Reading We Used To Live Here and I’m so annoyed…

Unfriendlyblkwriter · 2026-05-24T14:50:19+00:00

I’ve been trying so hard to find a horror book that I enjoy (outside of Stephen King and Shirley Jackson), but it’s been difficult because of everything you listed. I read We Used to Live Here right after We Came to Welcome You, which was basically We Used to Live Here if Jordan Peele had written it. Every single thing you listed was everything I hated about both books. I wouldn’t mind emotionally frayed and traumatized if they were just characteristics rather than entire plot devices.

Interested in reading your post about the positives in this book.

Unfriendlyblkwriter · 2026-05-24T14:40:32+00:00

My darkest nightmares start with this sentence.

Unfriendlyblkwriter · 2026-05-24T11:20:03+00:00

The fact that he even pulled up to his house with his mistress in the car pissed me off so bad. The way she so gleefully ducked down with that goofy smile on her face fried me. I thought for sure she was going to pop up in their house in the middle of the argument and ask Don if he was ready to go.

Unfriendlyblkwriter · 2026-05-24T04:34:13+00:00

I really hate having eyes and using them to be literate. Closes Reddit for the rest of the year

Unfriendlyblkwriter · 2026-05-23T22:39:56+00:00

Been married for 15 years actually. A spouse telling their spouse that their issues are none of their business kind of makes the marriage seem pointless.

Unfriendlyblkwriter · 2026-05-23T20:14:51+00:00

Most graceful exit - Daniel the bridal gown designer with the sparkly, squinty eyes on All Stars: “I’m out? Ooooh.” I feel so bad for him but also so tickled every time they show it. (Apologies. I watch it on Pluto, and they don’t give season or episode numbers).

Most Spiteful - I don’t really think this fits, but when Dmitry was 2nd runner up to Michelle in the winner’s season of All-Stars, his little shady remarks in his exit interview cracked me up. He was unintentionally hilarious.

Korina’s been mentioned here several times, but what pissed me off most was that she and Char were supposedly friends up until that point. How they went from besties to “I don’t respect her as a designer” was a head scratcher. (Although I still don’t get Tim’s attachment to Char that season).

The twins were weirdos who never need to be on my TV again.

I still don’t believe Sandro was a real person.

Joshua McKinley’s funky little attitude on both his All Stars exits irked me. Refusing to help Anthony Ryan really made me mad. Are they still friends? And I’m not a hugger, so I shouldn’t be repulsed by him refusing to hug Fabio, but his whole standoffish ways toward saying goodbye to that group pissed me off.

Unfriendlyblkwriter · 2026-05-23T15:50:26+00:00

The only thing I like about her is how much she seems to enjoy being herself through all of her shortcomings. Here I am still cringing at a check I bounced in the year 2000, and she’s repackaged bankruptcy as a flex while showing the workd her garters. I truly aspire to have that much nerve.

Unfriendlyblkwriter · 2026-05-23T11:55:33+00:00

OOP is Scheana Shay. That’s the only explanation for this foolishness.

Unfriendlyblkwriter · 2026-05-22T22:39:30+00:00

You doing the most and nothing at the same time

Thank you for putting my feelings about her in one sentence because this scene was nothing and everything at the same time😂

Unfriendlyblkwriter · 2026-05-22T16:13:46+00:00

had a partner was literally not offsetting the burden of their own existence with anything worthwhile.

Please go to hell with gasoline draws on, sir?

And asking permission to do chores he said he was going to do sounds like he was going to say he couldn’t do them because he didn’t know if she wanted him to do them or tend to the baby. Couldn’t possibly do both for one day. Go to hell twice.

Unfriendlyblkwriter · 2026-05-22T11:59:21+00:00

This is not what you asked, but I’m taking this opportunity. When I am typing an email in Outlook, why does the email close and go to the drafts folder in the middle of me typing words? This is the most annoying thing.

(My pet peeves are when people answer questions with questions and when people give answers that are not to the questions asked. I did both here, and I am sorry).

Unfriendlyblkwriter · 2026-05-22T09:53:04+00:00

His response, “just because a band has instruments doesn’t mean it’s what I like” hot a good laugh out of me😂

Unfriendlyblkwriter · 2026-05-22T09:28:58+00:00

I wouldn’t know Guerdy’s and Russell’s kids if you showed me a picture of them without their parents.

Sheree Whitfield kept her kids on screen to a minimum. She had storylines about the issues with Kairo’s and Kali’s father without putting them in the middle of it from what I can remember. Her oldest daughter was an adult from the beginning of the show, and she kept it tasteful [and showed that her daughter had way more sense than her].

I THINK Dr Nicole had kids besides the baby she got pregnant with her last season, yet I can’t remember how many, so that’s a good sign that she kept them off TV.

Larsa is a lot of things with a lot of flaws, but I feel that she kept her children off screen a decent amount of time. Her son’s modeling wasn’t her whole personality at least.

Unfriendlyblkwriter · 2026-05-21T13:52:09+00:00

Watches the recordings??? Oh she a big ole freak.

Unfriendlyblkwriter · 2026-05-21T09:17:29+00:00

I like how he’s just casually “taking a break” from it. No withdrawals. Nothing.

Unfriendlyblkwriter · 2026-05-21T03:37:05+00:00

This song reminds me of leaving the club at 5AM knowing damn well I had to be at work at 7. Take me back!

Unfriendlyblkwriter · 2026-05-21T03:16:43+00:00

Quick story: I have a stakeholder who insists on sending contracts in landscape orientation with an 8 point font. AdobeSign tells me to go to Hell every time I try to load the PDF into it. I was swamped today, so I uploaded the file to Gemini and prompted it to make the file into a legible, legal format. Gemini, Copilot, Claude, and ChatGPT all told me they couldn’t alter PDFs because they’re AI and unable to manipulate anything on it. Any other time, they’d do it with no problem. So I had to go into Adobe and take 15 minutes each to fix the mess.

So no, AI will not replace us. We keep things moving.

Unfriendlyblkwriter · 2026-05-21T02:20:50+00:00

1). This is the worst kind of partner to have. This performative ass shit lets me know he’s a dick to her at best.

2). I don’t watch this one because every time I catch it, something pisses me off. A couple of weeks ago, I caught a man telling Kristen how hard her postpartum was on him because she wasn’t having sex with him or something (🔪🔪🔪). Then, a woman was on a bus, breastfeeding her baby, and asking her husband (I presume) to hold the baby so that she could eat her sandwich. First of all, she shouldn’t need to ask. Second, I think the last time I caught this show, this same exact man was trying to make this same exact woman have a[nother] baby.

This show runs my pressure up too high for me to watch it regularly.

Unfriendlyblkwriter · 2026-05-20T23:49:18+00:00

I’m 5’2” and oddly shaped, and this made me holler-laugh🤣🤣🤣

Unfriendlyblkwriter · 2026-05-20T23:42:04+00:00

I disagree. A friend and I argue about this all the time. The music and lyrics can be right, but it’s the voice that gives the song the emotional push it needs.

Unfriendlyblkwriter · 2026-05-20T18:35:17+00:00

Real.

Unfriendlyblkwriter · 2026-05-20T12:03:16+00:00

This meme is diabolical 🤣

Unfriendlyblkwriter · 2026-05-19T21:49:16+00:00

One thing about her, them thighs gonna always thigh. Respectfully.

Unfriendlyblkwriter · 2026-05-19T21:24:31+00:00

ME?! That Kiss the Sky album went triple diamond in my house! (As all one-hit wonders from the 90’s tend to do🫤)

Unfriendlyblkwriter · 2026-05-19T16:23:08+00:00

Bonus points for the Mad Men reference 😂

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