Entries Tagged as 'dishes'

the sink half-empty

September 4th, 2008 · 25 Comments

our anonymous submitter sneakily snapped a photo of the whiteboard at a friend’s house in urbana, illinois.

related: oh sweetie, i love it when you talk dirty!

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Tags: dishes · dishwasher · excessive underlining · illinois · rebuttals · roommates · signed with love · urbana · whiteboard

i asked santa for a baby alive, and all i got was this stupid dishwasher

July 2nd, 2008 · 140 Comments

i didn’t think i’d ever see a kitchen appliance more inappropriately anthropomorphized than this fridge, but i think this dishwasher note (from an anonymous submitter in england) dials the WTF-factor up to 11.

related: the passive-aggressive note has not been destroyed; it has been solved

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · anthropomorphism · bold-underlined-caps · dishes · dishwasher · mixed metaphors · sad face · shit · u.k. · wtf?

oh sweetie, i love it when you talk dirty!

June 10th, 2008 · 146 Comments

“my friend katelyn’s roommate left her this note before she went away for memorial day weekend last year,” says monica in boston. “i love how it starts off so BFF-like…then takes a sharp left into passive-aggressive territory.”

adds monica: “while katelyn normally likes to avoid confrontation, i think this note pushed her over the edge. she [...]

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Tags: dishes · heart · mean girls · p.s. · roommates · smiley · university

not to name names, but…

March 18th, 2008 · 83 Comments

world-renowned troublemaker troy mcclure forwards this e-mail from his department’s secretary in sydney.

no big deal, you say? take a second look at the addressee list. (yes, jonathan, i’m talking to you.)
related: just in case you didn’t catch the sarcasm

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Tags: "accidental" "borrowing" · dishes · overzealous secretary · sydney

holy matrimony

December 4th, 2007 · 105 Comments

karolina in dallas says she typically tries to wait her husband out in situations like this one, but she almost always ends up caving — “particularly when mold is involved.”

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Tags: dallas · dishes · mold · sig o

when peaceniks get pissed

November 25th, 2007 · 55 Comments

writes ludovic from geneva: “i went to bil’in, a palestinian village cut through by the security fence, for the weekly friday demonstration. there’s a house there whose owner rents out the ground flat to activists to be used as a meeting place, sleeping hostel, that sort of thing. the day was obviously tense, but seeing [...]

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Tags: dishes · the middle east

apology denied

November 23rd, 2007 · 107 Comments

our anonymous submitter in california was having some issues with her roommates not washing their dishes. “it got so bad that i picked up what i thought was a black bowl only to find it was white and covered in ants,” she says. when asked to clean up after themselves, the roommates responded with a [...]

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Tags: actions speak louder · california · dishes · excessive underlining · get over it · more aggressive than passive · piss · roommates · whiteboard