Go Hil with the applications! Apply then set them straight after you're hired.
I read all of the discussion today. Way to break in the new thread!
I think the only words mentioned that I use regularly are crazy and lame. Never gave these words a second thought. I didn't use lame until I started mimicking the kids. I don't think I could drop crazy because there is just too much crazy stuff going on in this world.
I've never cursed or used derogatory language in large part because of my parents and the Catholic school thing. I never heard it in my youth and never adopted these words. When I encountered the terms as an adult they never appealed to me. Using words that describe genitalia or sexual acts as the worst thing you can say and hugely negative just never made sense to me.
I would be horrified if I used a term that someone found offensive or hurtful. It's just not the way I roll.
That said, I do get amused when y'all get your potty mouths going and my dearest friend here can't manage a sentence without cursing. So, just not part of my language set.
Don't know if that made any sense, but it is Fringe time for me now so I'll be back later.
Oh, dear. The Nigella cookbook had a link to
this British import stuff. I want everything! Especially the elderflower presse and the tiptree jam.
Oof. This wisdom tooth has been about a millimeter or two below the gum line for at least a month now. And every few days, it moves slightly and starts pressing against a nerve.
I'm making a dentist appointment for sometime Thanksgiving week.
I know Eddie Izzard's dress-wearing has come up here, a long time ago, and I just noticed this on IMDB:
I am a card-carrying transvestite. Always have been, always will be.
Thank god!
It's not like it's something you outgrow.
More importantly, it's hot.
More importantly, it's hot.
That would be the main thing.
There aren't a lot of guys in eyeliner who rank as one of the ten funniest men on earth.
I read through everything -- I come from a non-swearing family. And I wasn't allowed to insult my sisters. Respect was the word for our house. In fact , my father once said something to me which I felt was completely disrespectful to me as a teenager. I looked at him , and left the dinner table. and I did not come back until he apologized.
But then sj said this:
I tend to care more about the tone than the words themselves.
If you ever heard my Dad spit out the word "jerk" you know that he could have called you every name in the book and it wouldn't be worse. Of course, he rarely says it directly to anyone.
The other word he sues is nummy. for people with numb brains. so maybe it should be spelled numby? But that is one I use because it is so much more descriptive than stupid.
eta: work ate my brain
I use crazy, but I do have a mental illness. Does that matter? I love the word crazy. Because we all are a little crazy, I think, diagnosed or not. And maybe also because crazy isn't a negative word to me most of the time. My crazy friends, my crazy life--wouldn't have it any other way.
Anyway. I have just taken an Ambien in hopes I will get a decent night's sleep and be able to ignore the obnoxiously loud neighbors. It's Thursday people, seriously.
