Entries Tagged as 'actually totally reasonable'

Counter attack

February 25th, 2010 · 196 Comments

“Personally, I think all places should post this sign,” says Molly in Los Angeles.

These days, it appears a lot of cash register-operators agree with Molly (and the fancy shop in Studio City where she buys her cheese).
To wit: exhibit a, from Betsey in Sumter, S.C.

Exhibit b) spotted by Otto at a sandwich shop in Frisco, [...]

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Tags: "customer service" · actually totally reasonable · california · cell phone · colorado · etiquette · new york · oh snap · south carolina

A review of last night’s performance

February 17th, 2010 · 193 Comments

Aleister in London found this critique slipped under his door after an impromptu Thursday night sing-along.  “I am a big fan of my neighbours’ critical opinion,” Alastair says. “I won’t offer much defense other than that our music selection was exceptional and I was on my way to work when I found it.”
Well done, Flat [...]

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Tags: actually totally reasonable · london · neighbors · noise

escape poodle

December 7th, 2009 · 219 Comments

Our anonymous submitter in Canada says his apartment building has been having some crime issues lately that has the residents all aflutter — resulting (according to the following note) in a modern-day witch hunt…Canadian-style!

Jay darling, I think everybody in your building owes you a big fat hug.
related: on jamming

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · actually totally reasonable · canada · drugs · malapropism · neighbors

Your girlfriend is frightening the kittens

November 23rd, 2009 · 113 Comments

P.J. in Huntington, New York says his girlfriend found this note on the stairs “the morning after she came over dressed like a school girl.”
Meanwhile, P.J. leaves several questions unanswered in his explanation, among them…So, why did your your girlfriend come over to Mom’s house dressed like Britney circa 1998? How old is this girlfriend, [...]

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Tags: actually totally reasonable · moms & dads · nice stationery · sex sex sex · signed with love

Buy curtains. Please.

October 5th, 2009 · 160 Comments

Writes Michael in Chicago: “Apparently, some of our neighbors had a problem with us being naked in our apartment.” Without knowing any other details of this situation, I’d have to say:
a) “Be more private with yourself” is a phrase I am going to try to work into future conversations whenever possible.
b) Michael, while I 100% [...]

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Tags: actually totally reasonable · chicago · neighbors

the good samaritan

September 17th, 2009 · 204 Comments

Julia in Australia attended a New Year’s Eve party in an affluent neighborhood. The next morning, after she came to, she realized her digital camera was missing. when she back to search for it, she found this sign posted up all around the local park.

related: oh, the rancher and the mcmansioner should be friends
extra credit: [...]

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Tags: actually totally reasonable · australia · drizzunk · neighbors · noise · p.s. · the po-po

When Internet memes go wrong IRL

June 24th, 2009 · 115 Comments

Spotted by Ressa’s brother during his travels through America…

(This is one of those where the passive-aggressive part isn’t the note itself.)
related: passive-allergic
extra credit: stuffonmycat.com

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Tags: actually totally reasonable · cats · neighbors · new york

if she were really passive-aggressive, she’d get the fence secretly electrified

May 18th, 2009 · 169 Comments

Writes Chris in Riverside, California: “My friend Eric essentially has a LAN center in his garage. Cigarettes and energy drinks are the diet of choice and we (usually 5 to 7 people lanning there at any given time) piss on his fence so we don’t flush the toilet too many times over the evening.  He [...]

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Tags: actually totally reasonable · california · moms & dads · piss · smoking · toilet

No, really — it’s just research for my Andrea Dworkin paper!

December 12th, 2008 · 48 Comments

“There’s a lot of foot traffic at a certain computer lab at our university,” says our submitter in Ypsilanti, Michigan, “but it can only seat 30 at a time.”
In order to (in theory) alleviate the problem, and in practice, to give waiting students some new clip art to focus their rage upon, the university posted [...]

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Tags: actually totally reasonable · clip art catastrophe · facebook · im-speak · rebuttals · university

just doing their part to uphold the reputation of americans abroad

September 2nd, 2008 · 119 Comments

edward says this sign was posted on every floor and inside all the elevators at the hotel that headquartered ucla’s study abroad program in granada, spain last semester.

can you blame them? i mean, really — what a waste of perfectly good manchego!

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Tags: actually totally reasonable · cheese · espana · exclamation-point happy! · noise · spain · university

Why I hate Miami, exhibit a

April 6th, 2008 · 75 Comments

The fact that nightclubs have to post notes like this one:

(Thanks to Jeff in New York for passing along!)
related: going up?

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Tags: actually totally reasonable · bathroom · florida · miami · not so much passive-aggressive · vomit

if you needed an excuse to skip the gym today

March 28th, 2008 · 101 Comments

well, our anonymous contributor in pompano beach, florida has one for you.
he explains: “i keep a gym membership just so that i can feel good about my financial commitment to my health — not so much for the actual health benefits per se. i hadn’t been to the gym in at least two months when [...]

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Tags: actually totally reasonable · florida · gym · shit · shower · that shit is disgusting · that's unsanitary

Clarifying motion #2

March 12th, 2008 · 111 Comments

After a minor breakout, Matt in Toronto “borrowed” his roommate’s Clinique cleanser…and then forgot to put it back where he found it. His (admirably direct) roommate asked if he’d mind not using her Clinique products again in the future, seeing as it was, you know, pretty expensive and not that big of a container. “No [...]

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Tags: "accidental" "borrowing" · actually totally reasonable · bathroom · hygiene · roommates · thx · toronto