The "How DARE you!" quotient has seemed to have risen on the board in the last year or so.
You know, I've saved lives. Dozens. Maybe hundreds. I reattached a girl's leg. Her whole leg. She named her hamster after me. I got a hamster. He drops a box of money, he gets a town.
Simon ,'Jaynestown'
Spike's Bitches 47: Someone Dangerous Could Get In
[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.
Connie Neil - Nov 23, 2011 9:43:51 am PST #3290 of 30001
brillig
erikaj - Nov 23, 2011 9:44:45 am PST #3291 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
wrod.
§ ita § - Nov 23, 2011 9:54:40 am PST #3292 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think people are getting less likely to sit back and feel spoken badly about. If that's getting in the way of other people's freedom to not be considerate before they post, I guess that's a real problem.
WindSparrow - Nov 23, 2011 9:56:12 am PST #3293 of 30001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Things I am thankful for:
- Having a purring Harvey stretched across my lap.
- Being able to swap out the PCV valve and valve hose on my car with less effort than anticipated, and then being able to get hold of Daniel's cousin to verify that I had done the job correctly.
- That my nose is no longer numb. Novocaine is weird. The cavity I had filled today wasn't too bad, either.
- The sun and relatively mild temperature today.
- That Daniel appears to be doing pretty well with his return to work.
- And just to indulge in cliche, B.org and all its denizens.
Connie Neil - Nov 23, 2011 9:58:41 am PST #3294 of 30001
brillig
Being able to swap out the PCV valve and valve hose on my car with less effort than anticipated, and then being able to get hold of Daniel's cousin to verify that I had done the job correctly.
I love being able to pop the hood and adjust something on my own. And it's quite fun to say to the young man jogging over, eager to do prove his manliness, "No, thanks, I've already fixed it" as I drop the hood.
erikaj - Nov 23, 2011 10:00:00 am PST #3295 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
believe it or not, I'm not arguing for the right to be a dick.
§ ita § - Nov 23, 2011 10:13:32 am PST #3296 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm not arguing for the right to be a dick.
You do seem to be arguing that people should be less offended at what you say, though. But not really why.
juliana - Nov 23, 2011 10:24:13 am PST #3297 of 30001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
That my nose is no longer numb. Novocaine is weird. The cavity I had filled today wasn't too bad, either.
WS, I agree on the Novocaine. (Core temperature drop being one of the side effects - you can't tell me that's right.) But YAY filled cavities!
Laura - Nov 23, 2011 10:42:49 am PST #3298 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
Remember the year I went camping in Key West for Thanksgiving so as not to deal with family. I have decided to do this again next year. Seriously. Tired of trying to be peacemaker. Just show up and eat the sweet potatoes people.
erikaj - Nov 23, 2011 10:46:33 am PST #3299 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
I didn't expect such an intense response...I don't really know what to say, except that probably everyone here owes her or his income to some institution or other and I personally think it's okay to mock them. i.e. "military intelligence" Other people seem not to think so(or maybe if I were a vet, could I say that?) And, okay, they are both priggish and somewhat out-of-style, but I suppose Buckley and George Will count as Republican intellectuals.(Still think Newt's a lightweight.) And I still don't think I was so wrong that I had to hear from five different posters. *I'm* offended by that. But I was bad and needed to pay or something so my feelings don't count.