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Happy Friday

No Less snark in this post. It’s the weekend!

Source: firstjokes.com via Joyce on Pinterest

There are so many heartwarming pictures to celebrate on Pinterest this week. My favourite?

Source: i.huffpost.com via Pinfuriating on Pinterest

If you’re in New York or New Jersey, or any area that got thoroughly stomped by Sandy, I hope you’re safe and well. If you are indeed safe and well, click here to find out how you can help those left less fortunate in the storm’s wake. The NYC Parks Department has put out a call for immediate volunteers in New York and New Jersey; you don’t have to have any special skills to help with the clean up.

/end serious Sandy stuff

I’ll forget for a moment the totally illogical nature of this photo to wish you a wonderful weekend.

Source: Uploaded by user via Jeanette on Pinterest

Have a great weekend! And remember to VOTE!

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Pierre has some explaining to do

2 Nov

It’s difficult to find a pin of a tattoo without a raging comment war. Those will look hideous when you’re old! You think my old skin will look any better?

It’s rare that I side with the Ink Belongs on Stationary contingent, but in this case…

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Tags: chicken, pierre, pinfuriating, pinterest, scar, tattoo

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Categories Comment wars, No. Just no., Unnotable quotables

Real or not real

1 Nov

We’ve all seen pins with comments reading, “Is this real?” They’re usually a pretty good sign that the pin in question is, in fact, not real.

The bunny/kitten hybrid? Not real. The delicious pumpkin bread with only 3 calories per slice? Not real. A road shaped like a treble clef just because?

Not real, Elissa. Gotta love that imagination, though.

Tags: graphic design, hollywood bowl, imagination, pinfuriating, pinterest, poster, real or not real

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Categories Unnotable quotables

Trick or tutu

31 Oct

It’s Halloween, and your kids care about one thing: CANDY! How much can I eat before I throw up? Let’s find out!

Parents–especially Pinterest parents–seem to have far more on their minds. Does my kid look cute? And more importantly, does my little girl look ~~sexy~~ sassy? Does she look pretty and girly enough? No? IT’S TUTU TIME.

Spot the difference:

Strength versus beauty, because little boys should be strong, and little girls should be “super sweet.” LOVING the thigh-highs.

Evidently, the traditional spidey suits are just too masculine and unpretty for little girls, who need to show off their narrow little waists and plenty of skin.

I have a few ideas about who might be responsible for little girls and their parents becoming obsessed with looking pretty and feminine at such an early age,

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Categories Birth control, No. Just no.

Ch-ch-ch-changes

15 Oct

If you frequent this blog regularly , you may be wondering, whither the posts? They’re on their way, I promise.

Today I’m switching from to a self-hosted blogging platform, which means more customizations and awesomeness. And more posts for you to enjoy.

In the meantime, feel free to browse the categories for past LOLs, and check out What Should We Call Pinterest for daily gif gags.

Alternatively, you could listen to this song on repeat:

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When I smoke a nasty Pinterest commenter on this blog…

9 Oct

… And that commenter finds the post, I’m just like:

(Source: blizzard-man.tumblr.com)

Feels good.

Tags: commenting wars, flaming, is my crush on jim too obvious, pinsight, pinterest, pinterest fail, social media, the office

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Categories Comment wars, Pinfuriating moments

Einstein, faith, and turtles, turtles all the way down

6 Oct

The most popular man on Pinterest? If you guessed one or both of the Hemsworth brothers, you’re wrong. It’s this guy.

Einstein’s inspiring quotes have made him one of the most repinned men on Pinterest. Surely, you’ve seen this one around:

I just love it when pinners write my commentary for me. See Sanderella’s (Great name!) comment for my feelings on the overly generous quote. I get the felling that the above is just Einstein trying to be nice; it doesn’t actually mean that he believes everyone is as smart as he is. See his thoughts on stupidity:

“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”

Einstein, capable of delivering quite third degree burns verbally, was an exceptionally clever man on all counts. See his theory of relativity, and this quote on mixing patterns:

See? Perfectly logical, and accredited ~~with certainty~~ with more certainty than the insanity below to Einstein, apparently quite the fashionista.

Not all Einstein quotes on Pinterest are, however, drawn from the scientist, or even from common sense. The most pinfuriating “Einstein” repin is probably this missive:

Take time to read, it’s worth reading, trust you? I don’t trust any pin that originates on Facebook from a blacked-out username.

The conversation is supposedly between Einstein and a professor, and in it Einstein successfully proves the existence of God by disproving the teacher’s belief in the scientific process. Maybe. Does something about this pin seem off to you? Congratulations!

Something is off: the entire pin. Here’s how the conversation the pin captures would have started if it were drawn from real life, not a religious fantasy of science submitting to faith:

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Tags: atheism, einstein, god, pinfuriating, pinning, pinterest, religion

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Categories Unnotable quotables, Wooden platitudes

Pinterest: the Mormon housewife’s image bookmarking service of choice?

3 Oct

Controversy, controversy, controversy! Buzzfeed has declared that Pinterest is killing feminism.

I often argue on this blog that Pinterest can hurt women. I believe in equality and a woman’s right to self-determination, and am therefore a feminist, and like the article’s author Amy Odell, this often results in me condemning the new social platform. Pinterest normalizes behaviors that undermine female empowerment–thinspo, youth worship, overemphasis on marriage and men, time-sucking beauty routines (braid your hair and paint your nails or else!)–but it is also a place where women congregate to share empowering pins. Todd Akin is stupid! No, your daughter doesn’t have to wear a tutu! Odell does concede on that: “Pinterest might come with airbrushing, but at least it lets you decide just how much of it becomes part of your own user experience.”

Here’s the article’s basic thesis:

“Pinterest — which drives more traffic to marthastewart.com and marthastewartweddings.com than Facebook and Twitter combined — has become impossible to ignore, even as critics deride it as ‘the Mormon housewife’s image bookmarking service of choice.’”

What do you think?

Tags: feminism, pinfuriating, pinterest

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Categories Pinfuriating moments, Random

Men only good for elaborate proposals, after that: useless

23 Sep

Pinterest has posited many noble roles for men in the domestic sphere. These include, and are pretty much limited to:

Elaborate proposal planners who have booked a secret photographer and a flash mob
Unwilling whip-weilding actors in 50 Shades of Grey fantasies
Mason jar craft installers and admirers

Note that none of these roles include domestic work–cooking, cleaning, childrearing. That’s for the wimmins! According to the oft-pinned Proverbs 31, men should be off doing a whole lotta nothing, “sitteth-ing among the elders of the land.” The modern version? Grand Theft Auto, obviously.

Men as equal partners in childcare–hilarious, amirite?

This pin, like Febreeze and laundry and cat litter commercials, normalizes unequal division of household labour.

Men, obviously, just aren’t capable of this child rearing stuff. This pin may seem harmless because it makes it seem like housework is beyond men, but really, it come from an ideology that says domesticity is beneath them.

And you know what? It kind of puts pressure on women, too. What woman makes a turkey every night? What woman wouldn’t tie her daughter’s hair with a zip tie in a pinch?

Some men, obviously, do think that way, and skimp on domesticity; all those depressing studies about division of labour evince this. The stereotypes, I think, just encourage their lackluster domestic performance, and alienate dads who do “pitch in.”

If you find these pins as dispiriting as I do, you can take comfort in the the ones that promote active, involved fatherhood. Let’s face it: it’s kinda hot.

Repin, repin, repin!

Tags: dad, dads, fatherhood, feminism, parenting, pinfuriating, pinterest

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For the dog who has everything

22 Sep

You’ve already accessorized your pup to the nines, but does s/he have the figure to pull off all that bling? 99 pinners and likers agree that this is a must-have addition to any home dog gym.

You should know up front: if you don’t have said home dog gym, you’re probably a terrible pet parent. You may not have even breastfed your dog–you went straight for the kibble, didn’t you?

Why would pet parents go on walks, Mickey, when they have The Canine Treadmill? It’s only $549 if your dog is already petite, and $899 for the plus-sized hound.

The treadmill will ensure that the furry fat-ass in your life will get in shape in time for Halloween. Can’t have unseemly canine cellulite poking through their prostipup costume.

For more pet parenting tips, please check out the first minute of this Gayle episode: