Things That Baffle Me

[femkes_follies]

1. Three Starbuck's within a 1/4 mile radius. Now, possibly it's that I'm not a coffee drinker. But..... why? Are there THAT many people that buy a $4 coffee THAT often? And it's not like its an area where you're concerned about walking distance, either.

2. The weird need committees have for acronyms - even bad ones. One local city has put together a plan for downtown development called "Bringing It All Together" - or BAIT. ?!?!?? Hmmmm, apparently none of us is as dumb as all of us.

3. Bratz Dolls. Why would you buy your child a Junior Hooker doll? Even if SHE thinks it's cool (or has been told by her little friends that it is, anyway). Worse, if you let your child dress like the doll. But I've gone on at length on this topic before. It still makes me boggle.

4. Rachel Ray and Sandra Lee. I watch Food Network when I want to improve my cooking skills. Not to watch some bubbly little ingenue show me how to make commercial convenience foods vaguely palatable. Bleh. Mario, oh Mario, wherefore art thou? (Yes, I know all about his tiff with FoodTV).

5. The percentage of space most local fabric stores devote to fleece - and the accompanying "No-sew" projects sheets. If you can't sew, why would you be in a fabric store? I remember back when you could routinely find things like silk charmeuse at JoAnn's. In lots of colors. And real wool. Now, 1/2 the store is fleece, the other half is quilting cotton - with everything else squished into a small area of floorspace and 90% of that is polyester. I have nothing against quilting - though if that's what I have in mind, I usually hit a quilting store where the fabric quality and selection are better. But this is starting to make me nuts. I suppose it couples with the atrophy of "home ec" classes in schools, and with the loss of this basic school for most people. Even in my day, there was only 1 or maybe two semesters taught, which went from sewing straight lines down notebook paper to making a simple skirt. *yawn*

Comments

[campagnella.livejournal.com]

1. I *occasionally* put out the $4 for a mocha latte extra whipped cream... because I want the sugar and chocolate... but not willing to on even a weekly basis. I certainly don't get why they tend to put them on top of each other.

5. I don't understand that one either. I'm not sure that if I were a non-sewer I'd go to a fabric store. I know that when I do, I pass over the no-sew projects without a second thought. I do miss all the natural fabrics they used to have. I just save my pennies and go through the merchants at pennsic generally.

[landverhuizer.livejournal.com]

ugh, hooker dolls hehe, that is what we call them in this family. Now, not sure if it is was a good idea to say that in front of the kiddies but at least the girls grew up (they were out for a while now... surprisingly) thinking them dumb.

What annoys me in the fabric stores is finding the big sign for silk or linen and seeing yards and yards of poly and 50-50 and worse blends. The hours away from here, I hear about people (who do know their fabric) finding great linens and such from the same chain *sigh*

[ablackram.livejournal.com]

I hear about people (who do know their fabric) finding great linens and such from the same chain *sigh*

or my friend in NC who is swooning from the quantity and quality of good cotton fabric at her local Wallyworld. She finally asked someone and it was due to the fact that the local mill was right down the road. I see a road trip.

[ablackram.livejournal.com]

ok, so who got you out of bed at 2am? Another pocket pet or the dingy with the Chihuahua (sp) oooh I can guess. A squirrel who got into someones garage and hurt it's paw.

So you went to Joann's in Muskegon again. At least they sorta try. GR is sorely lacking in even 1/2 the "halfway decent" fabrics Muskegon has.

Werkin til 3pm, then munchkin B-day, then home later

[femkederoas.livejournal.com]

*snerk* You know me well.

Actually, it was 3:30 AM. Some fool put a plate of D-Con on the floor, and lo and behold, his girlfriend's chihuahua ate it.

Apparently, I have verbal filters even at that time. I wasn't exactly polite or understanding, but I did not SAY "How stupid are you, exactly?" Which was running through my head. (It should be pointed out that the first 5 times I tried to call him back his line was busy. I was on the verge of shutting my phone off and going back to bed. Instead, I told him we only see our own clients after 10 PM, give it some peroxide.... and THEN went back to bed.

If I get bored, I might give you a ringy dingy tonight.

[ablackram.livejournal.com]

yup kinda figured it was someone stupid. It was just that tone. :)

phhhttttttttt

love ya

[sugarcoatedlie.livejournal.com]

The most pointless show on the Food Network is that Semi-Homemade show. Is that Sandra Lee? I don't even know. But really, why bother pretending that something is homemade when you get most of the ingredients out of a box/bag. I like Gayle Gand, and her Sweet Dreams show a lot though. I've tried a few of her recipes and they're pretty delish.

[femkederoas.livejournal.com]

Yep, Sandra Lee. *eye roll*

I agree about Gayle Gand. I want her book.

[odettedamboise.livejournal.com]

1. Starbucks has found that building another Starbucks across the street from an existing store does not cut down on the profits of the existing store, but gets extra sales from the people who weren't willing to make a left turn into the store.

2. Everyone uses acronyms, but some groups don't really thing about what they will be until after they have bought the signage.

3. We have already agreed to agree on that topic. Most parents today are not willing to say no to their children.

4. Food Network has found that most viewers are interested in food as entertainment. Those who want to want to learn will seek out their preferred shows, but the "food as entertainment" people are low hanging fruit. Reruns of Molto Mario run on Fine Living. I didn't know there was a tiff, but I'm not surprised because he is friends with Bourdain who is quite public about his feelings about the Food Network.

5. Home sewers are a tiny market. Most patrons of JoAnn's are crafters. Home Ec has been squeezed out for teaching the standardized tests, like music and art. I remember Home Ec as pretty useless when I was forced to take it in 8th grade, but that was food/nutrition/cooking.

[femkederoas.livejournal.com]

I suppose it's society in general that baffles me. *g* I don't get the instant gratification/hot glue gun/entertain me mentality. I prefer something complex, that takes effort, and is satisfying to do.

I hear ya!

[mirthful-menagerie.blogspot.com (from livejournal.com)]

Yeah Rachel Ray is like Satan's love spawn. In fact, I did a blog last year about the top 5 reasons I know hell exists and BOTH Bratz dolls and Rachel Ray were 2 out of the 5! In fact, Bratz ranked #2 and Rachel Ray ranked #1. LOL!