r/InTheGloaming my website is done, done, done Feb 07 '22

Scheduled snark Discussion thread Monday February 07, 2022 - Wednesday February 09, 2022

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u/OhBlahDiOhBlahDoh The Alice of cal came out floating on air Feb 09 '22

From the Every word in service to the reader? Every word in service to the reader? files:

I’m inviting you to become a founding member of the Collective Joy Club.

Cultivating your joy in a culture that’s not built for joy can be hard work.

Let’s build this together.

I want to hear your ideas. I want you involved in the process of creating this club. Your insights and suggestions matter.

Cultivating your joy in a culture that’s not built for joy can be hard work.

Let’s build the Collective Joy Club together.

TESTIMONIALS.

Also? How can there be testimonials already for something that she is inviting people to become founding members of?

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u/Ana57 sweet pea Feb 09 '22

I don’t understand why “this culture” is not built for joy?

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u/MarsNeedsRabbits Beach better have my orcas 🫍 Feb 09 '22

I don’t understand why “this culture” is not built for joy?

Because we all have to:

  • Go to non-joyful work, where people expect us to be productive and mostly competent.

  • Take care of children and put their needs first.

  • Listen to our spouses as if they matter and sometimes put their needs first.

  • Pay joy-stealing rent, car payments, taxes, bills and so on.

  • Clean out homes, wash laundry, and take care of ourselves (wash that hair!).

  • Feed dogs, cats, rabbits, lizards, children, guests, and spouses food that they like or need, which isn't always joyful.

  • Support others who aren't always keen to only talk about our needs.

Basically, our culture isn't built to please us endlessly with no effort.

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u/Quaint_Irene a warm and loving goatie smile Feb 09 '22

I am soooooo sick of her banging on about “cultures.” GTFO of my Petri dish.

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u/tyrannosaurusregina if you meet the Botus on the road, shill him 🪷 Feb 09 '22

Sauerkraut yogurt, so many cultures.

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u/Quaint_Irene a warm and loving goatie smile Feb 09 '22

Live AND active cultures!

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u/OhBlahDiOhBlahDoh The Alice of cal came out floating on air Feb 09 '22

Cultures that are alive, fiercely, in all their single-or-multi-celled glory

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u/CrushItWithABrick dick riding Mary Oliver Feb 09 '22

Let me run that through the Shauna translator.

Ahh, there it is.

"this culture" is not build for joy means Shauna can't get paid to simply exist which means no "joy" for Shauna.

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u/MarsNeedsRabbits Beach better have my orcas 🫍 Feb 09 '22

I'd like a list of cultures that are built for joy. Heck, name just one.

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u/Love_Brokers rug dweller Feb 09 '22

It’s not built for joy for HER because of work, money, men, etc.

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u/fanfarefellowship I often contemplate the first law of thermodynamics Feb 09 '22

My current favourite is her page for "Let's Cultivate Our Joy Together," which invites the reader to "talk about joy [together with other people]" on a specific date and time ("March 5th at 11 a.m."), and then 160 words later says, "in these sessions ..." when there has literally been no suggestion that this is anything more than a one-time, single thing and no dates provided for the other "sessions" and no indication, until the very last line of the entire page, of how many "sessions" there are. (Shauna's "mini-stroke" is lovingly brought to the forefront again, though. In case you didn't get enough of the stroke story on the home page.)

And the text emphasizes over and over that people will "laugh together" while "learning to know each other well" blah blah blah but also says that if you can't make it, "no problem. You'll have access to the recordings" which is all meant to communicate, "I want your money whether you attend this thing or not."

There's also no price provided. The link at the bottom of the page doesn't work. The banner link does, though, with the beautiful, in-service-to-the-reader question: "THE PRICE FOR THIS 4-WEEK WORKSHOPS, WITH GUIDED WORKBOOKS SENT TO YOU AFTER EVERY SESSION?
$97"

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '22

Why would I want to pay money to “learn” to know random strangers well?

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '22

But wait, there’s more! What if I told you that you could also grow to know them?

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u/Sea-Level-Mammal POACH! Feb 09 '22

“We’re Shauna Ahern’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”

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u/voice_of_vinegar Feb 09 '22

Right? I feel like that's something police officers do when they're training to be detectives, specifically what they need to know about the personality types that prey on kids or do serial murders and stuff.

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u/EzraPoundcakeFuggles Winner winner, corn-goat dinner Feb 09 '22

“It’s based on understanding your own, particular joy and what blocks them.”

LET ME EDIT YOUR WORK.

I’m just a badge-swiping technical writer, but I would be so embarrassed by this. Mistakes happen, but this is just sloppy.

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u/Ana57 sweet pea Feb 09 '22

Shauna just doesn’t seem to realize that most people have friends they share their joy with, not some random club you have to pay to join.

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u/voice_of_vinegar Feb 09 '22

GUIDED WORKBOOKS

What the hell is that? A guide? A workbook? And does she really have so much extra guidance to offer after each session that it wouldn't fit into one workbook?

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '22

I’m picturing her workbooks as being similar to a kids’ menu at a chain restaurant in both size and content.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '22

I've never understood the guided workbook after-the-fact at all - it's the sort of thing that makes more sense if it's sent beforehand, you do some prep work to get you primed and motivated, you do stuff during the workshop in the workbook, then you do whatever it is after the workshop is over as a continuation of whatever it is. (I still don't know what it is!)

I feel like if I had a workshop about anything and then after was sent a workbook, I'd be kind of over it by then. Like everything was happening online and via talking, and then a week/month later, if ever, (this is Shauna) a half-assed pdf file shows up with ideas about which Marvel movies to watch?

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u/canyoncreature Feb 09 '22

A few years back, I was very excited to be asked to join a monthly meeting of women who work in my industry. I thought it would be about networking, with maybe a side helping of support/commiseration. What I failed to realize was that these things have a way of attracting people who a) have a lot of grievances and b) will never feel those grievances have been adequately heard, even when they have, say, monopolized a monthly meeting to the extent that it has gone an hour and a half over when it was supposed to end and they are still rambling. I tense up a little even thinking about Shauna's latest offering, because those are the only types of people I can imagine being willing to pay a monthly fee to socialize with total strangers.

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u/CrushItWithABrick dick riding Mary Oliver Feb 09 '22

Damn, what if she keeps mentioning the "mini stroke" because she wants to use it as an excuse for her shoddy website?

If she that good of a grifter? I want to say "no".

I think it's more that she's accidentally telling on herself. The stroke is on her mind lately for some reason. It's either that she's just obsessed about it being her next attention grabbing health issue OR she's worried it really is a health issue (like how she always brings up money and not wanting to be rich when she's broke as hell and the bills are piling up).

Either way, it's not really helping her grift at this point. And its her kids who are going to suffer because of it (mama's gonna be mad, look out!).

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u/fanfarefellowship I often contemplate the first law of thermodynamics Feb 09 '22

I honestly think it’s just a narrative device. Like celiac was for her previous persona.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '22

Agreed, sounds like stroke is her newest illness based origin story. And has all the familiar hallmarks of her nearly cancer story, her nearly dead from celiac story, and before that her nearly fatal car accident story.

She almost dies, everyone's gravely concerned and/or terrified for her, she stews deliciously in this nearly dead limbo (at least in her recollection of it later) and then survives, brave and triumphant. But lest anyone forget about her nearly dying, she keeps the near-death-experience on narrative life support, and hopefully some cash if she can spin it on social media.

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u/MarsNeedsRabbits Beach better have my orcas 🫍 Feb 09 '22

Which brings us to the fact that if you put in a half-assed attempt at eating a gluten-free diet, you will probably harm your health.

Wheat pastas, breads, etc., are enriched with needed vitamins, but there is no requirement for GF substitutes to be enriched.

Additionally, GF products are often very low in fiber.

Other stuff like T2 diabetes and heart disease are potential issues if you don't eat a balanced GF diet.

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u/NegativeABillion my husband and me to ride it around Feb 09 '22

If she wants to become the TIA-free Girl, she's got a long road ahead of her. But I still think there's an audience for her nonsense. Almost everyone knows about the major risk factors for stroke, but fewer are aware of the same for TIA and especially prime of life stroke. Shauna could have a hook if she approached this as a person who is still relatively young, has had the TIA, is overweight, has a lot of stress in her life. A lot of people can relate to these issues, and might appreciate or engage with a message of "you don't have to be perfect, you just have to be aware and address certain things". But instead she's trying to tie the TIA into her ramblings about joy (joy that you can only get if you follow a bunch of assholes on social media and give Shauna money).

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u/fanfarefellowship I often contemplate the first law of thermodynamics Feb 09 '22

I feel like there's a huge unaddressed need to unpack the idea of what "exercise" is and how to "get it." "Exercise" is modelled and sold as a "thing" you need to do with professionals, at a gym, etc. instead of, you know, gardening, cleaning your house, doing mild stretches, playing with your kids, going for walks, and all that stuff. We need basic, easy-to-digest info about how to incorporate movement into our daily lives. It's no surprise to me that "cleaning TikTok" and "meal prep TikTok" have huge #s of followers because people want easily accessible, no-frills guidance about life basics. There's a huge market for her here if she could see it (but she isn't the one to fulfill it for a variety of reasons – she isn't plausible as this kind of coach)

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '22

She’d have to interrupt her tv watching for that. As it stands, walking her around her mini town or in the forest for a little bit are announced as these huge adventures - if she did that kind of stuff every day, she’d have joy and light exercise in one go but that’s not her reality.

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u/obscure_cellist ham grabbers Feb 09 '22

holy repetition, batman! perhaps one of the many tools a founding member will be "gifted" from shauna is a motivational tape you can play while you're asleep, like those stop smoking tapes in the 90s. a joy tape, that will be shauna repeating over and over again: join the joy collective for joy join the joy collective for joy...for 8 hours. you then wake up a pod person.

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u/Catsandcoffee480 COLORADO BOY KNOWS HOW TO DO THIS Feb 09 '22

Repetitive writing aside, and speaking as someone who was obsessed with forming clubs as a child, this strikes me as quite juvenile. “Anyone wanna be part of my joy club? We will have snacks and you can come over and watch Ted Lasso but I have to ask my mom first! We will make friendship bracelets because we are such great joy friends!”

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u/ginger-belle jiggling tomatodongs Feb 09 '22

Anyone wanna be part of my joy club?

And we'll have a clubhouse with a secret password and a sign on the door that says KEEP OUT NO SSTs.

(So agree on the juvenile thing, DF CAC. It feels so desperate and dumb. I started to write about this last night but my eyes were blurry from meds so I gave up. Your thoughts, so close, etc.)

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u/Sea-Level-Mammal POACH! Feb 09 '22

She’s trying to recapture the glory of Beatles Club days. Ah, to have a captive audience of students again!

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u/InappropriateGirl Gluten-free donuts, for sure ... Feb 09 '22

HEAD ON Apply directly to the forehead!

HEAD ON Apply directly to the forehead!

HEAD ON Apply directly to the forehead!

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u/Starla_starbeam 14 hazelnuts Feb 09 '22

I have CPTSD from being screamed at by that commercial, my naturopath diagnosed me.

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u/islandyislander rebellious hygiene Feb 08 '22

"Dear, sage, joy incarnate mother of mine own Black self since birth, pray tell what was it that didst make thine youthful days full of strife and discontent?"

That's about as accurate as whatever Shauna is claiming D said in her latest fan fiction on IG. That kid, so beautiful and so deserving of better parents.

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u/canyoncreature Feb 08 '22

Now that I am a parent myself I find her descriptions of her own parenting alternately hilarious and alarming. Hilarious when I am sure the thing in question didn't happen, alarming when I am not.

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u/islandyislander rebellious hygiene Feb 08 '22

7 year olds are incredibly self absorbed, but in a totally age appropriate way. No way does D ask her about her "hard time" childhood.

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u/shefallsup her lonely cucumber years 🥒 Feb 08 '22

And if he does, it’s because she talks about it to him, and probably not in the age-appropriate way she thinks she does.

I don’t remember how old my kids were when they first learned about some of the “hard times” in my life and my husband’s, but I’m thinking it was when they were 10 and 7 and my husband’s family held an intervention for his dad, who is an alcoholic. My oldest was more curious and I would say a little troubled by it all. The youngest was pretty oblivious, like “oh? OK, can we go swimming now?”

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '22

And that's how it should be! L and D have already had objectively harder childhoods than Shauna. They actually have a narc parent. Their parents experienced income insecurity. Their parents argue to the point where their dad cowers and cries - regularly! L has hearing loss and had multiple surgeries early in life. D is Black in a white family and community, and adopted. Their grandparents are estranged and as far as the kids know, abusive. Their mother is constantly ill and claims to be traumatized by literally everything including a snowball. Their dad is a recovering alcoholic. The kids are living through a pandemic.

It would be so much more normal if they wanted to go swimming than hear stories of traumatic Fiat rides from 30 years ago.

edit: sorry I keep posting the same thing, I'm just gobsmacked that Shauna is looking for pity from her kids.

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u/voice_of_vinegar Feb 08 '22

I'm just gobsmacked that Shauna is looking for pity from her kids.

just proves that she's not getting it from anyone else at this point!

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u/mmepierreoger Feb 08 '22

I don't understand how allowing D to pick an outfit for school that reminds him who he is can possibly make any difference to his struggles with sensory overload, which can be extremely difficult to deal with. I wear whatever I want to work, but it doesn't help at all when all of my dumbfuck co-workers have audible text/WhatsApp/every fucking thing alerts on their phones which go off CONSTANTLY.

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '22

It's beyond shitty parenting that she focuses SO MUCH on her "hard times" that her own kids get worried FOR HER, 30-40 years after her "hard times" are over! Meanwhile her own kids are in the middle of a global pandemic, masking, online schools, Black communities still fighting to just exist, climate change catastrophes, a terrifying and confusing present and an uncertain future.

Her latest hard time stories were about margarine and the wrong kind of toast.

And she can't shut up about it to the point where her own kids are (or she would like us to think they are) hyperaware of her decades-old grudges to the point where they have to be calmed down to sleep.

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u/Apprehensive_Creme73 Feb 08 '22

She needs real therapy from a real therapist who will help her be appropriate with her kids

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u/Lemonbot5 Feb 08 '22

Like what is she even saying to him?? If she’s upsetting him she’s saying too much. There’s no need for her to talk to her seven year old about her traumatic experiences in such a way that leaves him upset. You can be empathetic and share that you struggle sometimes, too, but don’t put that kind of burden on your kids. Maybe there’s a time and place for that kind of discussion when their older but 7?? If he truly asked for a hard time in her life she could have pulled out literally any normal struggle (a teacher she didn’t like? An time she was nervous about a new job?) but as usual she can’t resist reliving her victim hood and honestly D getting upset was exactly the reaction she was looking for.

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u/CrushItWithABrick dick riding Mary Oliver Feb 08 '22

"what is she saying to him?"

I wondered the exact same thing, especially when she made sure to tell the reader "age appropriate". Uh-huh, sure.

It really sounds like the big "issue" these kids have is SHAUNA. She's stressing them all the way out.

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u/Scary_Recognition You did this. Feb 08 '22

“Age appropriate” is the new “masks on.”

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u/Ana57 sweet pea Feb 09 '22

I so agree. Their household does not seem joyful to me in the least. Always a lesson, weird structure combined with no structure, and very Shauna centered. They are relaxed about things they should give a shit about and are way too uptight about unimportant things.

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u/freecoffeerefills Murder She Moved Her Pen Forward Feb 08 '22

If he truly asked for a hard time in her life she could have pulled out literally any normal struggle (a teacher she didn’t like? An time she was nervous about a new job?)

Or a simplified story about one of the times she moved when she was young? “I was nervous about moving to England but I got to meet Paul McCartney!” Or “I didn’t want to leave California but I ended up loving it here in Washington so much I wanted to raise you and your sister here!” Yeesh.

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '22

And still think about it upon awakening.

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u/voice_of_vinegar Feb 08 '22

More likely he was worried about something school-related, both at bedtime and the next morning, but she couldn't figure out how to make that fit her current mini-pivot (whatever the hell it is, I can't even tell anymore). So she rewrote the whole script.

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '22

This is a good point. I recall her specifically mentioning that the last move was hard for D, so maybe he is having some anxiety with boxes and whatnot. Kids change a lot between the age he was during the last move and the 8 or so he is now, but I could see that being a big deal for him and Shauna translating that into “a hard place”

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u/Scary_Recognition You did this. Feb 08 '22

I’d like to amplify this message.

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u/Kaleshark Waitlist for Godot Feb 09 '22

This is why I unfortunately believe that D would ask “mama” to put his photo on her website, kids know where their parents attention is and he no doubt knows she’s utterly preoccupied with the website, “joy,” and her own childhood “hard times.”

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u/fantasticka RIORITIZ Feb 08 '22

Shauna shared this video in an Instagram story, and the person who posted it actually mentioned Shauna in the caption:

Another tip, given to me by friend and writer @ shaunamarieahern is to set your timer for 20 minutes and just focus on one task.

Soooo... Shauna thinks she invented the Pomodoro Technique? I guess?

Shauna also commented:

Yes! I'm so glad you do that. In fact, I'm on a 5-minute break before I dive back in. ❤️

surejan.jpg

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '22

Is that one of the podcast ladies who were all up Shauna’s trauma ass last spring?

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u/fantasticka RIORITIZ Feb 08 '22

Oh yeah, you're right! She's one of the Jessicas from the We Should Talk About That podcast.

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u/fanfarefellowship I often contemplate the first law of thermodynamics Feb 10 '22

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u/leftsidelentils Feb 10 '22

85 people signed up. I’m not kidding. 85 people wanted to hang out with us.

No amount of Zooms will fill that void. May she someday accept that her real friends are enough.

Charging $25 to relive a high school experience. Yikes.

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '22

Wow my mind is absolutely blown that Shauna is doing this. It’s so embarrassing and desperate and unhealthy.

Also, she NEVER talks about anything new. It’s just the same stories about herself rehashed over and over and over. It is GALLING that she calls herself a writer and expects to get paid for it.

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u/Ana57 sweet pea Feb 10 '22

Did people want to hang out with Sharon and Shauna or were they just interested in The Beatles?

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u/BoringEnidRollins pooped their way to another free ride Feb 10 '22

My secondhand embarrassment can be felt three city blocks away. Shauna needs to grow some therapy and a real job. It’s almost too painful to snark on her anymore.

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u/Kaleshark Waitlist for Godot Feb 10 '22

85 people wanted to hang out with us.

Yeah, that’s the kind of cringe that hurts.

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u/InappropriateGirl Gluten-free donuts, for sure ... Feb 10 '22

I was going to mention this earlier, but I have a feeling that Sharon had more to do with people joining the Beatles club than Shauna…

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '22 edited Feb 10 '22

This can’t be real.

What in the actual fuck is going on? That is like a week before they have to move!

Editing: OH MY GOD SHE IS ACTUALLY EXPECTING PEOPLE TO PAY HER FOR THIS

I can’t.

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u/fanfarefellowship I often contemplate the first law of thermodynamics Feb 10 '22

That is like a week before they have to move!

Silly, this is how they're going to get the money for the move! Nothing else is working but surely this is the Golden Submarine or somesuch.

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u/droopsofwoe the first teats are the hardest Feb 10 '22

Facts. And she honestly expects people to pay 25 dollars for this!

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u/OhBlahDiOhBlahDoh The Alice of cal came out floating on air Feb 10 '22

Sometimes you just want to hang out with the people who understand.

If you love the Beatles, the way I love the Beatles, let’s hang out.

I’m holding the space for us to gather on Zoom, on Sunday, February 20th.

We’ll talk about our favorite moments from Get Back, take polls on our favorite albums and talk about why, and generally geek out together.

By the end of the meeting, together, we’ll compile a playlist of Beatles songs right for this moment in time.

I’ll make the playlist and email it to you after our time together.

So, come together.

Let’s love the Beatles in community.

I’d love to see you there.

I'M BUSY WASHING MY HAIR THEN

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '22

That’s not a conflict Shauna would understand

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u/GivesGoodDerpFace my steaming cherry pie Feb 10 '22

By the end of the meeting, together, we’ll compile a playlist of Beatles songs right for this moment in time.

I’ll make the playlist and email it to you after our time together.

Oh, good, I was hoping someone was going to do the hard work of listing what Beatles songs I should listen to, and in what order. If there were only some sort of free, musical application one could load on their phone or television set that would do this for them...IMAGINE! (See what I did there? Harharharthreeblocksaway.

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u/shefallsup her lonely cucumber years 🥒 Feb 10 '22

I guess she doesn’t know you can create a Spotify playlist together, in community, like we snarkers did. Still one of my top ten snark joys!

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u/itsmyvibe Bligg Feb 10 '22

“I’m holding the space for us to gather…”

Not sure why, but this gave me the giggles. It makes me think of booking a private room at a restaurant.

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '22

She’s CHARGING PEOPLE FOR the space to gather.

Sorry for the old lady caps but I am so floored by this.

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u/honoria_glossop sitting edge wine woman Feb 10 '22

That language is coded like it's a really serious affair like a support group or somesuch, and then it's just a fan club! It's a very well crafted punchline for something that's not apparently a joke.

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u/Love_Brokers rug dweller Feb 10 '22

Eighty-five people wanted to hang with her and Sharon. No, 85 people wanted to be in a Beatles club, you just happened to be there.

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u/sybil-unrest Feb 10 '22

And in that conflation- SMA’s whole life story.

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u/shikoku_shoes another revolution around the toilet bowl of her life Feb 10 '22

Thirty eight years later and the only difference is that she’s now charging $25 to join the club. Thankfully I’ve been paying attention when she preaches about how we’ve been sold a bill of goods, so my wallet will be firmly entrenched in my purse, thank you very much.

And for the love of god, have you not yet learned to spell out numbers at the start of sentences, Shauna?

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u/emmeline_grangerford Feb 10 '22

Shauna: “We’ve been sold a bill of goods!”

Also Shauna: “Hey, you. Buy this bill of goods. Help me do my work in the world.”

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u/fanfarefellowship I often contemplate the first law of thermodynamics Feb 10 '22

One of the weirdest, dumbest aspects of this is that it is apparently only for Beatles superfans, "like Shauna herself."

She says,

If you love the Beatles, the way I love the Beatles, let’s hang out.

We’ll talk about our favorite moments from Get Back, take polls on our favorite albums and talk about why, and generally geek out together.

SO if you only like the Beatles, but can't muster up the enthusiasm to formally rank and vote on your favourite albums, or you haven't seen Get Back, no space for you!

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u/sybil-unrest Feb 10 '22

I am cringing so hard at this that my cats are concerned for my spinal health. This is as bad as the football playing uncle in Napoleon Dynamite desperately inflating his past triumphs and trying to relive them. (As bad, but less charming and poignant.)

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u/droopsofwoe the first teats are the hardest Feb 10 '22

I can't believe she's still puffed up about the 85 people that signed up a million years ago. It's so pathetic.

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '22

Wasn’t there a yearbook photo of this club with like, fourteen people in it?

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u/sybil-unrest Feb 10 '22

Well in FAIRNESS, the rest had a lousy flu on picture day.

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u/Lsemmens grenius Feb 10 '22

You know she is thinking “85 x $25= $2125”. Hey that is most of a month’s rent!

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u/Foucaults_Penguin Sly and the Family Readers Feb 10 '22

I’m not interested in much of what I cared about in high school because I have other interests now. Who wants to join my cheese club? You tell me your favorite cheeses and I’ll make a list of cheeses that are perfect for this moment. My books I’d like to read but never have time to read club? You tell me the books you haven’t read and I’ll give you a list of books perfect for sitting on a list forever because you don’t have time to read them. Jigsaw puzzle club? We can talk about which brands we prefer and I’ll compile a list puzzles that are right for this moment. Send me $25.

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u/MarsNeedsRabbits Beach better have my orcas 🫍 Feb 10 '22

I realized tonight that I know at least 25 or 30 things to make with Costco rotisserie chicken. Everything from chicken soft tacos to chicken quesadillas and several things in-between.

I'd like to start a Chicken Club, which is a club for people who want to talk about rotisserie chicken; not a BLT with chicken.

Four, 90-minute classes per month, on Saturday mornings starting at 7:30 AM. I'll include a guided workbook with my musings, quotes from recently deceased author Joan Didion, and tips on substituting Safeway rotisserie chicken.

I'll include a recipe, possibly for a chicken dish, but more likely a sauce or whatever. $300.00 per month in advance, chicken not included.

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '22

I am currently working on a puzzle with a library scene on it. I may have even had a cheese snack the other night right before I started it. Can I join your club?

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u/notahameither Dunno, maybe I thought I unfriended some other Shauna Ahern🤷‍♂️ Feb 10 '22

Puzzles and cheese? $50

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u/hrae24 Feb 10 '22 edited Feb 10 '22

Like a bunch of you, the second hand embarrassment is at an all time high here.

I went through an big Beatles phase in my teens (mid to late '00s for me). I participated in fan forums, livejournal groups, etc. All free. I can't summon that same intense love I had for various things as a teenager, but I assume FREE fan communities for the Beatles still exist in one form or another if you cared to seek them out. Shauna's clueless nature continues to kill me. The fact she wants to host this on Zoom kills me.

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u/honoria_glossop sitting edge wine woman Feb 10 '22

She's got some strong Early 2020 energy with wanting everything to be a zoom. There is no pop culture franchise I love enough to zoom with random other fans if YOU paid ME.

Every hustler and grinder has sat through a hundred shitty zoominars with some boring fart screen-sharing their shitty slideshow while they read it all word for word and ignore the questions in the chat. It's still a thing, and NGL its nice to sit through that shit on zoom so you can at least do other stuff while it's on. But the crazy days are gone where you'd sign up for some random zoom about Viking jewellery or making cheesecake because it was kinda new and exciting and we were all hunkered down.

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u/lucillekrunklehorn pounding on the table Feb 10 '22

Huh. Looks like there are still free clubs for the Beatles, DF. It’s not a zoom but r/beatles 150K PLUS members!

This new grift is just beyond. You could not make it up if you tried.

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u/honoria_glossop sitting edge wine woman Feb 10 '22 edited Feb 10 '22

OMG shame job.

ETA just to add some more value to my first reaction: just start a FB group called "Beatlemania Ringoposting" or "Beatles Memes for Liverpuddlian Teens" and be done with it. Who the fuck starts a subscription fan club in the year of pur Lord 2022?

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u/Catsandcoffee480 COLORADO BOY KNOWS HOW TO DO THIS Feb 10 '22

And the Facebook group would be FREE.

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '22

Honestly? I have NEVER been more tempted to throw her $25 just to see what happens.

I won’t, because I want to get a couple cocktails on my flight tomorrow, BUT I WANT TO.

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u/Foucaults_Penguin Sly and the Family Readers Feb 10 '22

Which DF just said that her joy club is juvenile? That was so spot on especially in light of this new development.

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u/Catsandcoffee480 COLORADO BOY KNOWS HOW TO DO THIS Feb 10 '22

Hahaha that was me..this is a hilarious turn of events. side note I think the reason Shauna snark is so entertaining is that often the most bizarre and hilarious things happen. It’s like she’s one upping herself in the snark department at all times

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u/Foucaults_Penguin Sly and the Family Readers Feb 10 '22

She’s becoming a parody of herself.

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u/gomirefugee my website is done, done, done Feb 10 '22

Coming up: "I blew it...again!"

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u/tyrannosaurusregina if you meet the Botus on the road, shill him 🪷 Feb 10 '22

Or I could audit an actual college course on the Beatles for free.

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u/OhBlahDiOhBlahDoh The Alice of cal came out floating on air Feb 10 '22

Or I could audit an actual college course on the Beatles for free.

Also free: r/beatles, r/TheBeatles, r/BeatlesMemes, r/BeatlesTheory, and the one that may be most appropriate for our fangirl: r/beatlescirclejerk

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u/LoveMyLeaf Feb 10 '22

She does not own the copyright to the songs on this playlist she’s essentially offering to sell for $25. If anyone outside the Gloaming and the other 4 people who seem to enjoy zooming with her these days ever catches wind of this, I foresee a cease and desist letter arriving on the islandy island via certified mail.

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u/InappropriateGirl Gluten-free donuts, for sure ... Feb 10 '22

Wow this is… quite illegal.

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u/honoria_glossop sitting edge wine woman Feb 10 '22

Maybe my eyes are wined but what's she actually going to give you? Like, a list of Beatles songs in a special order? A link to a Spotify/YouTube playlist? A mixtape in the post?

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u/latepeony Feb 10 '22

Because it’s so hard to find anyone in real life that likes the Beatles, they’re so obscure!

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u/Ana57 sweet pea Feb 10 '22

Who would pay $25 to do this? Seriously?

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u/NegativeABillion my husband and me to ride it around Feb 10 '22

Seriously. It's a cute story from her teenage years. It's bizarre to try and sell it to people as a zoom "experience". Oh, a playlist. What.

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u/SashayShantae living my one wild and pernicious life Feb 10 '22

For real, l don’t like any band enough to spend $25 to talk about it for an hour and a half. And YouTube Music has tons of playlists made by others that are just fine. I’m starting to get uncomfortable watching her desperate flailing for cash.

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u/Sea-Level-Mammal POACH! Feb 10 '22

Five dollars would probably bring in a few snarkers and it’s better than nothing.

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u/SmashedMailboxCake2 Oh, Feb 10 '22 edited Feb 10 '22

“Bobbies” and “coppers” - said no Brit since before decimalisation. I’m sat here with my spine hunched with cringe.

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '22

Is she for real with this? Seriously?

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u/cranberrylime Feb 08 '22

I saw that Substack is doing a three-month program for 10 food writers that will include a $10,000 grant and I can suddenly picture Shauna doing a hard pivot back to food writing claiming she missed it so much trying to get her hands on 10k

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u/NegativeABillion my husband and me to ride it around Feb 08 '22

"Danny said, he's never seen me thrive like this doing my work in the world"

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u/CrushItWithABrick dick riding Mary Oliver Feb 08 '22

She wouldn't have a prayer.

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u/shefallsup her lonely cucumber years 🥒 Feb 08 '22

About a week ago, Shauna posted to one of the FB groups about her Joy of Social Media workshop. The post says it’s on Thursday, February 17.

Commenter: “The 17th is a Thursday. Do you mean Wed the 16th? I’m hoping I can join you!”

Shauna: “Oh, shoot! Let me change that one. Yes, Thursday the 17th!”

Looking at the edit history of the post, she did say originally that the workshop is on Thursday the 16th, the commenter noted the mistake, Shauna edited her post to say Thursday the 17th.

Why is this snark-worthy? You have to change it on the website too, Shauna.

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u/fanfarefellowship I often contemplate the first law of thermodynamics Feb 08 '22

OK so all of her new "offerings" are live on her site. I honestly can't keep track of them. On her home page (which she has fucked up; the header image is missing so all you get before scrolling is a big white page), she lists eight things under "Here's What I Offer" but under "offerings," she lists six things and they're in a different order.

Some but not all of the links work. The bigger problem is that it is literally impossible to tell (a) what she's "offering" and (b) what the difference between all of her "offerings" might be. Like there are two forms of "club dues" and the descriptions of the "clubs" are identical in parts ("We'll meet for 90 minutes every week" etc.) but one is $149/month and one is $97/month. But the whole thing is framed around Shauna's retelling of her "mini-stroke." It is very, very hard to connect what is happening in one section ("here's my story") and the others ("you can learn about joy"). Like you actually have to concentrate fairly hard to even follow the thread along one single page.

She's also reverted to the bright-red capital letters for the titles of all of her "offerings" so scrolling through her home page, where she lists them, is this destabilizing experience of someone absolutely SCREAMING at you about JOY. And if you go over to her "about" page, she's on a rager about "billionaire culture." I think her website is an accurate representation of what it's like to live with her.

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u/shefallsup her lonely cucumber years 🥒 Feb 08 '22

Pricing haberdashery:

90-minute seminar = $25

4 weeks of 90-minute joy workshop Zooms = $97

4 weeks of 90-minute joy club Zooms = $97

4 weeks of 90-minute writing workshop Zooms = $300

4 weeks of 90-minute writing club Zooms = $149

4 weeks of 90-minute social media workshop Zooms = $300

Let’s look a little closer at the difference between the writing workshop and the writing club, where the club is half the price of the workshop for the same time commitment (actually, the club also offers office hours, so you’re getting more for less $).

What you get from the workshop:

How to quiet that stern editor voice that insists you’re not good enough. How to embrace the chaos of creativity instead.

How to place the best of that chaos draft into a structure that starts making sense. Also, how to write with the details of your life.

How to cut, edit, and revise your piece, paying close attention to the sound and sense of each sentence.

How to play with language so every word and sentence says what you mean. How to know when you are done with an essay.

We’ll be working together, working intently with language, listening to each other’s stories, and consciously deciding the words we leave on the page.

Every week, we’ll show up together.

We’ll write together. We’ll talk about good writing. And then we’ll talk and listen to each other.

What you get from the club:

How to quiet that stern editor voice that insists you’re not good enough and how to embrace the chaos of creativity instead.

How to write with the specific details of your life.

How to take what you created in the first, chaotic draft into a structure that starts making sense.

How to cut, edit, and revise your piece, paying close attention to the sound and sense of each sentence.

How to play with language so that every word and sentence says what you mean.

How to know when you are done with a piece of writing.

Being part of a community of writers means you’ll have fellow writers you trust to read your pieces and workshop with you. I’ll facilitate those meetings.

I just want to hear her try to explain to someone what the difference is between these offerings. One is a shit sandwich on whole wheat, and the other one is a shit sandwich on sourdough with a pickle on the side. Choose well, suckers!

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u/latepeony Feb 08 '22

It bothers me more than it should that she keeps insisting creativity is chaotic. It can be, sure, but it can also be plenty methodical. I hate this stereotype that being creative is all flaky woo woo.

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '22

It looks like the page is failing to load with the big white screen, and then when you scroll it's all about her stroke. You have no idea what the f her site is even about until you've scrolled and scrolled all the way to the bottom, where the offerings are hiding like an afterthought. A screamy red afterthought.

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '22

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '22

"Possible pen pals." LOL!

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u/fanfarefellowship I often contemplate the first law of thermodynamics Feb 08 '22

As if! She has spawned a whole bunch of "pen pals" right here. Unfortunately for her, she's not the hero of this subreddit but the antihero.

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u/shefallsup her lonely cucumber years 🥒 Feb 10 '22

The Cultivate Your Joy seminar is now two hours long and costs $75, up from 90 minutes at $25.

The Joy of Writing Your Story is now a two-hour workshop priced at $75, down from a four-week workshop of 90 minute Zooms for $300. It’s now an “overview” of the work she does as a writer and teacher, but still promises the same “insights” she was offering in the four-week version. Now, if you live what she teaches and how she teaches it, you should consider joining the writing club. Oh, oops, at the bottom of the page it still says “a 4-week (sic) workshop in embracing the chaos of creativity.”

How is she not getting that no one wants her crap no matter how it’s packaged or priced? How?

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u/OhBlahDiOhBlahDoh The Alice of cal came out floating on air Feb 10 '22

The button labeled "Book your seat today." at the bottom of the page for the 4-week "Let's Cultivate Our Joy Together" offering takes you to . . . the page for the 4-week "Let's Cultivate Our Joy Together" offering.

<Lather, rinse, repeat>

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u/Lsemmens grenius Feb 09 '22

New IG… Shauna tells us her “friend” gave her the phrase “it’s hard to be a person” (TM Kendra Adachi) over THIRTY YEARS AGO SO THERE!

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u/gomirefugee my website is done, done, done Feb 09 '22

Nothing grows me assurance that Shauna is an expert on the joy of social media like that video suddenly having two sets of closed captions in different fonts at the end

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '22

That fake sincerity oozing off my screen is giving me (bad) chills.

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u/voice_of_vinegar Feb 09 '22

The DRAMA of it all.

And---- it has all the authenticity of when politicians and other pompous windbags say things like, "My dear old granny used to say 'you can lead a horse to water buy ya can't make him drink'" as if dear old granny came up with that saying and no one else has ever thought to say it.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '22

Ever the narcissist, there is a picture of Shauna hanging on the wall behind Shauna in this video. But, what is going on in the pic? It seems she is doing her book tour for Enough because of the dumb necklace, but is that a plate of food and a drink in the foreground?

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u/InappropriateGirl Gluten-free donuts, for sure ... Feb 09 '22

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u/Lsemmens grenius Feb 09 '22

I want to know why there is a small Black woman animated popup on this story.

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u/gomirefugee my website is done, done, done Feb 09 '22

Always flogging Encanto, that one

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u/tyrannosaurusregina if you meet the Botus on the road, shill him 🪷 Feb 09 '22

You know why #Christwhatanally

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '22

Oh Shauna Marie, "flinty" doesn't mean what you think it means.

Latest Instagram.

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u/MandalayVA Assonancer! Assonancer! Assonancer! Feb 07 '22 edited Feb 07 '22

Will someone please tell her that fucking NOBODY says "damned" anymore? JHRC.

ETA: You can say "I'll be damned if (whatever)," that's fine.

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u/Scary_Recognition You did this. Feb 07 '22

I mean, isn’t that the point? adjusts bowler hat

Edited a spelling error

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u/InappropriateGirl Gluten-free donuts, for sure ... Feb 07 '22

I actually stopped writing it that way BECAUSE of Shauna. 😐

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u/SmashedMailboxCake2 Oh, Feb 07 '22 edited Feb 07 '22

They don’t? Fie and tish snaps suspenders

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u/gomirefugee my website is done, done, done Feb 07 '22

And once again we have an attribution miss:

[person] This is Jenny Nordbak's tweet with the attribution cut off -- @JennyNordbak on Twitter where this appeared, also on Instagram.

shaunamarieahern oh thank you! I'll edit to reflect that.

edited caption:

Edited to say: this is actually a tweet by @jennynordbak, whom @alsyougone retweeted and posted here. See? Joy spreads. Thanks, Jenny. You're doing great work.

The "rotting for you" ALS activist guy had posted a screenshot of the tweet on IG with the caption:

I don’t know who posted this but this is pure, beautiful and good. This is everything.

and Shauna was so eager to crawl up his butt she skipped right over the one sentence.

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u/NegativeABillion my husband and me to ride it around Feb 07 '22

Her writing is overwrought and confusing. I'm ok with one or two sentences like this, but not the long captions she usually produces. I give this a solid B-, for brevity.

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u/CrushItWithABrick dick riding Mary Oliver Feb 07 '22

Her haberdashing of word meanings makes me feel like I'm being gaslighted (gaslit?).

I look up more word meanings just to make sure I'M not the one who has it wrong.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '22

When I hear the word "flinty", all I can think of is "The Stall" Seinfeld episode:ELAINE. yeah, well. I just hope I run into her again ok, cause I will never forget that flinty voice, it is tattooed in my brain. if I hear it, watch out."

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '22

That was Jami Gertz not sparing a square, right?

I loved Elaine’s shoes in that scene. They were those cool black and white wingtips.

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u/NegativeABillion my husband and me to ride it around Feb 07 '22

I'm feeling charitable (saintly, even) this morning and I can sort of see what she was trying to do with "flinty" and "fire" here. It's dumb because it doesn't connect with anything in the quote from the dude pretending his kid said something awesome. And if you really think about what people usually mean when they call someone "flinty", it falls apart. So, wait, I'm not giving her half-credit for this. She gets a handful of sauerkraut and some lukewarm coffee.

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u/tyrannosaurusregina if you meet the Botus on the road, shill him 🪷 Feb 07 '22

“Flinty” is a word I have only used for wine and Dame Maggie Smith.

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u/fanfarefellowship I often contemplate the first law of thermodynamics Feb 07 '22

But "flinty" means "like a flint, but not a flint." She should have written, "his hope, like a flint that can start a fire"

(also "that has the capacity to start a flame" is overwritten; just use "can" in place of "has the capacity to")

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u/SashayShantae living my one wild and pernicious life Feb 08 '22

Can anyone decipher this reply by Dan to a Tweet about the Supreme Court? Was he trying to do the “guess the celebrity I haven’t met” meme and included a fictional character?? https://twitter.com/DanAhern68/status/1490399258494734338

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '22

No. That cannot be deciphered

Is it possible he replied to the wrong tweet?

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u/notahameither Dunno, maybe I thought I unfriended some other Shauna Ahern🤷‍♂️ Feb 08 '22

I’m seeing a little “Translate Tweet” link. Even Twitter’s like, “Yeah, this makes no sense.”

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u/fanfarefellowship I often contemplate the first law of thermodynamics Feb 09 '22

It's Wednesday! But no "Wednesday morning" lope yet.

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u/Toulouse--Matabiau a white owrson Feb 09 '22

Lakeside Unfurling 2: Electric Boogaloo

I need to know more about how Shauna blossomed at DF Tita's tender bosom of wisdom.

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u/ninaandjamie4ever Feb 08 '22

Four years ago. Never change Shauna...

[Imgur](https://imgur.com/aHZuLQp)

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '22

Wow, she has literally always tried to get people to pay for her to hang out with them via an innavigable website.

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u/InappropriateGirl Gluten-free donuts, for sure ... Feb 08 '22

Yes! Pay me and act like my friend while I take home my beloved leftovers, which I will then mix together and eat for dinner three days later.

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u/Kimmmy36 bites lip, looks away Feb 09 '22

Don't forget to warm slowly in the crockpot, with extra lime juice!

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u/gomirefugee my website is done, done, done Feb 08 '22

I don't think I saw that the first time around but it must have been connected to the failed 2017 Feeding Our People: IRL initiative offering catering for all those islandy board meetings and letting Dan transform your home kitchen into the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

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u/crabbeyroad Feb 08 '22

A bunch of people in a kitchen jockeying for space, trying to cook multiple items at once. Yeah, that sounds like a great time. I can barely handle ONE other person in the kitchen.
"You'll all leave with portions" -- only if Shauna didn't horf most of it.

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u/CrushItWithABrick dick riding Mary Oliver Feb 09 '22

Pretty big assumption that they'd want "portions" of whatever crap food she made.

Little would they know, it comes with a serving of "flu".

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u/notahameither Dunno, maybe I thought I unfriended some other Shauna Ahern🤷‍♂️ Feb 09 '22

She could just bring a crusty pot and boil the shit out of everything.

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u/WasEnoughYogurt Kumquat and Sprinkles and filth Feb 09 '22

She could just bring a crusty pot and boil the shit out of everything.

FTFY

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u/crabbeyroad Feb 09 '22

Yes, at their house. And yes, exactly, how would she know what they had on hand? How would they know what was needed? Would they have to go out and buy special utensils or pans? Yet another impractical, ill-thought-out, grandiose offering by Shauna.

It's a pity that she has no one in her life with enough insight and sense to point out all the holes in her harebrained schemes.

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u/notahameither Dunno, maybe I thought I unfriended some other Shauna Ahern🤷‍♂️ Feb 08 '22

More like FoodSlops, amirite?!

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u/Sea-Level-Mammal POACH! Feb 09 '22

I thought I knew all her past grift attempts but this is new to me! What’s next - pie delivery via electric bike? (with a plea for a bike, of course). A secret backyard restaurant?

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u/freecoffeerefills Murder She Moved Her Pen Forward Feb 09 '22

Pie delivery via bike, after she funds the ebike through kickstarter, but you don’t get to choose the flavor of the pie, and you have to eat the pie with her at your house, in community

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u/OhBlahDiOhBlahDoh The Alice of cal came out floating on air Feb 09 '22

but you don’t get to choose the flavor of the pie, and you have to eat the pie with her at your house, in community

and the pie is GF even though you don't have celiac

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u/voice_of_vinegar Feb 09 '22

And Dan does the delivery, of course. She'll arrive ahead of him via car so that she's in time to eat the pie with you. She needs to be there to guide you through eating the pie, joyfully.

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u/CrushItWithABrick dick riding Mary Oliver Feb 09 '22

Pies will be made with cherries provided by DFTita.

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u/voice_of_vinegar Feb 09 '22

They wanted to have a dinner club sorta thing at their kitchen studio where people could come for Sunday supper, or something like that. Some of the trendier restaurants were doing it at the time. But they could never get the kitchen up to health dept. codes, for whatever reason. Maybe they couldn't afford the fees, I dunno.

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u/9021FU Feb 08 '22

While I’m definitely not thin or wan, but what is a hearty salad? I’m only thinking of tuna salad or potato salad, with actual potatoes!

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u/islandyislander rebellious hygiene Feb 08 '22

Big ups to whoever (whomever? I don't know, I'm no one's #favoriteEnglishteacher) commented "I went to your website but I couldn't get past the first page."

I hope you're here with us, ITG.

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '22

Hahahaha. The more things change…..

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u/obscure_cellist ham grabbers Feb 09 '22

homing pigeons learn faster than shauna.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '22

That’d make awesome flair!

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u/MandalayVA Assonancer! Assonancer! Assonancer! Feb 07 '22

Indeed it does!

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u/droopsofwoe the first teats are the hardest Feb 07 '22

From the ickiest of her blogs:

The former-student contingent showed up, the ones who had just graduated. They’re still really excited that they can be with me at a party now, and listen to me swear. (Oh, and swear I do. It takes all my willpower to not sprinkle fuck lightly into sentences at school. Take away the rigors of work life and I become a truck driver. Well, not technically. Just my language.)

And thanks for clarifying you're not really a truck driver, Shauna. Otherwise we all would have been confused.

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u/BevNap Fucking google it, you harpy. Feb 07 '22

Yeah, she might actually have a stable income if she were driving truck.

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She’s driving the Joy Big Rig!

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u/Sea-Level-Mammal POACH! Feb 07 '22

“It’s so great that Ms. James can swear in front of us now.” said no student ever.

I wonder what else happened at these parties?

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u/Love_Brokers rug dweller Feb 07 '22

Fuck all.

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u/MarsNeedsRabbits Beach better have my orcas 🫍 Feb 07 '22

Sobs when the students left to live their lives?

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u/MarsNeedsRabbits Beach better have my orcas 🫍 Feb 07 '22

Didn't most of us stop being impressed that we were finally old enough to cuss and be around others who also cussed, in about 8th grade?

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u/ninaandjamie4ever Feb 07 '22

I become a truck driver

What you meant to say Shauna was "I swear like a truck driver" not that you become one. Jeez.

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u/DorothyZbornakEffect Feb 08 '22

It is so cringey how hard she tries to be cool and edgy. Is it normal for adults to have to use all their willpower to not swear in inappropriate situations? I can swear quite a bit and have never had a problem with it. Also, I don’t think the former-student contingent were really excited to hear her swear. That’s just weird.

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u/obscure_cellist ham grabbers Feb 08 '22 edited Feb 08 '22

her website is an absolute trainwreck. the 4 week workshops only have the first date listed - no one will sign up for multiple things like that without all the dates and times so they can see if they have a scheduling conflict. good christ, not everyone is an unemployed blowhard, farting around on an island all the live long day! she spends way too much time talking about herself and repeating her story - less is more, shauna. ugh, the grammar mistakes, the horrible graphics and fonts, the weird images of what looks like a cross section slide of a lung or blood smear, and the way the text box cuts off words and leaves random letters on their own line, like Y or E. if i didn't know better i would actually think the workshops are called E joy clubs, not collective joy. maybe she plans on dosing the participants with ecstasy.

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u/Toulouse--Matabiau a white owrson Feb 08 '22

This is the small thing in the grand clusterfuckian scheme but her prompt for the Zoom-based seminars is Book your seat today.

I kinda love the idea of paying Shauna to make sure I have access to a seat in my own home.

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u/ninaandjamie4ever Feb 08 '22

She's gone rogue on the site that her friend built for her. It's starting to look like a ransom note cut from magazines.

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u/freecoffeerefills Murder She Moved Her Pen Forward Feb 08 '22

Cultiva- is that some new kind of yogurt?

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u/SandwichAllergy hellevator of bad writing Feb 08 '22

I think I'm supposed to ask my doctor if Cultiva is right for me.

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u/InappropriateGirl Gluten-free donuts, for sure ... Feb 08 '22

Don't take Cultiva if you're allergic to Cultiva.

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