Sooner or later, you're gonna want it. And the second — the second — that happens, you know I'll be there. I'll slip in, have myself a real good day.

Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'


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.


bon bon - Sep 11, 2007 9:06:49 am PDT #9694 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

Straight-up pantyhose or other nylons will wipe off deodorant marks.


Allyson - Sep 11, 2007 9:08:35 am PDT #9695 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

Will you be my trophy friend? Heh.


§ ita § - Sep 11, 2007 9:11:23 am PDT #9696 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Straight-up pantyhose or other nylons will wipe off deodorant marks.

Of course I'm chilling bare-legged today, because the universe has more fun that way.

For some reason the Container Store sells those de-deodorants.

I am so totally having a beef quesadilla for lunch. Of course, the time when I insisted I was having pizza I ended up with chicken quesadilla, the truth will have to wait until the end to be outed.


Theodosia - Sep 11, 2007 9:12:08 am PDT #9697 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"

I could use a couple trophy friends, come to think of it.

I had a delicious lunch courtesy of the Whole Foods salad bar, which was Southwestern tangy chicken salad and some old-fashioned macaroni salad, with four small strawberries sprinkled with sugar afterwards. Yum! And I brought back the frozen-ready-to-bake apple pie to eat during Eureka tonight!


Sue - Sep 11, 2007 9:13:51 am PDT #9698 of 10001
hip deep in pie

Will you be my trophy friend? Heh

The thing that weirds me out about Facebook is not people linking me like that, (I've only had a few so far...and they do weird me out) but it's the mix of all my world's real and online. I like them very separate, thank you.


§ ita § - Sep 11, 2007 9:14:36 am PDT #9699 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Of all the sites, the majority - 90 per cent - of close friends have been met face to face. "Face to face contact is a requirement for intimate friendships."

Don't those two sentences conflict? Unless there's a subtle difference between close and intimate or, purely to annoy me, requirement doesn't actually mean requirement.

Of course, I disagree with the statement anyway.


tommyrot - Sep 11, 2007 9:14:53 am PDT #9700 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.

I'm having chicken walnut salad for lunch.

Thinking about it makes my mouth water.


Dana - Sep 11, 2007 9:16:00 am PDT #9701 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

I started to laugh at the "only five intimate friends" comment, and then realized that my first tier of "friends I met through the internet" has five people.

But yeah, it all depends how you define things. The list of "people I've met through the internet who'd be allowed to sleep in my house" is much bigger.


Sue - Sep 11, 2007 9:17:02 am PDT #9702 of 10001
hip deep in pie

I actually declined to friend someone who was probably a first cousin once removed, but I totally couldn't place them. I mean seriously, I have 42 first cousins and they've probably bred three times that number. I certainly haven't met them, so do I have to friend them because they're a blood relation? (I'm not even that close with any of my first cousins.)


Allyson - Sep 11, 2007 9:19:55 am PDT #9703 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

The article confused me as well.

I think they need to define friends, what is close, what is intimate for me to get it.

Seriously, I see Monique maybe once a year, and she's an intimate friend I've only seen a half dozen times who knows...entirely too much about me.

Is intimate someone who will come haul your ass to the ER? I think lots of people here absolutely would, no question. The reason they don't is a geography issue, not a friendship issue.