It was just so baffling. "Here, have some oatmeal!"
WTF?
Dawn: I thought you were adequate. Giles: And the accolades keep pouring in. I'd best take my leave before my head swells any larger. Good night.
'First Date'
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.
Consuela - Apr 09, 2006 9:33:22 am PDT #9690 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Megan E. - Apr 09, 2006 9:38:28 am PDT #9691 of 10001
Maybe she's trying to lower your cholesterol? Maybe someone gave her oatmeal and she's paying it forward?
Narrator - Apr 09, 2006 9:39:22 am PDT #9692 of 10001
The evil is this way?
Maybe it has some deeper cultural meaning. Such as, if you accept a gift of oatmeal you have to marry her eldest child or you are obligated to save her and her family if there's an earthquake or flood. Or possibly she just bought too much oatmeal.
Edited because I no spell good.
Megan E. - Apr 09, 2006 9:41:50 am PDT #9693 of 10001
Is there ever too much oatmeal?
DebetEsse - Apr 09, 2006 9:48:08 am PDT #9694 of 10001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I'm going with a definite "yes", Megan, especially as winter is over (however ugly Spring may yet choose to be)
Consuela - Apr 09, 2006 9:48:23 am PDT #9695 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Well, you know, if I'm going to eat plain oatmeal, I won't go the instant route.
Still, weird.
Fay - Apr 09, 2006 9:52:29 am PDT #9696 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Okay, anyone got any theories about why my very nice but completely unintelligible Chinese next-door neighbor just tried to give me a box of instant oatmeal?
I'm vastly amused by the way she speaks to me so earnestly, and yet clearly has to know that I don't get a word she's saying. This must be what it is like to have American tourists in a non-English-speaking nation.
considers
I am your Chinese next-door neighour. Only less generous with my foodstuffs. And more given to profanity.
erikaj - Apr 09, 2006 9:57:46 am PDT #9697 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Now I am picturing Fay as the Chinese guy from Deadwood because the only colloquial English phrase he knows is "cocksucker" Well, at least, I can entertain myself after all.
Fay - Apr 09, 2006 10:03:51 am PDT #9698 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Ibna Kelba.
(Arabic for son of a bitch. Which is very, very, VERY offensive indeed. Slightly less offensive is Ibna Kelb, which means son of a dog.)
Trudy Booth - Apr 09, 2006 10:17:27 am PDT #9699 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Fay Jay! A cab driver said insh'allah (sp) to me yesterday and I knew what the hell he meant!
(I'd said 'have a good day' or 'hope the weather breaks' or somesuch)