'Dirty Girls'
[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.
What brenda said. But still, {{Barb}} anyway!
Last Friday, my sister sent me the Amazon link to the Pride and Prejudice and Zombies book, but I had to tell her that we'd been talking about that here for a few weeks already. I think she had the same reaction that your friend did, but she kept it low-key.
I love those Middle English words that transmogrify into other words that we use all the time!
My favorites are those that have the "n" from the article "an" drift over to the vowel-beginning noun that they're modifying, so that the new words begin with the "n," such as "newt" and "nickname." "Apron" did the same thing, only in reverse (it was originially "napron" from the same source as "napkin," but the "n" drifted back to the article "a" instead).
So while I don't think you were or are in any way obnoxious, I do sometimes try to make sure I'm not stepping on someone's squee when they link me to something that we've already hashed to death over here four days earlier.
True, but you know, what was I supposed to do, lie? I said yeah, I'd seen it and wasn't it wonderful, especially how he held it together after Simon stopped him and asked if he had a better song to sing, since something like that would've made me dissolve into a puddle of incoherent goo.
I dunno... I didn't THINK I was stomping on the squee, but I guess I can see your point. I probably just shouldn't have responded at all.
Respond--just leave out the part where you've already seen it maybe? Sensitive folks might feel you're one-upping them?
Somewhat relatedly, I share a TON of links with my boss, and she always says, "How do you find this stuff???" Just to be safe, so she doesn't guess how much time I spend on teh interwebs trolling for stuff, I always say "Oh a friend sent me the link". That's what b.org and Facebook and LJ really are...right? :)
Barb, one more thing, you don't need to feel bad at all, but remember how good it feels to pass on a link to a friend who hasn't seen it? Or show something new to someone? Your friend is probably just feeling the absence of showing something new to people - seems small but hey peoplez are weird.
You just respond and say that was cool without the "I already saw it." I have a friend that sends me things WAY late all the time and I finally learned not to say "Already saw it: and just be pleased she wanted to share something cool.
"Apple" used to be "napple" - "a napple" became "an apple."
Somewhat relatedly, I share a TON of links with my boss, and she always says, "How do you find this stuff???" Just to be safe, so she doesn't guess how much time I spend on teh interwebs trolling for stuff, I always say "Oh a friend sent me the link". That's what b.org and Facebook and LJ really are...right? :)
Hah. I totally do that.
"Apron" did the same thing, only in reverse (it was originially "napron" from the same source as "napkin," but the "n" drifted back to the article "a" instead).
Ditto "orange" - formerly norange!
Your friend is probably just feeling the absence of showing something new to people - seems small but hey peoplez are weird.
I guess. What's weird is if I send this same friend links (which is not often), I get the "OMG, you must spend all your time checking out blogs and pop culture sites!" response.
There's no winning so I guess I should just pretend to be clueless.