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<rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><atom:link rel="hub" href="http://tumblr.superfeedr.com/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"/><description>Where good ideas go to get gooder.</description><title>Calmer Than You</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @calmerthanyou)</generator><link>http://calmerthanyou.com/</link><item><title>22 Year Old Me: Married 65 years...how did you manage?  What's the secret?&#13;</title><description>22 Year Old Me: Married 65 years...how did you manage?  What's the secret?&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
Grandpa: I nailed a lot of prostitutes when I was in the service.  Your grandmother never found out.&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
22 Year Old Me: That's...that's not actually...that's not really a very beautiful story really. Yet it's oddly inspiring. &lt;br /&gt;&#13;
Grandpa: You're whole generation is a bunch of damn pussies.  Get me some more scotch before your mother notices how much I've already had.</description><link>http://calmerthanyou.com/post/8159512248</link><guid>http://calmerthanyou.com/post/8159512248</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 22:35:47 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>Trysten (8 year old)&lt;watching two squirrels doing it in the park&gt;: Hahaha, that squirrel in the back is really bad at leap frog!</title><description>Trysten (8 year old)&lt;watching two squirrels doing it in the park&gt;: Hahaha, that squirrel in the back is really bad at leap frog!  </description><link>http://calmerthanyou.com/post/8095403730</link><guid>http://calmerthanyou.com/post/8095403730</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:21:10 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>We&amp;#8217;ve really been working on raising independent children.  Yesterday I took our 11 year old...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#8217;ve really been working on raising independent children.  Yesterday I took our 11 year old son to Men&amp;#8217;s Warehouse to get fitted for a tux for my sister-in-law&amp;#8217;s upcoming wedding.  He took his little tux, waited in line to get a fitting room and, when it was his turn, marched right in all without asking for any help from me. I was rather proud of myself and what a great job parenting I&amp;#8217;ve been doing.  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;About 10 minutes later I asked through the door how it was going.  He yelled back, &amp;#8220;these assless chaps really are very airy!&amp;#8221;  He gets that inappropriate wit from his mother. &lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://calmerthanyou.com/post/8095081511</link><guid>http://calmerthanyou.com/post/8095081511</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:12:22 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>Funny Hairless Monkeys</title><description>Trysten (8 year old): Wait, Chicago isn't a state?&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
Julian (11 year old): &lt;doing that eye rolly thing kids always do&gt; duhhh&lt;br /&gt;&#13;
Trysten: Well excuse me, I haven't learned geometry yet!</description><link>http://calmerthanyou.com/post/8094452745</link><guid>http://calmerthanyou.com/post/8094452745</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:54:00 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>Yes, I now realize there&amp;#8217;s a big difference between saying

Your parents must be assholes...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Yes, I now realize there&amp;#8217;s a big difference between saying&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Your parents must be assholes because you&amp;#8217;re the shit!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;and&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Your parents must be assholes because you&amp;#8217;re shit!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thanks Pickup Line Panda.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://calmerthanyou.com/post/8094127785</link><guid>http://calmerthanyou.com/post/8094127785</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:46:01 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>How many times can you be told &amp;#8220;there is something seriously wrong with you&amp;#8221; in a day...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;How many times can you be told &amp;#8220;there is something seriously wrong with you&amp;#8221; in a day before it crosses into an &amp;#8220;unusually high&amp;#8221; number? &lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://calmerthanyou.com/post/8094050775</link><guid>http://calmerthanyou.com/post/8094050775</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:43:54 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>The Starbucks By My House</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Benito Mussolini runs the Starbucks by my house. If that&amp;#8217;s not Mussolini then it&amp;#8217;s a goddamn angry battle bear dressed as Mussolini wearing a black apron.  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#8217;s imperative that you know exactly what you&amp;#8217;re ordering before you touch the door handle.  If you don&amp;#8217;t pre-game in the parking lot beforehand he will know it the minute you walk through the door.  Indecision is to  Mussolini Barista as fear is to bees. You also need to understand the barista language and say things in the right order.  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A typical morning at my Starbucks:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MurderBeast: &lt;/strong&gt;What can I start for you sir?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Customer1: &lt;/strong&gt;I..uh..well, maybe a..&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MurderBeast: &lt;/strong&gt;fuck you!  Don&amp;#8217;t come to my workplace and be a pussy.  Do I come down to your office and stand around crying all day? Back of the line, Mary!! You better hope you grow a pair of stones before you get back up here again.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MurderBeast: &lt;/strong&gt;Ma&amp;#8217;am, what can I start for you today?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Customer2: &lt;/strong&gt;I&amp;#8217;d like a cinnamon dolce latte with a sprinkle of&amp;#8230;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MurderBeast: &lt;/strong&gt;&amp;#8230;a sprinkle of shut the hell up?  What size you ignorant whore?  &amp;lt;pounding shoe on counter with each step&amp;gt; FIRST you tell me if it&amp;#8217;s iced, THEN you tell me the size, THEN you tell me the drink, FINALLY you tell me any special instructions or add-ons.  For crissakes, I&amp;#8217;ve seen you here before.  This isn&amp;#8217;t new. Go sit in the timeout chair until you figure it out.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MurderBeast: &lt;/strong&gt;Sir, what can we do for you this morning?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Me: &lt;/strong&gt;Venti coffee&amp;#8230;please&amp;#8230;sir.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#8217;m sure the other drinks at Starbucks are wonderful.  I&amp;#8217;ve seen people at other Starbucks enjoying blended frappacinos made with solid gold and liquid cocaine while they lounge in a sunny meadow and play hide-n-go-seek with unicorns. It looks heavenly.  But I&amp;#8217;ll never know because by the time I step over the carcasses of those that have tried and failed before me I&amp;#8217;m too scared to do anything but order a giant ass coffee; the only order I have memorized well enough to say through my wild eyed terror.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://calmerthanyou.com/post/1263035106</link><guid>http://calmerthanyou.com/post/1263035106</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 10:25:00 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>Oh Danny Boy</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Took a little heat for this tweet gem (Twem?) this morning: &lt;i&gt;Debated if I could tweet, &amp;#8220;ate Mexican bacon with Danny Gans this morning or if it was too soon.  Decided it was too soon.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;So apparently I&amp;#8217;m an &amp;#8220;insensitive and irreverent asshole&amp;#8221; that deserves &amp;#8220;everything coming to you.&amp;#8221;  Frankly, I couldn&amp;#8217;t agree more.  I am an asshole most the time, but only for personal amusement reasons, and I do deserve everything coming to me (not sure if that&amp;#8217;s supposed to be good or bad, but I&amp;#8217;ll take it).  &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#8217;t want to get on the bandwagon of bitching about people on Twitter because I really am fine with people hating me on Twitter; that&amp;#8217;s part of the grand experiment.  But remember, no one is forcing you people to follow me on Twitter.  What&amp;#8217;s most interesting is, these comments didn&amp;#8217;t even come from people that follow me.  These people sought me out and then were disappointed.  Shit, join the club.  I think it was Dr. Phil that said something like, &amp;#8220;when did people start caring so much about people they don&amp;#8217;t care about?&amp;#8221;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I am a Golden God&amp;#8230;.or at least a Golden God&amp;#8217;s asshole.  Love me.  Let me make a little birdhouse in your soul.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://calmerthanyou.com/post/102364376</link><guid>http://calmerthanyou.com/post/102364376</guid><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 13:41:00 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>via www.cynical-c.com

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&lt;p&gt;The classy way to say, “I Love You”&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://calmerthanyou.com/post/101959372</link><guid>http://calmerthanyou.com/post/101959372</guid><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:12:58 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>You can&amp;#8217;t sell horse tranquilizers to a midget!</title><description>&lt;p&gt;You can&amp;#8217;t sell horse tranquilizers to a midget!&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://calmerthanyou.com/post/101735482</link><guid>http://calmerthanyou.com/post/101735482</guid><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:17:18 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>"a homosexual necrophiliac duck??  that’s comedy"</title><description>“a homosexual necrophiliac duck??  that’s comedy”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Melanie&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://calmerthanyou.com/post/101541492</link><guid>http://calmerthanyou.com/post/101541492</guid><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:29:39 -0600</pubDate></item></channel></rss>

