Lorne: My little prince. Oh…what did they do to you? Angel: Nina…tried to…eat me. Lorne: Oh, you're--medic! You're gonna make it Angel. Just don't stop fighting. Doctor! Is there a Gepetto in the house?

'Smile Time'


The Minearverse 3: The Network Is a Harsh Mistress  

[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.


§ ita § - Aug 18, 2004 8:04:54 pm PDT #1687 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I based my statement that I was upsetting people by the fact that my postings were not well received.

What I'm doing is disagreeing with you. I don't have to get all upset to disagree with someone. I'm not quite Allyson, but it's no big. I wish people wouldn't disagree with me, because why? But I'm mostly past letting it spoil my dinner.

All I had was the vague uneasiness about atttacking a word just because it's similar to another word.

That wasn't what I was doing.


SailAweigh - Aug 18, 2004 8:08:41 pm PDT #1688 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

It's funny, I never minded Yank. However, when I would see signs like "Yankee fuera" painted on walls near the base in Spain, it would peeve me a little. That said, I was never treated with anything less than politeness by my landlords and the vast majority of businesses and just plain people. There were a few businesses that discriminated against Americans (eg. bars that placed cover charges on Americans, but not on Spaniards) and I chose to boycott them. In general, if I was in a town that wasn't that close to the base, I didn't run into any problems other than any other tourist of any nationality. For some reason, in communities close to the base, American sailors are looked at as "wealthy." In comparison to the local population, we probably were. But I still didn't like getting ripped off.


Maria - Aug 18, 2004 8:14:53 pm PDT #1689 of 10001
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift

I wouldn't go there with wop.

You bet your ass you wouldn't. Nor guinea, dago, ginzo, guido and goombah. My father still gets the racial slurs, and I get them, from friends and acquaintances who think it's "cute." It's demeaning, yet I'm being uber-sensitive when I ask them to cease and desist.


Kristen - Aug 18, 2004 8:29:43 pm PDT #1690 of 10001

I might joke with an Irish person about being a mick - I wouldn't go there with wop.

I gotta say...I would probably get pretty pissy with someone who made a joke like that with me.


Polter-Cow - Aug 18, 2004 8:30:13 pm PDT #1691 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Nor guinea, dago, ginzo, guido and goombah.

Goombah? I thought they were those guys in Super Mario Brothers.


Maria - Aug 18, 2004 8:39:47 pm PDT #1692 of 10001
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift

Goombah? I thought they were those guys in Super Mario Brothers.

They are. "Goombah" is the bastardization of the word compare, which means a close friend. Second-generation Italian-Americans who only knew certain words and phrases of Italian, as well as lacking the accent to pronounce them properly, invented their own pronunciation which transformed them into wholly Italian-American words. "Rigot'" for ricotta, and "fungool" for vafunculo are just two examples. Italians have no clue what is being said when their relatives from the States use these words.

Edited to fix formatting.


Polter-Cow - Aug 18, 2004 8:43:58 pm PDT #1693 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Goombah? I thought they were those guys in Super Mario Brothers.

They are.

Oh, der.

smacks forehead

I was, of course, talking about Super-fucking-Mario Brothers.

"Goombah" is the bastardization of the word compare, which means a close friend.

Huh. Do Italians make it a habit of jumping on the heads of their close friends? That's not very genial.


Gris - Aug 18, 2004 8:46:14 pm PDT #1694 of 10001
Hey. New board.

Do Italians make it a habit of jumping on the heads of their close friends?

Only on special occasions. Like when they don't have fireballs.


Maria - Aug 18, 2004 8:47:10 pm PDT #1695 of 10001
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift

I was, of course, talking about Super-fucking-Mario Brothers.

See? Compare is a word that is used for very special relationships. It should not be describing the lowest level of fiends in a video game. Especially when Goombah carries additional negative connotations.


Allyson - Aug 18, 2004 9:17:56 pm PDT #1696 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

It's odd where lines get drawn amongst the familiar.

During a particularly stressful time before an event a few years ago, Maya and I got a little heated at each other.

Maya said, "You're just being a bitch because I married a Black man."

I said, "Sluts like you muddy the race."

And we fell apart laughing at the stupidity of the entire argument.

I don't presume that I could have that exchange with anyone else.

I don't presume that I can touch ita's hair, though I love her and she knows I mean no harm, for example. There's a boundary. Maya says to me, "YOU can go there." Someone else can't. There's the understood.

It's an interesting thing.