And you're sure this isn't just some fanboy thing? 'Cause I've fought more than a couple pimply, overweight vamps that called themselves Lestat.

Buffy ,'Lessons'


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.


P.M. Marc - Jan 12, 2010 10:17:02 am PST #6590 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

I sometimes get into YOU ARE WRONG ON THE INTERNET!!! mental loops. Not so much because I need to be right, but because I need to show them how WRONG THEY ARE BEING.

I accept that this is not logical or rational. Usually, I don't actually say anything. I just think it real loud.


Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Jan 12, 2010 10:18:59 am PST #6591 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"

There is no mindfuck quite like being special needs AND gifted. That constant pendulum between "You're great and special and inspiring." and "Fuckin' freak," is why Billy Walsh makes me blush.

I was just trying to figure out how to say something along those lines. I am still angry, over 20 years later, that there were 'smart tables' and 'stupid tables' in my class at primary school, and that I ended up on the middle table because I was top of the class in English and bottom of the class in maths. Grr. Mrs Ings, I hope you're not still doing that to kids.


Steph L. - Jan 12, 2010 10:24:17 am PST #6592 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

I sometimes get into YOU ARE WRONG ON THE INTERNET!!! mental loops.

Someone is always being WRONG ON THE INTERNET. I feel like the Batman of Internet-wrongness.


flea - Jan 12, 2010 10:24:39 am PST #6593 of 30000
information libertarian

Uh, guys, wasn't this discussion started by someone who was worried that her kid *wasn't* reading? Maybe the recurring "I was a spontaneous early reader and/or misunderstood super-nerd" conversation is a little insensitive under the circumstances?

To counterbalance, my husband learned to read in school (like, 1st-2nd grade), was a good but not stellar student (he was the B+/A- guy) and now has a PhD in engineering.


javachik - Jan 12, 2010 10:24:41 am PST #6594 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

P.M., I am pretty sure that's way different than always wanting to be the first to answer a question in class.


Tom Scola - Jan 12, 2010 10:26:04 am PST #6595 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Wrong people on the Internet are a cowardly and superstitious lot.


Steph L. - Jan 12, 2010 10:26:59 am PST #6596 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Wrong people on the Internet are a cowardly and superstitious lot.

That is why it is my sacred mission to stop them!

I am the Internet (K)Night!


Connie Neil - Jan 12, 2010 10:27:00 am PST #6597 of 30000
brillig

Hubby will sometimes correct me even if I'm right, because I wasn't right in the right way, ie, I approached a problem in a way he wouldn't have gone. This ties into the "Don't you want to be the best you can possibly be? I want you to be the best you can be, because I love you so much."

He's so damned lucky I didn't grow up in the kind of violence-approved family he did, because I know where to hit him for maximum effect.


tommyrot - Jan 12, 2010 10:28:01 am PST #6598 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Wrong people on the Internet are a cowardly and superstitious lot.

Yes. They worship Tino.


javachik - Jan 12, 2010 10:29:25 am PST #6599 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

flea, I think some chimed in with late reading stories, if not their own, then their kiddos. And now we've moved on to a different topic of being a know-it-all?

No? Will Aims chime in if we've scared her off with nerd stories?