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defensiveness ahoy, food, sammiches, stop sharing your thoughts

Lunch box wank.
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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	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. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	seiberwing 2008-05-18 05:40 am UTC (link)
	Here or stupid_free, anyway. Where's that icon from? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	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. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	seiberwing 2008-05-18 08:38 pm UTC (link)
	Ah, right. I don't know from Dr. Who. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	puipui 2008-05-19 06:18 am UTC (link)
	It's Five who says it, but I can't remember which episode, sorry. I just remember it was him. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	dez_chan 2008-05-19 05:29 pm UTC (link)
	Ah, haven't gotten to five yet! I'm still on Four. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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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	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. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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

	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. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	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. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	iwanttobeasleep 2008-05-18 04:35 pm UTC (link)
	It actually seems to work a lot better than my giant thermos. The one downside is only two of the containers are insulated, but if you pour hot water into the container to heat it up, you can still put hot vegetables in the veggie one and they keep pretty warm. (Reply to this)(Parent)

caito
2008-05-19 05:26 am UTC (link)

There's ones with insulation and stuff, I think, but they're more expensive.

For myself, I still use the cheaper stuff, except I got a little matching insular bag to carry it in if I've got anything I want to keep warm, or cool.

In the wintertime, the students at my school just take out the parts of their lunch (like onigiri) and put them on top of the radiators to keep warm.

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	shaysdays 2008-05-19 06:13 am UTC (link)
	BTW- Neen is totes taking unch to school a la Jack Skellington. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	caito 2008-05-19 06:14 am UTC (link)
	I hope all the other kiddos are totes jealous. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	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. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	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! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	dez_chan 2008-05-19 01:41 am UTC (link)
	Huzzah, I didn't imagine it! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	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.~~ (Reply to this)(Parent)

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