Entries Tagged as 'california'

oh, she said it.

April 30th, 2008 · 121 Comments

ellen in san francisco says this note is but the latest development in what has become a toilet paper-thin relationship with her passive-aggressive roommate. it started two months ago, she says, when her roommate “decided after six months of sharing that i was no longer allowed to use her toilet paper. i should mention that […]

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Tags: bathroom · money · paper product fairy · san francisco · smiley

yahoo! in the toilet? read the writing on the wall.

April 27th, 2008 · 49 Comments

what’s employee morale like inside yahoo’s sunnyvale headquarters, you might ask, amid all the chatter about coming layoffs, the possible microsoft takeover, and everything else? well, according to one anonymous yahoo! employee, in the toilet would be one place to look.
says our yahoo! tipster: “first they took away our right to stand on the toilets. […]

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · california · group bitchfest · office · raging against the machine · saga · silicon valley · toilet · yahoo

notes white people leave

April 3rd, 2008 · 194 Comments

omg, ramekin drama! (from san francisco, natch…)
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related: #54 kitchen gadgets [stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.org]

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Tags: meta · moving/not moving · san francisco · underlining

maybe you should switch to body wash?

March 31st, 2008 · 83 Comments

at least that would make the roommate situation a little less hairy…

related: losing lisa

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Tags: hair · hygiene · roommates · san diego · shower · that shit is disgusting

it’s not a race (it’s a social construct)

March 25th, 2008 · 183 Comments

here’s a trio of notes from california that each make me very uncomfortable…and not just because of the painful lack of irony.
first up: an excerpt from seating guidelines posted at the quaint little mexican restaurant in huntington beach where brynn used to waitress. so quaint, in fact, brynn says “they also posted a dress code […]

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Tags: california · casual xenophobia · parking · restaurant · san diego