I'm sorry, dad. You know I would never have tried to save River's life if I had known there was a dinner party at risk.

Simon ,'Safe'


Natter 57 Varieties  

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.


msbelle - Mar 12, 2008 9:54:31 am PDT #4567 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

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also Heifer bunnies and/or chicks.


Sparky1 - Mar 12, 2008 9:58:25 am PDT #4568 of 10001
Librarian Warlord

Or even if they were like "Fuck you, we MAY work this out, POSSIBLY, with a lot of counseling and GROVELING, but I'm not going to your damn press conference, and won't be seen in public with you for at least six months"

Dina McGreevey wrote for the NYT opinion page today on what it was like for her:

For me, I was essentially in the dark about what my husband was going to say. He never told me he was gay; he simply passed me a copy of his speech an hour before the press conference. I was in a fog. I certainly didn’t volunteer. I was in no emotional state to make a rational decision, and there simply wasn’t time. He asked me to stand next to him, and I did.

Frankly, all I was thinking about was my daughter. If I had to do it over again, I’d do the same thing. I did it for my daughter’s father.

eta: I hit post when a student walked into my office, before I got to say: It takes a special bastard to tell his wife by handing her a copy of what he's going to read to the press.


Jesse - Mar 12, 2008 10:02:47 am PDT #4569 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

It takes a special bastard to tell his wife by handing her a copy of what he's going to read to the press.

Seriously. What a cowardly ass.


Miracleman - Mar 12, 2008 10:04:03 am PDT #4570 of 10001
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020

It takes a special bastard to tell his wife by handing her a copy of what he's going to read to the press.

That is some hard core fuckery right there.

"Hey, glance this over, will ya?"

"It's a Post-It note. It says: 'Your life is crumbling around you'. What does it mean?"

"I like the cock."


§ ita § - Mar 12, 2008 10:09:56 am PDT #4571 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Kat--maybe we can do lunch Friday? I'm pretty jammed up the rest of the week.

The guy two cubes down sent me an email titled "Very Fierce" and I don't want to read the rest of it.

It would be very convenient if more native English speakers could actually write in the language so I wouldn't have to ask for clarification--and it would be sensible if I didn't get self-conscious about it. Hrrm.

I did it for my daughter’s father.

How incredibly selfish of him to make her have to split him into two people, one of whom me has to be decent to.


tommyrot - Mar 12, 2008 10:10:45 am PDT #4572 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.

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Tom Scola - Mar 12, 2008 10:11:27 am PDT #4573 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

I did it for my daughter’s father.

I seriously need to stop reading about douchebag fathers right now.


tommyrot - Mar 12, 2008 10:13:10 am PDT #4574 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.

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brenda m - Mar 12, 2008 10:14:57 am PDT #4575 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Jesus. What a fucker.

I'm guessing too that at this stage in the game, you don't really know what you're going to do going forward, so not making things even more public by refusing to attend and shifting more attention/speculation to yourself probably has its appeal.

Just got off a conference call with clients in Houston and London. Two of the people on the call were in London, but one was an American and the other had a Russian accent. My boss and I were disappointed we didn't get to hear any British accents....

Hee! Was just coming here to ask why it is that people with British accents can get away with so much more in meetings than the rest of us. Just came out of a planning session and this guy who transferred recently from London was all "ok, this is fucking crap" and "no fucking way" and "so-and-so will fucking pee himself" all over the place and nobody bats an eye. I don't think I could get away with that.


Vortex - Mar 12, 2008 10:37:19 am PDT #4576 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

It just sounds so much more cultured.