Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.

Jayne ,'Jaynestown'


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.


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.


Atropa - May 18, 2005 2:26:09 pm PDT #9940 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Big ass clap of thunder just shook my house.

The lights keep flickering here at the Evil Empire. The walk to the bus stop is going to be ooky, isn't it?


P.M. Marc - May 18, 2005 2:26:57 pm PDT #9941 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

The lights keep flickering here at the Evil Empire. The walk to the bus stop is going to be ooky, isn't it?

Might not. The storm has passed now, and the orb is outside, shining.


Susan W. - May 18, 2005 2:28:15 pm PDT #9942 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

The lights keep flickering here at the Evil Empire. The walk to the bus stop is going to be ooky, isn't it?

Sun just came out here. But we're leaving to catch the bus for the ball game in 30-45 minutes.

t ponders the problem of how to keep Annabel dry in a downpour while carrying her in the sling


Connie Neil - May 18, 2005 2:28:50 pm PDT #9943 of 10001
brillig

The lights keep flickering here at the Evil Empire. The walk to the bus stop is going to be ooky, isn't it?

When one works for an Evil Empire, weather is probably not the first thing that should go through your mind when the lights start getting freaky. The first wave of attack by rebel forces, now . . .

That might just be my Star Wars geekery showing. 6.5 hours to showtime. I've seen every one of them first run on the big screen.

I wonder where my lightsaber is?


Lilty Cash - May 18, 2005 2:30:33 pm PDT #9944 of 10001
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."

None of my friends will go to a midnight show with me. So's I've got to go tommorrow and miss the OC.


Topic!Cindy - May 18, 2005 2:31:16 pm PDT #9945 of 10001
What is even happening?

I want to obsess over the TV, but they keep taking away the stuff I over which I like to obsess. Right now, I have show. One. That's not out of superiority. It's an act of kindness. I am the kiss of death for a good show. I've known it for some time, now.

What cracks me up are the people who are horrified that I don't have cable.

But...but...there's nothing on broadcast TV, so you need more channels which also have nothing on them. And you need to pay for that luxury. It's the American way. Commie.