Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.

Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'


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P.M. Marc - Sep 07, 2012 7:38:21 am PDT #19874 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

See, that doesn't happen when all your relatives are Canadian!

The closest I get is telling my mother, like my other siblings have, that YES, she is spamming us with too many pro-Obama reblogs, and stop preaching to the choir, 'cause she's cluttering up our feed.

(Meanwhile, her NDP peeps in her motherland are encouraging her.)

Sometimes, I feel very lucky that I wasn't raised by Americans.


DebetEsse - Sep 07, 2012 8:06:38 am PDT #19875 of 30001
Woe to the fucking wicked.

Heh. I was shocked this week when my father, who never posts and rarely comments on FB (even though he checks it pretty regularly) "liked" my link to the "5 reasons Romney/Ryan should not be elected" (or whatever) article I linked. He barely talks politics in meatspace.


erikaj - Sep 07, 2012 8:13:03 am PDT #19876 of 30001
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-

many of my relatives are on the other side. But they don't usually engage me directly on ANYTHING, much less that. If we don't talk, I don't know why they friended. Maybe the disappointment is mutual.


sj - Sep 07, 2012 8:15:23 am PDT #19877 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

I may just have to stay off facebook for a while. I've been an emotional wreck this week. Actually, I should probably just avoid interacting with people altogether for a few days.


erikaj - Sep 07, 2012 8:19:20 am PDT #19878 of 30001
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-

If I do decide to find and choke the guy that went on Warren's page to call her a "bimbo"(although maybe I should feel sorry as he does not know what words mean), I can say I was with y'all, right?


sj - Sep 07, 2012 8:21:13 am PDT #19879 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

You were on the internet the whole time, erika.


§ ita § - Sep 07, 2012 8:41:58 am PDT #19880 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

that doesn't happen when all your relatives are Canadian! that doesn't happen when all your relatives are Canadian!

That's a variant of Canadian I'm not familiar with.


Cass - Sep 07, 2012 8:53:57 am PDT #19881 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

I regret to inform you all that humanity has lost the mandate of Heaven, and from now on, God has instead chosen to bestow his favour upon the mantis people.

Well, sure. They pray.

Glad the eggs are okay. And that the fire isn't threatening a huge area or structures.


Kate P. - Sep 07, 2012 9:43:20 am PDT #19882 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

My FIL has recently gotten into posting political stuff to FB. His views happen to coincide with mine, but probably not with many of the other people he knows (he grew up and still lives in Oklahoma, IIRC the only state where not a single county went for Obama in 2008). It sort of makes me cringe, because a lot of the things he's posting are incendiary or dubiously sourced (or both), plus half of them are reposted from pages with names like "We love to irritate nasty hateful Republicans." I mean, dude must know a LOT more Republicans than I do! I guess he just doesn't care that he's probably pissing them off, or else he's gotten to a point where most people just ignore him.


omnis_audis - Sep 07, 2012 9:44:37 am PDT #19883 of 30001
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

Closet world is still here. Custom my ass. It's custom as long as it fits in their product line.

The thing that is causing the big wrench, is they either use existing doors (got rid of because they were 96" x 7' of mirrors. I hate mirrors), or, they put in sliding doors of mirrors. @@ NO!

So, I'm picking through their catalog and saying, "see, over here in the pantry section, you have these inlaid doors, with hinges" I would rather a couple hinged doors, then tracked crap. "Oh, everything is custom" and "we can't do that" does not work for me. The second negates the first. So, she is on the phone with the office coming up with possible solutions. Also, the 96" of sliding panels costs MORE than the interior stuff. Which I think is crazy.

I will keep y'all posted as updates happen. We shall see what the phone call produces.

Wheeeee!