I always felt kinda bad for her and for finding it funny, but when my family used to get my dog (a terrier mix who looked kind of like Benji, she was super smart) shaved in the summer she got so self-conscious and nervous. Whined like crazy.
Many decades ago a neighbor had a black collie who was always running around their fenced back yard barking whenever anyone came by. They gave him a summer shave and he refused to leave his doghouse for two weeks.
I haven't had a haircut since before my oldest daughter's wedding in April. I keep telling myself I'm going to go finally have my fringe trimmed up properly but that would require actually leaving the house and interacting with other human beings.
I can wear my hair in a knot on top of my head for a little bit longer.
That's nothin'. I have had long hair for nearly my whole life, but Covid was the excuse for inaction that has given me braids that hit closer and closer to the middle of my thighs. It just gets in my way, and I need to overcome the inertia and get a foot and a half or so cut off. I know I'll be happier. Okay, I admit that I like the compliments, too.
It's not a problem of interacting with other human beings for me; it's getting my act together to make an appointment.
I also really wonder about people that tie dye their dogs' fur, usually poor poodles. We were at a (dog) event and one person's tie dyed hair matched their poodle.
My mother once instructed the barber to give me bangs! She was unaware of it, at least consciously, but a really interesting TV show with a character named 𝘚𝘱𝘰𝘤𝘬 was all the rage...
In 1987, the spousal unit came home late from work, having stopped at her hairdresser. I was preparing dinner. I immediately snatched up two cucumber slices, held them to her sad and watering eyes, and sang out loudly, “The sun’ll come out tomorrow…”
One time, when I was a feckless and broke college student, I attempted to frost my hair, using a home kit. It had a cap and I had waist-length dark hair. It didn’t work and I had orange stripes in my hair that’s went as far as my shoulders. I had to dye the whole thing black.
My babby sis (may she RIP) did this. She’d bleached her beautiful copper hair for years and wanted to go back to red. I had some henna which had done nothing for me, and gave it to her. Next thing I know, my Mom (may she RIP too) calls me howling with laughter saying Sis’ hair is the color of a traffic cone.
Just for clarification, Ward is STILL her hairdresser today. It is her longest love-hate relationship. The difference being that she doesn’t tip me inordinate sums of money not to listen to her, and do whatever I think looks best.
We all had those moments in the 80s. One of mine was a particularly bad color; something was muttered about eggplants. My husband would probably have thought of that as a cold and lonely night, if not the whole week.
I don't even know what I was going for at that time. I had recently had jet black removed from my hair, in layers. At times during that stellar procedure I resembled nothing so much as my mom's tortie. Burgandy is a very cool color. I am currently shades of grey that I actually like. Should have just left it alone all those years, lol.
Her hairdresser highlighted the red, and permed in a shape not unlike that of the woman engineer in Dilbert. She went straight from the back door to the shower.
Dying here, no pun intended. My other horror-do from the 80s was a perm. The stylist permed my bangs, which was not a good thing to have done. I looked like an embarrassed poodle. My then boss took one look and asked me "how long I cried".
Found an article by her stylist who said all the ideas were hers. Which doesn’t rule out the idea that there was a bit of malicious compliance going on there…
Stroke-ess got her hair ''cut'' for her high school senior picture. Hair cutter butchered it so badly that the photographer had to DRAW IN HAIR ON HER PICTURE.
She has such bad luck. The photog who took the panoramic photo (old school, everybody stand still for five minutes of panning camera) of everyone at our wedding bumped the tripod just as the lens was on her. Her face is just a blur on a 3-foot photo. We kept it anyway.
I have never watched a judge show but I saw a commercial that showed Gloria Allred - she went to my HS( before me) and spoke at one of our luncheons. I feel like I should watch once
Can confirm that the Taverna Salad from the NYT is fucking awesome. Amazingly delicious.
It’s a must-make.
OTOH, Peter Baker from the same paper is apparently incapable of the most basic research. Had he done some (or directed some hapless intern), he would have learned that OHJB wasn’t even at the WH on more than one of those occasions when the ‘Parkinsons’ doctor was there, being either in Europe, NY, Chicago or elsewhere. But it’s easier to jump on the ‘Biden is a mental deficient’ bandwagon than to actually commit real journalism. At least, for the supposed paper of record.
White hair wearing a red "Make America Great Again" ball cap
Transitional style glasses (dark when entering the store)
Peach colored horizontal striped shirt, black shorts, tan flip-flop sandals wearing a lanyard around his neck with an unknown plastic placard attached bronze metal cane (placed in the metal basket of the electric cart)
Police say the suspect was driving a 4-door maroon Chevrolet Cruze.
This has to be SOMEBODY's crazy Uncle!!!! I hope they catch him before he pees again.
Today's installment of "Even the New York Times's Recipes are Fake and Overrated," let me note that "Taverna" just means "Greek Bar Food." This recipe is basically just a Greekified Taco Salad made with feta and pita chips and given a pretentious name. I guess Lebanese Nachos were too hard.
As a former baseball mom, we have ALWAYS been against white pants. Just pointing out the grungier they are means your kid is out there trying, at least.
When I was in HS, our baseball team had the entire array of 1970/80's Pittsburgh Pirates unis--all gold, gold on black, white on black...but white on white was a very rarely used combo
If you think the Taverna Salad looks tasty, check out the Dumpling Tomato Salad (with chile crisp dressing) in the NYT. I made it, it’s easy (frozen potstickers for dumplings) and delicious!
With today’s hed gif source you get a link to pet haircut fails: https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/bad-haircut
I always felt kinda bad for her and for finding it funny, but when my family used to get my dog (a terrier mix who looked kind of like Benji, she was super smart) shaved in the summer she got so self-conscious and nervous. Whined like crazy.
Many decades ago a neighbor had a black collie who was always running around their fenced back yard barking whenever anyone came by. They gave him a summer shave and he refused to leave his doghouse for two weeks.
That poor doggo. You just know that all the other puppers laugh at it when it walks down the street.
This one had me LOL!!
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That poor puppy. How embarrassing!
Poor baby! I’m sorry someone did that to you, you bamboozled floof.
I haven't had a haircut since before my oldest daughter's wedding in April. I keep telling myself I'm going to go finally have my fringe trimmed up properly but that would require actually leaving the house and interacting with other human beings.
I can wear my hair in a knot on top of my head for a little bit longer.
That's nothin'. I have had long hair for nearly my whole life, but Covid was the excuse for inaction that has given me braids that hit closer and closer to the middle of my thighs. It just gets in my way, and I need to overcome the inertia and get a foot and a half or so cut off. I know I'll be happier. Okay, I admit that I like the compliments, too.
It's not a problem of interacting with other human beings for me; it's getting my act together to make an appointment.
If the right wingers want to get upset about "groomers" they might actually have a good case here,
I also really wonder about people that tie dye their dogs' fur, usually poor poodles. We were at a (dog) event and one person's tie dyed hair matched their poodle.
OMD
Don't worry, little pup; it'll grow back...
I have complete sympathy for that poochie.
As a young, there were occasions when my mother would accompany me to the barber. She would get 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘴...
https://youtu.be/XZY4ovo5hjM
So cute!
That poor poofed out pup.
I snorted at the poor little pup - I feel sorry for doggo, but damn that is funny.
I just cannot imagine what in the hell possessed the groomer to do THAT to that sweet little dog.
No real groomer would. That's a home job.
I'm picturing a pet owner saying "trim his legs but leave his body kind of fluffy" and the groomer going just mad literal with it. The little paws!
I will speculate 'satanic possession'.
My mom and her hairdresser did not understand my curly hair and so I always got the same hair cut my mom got when I was a kid.
I have thin, curly hair and a round face and she has thick, straight hair and a long face.
I resented those hair cuts so much.
I’m on my phone so I can’t up vote, which I am in spirit.
I feel bad for that puppy—his eyes look like he knows he looks ridiculous.
Poor puppy. 𝘕𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 talk politics when getting your hair cut...
He really does. I would change his "hairstyle," if I could.
Poor baby looks like a Chia pet, or topiary.
We've all been there. I'll never forget (or forgive) the hairdresser who gave me a circa 1970 Linda McCartney...in 2018.
My mother once instructed the barber to give me bangs! She was unaware of it, at least consciously, but a really interesting TV show with a character named 𝘚𝘱𝘰𝘤𝘬 was all the rage...
Grammar school memories...
In 1987, the spousal unit came home late from work, having stopped at her hairdresser. I was preparing dinner. I immediately snatched up two cucumber slices, held them to her sad and watering eyes, and sang out loudly, “The sun’ll come out tomorrow…”
It was a cold and lonely week.
I remember a few haircuts that ended like that.
But then again I turned my hair orange once trying to lighten my distinctly red hair so I don't have a lot of room to talk.
One time, when I was a feckless and broke college student, I attempted to frost my hair, using a home kit. It had a cap and I had waist-length dark hair. It didn’t work and I had orange stripes in my hair that’s went as far as my shoulders. I had to dye the whole thing black.
Been there in orange hair land with ya, Skepti!
I looked like a carrot.
It was...really, REALLY bad.
Did that once - looked like Bulls-era Dennis Rodman.
My babby sis (may she RIP) did this. She’d bleached her beautiful copper hair for years and wanted to go back to red. I had some henna which had done nothing for me, and gave it to her. Next thing I know, my Mom (may she RIP too) calls me howling with laughter saying Sis’ hair is the color of a traffic cone.
Just for clarification, Ward is STILL her hairdresser today. It is her longest love-hate relationship. The difference being that she doesn’t tip me inordinate sums of money not to listen to her, and do whatever I think looks best.
We all had those moments in the 80s. One of mine was a particularly bad color; something was muttered about eggplants. My husband would probably have thought of that as a cold and lonely night, if not the whole week.
The amusing part of that is that I'm pretty sure "eggplant" was one of the colors I was aiming for in college in the early aughts.
I'm still mad that burgandy hair became a trend twenty years after I was rocking it.
I don't even know what I was going for at that time. I had recently had jet black removed from my hair, in layers. At times during that stellar procedure I resembled nothing so much as my mom's tortie. Burgandy is a very cool color. I am currently shades of grey that I actually like. Should have just left it alone all those years, lol.
Her hairdresser highlighted the red, and permed in a shape not unlike that of the woman engineer in Dilbert. She went straight from the back door to the shower.
Dying here, no pun intended. My other horror-do from the 80s was a perm. The stylist permed my bangs, which was not a good thing to have done. I looked like an embarrassed poodle. My then boss took one look and asked me "how long I cried".
Thank god for coworkers. They’re the people we count on to be brutally honest and the don’t have to talk to for two days in a row.
TIL that Meghan “do you know who my daddy is” McCain *chose* her crazy hairstyles,
(I had to google her to be sure she wasn’t a Megan.)
I always thought it was just that her stylist hated her. Still do.
who doesn't? entitled bitch
Found an article by her stylist who said all the ideas were hers. Which doesn’t rule out the idea that there was a bit of malicious compliance going on there…
"Yeah, that's a GREAT idea, Ms. McCain! I know JUST what you want."
Stroke-ess got her hair ''cut'' for her high school senior picture. Hair cutter butchered it so badly that the photographer had to DRAW IN HAIR ON HER PICTURE.
Wow, that’s bad.
She has such bad luck. The photog who took the panoramic photo (old school, everybody stand still for five minutes of panning camera) of everyone at our wedding bumped the tripod just as the lens was on her. Her face is just a blur on a 3-foot photo. We kept it anyway.
That would get you on Judge Judy these days.
I have never watched a judge show but I saw a commercial that showed Gloria Allred - she went to my HS( before me) and spoke at one of our luncheons. I feel like I should watch once
If you want, you could watch an operatic parody of one--http://www.familyopera.org/drupal/Kids_Court_2015#Video-Start-7.
Evan picking this gif today might be a bad omen for me. I am scheduled to go to the hairdresser myself in about an hour and a half.
Bold, chancing the fates like this...
Ask if he saw the article BEFORE taking to the chair.
Don't go blaming Evan for that!
Sheesh, you’d think a well-groomed gay man would be more sympathetic 😜
What is that?!
Yes.
Can confirm that the Taverna Salad from the NYT is fucking awesome. Amazingly delicious.
It’s a must-make.
OTOH, Peter Baker from the same paper is apparently incapable of the most basic research. Had he done some (or directed some hapless intern), he would have learned that OHJB wasn’t even at the WH on more than one of those occasions when the ‘Parkinsons’ doctor was there, being either in Europe, NY, Chicago or elsewhere. But it’s easier to jump on the ‘Biden is a mental deficient’ bandwagon than to actually commit real journalism. At least, for the supposed paper of record.
The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is great! It's free! It's owned by a Walmart Heiress. Very much worth seeing.
https://crystalbridges.org/
The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is great! It's free! It's owned by a Walmart Heiress. Very much worth seeing.
https://crystalbridges.org/
The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is great! It's free! It's owned by a Walmart Heiress. Very much worth seeing.
https://crystalbridges.org/
That bread really tied the room together. Also, too, that sandwich article was worth looking at just for the image used to depict a sandwich.
Project 2024: <https://www.majorityovermaga.org> ( haven't heard anything about it, why? )
We need many, many Project 2024s to crush Project 2025 and its many tentacles.
We can fix this, this year. We have more than 3000 counties and some parishes, and we need action in every single damn one. -- let's do it, b.rad
White Male6'0", 200 pounds
White hair wearing a red "Make America Great Again" ball cap
Transitional style glasses (dark when entering the store)
Peach colored horizontal striped shirt, black shorts, tan flip-flop sandals wearing a lanyard around his neck with an unknown plastic placard attached bronze metal cane (placed in the metal basket of the electric cart)
Police say the suspect was driving a 4-door maroon Chevrolet Cruze.
This has to be SOMEBODY's crazy Uncle!!!! I hope they catch him before he pees again.
Today's installment of "Even the New York Times's Recipes are Fake and Overrated," let me note that "Taverna" just means "Greek Bar Food." This recipe is basically just a Greekified Taco Salad made with feta and pita chips and given a pretentious name. I guess Lebanese Nachos were too hard.
Fuck the Times.
Finally trying to do this social media thing that I really don't understand the way I'm supposed to.
https://danieloriordan.substack.com/publish/post/146421597
Whatever you were going for didn't work for me.
At least the MAGA in the Walmart only pissed on the sandwiches. Considering what they did in the Capitol on J6, I'd say that's a definite improvement.
The fact that Russia is fucking with our election is OK, because they're in the tank for Biden, right?
As a former baseball mom, we have ALWAYS been against white pants. Just pointing out the grungier they are means your kid is out there trying, at least.
When I was in HS, our baseball team had the entire array of 1970/80's Pittsburgh Pirates unis--all gold, gold on black, white on black...but white on white was a very rarely used combo
Yup, the NY Times is still trolling on Biden. Sulzberger just doesn't want to pay more in taxes.
Reading the NYT Front Page, So You Don't Have To - emptywheel
https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/07/09/reading-the-nyt-front-page-so-you-dont-have-to/
I'm starting to think they want to be PAB's new propaganda arm. Murdoch being all pissy these days.
That's his standard operating procedure.
If you think the Taverna Salad looks tasty, check out the Dumpling Tomato Salad (with chile crisp dressing) in the NYT. I made it, it’s easy (frozen potstickers for dumplings) and delicious!
I don't care how nice it's supposed to be, I'm still not moving to fucking Arkansas.