YAY! new thread!
...because God knows you need some satisfaction in life besides shagging Captain Cardboard! And I never really liked you anyway. And you have stupid hair!
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Natter 60: Gone In 60 Seconds
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.
Kat - Jul 28, 2008 12:40:03 pm PDT #13 of 10003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Trudy Booth - Jul 28, 2008 12:41:41 pm PDT #14 of 10003
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
As a sociological class that identifies common traits. "Middle class" is too broad and ill-defined to mean anything in particular.
In general I guess, but in the context in which it is being used in the article that started this discussion it's pretty clearly defined (complete with charts!) and meaning something very particular.
In fact, Ruby Whateherface is pretty much speaking to the "academic class" in her work.
P.M. Marc - Jul 28, 2008 12:44:45 pm PDT #15 of 10003
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Hey! Nice name!
tommyrot - Jul 28, 2008 12:44:48 pm PDT #16 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Top 17?
Kat - Jul 28, 2008 12:45:19 pm PDT #17 of 10003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Okay, So the Nanny Ad is making me boggle. She says what the salary is, but then goes on to say that $60/overtime for all hours over 50 a week. Which the scheduled hours ARE over 50 a week. Even on the "day off" (just the one, mind) you are expected to be open to running errands for the family.
So, essentially, you never have a day off.
AND then the descriptions of her darling brood? The second son with a streak of rude? And the college aged kid who goes to Columbia but whose laundry you will be expected to pick up? The younger ones with their "particular"-ness and demands? Um. NO.
And two years of indentured servitude a contract? Hell's no.
This seems like one of those things set up to be a chicklit novel.
Also, no way. Uh uh. No.
And yes, at least she is upfront about it. But how much worse must reality be?
t boggle
tommyrot - Jul 28, 2008 12:47:40 pm PDT #18 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I don't get this xkcd comic: [link]
I think it was on Digg where I saw a post about not getting it either.
§ ita § - Jul 28, 2008 12:48:05 pm PDT #19 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
This seems like one of those things set up to be a chicklit novel.
Romance and wealth are in the offing for her--just you wait and see. Not to mention a surprise discovery about her own lineage!
Kat - Jul 28, 2008 12:48:08 pm PDT #20 of 10003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Also, if it were a family of boys with nary a girl, I might suspect that it's Laura from Project Runway hiring.
And if you want, you can live in their house for reduced rent?!
And she wants a fit, young thang to do this job!
And the legal/PERFECT english seems like code for: we want someone white.
t still boggling
Dana - Jul 28, 2008 12:48:37 pm PDT #21 of 10003
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
The comments on the LJ RSS feed are full of people not getting it too.
msbelle - Jul 28, 2008 12:48:40 pm PDT #22 of 10003
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
If that kid is an ungrad at Columbia, I really hope the student newspaper gets a hold of it and finds out the kid's name and then rails against the ridic.