msbelle is one of the nice people. I should be more like her.
As the Reasons can attest, the nice-guy lessons bounce right off my bitterness-skin. Jilli sometimes despairs - the whole point of her book is "be nice", and it's mostly-lost on me.
Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
StuntHusband - Aug 26, 2009 10:01:36 am PDT #5678 of 30001
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
Jesse - Aug 26, 2009 10:03:24 am PDT #5679 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Jilli sometimes despairs - the whole point of her book is "be nice", and it's mostly-lost on me.
Not true! I am a big proponent of making the distinction between nice and polite -- they are not the same thing at all.
Miracleman - Aug 26, 2009 10:04:24 am PDT #5680 of 30001
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
"Polite" is the behavior that makes assholes act in a socially acceptable manner. Which, you know, we need to do.
I can't define "nice". Not enough experience.
Edited for clarity of statement.
msbelle - Aug 26, 2009 10:06:46 am PDT #5681 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
msbelle....nice
I am, in fact, the nicest. I haven't pointed that out recently, it should be noted.
Kathy A - Aug 26, 2009 10:07:50 am PDT #5682 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
You're so nice
You're not good
You're not bad
You're just...nice
I'm not good
I'm not nice
I'm just right
I'm the Witch
You're the world!
ETA: That's for Miracleman, not msbelle!
Jessica - Aug 26, 2009 10:13:58 am PDT #5683 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I'm the Witch / You're all liars and thieves / like his father! / Like his son will be too / Oh, why bother?
erikaj - Aug 26, 2009 10:14:33 am PDT #5684 of 30001
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
I'm not that nice. People usually find out when they mistake courtesy, for, like, being a punk, and a doormat, and going along no matter what. It usually surprises the hell out of them, too.
StuntHusband - Aug 26, 2009 10:24:39 am PDT #5685 of 30001
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
You...you're singing "Into the Woods" near me.
I adore you all even more now.
Barb - Aug 26, 2009 10:25:24 am PDT #5686 of 30001
“Not dead yet!”
The guy at the church has said that spreading this message is more important for students than education.
This! THIS is why I need out of here! Those whackjobs are an hour away from me. And the sad part is, there are a LOT of people around here who would agree with the message on those shirts.
Dana - Aug 26, 2009 10:28:15 am PDT #5687 of 30001
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
StundHusband, there are a few of us you don't want to get started on Sondheim.