'm smoking a joint and watching Falcon Crest from the kitchen table.

^You can watch episodes of Falcon Crest on your kitchen table? Wow. The rest of us have to use an electronic device.

I watched a video about capsule hotels in Japan.

It's like sleeping in an MRI.

I would need to be sedated.

Even watching a video about that would be overwhelming r476.

I bought a pair of Ecco shoes on Black Friday and I have a terrible blister from trying to break them in yesterday. I thought they were supposed to be more comfortable than this.

Yeah, I though Ecco was supposed to be comfortable. I had a couple pairs a long time ago. IIRC, they were a little bit expensive, but good quality.

I have Ecco gold shoes and they are very comfortable. Maybe the style you got r478 is a lemon and that’s why they were marked down for Black Friday.

[quote]I bought a pair of Ecco shoes on Black Friday and I have a terrible blister from trying to break them in yesterday. I thought they were supposed to be more comfortable than this.

Skechers they're not.

That’s awful r480, I’m sorry.

I’ve had good luck with Ecco myself, but almost all shoes I put a piece of adhesive moleskin in the heal area. That’s where I find I have the most trouble until they break in.

I guess I meant r478. Sorry

I’m a bitch tonight.

^ tonight?

Something is terribly, terribly wrong. Muriel hasn't locked this thread and it's already getting close to full. Is she OK? Maybe OD'd on fentanyl? Should someone do a home wellness-check? This isn't overwhelming because even if it's the worst, no one will care. I'm just "concerned," that's all.

I almost bought sausage samplers from Swiss Colony for my two step-sisters, but remember in time that they're both vegetarians.

[quote]R460 I fell down the last two steps. Apparently no serious injuries, but my knee and big toe hurt.

At the risk of beginning a [italic]contretemps, [/italic]I must state I do not feel this is the appropriate venue in which to share this.

I must now brew some chamomile tea to erase the image of you flying through the air from my mind.

I did not ask for this.

It's 4:00 and I am finally bathed and in normal clothes. It's too early for dinner (the last of the leftovers) so I am watching a Tracy Gold picture on Tubi. She killed a girl in an airport bathroom and has stolen her life as an art student. Her roommate is played by Shawnee Smith.

This isn't as good as the one where Gold played Kate Jackson's daughter and Kate accused her of being a Satanist and stole her child away.

^ if it were anyone but Tracy Gold, I might find those plots whelming...

“Normal Clothes” r489?

What were you wearing earlier? A Bob Mackie original?

R91, you just slayed me. SLAYED.

I was in my Bob Mackie booty shorts and a hooded sweatshirt all day. At long last, I put on pants.

Well-chosen visual with Miss Ross, made me laugh all the harder because I'm reading Call Her Miss Ross right now.

R490, the Tracey Gold vehicle ended up being whelming indeed. Avoid "Face of Evil" from 1996.

R492, I’m glad you liked it…

I'm wondering why the second Balenciaga thread was deleted.

My glacial binge of NYPD Blue continues. Tonight Sipowicz is sexually harassed by the new PAA who opens her blouse and showed him her latex bra. ?? Quite the police procedural!

I need to floss but am too lazy to get up.

R496- I floss every night but I do it while sitting down and watching tv.

I recently watched Tracy Gold.on a rerun of Tyler Henry Hollywood Medium.

I recently watch Tracy Gold on a rerun of Tyler Henry, Hollywood Bottom.

I sometimes wish I were a better soup-maker.

I've made good soups and stews in my time - generally based on simple recipes - not too whelming.

Lately I find it easier to buy soups from a local grocery that offers a surprisingly good selection of quality soups.

Lemon Orzo Chicken soup with Kale was on tonight's menu, delicious!

Those store bought soups while delicious can be very high in sodium, which is also why they are so tasty.

I made Shepherd's Pie for dinner last night.

I used beef instead of lamb so technically it's Cottage Pie.

I was a little heavy handed with the wine which I'll cut down on next time. Overall, very good and I'll be having the leftovers for lunch or dinner today, possibly both.

This morning I decided to remove the silverware from the dishwasher by type instead of random bundles so I don't get whelmed when sorting it into the drawer.

Sort now or sort later. Still a sorter.

I'm on vacation this week but had to complete my performance review. I am happy to say, I am wonderful and the company is lucky to have me.

R500 - I love lemon anything, but lemon soup sounds terrible! Like dishwashing liquid?

No, r506. Avgolemono soup (Greek) is wonderful. Just thinking about it now makes me want to make some.

Congratulations r503! From now on life geta easier.

OK, I bought my L'Eau D'Issey eau de toilette in the 6.7-oz. size bottle (Christmas gift to myself!). It was about $125, but it should last me a while. The salesperson (Macy's) was really sweet; she gave me some samples, including a large tube of Coach after-shave balm (has a nice, fresh smell).

I just finished a movie called Midwest Obsession. Tracey Gold got murdered and Courtney Thorne-Smith killed her. CTS played the homicidal dairy queen like a slightly meaner version of her drunk Alison on Melrose Place.

R509, that is cool. Someone in my building goes from Chrome to L’Eau D’Issey throughout the month. It’s a light ghost of a scent in the lobby.

I'm overwhelmed but don't know where else to post what will be underwhelming to you.

"White Christmas" will be shown on the big screen at my local Marcus Theatre. We've got out tix.

IN VISTAVISION!

We've got our tix

Hooray, r512! Please go to the lobby and have yourselves a treat!

Our Homewood theater had an announcement prior to each Rocky Horror Picture Show screening:

“There will be no smoking of marijuana in the building.”

I'm sitting at my desk typing a sentence on the datalounge. I'm thirsty but too lazy to get and go into the kitchen to get a glass of water.

I’m testing a something…

Still fucked it up. Sorry. Didn’t mean to whelm!

[quote]"White Christmas" will be shown on the big screen at my local Marcus Theatre. We've got out tix. IN VISTAVISION!

Was VistaVision more whelming than Cinemascope?

I dunno what you were doing r518, but r517 seemed fine to me.

R520, it picked up the text in the element. I have to download and crop to get rid of the that part. Then, I can upload.

The photo doesn’t need text.

I need Vitamin D but was too lazy to go to the store today.

Instead of going to the grocery store I went to Panda Express tonight. Again.

They do a very brisk Door Dash business. More of them by far than in-store diners.

[quote]I made Shepherd's Pie for dinner last night.

R502 I wish you were my neighbor. I'd help you with your leftovers.

Sur La Table just alerted me that inventory of the duck fat I’ve had in my cart for two weeks is low. Folks are making good food for the holidays.

I’m currently binging on bacon grease. Adding duck fat would be whelming.

“Binging” should be “bingeing”

R526 Not necessarily. We get the meaning in context.

Hi everyone.

I fell today in the supermarket parking lot. I’m okay…but I’m going to hurt later.

I bought a box of chocolate truffles and I can't stop eating them. There goes my girlish figure.

The Post Office in my town is starting to get busier (I have a P.O. Box there). I think I'll put a pause on my normal internet purchases until January. I have enough to last me through the end of this month.

I am doing the same r530. Not because of the Post Office, but because the receiving department in my condo goes nuts every xmas.

Winter in a sizeable town in flyoverstan. Ladys (oh dear) save me! 😩

R529, you could always find a local alteration shop...

and ask them to sew some Lycra ® panels into your caftans...

I just found out I’m a whore because I’m addressing Christmas cards.

R528 -- Call Morgan & Morgan STAT!

I went to the post office yesterday and it moved! It was a whole other thing going to the new location. But there wasn't a line up.

our po has some 80 yo woman working. no shit. i went once.

I went to the post office yesterday to buy a book of Christmas stamps and somehow ended up with otters playing in snow.

I have those stamps too r538. I also bought the black and mixed-race christmas elves. the holiday stamps offering really sucked this year.

I'm thinking of staying in bed today...

My first ever air fryer is to arrive today. I have purchased a package of frozen plantain slices to see if the thing actually works.

[quote]I'm thinking of staying in bed today...

That's pretty much every day for me.

^^ Thinking about it, I meant, not actually doing it. ^^

I finished last night's roast chicken this afternoon for lunch. Though I mainly eat vegetarian, every so often I love a roast chicken, with mashed potatoes and a green vegetable. Last night it was frozen peas.

I’m watching the WKRP marathon on Decades and I keep falling asleep.

I’ve eaten nothing but crisps, chocolates and wine gums today. Merry Christmas everyone.

dentures out and chardonnay, r546?

I've got the song "Meet Me In St. Louis" in my head & can't get it out. That movie is a gem, even if you do want to smack Tootie at the end.

I may have overcooked my potatoes for potato salad a little. And the directions said [italic]“1 medium celery rib, chopped fine (about 1/2 cup)” [/italic] That measurement can’t be right (?) 1 piece of celery is half a cup?

Pray that I remain unwhelmed!!

Leave the celery out - avoid the whelm

One med. rib of celery chopped fine =/= a half cup.

R550 It's not potato salad without celery. I'm overwhelmed at your comment.

^ Sorry, had I known I'd have given you a trigger warning.

Unless, like me, you dislike celery, R552.

[quote] r551 One med. rib of celery chopped fine =/= a half cup.

Exactly.

I chopped up 3 celery ribs, which weren’t that big after being trimmed. I like the crunch.

(Sorry, r554)

I took a nap earlier. Woke up thinking it was tomorrow morning. Checked my phone - I'd been asleep for about twenty minutes.

Don't forget the olives in the potato salad! 😎

I’m so tired, I’m going to sleep in prime time.

I turned the heat down.

#MeToo

I'm sick of being asked about my cookie preferences on every website.

It's only 11:10 am and I'm already looking forward to lunch which is a large salad and two open faced mock tuna sandwiches.

Mock them right back.

I shopped, without success, for a brown pen today.

Have you tried dipping your finger in mud - it's quite effective.

I tested negative for COVID. I don’t have symptoms, the test expires tomorrow.

Here are some suggestions, r561. It's from the NYT, so I sent it via private window.

Let’s end this thread and pick it up again in a new thread. See link.

R566 supposedly all those expiration dates were extended by several months.

I have a cold.

The back of my knee keeps cracking. This is new.

[quote]I have a cold.

My cleaning woman has a cold too.

R571 WTF? How does the back of your knee crack? I'm worried for you.

I went shopping today and still have no food.

This thread has been continued….

Why start a new thread when there are still 24 posts left? Kind of whelming tbh.

My partner’s dad died today. He made it to 100 years old.

R577 Was he in his right mind and physically ok? My mother made it to 97 and was strong and sharp to the end.

R573 you should see the xray. I recently got a knee injection so I think that's what is causing the weird cracks. They don't hurt.

R578, Mentally he was sharp until about a year ago. Physically, it’s been about ten years of decline.

Watching Network on TCM. Faye Dunaway is so anorexic.

My grapes are a little on the soft side.

That sounds like a euphemism, R582.

Lunch tomorrow is two pieces of Wild Caught Sockeye Salmon which I will bake in the oven with olive oil then squeeze lemon juice on it afterwards and dip the pieces in Champagne Dill Mustard- yum 😋

Part two of my lunch is a bowl of trail mix to which I'll add freeze dried bananas, blueberries and mangos. It's a somewhat decadent lunch, however I take a 4.2 mile walk in the morning and a 2 mile walk on the treadmill afterwards.

[quote]Part two of my lunch is a bowl of trail mix to which I'll add freeze dried bananas, blueberries and mangos. It's a somewhat decadent lunch, however I take a 4.2 mile walk in the morning and a 2 mile walk on the treadmill afterwards.

Decadent?

At first I thought "anorexic," then I realized "exercise bulimic."

R584, do you also use a stairclimber?

R585- Since my weight peaked at 274 3/8 lbs in May 2021 I've lost a bit over 48 pounds.

R586- I used one when I had a membership at my local Y but I don't have one at home. I should by one. I liked those. I have a stationary bicycle , a treadmill and a set of weights at home. My weights are the old style. I have to lie or lay ( not sure which word is appropriate) down and the bench flat and push the weight off the hooks- not the safer more modern attached kind.

Wait a minute. I never used a stairclimber at the Y it was an elliptical - which I liked.

Ok R575–now you’re “it”. I’ve been starting the new threads for a while, and I’m glad to pass the baton. It’s your duty now, until someone else take the job.

[quote]My grapes are a little on the soft side.

There was once a movie about you, R582.

[quote]R568 Let’s end this thread and pick it up again in a new thread. See link.

We have to [italic]move. [/italic]Oh god.

Is there a compelling reason why we shouldn't complete a thread that needs only eight more responses not to be abandoned like a red-headed stepchild?

It stops 6 people from all making a new thread at once. Which would whelm.

[quote]It stops 6 people from all making a new thread at once. Which would whelm.

Most of the posters on the underwhelmed threads don't seem to have the initiative or the energy to create new threads.

Always happy to finish a thread out with banality.

The roads are bad. I am not driving today.

Why does a bright light make me sneeze? 😤

Salad for breakfast, with some potato chips.

I mailed a postcard this morning.

I need a few things from the store.