All my drawers broke too, as well as the jazz board, twice. Pieces of shit.

I had to have my jazz board replaced twice on a very expensive Amana fridge. I don’t know the answer.

It’s really unfortunate.

Made turkey rice soup so basically am eating Christmas for another week. Delicious though.

Oh gosh I didn’t even know that.

Understood. The TV show was totally hilarious.

I was talking about them in this thread because I’m also a fan, and I don’t believe a word that Tokkie said. I think they’re not great people but I think that’s all horseshit.

I like him even though I’m not into pop, he’s like the only pop star l listen to.

I love that you have CDs though.

Ha he is crusty.

Those books are wild.

Grunge is so dull. I am all for generations developing their own style of music without question but I can’t believe we turned away from 80s music to THAT. I thought Nirvana was mediocre as can be. Love Mechanical Animals, but like all of his albums to some degree. I’m glad he’s gotten back on his feet in life and got sober and lost the weight.

Die Antwoord, what Tokkie is saying just sounds so outlandishly fake. I don’t think they’re great people but I actually think they care a lot about their kids.

I do too. I pretty much hated all music made in the 90s; I think grunge is awful and so is NIN, but I felt like Manson was a natural extension of what bands like WASP and Motley Crue were doing but reinvented for that generation, and it’s really good. I like music that has some concept and theater to it. I still listen to him.

I also like Die Antwoord; I think the accusations by their adopted son are total bullshit. I’m not saying they’re good people and I do think they’re homophobic, but also a lot of their image is obviously artificial and they obfuscate their true lives, it’s clear from reading their interviews. I think they’re genuinely average middle aged parents from South Africa, and I think what Ninja said about their son making accusations was to try to get money from them is true. I really dig their crazy music and their videos are insane.

Fair. I wish the art people made wasn’t tainted by their behaviour.

Like I have a soft spot for Vince Neil even though he killed people drunk driving, because of how his poor little daughter died and how badly it’s affected him. I can’t help it.

I love Manson’s music and I always enjoy hearing him interviewed. I struggle with that too.

I think you mean Lewis CK :)

I heard someone went on a date with him and he bought some insanely expensive watch on it. I think he didn’t deal with the loneliness of fame well.

I did surveys for money so I could buy things I otherwise wouldn’t. I made thousands doing it and bought SO much stuff I needed and wanted. I got entirely sick of them though as it really is a grind and stopped. It’s impressive how much stuff I bought with this money. (I’m happy to tell anyone how). Sometimes when I’m leaving for work I just think of everything I’m wearing or carrying that I didn’t pay a penny for.

I go to the hair salon school and let students cut my hair to save money (it’s super cheap) and began colouring it myself. I only get my hair cut like twice a year as well despite wanting to do it more.

I have like seven digital library cards, I give the library a fake address in their city and sign up. It actually only benefits them that they get more patrons reading books. I can request books at my library anyway that they don’t have in their collection and they’ll get it from another library too.

My health benefits through my workplace include orthotic sole inserts, but also you get two pairs of shoes. That’s two pairs of shoes a YEAR. I have coworkers who do it and don’t use the orthotic insert, just for the shoes. If you have workplace benefits look at everything they give you and use whatever you can.

I will price match at the grocery store to the penny. You just stand there and say “this is 5 dollars at Walmart” and nobody ever checks so if it’s really expensive I’ll tell them it’s a price I’ve seen it be before even if it isn’t that week. The cashiers will also say “this is X amount at X store” and ring it up without me asking sometimes too.

I’ll go to my doctor and get a prescription for something so it goes through my benefits even if I could buy something to treat it over the counter. I’m Canadian so it doesn’t cost me to go, and they’re legit conditions, but I don’t HAVE to go in. Universal health care for the win.

Our drug reps bring us food like once a week so that’s usually my lunch that day.

My workplace has an employee perks program where insurance or phone carrier or clothing stores or whatever will give you discounts. My phone carrier was going to charge me 30 dollars more a month to upgrade my phone, so I went and looked into their phone plans, and got an employee pricing plan for less than half of that with much more data and international calling, through the same carrier through an employee pricing plan dealer. It was even 5 dollars less when I went to pick it up on Tuesday because the plans change all the time. So now I get 100 GB of data, international calling and texting as well as all my usual features, for 45 dollars plus 1 dollar a month for a new Pixel 10. Can’t wait to hand my old phone in on Saturday to my carrier and tell them I’m done with their bullshit as they were going to charge me 100 a month. Fuck you Bell Canada.

A local church has a “good food box” program (for anyone who wants it, not just for low income people) where you get a bag of 10-11 fruits and vegetables every other week for 22 dollars. Saves me mountains of money at the grocery store and it’s very practical. It’s absolutely great, and you just pick it up at one of the two locations.

I look through Tumblr and Bluesky for poetry and book recommendations.

The Facebook page of the writer Jonathan Carroll (one of his book titles is where my user name comes from) is a gem and probably the last good thing about Facebook, it’s a collection of excellent quotes and art and photography and the like.

Reddit is for unshittifying search results, can’t pretend it isn’t.

Instant pot is one, it’s so useful and forgiving to me as someone who is not a confident cook.

Stainless steel frying pans. I think they cook best of all, I’m a big fan of the cooking methods of the restauranteur Frank Prizinsano even if he is an asshole in his personal life, and that’s what he uses.

Olives. I’ve really learned to like the ones at the local Portuguese restaurant that they cure themselves, and serve with crusty bread that you dip in olive oil and vinegar. My friend also marinated olives herself with this insanely good olive oil and herb mix.