I don't really read non-fiction. You guys aren't going to dump me, are you?
You bring the musical theater, I'll bring the non-fiction!
This reminds me that I need to go to the bookstore.
Prepare to uncouple -- uncouple.
Oz ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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.
shrift - Mar 31, 2008 10:00:45 am PDT #8394 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Kat - Mar 31, 2008 10:01:08 am PDT #8395 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I wonder if people who deeply love music would break up with someone who listened to music they hated?
Dana - Mar 31, 2008 10:01:55 am PDT #8396 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
I wonder if people who deeply love music would break up with someone who listened to music they hated?
I haven't dumped my husband yet.
Fred Pete - Mar 31, 2008 10:01:57 am PDT #8397 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
I'm with MM. I enjoy too much lowbrow stuff to point fingers at others. (For the record -- Hubs isn't much of a reader, doesn't care for fiction at all.) And I don't know where this falls in the "confusion of lowbrow and quality" spectrum, but a book that accomplishes what it sets out to do deserves at least some credit. In other words, if you set out to write trashy entertainment that makes people forget their troubles for a while, people have less room to turn up their noses if you succeed in writing a highly entertaining trashy novel.
And yes, I'd have trouble associating with people whose literary tastes reflect more fundamental concerns. But, to take the example of Turner Diaries, I'd call it a problem with the person's racism and not their literary tastes.
Kat - Mar 31, 2008 10:02:50 am PDT #8398 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Or... if you'd break up with someone that ate food you disliked?
Sue - Mar 31, 2008 10:04:50 am PDT #8399 of 10001
hip deep in pie
Or... if you'd break up with someone that ate food you disliked?
I know someone that said that ketchup on scrambled eggs was a dealbreaker.
Dana - Mar 31, 2008 10:05:01 am PDT #8400 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Or... if you'd break up with someone that ate food you disliked?
We have had several firm discussions about the amount of pepper that is acceptable to put in food.
I'm just fundamentally lazy.
beekaytee - Mar 31, 2008 10:06:00 am PDT #8401 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
I have a big problem with too much garlic. And raw onions. I know this puts me squarely in the minority but I have a physical reaction. Like whoa. So that would be hard for me.
I once had a boss who ate so much garlic my eyes actually watered whenever we spoke. He could never understand why I kept backing up.
For better or worse, I wasn't alone.
Steph L. - Mar 31, 2008 10:06:27 am PDT #8402 of 10001
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
Or... if you'd break up with someone that ate food you disliked?
We have had several firm discussions about the amount of pepper that is acceptable to put in food.
The Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream that looks like regular chocolate chip (it isn't dyed green) at 3 a.m. led to a....strident discussion.
Jessica - Mar 31, 2008 10:06:34 am PDT #8403 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I wonder if people who deeply love music would break up with someone who listened to music they hated?
I let DH have his Paul Simon and he lets me have my Oingo Boingo. But I'm not sure either of us is really a music-lover when it comes down to it.
Food...that's trickier. I'm not sure I would last long in a relationship with a cilantro-hater, because where would we go out to eat? What would I cook for them?