On my seventh birthday, I wanted a toy fire truck, and I didn't get it, and you were real nice about it, and then the house next door burnt down, and then real firetrucks came, and for years I thought you set the fire for me. And if you did, you can tell me!

Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'


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.


Connie Neil - Jan 21, 2014 1:06:02 pm PST #17712 of 30000
brillig

No one's saying you have to stop being pissed. Going over into his yard and kicked up a fuss, though, is a separate matter.


Atropa - Jan 21, 2014 1:07:18 pm PST #17713 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Connie, to give my own perspective on not letting it go: he toyed with the good will and affection of my friends and myself, for what seems to be his own entertainment. He upset people and caused them to grieve for no reason. He was deliberately deceitful and unkind, and those are things I do not forgive.

Am I ranting about this in (other) public spaces online? No. But if tvtropes comes up in conversation with friends, I do explain why I don't visit or support that site.


Connie Neil - Jan 21, 2014 1:11:39 pm PST #17714 of 30000
brillig

My only concern was someone saying they wanted to go over there and bring it all up, and that idea being seconded. Here in our yard? All feels are good.


Aims - Jan 21, 2014 1:15:09 pm PST #17715 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.

I took that (those) statement(s) as, "Damn. That's a wound that still hurts. Man, if I had the chance to go over there and tell them what I *really* think, I would do it! Well, okay, not really. But it's nice to have that feel in a community where I'm not going to get slapped at for having that feel."


Sophia Brooks - Jan 21, 2014 1:48:11 pm PST #17716 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I wasn't saying to go to tv tropes. I was saying that another group of internet friends has discovered tvtropes and are talking about it, and I want to tell them so they know why I don't support it. But they aren't as close as we are, so I don't. But it just sort of brings it up again for me, in a way I would rather it not. I do tell the story in real life sometimes.


-t - Jan 21, 2014 1:49:53 pm PST #17717 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Oh, thank God, my mortgage company finally reissued my escrow surplus check. I am so relieved, I thought that money was gone for good. Now to figure out when I can get to the credit union to deposit it...


Liese S. - Jan 21, 2014 1:56:03 pm PST #17718 of 30000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Yeah, I was talking about what Sophia was saying. In other sources, when it comes up, I feel like it's almost disingenuous to not say what my reasons are for not using the site. I'm kinda over glossing over stuff to protect what, his feelings? Yeah, no. I'm not going to change anyone's mind over it because what do they care, and because it's a genuinely useful and entertaining site. But I'm also not going to nod along to how brilliant he is for what was our idea.

But I am also like Teppy in the grudge holding. I'm still pretty pissed at the Browns moving from Cleveland. So this is not one of the most equitable areas of my life.


Sophia Brooks - Jan 21, 2014 2:00:44 pm PST #17719 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

The Browns moved from Cleveland


flea - Jan 21, 2014 2:02:22 pm PST #17720 of 30000
information libertarian

Yes, to Baltimore. In 1995. They got new Browns in Cleveland in 1999, but nobody from there is over it yet. (Also, they are not very good.)


-t - Jan 21, 2014 2:08:05 pm PST #17721 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Surely the Colts leaving Baltimore is worse.

Don't get me started on the Raiders' many moves. Al Davis has a lot more than that to answer for, of course.

I was planning on running today, I should put on some Nike stuff just do it, right? Those zombies aren't going to chase themselves.