#puzzling things

[vinceaddams]

Serious question: How the fuck are you supposed to math things in inches? When everything's divided into stupid insufferable halves of halves of halves of halves instead of good sensible decimals?? I did a 1917 pants draft, where I had to divide many measurements, and unless my number ended in something like a .5 or .25 or .75 the best I could do was round to the nearest tenth and then eyeball that tenth on the ruler.

Edit: Seems like the answer is "be less precise" and "memorize the fractions so you can translate regular numbers to them". Thank goodness I have no obligation to actually do that! Next time I try an imperial drafting pattern (if ever) I might just convert it all to metric before starting, though eyeballing tenths worked out fine.

[pterribledinosaurdrawings]

What the heck is happening to my most recent addition on the Festive Twig post? First my text wasn't showing up in people's reblogs, and so edited it and copy/pasted it below the image instead of above to see if it would help, and now the image isn't showing up but the text is??

[dragonflylady77]

bullshit bullshit bullshit

Isn't it weird that the first two things people usually ask when you meet them are your relationship status and what your occupation is? Like these are the only two things that give you any kind of value...

and like, i'm twice divorced, i don't have a career or even a job, and i write romance and fanfic.

normie value = 0 (or lower, realistically)

i was shelving books at the library yesterday, putting books away in the kids area and there were these two mums whose toddlers were playing together in the play area and the first thing they asked each other after 'how old is your little one' is 'what do you do for work?'

why?

you're hanging out at the library with your toddler after school hours, waiting for your older kid who's doing afterschool craft. why does it matter what another mum does for work?

is it a way to decide if the reply makes them worthy of further chatting? weed out potential friendship?

i just don't get it.

23 years ago when i was married to the father of my kids, i went to a card making evening with all these farmer wives and they asked what I did for work, then what my husband did for work.

why is that relevant in that context? we were all there to make some birthday cards. who the fuck cares what my husband did for work???

there are so many more interesting things we could ask people when we meet them, than what they do for work...

[vincentbriggs]

Why the heck did someone just buy the exact same design on the exact same fabric on 3 individual fat quarters from my Spoonflower?? Just buying a yard would be more fabric for considerably less money.

[vinceaddams]

I just heard a tapping noise in my room and I went to look and it was... a chickadee? Pecking at the top of my window frame??!

I went and got my camera, but of course it flew away a millisecond before I hit record.

[vinceaddams]

Went to Dollarama today and noticed that the cough drops were in the candy aisle. right in between the gummy candies and hard candies. who decided that's where they go??

[vinceaddams]

hey youtube why do you keep showing me tampon ads? Were your creepy robot spies not paying attention last autumn when I was googling "hysterectomy recovery time"? At the very least I would expect it to be statistically not very profitable to show those ads to users whose profile says male.