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I've really got to learn to just do the damage and get out of town. It's the 'stay and gloat' that gets me every time.
Ethan Rayne ,'Potential'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
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Aims - Apr 10, 2009 9:23:55 am PDT #6333 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Glamcookie - Apr 10, 2009 9:23:59 am PDT #6334 of 30000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
I am now in love with the phrase "cookie shame." Thank you, Calli.
Scrappy - Apr 10, 2009 9:24:27 am PDT #6335 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Yeah, totally what Calli said. Also education about what is ACTUALLY healthy, as opposed to the BMI. To go back to my AIDS example, education not only helped people avoid the disease, it also helped educate the public that you couldn't get it from working next to somoene with the illness, which helped calm the hysteria.
Connie Neil - Apr 10, 2009 9:25:42 am PDT #6336 of 30000
brillig
On a pseudo-tangent, the societal value that "life is precious!" irks me, because I'm always tempted to say, "Yes, it is, so why did however many African children just die of starvation while you bleated out your sermon?" Also, which life? Because I can buy life at the pet store for thirty-nine cents and feed it to the piranha they keep in the other aquarium.
Shir - Apr 10, 2009 9:26:56 am PDT #6337 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
There should be no shame in cookies, dammit.
Unless it's Passover, and you're not allowed any because you try to cling to rules you don't understand for some reason.
But I still want cookie. Or a "my cookie has no shame" t-shirt.
lisah - Apr 10, 2009 9:27:41 am PDT #6338 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
I do not give one crap if anyone I know plays 18 hours of WoW while eating pizzas and chain-smoking. I'm not the arbiter of anyone's lifestyle.
What about helmet or seatbelt laws?
I'm sure if I had to get on a bus after yoga class I'd end up wacking someone with my mat. I'm just that much of a klutz. I'd be sure to apologize though!
Shir - Apr 10, 2009 9:28:43 am PDT #6339 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
On a pseudo-tangent, the societal value that "life is precious!" irks me, because I'm always tempted to say, "Yes, it is, so why did however many African children just die of starvation while you bleated out your sermon?" Also, which life? Because I can buy life at the pet store for thirty-nine cents and feed it to the piranha they keep in the other aquarium.
Thank you. I needed that reply in my argument vocabulary.
Polter-Cow - Apr 10, 2009 9:30:52 am PDT #6340 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I am now in love with the phrase "cookie shame." Thank you, Calli.
Heh. My first thought was That Would Make a Good Band Name.
I'm going to have some Snickers ice cream bar shame this afternoon.
Steph L. - Apr 10, 2009 9:32:01 am PDT #6341 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I do not give one crap if anyone I know plays 18 hours of WoW while eating pizzas and chain-smoking. I'm not the arbiter of anyone's lifestyle.
What about helmet or seatbelt laws?
If someone chooses not to do something that I, personally, do, it's really not my place to get in their face about it.
Though I'd hardly equate seatbelt laws with thinking someone shouldn't play 18 hours of WoW.
Scrappy - Apr 10, 2009 9:35:27 am PDT #6342 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
If someone chooses not to do something that I, personally, do, it's really not my place to get in their face about it.
Hmm, so you don't think we should legislate those things? What about speed limits? I see a difference in personal choices, like how one spends one's time or what one eats, but once one gets out in public, it's different, for me at least.