For Tep - breakfast pizza.
That looks good. No Bacon!
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
Natter 59: Dominate Your Face!
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.
Lee - Jun 02, 2008 2:03:35 pm PDT #512 of 10003
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Jessica - Jun 02, 2008 2:04:40 pm PDT #513 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Adorableness - Dylan is sitting at my feet right now pretending to drink out of a bottle of eye wash (with the cap on tight). After each "sip" he's giving an exaggerated refreshed-sounding "Aaaah!" Too cute.
meara - Jun 02, 2008 2:05:07 pm PDT #514 of 10003
Agh!
Friday I had tickets to a movie, so I left the house at 4:30. The UPS lady came at 5:45. Ah well. It was not meant to be.
Today, I had to mail my rent check. But I had morning meetings. So I leave the house and run down to the post office, and was back home by 3:30. I hoped she would come late, anyway. But no...the UPS lady had come at 3:15. Aaaaaagh!
Tomorrow, UPS lady. Tomorrow I shall await you, you and your stealthy ways...
§ ita § - Jun 02, 2008 2:07:49 pm PDT #515 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think the difference is you seem to assume that all compulsive behavior is initiated by the perception of something being "not right" and I think there are instances where it is initiated simply by the perception of the pattern.
Why complete the pattern, is my question? In the scenarios to which I've been exposed, I've seen people's deepening distress at not being able to finish up, so, yeah, they looked like something was not right to them.
Lots of time was spent figuring out whether the patient was neurotic
Oh, we're all neurotic. That's what too much free time'll do to ya.
Sean K - Jun 02, 2008 2:09:01 pm PDT #516 of 10003
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
For Tep - breakfast pizza.
*I* was the one who wanted breakfast pizza!
Jessica - Jun 02, 2008 2:14:13 pm PDT #517 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
*I* was the one who wanted breakfast pizza!
Your names both start with S! How am I supposed to tell the difference, huh???
Anyway, it's too late now. You'll have to ask Tep if she's willing to share.
JZ - Jun 02, 2008 2:34:58 pm PDT #518 of 10003
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
After each "sip" he's giving an exaggerated refreshed-sounding "Aaaah!"
Ow, my heart! I'm slightly afraid of what will happen if we get Dylan and Matilda, or, really, any two or three Buffista babies and/or toddlers in one room together--whether the resultant devastating levels of cute will cause, well, devastation. The only reason I can see that Southern California has survived the combined presence of Grace and Noah so far is that maybe their siblinghood somehow harmonizes the cuteness vibrations to achieve some measure of equilibrium; get them both together with even one unrelated Buffista baby/toddler, though, and it'd be a galactic death ray of cute.
Sean K - Jun 02, 2008 2:41:12 pm PDT #519 of 10003
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
There are apparently quite a lot of people who claim to be skeptics who clearly have no real understanding of how to be skeptical.
CASE. IN. POINT: [link] (link is to CNN video stream)
Kat - Jun 02, 2008 3:14:27 pm PDT #520 of 10003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I want to write something witty and sweet. But my will to live has been zapped by 60 high school students.
Laga - Jun 02, 2008 3:20:25 pm PDT #521 of 10003
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Way late but I had to clarify my stance on "tourist pizza". I mean deep dish is where we'd go to eat when we had friends visiting from out of town. I love tourists, they are an essential part of Chicago's economy and I (mostly happily) drove them around for 18 months when I was a carriage driver.
Maybe I should have called deep dish "special occasion" pizza. What I crave is the everyday stuff, thin crust with plenty of tomato sauce that has actual flavor. (not that thin smear of paste that passes for sauce in California) You can have all the corner pieces, I like the middles. I actually miss that moment when you can't wait for the thing to cool down so you take a bite even though you know the sauce is going to ooze up through a hole in the cheese and burn the crap out of the roof of your mouth but it's worth it!