* 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.
No, no, no, sir. No more chick pit for you. Come on.
Riley ,'Lessons'
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.
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
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 themI 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?
Tom Scola - Jul 07, 2006 6:35:01 am PDT #5737 of 10002
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Jesse - Jul 07, 2006 6:37:33 am PDT #5738 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That mouse is so awesome right now.
sarameg - Jul 07, 2006 6:38:01 am PDT #5739 of 10002
Among my friends, there's no expectations of presents unless it is for a minor. We'll pick up the tab, usually, but we tend to do that anyway when we're eating out in celebration or commiseration (beyond the usual angst.)
One of my friends always gives presents, but that's just her. She'll give you a present because she found something that made her think of you and today is Thursday.
And I always give another the bright red peeps for her birthday, but that's just a tradition.