Travers: Perhaps you'll favor us with a demonstration while we're here. Buffy: You mean, like, right now? 'Cause, already had my recommended daily dose of fights tonight.

'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.


Amy - Jun 07, 2012 11:15:52 am PDT #8763 of 30001
Because books.

I did get a small speck of lavender massage oil in my violet eyes.

Woe! Whatever will you do?!


Hil R. - Jun 07, 2012 11:15:52 am PDT #8764 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

The only person I can think of who I know who had a drawn-out lie like that in real life was a friend of my sister's from college, who was on College Jeopardy (that part was true) and told her friends that she'd used the money she won to go to Mexico and buy a burro. She'd have periodic updates on how the burro was getting to where she lived, and how the burro was growing, and all sorts of stuff like that. Turned out she'd actually just put the money in a savings account for grad school, and wanted to see how long she could keep people believing the burro story.


tommyrot - Jun 07, 2012 11:16:18 am PDT #8765 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I'd said I wanted to have an exciting life and she was just trying to help.

Ugh.

My high school girlfriend once got mad at me for believing all the lies she told over a six-month period.

eta; Mostly it was lies about the other guy she was seeing.


Consuela - Jun 07, 2012 11:17:22 am PDT #8766 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

The real reason is that he's already married

Oh, dear sweet jebuslug. That's so sad. And awful.

I wish I were Scrappy and could turn my life into something fabulous. But I'm just too depressed about it to bother. This whole situation with the job dragging out forever has just ground me down, to the point where I stood in front of my closet this morning and considered wearing jeans and a t-shirt to the office because "I'm just invisible," I said.

Which is, frankly, not true. But I don't work actively with many people in my physical office--I spend a lot of time on the phone with the field staff, and non-profits, and stuff. But most of them never see me, so it doesn't much matter what I wear, except to convince myself I'm still a professional.


Sue - Jun 07, 2012 11:17:44 am PDT #8767 of 30001
hip deep in pie

But seriously, Rio isn't married to Bob Saget, either.

My whole worldview is shattered!!


Calli - Jun 07, 2012 11:19:00 am PDT #8768 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

She'd have periodic updates on how the burro was getting to where she lived, and how the burro was growing, and all sorts of stuff like that. Turned out she'd actually just put the money in a savings account for grad school, and wanted to see how long she could keep people believing the burro story.

That seems harmless enough. I'm assuming she didn't get distraught about mysterious burro ailments and hit people up for drinks and/or chocolate on the strength of it.


Gudanov - Jun 07, 2012 11:19:09 am PDT #8769 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping

I didn't interact much with were-monkey dude as I think he was around mostly during a gray period for me. It does feel like betrayal in a close-knit Internet community to have someone misrepresenting himself to that degree.


Gudanov - Jun 07, 2012 11:21:50 am PDT #8770 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping

My whole worldview is shattered!!

I'm starting to suspect that Rio is lying about not being married to Bob Saget. Do we really have any evidence that she isn't? It just seems really unlikely. Not as unlikely as Jesse not being a cowgirl, but still pretty damn hard to believe.


Hil R. - Jun 07, 2012 11:22:56 am PDT #8771 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

That seems harmless enough. I'm assuming she didn't get distraught about mysterious burro ailments and hit people up for drinks and/or chocolate on the strength of it.

No. It was weird, but harmless, and a bit entertaining -- you could always get a good story if you asked her how the burro was doing.


Amy - Jun 07, 2012 11:23:55 am PDT #8772 of 30001
Because books.

Yeah, the burro story seems harmless enough, if a little wicked. It's when people start getting emotionally involved that it's ugly.

This whole situation with the job dragging out forever has just ground me down

I can imagine. I wish something would change for you.