I'm that person who beat you up in high school. I was with that clique. You know, the pretty girls with big hair. I made fun of you. You cried. We laughed.
WE'RE STILL LAUGHING.
MWAH HA HA HA
Inara: Who's winning? Simon: I can't tell. They don't seem to be playing by any civilized rules that I know.
'Bushwhacked'
Bureaucracy 3: Oh, so now you want to be part of the SOLUTION?
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
Allyson - Jun 18, 2004 8:06:59 am PDT #1417 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
msbelle - Jun 18, 2004 8:07:41 am PDT #1418 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
It's so nice of you to offer. Warms my heart.
billytea - Jun 18, 2004 8:09:27 am PDT #1419 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Hey msbelle, the paper yesterday informed me that green is the new pink. Did you know about this?
msbelle - Jun 18, 2004 8:13:39 am PDT #1420 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
BT - see me in natter. important threads are for important things. or something.
DXMachina - Jun 18, 2004 8:13:55 am PDT #1421 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
So, who wants to start a grammar thread?
DavidS - Jun 18, 2004 8:14:05 am PDT #1422 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Allyson, did you ever hear This American Life's episode titled "The Allure Of The Mean Friend"?
What is it about them, our mean friends? They treat us badly, they don't call us back, they cancel plans at the last minute, and yet we come back for more. Popular bullies exist in business, politics, everywhere. How do they stay so popular?
Prologue. We hear kids recorded at Chicago's Navy Pier and at a public swimming pool, talking about their mean friends; Ira interviews Lillie Allison, 15, about the pretty, popular girls who were her best friends – until they cast her out. (5 minutes)
Act One. Return to the Scene of the Crime. Jonathan Goldstein interrogates the girls, now grown up, who terrorized him and his classmates, years ago in school – and finds they can be just as scary as ever. Jonathan Goldstein is the author of the novel Lenny Bruce is Dead. (18 minutes)
billytea - Jun 18, 2004 8:15:51 am PDT #1423 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
BT - see me in natter. important threads are for important things. or something.
I dunno, you were looking for a flame war, I figured this was as good a topic as any.
Jesse - Jun 18, 2004 8:15:55 am PDT #1424 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
cough t /natter
Allyson - Jun 18, 2004 8:16:26 am PDT #1425 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Never heard it. Are you saying my friends are masochists?
DavidS - Jun 18, 2004 8:20:07 am PDT #1426 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Never heard it. Are you saying my friends are masochists?
They dig your abuse! You'd like the ep (it's archived). The mean girl in Jonathan Goldstein's piece was (a) unrepetent and funny and (b) had dedicated her life to public service (she was a doctor).
t /natter-war