Entries Tagged as 'water'

covering all the bases

April 9th, 2008 · 90 Comments

“it seems too many people have made love to the office water cooler,” says lizzy in new york. and some of them, it seems, are getting a little sloppy.

lizzy says the “office of water” thing refers to the fact that “our office is full of water. like, the fridge doesn’t have anything but bottled water [...]

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · d.c. · double-entendre alert · new york · obnoxious definition · office · spelling and grammar police · that's unsanitary · water

help yourself

March 24th, 2008 · 43 Comments

spotted by doppelfrog at london’s paddington station…

related: water, water everywhere

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Tags: london · rhetorical question · subway · water · whiteboard

upon further reflection, screw you

September 1st, 2007 · 49 Comments

while jessica was a college student in boston, she lived in a five-person apartment with one friend and three strangers. jess says apartment issues were rarely (if ever– there was only one “meeting”) talked about directly (there was but one “meeting), but were instead handled through a series of “love notes” from anne, like this [...]

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Tags: boston · cleaning · dishes · garbage · guests · not-so-veiled threats · vermin · water · your mother doesn't...

is this what a post-post-feminist looks like?

August 15th, 2007 · 107 Comments

brandy in york haven, p.a. forgot to put water back in the fridge, she says, “and my boyfriend likes his cold water.” yikes.

also note the list of tasks for brandy and her boyfriend at upper right. um, so much for challenging gender stereotypes at home, huh?

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Tags: exclamation-point happy! · heart · more aggressive than passive · pennsylvania · sig o · smiley · water · whiteboard

water, water everywhere

August 7th, 2007 · 39 Comments

notes rayya in canterbury, kent: “informing the building landlord about a sticky tap would probably have been a more sensible move than guilt-tripping the female staff into feeling responsible for global water shortages!”

it doesn’t end there: says rayya, “not only are we responsible for global water shortages but we’re breaking people’s limbs.  the ‘please’ [...]

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · bathtub · danger · guilt trip · u.k. · water