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2023.06.02 07:20 Liath-Luachra [Discussion] Ducks – ONE MONTH LATER through end
Hello lovely readers,
Welcome to the second and final discussion of Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton. This autobiographical comic was Canada Reads (an annual "battle of the books") winner for 2023. You can read the first discussion here.
Summary
The story picks up one month after that horrible party. Kate sleeps with Mike. She continues to get weird sexual comments from the men she works with, but she has started to laugh the comments off. Many of the men seem to have problems with her giving them orders, and her superiors get pissy with her for minor things or for wanting ‘special treatment’. Joe, a fellow Nova Scotian, overhears her swearing in frustration and tells her that everyone at the mine is just yelling at the guy next to them for work they’re not doing themselves, but that people tend to be friendlier to people from their own region of Canada. Kate wonders aloud to Doug whether the oil sands make people better or worse.
The men at the mine have heard that Kate’s ‘little friends’ (her sister Becky and friend Lindsay) are going to be joining them, and she warns them to leave them alone. When Becky and Lindsay arrive, they are wearing skirts and they quickly notice the staring and weird behaviour from the men on site. Kate apologises for it, and they wonder why she is saying sorry.
Kate tells Becky and Lindsay that the other men have been leaving her alone since most people know about her and Mike, and they tell her it’s because in their eyes she’s ‘claimed’.
They take a trip to Gregoire Beach, but Kate doesn’t wear a swimsuit or go swimming. Becky asks her what’s up with her, as she’s noticed something is wrong. Kate talks about how everything at the beach seems so normal, but that she isn’t. However, she doesn’t explain further.
Kate looks for other jobs online, and sees a post for a job at the Maritime Museum of British Columbia in Victoria, the capital of British Columbia.
Not long afterwards, she sees the man who forced himself on her at that party. He and the group of men he’s with see her and they start laughing.
Kate hears a man playing Peter’s Dream on his guitar, and joins in singing the song.
She goes to Becky’s room and tells her that she needs to leave the oil sands for a while, even though she and Lindsay have just arrived. She asks her to promise that she and Lindsay will look out for each other, and finally tells her about the assaults. Becky tells her that it wasn’t her fault, and wishes she had been there sooner to protect her as that’s her job as the big sister. She tells Kate that it happened to her too, at her university dorm. She tells Kate she should go.
We leave the oil sands, for a year in Victoria. Kate gets the museum job but it’s no more than 21 hours per week, so she gets a second job. In a coffee shop, she hears the song An Innis Aigh playing, and tells a woman who was wondering aloud about the language that it’s Gaelic.
Victoria seems like a nicer place than the oil sands, but it isn’t perfect – the city big problems with homelessness and mental health, but none of the old, rich people living there care [read runner note – according to Victoria’s Wikipedia page, the city is known for its disproportionately large retiree population. Some 23.4% of the population of Victoria and its surrounding area are over 65 years of age, which is higher than the overall Canadian distribution of over 65 year-olds in the population (19%). A historically popular cliché refers to Victoria as the home of "the newly wed and nearly dead"]. Kate is fired from her job for not taking American money and not wanting to sell the merchandise badly enough. One of her colleagues (I think?) sees her drawing a comic, and suggests that she should make a website.
Kate tells her parents that on her days off she works at a grocery store, and her father wonders what her degree was for. Shortly afterwards, she is fired from the grocery store for yawning and ‘being surly’. She goes on a date, but panics when the guy tries to kiss her at the end.
Kate can’t get a reprieve from her student loan payments, even though she paid half of it off the previous year with her oil sands earnings. She decides to go back to the oil sands to pay the rest off, and says goodbye to the museum.
After that brief reprieve, we’re back in the oil sands, this time at Shell Albian Sands. Kate has taken a job in the warehouse office, and her living quarters are a bit fancier than at the previous sites. The site also has a Tim Hortons, Wi-Fi and a gym, even yoga classes. Lindsay tells her that a lot of the warehouse crew from Long Lake have moved up there too. One of her new colleagues is Hatim, who is creepy in a new way, plaguing her with messages despite having a wife and children.
The team get a congratulations message with a gif for achieving three million man hours without a lost time incident (LTI). Kate’s boss, Ryan, tells her that they don’t have LTIs at the site because they look bad for the company, I guess implying that they cover them up.
She sees Doug again, who seems to feel that she’s all high and mighty now with her office job, and struggles with her ‘bossing him’ since she’s younger than him (and presumably because she’s female). When she has to cover a warehouse shift, Doug laughs about how she’s down from on high and has gone soft. He tells her that he sang with The Men of the Deeps and even sang for the queen, which she doubts because he has a terrible voice. She sings a bit of Coal Town Road (which I’m kind of disappointed doesn’t sound like Old Town Road) and asks if she could be in the choir too, but he seems annoyed about her singing a mining song when she’s not a miner.
Kate’s sister Becky is still working at Long Lake, but lives in Fort McMurray, and Kate goes to meet her there; she says it’s much better than living in the camp. She tells Kate, that one time a guy jumped out of the closet in her room, but she was able to kick him out. She always locked her door, but often heard the handle jiggling at night. She even had a stalker, who managed to get into her room with a bottle of alcohol and suggested doing body shots – she didn’t report it, but when he got fired everyone thought she had.
Kate struggles to read some of the order sheets because many of the workers are bad spellers or have unclear handwriting; many of the older men at the mine left school in grade six. Lindsay tells her about one of the lead hands from Newfoundland, who can’t read, and was humiliated by the other workers when they tried to make him read the safety memo aloud so they could laugh at him. Lindsay says she’s never seen a grown man ashamed like that, and they discuss how he’s one of the nicest guys there.
A group from the Calgary office visits the mine site, and Kate has to find the nice hard hats and safety vests for the visitors, the ones the actual workers can’t have because they’re too fancy. Basically, they have to put on a show for the head office people – everyone has to look sharp, make things tidier than normal etc. One of the visitors takes a photo of Kate. After they leave, Damian asks if he can have one of the fancy new vests, but they were taken back to Calgary even though they don’t need them at head office.
Kate continues doing her comics, and her colleagues occasionally read them. Ryan finds some of them in the scanner, which she had used to upload them to her website, and tells her not to leave her stuff lying around at work.
Becky and Kate discuss what it would have been like if their father had gone out to the oil sands to work when they were children, as many people did. They wonder if he would have been like the other men they work with, and how they must all be normal at home. Kate says she tries to remember that there are a lot of men who don’t bother her, but she doesn’t remember them because they’re not the ones in her face.
Their safety lectures tell them basic information about how ice is slippery and is all over the ground, which presumably every Canadian already knows. One of the men remarks that it’s not about safety, but an arse-covering exercise so that a worker can’t sue them if they fall. Kate doodles a pony in her notebook (thank you u/Amanda39 for linking to this comic in last week’s discussion!).
Many of the staff have families that they don’t see very often. One of the men gets a phonecall from his wife’s phone, which he answers thinking it’s an emergency as she never calls during the day; it turns out to be his young son, who is calling to see when he’s coming home next.
Brian asks Kate if she heard about the ducks (TITLE DROP!!); three hundred of them got stuck in a tailings pond at another oil sands site [read runner note – two years later, Syncrude was actually found guilty of the death of 1,600 ducks]. The site begins installing anti-waterfowl devices, and the staff are reminded that they have to wear PPE at all times. They’re also told about the death Gerald Snopes, another worker; some of the men talking amongst themselves, and Ryan tells them to have some respect. He had a heart attack while operating a crane, and threw himself out of the cab so that he wouldn’t land on the controls and cause an accident.
Kate hears about a road accident involving some men from Cape Breton. She asks Davy about it to see if she knows them, but neither of them do. Kate finds the news articles and feels annoyed that they were misidentified as Calgary men.
Kate notices some welts on her back; Lindsay has them too but doesn’t know what it is. Kate mentions all the dust they have to wipe off everything, and how there’s so much crap in the air. Lindsay wonders what kind of cancer they’ll have in 20 years.
Kate finds Doug building a scarecrow for the tailings pond, which is meant to scare off the ducks. Probably another arse-covering exercise.
Activists from Greenpeace try to block an oil sands pipeline, and 11 people are arrested. One of the workers gets angry about it, asking who will put their life on the line to unclog the pipe Greenpeace has blocked, and that it sure as hell won’t be the president of Shell. Kate hears about another death – a contractor was in his trucks, and one of the heavy haulers drove over it, crushing him.
Lindsay writes an article for a grassroots paper, giving the inside perspective on working at the oil sands. Kate considers doing a comic about it for them. Lindsay later wonders if she made a mistake writing her article, as many of the comments are critical, including many from women which Lindsay did not expect.
Kate sees a video on YouTube of Celina Harpe, an elder in the Cree community of Fort McKay, talking about the effect of the oil sands on the First Nation. Kate had not realised when she arrived there that Fort McKay was a First Nation, nor that it was so close to Syncrude. She thinks about how she’s not the president of Shell, but she’s still working there, and she can’t extract herself from having come.
At another safety meeting, the staff are down the safety pyramid, which has different levels: at the base it has at-risk behaviours, then near misses, then minor incidents, and it all leads to a major incident or a fatality.
Kate receives a phone call from a reporter at the Globe and Mail who had seen her comics about the oil sands. She asks several leading questions about her experience as a woman at the remote sites and the harassment, but Kate feels uncomfortable giving her examples. She later tells Lindsay that she couldn’t talk to the reporter as she felt like she just wanted gossip, and that the story was already written before she called.
The leering of one of the other workers bothers Kate in the lunchroom, and she tells Lindsay about her assaults. Lindsay is horrified that Mike and Brian laughed at her when she told them about it. Lindsay tells her that it happened to her in university as well.
Kate calls her parents to tell them that she’s finally paid off her student loan, but she needs to keep working at the site because now she has no money. She’s going to try making it as a cartoonist, and her parents are unimpressed.
Kate notices that Ryan is acting strangely, being absent a lot and not doing his work, and it can’t fully be explained by his recent divorce. She hears about other workers who are taking cocaine and behaving strangely too. She asks Ryan if he’s ok and he brushes it off. Kate contemplates the safety pyramid again. She finds a piece of paper on Ryan’s desk with an appointment for the employee assistance program. Emily later tells her that Ryan has left suddenly, and that they need to figure things out until a replacement is found.
Kate wonders why there are so many safety meetings but none have ever talked about drugs or alcohol. Her coworkers say that everyone knows why there is so much of both, and that the company can’t have safety meetings about illegal activities anyway.
Kate finally gets to leave the oil sands and go home. Her colleague Norman gives her prints of some of his photos of the northern lights as a leaving present, including one of a rainbow. Before she leaves, the company organises a staff photograph with all the workers on the site. Kate sees the man who assaulted her the second time, and he recognises her but can’t remember her name or who she is, and asks her how it’s going.
Kate trains her replacement, and finds out that she’s earning more than her despite not having any experience in tools. She complains to John about it, and finally rants about all her shitty treatment in the oil sands. She goes to see Gary in the head office, and demands her full bonus, which was going to be docked because she was leaving. Gary tells her it’s company policy. She tells him about the harassment, and he claims she could have come to them about it, but she fires back that he knows she couldn’t have. Gary agrees to give her the bonus. Her colleagues organise a going-away barbecue, and even Mike attends.
Back in Nova Scotia, Kate is reunited with her family. While out enjoying the seaside air, she chats to a farmer who tells her he’s keeping a field for his son who is working out west in case he ever comes back and wants to build a house. A man called Lauchie visits the house before moving west himself, and tells them there’s something for everyone out there and that the young people have everything they want. Out in Halifax with friends, she and Becky see a man from one of the camps, who tells Becky that they had a bet on who would sleep with her first. Their friends who haven’t worked in the oil sands can’t believe they’d let a man talk to them like that.
In the book’s afterword, Kate talks about how the book chronicles her specific experience at a specific time. She is wary of sensationalism of her story, especially because sexual assault is so common that it’s not actually sensational. She notes that neither of the men who raped her probably consider it to have been rape. She is also critical of the treatment of Indigenous people, and says the YouTube video of Celina Harpe was a “sword that cut through my ignorance”. We also find out that Becky died of cancer, and that her former coworkers pooled money together to send to her.
Bookclub Bingo 2023 categories: Non-Fiction, Graphic Novel (grey), Mod Pick (grey)
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Welcome to the second and final discussion of Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton. This autobiographical comic was Canada Reads (an annual "battle of the books") winner for 2023. You can read the first discussion here.
Summary
The story picks up one month after that horrible party. Kate sleeps with Mike. She continues to get weird sexual comments from the men she works with, but she has started to laugh the comments off. Many of the men seem to have problems with her giving them orders, and her superiors get pissy with her for minor things or for wanting ‘special treatment’. Joe, a fellow Nova Scotian, overhears her swearing in frustration and tells her that everyone at the mine is just yelling at the guy next to them for work they’re not doing themselves, but that people tend to be friendlier to people from their own region of Canada. Kate wonders aloud to Doug whether the oil sands make people better or worse.
The men at the mine have heard that Kate’s ‘little friends’ (her sister Becky and friend Lindsay) are going to be joining them, and she warns them to leave them alone. When Becky and Lindsay arrive, they are wearing skirts and they quickly notice the staring and weird behaviour from the men on site. Kate apologises for it, and they wonder why she is saying sorry.
Kate tells Becky and Lindsay that the other men have been leaving her alone since most people know about her and Mike, and they tell her it’s because in their eyes she’s ‘claimed’.
They take a trip to Gregoire Beach, but Kate doesn’t wear a swimsuit or go swimming. Becky asks her what’s up with her, as she’s noticed something is wrong. Kate talks about how everything at the beach seems so normal, but that she isn’t. However, she doesn’t explain further.
Kate looks for other jobs online, and sees a post for a job at the Maritime Museum of British Columbia in Victoria, the capital of British Columbia.
Not long afterwards, she sees the man who forced himself on her at that party. He and the group of men he’s with see her and they start laughing.
Kate hears a man playing Peter’s Dream on his guitar, and joins in singing the song.
She goes to Becky’s room and tells her that she needs to leave the oil sands for a while, even though she and Lindsay have just arrived. She asks her to promise that she and Lindsay will look out for each other, and finally tells her about the assaults. Becky tells her that it wasn’t her fault, and wishes she had been there sooner to protect her as that’s her job as the big sister. She tells Kate that it happened to her too, at her university dorm. She tells Kate she should go.
We leave the oil sands, for a year in Victoria. Kate gets the museum job but it’s no more than 21 hours per week, so she gets a second job. In a coffee shop, she hears the song An Innis Aigh playing, and tells a woman who was wondering aloud about the language that it’s Gaelic.
Victoria seems like a nicer place than the oil sands, but it isn’t perfect – the city big problems with homelessness and mental health, but none of the old, rich people living there care [read runner note – according to Victoria’s Wikipedia page, the city is known for its disproportionately large retiree population. Some 23.4% of the population of Victoria and its surrounding area are over 65 years of age, which is higher than the overall Canadian distribution of over 65 year-olds in the population (19%). A historically popular cliché refers to Victoria as the home of "the newly wed and nearly dead"]. Kate is fired from her job for not taking American money and not wanting to sell the merchandise badly enough. One of her colleagues (I think?) sees her drawing a comic, and suggests that she should make a website.
Kate tells her parents that on her days off she works at a grocery store, and her father wonders what her degree was for. Shortly afterwards, she is fired from the grocery store for yawning and ‘being surly’. She goes on a date, but panics when the guy tries to kiss her at the end.
Kate can’t get a reprieve from her student loan payments, even though she paid half of it off the previous year with her oil sands earnings. She decides to go back to the oil sands to pay the rest off, and says goodbye to the museum.
After that brief reprieve, we’re back in the oil sands, this time at Shell Albian Sands. Kate has taken a job in the warehouse office, and her living quarters are a bit fancier than at the previous sites. The site also has a Tim Hortons, Wi-Fi and a gym, even yoga classes. Lindsay tells her that a lot of the warehouse crew from Long Lake have moved up there too. One of her new colleagues is Hatim, who is creepy in a new way, plaguing her with messages despite having a wife and children.
The team get a congratulations message with a gif for achieving three million man hours without a lost time incident (LTI). Kate’s boss, Ryan, tells her that they don’t have LTIs at the site because they look bad for the company, I guess implying that they cover them up.
She sees Doug again, who seems to feel that she’s all high and mighty now with her office job, and struggles with her ‘bossing him’ since she’s younger than him (and presumably because she’s female). When she has to cover a warehouse shift, Doug laughs about how she’s down from on high and has gone soft. He tells her that he sang with The Men of the Deeps and even sang for the queen, which she doubts because he has a terrible voice. She sings a bit of Coal Town Road (which I’m kind of disappointed doesn’t sound like Old Town Road) and asks if she could be in the choir too, but he seems annoyed about her singing a mining song when she’s not a miner.
Kate’s sister Becky is still working at Long Lake, but lives in Fort McMurray, and Kate goes to meet her there; she says it’s much better than living in the camp. She tells Kate, that one time a guy jumped out of the closet in her room, but she was able to kick him out. She always locked her door, but often heard the handle jiggling at night. She even had a stalker, who managed to get into her room with a bottle of alcohol and suggested doing body shots – she didn’t report it, but when he got fired everyone thought she had.
Kate struggles to read some of the order sheets because many of the workers are bad spellers or have unclear handwriting; many of the older men at the mine left school in grade six. Lindsay tells her about one of the lead hands from Newfoundland, who can’t read, and was humiliated by the other workers when they tried to make him read the safety memo aloud so they could laugh at him. Lindsay says she’s never seen a grown man ashamed like that, and they discuss how he’s one of the nicest guys there.
A group from the Calgary office visits the mine site, and Kate has to find the nice hard hats and safety vests for the visitors, the ones the actual workers can’t have because they’re too fancy. Basically, they have to put on a show for the head office people – everyone has to look sharp, make things tidier than normal etc. One of the visitors takes a photo of Kate. After they leave, Damian asks if he can have one of the fancy new vests, but they were taken back to Calgary even though they don’t need them at head office.
Kate continues doing her comics, and her colleagues occasionally read them. Ryan finds some of them in the scanner, which she had used to upload them to her website, and tells her not to leave her stuff lying around at work.
Becky and Kate discuss what it would have been like if their father had gone out to the oil sands to work when they were children, as many people did. They wonder if he would have been like the other men they work with, and how they must all be normal at home. Kate says she tries to remember that there are a lot of men who don’t bother her, but she doesn’t remember them because they’re not the ones in her face.
Their safety lectures tell them basic information about how ice is slippery and is all over the ground, which presumably every Canadian already knows. One of the men remarks that it’s not about safety, but an arse-covering exercise so that a worker can’t sue them if they fall. Kate doodles a pony in her notebook (thank you u/Amanda39 for linking to this comic in last week’s discussion!).
Many of the staff have families that they don’t see very often. One of the men gets a phonecall from his wife’s phone, which he answers thinking it’s an emergency as she never calls during the day; it turns out to be his young son, who is calling to see when he’s coming home next.
Brian asks Kate if she heard about the ducks (TITLE DROP!!); three hundred of them got stuck in a tailings pond at another oil sands site [read runner note – two years later, Syncrude was actually found guilty of the death of 1,600 ducks]. The site begins installing anti-waterfowl devices, and the staff are reminded that they have to wear PPE at all times. They’re also told about the death Gerald Snopes, another worker; some of the men talking amongst themselves, and Ryan tells them to have some respect. He had a heart attack while operating a crane, and threw himself out of the cab so that he wouldn’t land on the controls and cause an accident.
Kate hears about a road accident involving some men from Cape Breton. She asks Davy about it to see if she knows them, but neither of them do. Kate finds the news articles and feels annoyed that they were misidentified as Calgary men.
Kate notices some welts on her back; Lindsay has them too but doesn’t know what it is. Kate mentions all the dust they have to wipe off everything, and how there’s so much crap in the air. Lindsay wonders what kind of cancer they’ll have in 20 years.
Kate finds Doug building a scarecrow for the tailings pond, which is meant to scare off the ducks. Probably another arse-covering exercise.
Activists from Greenpeace try to block an oil sands pipeline, and 11 people are arrested. One of the workers gets angry about it, asking who will put their life on the line to unclog the pipe Greenpeace has blocked, and that it sure as hell won’t be the president of Shell. Kate hears about another death – a contractor was in his trucks, and one of the heavy haulers drove over it, crushing him.
Lindsay writes an article for a grassroots paper, giving the inside perspective on working at the oil sands. Kate considers doing a comic about it for them. Lindsay later wonders if she made a mistake writing her article, as many of the comments are critical, including many from women which Lindsay did not expect.
Kate sees a video on YouTube of Celina Harpe, an elder in the Cree community of Fort McKay, talking about the effect of the oil sands on the First Nation. Kate had not realised when she arrived there that Fort McKay was a First Nation, nor that it was so close to Syncrude. She thinks about how she’s not the president of Shell, but she’s still working there, and she can’t extract herself from having come.
At another safety meeting, the staff are down the safety pyramid, which has different levels: at the base it has at-risk behaviours, then near misses, then minor incidents, and it all leads to a major incident or a fatality.
Kate receives a phone call from a reporter at the Globe and Mail who had seen her comics about the oil sands. She asks several leading questions about her experience as a woman at the remote sites and the harassment, but Kate feels uncomfortable giving her examples. She later tells Lindsay that she couldn’t talk to the reporter as she felt like she just wanted gossip, and that the story was already written before she called.
The leering of one of the other workers bothers Kate in the lunchroom, and she tells Lindsay about her assaults. Lindsay is horrified that Mike and Brian laughed at her when she told them about it. Lindsay tells her that it happened to her in university as well.
Kate calls her parents to tell them that she’s finally paid off her student loan, but she needs to keep working at the site because now she has no money. She’s going to try making it as a cartoonist, and her parents are unimpressed.
Kate notices that Ryan is acting strangely, being absent a lot and not doing his work, and it can’t fully be explained by his recent divorce. She hears about other workers who are taking cocaine and behaving strangely too. She asks Ryan if he’s ok and he brushes it off. Kate contemplates the safety pyramid again. She finds a piece of paper on Ryan’s desk with an appointment for the employee assistance program. Emily later tells her that Ryan has left suddenly, and that they need to figure things out until a replacement is found.
Kate wonders why there are so many safety meetings but none have ever talked about drugs or alcohol. Her coworkers say that everyone knows why there is so much of both, and that the company can’t have safety meetings about illegal activities anyway.
Kate finally gets to leave the oil sands and go home. Her colleague Norman gives her prints of some of his photos of the northern lights as a leaving present, including one of a rainbow. Before she leaves, the company organises a staff photograph with all the workers on the site. Kate sees the man who assaulted her the second time, and he recognises her but can’t remember her name or who she is, and asks her how it’s going.
Kate trains her replacement, and finds out that she’s earning more than her despite not having any experience in tools. She complains to John about it, and finally rants about all her shitty treatment in the oil sands. She goes to see Gary in the head office, and demands her full bonus, which was going to be docked because she was leaving. Gary tells her it’s company policy. She tells him about the harassment, and he claims she could have come to them about it, but she fires back that he knows she couldn’t have. Gary agrees to give her the bonus. Her colleagues organise a going-away barbecue, and even Mike attends.
Back in Nova Scotia, Kate is reunited with her family. While out enjoying the seaside air, she chats to a farmer who tells her he’s keeping a field for his son who is working out west in case he ever comes back and wants to build a house. A man called Lauchie visits the house before moving west himself, and tells them there’s something for everyone out there and that the young people have everything they want. Out in Halifax with friends, she and Becky see a man from one of the camps, who tells Becky that they had a bet on who would sleep with her first. Their friends who haven’t worked in the oil sands can’t believe they’d let a man talk to them like that.
In the book’s afterword, Kate talks about how the book chronicles her specific experience at a specific time. She is wary of sensationalism of her story, especially because sexual assault is so common that it’s not actually sensational. She notes that neither of the men who raped her probably consider it to have been rape. She is also critical of the treatment of Indigenous people, and says the YouTube video of Celina Harpe was a “sword that cut through my ignorance”. We also find out that Becky died of cancer, and that her former coworkers pooled money together to send to her.
Bookclub Bingo 2023 categories: Non-Fiction, Graphic Novel (grey), Mod Pick (grey)
Other links:
- The first discussion
- Canada Reads page about Ducks [I hadn’t realised that Station Eleven, another recent bookclub read, was the runner up]
- Kate Beaton on Wikipedia
- Hark! A Vagrant, the archive of Kate Beaton’s comics website
- The original Hark! A Vagrant sketch comic about the oil sands (links to all five parts; I’ve posted the parts individually below this in case that’s easier)
- Original Ducks Part 1
- Original Ducks Part 2
- Original Ducks Part 3
- Original Ducks Part 4
- Original Ducks Part 5
- Lindsay Bird was one of the people in the book whose name wasn’t changed, and in 2019 she published a poetry collection about working in the oil sands called Boom Time. There’s a CBC article about the book here.
2023.06.02 06:45 heresmytwopence One for the blooper reel 🙃
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2023.06.02 06:36 Diksun-Solo What should I (24m) do with my relationship based off of these problems I'm facing with my (25f) GF?
MUCHO TEXTO INCOMING.
I've been dating my GF for about 8 months now. Before this relationship we dated for a year (JUN 2019-JULY2020). But broke up for what i thought were solely long distance issues. So when i eventually came back to the US in 2022, I was willing to try dating again.
Topic 1: Current living and financial situations
I will admit some fault of my own to start with. Due to the driving I had to do to see her, after about a month of dating, i told her she could move in with me in my apartment and get a closer job if she wanted. I thought i had a good idea of what it'd be like to live with her but i clearly shouldn't have rushed into this.
That being said, I'm well off financially with my job so i pay the rent, all bills related to my car, and internet since all 3 of these were financial responsibilities i took up on my own. We split utilities, pet rent, and gym fees which usually ends with her contributing about $140 a month to bills and she usually contributes another 200 or so in various other things
In total, i pay around $4k a month to keep us living comfortably and she pays about $500.
She works a much lower pay job than me and hasn't done much in my opinion to get out of it. So that's why she's still making a lot less money than me. She also doesn't have a driver's license so anywhere we wanna go that requires driving is on me. She claims her vision may affect her driving ability if/when she tries to get one. I believe her as she doesn't have much of a reason to lie.
Topic 2: Jealousy/ Insecurity
I also can admit some fault as it pertains to a woman i am friends with. A while after I broke up with my current gf in 2020. I met another girl and developed feelings for her. We got drunk once and kissed each other, but never more than that. When i returned from overseas, I lived with this girl and her BF for about a month until i got my own apartment. One time i took my GF with me to her house to get some mail and on the way home she inquired about my history with my friend and i admitted to previously having feelings for her and kissing her in summer of 2021. My GF didn't like this and i shouldn't have hidden it from her.
This has created a trust issue in our relationship and to this day she clearly feels I'm hiding things. Any time she makes a statement that sounds accussing, i offer her to look in my phone and she declines.
However i think it's worth stating that she had trust issues the last time we were dating (before i met my friend) for no solid reason.
Everytime we talk or fight about the fact that i hid this from her, i feel like we hash it out and I even apologize again, only for it to come back up again in a month. I just want her to understand that I'm not hiding anything, which is why I tell her my phone passcode and offer her to look through it if she feels I'm hiding things.
She also got onto me about liking pictures of girls i went to high school with where they were in bikinis at the beach. She claimed these pictures were too "lewd" and "provocative". I assured her that i was just liking the pictures since it was a small demand and she still insisted i stop so i agreed to it to make her happy. I will say though, these weren't something like an only fans promotion. They were the most SFW bikini pics you could take.
This was also something we fought about last time we dated.
Topic 3: "I don't listen/ I don't care."
I can agree that sometimes I don't hear my GF when i should. That being said i also work in a very loud industrial environment so I may have some minor hearing damage after the past few years of working this job. This led to me recording what it sounded like at my job site and next time she brought up that "i don't listen " I showed her the video and said that i don't have good hearing after dealing with loud noises like that all day. She cried cause she felt bad for making me feel like i don't listen on purpose and i thought we had finally fixed that problem. But unfortunately she still asks if I'm ever even listening to her when I don't hear her, even if I'm doing something that requires my full attention like driving.
She also likely has a case of OCD. This has caused some contention as i sometimes forget to organize things how she likes to since I'm forgetful. When she asks.me.to put things back how she likes them, i have no issue with it and do it. But she'll still occasionally ask me if i even care about the fact she has OCD and this will usually result in an argument about whether or not I'm accommodating enough for her.
Topic 4: I don't spend enough time with her.
I will admit some fault here as the past couple weeks, I've been spending a lot of my days playing a new video game that just released. That being said, i still spent some time with her every day and spent all day with her on her Birthday and took her on a fancy dinner date.
Every day we usually cook dinner together. Spend an hour watching TV together. And we have sex about twice a week. We also run errands together and go with each other pretty much anytime we leave the house. We also go on a dinner date at least once a month, outside of special events.
That being said, she still says we don't spend enough time together and we should be going on more dates or doing more stuff at home together since the aforementioned activities aren't "quality time together".
The thing is I already make every effort to take her with me everywhere. I rarely go anywhere besides work on my own cause i don't want to make her upset, so saying we don't spend enough "quality time" together just makes me feel like shit.
Idk. I could definitely say more, but what do you guys think i should do with this relationship based off the info here?
TL;DR. Some of it is my fault, but my GF contributes less, is insecure, thinks i don't listen or care, and never thinks i spend enough time with her.
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I've been dating my GF for about 8 months now. Before this relationship we dated for a year (JUN 2019-JULY2020). But broke up for what i thought were solely long distance issues. So when i eventually came back to the US in 2022, I was willing to try dating again.
Topic 1: Current living and financial situations
I will admit some fault of my own to start with. Due to the driving I had to do to see her, after about a month of dating, i told her she could move in with me in my apartment and get a closer job if she wanted. I thought i had a good idea of what it'd be like to live with her but i clearly shouldn't have rushed into this.
That being said, I'm well off financially with my job so i pay the rent, all bills related to my car, and internet since all 3 of these were financial responsibilities i took up on my own. We split utilities, pet rent, and gym fees which usually ends with her contributing about $140 a month to bills and she usually contributes another 200 or so in various other things
In total, i pay around $4k a month to keep us living comfortably and she pays about $500.
She works a much lower pay job than me and hasn't done much in my opinion to get out of it. So that's why she's still making a lot less money than me. She also doesn't have a driver's license so anywhere we wanna go that requires driving is on me. She claims her vision may affect her driving ability if/when she tries to get one. I believe her as she doesn't have much of a reason to lie.
Topic 2: Jealousy/ Insecurity
I also can admit some fault as it pertains to a woman i am friends with. A while after I broke up with my current gf in 2020. I met another girl and developed feelings for her. We got drunk once and kissed each other, but never more than that. When i returned from overseas, I lived with this girl and her BF for about a month until i got my own apartment. One time i took my GF with me to her house to get some mail and on the way home she inquired about my history with my friend and i admitted to previously having feelings for her and kissing her in summer of 2021. My GF didn't like this and i shouldn't have hidden it from her.
This has created a trust issue in our relationship and to this day she clearly feels I'm hiding things. Any time she makes a statement that sounds accussing, i offer her to look in my phone and she declines.
However i think it's worth stating that she had trust issues the last time we were dating (before i met my friend) for no solid reason.
Everytime we talk or fight about the fact that i hid this from her, i feel like we hash it out and I even apologize again, only for it to come back up again in a month. I just want her to understand that I'm not hiding anything, which is why I tell her my phone passcode and offer her to look through it if she feels I'm hiding things.
She also got onto me about liking pictures of girls i went to high school with where they were in bikinis at the beach. She claimed these pictures were too "lewd" and "provocative". I assured her that i was just liking the pictures since it was a small demand and she still insisted i stop so i agreed to it to make her happy. I will say though, these weren't something like an only fans promotion. They were the most SFW bikini pics you could take.
This was also something we fought about last time we dated.
Topic 3: "I don't listen/ I don't care."
I can agree that sometimes I don't hear my GF when i should. That being said i also work in a very loud industrial environment so I may have some minor hearing damage after the past few years of working this job. This led to me recording what it sounded like at my job site and next time she brought up that "i don't listen " I showed her the video and said that i don't have good hearing after dealing with loud noises like that all day. She cried cause she felt bad for making me feel like i don't listen on purpose and i thought we had finally fixed that problem. But unfortunately she still asks if I'm ever even listening to her when I don't hear her, even if I'm doing something that requires my full attention like driving.
She also likely has a case of OCD. This has caused some contention as i sometimes forget to organize things how she likes to since I'm forgetful. When she asks.me.to put things back how she likes them, i have no issue with it and do it. But she'll still occasionally ask me if i even care about the fact she has OCD and this will usually result in an argument about whether or not I'm accommodating enough for her.
Topic 4: I don't spend enough time with her.
I will admit some fault here as the past couple weeks, I've been spending a lot of my days playing a new video game that just released. That being said, i still spent some time with her every day and spent all day with her on her Birthday and took her on a fancy dinner date.
Every day we usually cook dinner together. Spend an hour watching TV together. And we have sex about twice a week. We also run errands together and go with each other pretty much anytime we leave the house. We also go on a dinner date at least once a month, outside of special events.
That being said, she still says we don't spend enough time together and we should be going on more dates or doing more stuff at home together since the aforementioned activities aren't "quality time together".
The thing is I already make every effort to take her with me everywhere. I rarely go anywhere besides work on my own cause i don't want to make her upset, so saying we don't spend enough "quality time" together just makes me feel like shit.
Idk. I could definitely say more, but what do you guys think i should do with this relationship based off the info here?
TL;DR. Some of it is my fault, but my GF contributes less, is insecure, thinks i don't listen or care, and never thinks i spend enough time with her.
2023.06.02 05:30 Littlecinephilegirl 34 [F4M] California - Looking for my person/twin flame 🔥 also living in California (or willing to relocate)
I’m a nerd and a weirdo. I’m into music festivals and love almost all music but love emo and EDM. I can nerd-out about aliens, true crime (deep interest in serial killers), the paranormal, film, fashion, music, Disney, space and animals (especially cats 😽). I’m a night owl and I love going to film festivals, music festivals/raves, concerts, traveling, fine dining and the beach. I am an extroverted introvert and have a little bit of social anxiety 🥺. But if I seem to vibe with someone and they feel trustworthy I warm up quickly. I’m currently employed and will be a phlebotomist or medical assistant as I just got my license and certifications. I have a car as well. I guess I’m decent looking? (pretty hard on myself about my looks 🥺)
I want to get to know someone that lives in California (or seriously willing to relocate to California), in their late 20s/early 30s/40s and have a genuine connection, something real, no nsa, no couples, no poly- a monogamous relationship only. Someone kind, attractive, giving , intelligent (intellectual-types a big plus), makes me laugh/similar humor (Superbad, Pineapple Express, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Borat, Bruno-that kind of humor) has a job and a car, stable job/career and can in the near future be able to provide for their family, has their own place or is living with roommates, likes animals especially cats, a night owl (at least sometimes), someone who wants to get married in the near future and have a family, similar interests/tastes especially in the arts, decent sense of fashion/style and taste, talkative but also has good back and forth banter and can have long deep convos, expressive emotionally, similar values and societal/political views (towards the liberal side), not afraid to be vulnerable, cultured/worldly, 100% honest from the beginning, humble, trustworthy, open to other povs and ideas, emotionally intelligent, makes their partneSO/whoever they are dating a priority, humble, knows what they want, strong mentally, likes taking care of others and compatible in intimacy. I am only interested in someone who wants to jump with both feet in. I want a risk taker and is ready to fall in love- not someone who is super cautious and calculated when looking for their potential partner in life. Life is short. I am looking for someone who longs for that passionate fiery true love.
Would love someone that is into EDM, film/TV, the arts, a little bit of gaming, cats or animals in general, film festivals, a bit of traveling, a bit of fine dining and the beach. Emo, goths, ravers, tats/piercings or just has a cool/edgy aesthetic is a huge plus! Feel free to hit me up on chat (not DM) and send a pic (I’ll send one back if I’m interested) so I can put a face to who I am talking to :) (Physical attraction is important in building a connection so If you can’t send a photo showing your face in the beginning please don’t respond to this post)
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I want to get to know someone that lives in California (or seriously willing to relocate to California), in their late 20s/early 30s/40s and have a genuine connection, something real, no nsa, no couples, no poly- a monogamous relationship only. Someone kind, attractive, giving , intelligent (intellectual-types a big plus), makes me laugh/similar humor (Superbad, Pineapple Express, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Borat, Bruno-that kind of humor) has a job and a car, stable job/career and can in the near future be able to provide for their family, has their own place or is living with roommates, likes animals especially cats, a night owl (at least sometimes), someone who wants to get married in the near future and have a family, similar interests/tastes especially in the arts, decent sense of fashion/style and taste, talkative but also has good back and forth banter and can have long deep convos, expressive emotionally, similar values and societal/political views (towards the liberal side), not afraid to be vulnerable, cultured/worldly, 100% honest from the beginning, humble, trustworthy, open to other povs and ideas, emotionally intelligent, makes their partneSO/whoever they are dating a priority, humble, knows what they want, strong mentally, likes taking care of others and compatible in intimacy. I am only interested in someone who wants to jump with both feet in. I want a risk taker and is ready to fall in love- not someone who is super cautious and calculated when looking for their potential partner in life. Life is short. I am looking for someone who longs for that passionate fiery true love.
Would love someone that is into EDM, film/TV, the arts, a little bit of gaming, cats or animals in general, film festivals, a bit of traveling, a bit of fine dining and the beach. Emo, goths, ravers, tats/piercings or just has a cool/edgy aesthetic is a huge plus! Feel free to hit me up on chat (not DM) and send a pic (I’ll send one back if I’m interested) so I can put a face to who I am talking to :) (Physical attraction is important in building a connection so If you can’t send a photo showing your face in the beginning please don’t respond to this post)
2023.06.02 05:29 Littlecinephilegirl 34 [F4M] California - Looking for my person/twin flame 🔥 also living in California (or willing to relocate)
I’m a nerd and a weirdo. I’m into music festivals and love almost all music but love emo and EDM. I can nerd-out about aliens, true crime (deep interest in serial killers), the paranormal, film, fashion, music, Disney, space and animals (especially cats 😽). I’m a night owl and I love going to film festivals, music festivals/raves, concerts, traveling, fine dining and the beach. I am an extroverted introvert and have a little bit of social anxiety 🥺. But if I seem to vibe with someone and they feel trustworthy I warm up quickly. I’m currently employed and will be a phlebotomist or medical assistant as I just got my license and certifications. I have a car as well. I guess I’m decent looking? (pretty hard on myself about my looks 🥺)
I want to get to know someone that lives in California (or seriously willing to relocate to California), in their late 20s/early 30s/40s and have a genuine connection, something real, no nsa, no couples, no poly- a monogamous relationship only. Someone kind, attractive, giving , intelligent (intellectual-types a big plus), makes me laugh/similar humor (Superbad, Pineapple Express, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Borat, Bruno-that kind of humor) has a job and a car, stable job/career and can in the near future be able to provide for their family, has their own place or is living with roommates, likes animals especially cats, a night owl (at least sometimes), someone who wants to get married in the near future and have a family, similar interests/tastes especially in the arts, decent sense of fashion/style and taste, talkative but also has good back and forth banter and can have long deep convos, expressive emotionally, similar values and societal/political views (towards the liberal side), not afraid to be vulnerable, cultured/worldly, 100% honest from the beginning, humble, trustworthy, open to other povs and ideas, emotionally intelligent, makes their partneSO/whoever they are dating a priority, knows what they want, strong mentally, likes taking care of others and compatible in intimacy. I am only interested in someone who wants to jump with both feet in. I want a risk taker and is ready to fall in love- not someone who is super cautious and calculated when looking for their potential partner in life. Life is short. I am looking for someone who longs for that passionate fiery true love.
Would love someone that is into EDM, film/TV, the arts, a little bit of gaming, cats or animals in general, film festivals, a bit of traveling, a bit of fine dining and the beach. Emo, goths, ravers, tats/piercings or just has a cool/edgy aesthetic is a huge plus! Feel free to hit me up on chat (not DM) and send a pic (I’ll send one back if I’m interested) so I can put a face to who I am talking to :) (Physical attraction is important in building a connection so If you can’t send a photo showing your face in the beginning please don’t respond to this post)
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I want to get to know someone that lives in California (or seriously willing to relocate to California), in their late 20s/early 30s/40s and have a genuine connection, something real, no nsa, no couples, no poly- a monogamous relationship only. Someone kind, attractive, giving , intelligent (intellectual-types a big plus), makes me laugh/similar humor (Superbad, Pineapple Express, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Borat, Bruno-that kind of humor) has a job and a car, stable job/career and can in the near future be able to provide for their family, has their own place or is living with roommates, likes animals especially cats, a night owl (at least sometimes), someone who wants to get married in the near future and have a family, similar interests/tastes especially in the arts, decent sense of fashion/style and taste, talkative but also has good back and forth banter and can have long deep convos, expressive emotionally, similar values and societal/political views (towards the liberal side), not afraid to be vulnerable, cultured/worldly, 100% honest from the beginning, humble, trustworthy, open to other povs and ideas, emotionally intelligent, makes their partneSO/whoever they are dating a priority, knows what they want, strong mentally, likes taking care of others and compatible in intimacy. I am only interested in someone who wants to jump with both feet in. I want a risk taker and is ready to fall in love- not someone who is super cautious and calculated when looking for their potential partner in life. Life is short. I am looking for someone who longs for that passionate fiery true love.
Would love someone that is into EDM, film/TV, the arts, a little bit of gaming, cats or animals in general, film festivals, a bit of traveling, a bit of fine dining and the beach. Emo, goths, ravers, tats/piercings or just has a cool/edgy aesthetic is a huge plus! Feel free to hit me up on chat (not DM) and send a pic (I’ll send one back if I’m interested) so I can put a face to who I am talking to :) (Physical attraction is important in building a connection so If you can’t send a photo showing your face in the beginning please don’t respond to this post)
2023.06.02 05:16 Ill_Rutabaga3531 Embarrassing Moment! Help
So I occasionally go on a gay chat app. I'm very careful who I talk to or send pics to as I don't really "consider" myself gay but i like to talk to guys occasionally and find new friends. I think someone I know had a clue who I was as they were at a beach in my area(very small area). I went to the store in town an someone passed yelling my name. I couldn't see who it was in time. About hour later on the app I got a message asking " Is this (my name) so I responded about 40 min later after actually seeing the message asking "who"? Then I said my name is Dan with the local opera crew hanging out with a bunch of people , do you wanna come chill? We live in a tourist area with a opera right down the road also and every spring/summer it gets busy an all the people from around the country come here to be a part of the opera show and set. So anyway, next morning I got to work and my buddy pulled up next to me as we always park next to eacother. He said " how's it going (my name)? Then quickly he followed with it was him, his gf, his sister an her friend all on their way BK from the beach and seen me pulling into the store and yelled my name. They live like 35mim away. So I played it off like ooh shit I had no idea who it was cause I couldn't turn my head around fast enough. It was at that moment I knew/had a feeling it was him an his weird sister and her weird girlfriend probably on the gay chat app . My profile pic wasn't anything direct that it was me other then of my upper chest and some of my chin along with my left arm an no visable tattoo. I think they strictly knew they were within couple miles of where I live and it just happened I don't know. All I had was an approx height an 15 lb over my actual weight nothing more on my discription. I added a few pics of some opera stuff that goes on locally and also made my profile info about after opera rehersal how we go to the lake out on the boat with the crew(I don't own a boat or.go to the lake). Then yesterday on the app I made it look like I had to go BK to Massachusetts for few days untill Saturday so that way they would see why I'm off the chart now for few days till I either keep playing the opera role when "he" returns an slowly delete the account shortly after that or just not sign BK in after everyone thinks i went BK to mass for few days? I'm pretty sure I have my buddy like 60% convinced it wasn't me by the way I talked about what I did over the weekend an so on. he wasn't really asking toto many more detailed questions through out the day but I felt like I had some hints. Or I was gonna just put on Facebook, visable only to him an few others to make it look good , that my info was stolen an compromised online WHICH I did mention to him earlier in the week my bank was being weird not taking my auto payments for some reason for most my bills(true story) then once I see him at work I'll elaborate more that someone must of jacked my photo off only fans an was trying to use it to make money themselves on a bunch of weird apps or something ? Then he'll ask " you had an only fans " an I'll just play it off like yeah I messed around on there not knowing I had to put no one has the right to use or promote my photos without my permission an just kinda go that route with it?
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2023.06.02 04:16 TTLAAJ Waco Weekend Events Update - 6/1
Event Links - here
- Reddit randomly blacklists certain URLs, some of which come up with events, and that causes these posts to get removed without explanation. It is not feasible to figure out why so a separate page with links for details, if desired, is available.
Friday - 6/2
- 11:00 AM - Grandaddy Willow - Grandaddy Willow Grand Opening
- 4:00 PM - Balcones Distilling - Lucas Jon Turner
- 5:00 PM
- Sistrunk Fine Art Gallery - Frank Exum (guitar)
- Sistrunk Fine Art Gallery - “The Things That Are Lovely” by Dorrie Ann Cobb
- Valley Mills Vineyards - Crawfish Boil
- 6:00 PM
- Art Center Waco - Of Warm Impermanence: Nathan Clark and Vy Ngo Exhibition
- Cultivate 7Twelve - Cultivate’s Curated Market Grand Opening
- Heart of Texas Speedway - Muscling in the Dirt
- The Backyard - John Dempsy with Waves in April
- Webster Avenue & South 13th Street - Tea Aguilar with Andy Maguire
- 6:30 PM - Pivovar - Joel Wood
- 7:00 PM
- Hilton Waco - Greg Bashara and Evan Klaras (jazz)
- Last Chance Bar - John Epperson Band
- Schoepf's Bbq - Jason Eady with Matt Castillo, St. Mary’s Catholic School (Temple) benefit show
- Thrst Coffee Shop - Richard Thompson (drums) with Jasmin Thompson and Malcolm McDowell
- Tokio Store - James Hollingsworth
- Twisted Sisters Patio Bar - Pride & Joy
- 7:30 PM
- Indian Spring Park - Shakespeare in the Park: Julius Caesar
- Miller Park - Ghost Dance Band
- Tablerock Amphitheatre - The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- The Hippodrome - Fleetwood X: A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac
- 8:00 PM
- 207 W Commerce St - J.D. Johnson
- Bare Bones BBQ - William Beckmann with Brit Kerr
- Barnett's Pub - Kyle Sinkule
- Blue Dog Wine & Martini Bar - Markus Miller
- Freight Bar - Brazos Brothers
- Smiley's Night Club - Duel
- Truelove Bar - Smooth Nature
- Wranglers Cafe & Entertainment - Darrell Ray
- 8:30 PM - The Backyard - John Dempsy in concert
- 10:30 PM - Big's Mayberry Tavern - Ballou's Cats
Saturday - 6/3
- 9:00 AM - Redwood Shelter - Waco Run Club
- 11:00 AM - Tony DeMaria's BBQ - Lucas Jon Turner
- 12:00 PM
- Barnett's Pub - Reverend Nathon
- Barnett's Whiskey House - Crawfish Boil
- 6:00 PM - Art Center Waco - Of Warm Impermanence: Nathan Clark and Vy Ngo Exhibition
- 6:30 PM - Pivovar - Touch of Grey
- 7:00 PM
- Brazos Theatre - Improv Comedy Show
- Dr Pepper Museum - Dr Pepper Paranormal Experience
- Undercroft Social Club - A Night Out, Bedtime Stories, Rad Dragon and Boneless Estate
- 7:30 PM
- Brazos Theatre - Improv's a Beach Comedy Show
- Cultural Activities Center - Carrie Rodriguez - Texas Music Series
- Indian Spring Park - Shakespeare in the Park: Julius Caesar
- Segovia Wine Bar - Kyle Mathis
- Tablerock Amphitheatre - The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- 8:00 PM
- Barnett's Pub - Collin James Band
- Barnett's Whiskey House - Block Party
- Big's Mayberry Tavern - Rewind Party Band
- Tokio Store - Tanner Sparks
- Twisted Sisters Patio Bar - Los Roachez
- 8:30 PM
- Stay Classy - Deon Q and Joel McCray
- The Backyard - Brit Kerr
- 9:00 PM - Blaam Eatery - All-Star Summer Kickoff Concert
Family Events - link here
- Not just for families/kids - contains family-friendly events like Farmers Market, Food Truck Showdown,
2023.06.02 03:37 bad_maxima New Bags from Smaak Amsterdam for Work and Travel (plus a bonus Loubi54)!
 | submitted by bad_maxima to handbags [link] [comments] https://preview.redd.it/tm3sc13jyh3b1.jpg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=350a8cbd65517bf542967a72236d8b3dfcce75e6 https://preview.redd.it/ry92uy9zyh3b1.jpg?width=345&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bebb90c5347e0426ace92920cbf39e06b6cde20d https://preview.redd.it/emr3vzb1zh3b1.jpg?width=381&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0df3e24df4883cc81a3156e9761875ad3c0090a0 https://preview.redd.it/wqw23235zh3b1.jpg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=305cb9af4a31a3129c390370705b61386ba56bed https://preview.redd.it/nvi3w22azh3b1.jpg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d182015fb2e4901a5dcdf4dd64bda91bc986bd00 https://preview.redd.it/h6nnqgvazh3b1.jpg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=43b83858fd5daa7eb0ed1b44dd174cc966d3ed4a https://preview.redd.it/pog3rarfzh3b1.jpg?width=360&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e56839bed0b22cfc5dee26c541d35fac449fbcf1 https://preview.redd.it/wjsesurgzh3b1.jpg?width=333&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f6dfd0c729e7d8d3e0d3fbf468130978a309c08a https://preview.redd.it/xolw61vjzh3b1.jpg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fd68b510e0d141ac33ef9fb9fe9c552c7d2c970d https://preview.redd.it/cgx7kzikzh3b1.jpg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=24924bc6a7b62483d2fd1be4ba84d03dda8c99ba https://preview.redd.it/xjeo3eglzh3b1.jpg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a8c6633632cfd21efa894287fad17f97bb6ec419 https://preview.redd.it/cqzeqo9mzh3b1.jpg?width=347&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=527dd93ac0ce8933e8df86b4846b5dfaf04910f8 https://preview.redd.it/3qu99uhnzh3b1.jpg?width=382&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6338b84c5d75c0bfa92b410622d74b6aa88c6b8b https://preview.redd.it/wkry844pzh3b1.jpg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8deb82135190461e10791772ea5860a09f4cb659 https://preview.redd.it/v96hzanpzh3b1.jpg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b1b4a9f2a7e54b74c5cfb73b7509990f21efe5e2 A few months ago, I asked for reddit's assistance in choosing a new work bag. You all left a ton of great comments and I was really torn on what to get, but then Smaak had its 48-hour sale in April and I pulled the trigger on the Chloe Big in Soft Taupe (normal price €329, sale price €230)! The sale was crazy good, so I also picked up the Cally in Army Green (normal price €149, sale price €74) and the Riley in Dark Grey (normal price €169, sale price €118). My thinking was the Cally may be a good bag for more casual work days, and the Riley could be used for travel and/or as a beach bag. Shipping took quite awhile (I assume because I ordered during the sale), and the bags were just recently delivered. Pics are above, and my thoughts on the bags are below. For some strange reason, Smaak does not show the inside of its bags on its website, so I included that in the pics for those thinking of purchasing. Chloe Big (Soft Taupe) (link): I decided at the last minute to go with Soft Taupe, since I didn't want the color to be too harsh given my business casual work environment. However, shortly after ordering I regretted that color choice because I was worried the leather would be too light and prone to looking dirty and/or discoloring. While I can't yet speak to any discoloration concerns, in person the bag and the color are gorgeous, and the color seems dark enough that it won't be difficult to maintain. The leather feels so soft and amazing, and thankfully the bag is not too heavy even with my laptop inside. The bag is lined with green viscose (it feels and looks like suede) and it has 3 big compartments with a few internal pockets. My 13-inch work laptop fits well in the back or front pocket, but not in the zippered middle pocket. I think the bag looks great over the arm or over the shoulder using the detachable crossbody strap (I have it at the shortest length in the pic, but it can be worn crossbody as well). I love that the bag has a secure closure and internal organization (and I genuinely don't understand why so many designer bags don't). I'm so excited about this bag and can't wait to use it! While I was waiting for this bag to come in, I snagged an unused small black structured tote from Cuyana Revive, which is still on its way. I plan to switch off between that bag and the Chloe Big as needed. (Cuyana was another brand I was really interested in for a work bag, but the classic structured tote looked a bit big for me, and their other bags are too unstructured for my taste. I wish I had been in the market for a work bag a few years ago - I really like a lot of their retired, more structured designs!) Cally (Army Green) (link): As mentioned above, I was hoping to use this bag for more casual days at work. The bag is very pretty, and the nylon feels thick and high quality. I wouldn't have previously thought nylon could feel sumptuous, but that descriptor fits this fabric. The Smaak website says the Cally can fit a 13-inch laptop, but it is a very tight fit, and it won't fit at all with my laptop sleeve. Unfortunately, this makes it a no-go for work (at least on days I need to carry a laptop). However, I think it would be great for shopping or travel, and I intend to keep it for those purposes. I don't love how it looks as a crossbody, so I anticipate using it mostly as a shoulder bag. For those looking for an alternative to the Longchamp bags, I think this is definitely worth considering (Smaak has a smaller size as well). The bag is slightly more structured than the Longchamp nylon totes I've seen, and the shape does not distort as much when it is filled with items. The nylon feels a lot nicer than what you get with a Longchamp tote (though I'm certainly not an expert and it could turn out to not have the same longevity). The bag also has a couple of internal pockets and an outside pocket in the back. Riley (Dark Grey) (link): This the only bag I regret purchasing. It has a minor defect with the stitching in the handles (shown in one of the pics) which can be easily corrected by trimming down the threads. Other than that, just like the Cally, the nylon feels very nice and the bag looks great. The color is a bit darker than the pictures on Smaak's website, and it looks very luxe. It comes with a removable pouch and has some internal organization. The bag just feels a bit too big for my frame and for what I would use it for. I don't love how it looks with the shoulder strap, but carrying it by the handle, especially if it is packed for travel, would not be realistic. I wish they made a size between the Cally and the Riley - that would be perfect! Bonus Bag - Loubi54 in Black/Gunmetal (link): I bought this bag before I discovered /handbags as a post-breakup gift to myself, and thought I would add a review here in case its of interest to anyone. I don't see Louboutin discussed a lot in this sub and am not sure what the consensus is on their bags. I love this one though! I use this bag whenever I'm going to a nice dinner or after-work event. I love that the outside is relatively understated, but the lining is in the Louboutin bright, signature red. It is the perfect size for a clutch when I don't want to wear it on the shoulder or as a crossbody. I've had this bag for a year and haven't noticed any wear and tear (thought I admittedly only use it once a month or so). My only complaint relates to the leather part of the crossbody strap - while the top is black, the bottom is in red leather and sometimes it becomes inadvertently inverted. --- I hope this post is helpful to anyone considering Smaak or any of the particular bags mentioned. I am so impressed with the quality. I want to end by thanking you all so much for your comments on my first post and generally for creating this wonderful community. I'm so glad I stumbled across this subreddit! |
2023.06.02 03:13 Extension-Command758 Beach ⛱️ pic are always the best.
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2023.06.02 02:16 KayBGreen I need advice on my new friend that smells horrible
I (37F) met a girl (we'll call her Holly 39F) in a local community page several months ago and she lives literally down the road from us like 2mins away or less. We had a lot in common and so did our spouses. My late father had just been put on hospice with cancer and she'd lost her parent to the same years before so we bonded over that.
We agreed to meet at a local restaurant so it would be public and no pressure to continue to meet if we didn't get along.
We will call her husband (Greg) and my husband (James) for anonymity.
From Holly's FB pics, I knew she was a big woman (as in 500-600lbs easily)and size does not bother me as long as someone is nice and respectful. I was raised to treat people they way i wanted to be treated.
She wears long dresses due to her religion and when she sat down in front of us, I got a whiff of body odor. It eventually and thankfully went away and we enjoyed the rest of our time with them so I thought it was her shoes maybe. They are really nice and me and James love talking to Holly and Greg but not in person due to her body odor.
We hung out 2 other times with then. The 2nd time was great, she barely stank but the odor was unfortunately still there, just not strong. Greg doesn't stink and their house was clean and neat.
The 3rd and last time we hung out with them was absolutely the worst ever!! Again they are the nicest people you could meet but I have a very very weak stomach and this time their whole house smelled like it and when I realized where it was coming from it made me soo much sicker. She apparently can't reach her butt due to her weight or has a health condition involving that area but it's definitely swamp butt smell. It was all I could do not to freaking vomit.
I tried to tell her nicely and she got super defensive and said she bathes all the time which I think it's either a lie, she can't reach certain areas, or a health condition but there's solutions to all of this. I've been around people her size or bigger that literally did not smell like that.
This girl is super clingy and wants to spend lots of time with me but I keep our hangouts LC due to the fact I absolutely cannot stand body odor at all and I don't know how to communicate this to her cause the last time I tried it ended with her being defensive. I worry about being too direct because she lives like less then a minute down the road and don't need enemies in the neighborhood and she couldn't handle the small amount of directness I gave her. In all honesty, I don't feel close enough to be as direct as someone who's her best friend or whatever.
She's a teacher and goes to a big church, I just can't believe someone hasn't told her about her body odor. I imagine it's been met the same way, defensiveness and excuses with nothing changing.
I just don't think I should have to deal with this bad body odor. I've asked her about depression but she doesn't seem like that in terms of signs and symptoms other than the poor hygiene and obesity. My degree/career is in Psychology and she doesn't hit the marks for depression or at least nothing I've been able to observe from talking to her or being around her a few times. Nothing I could pick up on anyway but that's not to say it's not there and she's just in denile.
I'm wondering if I should just stay LC and hope she loses interest in wanting to come around. Luckily she's allergic to my cats and can't come to my house due to the allergy cause I don't know what I would do if that smell lingered in my house or on my furniture cause there's no way I could clean it without vomiting. I'm sorry if that sounds mean but this smell makes a chicken house or paper mill smell good if you know what I mean.
It makes me angry she's constantly asking when she's going to meet my other friends cause I don't want my friends to meet someone who smells like that. They would not be as nice as I have been to her.
Another thing she does unrelated to the body odor is she's constantly wanting me to hang out or go places with her that involve eating large amounts of food and I've worked hard at losing the weight I have and have explained this to her several times but it goes ignored. She's shown me pictures of her in high school and she was the same size then as she is now. I just don't get it.
I've been overweight due to depression and a health condition (Ulcerative Colitis which doesn't make having a weak stomach easier) but I'd never allow myself to have body odor like that and if someone told me I stunk, I'd do something about it.
Any advice from someone who has been in a similar situation would be greatly appreciated. I'd like to find a more indirect way of getting the body odor point across to her since being direct backfired even though I was nice about it and delicate.
Seriously, if she doesn't fix the issue or I can't find a way to magically lose my sense of smell when I'm around her, I may have to just cut her out of my life cause I can't force myself to be around that and I doubt anyone else would want too either...🤢🫥
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We agreed to meet at a local restaurant so it would be public and no pressure to continue to meet if we didn't get along.
We will call her husband (Greg) and my husband (James) for anonymity.
From Holly's FB pics, I knew she was a big woman (as in 500-600lbs easily)and size does not bother me as long as someone is nice and respectful. I was raised to treat people they way i wanted to be treated.
She wears long dresses due to her religion and when she sat down in front of us, I got a whiff of body odor. It eventually and thankfully went away and we enjoyed the rest of our time with them so I thought it was her shoes maybe. They are really nice and me and James love talking to Holly and Greg but not in person due to her body odor.
We hung out 2 other times with then. The 2nd time was great, she barely stank but the odor was unfortunately still there, just not strong. Greg doesn't stink and their house was clean and neat.
The 3rd and last time we hung out with them was absolutely the worst ever!! Again they are the nicest people you could meet but I have a very very weak stomach and this time their whole house smelled like it and when I realized where it was coming from it made me soo much sicker. She apparently can't reach her butt due to her weight or has a health condition involving that area but it's definitely swamp butt smell. It was all I could do not to freaking vomit.
I tried to tell her nicely and she got super defensive and said she bathes all the time which I think it's either a lie, she can't reach certain areas, or a health condition but there's solutions to all of this. I've been around people her size or bigger that literally did not smell like that.
This girl is super clingy and wants to spend lots of time with me but I keep our hangouts LC due to the fact I absolutely cannot stand body odor at all and I don't know how to communicate this to her cause the last time I tried it ended with her being defensive. I worry about being too direct because she lives like less then a minute down the road and don't need enemies in the neighborhood and she couldn't handle the small amount of directness I gave her. In all honesty, I don't feel close enough to be as direct as someone who's her best friend or whatever.
She's a teacher and goes to a big church, I just can't believe someone hasn't told her about her body odor. I imagine it's been met the same way, defensiveness and excuses with nothing changing.
I just don't think I should have to deal with this bad body odor. I've asked her about depression but she doesn't seem like that in terms of signs and symptoms other than the poor hygiene and obesity. My degree/career is in Psychology and she doesn't hit the marks for depression or at least nothing I've been able to observe from talking to her or being around her a few times. Nothing I could pick up on anyway but that's not to say it's not there and she's just in denile.
I'm wondering if I should just stay LC and hope she loses interest in wanting to come around. Luckily she's allergic to my cats and can't come to my house due to the allergy cause I don't know what I would do if that smell lingered in my house or on my furniture cause there's no way I could clean it without vomiting. I'm sorry if that sounds mean but this smell makes a chicken house or paper mill smell good if you know what I mean.
It makes me angry she's constantly asking when she's going to meet my other friends cause I don't want my friends to meet someone who smells like that. They would not be as nice as I have been to her.
Another thing she does unrelated to the body odor is she's constantly wanting me to hang out or go places with her that involve eating large amounts of food and I've worked hard at losing the weight I have and have explained this to her several times but it goes ignored. She's shown me pictures of her in high school and she was the same size then as she is now. I just don't get it.
I've been overweight due to depression and a health condition (Ulcerative Colitis which doesn't make having a weak stomach easier) but I'd never allow myself to have body odor like that and if someone told me I stunk, I'd do something about it.
Any advice from someone who has been in a similar situation would be greatly appreciated. I'd like to find a more indirect way of getting the body odor point across to her since being direct backfired even though I was nice about it and delicate.
Seriously, if she doesn't fix the issue or I can't find a way to magically lose my sense of smell when I'm around her, I may have to just cut her out of my life cause I can't force myself to be around that and I doubt anyone else would want too either...🤢🫥
2023.06.02 00:38 Psychological-Vast77 Help me get some things for my 5month old puppy
Hey everyone! I just wanted to come on here and let you guys know that we have created an Amazon wishlist for my pup named Obi and some things for his brother! We moved to Orlando, Florida from West Palm Beach late last year and it’s been hard trying to live in our own with the bills and the economy nowadays, but we’re surviving! There is a detailed description on the top of the wishlist once you open the link. Obi is growing as a puppy and is soon to be needing new things, I thought this would be the perfect way to put things together that we would want/need for him since currently we have been struggling financially so it’s been hard getting him new things or even good things for him. Anything helps, even a share!💙
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/2VNCU0QM5W0J0?ref_=wl_share
Pic for tax! 🐾
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https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/2VNCU0QM5W0J0?ref_=wl_share
Pic for tax! 🐾
2023.06.02 00:15 Mysterious-Amount-21 Rocks found with lines of crystal?
 | Hey everyone, this is my first time posting on this subreddit. Today I found these beautiful rocks that have these lines of crystal on their exterior and I was wondering if anybody would be able to give me some more information on why they look like this and if they’re legit crystals or not? I’m not really sure how they could be fake, I found them on a beach in the south of the UK. The crystal part glistens in light and sparkles. I added another bonus pic of another rock inside of a rock because I thought it was super cute. Any help on the sparkly crystally ones would be much appreciated. Thank you ❤️ submitted by Mysterious-Amount-21 to whatsthisrock [link] [comments] |
2023.06.02 00:03 MrBeachBum51 Have a suspension I'm getting catfished..
I matched with this girl the other day and I'm getting some red flags.
She denied a video call the other day, she had me send her a selfie, but refused when I asked her for one. She sent me a picture of her at the beach, which is a picture from the camera roll, and from I can tell, she has no online presence. No Instagram, a Facebook that was made a few weeks ago..
On the flip side, she has sent a few pictures on Snapchat and the stories line up (she said she was going to take a bath, and she sent a picture from a bathtub (not NSFW)). She also tends to use voice notes a lot instead of typing messages, so that's another good sign.
I'm not sure if I'm just paranoid, as I've fallen into the trap a few times, or if this person is just REALLY good lol
Hoping someone has some advice for me. When I asked for a picture of her, I did tell her the truth that I've been catfished before and want to be as cautious as I can be. She got a little upset because she said she had just sent a picture (the beach pic) but then she ended up sending a picture as a snap in Snapchat. But I've seen people upload camera roll photos and send them like a real time Snapchat photo, so it's hard to trust anyone anymore..
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She denied a video call the other day, she had me send her a selfie, but refused when I asked her for one. She sent me a picture of her at the beach, which is a picture from the camera roll, and from I can tell, she has no online presence. No Instagram, a Facebook that was made a few weeks ago..
On the flip side, she has sent a few pictures on Snapchat and the stories line up (she said she was going to take a bath, and she sent a picture from a bathtub (not NSFW)). She also tends to use voice notes a lot instead of typing messages, so that's another good sign.
I'm not sure if I'm just paranoid, as I've fallen into the trap a few times, or if this person is just REALLY good lol
Hoping someone has some advice for me. When I asked for a picture of her, I did tell her the truth that I've been catfished before and want to be as cautious as I can be. She got a little upset because she said she had just sent a picture (the beach pic) but then she ended up sending a picture as a snap in Snapchat. But I've seen people upload camera roll photos and send them like a real time Snapchat photo, so it's hard to trust anyone anymore..
2023.06.01 23:56 r1ghtw1ng [WTS] DD M4A1 RIS II, Surefire Warden, KAC M4 RAS, DD Omega X 9.0
Timestamp: https://imgur.com/a/8Cj1vS9
Hey all, Doing some spring cleaning and selling some extra parts:
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Hey all, Doing some spring cleaning and selling some extra parts:
- Daniel Defense M4A1 RIS II FDE - Like new, mounted once, no salt to speak of, includes barrel nut, mounting hardware, barrel nut wrench, 3x FDE ladder covers
- Asking $380 shipped/insured, pics: https://imgur.com/a/wrK5Ucw
- KAC M4 RAS, Vero Beach, DOM 2003. A bit salty, was painted and stripped. All mounting hardware including tensioning screw is present and functional. Includes 2x 11-rib KAC panels,
- Asking $240 shipped/insured, pics: https://imgur.com/a/YLUTa9y
- Daniel Defense OmegaX 9.0, Actual length around 9.25", somewhat salty, rear anti-rotation tabs were removed, includes DD wrench, barrel nut, and all screws
- Asking $140 shipped, pics: https://imgur.com/a/IftpxLm
- Surefire Warden FDE (Quick Detach) - Used, not too salty
- Asking $195 shipped, pics: https://imgur.com/a/s5z8uhY
2023.06.01 22:57 barbt763 Can anyone enhance this photo to look better? I'll tip $10 to each my top five favorites.It is a favorite picture of my autistic daughter (left) who still hates to be in pics! I just love how chuffed she looks to be at the beach! Besides, I have no photos of me and all my kids from back then!
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2023.06.01 22:12 Taeobubbles 33[M4F] LA/OC - Looking for cute dates and more
Hey there, I'm an active and attractive 33 year old Korean/Italian man looking for new friends and connections for cute dates and fun times. No kids, never married, currently single and have been practicing poly for about two years.
I'm a bookworm and into all the nerdy things, board games, comic books, dinosaurs, sci fi and fantasy. 420 friendly but not much of a drinker. Must be an animal lover(I have a cat).
Looking for museum dates and sunset walks on the beach. I'm a very laid back and open-minded person, looking for casual, no pressure friendships and hopefully more if the passion and connection is there.
Send me a pic if interested, I look forward to hearing from you.
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I'm a bookworm and into all the nerdy things, board games, comic books, dinosaurs, sci fi and fantasy. 420 friendly but not much of a drinker. Must be an animal lover(I have a cat).
Looking for museum dates and sunset walks on the beach. I'm a very laid back and open-minded person, looking for casual, no pressure friendships and hopefully more if the passion and connection is there.
Send me a pic if interested, I look forward to hearing from you.
2023.06.01 21:43 tmac2015 [USA][H] Zelda Windwaker HD, 2 N64 Grey Controllers, games for GBA, N64, SNES, NES, PS1, PS2, PSP, some CIB or with cases. [W] Paypal
Willing to give a deal if you buy multiple items. Buyer pays +$10 for shipping since that's just the flat rate here, so if you buy 1 thing or everything it will be $10 for shipping. Let me know if you need pics!
The Sims Bustin' Out [Loose] - $10.00
Tetrisphere [Loose] - $10.00
Turok 2 [Loose] - $9.00
Pilotwings [Loose] - $9.00
James Bond Jr [Loose] - $10.00
Adventures of Mighty Max [Loose] - $10.00
Rap Jam Volume 1 [Cartridge and Case] - $20.00
Elevator Action [Loose] - $10.00
Bandai Golf Challenge Pebble Beach [CIB] - $15.00
Maximo Ghosts to Glory [CIB] - $14.00
Blood Omen 2 [Almost CIB, Missing Manual] - $10.00
God of War 2 [CIB] - $10.00
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Zelda: Windwaker HD Nintendo Selects WIIU [CIB] - $45.00
2x N64 Gray Controllers [Loose] - $13.00 Each
GBA Games
Lara Croft Tomb Raider Legend [Loose] - $12.00The Sims Bustin' Out [Loose] - $10.00
N64 Games
WCW Nitro [Loose] - $10.00Tetrisphere [Loose] - $10.00
Turok 2 [Loose] - $9.00
SNES Games
Metal Combat [Loose] - $9.00Pilotwings [Loose] - $9.00
James Bond Jr [Loose] - $10.00
Adventures of Mighty Max [Loose] - $10.00
Rap Jam Volume 1 [Cartridge and Case] - $20.00
NES Games
Paperboy [Loose] - $13.00Elevator Action [Loose] - $10.00
Bandai Golf Challenge Pebble Beach [CIB] - $15.00
PS1 Games
Crash Bandicoot (Greatest Hits) [CIB] - $10.00PS2 Games
Sly 2 Band of Thieves Greatest hits [CIB] - $11.00Maximo Ghosts to Glory [CIB] - $14.00
Blood Omen 2 [Almost CIB, Missing Manual] - $10.00
God of War 2 [CIB] - $10.00