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mosellegreen ([info]mosellegreen) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2008-05-17 23:43:00


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Entry tags:defensiveness ahoy, food, sammiches, stop sharing your thoughts

Lunch box wank.
[info]dracunculus directed my attention to this prime wank. This woman posts to her blog about the fun she has packing Japanese-style bento lunches for her kid. The first few comments are people saying, How cute, how fun.

Then at comment #6, some troll named Sarah makes a nasty remark about how cutting your kid's sandwiches into animal shapes will make him a laughingstock and stunt his imagination. Other people tell her to shut up and let them enjoy themselves. She continues to cuss them out, meanwhile suggesting that they try Xanax to get rid of their rage.

Someone named Victoria made the most patient responses to Sarah's spleen, inspiring someone else to announce, "Victoria, I always thought that Lesbians were mean, vindictive bitches, and you proved that for me. Is it because about 95% of the country thinks your life style is sick and that is why you all are so defensive on other issues too." I wondered if maybe Victoria's website, linked on her comment, identified her as a Lesbian, so I followed the link and found no mention of homosexuality, but at least two mentions of her husband.

Sarah has informed the blogger that she ought to erase her blog and devote her time in future to pursuits meeting with Sarah's approval. After a bit more of other people telling her where she could go, she declared this evening:

"While I stand by my original statement that this is over the top, I think it is hilarious that other people cannot allow someone else to have a differing opinion. It has been highly amusing to watch some people freak out in several places; nobody started a petition to ban food cut-outs. An opinion differing from yours was expressed and some people can’t handle it. Public blogs are going to get some different points of view, but this blog owner allowed them to be expressed and debated, which is highly commendable. You handled this in a way that most people wouldn’t, and I am very impressed. It’s refreshing that the blog owner has enough self esteem not to be upset or hurt by a differing opinion. Wendy, go on with your bad self and those cut-outs. You rock."

She's standing up for her non-sandwich-cutting principles!



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[info]seiberwing
2008-05-18 04:56 am UTC (link)
Bento wank. That's a new one.

Also, PSYCHOLOGY DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY. I fail to see how cutting them into cutesy little shapes will stunt their imagination any more than, say, Lucky Charms.

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[info]dez_chan
2008-05-18 05:37 am UTC (link)
I could swear there was an older wank about a woman who had a website where she sold bento...I might have read that somewhere else though.

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[info]seiberwing
2008-05-18 05:40 am UTC (link)
Here or stupid_free, anyway. Where's that icon from?

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[info]dez_chan
2008-05-18 06:11 pm UTC (link)
I got it from a link on a Classic Dr. Who comm on LJ. I can't remember which Doctor says it, but I'm tempted to say third.

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(no subject) - [info]seiberwing, 2008-05-18 08:38 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]puipui, 2008-05-19 06:18 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]dez_chan, 2008-05-19 05:29 pm UTC

[info]janegraddell
2008-05-18 06:19 am UTC (link)
I remember that one. I seem to recall that it was over someone posting pictures of insufficiently imaginative bento lunches in a bento community. Along the way, someone (possibly the wanker) accused the woman at Bento Yum of overpricing her bento sets. There were carrots involved. And black olives. (Zombie Fingers!)

...I have no idea why I'm using valuable brain cells to store this information.

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[info]hristaesir
2008-05-19 12:15 am UTC (link)
Well in whoeveritwas's favor, a lot of the people selling Bento sets are selling items available at the Daiso (or similar Japanese 100 yen stores) for $1.50 each for 2-3x that. I dunno if that's what Bento Yum is doing, but it happens. A LOT.

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[info]jat_sapphire
2008-05-18 06:25 am UTC (link)
It was on JF, I know, but I don't remember the comm.

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iwanttobeasleep
2008-05-18 06:39 am UTC (link)
That wank inspired me to buy my Mr. Bento! Which I love and don't get to use enough.

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[info]shaysdays
2008-05-18 07:19 am UTC (link)
How is that working out for ya? I have the modern Japanese bento boxes (YAY CAITO!) and they're really cool, but there's no insulation, really.

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(no subject) - iwanttobeasleep, 2008-05-18 04:35 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]caito, 2008-05-19 05:26 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]shaysdays, 2008-05-19 06:13 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]caito, 2008-05-19 06:14 am UTC

[info]annabelle_lee
2008-05-18 10:02 pm UTC (link)
All I remember about that is that someone named ss_biggie was involved. The only reason I remember this is because someone told me that a 'biggie' is something British children call their poop and I've been associating her hippo icon with poop this whole time.

It kind of makes her food_porn posts a little awkward, mind you.

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[info]smashingstars
2008-05-18 10:46 pm UTC (link)
I think it was this one:

http://www.journalfen.net/community/otf_wank/566031.html

Your clew solved the mystery!

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(no subject) - [info]dez_chan, 2008-05-19 01:41 am UTC

[info]telophase
2008-05-19 04:52 pm UTC (link)
You weren't imagining it. and I was totally not involved in it before it hit over here. Really.

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[info]smashingstars
2008-05-18 08:20 am UTC (link)
Yeah, I'm with you on that. Plenty of kids' food comes in shapes -- those kiddie TV dinners, cookies, crackers, cheese, chicken nuggets, fruit snacks, things in Lunchables, etc.

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[info]evilsqueakers
2008-05-18 09:50 am UTC (link)
The last time I got a Lunchable all it was had was Capri Sun and an oreo, outside of the usually inedible food. I think my baby brother got gipped. How rude.

What? Like I'm the only sibling that got tired of making the kid's sandwiches the night before when I could be watching television, so I made my mom buy those instead. I made his TV dinners. Wasn't that enough?

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[info]smashingstars
2008-05-18 10:44 pm UTC (link)
I get those boxed South Beach lunches that are right next to Lunchables in the store, and I'm always feeling cheated because my "adult" lunches only have a Jell-O cup in them. Would it kill someone to put some cheese stars in here?

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(no subject) - [info]evilsqueakers, 2008-05-18 11:32 pm UTC

[info]seiberwing
2008-05-18 02:01 pm UTC (link)
Alphabet soup also doesn't impair reading skills.

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[info]dana
2008-05-18 01:53 pm UTC (link)
This reminds me of when the Victorians said that giving little girls teddy bears instead of dolls would stunt their maternal urges and they would suck at motherhood.

It's funny...until you realise how freaking seriously people took this.

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[info]seiberwing
2008-05-18 03:49 pm UTC (link)
Victorians are weird.

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[info]cmdr_zoom
2008-05-18 07:39 pm UTC (link)
People, in any time, are weird.

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Addendum: - [info]cmdr_zoom, 2008-05-18 07:39 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]seiberwing, 2008-05-18 08:38 pm UTC
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[info]j_lunatic
2008-05-18 06:39 pm UTC (link)
Oh yes. Never mind that the guy who complained about this was the president of a company making doll dress patterns.

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(no subject) - [info]cmdr_zoom, 2008-05-18 07:41 pm UTC

[info]wickedlester
2008-05-19 10:20 pm UTC (link)
But it did stunt their maternal urges! That's why we have the child free, because these folks were given bears instead of dolls and thus, would rather snuggle up to animals than their own children.

I can see the bumpersticker now. "Save a (future) child! Burn a teddybear today!"



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[info]tigerlily
2008-05-18 04:58 pm UTC (link)
PSYCHOLOGY DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY
Word. In fact when you raise rats without shapes available to them as pups they can't process the shapes as guide posts in mazes. Sensory stimulation is a good thing.

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[info]seiberwing
2008-05-18 05:16 pm UTC (link)
I have no idea where she'd even get such an idiotic notion.

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[info]seiberwing
2008-05-18 05:26 pm UTC (link)
I know that if you don't show longwise or sideways shapes to kittens they'll run into things later in life.

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[info]darth_ember
2008-05-20 03:33 pm UTC (link)
Depends how realistic the shapes are. I know I'd want my imagination stunted if I started envisioning shrunken people in my lunch...
As a child, anyway.

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