And don't you ever stand for that sort of thing. Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill 'em right back! ... You got the right same as anyone to live and try to kill people.

Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'


Natter 45: Smooth as Billy Dee Williams.  

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.


Lee - Jul 07, 2006 5:37:11 am PDT #5727 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

If it's more of a dragging action, it hurts like papercuts. Those fuckers are sharp.

I think that's what this must be, because I use the superthins.

Ow.


lisah - Jul 07, 2006 5:44:26 am PDT #5728 of 10002
Punishingly Intricate

Well, that's just true of stabbing. If it's more of a dragging action, it hurts like papercuts.

This is what I've always managed to do to myself the few times I've jabbed me. Owie! (and, thanks!, that reminded me that I need to pick up syringes today).

I think throwing a party for yourself is totally fine. Most years my best friends have a party for me at their place but I end up sending out the invitation. This year friends have scheduled their wedding BBQ celebration on my birthday (it's a Sat. this year) and, while I'm thrilled they're getting married and all and I know it will be a fun time, I'm a little miffed about having to share my day.


brenda m - Jul 07, 2006 5:45:55 am PDT #5729 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Oh, that reminds me. I'm cat sitting a diabetic cat next week, so I may be calling on y'all for advice.


Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 07, 2006 5:53:32 am PDT #5730 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

* Over 40% of people regularly worry that negative comments are being made about them

I've found that downsizing the number of people whose opinions matter to you helps tremendously with this.


Topic!Cindy - Jul 07, 2006 5:55:06 am PDT #5731 of 10002
What is even happening?

* 27% think that people deliberately try to irritate them
I wonder if this number reflects some under reporting. It seems to me like people are tightfisted with benefit-of-the-doubt. I know this is something I'm guilty of, and it's also something I notice a lot, in other people, not towards me, just when they're talking about something that's happened to them (cf. * Over 40% of people regularly worry that negative comments are being made about them).


Gudanov - Jul 07, 2006 6:19:53 am PDT #5732 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping

New study shows that people are paranoid:

What are you saying? Are you implying that I'm too paranoid? I always knew Jesse was out to get me.


Nora Deirdre - Jul 07, 2006 6:24:23 am PDT #5733 of 10002
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

Last week Nora 'updated my file' to allow it, so I will note...

Aw, Rick, you may weigh in on any and all subjects! I enjoy your posts. (in case my teasing was unclear in any way on that point)

Re: birthday parties. I am always organizing my own birthday thing, because, well, I honestly don't expect other people to remember it, and then I can organize the when and where and what that I like, 'cause it's my birthday! I don't get the reticsence to plan one's own birthday celebration. Maybe it's the perception that to do so is to troll for presents?


Jesse - Jul 07, 2006 6:30:52 am PDT #5734 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I always knew Jesse was out to get me.

Am not! But Lee might be.

On the birthday thing -- I don't hang out in crowds where it is expected that you will buy an extravagant birthday gift (or any, really), but I can imagine that if you were, it becomes a slightly different situation. Generally my friends buy dinner for the birthday girl, and that's that. Two times weird things have happened: One year, just three of us went out, so I felt bad that they split my dinner between them (so in that case I wished I had invited more people), and last year a friend came who's not from the US and gave me a fairly significant present, and I wished I had told her not to. But otherwise, no big whoop.


Gudanov - Jul 07, 2006 6:33:01 am PDT #5735 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping

Lee's posts always did look shifty.


Lee - Jul 07, 2006 6:34:53 am PDT #5736 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Personally, I think Jesse and Gud are out to get me AND plotting together to make me look like the evil one.

It's not working, is it?