Vent away, Cashmere.
You always seem to make smart choices. I'm pretty sure you'll continue to.
Kaylee: You're nice, too. Mal: No, I'm not. I'm a mean old man.
'Serenity'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
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.
Trudy Booth - Jul 16, 2009 8:10:32 pm PDT #29574 of 30000
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
Cass - Jul 16, 2009 8:12:28 pm PDT #29575 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Still, though, everyone's got shit they wish they hadn't said, right?
Pretty much.
I just wish I hadn't been an outright bitch about something where I'd have to think of it every time there was an anniversary or remembrance. It was *such* a low point. Especially because I liked the guy well enough.
Nothing so cruel as other humans...
javachik - Jul 16, 2009 8:17:01 pm PDT #29576 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Nothing so cruel as other humans...
Aint it the damned truth.
Burrell - Jul 16, 2009 8:17:14 pm PDT #29577 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Ugh Cash, I'm so sorry your family keeps putting you into this tough love position.
I can't recall where I was when I watched the Challenger explode for the first time (perhaps because it was aired so many times in the following weeks), but I have a very clear memory of the gut wrenching feeling of watching it blow up.
DavidS - Jul 16, 2009 8:25:38 pm PDT #29578 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I watched the Challenger explosion with the actor who had played Peter Brady. For that extra layer of surreal.
Trudy Booth - Jul 16, 2009 8:27:20 pm PDT #29579 of 30000
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
Nothing so cruel as other humans...
And none so harsh a judge as yourself. You know, since the guy never knew.
I watched the WTC collapse with Ed Koch. That was trippy.
Polter-Cow - Jul 16, 2009 8:27:47 pm PDT #29580 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Some comic relief, courtesy of Attack of the Show : Darth Vader and Stormtroopers dance to "U Can't Touch This."
shrift - Jul 16, 2009 8:54:22 pm PDT #29581 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I need to make it clear that the Bank of Lisa is closed except in cases of dire emergency/life or death situations.
I think you do. Family and money are weird. My cousins on one side assumed that my immediate family must have borrowed heavily from our grandmother, simply because they did every chance they got. Then they assumed we must be rich because we said we hadn't borrowed money, which we aren't; we simply don't buy things we can't afford, tuck money into savings, and we all work steady jobs.
For some family members, the fact that you don't live beyond your means equals MAGIC RENEWABLE MONEY LENDING TREE.
P.M. Marc - Jul 16, 2009 8:57:56 pm PDT #29582 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Ple! Have you seen the most recent xkcd?
The alt text made me laugh myself sick.
meara - Jul 16, 2009 9:36:18 pm PDT #29583 of 30000
Heh. On my mom's side of the family, I think at one point my mom and dad were literally making...10% or less of what my mom's sister and my uncle were making. Just a guess, but I could only be off in by how much MORE my aunt and uncle might've been making. Sure, the costs of living were very different, but...clearly there were some extreme lifestyle differences too.
There were some odd family tensions, needless to say. Especially when it then came to dealing with my grandmother.