::Note to self: Don't rail about the Catholic church until after Labor Day::
Oh, no, oh, no! Spontaneous poetic exclamations. Lord, spare me college boys in love.
Dr. Walsh ,'Potential'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
DavidS - Aug 11, 2009 12:41:11 pm PDT #19381 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
tommyrot - Aug 11, 2009 12:42:01 pm PDT #19382 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Don't rail about the Catholic church until after Labor Day
So you won't get blood on your white shoes?
DavidS - Aug 11, 2009 12:51:58 pm PDT #19383 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
So you won't get blood on your white shoes?
Well, it would be painful if my wife stabbed me in the heart with a really sharp #2 pencil.
JZ - Aug 11, 2009 12:52:43 pm PDT #19384 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I can be one of the snarky ones sometimes.
Ehn. I know there's plenty to snark about; but it does make me nuts when people do it in the workplace. My most dearly beloved former boss firmly believes that all organized religion is a blight on human civilization and needs to be actively discouraged; but he and I have also had calm, respectful discussions about it and he has snarked about it in front of me exactly once. Which I quietly called him on, and he's never done it since. Off campus, away from me and one other religious staffer, and far away from the patients or their families, sure, but at work, on the clock, he doesn't do it. He loathes religion, but he respects me and he respects the workplace as a neutral space.
It's not that hard. It's common courtesy. And I swear someday I'm gonna jump on a plane and shake everyone at Hil's uni until their eyes rattle, screaming, "Haven't you assholes ever heard of Thumper's mother?"
Toddson - Aug 11, 2009 1:01:37 pm PDT #19385 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Thumper's mother? huh?
Perhaps EVERYONE at Hil's university - except her - has a rampaging case of Asperger's?
Laga - Aug 11, 2009 1:12:28 pm PDT #19386 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Thumper's mother? huh?
I'm in the "huh?" corner with Toddson.
Hil R. - Aug 11, 2009 1:13:55 pm PDT #19387 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Thumper's mother says, "If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all."
Laga - Aug 11, 2009 1:14:36 pm PDT #19388 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Oh man. I think I'm Thumper's sister.
JZ - Aug 11, 2009 1:17:50 pm PDT #19389 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Thumper's mother? huh?
My mom used to endlessly quote her at us: "Thumper?" "Yes, mama?" "What did your father tell you this morning?" "If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all." I swear I probably heard that fifty thousand times before I turned 13.
Not that she was against snark, by any means, but she was and is big on Don't snark if you think the snarkee might be able to overhear you, and Don't make a group snark unless you know for a fact that everyone in earshot is definitely not a member of said group, and if you don't know for a fact then hold the snark.
But it was always, always Thumper's Mother. As in, eventually she just had to say the words, "Thumper's Mother," and we'd shut up in midsentence.
JZ - Aug 11, 2009 1:40:09 pm PDT #19390 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I also want to add that I'm mostly not bothered by any of the religious snark that goes on here -- there's all sorts of history and knowing and mutual love and respect (and occasional snogging) and whatnot, and anything that really bugs me I can always scroll on past or politely call someone on it.
That shit is totally inappropriate from anyone anywhere on the belief spectrum, at work (unless you were working in a diocese office or as PZ Myers' personal assistant, because, dude, look who you're working for).
Bitches, on the other hand? A veritable gleeful orgy of inappropriate. With knowing and love and respect (and snogging).