Melanie P flipped herself off the monkey bars trying to do an apple turnover.
Let him do his thing, and then you get him out. No messing with him for laughs.
Mal ,'Ariel'
Natter 47: My Brilliance Is Wasted On You People
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.
Aims - Oct 18, 2006 8:30:23 am PDT #4161 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Trudy Booth - Oct 18, 2006 8:32:22 am PDT #4162 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
"Addicts" showed signs of compulsive internet use, habitually checking e-mail, websites and chat rooms.
Did people used to be "addicted" to newspapers? Telephones? Mail? Or is it only contemporary basic communication that is considered pathological?
brenda m - Oct 18, 2006 8:35:34 am PDT #4163 of 10001
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
OMG, this is the saddest thing ever: [link]
lisah - Oct 18, 2006 8:43:22 am PDT #4164 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
OMG, this is the saddest thing ever
ack I really want to know but the word "dog" is in the link and I don't want to be crying at work today!
Allyson - Oct 18, 2006 8:43:22 am PDT #4165 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
Or is it only contemporary basic communication that is considered pathological?
Dunno. It's one of those negative connotations of the 'net I hope my book will kick in the nads.
ETA: I apologize in advance for how much my book likes carrots.
Amy - Oct 18, 2006 8:45:57 am PDT #4166 of 10001
Because books.
It's one of those negative connotations of the 'net I hope my book will kick in the nads.
Me, too. Because living here in Godforsaken Bumfuck (TM) with my in-laws and no real meatspace friends, I would be on fifty different psychotropic drugs without the Internet.
§ ita § - Oct 18, 2006 8:46:02 am PDT #4167 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
contemporary basic communication
I think part of it is that it's not basic yet. Effortless for us, second nature for those that follow us, but somehow the people reading the papers? Still think it should be a conscious choice each time it's used--if not, there's probably something wrong.
Jesse - Oct 18, 2006 8:47:42 am PDT #4168 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
The other day, I took a survey from Yahoo that asked how long I've been using the internet -- and the longest time option was "four years or more." I was like, Dude! Who, older than 6 and living in the first world, has been using the internet for less than four years??
Jessica - Oct 18, 2006 8:49:06 am PDT #4169 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I also wonder what the people who are hiding their net usage from their loved ones (almost always listed as a "similar to drugs!" symptom in this kind of article) are actually doing on the internet. Because if they're hiding it because they hide all their porn, well, there's your answer. Lying about hours refreshing CNN.com would be a different kind of thing.
sarameg - Oct 18, 2006 8:49:18 am PDT #4170 of 10001
Even my mom's been online longer. Not very well, granted, but still!