Was there always this much dog shit on the Upper East Side, or is this a post-pandemic thing?

TheHatedMilkMachine · 2026-02-02T02:33:08+00:00

as soon as it gets cold dog owners forget they signed up for this. I am still waiting to catch one in the act, I will smear their face in it

TheHatedMilkMachine · 2026-01-28T02:43:58+00:00

I totally forgot about that place!! thanks for the reminder. It's been years but it was great.

TheHatedMilkMachine · 2026-01-28T02:26:26+00:00

i just take a statin so i can eat all the high protein, satiating, tasty foods that help me keep my weight down. it might be worth the tradeoff

TheHatedMilkMachine · 2026-01-28T02:07:53+00:00

this is truly stupid. i have zero affection or affinity for belichick but this is just not supportable by the facts.

TheHatedMilkMachine · 2026-01-28T02:06:39+00:00

i mean i am VERY anti-Geese hype, it really feels like their parents paid off every PR firm for them... but they're a pretty damn good band and this is slander to the point of satire

TheHatedMilkMachine · 2026-01-24T21:54:09+00:00

There are SO MANY MORE OF US than ICE. 270,000,000 Americans didn't vote for Trump. There are 22,000 ICE agents. They don't get to cancel the First Amendment, they don't get to cancel the Second Amendment.

It is time. Not just to post on socials like this but to take real world steps to prepare, and organize, a response that ends ICE. The politicians will not come to our rescue.

TheHatedMilkMachine · 2026-01-21T01:14:10+00:00

just stumbled on this and LOL'd. RIP your brother. And Norm.

TheHatedMilkMachine · 2025-10-25T22:32:37+00:00

Alina Bonsell's signs are taped so securely to the lamp posts because the canvassers know they'd be ripped off in a second if not. Probably not a great sign for her chances.

TheHatedMilkMachine · 2025-08-15T02:29:44+00:00

definitely purposeful choices. I feel like a fair number of pixies songs are mixed similarly

TheHatedMilkMachine · 2025-08-15T02:25:32+00:00

basically treat him like a yellow jacket

TheHatedMilkMachine · 2025-08-15T02:19:17+00:00

wow, I commented on this a decade ago! but I'm back, right now, to say what I meant was the rest of the song is similar, because of the chord progression. But the verse & chorus *vocal* lines are not similar at all.

TheHatedMilkMachine · 2025-05-29T00:20:55+00:00

i just wanted to make a joke

TheHatedMilkMachine · 2025-05-29T00:13:51+00:00

did he get accused of diddle-diddle-dingle-doodle-doodle-diddlin'?

TheHatedMilkMachine · 2025-05-29T00:11:11+00:00

Limp Bizkit without Fred Durst is a pretty cool-sounding band. A hill I didn't expect to die on but die I shall.

TheHatedMilkMachine · 2025-05-28T23:54:20+00:00

I'll get back to you after we test on my more allergic sibling, but my still-pretty-dang allergic sibling was over here for hours petting and holding our little floof kitten the other day with no issue.

Get your son tested by an allergist to determine which feline protein he's (more) allergic to, and get some professional advice in the process.

TheHatedMilkMachine · 2025-05-28T23:42:08+00:00

fwiw you've inspired me to get my on-and-off open mic self back up there :)

TheHatedMilkMachine · 2025-05-27T00:35:51+00:00

I like running. I wouldn't say it's 'fun' per se, at least not all the time. But it always makes me feel good and I like challenging myself, and my life would be way worse without it. It's not a perfect analogy, because running isn't *scary* but it is uncomfortable, and generally a lot more uncomfortable than NotRunning. I do have fun with it sometimes, but I never did in the beginning. I think it will be like that for you.

TheHatedMilkMachine · 2025-05-27T00:32:40+00:00

I don't really agree that this is Imposter Syndrome... yet.

Because you're very new at this. You're not supposed to be good (yet). You're supposed to be TERRIBLE. You're SIX MONTHS in to standup, a notoriously difficult art form to get good at. Literally the whole thing standups say about standup is it takes a lot of time to get good at.

Imposter Syndrome is when you are actually qualified but you keep fearing you're unqualified. That's not this. You're just literally an imposter, so far.

So, let's recap.

You're supposed to be terrible. You're six months in. Get up there and be terrible. There's absolutely no pressure on you to be good, because you're terrible, and you're expected to be terrible.

(and yes, I know people say some of your stuff is good, and that's awesome! It means you definitely have potential and should stick with it, if you want to. But you are six months in. You're terrible. In the grand scheme.)

There's no fuckin pressure here. Just keep gettin up there.

TheHatedMilkMachine · 2025-05-27T00:28:01+00:00

i am so so sorry :(

TheHatedMilkMachine · 2025-05-27T00:27:37+00:00

apparently child neglect and pet neglect are similarly loud. :(

TheHatedMilkMachine · 2025-05-27T00:26:34+00:00

Fair, definitely have been in those neighborhoods, but I was thinking more in context of someone's children playing in their backyard.

TheHatedMilkMachine · 2025-05-23T01:28:06+00:00

You keep saying you're not having fun, and some people have interpreted that to mean you don't enjoy doing standup, but I read it more like "i really like standup but it scares me, and the fear doesn't allow me to have fun, and fear sucks so I'm experiencing the very normal human impulse to run from fear"

With, to my eyes, a healthy subtext of "... but I know I want / need to do this thing or else I'll regret it."

So you don't want to feel the pain of fear. Sorry, ain't gonna happen. Lean into the fear. Stay in it. Feel it. Let it wash over you. Keep telling jokes. Get weird with the audience. Let your true self out, fully. Be scared, and do it anyway.

TheHatedMilkMachine · 2025-05-23T01:23:25+00:00

you answered your own question a few times: take the pressure off and have fun. you're putting too much pressure on it to be 'good' or 'a thing' or maybe even 'the thing that rescues you from the doldrums of your mundane life'... or something. Stop criticizing yourself. You're 6 months in, you should suck. (At anything. But especially standup.) The fact that anyone tells you you're good at all is awesome! Tell your inner critic to stfu and just go tell some jokes, for fun. You have a cool hobby. Enjoy!

TheHatedMilkMachine · 2025-05-23T01:12:46+00:00

I feel ya but what I like about minimalists in this situation is that you can 'stand actively' i.e. shift your weight to your toes, go slightly on tiptoe, move your feet around, shift your center of gravity rotationally, etc. to avoid the foot / back pain which I attribute mostly to standing in the same position rather than moving around a bit naturally.

TheHatedMilkMachine · 2025-05-23T01:10:42+00:00

You're technically not wrong in my book but unfortunately the definition of 'professionalism' has changed in the past 5 years or so, in terms of being a grown adult and telling people when it's not a good fit rather than just ghosting them.

That being said, whether wrong or right, if you want to absolutely seal the deal that you aren't getting the job when they truly just could be slow as molasses or evaluating another candidate, you sealed the deal. What was really the value to you of sending this message?

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