1. His wife wants to go out to lunch dressed like that — like Edgar Allan Poe.
2. This man could not be more impressed than by the Thom Brown Pre-Fall 2023 fashion show. He shan't return to regular life after this.
3. An autistic person's insightful tip on how to bond with neurotypical people at work: Just tell them what day of the week it is. They love it. She's right! I hadn't really noticed it before, but it is true. People love to hear what day of the week it is.
4. A baby is truly amazed at the first experience of eyeglasses.
5. Jordan Peterson delivers some very specific advice about how husbands had better treat their wives or else — or else you will become isolated and lonely and if you don't fix it you'll end up divorced and fixing it for the rest of your life.
6. Sinister Pond Babe explores Sac City, Iowa.
7. Speaking of sinister... these birds!
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They all annoy somehow today. Madam Poe is LookAtMe LookAtMe LookAtMe. The Thom Brown show -- they all had the same scarf on. No. As for the rest, various shades of Meh.
I guess I need a sunny warm day.
I think my dad did try to talk to my mom about domestic economy but she would correct his grammar. Typical deflection eh.
Anyway, things fell apart.
She is not dressed like Poe, she is dressed as Poe.
And unless it is with the queen, let her wear what she wants.
The Thom Brown review is great. Couldn't stop laughing. Had to watch it 3 or 4 times.
You were wearing your Edgar Allan Poe printed cotton blouse
"For me, I really like corn."
Sure, it seemed like a cute and harmless TikTok at the time...
Customer shot KFC employee after being told store ran out of corn
@ Baceseras
Thanks for the poem! Loved it!
Mrs. tank: do we have enough money?
Tank: yes.
End of story.
#7. Sinister birds.
Who buys clothes from Thom Brown? Who is that guy in the stocking cap? Weirdo.
I can’t get past that ridiculous and non-serious tie on Jordan Peterson. I just learned from Ben Silver that there is a silk shortage for ties, but I got two of their Inns of Temple ties. Ben Silver has the best ties!
"mould" of a seaside resort?
I looked at Prof. Peterson. Makes me wonder how my wife and I have lasted 4.5 decades.
We don't do it that way.
Seems like sound advice from Mr. Peterson.
The kid given glasses reminded me of when I got my first pair. I was older, maybe seven, but the effect was the same: the entire world seemed all to grow bigger at once. It's difficult to describe, and of course it quickly became "how things really look," but in the moment it was an unbelievable shock.
I loved the kid in glasses. Spooky birds, for sure--what? Enjoyed the Iowa town,but did not know what to think when I read the profile which said the tiktoks are fake. Jordan Peterson too didactic for me but one would not go wrong listening hard to his pitch.
Thoroughly enjoyed attuning to the designer fan's delight in number 2, i could relate, it was clean cut and it WAS a ton of work.
also
The new eyeglasses was marvelous.
Petersens rules wouldn't hurt.
birds were cool.
Had no need to hear or see Number 6, just no.
The child with the glasses was my favorite; watched it 3 times.
I got glasses in the seventh grade. In wood shop/technical drawing there was a poster about trees that I could read just fine from my place at the beginning of the term, but which got blurrier and blurrier . . .
A guy I knew had such poor eyesight that until the second grade they thought he was retarded. Once they figured out what was wrong he says he never made less than an 'A' and ended up getting a comp sci degree from MIT.
My wife's eyesight was perfect, and so far our son takes after her.
I'm going to try the day of the week gambit. As for talking to my wife, we live in different houses but work together 7 days a week. We fail the Peterson test.
"but did not know what to think when I read the profile which said the tiktoks are fake"
I'd read that as a disclaimer so that no one whose property is shown can sue her for calling it "sinister" or saying it looks like someone got murdered there or the whole town is sinking into a swamp!
It's fake the way comedy is fake.
Peterson's idea of what to do might make things better, but surely he's ridiculously wrong saying what will happen if you don't do that.
But I would find it very tiresome to talk about household finances for 90 minutes *a week*! I would think my husband was weird. And he'd be forcing himself to go on and on, for 90 minutes, week after week. Why are you doing this? I'm going to lose my mind! And you sound so robotic! Is this some kind of game? Or... is that some bullshit you got from Jordan Peterson!?!!
As for going on "dates"... I have never been in any relationship where a person I was living with *ever* referred to going out as going on a "date." If he ever did, a conscious examination of the word and the idea would ensue. But if it *kept* happening, every week — or twice a week because we could afford it — it would seem very weird. Is this some kind of joke? Or... ... ... ... is this some bullshit you got from Jordan Peterson!?!?!
Thank you Ann for the baby with glasses. Last week at Coral World in St. Thomas I saw Rosie, a sealion who is totally blind from cataracts -- a common condition for older sealions. She has a date for surgery in January with the world's only opthamologist for sealions. She's been learning new behaviors in preparation, like going into a small cage and putting her head in a cone of shame. I'm relieved to think that she will be happy rather than panicked after the surgery.
I talked to my wife about our domestic economy. She raised my taxes.
Nancy, I had cataract surgery in October. It was only mildly alarming to go through. The results were amazing; I had no idea how badly my vision had deteriorated. Well, I did know that I couldn't read small print, even with cheaters, but the change in color was incredible, and the eye that used to be my good eye looks like I'm seeing through a sepia tone filter.
I'm sure the sea lion will love it.
Re Jordan P's latest-
I have been trying to talk to Mrs. Crude about our "domestic economy" for close to the 50 years that we have been together. My essential job has been to ensure that income>outgo, and it very much has, to the extent that we have a generous amount of retirement money. I have advised her that statistically she will outlive me by several years, and she will have to manage the money, or at least understand what our adviser tells her.
Jordan is wrong about this- no chance of divorce over money or anything else. We both "married up."
I'll keep trying, but 90 minutes a year is more than we talk about money.
Gell-Mann effect approaching- dangerous for bloviators like Jordan Peterson.
Jordan Petersen's comments were not helpful in the general. I would like to hear him talk about couples who think going to Tik Tok to discuss what the other wearing is interesting though. Who wants a life geared to a Tik Tok presence? I know a lot of people who can and do make money with it, but I would be bored silly trying it.
Tik Tok videos like the one with the baby are worth it, however. It made me smile each time I watched it.
Ann:
His terrible tie explains everything about that guy. And no excuse just because he's Canadian.
A Ben Silver tie would change his life. Getting my new one today: Middle Temple.
I've been to Sac City many times. Clean little motel there across the street from a café for hobnobbing with the locals. Loved the video.
"Dating" your spouse is a staple of the pro-marriage seminars, speakers, and conferences particularly popular among evangelicals. Nothing odd about it, it's just shorthand for "consciously choose to get out of your daily routines and stressors and find time to have fun with your spouse, just like you did when you were first dating." Spending time together having fun on a frequent basis is good for any relationship and probably especially so for spouses.
Evangelical parents are advised to "date" their kids in order to give them focused attention and build shared memories of having fun that help build a reservoir of positivity to help with the inevitable storms that come into such relationships.
"Dating" your spouse is a staple of the pro-marriage seminars, speakers, and conferences particularly popular among evangelicals. Nothing odd about it, it's just shorthand for "consciously choose to get out of your daily routines and stressors and find time to have fun with your spouse, just like you did when you were first dating." Spending time together having fun on a frequent basis is good for any relationship and probably especially so for spouses.
Evangelical parents are advised to "date" their kids in order to give them focused attention and build shared memories of having fun that help build a reservoir of positivity to help with the inevitable storms that come into such relationships.
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