I think my favorite NYE was the one I got to spend in Singapore.
Everything looks good from here... Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... 'This Land.' I think we should call it 'your grave!' Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! Ha ha HA! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die! Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!
Wash ,'Serenity'
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.
SuziQ - Dec 28, 2006 9:03:24 am PST #8391 of 10007
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Strega - Dec 28, 2006 9:04:00 am PST #8392 of 10007
When was the last time you had fun on New Year's Eve?I’m not sure what year it was… maybe Dec 2002? A friend and I went to St. Louis, where another most excellent friend from college was having a housewarming/NYE party. So we were there for, I dunno, 5 days? We got to sleep in bunk beds, and I helped install a bathtub, and saw old friends I hadn’t seen in ages, and on New Year’s Eve they had bunches of people over and all the food in the world, and we played kazoos at one point. And their house was beautiful, even in the midst of their renovations. I think it was from the 1800s, and had a separate servant’s staircase, and was just so cool.
It was more about being able to hang out with those particular people than the festivities, really. I miss my friends. Sigh.
But I frequently have the same problem with NYE that I do with my birthday, where if I try to make big plans, I end up disappointed and depressed. I can think of one other fun NYE, but that was when I was dating the sociopath and it's quite possible that I'm just not remembering it very well. Usually I just putter around at home now. Which is the relaxing kind of fun, at least, and safer for everyone.
Nutty - Dec 28, 2006 9:04:14 am PST #8393 of 10007
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Right. It is the law of physics about two objects not being able to occupy the same space at the same time. Whatever that law is called.
I call it, "So sorry! The escalator let me off here. I don't know how I bumped into you!"
My version of elbows is fashion-forward. Or, just forward. I put up my arms like a boxer on defense, except further forward, and start pushing with my forearms. Really, the elbows are rearguard, and for punitive purposes. Although kicking in the shins is much less subtle.
Frankenbuddha - Dec 28, 2006 9:04:29 am PST #8394 of 10007
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
WAY more than serviceable.
I was being just a tad facetious. Basically, there was no merely good chamagne that year (though one of the people was being snotty about the bottle of White Star someone brought).
Frankenbuddha - Dec 28, 2006 9:06:53 am PST #8395 of 10007
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Stand right, walk left, dammit!
This. So very this. Though I'm not going to blame the standers if whoever made the escalator only made it a single-wide.
beekaytee - Dec 28, 2006 9:09:20 am PST #8396 of 10007
Compassionately intolerant
I haven't been commuting anywhere for a while, so my Metro rage has faded, but yeah...barging into the car or standing right. in. front. of. the freaking door as if the out-coming folks can simply pass through your spectralness? Oh, that bugs.
To be honest though, the worst offenders are often NOT tourons. The new culture of cellphone invisibility cloaks is making the train way less pleasant what with the 'you did WHAT? and no you DIDN'T and can you pick up x and Where ARE YOU?!' conversations.
Confession time. As much as I am fairly zen about the out-o-towners, I have put together a list of the various fines the non-thinkers are frequently eligible for...and I use it in a sometimes mean spirited way. My favorite is when the visiting family brings their tot on wheels into the train car, slobbering one of those red white and blue rocket pops all over the place. I sidle up all conspiritorial and say, "That's a $50 fine you know. The sign says no food...that means you." The panic is a bit too fun to watch, I'm afraid to say. Where can they put it, they ask? "You notice there aren't any trash cans in here right? That's because you aren't supposed to bring anything in. I'm sure the station master will have something to say at the next stop.' One poor grandmother actually stuck a popsicle in her handbag to hide it. I tried to feel bad.
Allyson - Dec 28, 2006 9:12:57 am PST #8397 of 10007
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
I'm all for keeping the kid from screaming. Anything to keep the kid from screaming.
Trudy Booth - Dec 28, 2006 9:13:36 am PST #8398 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
Or people who stand at the bottom (or top) of the escalator, trying to get their bearings. We get to push those people down and trample them, right? That's the law, right?
Sighhh... I fear I am guilty of this. I have major escalator fear when going down and do tend to pause. BUT I MAKE A POINT OF APOLOGIZING IF I GET SOMEONE STUCK BEHIND ME, TOURISTS!!!!!
THERE ARE PEOPLE BEHIND YOU!!!!!
Cashmere - Dec 28, 2006 9:16:42 am PST #8399 of 10007
Now tagless for your comfort.
I'm all for keeping the kid from screaming. Anything to keep the kid from screaming.
At my MiL's house Owen started asking for his usual apple juice. And by asking, I mean screaming repeatedly when I explained to him that Nana didn't have any. He continued crying for it as we sat down to dinner. Bless my SiL, since she grabbed her purse, ran out the door and reappeared 10 minutes later with a bottle of apple juice.
I try to respect "no food or drink" rules but when it comes down to my kids, I'm going to pay any freakin' fine they want to throw at me if Owen wants some fruit juice or cheeze its.
Aims - Dec 28, 2006 9:16:51 am PST #8400 of 10007
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I have absolutely given Emeline food on the subway out here if she's cranky or fractious. And out here, it's a $120 fine and you get ejected from the train.
But as Allyson said, anything to keep the kid from screaming.
when it comes down to my kids, I'm going to pay any freakin' fine they want to throw at me if Owen wants some fruit juice or cheeze its.
Can't be said enough.