I gave a dollar to a panhandler at the grocery store a couple of weeks ago. I don't normally give anything to them, but it was early in the morning, I had the dollar in my pocket, and for once I got a twinge of "Give it to him" instead of the usual "Oh, gosh, there's another one." I don't know what he did with it, maybe it went to booze and cigarettes, but if it made his life a little easier, I'm good with it.
I've really got to learn to just do the damage and get out of town. It's the 'stay and gloat' that gets me every time.
Ethan Rayne ,'Potential'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
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.
Connie Neil - Dec 11, 2012 8:53:24 am PST #3959 of 30001
brillig
SuziQ - Dec 11, 2012 9:00:14 am PST #3960 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
I bought an Air Force guy dinner a few days back. Oh, and I gave my maintenance guy some cookies.
Today sucks eggs. Rotten stinky eggs.
brenda m - Dec 11, 2012 9:01:00 am PST #3961 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Today sucks eggs. Rotten stinky eggs.
Sing it.
P.M. Marc - Dec 11, 2012 9:01:41 am PST #3962 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
I, umm.
Damn. I've got nuthin'!
Lee - Dec 11, 2012 9:06:35 am PST #3963 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Do you have any TJ cookies left, Suzi? Would they help?
eta: and I am sorry about the sucky day, of course.
Consuela - Dec 11, 2012 9:39:18 am PST #3964 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Wow, we have a new co-worker and she seems totally cool and competent! And she likes to go drink beer.
I'm astonished, frankly.
Jesse - Dec 11, 2012 9:48:18 am PST #3965 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Fuucccckkkkkk. I have a thing due by "COB." There's a huge section I need from someone else. A third person is also waiting on it to finish another large section. When has it been promised to us? 4pm. That is not enough time!!
aurelia - Dec 11, 2012 9:54:03 am PST #3966 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I brought brownies to work today.
Whoever wrote this headline is a dick. [link] The article itself is lovely.
Ginger - Dec 11, 2012 9:55:22 am PST #3967 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
The number of writers who understand risk and what constitutes an effective study appears to be -1. It's annoying and possibly life-threatening in articles about cancer.
I always felt uneasy with enforced gifts to people further down the hierarchy. My feeling was that if the supervisor wants to give a Christmas bonus to the cleaning staff, he should just give a damn bonus. In several places, we gave cookies or presents to other departments we worked with. These were often departments that had just disappeared with the layouts or put another job on the press when ours was scheduled. There was a temptation to give poison cookies. Also, the men in the department always seemed to be exempt from baking. It one point, the women in the offered the men instructions for buying cookies and recommended they get a can of sweetened condensed milk and follow the magic cookies recipe on the pack. There may have been someone yelling, "You can't measure and dump ingredients?" It may have been me.
The closest to a random act of kindness recently was helping a woman in the grocery store figure out what the "pumpkin puree" in her recipe was.
Jessica - Dec 11, 2012 9:57:52 am PST #3968 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
There may have been someone yelling, "You can't measure and dump ingredients?" It may have been me.
Love this.