Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
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.
ugh, msbelle, no wonder you're unmotivated.
I am brain dead, that's kind of like being unmotivated.
Corwood, I hate to say it, but that seems unbelievable to me. Like someone here created the labels deliberately to cause a stir.
[okay not *here* as in b.org, but *here* as in someone involved in the story]
Huh. See, I would actually believe that it was mistranslated into English from Chinese. Though you'd think the guy ordering would have spoken up.
It's been a while since people jumped through that many hoops to assume I was a criminal.
If you develop high blood pressure for no immediately obvious reason, you'll also have the pleasure of every hospital employee assuming that you're on meth. And then you'll get to take another drug test on the spot to prove that you're not actually a drug addict. It's fun!
sometimes, people use racially insensitive language without really parsing it, like the time I was talking to a very nice girl about bargaining at a flea market and she said "I jewed him down to $5" I couldn't hide the look of horror on my face, and she said "what?" I pointed it out to her and she was truly shocked. She had never really thought about its origin, and that's just what her family said. This also happens in foreign countries where they don't realize the connotations of certain words.
Oh hey, NPR just mentioned FNL again at the beginning of a story on steroids. At first I was all excited, thinking they were going to do another story on it, but no.
I pointed it out to her and she was truly shocked. She had never really thought about it's origin, and that's just what her family said.
I never knew the origins of gyped, including the spelling. Or "Mighty white of you." I thought it refered to knights. I still have to bite my tounge on that phrase when someone does something nice, but not so nice it's knighthood worthy, and they're kinda pushing to be thanked.
This will matter to no one but me, but DUDE. The guy who played John Jarndyce in the recent Bleak House miniseries was Wedge Antilles from Star Wars! That's just cool.
Timelies all!
My MIL is taking us out to dinner tonight as an early birthday thing. My birthday is next week, but she'll be on a trip then. Whee.
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The guy who played John Jarndyce in the recent Bleak House miniseries was Wedge Antilles from Star Wars!
Isn't he Ewan McGregor's uncle?