Damn it! You know what? I'm sick of this crap. I'm sick of being the guy who eats insects and gets the funny syphilis. As of this moment, it's over. I'm finished being everybody's butt monkey!

Xander ,'Lessons'


Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


javachik - Feb 28, 2023 3:08:07 pm PST #20914 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

Also I have apparently been pronouncing desultory in the British manner all this time.

Due to working with British colleagues for over a decade now, there are a number of words I pronounce in the British manner because they’re just more fun that way! I love this “schedule” and their “regulatory” so much more than ours. So I’ve made them mine.

X-post. So editing to add:

-t my dad and one of his friends had a long running thing about Bar Fly!! I think you’re the only other person I’ve ever heard mention that movie. I’ve never watched it.

Oh I’ve called it Barf-ly for eons too because it calls for it!


Dana - Feb 28, 2023 3:17:36 pm PST #20915 of 30000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

When we meet with our Canadian client, the way they pronounce "proh-cess" drives me nuts. And they use that word...so much.


lisah - Feb 28, 2023 3:41:55 pm PST #20916 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate

We are having a fundraiser at a bar called “Barfly’s” next week and I’m doing everything in my power not to call it “barf-ly’s out loud.


DebetEsse - Feb 28, 2023 4:16:04 pm PST #20917 of 30000
Woe to the fucking wicked.

I had a training this morning where the presenter talked about de-MEN-she-uh, and I thought "I don't believe I've ever heard anyone pronounce the "i" in there before."


Sheryl - Feb 28, 2023 4:26:24 pm PST #20918 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

For some reason my shoulders/neck have been tense lately. You'd think I'd be a bit less stressed now, but my body hasn't gotten the message.


brenda m - Feb 28, 2023 4:52:26 pm PST #20919 of 30000
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

When we meet with our Canadian client, the way they pronounce "proh-cess" drives me nuts. And they use that word...so much

And proh-ject.

Just be glad you don’t have to hear them say paa-sta. My whole brain recoils.


Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 28, 2023 5:01:57 pm PST #20920 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

I just console myself that mispronouncing words you know the meaning of generally means you learned them from reading, not conversation.


Cass - Feb 28, 2023 5:23:42 pm PST #20921 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

For some reason my shoulders/neck have been tense lately. You'd think I'd be a bit less stressed now, but my body hasn't gotten the message.

You've been under such stress that your body probably thinks now is a *fantastic* time to really feel it, in theory to let it go.

I hope the tension leaves soon. You've been through so much.


Jesse - Feb 28, 2023 6:12:22 pm PST #20922 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

When we meet with our Canadian client, the way they pronounce "proh-cess" drives me nuts. And they use that word...so much

Someone on a trashy reality show I'm watching said "proh-cess," and I was like "CANADIAN!?!??!"


P.M. Marc - Feb 28, 2023 7:37:20 pm PST #20923 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Also I have apparently been pronouncing desultory in the British manner all this time.

Me too!

I am pro Canadian Process, anti Canadian Pasta.