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."
Harmony: Somebody remembered to pick me up the sweetest unicorn. Guess someone was feeling guilty for standing me up in tenth grade. Brad: What? Had to get her something. She sired me. Peaches: Sire-whipped.
'Beneath You'
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.
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.
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."
§ ita § - Aug 26, 2010 4:22:04 pm PDT #20467 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My gut feeling on the word "heteronormative" is that enforcement of traditional gender roles is at least in part about enforcement of heterosexuality, and so the etymology* is appropriate.
I'm willing to accept that heteronormative actually needs to have little to do with heterosexuality etymologically (and is just based in the root meaning of hetero). Except that "hetero" is now short for heterosexual, and I feel tarnished by association.
Yeah, like I said, privileged. But I'm all over the gender issues today.
msbelle - Aug 26, 2010 4:22:57 pm PDT #20468 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I now think that all my verbal nuances that come out through my posts annoy you all.
TOO BAD SUCK IT FUCKOS!
Juliebird - Aug 26, 2010 4:27:30 pm PDT #20469 of 30001
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Thanks for that, Steph. I emailed it to my partner in pain to hopefully cheer her up. She's the ED's whipping boy as of late and is getting ready to quit, which I firmly DO NOT WANT.
I've already been subjected to this abuse in my design of the gardens. Not pedestrian, which means no workhorse plants. Let's keep the budget in mind, so cut back on the annuals, which means lots of dead space since the perennials don't bloom very long. Let's go green! Which means natives that, while wonderful, also tend towards the weedy side. Let's go unusual, no one else has this plant! Which means it's a tropical or some other untested, weird plant that I've no experience with and ends up being a total flop, and was very expensive, and took three months to reach a decent size, and then was covered in rust. Let's throw in a drought, a resigned boss, and three moronic seasonal gardeners who don't know how to stake a fucking plant while I'm in the office learning how to do my former boss's job and then it's "Julie, you suck at gardening".
Last years gardens were fucking AWESOME.
Jesse - Aug 26, 2010 4:30:32 pm PDT #20470 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I now feel the pain of anyone who writes for a living.
It's.... not always that bad?
DavidS - Aug 26, 2010 4:31:19 pm PDT #20471 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
TOO BAD SUCK IT FUCKOS!
A good life strategy, really: When in doubt, invoke Rio.
msbelle - Aug 26, 2010 4:38:19 pm PDT #20472 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
awwww, LL Cool J is rapping on Electric Company about punctuation.
DavidS - Aug 26, 2010 4:43:49 pm PDT #20473 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
awwww, LL Cool J is rapping on Electric Company about punctuation.
"Don't call it an end-stop..."