Whoa, okay, here's one way to get startled out of a cranky funk: find out your baby brother is engaged!
You know me! I'm like, "Go school! It's your birthday!" Or something to that effect.
Willow ,'Empty Places'
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.
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
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.
tommyrot - Dec 10, 2007 10:38:46 am PST #6506 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.
And how did I never know you had a baby brother?
I might have mentioned him a long time ago. When he was just out of high school he ended up in jail a few times for theft. But he got married and had a kid and turned his life around. Except for the two failed marriages thing. But he pays his child support and spends lots of time with the kid from the first marriage....
Dana - Dec 10, 2007 10:39:03 am PST #6507 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Whoa, okay, here's one way to get startled out of a cranky funk: find out your baby brother is engaged!
Whoa!
Oh, god, you're totally going to be the unmarried sibling now. Not just in fact, but in stigma.
shrift - Dec 10, 2007 10:56:33 am PST #6508 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Does your brother's intended meet with your approval?
I like her. And it's not like it's a total surprise. They've been living together for a while and they even have pets, but still!
Not just in fact, but in stigma.
Yes, this thought had occurred to me already. God, I'll bet my dad totally thinks I'm a spinster.
Emily - Dec 10, 2007 10:57:27 am PST #6509 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
I wish I was the unmarried sibling. Er, the only unmarried sibling, I mean. I keep feeling slightly guilty about the no-grandkids thing, and then thinking, "But my brother's older! Why doesn't HE get married, already?" Because I'm sane, I've never actually said that to him.
§ ita § - Dec 10, 2007 10:58:12 am PST #6510 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
In general I like fark.com. I have found it amusing. This? Obviously the subtleties escape me, but on what grounds? They said it first? Most? They asked dibs first? Seems silly.