I feel really defensive about it. I'm too old to be this insecure!
Mal: How come you didn't turn on me, Jayne? Jayne: Money wasn't good enough. Mal: What happens when it is? Jayne: Well... that'll be an interesting day.
'Serenity'
Spike's Bitches 23: We've mastered the power of positive giving up.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Betsy HP - May 18, 2005 2:10:49 pm PDT #9930 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Steph L. - May 18, 2005 2:11:14 pm PDT #9931 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
What cracks me up are the people who are horrified that I don't have cable.
t points, screams, a la Invasion of the Body Snatchers
P.M. Marc - May 18, 2005 2:12:53 pm PDT #9932 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Whoa.
Big ass clap of thunder just shook my house.
I repeat, SHOOK MY HOUSE.
Freaked the cats, but not the kid.
EpicTangent - May 18, 2005 2:13:02 pm PDT #9933 of 10001
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
It really depends on the tone, for me.
See, I think maybe I infer the tone for them sometimes. I just had a convo with a guy who said he went cold-turkey 4 years ago. At first I was making a conscious effort not to assume he was implying intellectual superiority - but then he said something about people who watch a lot of TV having something like 11th-grade level intelligence or somesuch. He did do a bit of back-pedaling when I said that I watch (I consider) a lot of TV.
Maybe I've just never heard it without the implied superiority tone.
Sparky1 - May 18, 2005 2:14:36 pm PDT #9934 of 10001
Librarian Warlord
Knowing him, she's right.
Knowing my co-worker even better now (since he made that remark) I was right.
Susan W. - May 18, 2005 2:15:00 pm PDT #9935 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I repeat, SHOOK MY HOUSE.
Weird. Here it's just vaguely rumbly. Which is unusual in itself.
ChiKat - May 18, 2005 2:15:45 pm PDT #9936 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
points, screams, a la Invasion of the Body Snatchers
ChiKat's right here and she's still fine.
Maybe I've just never heard it without the implied superiority tone.
Gotta admit, I don't think I've heard it any other way. But there are surely those out there who have.
sits back and waits for examples.
P.M. Marc - May 18, 2005 2:17:17 pm PDT #9937 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Weird. Here it's just vaguely rumbly. Which is unusual in itself.
The system is coming from the south, so the worst of it hit here before it'll hit you, if it hits you.
I haven't heard a clap that loud in quite some time.
EpicTangent - May 18, 2005 2:20:49 pm PDT #9938 of 10001
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Maybe I've just never heard it without the implied superiority tone.
Oh wait, I contradict myself. I asked the IT guy whether there was a computer in the building on which I could watch the trailer for Serenity. (Alas, no.) The next week he tells me he saw it at home. He was on the Quicktime site, saw the banner, remembered I mentioned it, so he watched it. He said it looked pretty cool, so I offered him the DVD's if he wanted to see the back-story, and he said no thanks, he doesn't watch much TV.
I think I forgot to get my back up because I was so excited about making a Firefly Convert.
§ ita § - May 18, 2005 2:23:51 pm PDT #9939 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The implied superiority that bugs me is the "Well, I don't obsess over TV like you do." Dude, if you know what the name/slogan of JJ Abram's production company is, and you consider for a second taking David Fury aside to give him pointers for Day 5 of 24 and you're not industry? You've WAY lost the "moral" high ground.
But I've heard people not care for TV in the same way some don't care for sport. It's no big thing.
Now, people with TV and without cable -- that's just weird.