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I want to hug casey very hard
wow
"Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."
All the news that's fit to print.
I got a big kick out of Stanley Tucci in Easy-A.
sweet jesus christ em
I hope so
I will be sad if I drop my kid or he dies from SIDS D:
Seriously!
*Thanos looks up and smiles*
well the nuance of a lot of it has been lost in the couple of years since i've lived with him. but let me give you an example.
my dad is a gambling addict. he is not wealthy by any means but he is tens of thousands of dollars in debt to loan sharks, bookies, etc. his life is in shambles because of this. so, he tries to lay off the gambling but it'll usually catch up to him- especially if he's getting an unexpected windfall. case in point, michelle's mom has her income tax check coming in. all the sudden, the morning it arrives, michelle starts tweaking my dad gently. every time her mom's around, she'll innocuously ask my dad- hey, do you think it's going to rain today? wanna bet on if mom burns dinner? etc until finally she works up to 'do you think the phillies are going to win tonight? and it's very obvious to me- as i've seen her do this before- that she's planting in her mom's mind "dad is gonna gamble away your check". and mom takes up the cue and slowly her and my dad get into a fight. and my dad realizes michelle's been angling at it and starts yelling at her for starting trouble.
now, michelle's mom has a lot of pride issues because she's been unemployed for a while so she can't contribute to the house financially. at this point michelle defends herself by going 'i'm just trying to make sure the money situation doesn't get too bad!... money's been really tight around here...'
which of course gets my dad to start in on the mom about how she hasn't been looking hard enough for work- pulling the attention off my sister
she does that sort of shit constantly, innocently asking questions from conversations she overheard, guiding discussions when certain people are around, etc. she's evil.
I don't hug people a lot!
It is like yanking the rug out from under them.
i can't imagine how that kid's life turned out
god that would be ideal
There is some metaphor here about the futility of trying, but I'm too laz
"Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."
Ah, I meant "but whyyy?" in the context of a follow up to a question rather than a response to an instruction. Situations where the child has asked something (because they genuinely don't understand something), been given an explanation, and the "but why?" is the follow up question. I've seen people get stuck in loops where the child is struggling to understand the initial response, and/or was really looking for some other piece of information but expressed themselves poorly, and the person answering has responded by piling detail onto their original response.
Interesting stuff about the "OK?", though. That wouldn't have occurred to me. One of the interesting things about interacting with kids is that you really do have to think very carefully about what you're communicating.
that was.... really good.
Is this movie better than it looks? I'm starting to suspect it's better than it looks.
Hugging people is awesome what is up with you
I thought you were awesome
that is amazingly toxic!
Actual Play: Mage: the Awakening - At the Edge of All Things
It was actually a really good movie, and it's got Emma Stone!
this is a time-traveling post from the future when Arch finishes ME3
Easy A was a really good movie. I went into with low expectations and came out going, wow that was fun.
It is like a new 10 Things I Hate About You.
do you guys encrypt and decrypt messages in stats? Cause I think we're out of the stats area now.
But we're all pretty much failing. I mean, I talked to my teacher yesterday and he said I had a C/C- and I'm not sure how that's possible, but our final is on the 7th, I'll make sure to run my cheat sheet by you (he allows us a cheat sheet).
depends on emma stone tolerance
You have been warned.
I really enjoyed it. Emma Stone is both really funny and enjoyable to look at.
This is also an appropriate metaphor because they're both re-envisionings of classic tales
I hug people if they do something great for me (like when LoserforHire took me from Queens to Manhattan at night), when someone is sad (like when my cousin died last year and I was hugging people left or right) or I want some nookie.
yeah.
It got a lot of really positive notices and my friends who've seen it all really liked it.
Actual Play: Mage: the Awakening - At the Edge of All Things
This is also very true.
Um did you report this to child protective services
wait
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confused
so will I
also are you going to be on gchat regularly again when exams are over? we should discuss a plan for actually hanging out
for Christmas we got my boy the hardcover 3 volume set of every single Calvin and Hobbes. The printing is really high quality and all the sunday strips are in color (unlike in the non-anthology books). We picked it up at costco for $85. I've seen it at Barnes & Noble for $200.
I know karate! You have been warned
Ben and Chris are definitely starting to get less awful
that and smiling