You can too complain about that! That's annoying.
Whatever happened to the still beating heart of a virgin? No one has any standards anymore.
Giles ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
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.
Jesse - Aug 06, 2013 4:05:59 pm PDT #1602 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
sarameg - Aug 06, 2013 4:23:11 pm PDT #1603 of 30000
My headache from sniffing glue is finally abating.
I'm whiny today. And I made snarky editorial comments in email that I probably shouldn't have. And in meetings. But I did make a point to thank someone for some serious PITA work I've got him doing.
Steph L. - Aug 06, 2013 4:32:25 pm PDT #1604 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I am so tempted to sit and watch Evening Relaxation on DogTV. Doesn't that sound pleasant?
WHY DON'T I HAVE CABLE??? I would totally watch this!
The OC was 10 years ago.
I guess I should accept that I'm not going to get around to watching that. Weird.
Oh, man, S1 is so so SO worth it. Good stuff.
(Seriously, 10 years? Fuck, I am old.)
-t - Aug 06, 2013 4:36:23 pm PDT #1605 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
You're right. It's never too late. And there's apparently room in my Netflix queue for the first season.
At my current movie watching pace I can expect to get to it in another 10 years...
aurelia - Aug 06, 2013 4:41:06 pm PDT #1606 of 30000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Oops. I started a spelling conversation and then disappeared into work for the rest of the day.
I didn't intend to pick on how kids spell. (In the back of my closet I still have a box labeled in crayon "Odes and Ends") Their brains are still being wired. I meant that reading can play a big part in creating that wiring. I do get it, though, that no learning method will work the same way for everyone.
Typo Boy - Aug 06, 2013 4:44:36 pm PDT #1607 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I have to fight bad habits myself, including occasional attacks of Pooh case, the use of "myself" (which can be used correctly but not by me) and use of "obviously" which more of a verbal tic. (If it is that obvious Gar, than you don't need to say that it is obvious. Maybe you don't need to say it at all.)
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 06, 2013 4:52:43 pm PDT #1608 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Different evening for me, I went to the library to return a DVD just as they were announcing the start of a movie in the Round Room as part of a summer series of movie showings. So I stuck around and watched Skyfall, which I hadn't caught in the theaters. Was OK, didn't really wow me that much.
Hil R. - Aug 06, 2013 4:54:43 pm PDT #1609 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
and use of "obviously" which more of a verbal tic.
Mine is "apparently." I always have to go back through things I write and take out several of them.
Burrell - Aug 06, 2013 5:02:08 pm PDT #1610 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
So taking my sister to her doctor was more eventful today than usual. Turns out she's coming to stay at my place for a few days as she's having surgery again tomorrow morning and needs somewhere to recuperate. Whee! It'll be fine to have her here, I just worry that the kids will be too active for her.
billytea - Aug 06, 2013 5:05:54 pm PDT #1611 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
and use of "obviously" which more of a verbal tic.
For me it's "basically". When I did my maths major, it was common practice for the lecturers, when running through a proof, to state every now and then that "from this, it is obvious that...". My favourite such occurrence was when the lecturer stopped, looked at the board and muttered, "is it obvious...?" He then stood there for about a minute, before announcing "Yes, it's obvious" and carrying on. (Needless to say, I was reassured.)
A group of us prepared a translation guide to explain what the various lecturers meant by "it is obvious", which I reproduce below:
If Dr Bryce says it's obvious then it will take you ten minutes to prove it.
If Dr Davies says it's obvious then it will take you two hours to prove it.
If Dr Wick says it's obvious then it will take you two days to prove it.
If Dr Loy says it's obvious then he wrote a book proving it.
If Dr Ward says it's obvious then you learnt it in kindergarten.
And if Dr Hutchinson says it's obvious then it's wrong.