A world of WTF, Sophia.
People are... just so fucking weird.
Zoe: Planet's coming up a mite fast. Wash: That's just cause, I'm going down too quick. Likely crash and kill us all. Mal: Well, that happens, let me know.
'Shindig'
Natter 54: Right here, dammit.
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.
Nora Deirdre - Sep 26, 2007 9:09:57 am PDT #3141 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Glamcookie - Sep 26, 2007 9:11:57 am PDT #3142 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
That is messed up, Sophia. People are jerks. GF and I once were verbally assaulted by a guy in a truck when we dared to cross the street (legally) in front of his (stopped) vehicle. He ended up yelling at me that I needed a boob job and to GF that she was fat and we would never get a man. Joke's on you buddy. The part that GF loves to tell is that I kept saying to her, "Don't say anything. Just ignore him." He kept hurling insults until I totally lost it and started screaming at him, "SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH!" Hahahahahaha!
Typo Boy - Sep 26, 2007 9:12:21 am PDT #3143 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
As a fat person I think it is simply that being chubby is seen in the U.S. as a moral failing, so strangers on the street feel free to say randomly nasty things to chubby people. I have a fair amount of muscle under my fat, and I am living proof that deterrence sometimes works. Because fear of law breaking is the main reason certain people in this town walk away unbruised.
JZ - Sep 26, 2007 9:13:41 am PDT #3144 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.
I dearly hope that when they hit their mid-thirties they look back and cringe. And that then, as they're in mid-cringe, some twentysomethings driving past decide to roll down their windows and shout something fake-polite to them.
Little bitchcows.
Jesse - Sep 26, 2007 9:14:07 am PDT #3145 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Seriously, WTF. And not to be both sexist and agist, I can imagine that coming from 16 year old boys more than adult women.
Typo Boy - Sep 26, 2007 9:14:43 am PDT #3146 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
No, I get comments from 20-somethings all the time.
I think part of it is a class issue. Oveweight is something those nasty poor or working people do. So someone fat, and in a suit -- well you are faking. Because now that I think of if, I get my worst comments wearing a suit. A fat guy or gal wearing a suit: we are fat trash faking being professionals. We need to be put in our place.
Dana - Sep 26, 2007 9:14:54 am PDT #3147 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Ugh, Sophia. May an anvil fall on their heads.
Jesse - Sep 26, 2007 9:16:04 am PDT #3148 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
More amusingly, I think the only thing anyone's ever shouted out of a car at me was one time in high school someone called me and my mom "Lesbos!!!" when we kissed goodbye on the street.
Nora Deirdre - Sep 26, 2007 9:16:36 am PDT #3149 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
The part that GF loves to tell is that I kept saying to her, "Don't say anything. Just ignore him." He kept hurling insults until I totally lost it and started screaming at him, "SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH!"
OK, that's awesome.
t hearts GloomCookie
Typo Boy - Sep 26, 2007 9:17:22 am PDT #3150 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Also changing subject: Unfogged has this very amusing short review of Dragon War:
I did go see Dragon Wars today and it was really just an extended metaphor for The Academy: A tenure-track position for dragons opens up only once every 500 years and last time around the hiring committee defunded the position instead of awarding it. The two candidates were pissed. This time, neither of them was going to let anything stand in their way.