Wouldn't that be a compulsion?
Don't belong. Dangerous, like you. Can't be controlled. Can't be trusted. Everyone could just go on without me and not have to worry. People could be what they wanted to be. Could be with the people they wanted. Live simple. No secrets.
River ,'Objects In Space'
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.
Daisy Jane - Aug 06, 2007 8:33:32 am PDT #2729 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
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.
Daisy Jane - Aug 06, 2007 8:45:07 am PDT #2737 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
The best I have to far is probably pathological compulsion.
I think that probably is the best term. The behavior wasn't really described as obsessive, but I think pathological could have a case made for it.
Allyson - Aug 06, 2007 8:45:41 am PDT #2738 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
Holy butt, Jilli!
We can say we knew you when.