msbelle!!! You're there. Are things going well, so far?
Fred: It's the pictures in my mind that are getting me. It's like being stuck in a really bad movie with those Clockwork Orange clampy things on my eyeballs. Wesley: Why imagine? Reality's disturbing enough.
'Shells'
Natter 48 Contiguous States of Denial
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.
Topic!Cindy - Dec 01, 2006 5:43:32 am PST #3932 of 10007
What is even happening?
shrift - Dec 01, 2006 5:45:44 am PST #3933 of 10007
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Oh, today:
Random Dude: 62? 62? Is that 62?
Me: Bzuh?
Random Dude: Well
thanks
for telling me!
Me: What the
hell
are you talking about?
That's the conversation I had upon getting off my bus this morning. Pre-coffee.
Dear Random Dude,
I did not ride bus #62. I had no idea it was behind my bus until I turned around to yell at you for being a dick. It was snowing very hard and I was trying not to fall on my ass, and having you get in my face and accuse me of withholding information about your precious bus was not the way I wanted to start my morning.
Don't be an asshat.
sincerely,
shrift
Kat - Dec 01, 2006 6:09:12 am PST #3934 of 10007
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
oh! a msbelle sighting! fun!
Random Dude, please leave shrift alone.
Today will be a good day, won't it?
Fred Pete - Dec 01, 2006 6:09:42 am PST #3935 of 10007
Ann, that's a ferret.
Hi, msbelle!
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 01, 2006 6:12:48 am PST #3936 of 10007
"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
A few more of those wouldn't be a bad thing. Except it's not murder, it's self-defense. Interesting choice of words.
My thought exactly. Killing your kidnapper when he's pursuing you after you escaped is hardly murder. Maybe sneaking back much later and killing him in revenge would be, though even then I'd argue that it might be justifiable and certainly understandable.
sarameg - Dec 01, 2006 6:14:40 am PST #3937 of 10007
Today will be a good day, won't it?
It's Friday, so there's a start. I have to do end-of-month crap, but it is mindless and not too tedious. There is an A&W cheeseburger in my future. I set my vcr to tape GA when it came on at 1 AY EM!!@ this morning and I will watch that tonight. My cats are cute.
So yes, today will be a good day.
Theodosia - Dec 01, 2006 6:18:21 am PST #3938 of 10007
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
OOooh, msbelle!
brenda m - Dec 01, 2006 6:18:22 am PST #3939 of 10007
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
A rather delightful review of the Zune, Microsoft's answer to the iPod. [link]
Trudy Booth - Dec 01, 2006 6:19:57 am PST #3940 of 10007
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
The power wielded against people is not just the exploitive gov't, but often their own cultural practices.
It's exploitation of the poor and powerless nonetheless. This isn't an ongoing danger for the daughters of the wealthy anywhere and likely never has been on any noteworthy scale.
When women (and girls) have the ability to contribute economically to the survival of their families with something besides their hymens their lives improve. You don't get sold to a brothel to feed your siblings when you're all in school and eating there. A family doesn't embrace the "honor" of being repeated rape by a "holy" man if she's going to end up with a job at a call center. Even a woman locked behind walls begins to earn clout in her community if she has a loom and a market for her goods... and that woman has far more ability to say "no" to her daughter being genitally maimed if she's paying the mortgage. And the daughter doesn't become a unmarried unmaimed enormous financial hardship if SHE has the ability to pay the mortgage.
None of this is as glamorous or immediate as an armed invasion... but it actually works.
shrift - Dec 01, 2006 6:34:19 am PST #3941 of 10007
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Today will be a good day, won't it?
Well, despite the snow and the asshat, I wasn't late to work this morning and I'd happily been chatting with a friend I ran into on the bus. I brought my lunch so I don't have to venture out into the storm if I don't want to. My iPod is fully charged and I'm listening to Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.
Things could be worse.