It's amazing to me - although it's happened enough it shouldn't be - how many people think if you ask a question over and over at some point the answer will be the one you want.
Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
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.
Toddson - Jan 16, 2013 12:50:18 pm PST #7968 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Cass - Jan 16, 2013 12:55:02 pm PST #7969 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.
However, I award you 5,000 adorable points for telling me that the day before admission you're taking the toddler to a tattoo artist to have Tony Stark's artificial heart painted on his chest with nontoxic kid-friendly body paint to give him Iron Man courage. That's pretty spiff.
Totally spiff.
The other one is eye rolly. Asking a hundred times does not give you a hundred answers to choose from, it just annoys people.
Consuela - Jan 16, 2013 12:58:39 pm PST #7970 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Oh, my. Apparently Notre Dame's star football player either invented a girlfriend and her tragic death out of whole cloth, or was the victim of a pretty elaborate stunt.
Munchausen by Internet hits the big time!
brenda m - Jan 16, 2013 12:59:42 pm PST #7971 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
how many people think if you ask a question over and over at some point the answer will be the one you want.
I'm betting the data back them up on this a fair bit of the time.
Sheryl - Jan 16, 2013 1:00:31 pm PST #7972 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Rainy and cold here. Bleah.
JZ - Jan 16, 2013 1:01:05 pm PST #7973 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Also, he didn't ask. He just told me his son was 15 and would be donating, and then when I said no he wasn't and no he wouldn't, he called the blood bank and told them the exact same thing. Not a speck of asking.
Also, does he think every department here is hermetically sealed away from every other department and none of us compare notes (or, apparently, know how to read a calendar)?
Our chief surgeon pointed out that I could always call him back and offer to postpone his son's surgery 3 months so he'd be old enough to donate; God knows there are other kids who'd be happy to have his earlier surgical date.
Liese S. - Jan 16, 2013 1:01:19 pm PST #7974 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
WTF!
Connie Neil - Jan 16, 2013 1:01:25 pm PST #7975 of 30001
brillig
Or saying "That is unacceptable" in a no-nonsense voice will magically change the immutable procedures that are in place. Because people panic when they have to say No to other people.
(I love when customers give me the silent treatment when I tell them something they don't like. I don't mind sitting and not saying anything for several minutes.)
flea - Jan 16, 2013 1:01:32 pm PST #7976 of 30001
information libertarian
Anyone who tells you their toddler is a "huge Niners fan," you know who's really the huge Niners fan in that household.
tommyrot - Jan 16, 2013 1:34:00 pm PST #7977 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.
So apparently having a small lunch and then working out four hours later isn't the best idea.