Hate Pit Continued

[dave from knoxville]

Soon as I get to work, and 45 minutes before the first class, I have a 44 ounce unsweetened ice tea. I moved away from Diet Coke when my stomach lining started to dissolve.

[emma]

I was never ever allowed to have pop at home (or, presumably, outside of it) until grade seven. Then I started going to a school that allowed us to leave the premises at lunchtime and in the breaks between periods. Every day, after first period, I would go to the 7-11 across the street and get a pepsi, and because I had absolutely no tolerance for caffeine, it would usually power me through until the end of the day.

The sugar started to get to me, though, so now I fuel my caffeine addiction with a few cups of tea every morning. By the time I hit 20, I don't think I'll even have a stomach lining anymore.

[Emily]

oh no!
sorry about that ladies and gents. i'm not hate-ditching any of you. drink and be merry.

it's just my former supervisor drank soda in the morning and now my new/current supervisor drinks soda in the morning, and i just find it a little off-putting. it seems a bit unhealthy, and it's just not something i crave - so i don't totally get it.

it probably doesn't help that i'm not completely enthusiastic about being/having been supervised by either of them, so it's an added ick factor to an already unsatisfactory experience.

now people who eat yogurt on the subway in the morning - THEY'RE SO GOING IN MY HATE PIT DITCH*!

so far there's only one - the guy who STOOD on the R train this morning STIRRING his stupid yogurt and then eating it with a plastic spoon. can't wait to get to the office, huh? just have to have to have that yogurt right now? weirdo.

i'm not into food on the subway - or on any public transportation system (exceptions being planes & some boats), and anything that requires a utensil (with the exception of maybe ice cream) should probably be eaten in a more traditional setting (and by traditional i mean stationary and preferably seated).

those are my views. feel free to disagree or suggest amendments, etc.


*again, i over-shot a little with the pit-throwing.

[Beth]

what about go-gurt?

[Emily]

heh. go-gurt.

but that's a good concept for a go-gurt commerical:

"tired of your yogurt runoff spilling onto your suit - on your morning commute? try go-gurt!"

or something.

[Emily]

or: don't let yogurt get your goat, try go-gurt!

[dania]

I drink beer in the morning, then I eat salad on the bus.  It's just one of those wake-up routines y'know?

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

They arrest you for drinking beer on the subways now, even in a paper bag.  So I get around this by pouring a beer onto my salad and eating it on the train.  With my hands.

[Andy]

that's called an Irish Lettuce Wrap.

[Beth]

go-gurt is really good frozen. try it. you won't be disappointed.

[Jason]

They arrest you for drinking beer on the subways now, even in a paper bag.  So I get around this by pouring a beer onto my salad and eating it on the train.  With my hands.

I heard that when a policeman asked Brendan Behan what he thought he was doing drinking beer outside the Empire State Building he replied he was mourning the death of King Kong.

[Matt]

what about go-gurt?

Ugh. The concept of sucking purple yogurt from those tube-things repulses me, as does the trend of sucking food from tubes in general. That's probably why, unlike other kids, I could never warm up to those popsicles that came in the clear plastic wrappers and were about the size of a big novelty pencil. The name of them escapes me.*

Get some real yogurt, and get a real popsicle, and you'll be much happier.

* In an attempt to find a picture of these popsicles, I searched the phrase "suck pops" in Google Images. Please, do not do this.**

** Unless your name is Laurie. Then, by all means, go ahead.

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

what about go-gurt?

Ugh. The concept of sucking purple yogurt from those tube-things repulses me, as does the trend of sucking food from tubes in general. That's probably why, unlike other kids, I could never warm up to those popsicles that came in the clear plastic wrappers and were about the size of a big novelty pencil. The name of them escapes me.*

Fla-vor-ice, if I recall.  I don't know what the weird spelling was about - maybe they couldn't legally call it flavor?

I have to ask, though, are you constantly outraged by IV drips?

[Matt]

what about go-gurt?

Ugh. The concept of sucking purple yogurt from those tube-things repulses me, as does the trend of sucking food from tubes in general. That's probably why, unlike other kids, I could never warm up to those popsicles that came in the clear plastic wrappers and were about the size of a big novelty pencil. The name of them escapes me.*

Fla-vor-ice, if I recall.  I don't know what the weird spelling was about - maybe they couldn't legally call it flavor?

I have to ask, though, are you constantly outraged by IV drips?

CONSTANTLY.

[JonFromMaplewood]

Fla-vor-ice, if I recall.  I don't know what the weird spelling was about - maybe they couldn't legally call it flavor?

I'm embarrassed to write this, but I was in a rap group in college called Fla-vor-ice.  We *definitely* couldn't legally claim to having flavor.

But hey, we won a local rap contest...in Burlington, VT.