Angel: Will you just shut up for once?! Illyria: What? Angel: My God, the speechifying. Has it ever occurred to you that now might not be the best time for when-we-were-muck stories?

'Time Bomb'


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.


juliana - Apr 27, 2021 7:15:15 am PDT #5916 of 30000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

So on Tumblr, it seems the Young People don't understand posts that say something like, "We're in the the second April of covid, but next week..." and then a picture of dry ramen. For NSYNC-era Justin Timberlake, for "It's gonna be May." I can't decide if the elders are letting down the next generation, or if JT should be forgotten!

This older elder doesn't understand either.

Young JT's hair looked like dry ramen, with the bleach blond and perm and over-gelling. But I'm down with forgetting JT.


Calli - Apr 27, 2021 7:17:05 am PDT #5917 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Young JT's hair looked like dry ramen, with the bleach blond and perm and over-gelling. But I'm down with forgetting JT.

Oh! OK, I can see that.


Dana - Apr 27, 2021 7:25:52 am PDT #5918 of 30000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

Young JT's hair looked like dry ramen, with the bleach blond and perm and over-gelling.

ohhhhhh.


-t - Apr 27, 2021 7:28:19 am PDT #5919 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

The first step is to try to feel more like a functioning human being and less like a feral world-hating curmudgeon

This is where I am at and I don't wanna, I want to embrace my not so inner at the moment feral world-hating curmudgeon!


Dana - Apr 27, 2021 7:34:11 am PDT #5920 of 30000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

The first step is to try to feel more like a functioning human being and less like a feral world-hating curmudgeon

I'm trying to be more positive and work on that too.


Jessica - Apr 27, 2021 7:44:09 am PDT #5921 of 30000
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

The first step is to try to feel more like a functioning human being and less like a feral world-hating curmudgeon

Does fake-it-til-you-make-it work for this? Asking for myself.


dcp - Apr 27, 2021 7:50:15 am PDT #5922 of 30000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

I want to embrace my not so inner at the moment feral world-hating curmudgeon!

Right there with you.


flea - Apr 27, 2021 7:54:26 am PDT #5923 of 30000
information libertarian

Like, imagine trying to write a job application letter, much less interview, while feeling like the world is shit and everything is useless. I'd need cocaine, I think.


Jesse - Apr 27, 2021 8:13:35 am PDT #5924 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I know the meme, but I can't connect how ramen equals May.

Young JT's hair looked like dry ramen, with the bleach blond and perm and over-gelling. But I'm down with forgetting JT.

Yes and yes! (And the NSYNC song "It's Gonna Be Me" sounds like "It's gonna be May.") I am glad to confirm I shouldn't have tried this comment in any other setting!

Relatedly (?), Joss Whedon came up in my staff meeting just now, and I was like, "Historically, I was a HUGE fan of his work," but left it at that.

Like, imagine trying to write a job application letter, much less interview, while feeling like the world is shit and everything is useless. I'd need cocaine, I think.

No, it's a nightmare. This is part of why I've often had trouble getting a new job because it's usually when I'm a little depressed, feel like I hate my job and I'm no good at it.... so I'm going to sell myself on something else? Yeah, no.


-t - Apr 27, 2021 8:47:03 am PDT #5925 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Very true, job hunting is intrinsically pretty awful and doing it when so much else is generally awful can only be worse