P-C, did your mother email you the CNN video clip about the 2% divorce rate for Indian arranged marriages? I thought of you when I saw it.
Well, you'd better not be thinking what I think you're thinking, because my answer is the same as always — no threesomes unless it's boy-boy-girl. Or Charlize Theron.
Harmony ,'First Date'
Spike's Bitches 35: We Got a History
[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.
Cashmere - Mar 28, 2007 8:41:52 am PDT #2732 of 10003
Now tagless for your comfort.
Volans - Mar 28, 2007 8:41:59 am PDT #2733 of 10003
move out and draw fire
Go York! Choose York!
Or, you know, whatever you want to do, SA. But that is made of awesome.
Everybody else: Sorry. In like a lion out like a lamb?
Toddson - Mar 28, 2007 8:44:22 am PDT #2734 of 10003
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
It's not just immigrant parents - the home-grown variety can be just as crazy.
Polter-Cow - Mar 28, 2007 8:45:14 am PDT #2735 of 10003
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
P-C, did your mother email you the CNN video clip about the 2% divorce rate for Indian arranged marriages? I thought of you when I saw it.
I have not heard about that! Heh. That's better than the, what, 50% divorce rate for regular marriages? Isn't that what it is, or is that a myth?
I think we know a couple divorced Indian people. Well, besides my damn cousins in India who keep fucking things up for me by sucking at staying married.
Toddson - Mar 28, 2007 8:47:18 am PDT #2736 of 10003
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
You might point them out as a horrible example - as in, you want to wait and find just the right person so you don't end up like them.
Volans - Mar 28, 2007 8:48:19 am PDT #2737 of 10003
move out and draw fire
Man, after all the drama about finding the spouse and the expense and effort of the wedding, no one would DARE to get divorced.
ION, it's official, I have a job to go to in DC. So I'm planning to arrive there May 1. Anybody want to buy a whole load of silverplate (silverware, coffee service, etc), so I don't have to eBay it?
lisah - Mar 28, 2007 8:48:25 am PDT #2738 of 10003
Punishingly Intricate
In like a lion out like a lamb?
okay, we have a song in which a pathetic girl (it is NOT autobiographical! i swear) goes through how every month from Nov-April sucks for her since her boyfriend left her. March's line is:
March here at last
In like lion, out like lamb
a lamb that is sadly bleating
Pix - Mar 28, 2007 8:49:57 am PDT #2739 of 10003
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
YAY RAQ BACK IN THE US!
JZ - Mar 28, 2007 8:52:25 am PDT #2740 of 10003
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
It's not just immigrant parents - the home-grown variety can be just as crazy.
Oh, yeah, most definitely -- it's just amusing (in a @@ or possibly tragic way) that every single immigrant culture seems to use the exact same script: "All those [not-Indian/Greek/Italian/Jewish/Irish/Japanese/Filipino/etc.etc.etc.] people are completely different and threatening, for our culture is so incredibly unique in its love and reverence for Family, and they are totally incapable of understanding you the way we do."
The first time I read The Joy Luck Club, I was blown away by how identical it was to my aunt's experience as the US-born daughter of immigrants. You could've gone through the entire book, yanked the words "China" and "Chinese" and popped in "Greece" and "Greek" (and maybe a few descriptions of traditional food and clothing) without changing anything else, and it would've been her adolescence and young adulthood word for word. (And, sadly, the older she gets the more she unthinkingly pulls the exact same shit on the next generation.)
Pix - Mar 28, 2007 8:53:49 am PDT #2741 of 10003
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Oh, speaking of? I saw Amy Tan speak last month at my school, and she was amazing. Seriously the best speaker I think I've ever seen.
(Could I use the word "speak" any more? I think not.)