Why I Hate America, Pt. x, where x \in, uh, the countably infinite natural numbers (N?)

[fflo]

Before I could get an aspirin out of the new package last night, I had to

1. open the glued-shut box

2. take out the plastic bottle

3. remove the plastic "protective"¹ wrap around the cap

4. do the childproof² lining-up-arrow and popping lid opening

5. find a knife and pierce the "protective"³ foil seal

6. wedge my fingers in there and remove the little bits it breaks into, while
6a. steeling myself against potential personal phobic gross-out, cuz of which I was also
6b. trying to get all the little bits off of it while minimizing time spent on the job

7. reach fingertips into narrow opening and pull out protective⁴ cotton.

I won't even get into issues of wasted resources/work, trash, and culturally perpetuated paranoia.

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¹ Bullshit!
² yeah, right
³ Bullshit!
⁴ protects the aspirin from damage, for without it the pills would rattle around quite a lot, cuz, even before you've removed a one, they fill at most a third of the volume of the bottle

Comments

[fflo.livejournal.com]

I have to confess that I know not of Mr. Show---but it sounds like there's something else for me to request from the library.

My old buddy B. and I used to try to analyze comedy in a way that was in itself funny. Tricky. I guess Bobby Hill repeating aphoristic wisdom of the Catskills School is funny. B. & I would find ourselves laughing at something and then launch into "See, that's funny because..."---at first always giving an analysis; later laughing at the very compulsion. Or at the beginning of applying the analysis to something whose humor came from one of your more base, obvious forms (e.g., "toilet" humor).

(I, too, was twelve a lot longer than my pre-teen years.) (Still am sometimes.)

Speaking of SNL, did you see Latifah's last night? She had some good bits. I especially enjoyed the fake commercial for Excedrin Racial Tension Headache. The Robt Smigel cartoon having the ex-ex-presidents come back from the grave to take care of W was sweet, too---if not as astoundingly class-savvy and pointed as the mysterious short at the end of last week's show---listed as "A Night at Camp David" at http://snlarc.jt.org/, and was by someone called Alison, as I recall. A little nosing around has turned up nothing else.

Latifah

[vjsmom.livejournal.com]

We, too (B. & I--the other B.), especially liked the fake Excedrin commercial. We also liked the other fake commercial for the "Short & Curly" shampoo. I didn't think the opening sketch was quite as funny as last week's, however. But I just love the fact that they managed to find a spot for Benjamin Harrison in the cartoon!