we make a hella cheerful board.
my boss has discovered gmail chat.
I need more coffee.
Marco: Do we look reasonable to you? Mal: Well. Looks can be deceiving. Jayne: Not as deceiving as a low down dirty... deceiver.
'Out Of Gas'
Spike's Bitches 40: Buckle Up, Kids! Daddy's Puttin' the Hammer Down.
[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.
hippocampus - Apr 24, 2008 5:10:29 am PDT #6187 of 10001
not your mom's socks.
Aims - Apr 24, 2008 5:11:54 am PDT #6188 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Question of the day:
How to fit 15 cars into 8 parking spaces?
Connie Neil - Apr 24, 2008 5:12:57 am PDT #6189 of 10001
brillig
How to fit 15 cars into 8 parking spaces?
Demolition derby!
hippocampus - Apr 24, 2008 5:14:11 am PDT #6190 of 10001
not your mom's socks.
How to fit 15 cars into 8 parking spaces?
let shrift do it.
hey d- I sent you something new a day or so ago. Is gmail hatin' again?
beekaytee - Apr 24, 2008 5:14:12 am PDT #6191 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
If it were me, I'd just go the "That's really too big a project for me to take on right now" route. Lies are the lubricant that makes civilization possible.
But see, this has the bonus benefit of probably being true! Not an actual lie.
If the not talking about your reservations seems like a lie Fay than I think those two things can be dealt with separately. The project is one thing...full stop no. The wanting your friend to be safe and happy is altogether different.
It seems that the core issue here is not wanting your friend to allow herself to be taken advantage of. You have EVERY right/responsibility to make that statement, and then let it go. If she hears, great...if not...at least you will know you did your best.
It's true that people often need to realize their delusions themselves...it's also true that most everything anyone believes that isn't seen can be categorized as superstition by someone who doesn't share the belief. And sometimes? Failure is the healing. God knows I've pelted down a few dead end alleys and crashed and burned into a greater awareness that I was eventually glad to have.
No matter what the process, I'd wish that kind of realization for your friend.
Miracleman - Apr 24, 2008 5:14:30 am PDT #6192 of 10001
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
I was gonna say compactor, but I think connie's idea is more fun.
WindSparrow - Apr 24, 2008 5:35:50 am PDT #6193 of 10001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
I was gonna say compactor, but I think connie's idea is more fun.
What if we circulate a chain email that spins some story of professional car-park valets, submit it to Mythbusters, and turn Jamie and Adam loose on it? They'll get the job done if they have to blow all the cars to smithereens to do it.
WindSparrow - Apr 24, 2008 5:37:27 am PDT #6194 of 10001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Alpha-bits.
Or, you could use a crane. If it doesn't do for getting the cars precision-packed, you could always stack them.
Cats, cars, whatever.
-t - Apr 24, 2008 6:14:45 am PDT #6195 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Ooh, yeah, outfit the parking places with those elevated thingies that you drive the car onto and then lift them up so you can park another car underneath. Or just put a ramp behind every parked car so you can drive another car up and onto the roof.
hippocampus - Apr 24, 2008 6:15:14 am PDT #6196 of 10001
not your mom's socks.
What if we circulate a chain email that spins some story of professional car-park valets, submit it to Mythbusters, and turn Jamie and Adam loose on it?
And if Mythbusters isn't available, we could get Mike Rowe to do it...