Does anyone have an extremely petty or low stakes problem that they'd like to read a pep talk about in an upcoming That's Marvelous newsletter? Let me know here! Thanks!
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The use of the mu (μ) in scientific articles. I personally think we should use a lowercase u, at least in biochemistry, but it's a hot take in my lab. The symbol often gets messed up in file conversions, and as a biochemist, I know that uM is micromolar. It's just needlessly complicated IMO
Business next door has one of those giant white signs that he puts letters on to make clever sayings. But he’s not clever and insists that we don’t park in our parking spaces next to the sign. We might block the brilliance!
People who think the onus is on the receiver of unimportant late night/early morning texts to set up Do Not Disturb blocks w/pass thru lists RATHER than full grown adults maybe exercising impulse control and not sending an 11pm group chat response: haha me too; or cat video.
Our new neighbors seem to believe in free ranging their kids (justifiable) and dog (less so). The dog aggros the other neighborhood dogs on their walks, I've already found a stray softball dangerously close to our window, and I feel like I'm living in a bad 80s comic strip.
All the erasers on my wood pencils have dried out and gotten hard. Wood pencils were supposed to reduce administrative waste, but now I need to buy erasers. F'n capitalism.
Occasionally, people out walking their dogs drop their poop bags in my garbage bin, so whenever I open it I’m greeted by a rather disagreeable odor. I have learned to hold my breath when opening the bin.
He always has food on his shirt, he walks on his heels and it shakes the whole house, he chews with his mouth open, I’m sure there must be something amazing about him otherwise what am I even doing??
1800 mile RT road trip. Honey do list: filling the tires w/air so I can calibrate TPS. On the way home at 4am TPS says low tire pressure (!). Come to find out husband used old faulty tire gauge and I calibrated to very high pressures. Drove 1000 miles at pressures of 40 psi instead of 32. Help me.
The library is charging me for damage to a book that I didn’t damage and it’s an amount I wouldn’t blink at donating but when they say I damaged a book I didn’t …well
One of my wife's friends accidentally took our sauce ladle home and then lost it. The ladle is from a set and it's just pricey enough to make it annoying to buy a new set (it's almost as much from a replacement site). I'm not allowed to ask them to buy a new one. This is turning me into Larry David
Everyone from my doctor, grocer, car shop, and many others want me to rate my satisfaction with their service with only excellent being an acceptable choice. Yet, I don't care about what they want to measure, and I get no feedback on how my input is used.
I bought new wiper blades for my minivan like three weeks ago and my girlfriend is about to discover they are still in the packaging on the passenger seat
I believe all television has become inaudible. I have a problem with programmers who opt for white subtitles without a black boarder for outdoor scenes.
My HOA is driving me crazy about large planters on my patio that you can't even see unless you come right up to fence and look over it. We're on round 3.
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or is it a shadow ban?
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Where should I start?