Not until tomorrow! Though she gladly accepts early birthday wishes.
My clock says different. Tell her happy birthday from the future!
Anya Christina Emmanuella Jenkins. Twenty years old. Born on the fourth of July — and don't think there weren't jokes about that my whole life, mister, 'cause there were. 'Who's our little patriot?' they'd say, when I was younger and therefore smaller and shorter than I am now.
Anya ,'Potential'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
billytea - Sep 25, 2012 6:13:42 am PDT #23376 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
DavidS - Sep 25, 2012 6:26:46 am PDT #23377 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Tell her happy birthday from the future!
I shall! She'll expect future cake though.
Consuela - Sep 25, 2012 6:46:15 am PDT #23378 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Wow, a horrifying story: An American expat blogger living in Ireland is subjected to torrents of abuse online, much of it viciously anti-semitic, culminating with the delivery of dead flowers and ashes to his house and threats against his wife's life.
He gets a techie friend to track down the troll, and it's the son of some good friends.
WTF, people. Just WTF.
Jessica - Sep 25, 2012 6:49:54 am PDT #23379 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
He gets a techie friend to track down the troll, and it's the son of some good friends.
Jesus.
meara - Sep 25, 2012 6:54:09 am PDT #23380 of 30001
Good god that's fucked up. Jesus, people! Act right!
le nubian - Sep 25, 2012 6:59:21 am PDT #23381 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I did not sleep well last night and today I feel like death warmed over. damn.
good morning everyone!
Nora Deirdre - Sep 25, 2012 7:00:07 am PDT #23382 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
I would not have been as forgiving, FFS. This kid went way over the line.
Consuela - Sep 25, 2012 7:06:54 am PDT #23383 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Oh, yeah. And it makes no sense to me, because I thought that part of the draw of trolling was that they didn't really think of the targets as people like themselves. And here this kid is targeting someone he knows, someone he's probably had dinner with in his home.
But maybe that's the point: he can get an adult, someone presumably at home in the groanup world, to react to him. And that gives him power. It wouldn't be the same doing it to some random individual on the net that he didn't know.
In which case I don't see how confronting him with it changes the situation, except that he's been threatened with legal action. He might even be happy, because look how much effect he had, the guy was crying and worried.
le nubian - Sep 25, 2012 7:08:41 am PDT #23384 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
He had been doing it for like 3 years.
holy shit.
Burrell - Sep 25, 2012 7:31:58 am PDT #23385 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I woulda started with the legal action, son of a friend or no.