<bongboy> you know, i'd almost forgotten why i've purposely avoided having a girlfriend until the other night when i was at a friend's place and a friend of a friend was being all bitchy and emotional and mentioned a few times that she's having her period, at which point i though, "oh yeah, that's right"
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turtledove after I had been harrassing him to play Left 4 Dead and between the games he tries to make me play on MSN, he was now playing "Trials 2 Second Edition", whatever that is. 
"Let me tell you something about flame wars. The undergraduate shit smearing aside, they're serious things and ought to be allowed to continue. They are, consistently, about the most important problems we have. They cost almost nothing in real terms. They are the best street-level forum we have, and if they get violent, well Jesus, they're about important things: of course they're violent. Verbally violent, and in a space where no fistfights, no (or rare) real-life vendettas can break out. What the hell else could you want, for hashing out these things? Examine the serious ones sometime. Look for where they break down, where they get circular, where people get tired and substitute half-remembered propaganda for reality. Look for the people who carry the arguments with consistently strong theses, with real vigor in their thought and understanding.
Forget the insults, the tactlessness, who the hell cares about it, it's not what's important, here. The dialogue. The engagement, the debate, the willingness to engage, and the real argument that drives the threads, that's what's important."
turtledove taught me how to play Backgammon, and I beat him in my second game, the first game after my training game!
silne just went straight to the punch, telling him: atlantica69's meme, she asked people to post myspace-esque photos of people looking emo. I took about ten photos and they all turned out dodgy, so I asked for advice from bubblebee, who had posted a couple before me which turned out surprisingly good.avatar: how do you look emobubblebee: :((bubblebee: :((avatar: I'm trying to take one and I can't do it bubblebee: I don't smile, and I look away from the camera bubblebee: Maybe even poutbubblebee: Stick out the bottom lipavatar: HAHA thanks!avatar: it workedbubblebee: Cut off half of your face with the actual camera (not with scissors)avatar: how come you're so good at thisbubblebee: Show mebubblebee: I dunno bubblebee: Because I am female Above all, let go any hope of finishing the game. This is essential. It is often difficult to discipline yourself not to care about the outcome of your actions, just as it is difficult to ignore the level number as it creeps upwards. But it is only through the calm acceptance of the endlessness of your task that you can ever achieve its end.
It is worth repeating: let go any hope of finishing the game. Stop looking at the clock. Ignore the level announcements. And don't do this by forcing your eyes away. Do it by actually ceasing to care.
pinkdove80 Dear Barry,
After an appropriate period of deliberation, I have come to the decision to tender my resignation from Coles Supermarkets, effective 25/11/04.
Please know that I still maintain a high level of respect for you as a manager and colleague, and I thank you sincerely for the support and assistance you have offered me in each of those roles. I have been proud to work for Coles Supermarkets over the past four years; it has been a journey that has provided me an unparalleled foundation to move forward to new and exciting opportunities.
As such, I have decided to become a professional pirate. It has always been a dream of mine to live the life of a swashbuckling corsair, beholden to none and master of all I survey. Once my crew of unabashed rogues is assembled, we shall take to the capacious expanse of the high seas to pursue fortune, fame, and hair-raising adventure.
Our path may not be filled with the porcine comforts and technological marvels that Coles Supermarkets provides, but we shall nonetheless move forward to carve a name for ourselves in the annals of bold insurgency and death-defying derring-do. Once I have a keen blade at my hip and the Jolly Roger is flapping high above me, I believe I will find my true calling.
Please note that I am currently accepting applications for First Officer, if you are at all interested in applying. I will provide a full medical and dental plan, which will offer immediate coverage of all maladies other than scurvy and the occasional bout of rickets.
Sincerely,
Adam N.
theferrett, must we all hide behind the anonymity of a database to confess a useless, distant love that will never go anywhere?
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