Spike: Taking up smoking, are you? Harmony: I am a villain, Spike. Hello!

Spike/Harm ,'Help'


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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.


§ ita § - Mar 20, 2005 5:04:32 pm PST #8934 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Who's always going on about that, again?

Some hippie kook.

I know a couple subjects in grade school were beyond boring for me not because of the content, but the speed of covering the content.

I can't imagine the horror of every class, even ones I hated, dragging that way (reminds me of a comic scan I just read on LJ, where Quicksilver, a speedster moans: 'Tell me, doctor ... have you ever stood in line at a banking machine behind a person who didn't know how to use it? Or wanted to buy stamps at the post office and the fellow in front of you wants to know every single way he can ship his package to Istanbul? Or gotten some counter idiot at Burger King who can't comprehend "Whopper, no pickles?" [...] Your life is being slowed to a crawl by the inabilities or the inconvenient behaviour of others. [...] Now imagine, doctor, that everyone you work with, everywhere you go ... your entire world .. is filled with people who can't work cash machines.'), especially if I wanted to learn.


DavidS - Mar 20, 2005 5:07:55 pm PST #8935 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Who's always going on about that, again?

Some cowgirl.

nor did I leave because I was brilliant.

::pfftt::


Lee - Mar 20, 2005 5:11:34 pm PST #8936 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

ita, I introduced Nicole to tamarind balls yesterday, and just pimped them to Aurelia as well.

I should have brought my hat.


DavidS - Mar 20, 2005 5:12:44 pm PST #8937 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I should have brought my hat.

The pimp hat? You know you're not rally Macking until you have platform clogs that are hollowed out and have goldfish swimming around in them.


§ ita § - Mar 20, 2005 5:12:45 pm PST #8938 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Whoo! Did they receive them more graciously than, say, Alibelle?


Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 20, 2005 5:15:55 pm PST #8939 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

You know you're not rally Macking until you have platform clogs that are hollowed out and have goldfish swimming around in them.

Man, if I still weighed 145 lbs. I would so buy a pair of those. Just watched I'm Gonna Get You Sucka last weekend.


Lee - Mar 20, 2005 5:21:20 pm PST #8940 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Whoo! Did they receive them more graciously than, say, Alibelle?

Yep. Aurelia was a little apprehensive, but a good sport, and then she liked them.

Of course, this means I will have to find a new source that much sooner.


Steph L. - Mar 20, 2005 5:24:15 pm PST #8941 of 10002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

I know a couple subjects in grade school were beyond boring for me not because of the content, but the speed of covering the content.

I can't imagine the horror of every class, even ones I hated, dragging that way

Jesus. That was grade school and junior high for me. They had no idea what to do with me, so they just turned a blind eye to me reading while the class trudged through whatever they were doing.

And I had a really hard time socializing with my age group. We lived out in the sticks, and so my class was very small, which meant there were no other nerds for me to hang out with. And the prevailing opinion was that Smart Kids were Different, especially ones like me, who even at the age of 7 was making Insect Reflection jokes.

I was miserable until I hit high school. And then I found my nerds, and classes that kicked my cerebellum up one side and down the other. I'm one of those people who loved high school, but not because I was all popular and shit -- it was just the first time I *knew* I could get beyond the little box that everyone else seemed content to stay in.

t /once a dork, always a dork


Betsy HP - Mar 20, 2005 5:25:41 pm PST #8942 of 10002
If I only had a brain...

Now imagine, doctor, that everyone you work with, everywhere you go ... your entire world .. is filled with people who can't work cash machines.'

Damned. Fucking. Straight.

And why will none of them ever stop EXPLAINING when I've said "Yes, yes, I get it, you don't have to say any more?"


Scrappy - Mar 20, 2005 5:27:10 pm PST #8943 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

I think there's a big difference between getting one or two years ahead and doing what this kid did--going to school with people a decade older than you are. That's a huge gap no matter how you look at it.