Semi-seriously: If the homeless thing has reached the Unknowing Mid-West, has some kind of threshold been passed?
eta: Brenda, blame The Man. It usually gets a few knowing nods.
...burning baby fish swimming all round your head.
Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 32 Flavors and Then Some
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Gus - Jan 25, 2005 12:41:31 pm PST #545 of 10002
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Betsy HP - Jan 25, 2005 12:44:18 pm PST #546 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
It was these (not cheap) socks. [link]
JZ - Jan 25, 2005 12:49:57 pm PST #547 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Gus, I am so aghast at your unwanted housesitter and your inability to evict him unaided due to Homeowning While Black that I find myself forced to cobble together a new not-a-word in order to adequately convey the expression on my face. I'm sitting here reading the thread, slack-and-flabberjawed.
Betsy HP - Jan 25, 2005 12:52:29 pm PST #548 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
I think if I came home from a long trip to find a stranger who had taken possession of my house I would just sit down on the spot and DIE.
§ ita § - Jan 25, 2005 12:53:50 pm PST #549 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I have no idea how I'd react. I'd like to think it would involve a large stick, or perhaps one of the knives, but it's hard to say. It would probably take me on the order of minutes if not quarter-hours to actually believe it was happening.
"This is the sort of thing that happens to Gus, not me!"
Famous last words.
DavidS - Jan 25, 2005 12:54:05 pm PST #550 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I think if I came home from a long trip to find a stranger who had taken possession of my house I would just sit down on the spot and DIE.
This doesn't strike me as a robust response.
Betsy HP - Jan 25, 2005 12:54:33 pm PST #551 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
You want robust? Go get ita.
Nutty - Jan 25, 2005 12:56:59 pm PST #552 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I'm still working on how difficult it's got to be to set a shopping cart on fire.
I am thinking, blowtorch.
I think if I came home from a long trip to find a stranger who had taken possession of my house I would just sit down on the spot and DIE.
I would snap, and not in that lovely spring peas way but in that first ten minutes of a horror movie way. I have a thing about my personal space/property, and the voluntariness of my sharing it.
Hil R. - Jan 25, 2005 12:58:03 pm PST #553 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I'm still working on how difficult it's got to be to set a shopping cart on fire.
It was a shopping cart with some clothes and scrap wood in it.
Sheryl - Jan 25, 2005 12:58:15 pm PST #554 of 10002
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Gus! Sorry you had to deal with the squatter in your house.(I'm not a Scotch drinker, but I will mourn the loss of the Really Good Scotch with you.)