Willow: You know what they say. The bigger they are... Anya: The faster they stomp you into nothin'.

'The Killer In Me'


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.


shrift - Aug 13, 2007 11:41:02 am PDT #4402 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

I need a male or female who loves to smoke all things

Why's he gotta discriminate against the fun-loving hermaphrodite alien baby non-smokers?


tommyrot - Aug 13, 2007 11:41:39 am PDT #4403 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.

What do you think this guy was smoking when he posted this:

duuuuuuuude....

Your sis is in Milwaukee, right? Possibly I know this guy....


brenda m - Aug 13, 2007 11:42:54 am PDT #4404 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Hee.

We're now speculating as to what his "businesses" are. But I am so far unsuccessful in my efforts to get her to call him and ask.


tommyrot - Aug 13, 2007 11:45:02 am PDT #4405 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.

But I am so far unsuccessful in my efforts to get her to call him and ask.

Something that involves "working hard" and "lots of partying."

Maybe he's a pimp.


beekaytee - Aug 13, 2007 11:49:37 am PDT #4406 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant

This is what would lead me to calling it cheating. If you're lying or deliberately not telling your partner something, it's cheating.

An ex of mine used to call for long 'counseling' sessions before and after his marriage. At some point he let it slip that he never told his wife about our conversations and that it made him nervous to be speaking to me.

I was aghast...when I asked what the problem was, he said that it constituted cheating. Dude! I gave you the advice that helped you to actually ask this woman to marry you!! We don't talk about anything but your problems...how on earth is that cheating.

I bid him a fond farewell and felt a little sorry for the bride.


tommyrot - Aug 13, 2007 11:58:39 am PDT #4407 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.

Tom Ford’s perfume line has, from the beginning, taken the low road with its high notes. Or maybe, when he launched the line last spring, he just figured out how to make cologne funny and a bit skanky (sexy?), declaring that he wanted to make one of his twelve unisex scents “smell like a man’s crotch.” But does his scent Tuscan Leather actually smell like cocaine? Well, according to cognoscenti of that drug, yes, a bit. “That’s what everyone says,” admits a counterboy at the Ford store on Madison, who adds that one customer even bought a bottle because he thought it smelled like coke. Tuscan Leather goes for $165 for a 50-ml. bottle, about 49 grams, which is way cheaper than the real stuff from Bolivia. What’s the appeal of smelling like you might be clenching your jaw? Ford was traveling in some far-off land without cell-phone reception and could not be reached, his spokeswoman said. Katherine Holmes, a spokesperson for Private Blend, Ford’s fragrance line, says Tuscan Leather is “an original take on a classic leather scent. Saffron, raspberry, and thyme, open to olibanum and night-blooming jasmine,” while “leather, black suede, and amber wood add an intricate richness.” So, no blow anywhere in there? “No.”

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Kat - Aug 13, 2007 12:03:12 pm PDT #4408 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Tom Ford is classy.

Sorry Theodosia for the repost. I am a notorious skimmer.


beth b - Aug 13, 2007 12:09:04 pm PDT #4409 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

Really - it only was cheating when he didn't tell his wife. You can't use the word wife on someone else and not expect to get a sideways look. Lines are sometimes hard to draw. physical adultery is pretty obvious for me. the lines for neglectful are harder. hours don't matter - I just want to occasionally be the only thing he is paying attention to.


sumi - Aug 13, 2007 12:11:38 pm PDT #4410 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!

And if it really is the phenonmenon the article says it is -- then many many spouses are feeling neglected and cheated upon by people involved in Second Life.

ION - beagle and llamas!


Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 13, 2007 12:13:45 pm PDT #4411 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

To me it doesn't so much matter whether it is adultery or not-- he's not a good husband right now.

Amen to this. I've heard people throw terms like cheating and adultery around a little too freely for things like chatting up or flirting with someone, as if the fact that a behavior is desrespectful or just annoying to them won't count unless they sensationalize it. But in the case in point, I'd say a husband spending his every waking hour in a virtual game while ignoring his new wife is at least as strong an indication of a doomed marriage as an actual affair would be. It's the utter lack of consideration for—or interest in—his spouse that's the big issue, not what he's doing while ignoring her.