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11 years ago @ The Toast - Share Your Greatest Di... · 1 reply · +20 points

My greatest dirtbag hit: When I was in highschool there was a math teacher who was a known creep/sexual predator, I covered his car in Miracle Whip and wrapped it in saran wrap.

Aside from that, my teen years were run of the mill poor punk kid stuff. Stuffing the ballot box so that one of the dirtbaggiest dirtbags out of our friend group ended up as prom king (my dirtbag friends ended up stealing all of the prized from the after prom casino), bringing juice bottles filled with Mad Dog to school, getting into fights constantly, skateboarding from class to class, sitting on top of my desk and refusing to face the front of the room, tearing down the pro-life displays put up by the Catholic church across the street from my house, etc.

11 years ago @ The Toast - The NicMall Toast Anni... · 1 reply · +6 points

I'm just going to add my praise to this heaping pile of praise that yins are getting for running the Toast. Can you believe I was actually happy when the site went down the other week? I had initially thought that my network admin at work had blocked it and I would never get to read the Toast from my desk again (and reading the Toast from my desk is like the single greatest thing about my job). When it turned out to be just a prolonged outage caused by too many people (trying to read the Toast from their desks), I was SO RELIEVED.

11 years ago @ The Toast - How Long Could You Sur... · 0 replies · +3 points

You can add my college roommate (who had an inexplicable love of wilderness survival stories) to this count.

11 years ago @ The Toast - Feel the Burn: But How... · 2 replies · +9 points

OH THANK GOD THIS IS BACK! Every time I do my weak-armed sorry excuse for push ups I wonder whatever happened to Feel the Burn and mourn its absence.

11 years ago @ The Toast - "His Career Will Be Ab... · 0 replies · +4 points

I missed this when it first went up & found it by way of this week's Toast Points. Thank you so much for sharing this. Thank you.

11 years ago @ The Toast - Cocktail Hour: Open Th... · 1 reply · +4 points

I do not listen to 99% Invisible, but I am about to start because that sounds like my dream content.

11 years ago @ The Toast - Cocktail Hour: Open Th... · 0 replies · +3 points

Yes! Snacks!!! The last time I got a tattoo, I could not be more thankful for the frequent candy breaks my tattooer suggested I take.

11 years ago @ The Toast - Cocktail Hour: Open Th... · 0 replies · +10 points

I'm glad you're safe!

(My experience being mugged at gunpoint awhile back yielded fairly similar results - hope you liked that expired library card and my art supply store frequent buyer card, suckers! Not going to lie, though, I am still mad that they made off with my lucky dollar bill - it had a cat stamp on it! I was SAVING IT.)

11 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +4 points

Racists friends of friends are the pits! I struggle with this a lot with my partner and his friends/family. We're both white, but we have a fairly significant age difference and wildly divergent life experiences. It doesn't help that my academic background is in cultural studies and I am the kind of insufferable person who wants to "problematize" every fucking thing on the planet (ok, not everything, but I'm definitely the jerk who's like, "But don't you think it's kind of fucked up that..." while everyone else is begging me to stop taking everything so seriously.)

...Except if you're saying the kind of shit these dudes are saying, you're trafficking in racism & I feel like it's been so hard to communicate that concept. Like, what's "really racist"? What is the list of "Official Racist Actions" that makes shitty jokes/comments into somehow socially acceptable lesser offenses, you know? My attempts to intervene have mostly resulted in people complaining about me being a bossy buzzkill, so I've tapered off but I've struggled with choosing to say nothing because I don't want to be complicit in their racist garbage.

11 years ago @ The Toast - Why Kacey Musgraves is... · 0 replies · +6 points

We don’t thank god for that, we talk about how there were some of them who survived and some of them who didn’t and we grind our teeth on everything that we are and hope it turns out to be a ladder.

This, this, this, this. Would just keep copying and pasting "this" until the end of time because I feel so strongly about what you're saying here.

I haven't heard the entirety of Same Trailer, Different Park, but I have had "Follow Your Arrow" stuck in my head since I saw her performance at the Grammys.

I just feel so, so, so strongly about class representation, especially in music and it's so important to me to hear music that reflects the lives/legacies of working people (I mean, yeah, I also fucking love aspirational music, but recognize that most of that also comes from a place of need/want/hope driven by certain class realities.) I am the kind of sucker who cries over "Badlands" by Bruce Springsteen and "Tha Crossroads" by Bone Thugs 'n Harmony with equal fervor.

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