It's like sticking your tongue on the battery.
Atherton: Half the men in this room wish you were on their arm, tonight. Inara: Only half. I must be losing my indefinable allure.
'Shindig'
Spike's Bitches 33: Weeping, crawling, blaming everybody else
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Trudy Booth - Nov 28, 2006 8:53:11 pm PST #3598 of 10004
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
Cass - Nov 28, 2006 8:57:55 pm PST #3599 of 10004
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
How are you going to know for sure unless you try?
I mean, Mom said boys in leather were bad but it was worth finding out for sure...
§ ita § - Nov 28, 2006 9:16:08 pm PST #3600 of 10004
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I would trigger.
Except today. Today I didn't get a migraine until just now. I was so close too--just forty five more minutes to go. So I wouldn't have triggered.
Volans - Nov 28, 2006 10:26:28 pm PST #3601 of 10004
move out and draw fire
Maybe the word "trigger" is your trigger, ita.
I would test it, provided I had the time and space to have the damn migraine if it worked. Of course, I licked the battery also.
If they cook, nice knives. If they just kinda want kitchen stuff, cheapo.
They are kinda halfway in between. They have things that look like knives that they use for cooking, but the "knives" are more bludgeoning instruments than anything else. Still, I think I'll go with the cheapo set as it will tide them over until they decide if they are serious about cooking.
Fred Pete - Nov 29, 2006 4:09:15 am PST #3602 of 10004
Ann, that's a ferret.
Depends. If the possible trigger is something you want to avoid anyway, assume it is a trigger and use it as an excuse to avoid. If it's something you don't want to give up, test it to make sure.
Topic!Cindy - Nov 29, 2006 5:41:16 am PST #3603 of 10004
What is even happening?
What Fred Pete said. Is the trigger chocolate, sex, or really yummy alcohol, meara? Is it pretty clothes? A favorite product?
beth b - Nov 29, 2006 6:10:32 am PST #3604 of 10004
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
f I endorse the FredPete logic
I am out of bed , this feels wrong.
Vortex - Nov 29, 2006 6:27:26 am PST #3605 of 10004
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Re: Knives -- I would buy a cheap set, and one nice knife (like a chef's knife) I never realized how much good knives made a difference, and this will help them.
Meara, if the trigger is something that you will encounter fairly regularly, I'd wait until you had some time, say a Sunday afternoon, and trigger. I'm happy to come sit with you while you figure it out. I'll just read a book very quietly :) Not this Sunday, though.
Ailleann - Nov 29, 2006 6:31:50 am PST #3606 of 10004
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
I have some happiness for ita that she went all day without a migraine. That seems like a feat.
ION, I hab a code. Please to send soup, preferably including a handsome young man to deliver it. Also, a nap.
Sparky1 - Nov 29, 2006 6:33:24 am PST #3607 of 10004
Librarian Warlord
Knives: I'd just buy the good ones, since they are the bombdiggity. Cheap ones are just throwing money away.
To trigger or not to trigger: Depends on what you think it is, and if you can/want to avoid it.
ION: Brrrrrrrrr. Chilly morning here at my desk.