“You Don’t Fit. That’s The Job”

5 Replies to ““You Don’t Fit. That’s The Job””

1. Maybe twenty years ago everyone knew some over the top celebrities like Liberace and the Gabour sisters were fake and their personalities where contrived showmanship, yet nobody cared and everyone loved them.
   They didn’t make your skin crawl with cringe like this.
   Now, just regular celebrities trying to pretend they’re not limousined, private jet nutjobs like JF have made our TVs, a device that was always on if people were home, that’s still sitting in every home, an unwatchable vomit pile with maggots.

2. I have seen Jerry Seinfeld’s riff on garbage a few times on Instagram. I love how the garbage moves out into the garage and then some people actually pay to store their garbage in off site storage units. Very funny and so true.
   My brother from another mother is self-employed and so legitimately stores boxes of past clients and income tax returns along with a friend of his who is a lawyer (same stuff, same reasons for storage) in an off-site storage unit. But get this – he still has stuff from when his mother died in 2016, which he tries to flog at the Cabbagetown yard sales on the labour day long weekend – stuff like old Christmas ornaments and old decorative linens. I think he just likes the interaction with people who walk past his table.

3. A completely reasonable sensible non profane reply to Big Momma vanished. Come on Kate, good grief. I will try again. Nope didn’t post.

   1. I am beginning to suspect that it’s the programming in the edit function that causes posts to disappear, VOWG.

      I don’t have time at the moment to go through all of the things I noticed, but here are a few things I now do that have cut my disappearing posts way down to nearly nothing.

      1) When I comment, I leave that comment thread tab unmolested while the edit feature counts down. I open a new tab to continue reading other posts on SDA or other sites. When the comment has counted down and posted ‘for real’ I close that tab and continue on using the other tab I opened.

      B) Don’t ever back arrow to the main page while a comment is still under the edit timer. That definitely triggers the “Never mind” subroutine and your comment disappears.

      iii) I screwed up Saturday on a comment late at night. Time for bed, so I closed my browser and shut down my computer while the edit countdown was running. Sunday morning… no comment to be found.

      That’s when I started thinking that the WordPress edit function has a few lines of “Never mind” programmed into it. I haven’t experimented to find the various triggers that cancel the comment. So, for example, on that Saturday comment, closing down and shutting off the computer triggered the “Hmmm… he must not really be serious about that comment” subroutine so WordPress never posted that comment.

      Anyhow, think a bit about what you have done after posting a comment, but while the comment is still in the edit countdown. You may have some practice or habit that knocks out your own comment, VOWG.

      1. “I don’t have time at the moment to go through all of the things I noticed, but here are a few things I now do that have cut my disappearing posts way down to nearly nothing.”

         A good summary, H.R. I had noticed a couple of those things the odd time but had never put it together as you did.