I know it's not for sale, but I still believe that Matt needs this doll. Just because.
I walk. I talk. I shop, I sneeze. I'm gonna be a fireman when the floods roll back. There's trees in the desert since you moved out. And I don't sleep on a bed of bones.
Buffy ,'Chosen'
Natter 55: It's the 55th Natter
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.
JZ - Dec 10, 2007 10:11:35 am PST #6496 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.
tommyrot - Dec 10, 2007 10:12:33 am PST #6497 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 know it's not for sale, but I still believe that Matt needs this doll. Just because.
I was gonna post that (and I thought of Matt too). Complete with garden gnome!
beekaytee - Dec 10, 2007 10:13:10 am PST #6498 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
Those dolls are fantastic!
One of them (two of them?) is a set of conjoined twins commissioned by the Tyra Banks show. That's sort of awesome and, huh?, at the same time.
hippocampus - Dec 10, 2007 10:17:04 am PST #6499 of 10001
not your mom's socks.
I told her I'd have to hang up otherwise, and she somehow made it past.
I love this and plan to use it.
My neighbor's daughter did this for a while, so unless the person is downright rude, I am always trying to be nice. Sometimes it's interesting. My peeve comes when I give an answer and it is not satisfactory. Or they will not let me say no to something that I do not wish to answer. My brain goes: "hey! You called Me!" and I look for ways to end the call. I know they have options on their scripts. And I know that some people are very cruel to them. But leave me my freedom of choice while I help you build your brand, k? My information is still (mostly - at least in my head) mine to decide what to do with.
The one time I got frustrated was after the fourth call from a market research company asking for medical information on Iris for a government immunization survey. We do immunize, but they wanted particularly specific intel, and I told them that I had no way to verify they were doing this for the CDC, or even who they were - they couldn't believe I was questioning the source of the survey.
Nutty - Dec 10, 2007 10:25:35 am PST #6500 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Once, when I was in college, I was woken up on a Saturday morning (at like 10am) by a phone market researcher who wanted to know my thoughts on Tootsie Rolls. There was considerable, "Really? That's like your job? Do they pay you in candy?" on my part, but I did take the survey.
I don't get survey calls any more, because I have only a cell, except for that one push-polling call a year or two ago, done by the guy who'd lost his party primar to an upstart on account of he presumed he was a shoo-in and didn't campaign. I told his people that they were a pile of steaming idiots and not to call me again.
shrift - Dec 10, 2007 10:26:49 am PST #6501 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Whoa, okay, here's one way to get startled out of a cranky funk: find out your baby brother is engaged!
tommyrot - Dec 10, 2007 10:28:33 am PST #6502 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.
find out your baby brother is engaged!
Yay!
I just found out my baby brother is getting divorced - for the second time...
JZ - Dec 10, 2007 10:34:31 am PST #6503 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.
Yay, shrift! Does your brother's intended meet with your approval?
Ouch, tommyrot. And how did I never know you had a baby brother? I knew about your sister and her partner and your sonephews, but never the baby brother.
shrift - Dec 10, 2007 10:35:05 am PST #6504 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
This year has a high Holy Shit Quotient.
§ ita § - Dec 10, 2007 10:36:12 am PST #6505 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I got a Sunday evening post-inpatient "How was your stay with us?" call from the hospital.
Dude, it sucked. Not much your fault, but it sucked. I asked her what time it was and she worked out she'd woken me up and refused to ask me any more questions.
Damage was done, but at least she was nice about it.