Entries Tagged as 'kitchen'

the sink half-empty

September 4th, 2008 · 20 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

currently on the table: a guest towel visa program

September 1st, 2008 · 69 Comments

our anonymous submitter says his coworkers were taking stacks of paper towels from the bathroom and putting them in kitchen. “HR evidently does not agree with this practice and decided to enact a one-towel play in the break-room kitchen,” he says. (the office billing manager added the follow-up on the towels’ behalf.)

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Tags: anthropomorphism · kitchen · office supplies · rebuttals

especially deborah

August 17th, 2008 · 205 Comments

as this sign from a montgomery, alabama breakroom shows, “PopCorn Users” remain one of the most persecuted groups in the workplace today.
 
related: bizarre pardoning accident

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Tags: alabama · bold-underlined-caps · excessive underlining · gloriously redundant · highlighter · irregular capitalization · microwave · montgomery · popcorn

bleak house

July 31st, 2008 · 215 Comments

“a few years back i was living in a halfway house in canberra where theft from the communal kitchen was a common problem,” writes alex in australia. “one morning we woke to discover that the fridge had gone missing.” (the coffee in question was stolen from a cupboard, but apparently the owner thought removing the [...]

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · actions speak louder · australia · canberra · fridge · money · questionable logic · roommates · stealing · you call that punctuation?

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

maybe it’s time for sally struthers to get involved

May 14th, 2008 · 139 Comments

with finals and thesis deadlines coming up, stress levels among grad students at uc-berkeley have been running high (which means attention to the finer points of, say, apostrophe use, are running low). and now there’s a lunch thief on the loose!

sadly, says our submitter, the note’s multi-pronged approach (guilt, threats, helpful advice) seems to [...]

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Tags: apostrophe abuse · berkeley · california · food · fridge · kitchen · preggers · stealing · the homeless · university · warning