Oh no, Fred! I hope Teddy pulls through... hugs to you all.
Mercy is the mark of a great man. Guess I'm just a good man. Well, I'm all right.
Mal ,'Shindig'
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.
Nora Deirdre - Nov 06, 2007 6:08:02 am PST #655 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Kat - Nov 06, 2007 6:09:37 am PST #656 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Do any of you have a different reaction between offering to do something, very publicly and very often, and between someone assuming you will do the exact same thing?
I'm asking because yesterday a teacher assumed I would do for her what I had offered to do the week before (before a deadline had passed) for another teacher and it just chapped me.
tommyrot - Nov 06, 2007 6:09:42 am PST #657 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 so sorry, Fred. I hope things work out for the little guy....
Jesse - Nov 06, 2007 6:12:24 am PST #658 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Good luck to all of you, Fred.
Do any of you have a different reaction between offering to do something, very publicly and very often, and between someone assuming you will do the exact same thing?
Yeah, absolutely.
-t - Nov 06, 2007 6:14:09 am PST #659 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Definitely, Kat. I also have a very different reaction to being asked if I will do something, even if it is a fairly perfunctory request, and it being assumed that I will do it.
Allyson - Nov 06, 2007 6:16:52 am PST #660 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
I get all twisted about "we" as in, "We need to get some estimates and work out a budget for this project."
"We?" Do you mean, "me"? Because if it's me, it'll take a little bit longer than if we are ALL working on this project. So let us be clear that we is me.
Dana - Nov 06, 2007 6:16:55 am PST #661 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Green tea is good for me, right? I'm trying to convince my stomach it's a good substitute for eating lunch at 10:15.
Steph L. - Nov 06, 2007 6:19:21 am PST #662 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
"We?" Do you mean, "me"? Because if it's me, it'll take a little bit longer than if we are ALL working on this project. So let us be clear that we is me.
Man, my incompetent!boss does this all the time. "We need to make a PDF of such-and-such article...."
And I say, "*We*? Did you get new software for your computer that will allow you to open Quark XPress files? Because if you didn't, then I think you mean 'Steph' instead of 'we'."
It's not diplomatic to use "we" in that situation; it's passive-aggressive.
Tom Scola - Nov 06, 2007 6:19:40 am PST #663 of 10001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
I love tea, and drink huge vats of it every day, but I can't drink it on an empty stomach.
Sue - Nov 06, 2007 6:20:47 am PST #664 of 10001
hip deep in pie
Oh Fred, I'm sending vibes out for Teddy!