I finally got the old lady.
How's it sit? Pretty cunning, don'tchya think?
Jayne ,'The Message'
Natter 53: We could just avoid making tortured puns
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.
Cashmere - Aug 06, 2007 8:29:52 am PDT #2727 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
bon bon - Aug 06, 2007 8:32:20 am PDT #2728 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Anyone have any suggestions for this question I just got in my email?
It's a term for a kind of compulsion or tendency that a person has to repeat the same patterns in their lives, like seeking out the same relationships or whatnot, usually with a negative connotation. I think it might be a psychological term, in a noun form. Any ideas? "Neurosis" and "mania" keep popping into my head, but it's obviously not those.
Daisy Jane - Aug 06, 2007 8:33:32 am PDT #2729 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Wouldn't that be a compulsion?
sumi - Aug 06, 2007 8:36:28 am PDT #2730 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
obsessive compulsive?
lisah - Aug 06, 2007 8:38:16 am PDT #2731 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
ita, I can see it, but, very oddly, only if I close my left eye. With both eyes, or with the left but not the right, it's just the young woman.
That worked for me too! But only if I tilted my head a bit to the left. CRAZY!
bon bon - Aug 06, 2007 8:39:17 am PDT #2732 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
The best I have to far is probably pathological compulsion. But I think there is a word that my correspondent is looking for.
Allyson - Aug 06, 2007 8:39:53 am PDT #2733 of 10001
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
Yesterday I locked myself out of my office with no keys, no money, and no phone.
So I tried to break in. I scaled a wall, jumped a fence, fell on my ass, beaned my head on a planter, tried to pick a lock with a hairpin, and then I interrupted my boss' pool party to be rescued.
I am my own episode of I Love Lucy.
tommyrot - Aug 06, 2007 8:40:12 am PDT #2734 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
It's a term for a kind of compulsion or tendency that a person has to repeat the same patterns in their lives, like seeking out the same relationships or whatnot, usually with a negative connotation.
President Bush?
§ ita § - Aug 06, 2007 8:43:15 am PDT #2735 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Hmm. Now I feel I should learn to pick locks.
You okay, paperdol?
Allyson - Aug 06, 2007 8:44:09 am PDT #2736 of 10001
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 banged up, but mostly I'm suffering bruised ego.