From Movies.
Fay:
Mind you, it does drive me insane that these movies have convinced kids that scarabs are flesh-eating demon monster beetles. When trying to teach Ancient Egypt, the kids are all 'yes, yes, we know about scarabs - they EAT YOU ALIVE!!!!' To which I'm all '...er, no. Not so much. But they do roll big balls of poo around, which is still pretty good value for money.' And they just give you these pitying looks, and insist that scarabs eat you alive. And when you start to jump up and down and rail at the heavens, and point out to them that THEY ARE EGYPTIAN KIDS and that THERE ARE SCARABS OUT THERE IN THE PLAYGROUND RIGHT NOW, and that said scarabs are not, in fact, stripping the flesh from the kindergarteners' bones, but are instead calmly rolling along balls of dung, the kids Will. Not. Believe. You. Because they saw it in the movie.
ita, in Natter 62:
Life is okay, and the daiquiris are free.
Sean K:
There is FROZEN WATER on the GROUND in BURBANK!
Miracleman:
Oh, good!
You got my gift.
In Natter --
connie neil:
I prefer not to crap on things with intelligence.
Hec:
One of the many ways in which you are not Chuck Berry.
connie, once again for the win in Bitches, perfectly describes a seemingly universal mindset:
They think "I can make them nice!" Or they figure "My ass-hattery will trump their ass-hattery, and they will acknowledge me as Sovereign of Ass-Hats and stop competing for my crown!"
From Bitches:
Steph L: Another BDSM language oddity that I also loathe is when submissives/slaves refer to themselves in the third person. It *barely* worked for Caesar and Bob Dole; it ain't going to work for you.
Fay:...don't they all just end up sounding like Smeagol?
I'm sorry to repeat, but I just have to provide Tep's initial post as the set up for amych because it is too damned classic to leave out. I really want to COMM the whole conversation that followed, but I will restrain myself. No pun intended.
Steph L:
Oh god, mailing lists for local events are Dante's seventh ring o' hell. Add in the FUCKED UP habit of many BDSM folk to capitalize everything referring to a dominant and lower-case everything referring to a submissive AND if they're addressing a mixed group they use BOTH upper- and lower-case IN THE SAME WORD, and I have rage blackouts.
It would look something like this:
Hello A/all,
my name is master's pet. my Master is Sir Kicksyourass. W/we are looking forward to meeting Y/you A/all at the next event lol. i hope W/we make many new friends, if i am not too naughty hehehehe. See Y/you soon! smiles
And the sound that's so high-pitched only dogs can hear it? That would be me, keening in agony.
I don't think Sir Kicksyourass is a real name, although it wouldn't surprise me. The Boy doesn't like it when I make fun of scene names, so I can't mock them to him. But, seriously, when you introduce yourself to me as Gunga Din (true story), all I can do is laugh. (That didn't end well. True story.) Also? If your name is Sir Top (a real scene name), you REALLY need a goddamn thesaurus.
amych:
English needs a safe word!
This time, context is KEY...
Shir:
honsetly, I think the worst problem of the world today is that not enough people are watching good tv
