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?
You can't open the book of my life and jump in the middle. Like woman, I'm a mystery.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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.
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.
§ 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.
meara - Aug 06, 2007 8:45:55 am PDT #2739 of 10001
Hmm. Now I feel I should learn to pick locks.
Hmm. Corsets. Mad computer skillz. Friends all over the world. Krav. Pole-dancing. Lock-picking.
Does anyone else feel like perhaps ita is working on an "Alias"-based reality show or something?
ChiKat - Aug 06, 2007 8:46:20 am PDT #2740 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
Yay, Jilli!!
JZ - Aug 06, 2007 8:47:04 am PDT #2741 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Hey, paperdol, you haven't yet been Wiki'd, but you have been some-kind-of-pedia'd. Coolness!
Jesse - Aug 06, 2007 8:49:33 am PDT #2742 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Sweet, Jilli!
OMG, I just got the actual confirmation of Very Good News Indeed at work. I've been 90% sure about it for a week or so, but still scared it would fall through somehow. Nope. I don't know if I can do any more work today.
Sophia Brooks - Aug 06, 2007 8:59:26 am PDT #2743 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Yay Jesse!
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