u/GreyerGrey

What the actual fuck? Like I thought Ranuculous was ridiculous but the Garment!? JFC! My flabbers are ghasted.

I was bored on my lunch so, as I am wont to do, I was cruising around on Rav and went to the "hot right now" pattern section to find this monstrosity of a yarn sink. It looks like what happens when you wear mother's good tree skirt as a cape when you're a child, except it is for adults.

It is a poncho on gear.

And why does it have tassels dragging on the ground. Are we a swiffer now?

Ugh, sorry this is just one of the weirdest things. And 2,600 yards, no less!

Editing to add: It does appear the Garment, nor those who make it, take themselves too seriously, unlike the Ran people (I am not looking up how to spell that again), which is a wonderful breath of air. It is still extra, and ridiculous, while yes, also being dramatic and whimsical.

A knitted garment possessed of the spirit of Liza Minelli, perhaps? I am still avoiding it and it makes me irrational. I do not know how I would react should I see one in the real world.

Did anyone else listen? There was no subreddit for the show I could find, so I came here. I know it isn't directly Canadaland related, but it is a critique of Canadian media, so maybe?

I just kept wondering about these stories.

Like, I used to work with someone (they moved on to a different company) who felt simply agreeing that Palestine was a place, and Palestinians were people, was "antisemitic" so I'm torn between believing these students, but also wondering just what kind of "antisemitic comments" are being said in an Engineering class by a professor. Like, how does it come up?

Actual accounts are not outlined as of where I paused (over half way through the discussion) and the host and guest have moved on to discussing how to make Jewish students feel more welcomed on campus, so I do not think I'm going to be getting any examples of what these students were facing.

It just feels like a bait and switch. Why not provide at least one or two examples? If I were to accuse someone of sexism, I would be asked to provide an example.

ETA - the York U Prof who committed "an act of vandalism" at an Indigo bookstore was referenced. Good god.

I just want to make a crochet unicorn raccoon key chain for my friend's birthday. Stop it with the AI shit. And the chenille. I want small, tight, cotton.

Oh well, off to free hand it and hope for the best! Wish me luck!

Hi everyone! Okay so in listening to today's episode I was like "holy crap, I kind of connect to BOTH stories" - okay, not the stories themselves, but the commentary made by K&G during the telling.

First off, when I was 20/21 years old, I was working for a mall staple retailer who sells really cheap jewelry and also traumatizes kids and young adult retail staff with ear piercing. You know who I'm talking about yea? Okay, moving along. This was in like 2005/6, and I was a 3rd key at an "outlet" location, which meant that we weren't in a traditional indoor mall, but in strip mall type set up, so there was no internal bank for deposits. What this meant is that after hours I would have to take the deposit bag to the bank by myself.

So, I'm doing that and I'm just about to dump the cash and I feel something press into my back and someone declared they had a gun and then demand the cash. No thought, I just handed it over. He (male voice) also asked for my car, but smart ass me replied "the transmission is failing, it stalls every three to four minutes" and thus I was allowed to keep my 10 year old shit box. I called the police, my store and general manager, and then had a massive break down beside the bank because I had been held up, at gun point no less, for a grand total of around $400.

Second story is much nicer. I totally feel Karen when she talked about the "staying in nice hotels" thing. I am a manager and a bit of an exec assistant for the president of the company I work for, which means when we travel for work, I get to stay in the same hotel as he does, and he has really good taste. I've stayed at various Westin, Hilton and Sheraton premier properties in places like Toronto, Ottawa, Niagara Falls, and Montreal, and the Wynn in Las Vegas. We generally stay with a group rate, but that doesn't deter from the fact that my room in the Wynn had a freaking iPad that controlled the lights and windows, AND I had a view of the Sphere!

I've noticed a creep when I travel for work and pleasure now on my own. I still won't book at the super fancy places, but I have definitely uttered the phrase "It's only 3 nights, we can do $225/night."

This is inspired by the recent post about the Tokyo Airport line cutter.

Last year late July/early August I was going to Calgary from Toronto for work. No big deal. Store visit and only out for a few days so carry-on and a checked back and I'm good to go. The line up is INSANE in Calgary coming home, but that's fine. I'm Canadian and I hop in the domestic passport line and wait my 40ish minutes to get through security.

As I'm almost there, like maybe 8 or 9 people from getting called in there is this couple begins to raise their voice to the Canadian Borders and Customs Agent. As they get louder, and more belligerent, I can begin to hear what the issue is.

As mentioned, I'm in the domestic passport line, with a Canadian passport (though I could've used another set of ID, passport is easy for flying). The people having the issue are not Canadians, and while they are insisting they were in the right line because they "aren't foreigners," they're Americans.

Yep. These Americans waited for 40 minutes in a security check line for domestic passport holders, thinking they weren't "foreign" because they were Americans.

The gentleman got very aggressive with the agent and security eventually came to retrieve him and that triggered the woman he was with. I have no doubt they got an expedited trip back home, but I do doubt they'll be able to come back.

Edting to add - the security line for domestic travelers (domestic passport holders or other ID).

So back when I was in university I worked for a mail chain store that was geared towards young girls and tweens (important detail). I was getting training at a different location than the one I was going to be working at because our store was not open yet, when the manager there mentioned in passing "Yea, so when you come in, you're going to find a lot of things on the floor. Just put them back on the shelf."

"Why are they on the floor?" I was thinking maybe it was because they were extra busy and didn't have time to do a full facing.

"It's just George; he likes to mess with us."

Record scratch. Who's George? Turns out George was the name they had given a "ghost," though it wasn't really known if everyone believe he was real at the time. Our store and then a few others that were geared towards girls 7 to 17 were general "targets" of George.

I tell my mom about this funny thing, passing it off as a non issue. We aren't a very woo woo family, and my mom is very much not woo at all.

"George? No, his name is Sam." I'm sorry - what?

My very real world present mother proceeds to tell me the story of Sam, the man who used to own a movie theatre in the mall and how he was being investigated (credibly) for (redacted)ing little girls. Credibly in that my mom works for one of the doctors who was working with victims, so mom believed he was guilty. There were over a dozen girls aged 8 to 16 who had come forward. He hanged himself in the theatre.

I only had a handful of shifts left, but when I was alone on my next shift I told Sam to fuck off, that he deserved what he got and he should leave our store alone. I never had an issue for my remaining four or five training shifts, but apparently as soon as I left, "George" returned.

I never did tell the other people who worked there. I feel like if they learned that it wasn't just a "fun thing to say" and that there was even the potential that it was related to something so dark, I dunno, it might've made it harder to be there.

Jazz - I have so many "siblings" like you, and so does my husband and I have a message.

Now, while this is a direct response TO Jazz, this applies to anyone else who is in that situation as well.

My husband and I are both kids of Barbara's. My mom and dad were both active in my activities as a child, and my husband's dad was a stand in to several of his friends who were in single mother homes. I just wanted to let you all know that you were and are deeply loved by your adopted families and that you had just as positive an impact on your own Barbara as she/he did on you.

I am lucky enough that I haven't had to say good bye to my parents yet, and my husband can say the same, but the reason why his father was a Barbara, was because his mother (husband's grandmother) was one too. When she died, the support from the community was amazing. The adults who had once been kids who GrandBabs fed, clothed, and sheltered sharing their stories with her kids and grandchildren made losing her just a little easier, because her spirit will live on not just through the kids she gave birth to, but those whom she helped.

If you have the opportunity to be a Barbara - do it. You never know how many lives you will touch.