She wouldn't know a lolcat if it baked her a cookie and eated it.

I was executing an involuntary swallow as I read this, smonster, and totally choked myself.

commed for posterity!

HOLEY MACKAREL!

So, yesterday there was a big fight on the blenderized food list I'm on. One woman asked how to get her (government provided) health insurance to pay for the food and barring that, how to get the government flat out to pay for it. Her argument is that if she gave her daughter formula they would pay for it.

So it caused a tsuris and I basically said that arguing with docs that I should get official orders allowing me to feed her real food because a 3 year old would not still be on formula if she ate by mouth is in opposition to saying someone other than me should pay for the food. Someone disagreed and I clarified my position in another post.

One of the moderators was also participating and she was blunter than I. She basically said food is spendy and if you can't provide food for your kids don't have them. Immediately a member wanted to be removed from the list and the gnashing of teeth and rending of clothes ensued.This morning there was a ton of "Think of the CHILDREN!" "WHY CAN'T WE ALL GET ALONG" handwringing and thread-nannying.

One of the other moderators came by later in the day and DELETED THE WHOLE THREAD and told us to stop talking about it. Stat.

Then some guy wrote an entire paragraph in passive voice about offense was made and taken and stubborn set in and when people state their opinions too strongly it's confrontational. And people have not properly acknowledged their culpability in the dustup.

Wa-huh?

Dude, a vague accusation is no one's friend.

So I'm flabbergasted that people are such delicate flowers that this was so....tsuris-like. Moreover, I can't believe she deleted and entire thread.

It would be like someone here saying, "All of that Zoe stuff was terrible. Let's delete all of Bureaucracy!"

I say "anyhoodle" often,

I write it in some of my LJ posts. I should probably make an effort not to.

Even though I'm the one who started it all by saying I hate "anyhoo," I actually am amused by "anyhoodle." Go figure.

My brother mutters "God damn you" when people sneeze just to hear them say "thank you".

Chatty!co-worker has the weird (to me) habit of saying "You're welcome" after the Sneeze --> Bless You --> Thank You exchange. I know that in most situations, when someone says "thank you," the proper response is "you're welcome." But before I met him, I never ever heard anyone say "you're welcome" in response to the rote Sneeze --> Bless You --> Thank You exchange. It's just weird.

But then he has other weird, oddly literal verbal patterns that have made me wonder -- for years -- if he's just being weird for the sake of weird, or if he has Asperger's.

For somebody who writes for a living, I rely on junior high habits too much. Like "like" and "kinda" and "dude,"

Oh, man. In no way do I speak like someone who edits for a living (a job which presupposes some facility with the actual rules of the English language). It causes me a small amount of shame sometimes. But very small. And not for very long.

Moreover, I can't believe she deleted and entire thread.

Yeah, that's kind of a rookie mistake for online culture.

I went back in the archives to see what I had actually written last night (2 posts) and the whole thing was gone. What? Better to leave the posts there for fun poking later or for immediate dissection. Burning the evidence is insane!

From the link in one of the right hand threads (thanks DCJensen!) about Trader Joes:

The privately held company's sales last year were roughly $8 billion, the same size as Whole Foods' (WFMI, Fortune 500) and bigger than those of Bed Bath & Beyond, No. 314 on the Fortune 500 list. Unlike those massive shopping emporiums, Trader Joe's has a deliberately scaled-down strategy: It is opening just five more locations this year. The company selects relatively small stores with a carefully curated selection of items. (Typical grocery stores can carry 50,000 stock-keeping units, or SKUs; Trader Joe's sells about 4,000 SKUs, and about 80% of the stock bears the Trader Joe's brand.) The result: Its stores sell an estimated $1,750 in merchandise per square foot, more than double Whole Foods'. The company has no debt and funds all growth from its own coffers.

Whoa. I knew they made bank, but more than Whole Foods per square foot. That's wild!

I actually quite quite quite adore the way most of you write and speak. The "quite honest" thing is just because, as Hec pointed out, I'm super aware of it.

I have to point out that I probably talk a lot like you guys write, and people (my non-Buffista) friends have remarked on my somewhat changed vocabulary/tics. I had to laugh when I said "frakking" and someone gave me the sly eye like "heyyyyy, fellow sci-fi fan!" and I meekly said, "um, Jess taught me that?" Or TWoP. 'cause I aint never seen BSG.

And, one of my very earliest feelings here of "mah people!" was when either Liese or Jesse or Sarameg responded to something I posted with "Right?!" And I felt right at home.

I use Buffista speak in emails at work all the time, and the peeps in my office seem to like it. I know I say great, amazing and awesome waaaaaay too much. I was worried they were going to edit together every time I said great on the TV show and make me look like a complete dope.

(flops on couch, sips more of the cucumber soda & Pinky vodka concoction.)

Facebook is good for marketing. Facebook is good for marketing. I need to keep reminding myself of that. (Guess who just went through the backlog of friends requests?)

Linda Holmes on "chick lit". So good.

Oy Jilli. Can I have sip by the way? That drink sound delish.

Kat, that is just wonky overreacting on their part. I would so be tempted to go start a discussion thread inquiring into the site's protocol for deleting threads. Except then I'd remember the grand drama that marked our shift from consensus to voting and would then have to go delete my new thread.