Tep and amych, that is an interesting idea. I have one friend who sprinkles her e-mails with rampant "lol"s that make little sense to me, but I am not out and about in the wild internets enough to see it much, so I thought it was just a personal tic of hers. I don't think of her as having the nervous laughter habit because that's not part of our conversational discourse, but it is a big part of how she talks to, for example, men.
I like books. I just don't want to take on too much. Do they have an introduction to the modern blurb?
Buffy ,'Lessons'
Spike's Bitches 39: Cuppa Tea, Cuppa Tea, Almost Got Shagged, Cuppa Tea...
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
-t - Feb 28, 2008 9:24:56 am PST #7979 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Connie Neil - Feb 28, 2008 9:34:57 am PST #7980 of 10001
brillig
The laugh isn't because they consider themselves such wags, but because it's a nervous habit, or possibly ingrained self-denigration.
"Please forgive me for daring to express myself, I am harmless, see?"
Though it's not as bad as people who will say simply anything because silence between people frightens them.
Frankenbuddha - Feb 28, 2008 9:37:15 am PST #7981 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Though it's not as bad as people who will say simply anything because silence between people frightens them.
I've been trying to decide if these people are better or worse than the ones who talk constantly because they love the sound of their own bloviating (and they are always bloviators).
Maybe kill them all and let hell sort them out?
Emily - Feb 28, 2008 9:38:10 am PST #7982 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Okay, who took my mojo?
Amy - Feb 28, 2008 9:39:50 am PST #7983 of 10001
Because books.
Austin Powers?
lisah - Feb 28, 2008 9:39:56 am PST #7984 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
The laugh isn't because they consider themselves such wags, but because it's a nervous habit, or possibly ingrained self-denigration.
This is actually something we worked extensively in the first level of the (intense, full contact) self defense class I took. It's a problem for a lot of women.
Steph L. - Feb 28, 2008 9:40:29 am PST #7985 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Okay, who took my mojo?
If I remember my cinema correctly, it was Dr. Evil.
Glamcookie - Feb 28, 2008 9:41:55 am PST #7986 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
The laugh isn't because they consider themselves such wags, but because it's a nervous habit, or possibly ingrained self-denigration.
My boss's boss does this. She has also referred to herself as a "dumb bunny" in meetings. I wanted to slap her.
beekaytee - Feb 28, 2008 9:42:13 am PST #7987 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
I want to marry Teppy's lolrant and have its little ranty babies.
Let's make it a poly-rant.
I could not agree more.
erikaj - Feb 28, 2008 9:42:42 am PST #7988 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Ok, so add in shoutouts to somebody's niggaz and you know why I quit the Wire boards at hbo. Even starfucking Simon couldn't get me to put up with that. Fake marriages have to have clear boundaries.ETA: Or maybe it was fighting with Balmer's Lone Neocon. On a Wire Forum? He must have been horribly lost.