Entries Tagged as 'ontario'

A foreign policy allegory?

January 24th, 2010 · 86 Comments

The long arm of Uncle Sam has extended all the way up to this roommate squabble in Peterborough, Ontario.
“The note on the right,” our submitter says, “is is written by a roommate who (as you can see) does not recognize the hypocrisy of calling someone out for being passive-aggressive in her own passive-aggressive note.”

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Tags: canada · ontario · rebuttals · roommates · toilet

Paying through the spout

May 25th, 2009 · 190 Comments

Our anonymous submitter in Ontario, Canada found this note in the office lunch area. Apparently, the water in the office cooler had been going like crazy until the new pay-per-sip policy was enacted.
“While people were willing to pay,” our submitter says, “whoever was changing the bottles was not doing it as often as before the [...]

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Tags: money · office · office cop · ontario · water

When a card just won’t do

February 22nd, 2009 · 78 Comments

Juan in Brampton, Ontario wasn’t persuasive enough to convince his girlfriend, kat, to skip work and go to her own surprise party. His friends were…not so happy.

Meanwhile, Sam’s best friend baked this for her husband after he re-arranged the living room early in the morning without telling her, resulting in some seriously bruised shins. “What’s [...]

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Tags: birthday · cake · canada · more aggressive than passive · ontario · p.s.

panty raid!

January 14th, 2009 · 102 Comments

caitlin at ontario college didn’t write this note, but she feels for the person who did — she and four friends on her floor also had panties go missing from the dorm laundry room. “the thief seemed to particularly prefer black thongs,” she says. (unlike the notewriter, however, they don’t necessarily want them back.)

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Tags: canada · kinda creepy · laundry · ontario · seattle · tokyo · wtf?

I challenge you to an emoticon-off!

October 24th, 2008 · 58 Comments

Ah, young love.

related: Facebook: a place for frenemies
extra credit: thumbspeak [thenewyorker.com]

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Tags: canada · facebook · frenemies · ontario · smiley

just one question

September 28th, 2008 · 117 Comments

related: seriously!?!

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Tags: confusion??? · family · food · office · ontario · signed with love · texas

get the hell out (and good luck next year!)

June 12th, 2008 · 116 Comments

writes an anonymous submitter in peterborough, ontario: “this past year my roommates and i had a stranger rent the extra room in our house, and he turned out to be a socially oblivious slob we spent the entire year picking up after.” as frustrating as the situation was, his roommate andrew can’t seem to fully [...]

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Tags: canada · cleaning · ontario · roommates · thanks (but not really)

then we came to the end

January 15th, 2008 · 92 Comments

it was a “killer busy” week at the office, so gord in ontario admits that he and his coworkers left the place in a certain state of disarray. (such is the wont of “creative professionals.”) unfortunately, the boss chose that weekend to pop in to give some people an impromptu tour. on monday, these adorable [...]

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · blitzkrieg approach · canada · casual sexism · office · ontario · politics · that shit is disgusting

Going up?

October 2nd, 2007 · 52 Comments

Anna brings us this charitable little note from the her apartment building in London, Ontario.
“Anytime Stan” — proof that Canadians really are the nicest people on earth?

Meanwhile, in Milwaukee…

And lastly, a vaguely dadaist interpretation, in what very well may be another one of L.A.’s elevator-cum-film sets.

related: cross-country elevator action

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · canada · elevator · ellipses-crazed · los angeles · milwaukee · neighbors · ontario · p.s. · vomit

rules for thieves

August 1st, 2007 · 23 Comments

“apparently our growing satellite office has some food thieves,” says an anonymous submitter in ontario.

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Tags: canada · e-mail · food · office · office fridge · ontario · sarcasm