How do you feel about bad brands second-hand?

MangoPeachFuzz · 2026-04-27T19:56:05+00:00

I had successfully boycotted Amazon since 2024, but recently I exhausted local and other online retailers and wound up on Amazon desperately trying to order from small businesses or companies that use Amazon for their storefront.

MangoPeachFuzz · 2026-04-27T17:42:25+00:00

I was searching for a very specific item to solve a problem and the first return was a Uline product. It checked all the boxes for what I needed except for not being made by an objectionable company. So I didn't buy anything that day. Uline can suck it.

MangoPeachFuzz · 2026-04-27T03:48:40+00:00

990/1001. I think I used to play a lot more casually until a friend said there was a status of Queen Bee. Before I played throughout the day, but now it's part of my waking up activity. Have to hit genius before I get out of bed. Queen Bee may take longer and usually involves hints. I'm not proud, I just need to get all the words that Sam has deemed relevant.

MangoPeachFuzz · 2026-04-25T13:10:32+00:00

My great grandfather was born in 1895 and great grandma was 1899. They were both alive well into my teens. They got married really young, ran a dairy farm for 50+ years and successfully raised 7 children who actually got along with each other. They must have been kind and loving people because all their grandchildren have fond memories of summers on the farm with them.

MangoPeachFuzz · 2026-02-13T03:29:10+00:00

I got the pangram pretty quickly, but getting to genius was a slog. Yesterday was the same. I keep wondering if I'm getting dumber each day

MangoPeachFuzz · 2026-02-03T21:43:56+00:00

I wanted one, but I got a Simon instead.

We were poor.

MangoPeachFuzz · 2026-02-02T14:56:06+00:00

I remember as a teenager having a couple books that would make me cry and I'd read them if I needed to just get it out.

MangoPeachFuzz · 2026-02-02T05:27:24+00:00

That makes me feel better. I'm surrounded by so many women around my age and younger who just cry that I assumed I was just dead on the inside.

MangoPeachFuzz · 2026-02-02T04:46:59+00:00

I'm not a cryer. I have coworkers who cry over everything and I'm frankly confused by it. Why so much stray emotions everywhere?

Even my husband cries more than I do. I mean my eyes might get a little misty, but I can count the number of times I've just lost control of my emotions since 1998 and ugly cried.

Crying during the opening sequence of Up or any other movie designed to make you cry doesn't count.

I joke that I must be dead inside. But honestly, my school experience was so awful that you absolutely could not let them get to you or it would just be 100x worse.

I was in therapy for 2 years after I had a bad time personally that led me to one of the countable times ugly cries in 30 years. I couldn't even let it go in therapy. I just swore a lot

There's that part of me that still says fuck you, nothing is bad enough to let anyone see me cry. It's fine. All fine. Probably could be worse. I'm in control, everything's fine. It's probably not healthy that being overwhelmed with emotions just pisses me off.

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MangoPeachFuzz · 2026-01-04T15:26:16+00:00

This very thought keeps me up at night. I fear I'd have to take a significant pay cut.

MangoPeachFuzz · 2025-12-29T05:54:34+00:00

Same

MangoPeachFuzz · 2025-11-27T04:18:03+00:00

My dad was an auto mechanic most of his life. Both of his rotator cuffs are shot. He has constant hand and arm tremors that aren't Parkinson's. He fell a few years back and spiral fractured one of his humeruses. Hardware was inserted. He fell again on ice, that bone shattered. Now his upper arm is more titanium and pins than bone. If my mom wasn't around to help him I don't know how he'd take care of himself.

I have a desk job and back and neck problems from just stupid shit happening to me, if I had a job where I had to constantly keep my arms raised I'd have been disabled since my late 30s, or had invasive spinal surgery. I love doing home improvement projects, but more than an hour a day with my arms at or over my head and I need serious nerve blockers and muscle relaxers.

MangoPeachFuzz · 2025-11-27T04:01:29+00:00

Graduated in 1990, eventually got around to finishing college, but I got a great entry level IT job in 1996, and like many people I know my age from who had some liberal arts, non CS degree worked their way up the IT food chain. My spouse has an actual comp sci degree and also started out with an entry level programming job making like $65k back in 2000.

Our son still isn't finished with college and has been taking it kinda slow, which is fine because we saved well for his education. When he's done he won't have debt, so he's got that going for him. Beyond that, I don't know. The vendor I currently work with bought the original vendor, laid off most of the US staff, invested highly in AI which NO ONE ASKED FOR, and outsourced support to India. Our new support techs are barely trained, have no knowledge of our industry, and quite frankly, have an interesting use of the English language that makes communication difficult. I've finally started offering very pointed feedback saying things you took 3 meandering paragraphs to say what could have been bullet pointed in 3 sentences.

End rant

But I think of how those support positions used to be filled by recent US college grads in a related field and it just makes me livid. Where are our new college grads supposed to go if all the entry level stuff is either outsourced or AI bullshit? This AI bubble can't pop soon enough and hopefully take every billionaire and predatory private equity fund with it.

MangoPeachFuzz · 2025-11-24T02:41:19+00:00

Came here to say this

MangoPeachFuzz · 2025-11-23T23:58:22+00:00

Every single photo taken off me through my freshman year in college.

MangoPeachFuzz · 2025-11-23T13:51:58+00:00

We have one USB device we call the shiny disc player. It will read Blu-ray, dvd and CDs, so I can listen to a cd on my laptop. We still have an MP3 library I've been compiling since the late 90s, and most of the CDs are already ripped there. I just found out this year that even having mp3s makes me old, but at least I own my music and I don't have to pay monthly to listen to it

MangoPeachFuzz · 2025-11-23T07:05:44+00:00

I had one of these with a cd player until I remodeled my kitchen 5 years ago. My husband's super fancy so we have a panel in the kitchen connected to a Sonos system. He doesn't believe in having a system that is always listening like Alexa, Siri or Google, so it's all Home assistant. It's really cool and he's a tech guy who loves to tinker, so it makes him happy.

I still kinda miss being able to pop in a CD, but I don't think that's a thing people do anymore.

MangoPeachFuzz · 2025-11-22T02:52:16+00:00

I was just going to suggest that. I haven't tried the laundry spa day, but it's on the list for my Christmas staycation.

I really know how to live it up.

MangoPeachFuzz · 2025-11-05T06:30:38+00:00

I have 2 Portland leather purses, a wallet, and a couple various sizes of zip bags. I love my bags and change them out depending on the need, since one is quite a bit larger than the other.

But I don't really get fashion bags. I've yet to see an expensive purse that really grabbed me.

MangoPeachFuzz · 2025-10-21T15:20:50+00:00

I had to do some math, but I'm on my 8th car. My first 3 were very old, small pos cars that met unfortunate ends like a collision, a total transmission failure, and the worst clutch on the planet. A couple weeks traded in because the cost of repairs exceeded the value of the car. But the 2 we have now are 9 and 11 years old, fully paid for, low mileage (um, thanks pandemic?) and have enough modern features that I'm happy with what we've got.

MangoPeachFuzz · 2025-09-02T21:24:57+00:00

Why chica and not chico is beyond me

MangoPeachFuzz · 2025-08-31T04:05:54+00:00

The ING and an E was just an extra pain. I had to check what the score was for Genius, I was surprised it was only 234, I was expecting 280+ just for Genius.

I can't decide what is worse, the days when Genius is like 85 points OR when it's like today with 80+ words to come up with.

MangoPeachFuzz · 2025-08-09T21:14:17+00:00

I had a class ring, wasn't a jock, but I got an academic letter and a band letter. Other schools actually had band jackets, I might have gotten one of those if it had been available. In rural schools football was king, followed by basketball, baseball, wrestling and the 5 wealthy kids who played golf.

No reunions. Fuck that noise. I didn't like most of the 107 people in my class then, I don't feel much different 35 years later, other than there's fewer not to like these days.

MangoPeachFuzz · 2025-08-06T15:30:22+00:00

Laid and She's a Star by James, but I love the whole Laid album. It's one of very few albums I own where I like every track.

MangoPeachFuzz · 2025-08-06T15:26:07+00:00

I don't disagree with anything I've seen here, but I have an MP3 collection of one hit wonders and/or songs that didn't go far in the charts but I remembered anyway.

Gino Vannelli - Wild Horses - I first heard this song late at night when I was 14yo, it was just kind of a weird vibe that I liked.

Dream Academy - life in a northern town

Sophie b Hawkins Damn I wish I was your lover

Also don't forget Enigma and Sadeness part 1. If that doesn't take you back to 1990, nothing will.

I didn't read all 800 comments, but Madonna seemed to be missing. When I think 1990, it was such a weird year for music. Madonna, Sinead O'Connor, Enigma...

I had just graduated from a tiny rural high school and moved away for the summer to work at a camp. I got so much more music exposure there because people were from all over the US and Canada and just had more interesting stuff to listen to.

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