You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you with until you understand who's in ruttin' command here.

Jayne ,'The Train Job'


Spike's Bitches 45: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.  

[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.


Vortex - Jul 20, 2010 6:24:48 am PDT #25954 of 30000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

Is there anyway she can hitch a ride with someone else there and you can make an appearance for dessert and take her home?

Well, that's the problem. It's a reunion, so the only person my mother knows is the host. I was hoping that my brother could take one for the team on this, but he's out of town.


Steph L. - Jul 20, 2010 6:26:12 am PDT #25955 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Is it irrational to NOT want certain people to call you by a nickname? A nickname that several others use regularly? And not so much people as one person?

No, you should be called what you want to be called. Actually it's easier if only one person calls you that because you can say "I prefer to be called X " and when they say "but bob calls you Y", you can say "yeah, that's our thing, and I don't like it when someone else calls me Y"

Ah, this is me and hugging. (Though I was actually told that I "can't" hug selectively; either I hug everyone who wants to put their grubby paws around me, or I hug no one at all.)

(BODILY AUTONOMY, MOTHERFUCKERS.)

("Motherfuckers" /= Bitches. Just to be clear.)


Jessica - Jul 20, 2010 6:26:47 am PDT #25956 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Though I was actually told that I "can't" hug selectively; either I hug everyone who wants to put their grubby paws around me, or I hug no one at all.

I'm pretty sure anyone who thinks this should get punched in the head. And not in a fun way.


SailAweigh - Jul 20, 2010 6:27:52 am PDT #25957 of 30000
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

Though I was actually told that I "can't" hug selectively; either I hug everyone who wants to put their grubby paws around me, or I hug no one at all.

WTFuckingF? Not on, person who said that. We smite, shun, spurn and otherwise refudiate you.


amych - Jul 20, 2010 6:32:25 am PDT #25958 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

By having a torso you were clearly asking for it.


sj - Jul 20, 2010 6:32:53 am PDT #25959 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Though I was actually told that I "can't" hug selectively; either I hug everyone who wants to put their grubby paws around me, or I hug no one at all.

Bullshit.


billytea - Jul 20, 2010 6:34:03 am PDT #25960 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Is it irrational to NOT want certain people to call you by a nickname? A nickname that several others use regularly? And not so much people as one person?

Not at all. I just had the same issue, someone at work found out my personal email starts with billytea and decided to start calling me that. Aside from the presumptuousness, it is so not my work name. You guys call me billytea. He's not you guys.


Steph L. - Jul 20, 2010 6:37:58 am PDT #25961 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

You guys call me billytea. He's not you guys.

You mentioned once that you prefer to be called William in person, and so when I've seen you in person, I've done that (even if my brain is still calling you billytea, it's INSIDE). Because that's what you prefer.


Aims - Jul 20, 2010 6:38:00 am PDT #25962 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.

It's even more ridic with me: my MiL just called me "Aims" on FB. Lots of people call me Aims, but to me it's term of endearment and, well, I don't want her to call me Aims. People I love call me Aims and I do not feel love for her. I feel ... something else since she is the mother of my husband and grandmother to my child. But I don't know that I'd call it love.

I may just be cranky today. I'm convinced that I am not merely suffering from a viral sinus infection (FOR THREE FLIPPING WEEKS NOW!!) but from my body rejecting the amount of body fat I have and is creating mucous from it.


sj - Jul 20, 2010 6:39:22 am PDT #25963 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

{{{Aims}}} I can see you not wanting your MIL to call you by your nickname, but I can't imagine a way to tell her that without major family drama.