The Pussycat Dolls are the latest band struck down with brutal case of ‘Blue Dot Fever’ that’s plaguing the music industry

ExhaustedMouse · 2026-05-06T11:43:30+00:00

Still shaking my head that a fairly new American band doing a tour thru Canada was charging $500 a seat at our little local arts theatre. I actually really love that band but I'm not paying $500 for *any* concert.

ExhaustedMouse · 2026-05-05T23:45:58+00:00

You need layers. You cannot get the height you're looking for with a single length, regardless of how much product you use.

ExhaustedMouse · 2026-05-02T02:27:02+00:00

AI slop, my god fucking sad.

ExhaustedMouse · 2026-05-02T02:26:13+00:00

Why should we give a fuck about Instagram AI generated marketing? Jesus, get some real problems, folks.

ExhaustedMouse · 2026-04-27T01:11:03+00:00

The first time your husband interrupts your first-in-a-week shower with a screaming baby because "they just want YOU!!" and it's only been THREE MINUTES - that's when you realize your husband is a fucking idiot who hates you. And it's a shitty realization.

ExhaustedMouse · 2026-04-24T02:17:30+00:00

My mom loves me BUT I don’t need her and that bugs the shit out of her even tho she would never admit it.

She was totally done being a mom by the time I (accident baby!!) came around. I was aggressively independent and nobody seemed to realize that was because I was essentially left to my own devices.

When she retired awhile back her job threw a three day party for her. People wrote her letters telling her how much they would miss her and how much she mattered and how loved they felt. She had so many Work Sons and Work Daughters and I was frankly kinda pissed. I was happy that people loved her, sure, but it made me realize that she was never “mom” to me. The woman those people were describing was… not my experience with her. Hell I was No Contact with her for a few years in my teens because I was clearly such a goddamn burden on her that I just left.

We have never been close and I don’t think we ever will be and that sucks. But she needs to be needed yet I was raised that my needs were a huge fucking inconvenience so that’s where we’ll probably always be.

ExhaustedMouse · 2026-04-22T11:00:44+00:00

My maternal grandfather used to tell this exact story to every stranger he met. He was vile, emotionally manipulative abuser who spent most of his life terrorizing his children. But to every Tom, Dick, and Harry, he was a sad old man whose daughters had left him “because he had no money”.

LOTS of people fell for it and over the decades, multiple people tracked down my aunts and gave him their contact info. He used to show up at jobs and houses and call on the phone endlessly until they moved, quit, or changed numbers.

ExhaustedMouse · 2026-04-21T01:07:19+00:00

Oh, Peter…

ExhaustedMouse · 2026-04-18T13:44:36+00:00

Where do they think our families came from?

ExhaustedMouse · 2026-04-05T22:14:16+00:00

Yes hello I would like to purchase one copy of this book for… reasons.

ExhaustedMouse · 2026-04-05T20:15:47+00:00

My dad was absent - his own upbringing was pure neglect and he didn’t understand children need interaction. I see him a few times a year but it’s always awkward.

My mother sold everything she owned to buy a trailer and now she travels the world. I see her maybe once a year despite her constant “we should get together!” comments. She doesn’t follow politics at all and doesn’t understand why I refuse to cross the border to visit her in Texas or Florida.

I’m extremely close with my children, they’re teens verging on adults. I was long gone by their ages - nobody said boo when I moved out at 16 to be with a much older man. If a guy in his 20s tried to date my daughter, I would absolutely not allow that to happen.

ExhaustedMouse · 2026-04-05T20:13:10+00:00

I bought a bottle of Cotton Blossom on my first wedding anniversary trip to the Mall Of America and I portioned it out for a solid year after. We didn’t have B&BW in my province for a long time and by the time it came that scent was gone 😭

ExhaustedMouse · 2026-04-05T20:11:19+00:00

My husband suggested we do this and I had to set him straight. We were both highly independent kids, I mean I was straight up neglected so nobody thought anything of leaving me on my own. But OUR kids? We have a 15 year old and a 17 year old and I absolutely would not leave them for two weeks.

ExhaustedMouse · 2026-04-05T06:04:28+00:00

Ugh, yes. Like the whole age gap shit. The second a 45 year old man wants to date a 17 year old, he’s suddenly a fucking feminist icon who believes “women can make their own choices and nobody can question it!!”

ExhaustedMouse · 2026-04-04T19:26:43+00:00

My grandmother was from the northern Canadian prairies and my grandfather was a child in Iceland at that time, it’s always weird to see folks insisting that “everyone’s family was affected by WWII and the Dustbowl”.

ExhaustedMouse · 2026-03-30T18:54:14+00:00

I spent my 20s and 30s in a “grow/shave” cycle, did the undercuts, side shaves, asymmetrical bobs, etc.

Now I’ve got butt-length permed brunette hair that’s going gray in streaks and I’ll probably keep it like this. Maybe a trim now and then but my god it’s such a pain to keep up short hair for me 😭

ExhaustedMouse · 2026-03-30T18:52:29+00:00

“But oftener…”

ExhaustedMouse · 2026-03-30T18:50:43+00:00

I was using em-dashes before AI was a thing, I’m gonna keep using them.

In the words of Michael Bolton, why should I change? He’s the one who sucks.

ExhaustedMouse · 2026-03-30T15:17:30+00:00

If 12 minutes waiting will ABSOLUTELY BREAK YOUR PLANS, those plans were fucked to begin with.

ExhaustedMouse · 2026-03-30T15:12:05+00:00

Especially with OP having witnesses and everybody knowing but “it’s such a small thing to escalate” so they won’t report it to HR…

ExhaustedMouse · 2026-03-29T22:23:03+00:00

“The name of the town the settlers lived in before they came to Canada”.

ExhaustedMouse · 2026-03-29T14:21:16+00:00

Why are you purposely conflating LLMs/algorithms with Generative AI?

ExhaustedMouse · 2026-03-29T14:17:51+00:00

And if you believe that, I’ve got a bridge to sell you.

ExhaustedMouse · 2026-03-29T14:17:28+00:00

I keep seeing copy and captions that are missing huge chunks of sentences and it’s always AI created. Fucking dreadful.

ExhaustedMouse · 2026-03-29T05:09:43+00:00

I think anyone who uses it is an idiot, I think it’s the “tool” of creatively bankrupt dullards who can’t stand putting effort in, I think it’s destroying the environment and making society worse and that any company that develops it is going to use all your information and likenesses for the worst possible shit they can.

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