I just think it's rather odd that a nation that prides itself on its virility should feel compelled to strap on forty pounds of protective gear just in order to play rugby.

Giles ,'Beneath You'


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.


Kathy A - Aug 13, 2007 10:51:29 am PDT #4380 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Did they steal your actual card or get the number from somewhere?

They got the number somewhere. Funny thing is, one of the charges from Sunday was for Second Life!

We're heading over to the bank now, and then some shopping at Nordstrom's Rack for shoes. Tata!


SuziQ - Aug 13, 2007 10:51:41 am PDT #4381 of 10001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

I should still be here then.

Ok, am I the only one who went "still be here"? Where are you planning on going, missy?


JZ - Aug 13, 2007 10:57:01 am PDT #4382 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.

Is spending too much time and emotional energy at work "Office Adultery"? If he was at church all the time is it "Jesus Adultery"? If it was with his Mom is it...

Well, no, but if he had an "Office Wife" and a "Church Wife" and called his mom "Mom Wife," and if he had private jokes with them and did fun things with them and was generous and supportive and involved to the point where his quotemarks-less Wife Wife felt seriously emotionally shortchanged (not because he was too overworked to give that emotional spark to anyone, but because he had it to give and was giving it elsewhere), and he continually brushed off her concerns as petty fussing over what was "just work" and "just church" and expected her to be cheerful and merry about the other wives just because he was generously refraining from having actual sweaty sex with them...

Okay, possibly not adultery. But really skating right on the edge of it, with a hearty side helping of emotional abuse and monstrous selfishness. Not quite adultery, but near enough as makes no difference.


Theodosia - Aug 13, 2007 11:01:22 am PDT #4383 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Also, he hid the whole 'wife' status of the relationship from RL Wife, who thought SL Wife was a business partner.


Sparky1 - Aug 13, 2007 11:04:34 am PDT #4384 of 10001
Librarian Warlord

Ok, am I the only one who went "still be here"? Where are you planning on going, missy?

You're not the only one.

paperdol, if he hated you and your uninteresting life, why did he read the whole darn thing? And give you the mention? Oy. People.

Kathy, I hope this gets cleared up and never comes back to haunt you.

Now I have to figure out what job Vortex wants at UC-Davis.


Burrell - Aug 13, 2007 11:07:07 am PDT #4385 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Okay, possibly not adultery. But really skating right on the edge of it

eh, cheating is cheating in my book. Parsing the difference between adultery versus some other intense emotional investment to someone other than his wife is probably not going to mean much to the person who's feeling neglected. But yeah, his mother dying, his own health woes, RL marriage to someone he probably isn't suited to, looks like a fairly typical case of mid-life crisis. But with cute avatar photo-op!


P.M. Marc - Aug 13, 2007 11:07:37 am PDT #4386 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Also, he hid the whole 'wife' status of the relationship from RL Wife, who thought SL Wife was a business partner.

In one of the blog posts about the article, it seems the author misled him as to what she was writing about (claiming it was about his online business), and failed to disclose that she'd met his wife (the real one) through that EverQuest widows support group.

The whole thing's one big bad taste in the mouth.


Jesse - Aug 13, 2007 11:11:25 am PDT #4387 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

In other news, Rudy Giuliani is still a prick. Gawker on the New Yorker article.


Burrell - Aug 13, 2007 11:11:43 am PDT #4388 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

it seems the author misled him as to what she was writing about (claiming it was about his online business), and failed to disclose that she'd met his wife (the real one) through that EverQuest widows support group.

ha! So it's a don't-get-mad-get-even article! That makes the whole thing, not funny, but certainly a lot more like an Onion article.


juliana - Aug 13, 2007 11:12:12 am PDT #4389 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

Okay, possibly not adultery. But really skating right on the edge of it

eh, cheating is cheating in my book. Parsing the difference between adultery versus some other intense emotional investment to someone other than his wife is probably not going to mean much to the person who's feeling neglected.

Yeah, I'd call it adultery. But I'm also putting all of that down to "people? Often suck."

Lee! Whyfor you moving? Also, check your email.