Whoot! My tax returns just hit my bank account. Whoot! I can pretend I'm not a complete financial mess for at least a few weeks!
You like ships. You don't seem to be looking at the destinations. What you care about is the ships, and mine's the nicest.
Kaylee ,'Serenity'
Natter 43: I Love My Dead Gay Whale Crosspost.
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.
Allyson - Apr 06, 2006 1:47:10 pm PDT #9299 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
Jessica - Apr 06, 2006 1:48:10 pm PDT #9300 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
they were discussing the apparent trend to greet or say goodbye to a business associate with a hug or even air kiss
Yeah, this sounds like one of those NYT "trends" articles where actually it's just at this one place, and only among like three people.
My department is very chummy and we all hang out socially from time to time, but we don't hug, and we REALLY don't air-kiss.
§ ita § - Apr 06, 2006 1:50:50 pm PDT #9301 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Giving daps is an elaborated high five greeting. The one that I end up using most often is when the initiator makes a fist (like this, but more relaxed) and uses it to tap the top of the recipients similarly held fist. The recipient reciprocates, and then they butt fists, like they were clinking beer steins, except with no steins.
It can get more fancy with finger wiggling and altitude variations, open palms, etc.
JenP - Apr 06, 2006 1:51:07 pm PDT #9302 of 10001
I am curious about dap, too. Assuming ita's male co-workers don't go around giving each other Danish Americsn Princesses, which I feel pretty comfortable in assuming. That they don't.
ETA: Late post.
§ ita § - Apr 06, 2006 1:53:48 pm PDT #9303 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
That's our hello dapping. There's also congratulatory ones that involve slapping each other's open hands and sliding the palms away with fingers wiggling.
And, boy, does it look dumb written down.
Strix - Apr 06, 2006 1:57:41 pm PDT #9304 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Nah, ita, my students give me daps all the time. It took me about 2 months to figure out which dap for which students. Major variation depending on age, sex and gang affliliation.
For me - and this is Only Me - flirting is not always with intent. I can comfortably flirt with a wide range of people, and it's rarely serious. Hitting on is much like (verbalizing) ita's "You. Let's." with a "Now" often added in.
I flirt with mushrooms. It's just fun. And I love to hug and be touchie-feelie with friends, but I am VERY my-FUCKING-bubble with people O don't know.
And air-kisses at work? EW. Ew. Ditto with hugs.
DavidS - Apr 06, 2006 2:22:14 pm PDT #9305 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I'm with the whole loves-to-flirt crowd, and it's definitely about engaging with somebody at the level "Hey, you're sparkly and cool!" and not about intent.
I was going to say I don't really have crushes, but I certainly have a few Buffista crushes so that's not accurate.
But I don't pine. Well, I pined after JZ but I solved that by asking her to marry me.
Scrappy - Apr 06, 2006 2:26:43 pm PDT #9306 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Great solution, Hec.
I flirt in the "you are a mighty attractive* person and I sure am enjoying our badinage and I want you to know it" kind of way.
* And by attractive I mean, sexy, smart, funny, sweet, or any combination thereof.
shrift - Apr 06, 2006 2:26:49 pm PDT #9307 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I'm pretty sure no one's pining after me right now, which is just how I like it.
§ ita § - Apr 06, 2006 2:28:45 pm PDT #9308 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm pretty sure no one's pining after me right now
You never know...
t cue ominous music and thunderclaps