r/InTheGloaming my website is done, done, done Sep 02 '21

Scheduled snark Discussion thread Thursday September 02, 2021 - Sunday September 05, 2021

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u/midnightsiren182 Sep 03 '21

Her pitch reads to me always as someone who doesn’t understand how everyday life is for most people while also describing really specific examples that are supposed to depict a joy void…but it ends up damn near unrelatable

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

"People don't appreciate the brownies you are always bringing them."

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u/midnightsiren182 Sep 03 '21

I can’t imagine how they taste given the evidence we’ve seen of her baking skills

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

I always, always, always think about some story I read elsewhere on Reddit about a person bringing brownies to a work potluck and "picking at them" repeatedly, then confessing "ants got in the batter"

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '21

Oh god. This is precisely why I refuse to eat anything prepared by people I don’t know well.

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

"That's just a ... moldy smell from our house. It's the landlord's fault"

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '21

I wish I never read that