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For those of us, so very many of us who are unendingly irritated by various friends and associates who insist on posting about their babies and children waaaay to much, there’s STFU, Parents – a tumblr consisting solely of irritatingly obnoxious parent updates on Facebook (with commentary!):
By the by, at least 75% of the baby names on this thing are ATROCIOUS
Dear SpaceManAndy,
My daughters have gerbils. They’re very annoying. They make a lot of noise, especially at night, and they smell really, really bad. How can I get rid of them without making my daughters cry?
Thanks,
Hating gerbils in Bmore
Behold, SpaceManAndy’s debut column, “I don’t know, I guess that could work. Maybe?” With any luck this will appear weekly on a day yet to be decided. EMAIL ANDY with your queries, he’s dying to help you!! Dear Space Man, Thank goodness you are available to answer questions, I didn’t know where to turn until […]
You know them, you hate them. Advertising circulars cluttering up your stairways, mailboxes, windshields, only to end up laying the gutter and adding to the city’s litter problem. Fortunately, our good curmudgeonly blogger in arms JJT has started his very own crusade against these papery menaces, the battle lines being drawn in SoBo’s Pigtown. Flyering […]
Ya know, don’t get me wrong, I normally don’t mind listening to Diane Rehm on my way to work, considering my commute is relatively short and I can endure her usually rather boring topics of conversation and mummy vocals. But damn, every so often I just get so irritated by the way she condescends to […]
An event today triggered a realization about what late fall, early winter, and cold weather in general really represents: static electricity shocks. An aspect of the season I had completely forgotten about, yet could not forget about enough, because it is the most annoying thing in the entire universe. The dry, cold air generating enough […]