DIY whining

[mrissa]

Build your own grumble! Bonus points for use of the following words or phrases: "tired," "achy," "punky," "frustrated," "miss markgritter," "worried about [insert middling large group of people here]," "stain the retaining wall," "I said better, not worse!", "weather stripping," "saw cut," "box elder bugs," "cheap fabric that frays unreasonably soon," "grocery impairment," "porn spam with elderly relatives' names on," "end-to-end principle," and "Tang."

Actually I am not feeling even slightly grumbly about Tang, but I thought it would bring an artificially orange perkiness to whatever grumbles you managed to build, distinguishing them from once and future grumbles.

As much as I'm fascinated by this book about the Pinkertons, it may well be time for a break for some fiction. But I don't think I can blame this bone-weariness on the Pinkertons, alas.

Comments

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I've been reading so much about China recently I wondered what the heck you had against the Tang dynasty there for a moment.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I almost included "Three Years of Bitterness" on the list, except that people would think I had been bitter for three years or expected to be or something.

Long, long after the Tang dynasty, though.

[columbina.livejournal.com]

That's what I need - artificially orange perkiness.

Or maybe I just need lunch.

[sam-t.livejournal.com]

Those darn punky box elder bugs, with their wild fashions (no more than cheap fabric that frays unreasonably soon, if you ask me), always hanging round outside corner shops causing grocery impairment because I don't want to walk past them and have them threaten me with saw cuts. If they're allowed to stay there much longer they'll stain the retaining wall with their slogans and porn spam with elderly relatives' names on. I'm worried about what this town is coming to, if no-one's going to do anything about it. I said to Miss Markgritter, I said "I thought this society was supposed to get better, not worse!". We're tired and achy from end to end (in principle), and if we can't get the Pinkertons to move those bugs on, we're just going to have to stay frustrated as well.

I think that just leaves Tang...

[pameladean]

I blame the barometer. Well, not for missing people, I guess, or the cheap fabric, but for most of the rest I do. Especially the first four adjectives on your list, which oh so generously have decided to share themselves with me too.

I like the other kind of October better. The shiny sparkly sunny kind with residual dragonflies. This is October striving to be its big brother November, and that's very silly of it.

P.

[vahepeatus.livejournal.com]

Pardon my ignorance, but why is the Tang Dynasty artificially orange?

I can pin the label perky by keeping in mind that the Tang Dynasty is regarded by historians as a high point in Chinese civilization as well as a golden age of cosmopolitan culture, but I do not know why you think it is orange?

[columbina.livejournal.com]

It's an American thang: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_%28drink%29

[redbird]

It is gray and damp, the sort of day that claims autumn will be gloomy, and I am feeling gloomy. Also achy, especially in the shoulder, and tired enough that the only reason I got up and went to work is that I couldn't actually get back to sleep. Not only does cheap fabric fray, I can't find it in my size in the first place--the whole clothing shopping thing is annoying enough that I'd take cheaply made and cheap, just to get it over with for a little while.

[angeyja.livejournal.com]

I was thinking what pameladean said. But not as nicely.

Waking up at 2am several mornings in a row seems like it Should result in something more productive than just tired. I suppose I could get up and do something productive. Heh.

[ckd]

Not only is "tang" the reverse of "gnat", it's also the rot-13 of "gnat".

[miz-hatbox.livejournal.com]

I think I love you.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

The Tang stands alone.

Like the cheese.

Please do not eat cheese and Tang together.

Um.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Alas, but the first four have progressed beyond what the barometer can reasonably take the blame for. Blech.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Duuuude.

[pameladean]

Oh dear, I'm very sorry. Viruses are evil. I hope you have tea and a blanket.

P.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Tea. A blanket. A mom who comes to take the poodle away and run a quick but urgent errand. I am set.

[pameladean]

Good. I hope the little creepy things scarper off soonest.

P.

[mkille.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, that actually sounds kinda good to me!

And feel better soon.

[sam-t.livejournal.com]

*blush*

[sam-t.livejournal.com]

I don't actually know what Tang is, but it definitely doesn't sound like it would be good with cheese!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

columbina has a link elsewhere in the comments section. It was the "astronaut beverage" of my childhood: an orange powder that didn't taste anything like o.j. but didn't have to because tasting like Tang was its own thing. I imagine it's still for sale here in the States, but I could be wrong, because nobody I know drinks it or, more to the point, serves it to their small children.

[sam-t.livejournal.com]

So kind of an instant orange squash (cordial) powder? No, I don't think that sounds like a good cheese accompaniment (despite the efforts of various cheese manufacturers to introduce artificial orange colouring where it's not wanted).

Chutney, maybe, or apples, or crackers, or home-made bread. Mmmm...

Get better soon. It's no fun feeling poorly.