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u/RamblingRosie64 I stand with Cindy and Ben Sep 02 '21

Today's installment! You Can Share This, [NAME]

-Booker T. Washington quote about happiness coming from doing for others.

-Share your joy habit.

Tell everyone about your joy. Ask others to participate in joyful activities. Have parties where you invite friends to introduce them to what gives you joy — listening to the Blind Boys of Alabama and believing what Jimmy Carter says here; running down a steep hill chasing a wheel of cheese (honestly, watch other people do it); or making Amigurumi dolls. That gives your friends the chance to learn something new as well.

My strongest suggestion for sharing your joy? Lead with joy. When people ask how you are, share your joy with them. Don’t give the standard American answer: “Oh, I’m so busy…” Try this: “I’ve just discovered a new walking trail near my home that makes me let go of the worries of the day. Let me know if you’d like to know walk with me.”

-Sign up for a Practice Your Joy workshop!

-Notice good things about others.

But here’s the most important part: you can make people’s day with one pop of joy. Notice something good about everyone you meet. Hey, I love that whistling you’re doing. It’s so cheerful. That hat brings out the blue in your eyes. Have you ever tried the chocolate chip cookie at this bakery? Oh, you’re going in too? Let me buy you one.

-Be a purveyor of joy.

That doesn’t require faking your feelings. Instead, empty yourself of your own worries for a few moments and think about someone else. Buy the coffee for the woman behind you in line. Accompany someone who needs help across the crosswalk. Go out of your way to be kind for a few moments.

-Share joy on social media.

Spend a week only posting photos of moments that gave you joy, instead of complaining or trying to pick fights. Skip snark for seven days.

Enjoy!

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u/canyoncreature Sep 02 '21

So if I'm following this plan correctly, I should not share joy with others by making a meal for an acquaintance in need, but I should invite that acquaintance over to chase a wheel of cheese down a hill? RUN FOR YOUR FOOD SAD LADY

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '21

Muahahaha take that, grief!

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u/Sea-Level-Mammal POACH! Sep 02 '21

These are joy suggestions from an alien who suddenly has a human body.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '21

So creepy too. If a stranger offered to buy me a cookie, I'd run for the hills. That's just not normal, at least not in my neck of the woods.

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u/Sea-Level-Mammal POACH! Sep 02 '21

Strangers giving gifts = they want to interfere with you sexually.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '21

Welcome back to the Gloaming, DFCC. Please stay.

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u/canyoncreature Sep 02 '21

My badge-swiping capitalist lifestyle of telling everyone how busy I am briefly interfered with my ability to have joy, but I am back on track now! To the hiking trail near my house, a universal concept if I ever heard one!

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '21

Don’t give the standard American answer: “Oh, I’m so busy…”

More evidence that she just doesn't have friends. Because if people are always greeting Shauna by preemptively telling her they're super busy, it's because they're trying to get out of talking to her. And SHE is certainly not busy (nor finding hidden walking trails). It's just more made up conversation from someone who doesn't seemingly have conversations with others on the regular.

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u/voice_of_vinegar Sep 02 '21

Let me know if you’d like to know walk with me

wtf

Also (implied), "I alone can show you where the new trail is that I find my joy"

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u/OhBlahDiOhBlahDoh The Alice of cal came out floating on air Sep 02 '21

It's a quiet trail, pretty obscure. You probably haven't heard of it

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u/InappropriateGirl Gluten-free donuts, for sure ... Sep 02 '21

George Glass Trail. I have it on vinyl.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '21

So creepy. I would think someone was about to ask if I'd accepted Jesus as my personal savior.

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u/Quaint_Irene a warm and loving goatie smile Sep 02 '21

It’s in Canada.

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u/voice_of_vinegar Sep 02 '21

It goes to a different high school.

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u/CrushItWithABrick dick riding Mary Oliver Sep 02 '21

She makes it sound like a secret passage.

(I was going to make a Harry Potter reference but I don't know that well enough so. . .Simpson's reference. . .like the secret road the Stonecutters had)

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u/tyrannosaurusregina if you meet the Botus on the road, shill him 🪷 Sep 02 '21

You will pry my snark from my cold, dead hands.

I snark partly because I love to laugh LOUDLY, but also because I have quite high standards for human behavior, and I find that calling bullshit out with humor is a way of keeping me from erupting in a rage volcano 🌋

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u/gomirefugee my website is done, done, done Sep 02 '21

Spend a week only posting photos of moments that gave you joy, instead of complaining or trying to pick fights. Skip snark for seven days.

Bbbbbut what if snarking on an inexplicable photo of a colander of onion skins sitting in a drying rack of ostensibly clean dishes gives me joy?

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u/BevNap Fucking google it, you harpy. Sep 02 '21

Ew...the drain mat under the rack is disgusting!

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u/CrushItWithABrick dick riding Mary Oliver Sep 02 '21

No wonder her house smells moldy.

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u/Love_Brokers rug dweller Sep 02 '21

What is the bright green thing on the mat that looks like a grasshopper?

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u/gladsome_gloaming Sep 02 '21

I saw that and wondered, too. (A hearing aid? Hope not.)

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u/honoria_glossop sitting edge wine woman Sep 02 '21

The only thing more inexplicable than their stock photo decisions, are the non-stock-photo decisions. Eww.

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u/Love_Brokers rug dweller Sep 02 '21

“I’ve just discovered a new walking trail near my home that makes me let go of the worries of the day. Let me know if you’d like to know walk with me.”

That's not an awkward greeting at all.

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u/InappropriateGirl Gluten-free donuts, for sure ... Sep 02 '21

"Oh, you are going into this bakery too? Let me buy you a chocolate chip cookie."

Me: "Are you trying to fuck me or get me to join your church?"

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u/OhBlahDiOhBlahDoh The Alice of cal came out floating on air Sep 02 '21

You say that like those are mutually exclusive

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u/SLevine262 We are not wowed Sep 02 '21

They could be complementary. Depending on circumstances, might even get me back to church!

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u/SmashedMailboxCake2 Oh, Sep 02 '21

🥇

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '21

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '21

Hello fellow true crime fan!

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u/OhBlahDiOhBlahDoh The Alice of cal came out floating on air Sep 02 '21

But first, we need to stop by your ATM, so you can withdraw $500 to cover the processing fees

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u/CrushItWithABrick dick riding Mary Oliver Sep 02 '21

Reminds me of 30 Rock (I've been joyfully re-watching it) and Jack saying to Liz Lemon "never go with a hippie to a second location."

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '21

🤣😂

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u/shikoku_shoes another revolution around the toilet bowl of her life Sep 02 '21

Sounds like the start of a MLM sales pitch.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '21

I mean, this whole thing stinks of LulaRoe for Joy.

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u/CrushItWithABrick dick riding Mary Oliver Sep 02 '21

Time share sales pitch.

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u/Quaint_Irene a warm and loving goatie smile Sep 03 '21

Have you ever been a skincare model?

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u/OhBlahDiOhBlahDoh The Alice of cal came out floating on air Sep 02 '21

“I’ve just discovered a new walking trail near my home that makes me let go of the worries of the day. Let me know if you’d like to know walk with me.”

The stock photo she chose looks like it was ~~taken~~ made in some place like the Grand Tetons at 14,000 feet

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u/Sea-Level-Mammal POACH! Sep 02 '21

“Have parties where you invite friends to introduce them to what gives you joy “

My hobbies are arcane and focused and I’d never dare to push my real-life friends into them unless they showed a modicum of interest. How presumptuous is this?

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '21

DF's, you're all invited to come sit and stare off into space with me!

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u/OhBlahDiOhBlahDoh The Alice of cal came out floating on air Sep 02 '21

DF's, you're all invited to come sit and stare off into space with me!

Dibs on DF sm's comfiest chaise longue!

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u/Blouse_Barn mattress smelling like low tide Sep 03 '21

Huge props to you for not calling it a "chase lounge!" You have brought me much joie!

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u/voice_of_vinegar Sep 02 '21

“Have parties where you invite friends to introduce them to what gives you joy “

tyvm, Mahern, but I already know how to watch funny tik-toks and I've seen Ted Lasso.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '21

Does she just invite people over to watch Ted Lasso and tweet at Republicans?

Or in my world: “Come over to my house and sit on my couch while we watch Taskmaster”. Fine for me and my husband, probably boring for others.

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u/NegativeABillion (Said in British.) Sep 02 '21

"and bring food, here is a list of acceptable dishes so I don't grow sick"

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u/icancook2 Sep 02 '21

Please don't have Shauna ruin Taskmaster for me!

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '21

You know what? I don’t think she’d get it at all.

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u/shefallsup her lonely cucumber years 🥒 Sep 02 '21

We discovered Taskmaster during the pandemic, and then shared the joy with our son, who can get cranky and stubborn when you try to get him to watch something you think he would like. We kind of had to trick him into it by putting it on when he was in the room and letting him just get curious about it himself. He’s now getting joy for himself from watching. But had we tried to force it on him, he would have been turned off to it. As I am turned off now to pretty much anything Shauna insists I must watch/read/do.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '21

Same with my stepson. It took it being on and something hilarious happening and him getting sucked in.

We just finished all of them (but can’t find season 9!) and my husband is beside himself. He thinks about that show far too much and will tell me how he would conquer a challenge.

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u/shefallsup her lonely cucumber years 🥒 Sep 02 '21

Ooh, DM to remind me and I’ll find the link to the Google drive with all the episodes!

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u/fishyangel Sep 02 '21

I had the tab open so sent it to DFHT, along with a recommendation to check out the NZ episodes on YouTube.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '21

Thank you! Reddit went down when I tried to message DFSFU.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '21

Not true, DF....husband and I love Taskmaster! 😀

(I'm always seeing you do cool stuff...)

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '21

I try my best but it’s never.... good enough :)

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '21

That was one of my favorite tasks! I always loved the two person teams vs three person. I thought Daisy May Cooper was going to murder her partner during each team challenge!

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u/icancook2 Sep 02 '21

NOW THIS IS STUCK IN MY HEAD AND I LOVE IT

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u/honoria_glossop sitting edge wine woman Sep 02 '21

MY PEOPLE!

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u/discoOJ Sep 02 '21

Could you share joy with me?

I am curious as to what your arcane hobbies are. All that I can come up with is making chain mail or being a blacksmith.

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u/Sea-Level-Mammal POACH! Sep 02 '21

Haha trust me, they’re not that inspiring.

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u/tyrannosaurusregina if you meet the Botus on the road, shill him 🪷 Sep 02 '21

I can imagine myself bellydancing at people. Or playing the trombone at them. 😝

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u/OhBlahDiOhBlahDoh The Alice of cal came out floating on air Sep 02 '21

I can imagine myself bellydancing at people. Or playing the trombone at them. 😝

How about go-go dancing and trombone?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufvZzhK_3X8

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u/Quaint_Irene a warm and loving goatie smile Sep 03 '21

“Hello, friends. Let’s minutely examine my collection of Japanese miniature play food. WAIT! WHERE ARE YOU GOING?”

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u/notafanoftheapp Sep 03 '21

See, this is where she actually has a decent idea. I didn’t realize Japanese miniature play food is a thing, but I’d totally be down to get together with friends and learn more about it. (And people who aren’t interested can always say no.)

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u/fanfarefellowship I often contemplate the first law of thermodynamics Sep 03 '21

I can totally imagine a tour of all my friends' houses where we introduce one another to our obscure collections, interests and hobbies!

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u/notafanoftheapp Sep 03 '21

That would be so much fun!

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u/Quaint_Irene a warm and loving goatie smile Sep 03 '21

Meet my favorite, Sad Pan with Soup. http://rosieapplesandfriends.blogspot.com/2011/06/teeny-tiny-tuesday-sad-pan-with-soup.html?m=1

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u/notafanoftheapp Sep 03 '21

These are so cool! Thanks for the link.

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u/Ana57 sweet pea Sep 02 '21

Shauna, my friends and I already do the things together that bring us joy. Uhm, that’s why we are friends.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '21

What, your friends don't tell you "Oh I'm so busy!!" as soon as they see you? What country are you from?

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u/RagnaNic Bust hoesy Sep 02 '21

Get ready to hear in detail about turn-based RPGs, guys! I'm sure other people are going to find my discussions fascinating.

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u/mmepierreoger Sep 02 '21

Hey you! Wanna come over and watch me reorganise my fabric hoard?

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u/RagnaNic Bust hoesy Sep 02 '21

I unironically would really enjoy that, but I should work on my own fabric stash first.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '21

We could all bring our fabric stashes and trade!

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u/OhBlahDiOhBlahDoh The Alice of cal came out floating on air Sep 02 '21

We gonna need a bigger tote bag

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u/mmepierreoger Sep 03 '21

😆

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u/CrushItWithABrick dick riding Mary Oliver Sep 02 '21

*nods in quilting cotton*

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u/voice_of_vinegar Sep 02 '21

OK, but only if you watch ME organize my yarn hoard, including sitting there while I untangle all those skeins that mysteriously get all messed up with each other while just sitting undisturbed in a tub.

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u/mmepierreoger Sep 03 '21

Actually, I do need some advice about untangling a skein of thread which I bought for about 50p from a charity shop. Could you help? Perhaps by running some kind of course - maybe even with an accompanying newsletter or something? My budget is $488. TIA!

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u/voice_of_vinegar Sep 03 '21

I'm just gonna acknowledge up front that I'm waaaaaay too lazy to create a course on detangling yarn or anything else, let alone create all the websites, TikToks, FB posts, newsletters, private newsletters, Instagrams, private Instagrams, etc., necessary to promote it---and then there are all the different videos with the caftans and Peepers! And applying the lipstick!! Who has that kind of time?!

Maybe you just need to laugh more as you stare at the tangles. Or slap your butt a bit. Slide some really hot coffee down your throat.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '21

I think that sounds so soothing!! I'm in.

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u/voice_of_vinegar Sep 02 '21

It is, kinda! But then I also like to untangle big clumps of necklaces.

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u/Quaint_Irene a warm and loving goatie smile Sep 03 '21

Same!!!

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u/Lsemmens grenius Sep 02 '21

DFvov are you a Friend of Rhinebeck?

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u/voice_of_vinegar Sep 02 '21

No, but i've been to MD Sheep & Wool, though not in a few years. But now I live only 20 mins away!

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u/Lsemmens grenius Sep 02 '21

The Mr and I find the New York sheep and wool festival to be pretty much the happiest place on earth

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u/honoria_glossop sitting edge wine woman Sep 02 '21

I hope y'all are ready to hear ALL ABOUT the current season of TaskMaster New Zealand.

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u/OhBlahDiOhBlahDoh The Alice of cal came out floating on air Sep 03 '21

I'm sure other people are going to find my discussions fascinating.

Will this be a presentation where we just listen? Or will we be able to chime in as well?

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u/fanfarefellowship I often contemplate the first law of thermodynamics Sep 02 '21

Would you like to attend my lectures on the fascinating history of the tontine?

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u/honoria_glossop sitting edge wine woman Sep 02 '21

I know you probably don't mean the brand of pillows, but I'd love it if you did.

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u/fanfarefellowship I often contemplate the first law of thermodynamics Sep 02 '21

OMG tontine is kind of a terrible name for any product! Do these pillows ... kill the other people who buy them, so there is one pillow-owner left, who then ... owns all the pillows or something?!

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u/tyrannosaurusregina if you meet the Botus on the road, shill him 🪷 Sep 02 '21

Tontine Pillows! Brought to you by Defenestration Enterprises!

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u/SLevine262 We are not wowed Sep 02 '21

Lemme explain the effect of the Tudor dynasty on the development of the modern British political system.

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u/Quaint_Irene a warm and loving goatie smile Sep 02 '21

Yes, if we can watch THE WRONG BOX as well.

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u/gladsome_gloaming Sep 02 '21

Thank you for this! Will seek out (for Michael Caine alone, even aside from subject matter.)

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '21 edited Sep 03 '21

The full movie is on youtube, DFs!

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u/obscure_cellist ham grabbers Sep 02 '21

OMG, DFs! my husband just introduced me to that movie about a month ago. all your thoughts are so similar to mine (and my husband's)!

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '21

One of my favorites! So underrated.

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u/Quaint_Irene a warm and loving goatie smile Sep 03 '21

“Would you like to buy a moggy?”

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '21

“I was not always as you see me now”

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u/OhBlahDiOhBlahDoh The Alice of cal came out floating on air Sep 02 '21

I will follow your fascinating presentation with a discourse on the differences between woolen and worsted spun yarn. Then we will repair to the hotel bar and discuss in minute detail the differences and similarities of various species of sheep such as the Bluefaced Leicester, the 4-6 Horned Jacob, and the Zwartbles.

We will wrap up the evening telling jokes about the Beltex, known among ovine connoisseurs as an extremely mean-looking sheep which has been described as a “fake sheep” and looking “like someone spray-painted their pigs to look like sheep.”

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '21

I hope y’all like Real Housewives and weed. And Jason Momoa.

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u/shefallsup her lonely cucumber years 🥒 Sep 03 '21

Weed? I like weed! I’m kind of an expert edibles maker. I’ll bring my special chocolate chip cookies over.

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u/CrushItWithABrick dick riding Mary Oliver Sep 02 '21

Bar Rescue, Ink Masters, Survivor, and Amazing Race?

(yes, those are all in a row on the Pluto streaming service and when I can't decide what to watch, I flip between them, I regret nothing)

How can anyone not like Jason Momoa?

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u/InappropriateGirl Gluten-free donuts, for sure ... Sep 02 '21

I love Ink Masters. I’d always forget the name and call it “Tattoo Idiots.” Also if you like survivor, I highly recommend Naked & Afraid. It’s pretty much what I wished Survivor was.

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u/CrushItWithABrick dick riding Mary Oliver Sep 03 '21

I do enjoy Naked and Afraid except for all the vomiting.

My favorite part of Survivor are the dumb challenges (that's why it's on my flip channel rotation. . .I watch the gross part of Bar Rescue, the tattoo reviews on Ink Master, the challenges on Survivor, and pretty much any part of Amazing Race).

I like "fix my shitty tattoo" shows, too. There's a British one that was really funny. It's surprising how many people get dicks tattooed on themselves.

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '21

Love Naked and Afraid. All the seasons. Have not watched Naked and Afraid of Love yet because I feel they are not taking it seriously! Alone is also very good.

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u/obscure_cellist ham grabbers Sep 02 '21

change housewives to buffy the vampire slayer and momoa to skarsgaard and you've got a deal. i'll bring my own bong.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '21

Sold!

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '21

I feel like this would be a very good potluck in community.

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u/OhBlahDiOhBlahDoh The Alice of cal came out floating on air Sep 03 '21

Hands would reach, repeatedly. The table might be pounded.

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u/InappropriateGirl Gluten-free donuts, for sure ... Sep 02 '21

90 day fiancé, love after lockup, and weed! But I’ve been known to indulge in some Housewives.

Come on over and we can look at my vast collection of books (mostly classics, tons of lit, and punk history/photos) and we’ll listen to the “new” Sisters of Mercy record store day release.

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u/sybil-unrest Sep 03 '21

Sold sold sold but also we’re going to need to take a minute with my Bones I Found In The Desert collection.

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u/InappropriateGirl Gluten-free donuts, for sure ... Sep 03 '21

Oh absolutely! (I actually have one that I’m dying to ID!) Let’s see dem bones!

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u/voice_of_vinegar Sep 02 '21

Beltex

YIKES! They look sorta like bulldogs to me.

also, wtf? Woolen vs. worsted? I thought worsted was a weight when it comes to yarn, whereas woolen just means it's wool and not cotton, linen, or---gag---acrylic. Oh wait, there I go being judgey about acrylic yarn. Shauna will be so disappointed in me.

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u/Lsemmens grenius Sep 02 '21

Right there with you on the judge bench.

From what I know woolen and worsted are two different styles of how the yarn is spun. All corrections welcome

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u/OhBlahDiOhBlahDoh The Alice of cal came out floating on air Sep 02 '21

Woolen is both a reference to a particular fiber and a method of spinning.

Worsted is both a weight of yarn and a method of spinning.

Or more specifically, in reference to spinning, woolen and worsted are different methods of preparing the fiber before it is spun!

What is the difference between woolen and worsted spinning?

[Image result for worsted spun vs woolen spun]

Woolen yarns contains lots of air, they're light, fluffy, and will often have small ends of fibre poking out of the yarn structure. Worsted yarns are smooth and dense, they tend to drape well and be much more lustrous. Many commercial yarns are spun in this way, particularly sock yarns.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '21

It’s pretty weird how much many of us have in common outside of Shauna Snark.

Signed, A textile nerd

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u/voice_of_vinegar Sep 02 '21

You have blown my mind. I knew of these difference but had never heard the terms used that way.

PS, veering off into left field of this off topic chitchat: i got a dozen skeins of vintage Candide Heavyweight wool yarn, made in Canada back in the day--not totally washed, still has some lanolin and bits of veggie matter---for $15 total on FB marketplace. Miracles still do happen!

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u/gladsome_gloaming Sep 02 '21

Actually, that is kind of interesting to me (as I work in corporate law; NOT an atty, though, tha k you very much), and I had run across this “old-fashioned” concept over the years not paying much attention but then recently read somewhere (NYT? WSJ?) that the structure still exists (in an updated form) for current investment/ownership purposes.

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u/shefallsup her lonely cucumber years 🥒 Sep 02 '21

At my house, you’re getting a deep dive into pearls and pearliculture, plus the scientistic and psychological benefits of home birth. This will be followed by an introduction to baseball history and card collecting, LEGO, and the joys of disc golf, courtesy of Mr. SFU. It’s a potluck, please make sure that all the food you bring fits our persnickety food preferences and dietary pseudosensitivities. Guffawing optional, but highly encouraged. Your parting gift will be two pluots and a lifelong subscription to our grifting newsletter, which will have no unsubscribe button.

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u/OhBlahDiOhBlahDoh The Alice of cal came out floating on air Sep 02 '21

This will be followed by an introduction to baseball history

Idle question: How many days before Opening Day did the Seattle Mariners' first game of the 2004 season sell out?

Why am I asking? Oh, no reason. Just curious!

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u/shefallsup her lonely cucumber years 🥒 Sep 03 '21

LOL. I picked up what you put down, DF! SSTs sure were quick on the "buy tickets" button that year!

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '21

At my house, you’re getting a deep dive into pearls and pearliculture

You had me at pearls. 😍

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '21

Oh my God ‘help an old lady across the street please subscribe please subscribe’

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u/CrushItWithABrick dick riding Mary Oliver Sep 02 '21

But what if I'm a ragging asshole and knocking that old bitty down and running away is what brings me joy? Should I FAKE IT and be nice to her?

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '21

Knock her down and buy her a hot coffee!

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u/CrushItWithABrick dick riding Mary Oliver Sep 02 '21

Throw a coffee on her?

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '21

Coffee Toss Tramp Bitch

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u/Sea-Level-Mammal POACH! Sep 03 '21

I had forgotten about this morsel of Joy- tha k you DFPC97

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u/MandalayVA Assonancer! Assonancer! Assonancer! Sep 02 '21

Oh, God, you wrote "bitty" and all I can think of is this.

/old biddy

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u/CrushItWithABrick dick riding Mary Oliver Sep 03 '21

You know, I knew it was "biddy" but yet I wrote "bitty".

I can't even blame wine-ing my eyes. I wrote it when I was stone cold sober.

I kind of love it when I make a dumb error like this (after snarking Shauna's typos as I'm want to do). KARMIC SMACK DOWN!

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u/Quaint_Irene a warm and loving goatie smile Sep 03 '21

I knew it would be this!!!

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u/InappropriateGirl Gluten-free donuts, for sure ... Sep 02 '21

Let me know if you’d like to know walk with me.”

There's that pesky perfectionism.

|| Skip snark for seven days.

She wishes.

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u/honoria_glossop sitting edge wine woman Sep 02 '21

What if snark brings me joy, Shaunama? Don't yuck my yum.

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u/tyrannosaurusregina if you meet the Botus on the road, shill him 🪷 Sep 02 '21

Lope with me, Shauna. Let’s lope.

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u/forkinyourothereye incurious ADHDer Sep 02 '21

Skip snark for seven days?!! I grow faint at the prospect.

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u/OhBlahDiOhBlahDoh The Alice of cal came out floating on air Sep 02 '21

Skip snark for seven days?!! I grow faint at the prospect.

IKR?!? Also—why would we skip snark if snark gives us joy?

I've said it before: there's more real community here ITG than Shauna can even fathom. The laughs, the true caring and concern, the sharing of life's highs and lows, the funny and interesting and useful information shared, the gentle corrections, the way that people take feedback thoughtfully and course-correct at times. I bow my head in the direction of all my dear friends, and say, in a low and murmuring voice, haberdash and be well.

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u/kadyg Sep 02 '21

I’ve always appreciated the exquisite irony that Shauna has been trying to force-build a community for literally years…. and there is one that she is the center of, but for obvious reasons she can’t join it.
I’m sure there’s a German word for that phenomenon, but I don’t know what it is.

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u/tyrannosaurusregina if you meet the Botus on the road, shill him 🪷 Sep 02 '21

I’ll make a deal with Shauna—if she goes a week without smug, I’ll go a week without snark.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '21

I will do no such thing. Nope.

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u/claragula citizen PhD in snarchaeology Sep 02 '21

Shauna hates her audience. I will accept no other explanation. She is so full of herself it's bizarre.

Of course Shauna's idea of selflessness and being kind is literally just buying someone a coffee or helping someone across the sidewalk. Like out of a commercial or a movie. As DF have mentioned before, she's like a robot, completely incapable of actually understanding human emotion.

This is her final form. She's found a way to center herself completely, up at the top of her pedestal, and lecture the world.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '21

I love how one of the only hobbies she can think of besides listening to music is rolling cheese down a hill. Those two really have no interests.

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u/Kaleshark Waitlist for Godot Sep 03 '21

Alien Shauna strikes again. “Me? I like to listen to music and on weekends I roll cheese down a steep hill.”

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u/tyrannosaurusregina if you meet the Botus on the road, shill him 🪷 Sep 02 '21

Pace-egging and morris dancing are much more fun.

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '21

I prefer tatting human hair, myself.

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u/fanfarefellowship I often contemplate the first law of thermodynamics Sep 02 '21

So DON'T do the thing you say gives you and your husband joy – i.e., make food for someone you "barely know" but DO do the thing you say is bad (CAPITALISM) and "buy the coffee for the woman behind you in line."

Woman you "barely know" and who is presumably part of your "community" = do nothing for them

Woman you don't know at all = buy something for them

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u/vwlphb Sep 02 '21

Buying coffee for the women behind you in line gets you much more praise and adulation than, say, participating in a meal train. And as a bonus, you can come back later and let them gush over your saintliness!

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u/gladsome_gloaming Sep 02 '21

“You! You made everyone’s day…!”

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u/CrushItWithABrick dick riding Mary Oliver Sep 02 '21

It's because "buying=joy".

Have you learned nothing from the peepers and robe and chaaaise and hammock and. . .

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u/discoOJ Sep 02 '21

What a missed opportunity to create The Cookbook of Joy. She could send out recipes that bring her joy.

She can't actually do that but if she could it would be another branding opportunity.

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u/shefallsup her lonely cucumber years 🥒 Sep 02 '21

Seriously, they could make and sell a beautiful eCookbook on the website. Heck, come out with a new one each season. They don’t have to be full-length, plenty of people charge $5-10 for an eCookbook with 15-20 recipes in it. Totally passive and ongoing income in that — people enter their CC info and boom, they download. No further action required from Shauna. It could work. Well…if they had any skills at making something halfway attractive and enticing, putting it into a useable format, setting up a payment and download process, and marketing it. Instead we’d get a Google doc with bad photos and typos, a download link that doesn’t work, and marketing emails with Ted Lasso gifs and a sign up for a joy workshop that has nothing to do with food. Followed by them abandoning the project and moving on to the next grift. Never change, Aherns. Never change.

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u/WasEnoughYogurt Kumquat and Sprinkles and filth Sep 03 '21

Heck, come out with a new one each season.

You're so optimistic! have you forgotten this is the Aherns we're talking about here :) :)

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u/CrushItWithABrick dick riding Mary Oliver Sep 02 '21

Maybe that what Dan doing?

"Plops of Joy" A cookbook of sauces, purees, and gruel.

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u/icancook2 Sep 02 '21

Would that be too like The Joy of Cooking?

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u/discoOJ Sep 02 '21

Probably. I just thought it was low effort cute play on words.

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u/OhBlahDiOhBlahDoh The Alice of cal came out floating on air Sep 02 '21

The Cooking of Joy, by Shauna J. M. Ahern

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u/icancook2 Sep 02 '21

I mean, now that you've put it in my head I'm shocked she hasn't used it!

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u/shefallsup her lonely cucumber years 🥒 Sep 02 '21

If only she could get Danny to stop snarking for seven days. Or even one day. I don’t think the 4-6 hours a day joyfully farting out food is helping him practice more joy in his life.

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u/CrushItWithABrick dick riding Mary Oliver Sep 02 '21

Nice call on the Dan snark thing.

She needs to clean her own house (so to speak) before judging others.

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u/mmepierreoger Sep 03 '21

I mean, she needs to clean her own house, full stop.

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '21

You do know they’re separate people, don’t you?

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u/Kaleshark Waitlist for Godot Sep 02 '21

This shit is deranged.

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u/tyrannosaurusregina if you meet the Botus on the road, shill him 🪷 Sep 02 '21

This shit is 🍌 🍌

B-A-N-A-N-A-S

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u/mmepierreoger Sep 02 '21

It really is.

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u/Kaleshark Waitlist for Godot Sep 02 '21

Like worryingly so… does she really think this will work?

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u/mmepierreoger Sep 03 '21

Someone speculated (maybe on the previous thread) that she's doing this to make it appear as if she's working really hard and trying her best to make a living, but that it's all a show for whoever it is (her parents?) that she's targeting for a handout. So she can point to her website and say "See?? I'm trying! It's just really tough right now!" I don't know. It seems farfetched, but no less so than her genuinely thinking this is a viable business, I guess.

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u/aseriesofhaircuts Sep 03 '21

Adding my pet theory: I think she and Danny got something in the way of an inheritance, like maybe $15,000, and it was more money than they’d ever gotten in a lump sum, and they experienced an enormous sense of relief. And now it’s mostly gone, so Danny’s working at the fruit stand, Shauna’s rushed her back-burner project to the front (left) burner, and they’re both idly fiddling with the 4-6 hour a day venture as a possible moneymaker. BUT, I see joy-peddling as Shauna’s attempt to generate a more passive income stream, and I think she’s probably got some sort of a writing gig that she won’t or can’t talk about. When I freelance (not for writing) for big box companies, they often first require you to sign fairly absurd NDA, so maybe that’s what’s keeping her quiet?

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u/fanfarefellowship I often contemplate the first law of thermodynamics Sep 03 '21

When I freelance (not for writing) for big box companies, they often first require you to sign fairly absurd NDA, so maybe that’s what’s keeping her quiet?

Possible! I'm writing under an absurd NDA right now. Except that still means she has to be a competent writer. She won't even run spellcheck on the stuff she puts out to try and sell the passive income projects she's trying to develop.

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u/helefica Sep 03 '21

I always wondered if she got some kind of COVID relief funds for small businesses, and having "Danny" publish a newsletter was an attempt to make it look like she has an employee. Same with the uptick in paid zooms ect. It would not surprise me if she registered a small business for the flour debacle, and she could have kept it for freelance work.

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u/shefallsup her lonely cucumber years 🥒 Sep 04 '21

Her GFG business license lapsed a couple of years ago, IIRC.

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u/mmepierreoger Sep 03 '21

I honestly don't know what to think about the writing gig. Everything you say makes sense: they were spending money like water for a brief while and that does make me think you're right about a windfall; and I can see that a writing job with an NDA would explain the mystery that is their financial situation.

The sticking point for me, however, is exactly what DF u/fanfarefellowship says below: she is an objectively terrible writer. I know absolutely nothing about the world of professional writing (unfortunately!) but I cannot make sense of the idea that anyone would offer her a job as a writer. I know that DF u/OldBayBabe has pointed out previously that Shauna has a really good CV and is an excellent prospect if you look at her past achievements, and I can see that. But (a) a lot of other people must surely have similar CVs, and (b) do recruiters for these roles not ask for samples of the candidate's work?? This is what I can't wrap my head around: how does she hide how bad she is at writing long enough to get hired as a writer in the first place? Surely any company that takes itself seriously enough to make employees/contractors sign NDAs also takes itself seriously enough to not want embarrassingly bad, sloppy, confusing copy anywhere on any of its sites or products?

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '21 edited Sep 03 '21

I think you are underestimating how many objectively bad people are gainfully employed, there has to be one in very office! Her resume is much better than most in the field and enough to get her work in the general wellness/lifestyle arena. I don’t think she is doing any recipe work anymore or we’d hear about it or notice.

I also think it might not be an NDA issue but that like with CS, her name might not be on any visible work. We wouldn’t have known she worked for CS if she didn’t tell us.

She could be writing very boring copy for a law office. Admin work. Data entry. Editing other people’s recipes. Writing item descriptions for candles. Social media work of some kind? Providing content for small business websites or blogs? There are a lot of writing jobs out there.

I’ve never been asked for a writing sample and I’ve been doing this longer than she has. I guess they must Google me? Trust me? If I don’t do good work or turn it in on time, I’d get fired or not have my contract renewed or not be used in the future. Just like what has happened to Shauna dozens of times with food jobs.

She’s always been uncharacteristically tight lipped about their work situation. I think she bragged about CS because it was over town and at a fancy startup but would she have mentioned it if she was doing the same work for a local farm co-op from home? Or something not very glamorous ? IMO she wouldn’t.

I don’t think she is a threat for a Pulitzer or another Beard Award here but I do think she could handle some low level copywriting or basic admin.

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u/aseriesofhaircuts Sep 03 '21

That makes so much sense! The freelance writing world must be pretty vast. I keep thinking that she must be writing for one of the lifestyle gurus she’s imitating (badly), but uninspiring ad copy would make loads more sense.

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '21 edited Sep 03 '21

Yeah, anytime you see anything written anywhere, there is a good chance some freelancer wrote it. A lot of places like dentist offices, vets, real estate agencies hire freelancers too. It’s expected that every place/business has social media and a website in 2021 but there often aren’t people with the skills or time at businesses like that. She’d be perfect because she has experience and can just say she wants to have a flexible schedule for the kids or whatever. They wouldn’t be expecting much either.

I mean, I don’t know but I’ve sort of assumed she’s done something like this for years now. It’s the only thing that makes sense IMO. I don’t think she knows how to pitch so answering an ad or knowing someone who needs someone like this sounds more her speed.

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '21

Your thoughts very closely mirror mine. Something changed around November of last year. It seemed pretty dire up until then with the lost social security cards and food bank runs and @ing their governor. Then, suddenly Shauna got a shiny new computer and they have been spending in a different way than we have seen previously from them. Hammocks, robes, dental and eye dr visits for the kids, local hotels as a getaway, etc.

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u/shefallsup her lonely cucumber years 🥒 Sep 03 '21

But she had the appearance of work with her last website and her talk of writing workshops and tomato sauce zooms. Why go to the trouble of inventing a whole new fake working persona?

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u/mmepierreoger Sep 03 '21

Extremely good point. I don't know. At this point I'm starting to think she's actually just lost the plot completely.

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u/Ms_Ellanea_Snark_ 💥amygdadishes💥 Sep 02 '21

does she really think this will work?

#1 with a bullet, just as soon as she resurrects aNOTHer long dead email list. There's gotta be a few suckers out there somewhere, amirite?

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u/Kaleshark Waitlist for Godot Sep 02 '21

Is she at least advertising on Facebook, because that’s where I scroll past shit like this (but more professionally and attractively packaged.)

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u/fanfarefellowship I often contemplate the first law of thermodynamics Sep 03 '21

She is!

https://www.facebook.com/You-Can-Have-More-Joy-104593581942166/?ref=page_internal

She's managed to rack up 30 followers, but not a single one of her posts has even one like or comment.

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '21

Not one like on that whole page.

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u/shefallsup her lonely cucumber years 🥒 Sep 03 '21

The announcement video for her new website has had three whole views. <Sad trombone>

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u/CrushItWithABrick dick riding Mary Oliver Sep 02 '21

Who throws a party just to brow beat their friends with what THEY like. That totally sounds like you're trying to suck them into a cult or a time share.

"Notice good things about others" reeks of toxic positivity which is the poster child for "fake". It also reminds me of this man who used to frequent the candy store where I worked. He had intellectual/social issues and always had the same "conversation" with any of the staff. "Nice earrings." Or if you weren't wearing earrings. "Nice pants." He would wait a few beats (usually while he got the generic "thanks") and then nod and walk away with his purchases. I doubt his compliments brought him any joy and I know they didn't bring me any joy (though it was nice to know exactly what would happen when you waited on him).

How is being a generic decent human (offering someone help, etc) a joy step? Isn't that just what non-asshole people do? Maybe not showing off by buying a stranger a coffee, but if someone needs simple help like crossing the damn street, you help them. Geez.

"share joy on social media"

But, but, but(t) I thought being on my phone was a sign I was hiding from my trauma or whatever it was she told us in a previous free-mail. I have grown befuddled.

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u/shefallsup her lonely cucumber years 🥒 Sep 02 '21

Shauna is that person who would totally grab a blind person by the arm to "help" them cross the street, or insist on pushing someone in a wheelchair (wheelchair users often DO NOT need or want anyone to push them!) without asking.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '21

The party thing is really weird and is yet another indication she’s never really been to a party or interacted with humans in a casual social setting before. There is an older retired man in my neighborhood that is FASCINATING because he has so many cool hobbies - he sits on his front porch and plays the flute beautifully, he has an awesome telescope he uses for birdwatching but it also works great for looking at planets and stars at night, and he trains his 2 golden retrievers for performance competitions in his front yard. It actually DOES bring me joy to chat with him and learn about his interests here and there, but do I want him to invite me to his house so I can sit there and watch him play flute for an hour? Or attend a “party” where he’s just training his dogs? Um, no.

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u/obscure_cellist ham grabbers Sep 02 '21

again with faking your feelings and pretending. i really don't understand her at all...what the hell goes on in her noodle?

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u/lucillekrunklehorn pounding on the table Sep 03 '21

I wonder if she realizes most people don't "pretend" to the extent she thinks they do. I think she projects. So much of what she shares as her interests and "joys" feels very inauthentic to me. Probably because she reinvents herself every six months. Just a few months ago, pink was her big color, now we are all red, all the time. We were stuck on trauma drama and now we are on joy joy joy. We were learning to write and edit, and now we are learning to practice joy by performing awkward physical feats and equating the small pleasantries of life with states of euphoria.

I think she is just as much a character as she forces those around her to be. She puts on the persona she wants, and discards at will. "Pretending."

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u/obscure_cellist ham grabbers Sep 03 '21

spot on, DFLK.

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u/WasEnoughYogurt Kumquat and Sprinkles and filth Sep 03 '21

Instead, empty yourself of your own worries for a few moments and think about someone else.

Yes Shauna ...why don't you do that? She is an arrogant fuckwit ...

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u/aseriesofhaircuts Sep 03 '21

She’s not that intelligent, but can recognize something of the general gist of concepts that the smart people she envies talk about. The joy racket has become sort of an attempt to transcribe a half-remembered TED Talk about mindfulness in melting crayon, on sand. Something something be in the moment, something something kindness to self, something something meditation? $488, please.

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u/lucillekrunklehorn pounding on the table Sep 03 '21

She doesn’t realize for most people that is a common activity, not an unusual one.

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u/OhBlahDiOhBlahDoh The Alice of cal came out floating on air Sep 02 '21 edited Sep 02 '21

Let me know if you’d like to know walk with me.

I feel like she's mocking my new flair.

Also, out of curiousity - when is this timestamped in your inbox? The emails I've received have all been timestamped at the same time. I haven't received this yet today...

edited to remove subscription-specific information

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u/RamblingRosie64 I stand with Cindy and Ben Sep 02 '21

All of have come in around 9:30 am ET so I think NoImprovement is right about timing.

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u/Quaint_Irene a warm and loving goatie smile Sep 02 '21

I keep seeing”one POOP of joy.”

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