Shoot the Wall (A.K.A. The Rant Thread)

[Arcadia]

Not sure what to do about mismatched shoes and socks (other than don't worry), but regarding the jeans, I suspect that the best solution is for us to find a brand (preferably available mail-order, preferably internationally) that makes jeans for actual women with actual waists, tell each other about them, tell all our friends about them, review them favorably on Amazon or whatever, and refuse to buy anything else.

Well, I would have had 3 or 4 brands to recommend, except they all went out of production after I settled on wearing them for life. So perhaps I'd better stay out of the endorsement business, as that's a sure sign of brand failure (witness also the closing of my favorite coffee shop, my favorite art supply store, my favorite car repair place, my favorite grocery store, and the quick demise of most of my favorite TV shows .....)

 

Van Buren, I've arrived at work and discovered my shirt was on inside out, if that makes you feel any better! :D

[Caya]

Well, I would have had 3 or 4 brands to recommend, except they all went out of production after I settled on wearing them for life. So perhaps I'd better stay out of the endorsement business, as that's a sure sign of brand failure (witness also the closing of my favorite coffee shop, my favorite art supply store, my favorite car repair place, my favorite grocery store, and the quick demise of most of my favorite TV shows .....)

 

Welp, good thing you hate Sherlock with a passion, don't you? ;)

[Arcadia]

Clearly. Otherwise there would BE no Sherlock. I am THAT powerful, bwahahahaha.....

[Van Buren Supernova]

So perhaps I'd better stay out of the endorsement business, as that's a sure sign of brand failure (witness also the closing of my favorite coffee shop, my favorite art supply store, my favorite car repair place, my favorite grocery store, and the quick demise of most of my favorite TV shows .....)

Hey, same here..! To the point that I'm weary to like something/place. I thought it's isolated curse.

Yes..gulp. I have to hate Sherlock with passion too.

 

Van Buren, I've arrived at work and discovered my shirt was on inside out, if that makes you feel any better! :D

:lol: :lol: :lol:

I should, shouldn't I?

But then again, it's you....

 

Run...! From incoming

[SherlockedCAMPer]

That moment you realize you need to transfer your stuff from your current laptop to your son's old one because you have to hold the monitor in place to see anything and you're trying to work on your NaNoWriMo for the camp session (so glad his dad bought him a new computer designed for gaming).

[Arcadia]

 

Van Buren, I've arrived at work and discovered my shirt was on inside out, if that makes you feel any better! :D

:lol: :lol: :lol:

I should, shouldn't I?

But then again, it's you....

 

Run...! From incoming

 

This calls for a bigger weapon ......

[Carol the Dabbler]

Bed sheets.  What happened when I wasn't looking?

 

I wanted some flannel sheets for our guest bed, and L. L. Bean (a reputable vendor) had some nice ones on sale, so I ordered two flat ones in the appropriate size, plus a couple of pillow cases.  The sheets are beautiful, but there wasn't enough width to tuck in the bottom one on the sides, so I ended up putting it on the bed sideways (which means I can't tuck it in at the bottom, but apparently I can't have everything).

 

Come to think of it, maybe it's the mattresses.  We had a futon for ages, and regular mattresses seem to have gotten thicker in the meanwhile.

 

Or maybe They simply assume everyone uses fitted sheets nowadays, so the flat ones are only for the top?  I prefer to buy two flat sheets, so that if one becomes unusable I can use the remaining one as either top or bottom, as needed.  Besides, I have a theory that sheets last longer if they're not always used in the same position.

 

So what do I need to do -- buy queen sheets for the double guest bed and king sheets for our new queen-size mattress?

 

[sittything]

I didn't realize anyone bought sheets not as a set [fitted sheet, sheet, pillow case(s)]

[Carol the Dabbler]

My mother learned how to make a bed long before there were fitted sheets, and I learned my "hospital corners" from her.  The linen service in my college dorm didn't use them either, so I never got used to them.  If I see sheets that I like, but they're available only as a set, I don't buy them.

 

Apparently fitted sheets have been around since at least the late 50's, since a Bertha Berman applied for a patent in 1957 and was awarded one two years later.  But I've somehow avoided them, and the only one I currently own came with our guest bed (a present from Mom, who has apparently made her peace with fitted sheets).  I'm far more comfortable with flat sheets -- for one thing, it's entirely possible to fold them!

 

[sittything]

Folding a fitted sheet is futile... it goes something like this...

 

 

[Carol the Dabbler]

:D   That's one reason I often "store" the blasted thing right on the guest bed!

 

[Carol the Dabbler]

I think I've found the problem (though not sure what can be done about it):

 

Wikipedia lists a North American standard full/double size bed as 54" wide (which is accurate for our guest bed), and it lists a North American standard full/double flat sheet as 87" wide, which leaves 16-1/2" extra on either side; subtracting 9" for the mattress height still leaves 7-1/2" to tuck under.  The L. L. Bean website lists their full/double flannel flat sheets as only 84" wide, but that should still leave 6" to tuck under on each side.  However, I washed the sheets before putting them on the bed, and they apparently shrank considerably.  I measured them just now, after maybe half a dozen washings, and they're a mere 76" wide, meaning there's only a skimpy 2" to tuck under -- hardly enough to stay put!

 

I do my laundry in warm (not hot) water, and dry it on gentle heat.  If that much shrinkage can be expected from even that sort of careful treatment, it hardly seems fair for Bean to advertise their sheets as 84" wide, unless they also specify that one should expect 10% shrinkage.

 

[Van Buren Supernova]

I can handle fitted bedsheet, but quilt cover drives me slightly crazy. Always seems to get the orientation wrong.

 

Anyway, can't help to think, if Sherlock's sheet is fitted, how does he wear it to Buckingham Palace?

Would he look like Scarlet O'Hara?

[J.P.]

Did Scarelt O'Hara wear a sheet? I've only heard of a curtain...

 

Now - I have a mental picture of Sherlock wrapped in one of 221B curtains...

[Carol the Dabbler]

I can't help thinking of Carol Burnett's parody of GWTW:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXUQjigUxcc&feature=player_detailpage

 

-- or for those who'd prefer to cut right to a blurry copy of the specific scene:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=v1JPQh5rBCw

 

[J.P.]

This dress looks like something from the eighties...

[Van Buren Supernova]

Did Scarelt O'Hara wear a sheet? I've only heard of a curtain...

 

Now - I have a mental picture of Sherlock wrapped in one of 221B curtains...

 

Fitting sheet has elastic on the edge,

I imagine it would have ballooning effect on certain area and create elaborate style like Scarlet's XD

 

If Sherlock wore 221B Baker Street curtain..... oppss..isn't it a tiny bit transparent?

Oh..that's why you have that mental image? :lol: :lol:

[Carol the Dabbler]

There are two sets of curtains in 221B's living-room windows -- a set of heavy opaque drapes that's generally kept open, and a set of sheer curtains to provide daytime privacy.  While the flat was empty during Sherlock's "death," Mrs. Hudson kept the heavy drapes closed, but she opened them when John came to see her.

 

It's your mental image -- take your pick!

 

[J.P.]

Actually I meant the heavy drapes.

 

Until your post.

 

[Carol the Dabbler]

Hey, don't blame me -- it was Van Buren that mentioned "transparent"!  :P

[J.P.]

I blame you both.

[T.o.b.y]

I'm still brooding over something that someone said to me today. I was walking home from work and a colleague passed by and called out: "wow, you're dressed youthfully today". We don't wear our own clothes at work, so this was the first time he'd seen me in my private attire, and the problem is, what I was wearing was a fairly typical sample of my wardrobe.

 

Now I'm worrying that my clothes are inappropriate for my age and that I look embarrassing, as if I was making some pathetic attempt to seem younger than I really am.

 

I just really like colors. I don't wear much black or gray or olive or khaki or any of these muted tones Germans seem to prefer. I really like pretty things, and flowery patterns and lace and frills and stuff like that. Also, my legs are still good, and I do like skirts, and my tights are pretty colorful... And a lot of my sweaters do have hoods, and... But I dress nothing like the teenagers I see on the street. The schoolgirls seem to be mostly running around in leggings and maternity tops - that's not my style at all.

 

I don't want to be a sad old woman pretending to be a college girl! I'm not even afraid of growing old, I kind of like the idea, in fact. But do I have to dress like I'm headed for a funeral?

 

*Grumble*. Actually, next time, I should reply "funny you should say that, because I actually dress like my late grandmother" - who wore a summer dress embroidered with flowers and birds on her 90th birthday and looked as dignified in it as a woman can in anything.

[Arcadia]

Congratulations, JP, I see your emoties have started having children. You must be so proud!

 

I'm still brooding over something that someone said to me today. I was walking home from work and a colleague passed by and called out: "wow, you're dressed youthfully today". We don't wear our own clothes at work, so this was the first time he'd seen me in my private attire, and the problem is, what I was wearing was a fairly typical sample of my wardrobe.

 

Now I'm worrying that my clothes are inappropriate for my age and that I look embarrassing, as if I was making some pathetic attempt to seem younger than I really am.

Maybe what he meant was, you dress too old for your age the rest of the time....  *runs and hides...*

[J.P.]

Congratulations, JP, I see your emoties have started having children. You must be so proud!

 

I am. :lol:

[Carol the Dabbler]

For Pete's sake, T.o.b.y -- you're 30!!!  If that's not young enough to wear cheerful clothing, I don't know what it.  (Though thank you for avoiding the leggings-and-maternity-top combos -- that is one look I simply Do Not Get.)

 

Mercifully, I think the days are gone when at a certain age, women "graduated" to old-lady clothing.  My grandmother dressed sort of like an old-fashioned nun -- longish dresses in subdued colors, stockings (regardless of the heat), and clunky lace-up shoes.  The Sears catalog even had a special section for old-lady clothes (though they didn't quite call it that).  Mom once made a dress for Grandma out of black fabric that had tiny multi-colored specks scattered sparingly over it -- and Grandma refused to wear it, because it was "gaudy."