[link] My ANZAC biscuits!
Well, if we followed the recipe...should be cake. A demon-violence-free-zone cake.
Lorne ,'Why We Fight'
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.
sarameg - Dec 16, 2012 4:40:37 pm PST #4773 of 30001
Jesse - Dec 16, 2012 4:48:53 pm PST #4774 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Love it!
msbelle - Dec 16, 2012 5:02:12 pm PST #4775 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
ita, I am so glad you got some relief. and I want to hug and squeeze Colin's blessed little face for being with you.
Steph L. - Dec 16, 2012 7:16:08 pm PST #4776 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Ouch. Tim and I are apparently on opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to gun issues. I...didn't actually know that until now. That was a less than pleasant conversation, to put it mildly.
Cass - Dec 16, 2012 7:22:50 pm PST #4777 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.
Getting into the mechanics of someone else's beliefs can be painful. I'm sorry he's not near yours right now.
I am pretty sure this conversation is being avoided in my family. But it's way less unpleasant than coming to this decision in a relationship.
Still, Tim voted for Obama eventually. This conversation can go on?
shrift - Dec 16, 2012 7:41:40 pm PST #4778 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
My mom has been the secretary at an elementary school for quite a long time, and we were talking about it earlier. We have some close relatives who are a bit gun nutty, and I told her that if the subject comes up at the extended family Christmas next Sunday, I may start beating people about the head with cookie tins.
Steph L. - Dec 16, 2012 7:41:55 pm PST #4779 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Still, Tim voted for Obama eventually. This conversation can go on?
Yeah, it can. I just get surprised when the people who are close to me don't share the exact same thought patterns that I do. (Which I realize is unreasonable, and yet I'm still surprised when it happens.)
Sheesh. I'd better not ask how he feels about cilantro.
Cass - Dec 16, 2012 7:47:11 pm PST #4780 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.
Yeah, it can. I just get surprised when the people who are close to me don't share the exact same thought patterns that I do.
I am BOGGLED when my brother and I can share the same jokes and then have massively different policy views.
Don't ever talk about cilantro. It'll end in tears and soap. For one of you.
shrift - Dec 16, 2012 7:54:39 pm PST #4781 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I just get surprised when the people who are close to me don't share the exact same thought patterns that I do.
This is not remotely the same as what you're experiencing, but recently I found out that a guy on my small work team is a Republican and big into Ayn Rand. I simultaneously felt betrayed and that suddenly so many passing comments made sense in retrospect.
Trudy Booth - Dec 16, 2012 8:05:58 pm PST #4782 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I told her that if the subject comes up at the extended family Christmas next Sunday, I may start beating people about the head with cookie tins.
I was at a party last night where we had considerable fear of this conversation (exacerbated by one of the guests not well known family history of gun violence.) We pre-selected several popular topics to blatantly and insistently change the subject to should the need arise.