Of course, now I'm starting to feel worse and I'm recalling that someone was talking about a stomach bug going around. Do not want norovirus.
What? No no no no. Con next week. No sick.
Saffron: I'll die. Mal: Well, as a courtesy, you might start getting busy on that, 'cause all this chatter ain't doin' me any kindness.
'Trash'
Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Dana - Aug 26, 2010 4:02:26 pm PDT #20457 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
billytea - Aug 26, 2010 4:02:35 pm PDT #20458 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
So many, many things peeve me but the latest one that is driving me to despair is the "to be perfectly honest" or "to be quite frank" and any variant of. Just get to your frakking point, you verbal stammerer!
The part that baffles me is why anyone thinks it makes them sound more honest.
-t - Aug 26, 2010 4:06:35 pm PDT #20459 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I find myself saying "to be honest" or such like when I feel like I am about to be a little more honest than might be welcome. More of a warning than a promise.
sarameg - Aug 26, 2010 4:06:42 pm PDT #20460 of 30001
Applied stripper to 6 spindles. My hands still don't like me from last weekend. They got all shaky, and all I was wielding was a paint brush. Tomorrow night will be fuuuuun.
Steph L. - Aug 26, 2010 4:08:09 pm PDT #20461 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
(*Please tell me I'm not the only one who Googles that word every time to make sure I've typed correctly the one that means language and not the one that means bugs?)
You are not the only one. I even tell myself "ent- is like 'ant,' which is a bug!" but then I second-guess myself and wonder if I made up an incorrect mnemonic.
The ED doesn't know what she wants, and only can say that she doesn't like something, but won't specify what, exactly.
I now feel the pain of anyone who writes for a living.
Also a nightmare in graphic design. "Make it look modern!" "Okay, what do you want?" "Well, I don't know...you're the designer -- make it look modern!" [hours of work later] "No, this isn't what I wanted at all! Make it 'pop' more!"
Steph L. - Aug 26, 2010 4:09:59 pm PDT #20462 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
And, since I had to go to The Oatmeal to find the previous link, I offer you exactly what I am living through right now: The Cycle of Flossing. I am in between "one day later" and "one week later."
hippocampus - Aug 26, 2010 4:15:15 pm PDT #20463 of 30001
not your mom's socks.
I've used 'with all due respect' more than once, which might be the personal address form of 'to be honest with you'.
Scrappy - Aug 26, 2010 4:19:42 pm PDT #20464 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
In my mind, "With all due respect" means "You are wronger than a wrong thing and I am now going to slice and dice you verbally until you cry like a tiny baby."
hippocampus - Aug 26, 2010 4:20:10 pm PDT #20465 of 30001
not your mom's socks.
I support this interpretation.
Steph L. - Aug 26, 2010 4:21:41 pm PDT #20466 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I think when I use "I'm gonna be honest," it signifies, "You may have thought I was talking out my ass before, but I AM NOT FUCKING AROUND NOW, LET ME TELL YOU."