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Count Arioch the 28th wrote:Maybe that's the point of this; he wants you guys to wait until he's asleep, put bars of soap in your socks, and beat the crap out of him so he straightens up and flies right...
Heh, cuz that always turns out well.

In other news, I wanted to remind folks that Free Comic Book Day is looming o'er the not too distant horizon. I have missed it many years due to not hearing about its impendingness until it was past or I was already indisposed, so I shall as a public service post this reminder.

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We've got a candidate for student trustee at my community college who's running on a platform of "being gay is wrong" (well, we all know that's his opinion, anyway. He was on the student government in '08 and decided to say that our school supported prop 8. He's trying to get on the government again). Today he and his croney are going to be campaigning on campus.

I had the thought that the LGBTQ* needs red cassocks so we can run up and shout "Nobody expects the LGBTQ Inquisition!" but I have a feeling that we would not be able to get him to play along and say that he wasn't expecting some kind of spanish inquisition as he was bombarded with questions...

*LGBTQ totally needs to be the name of a sandwich.
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Prak_Anima wrote:
*LGBTQ totally needs to be the name of a sandwich.
I could see it being a taco salad or burrito.

Lettuce
Guacamole
Beef
Tomato
Queso
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Perfect. The "G" was the part giving me trouble. Of course, I'd like an alternate to tomato, since I personally don't like tomato (and it would be even more absurd to order an "LGBTQ burrito, minus the transgenders" given that I am transgender.)
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That sounds pretty tasty actually...
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You're on your own with the tomato alternate--I can't think of anything appropriate. You might have to buck up and learn tomato appreciation for the purposes of your Pride Panini.
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This was way easy as long as you're sliding by with some spanish for the Q. Lettuce, guac, bacon, turkey, queso.
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Prak_Anima wrote:Or we're just dealing with different definitions of dating.
What bizarrely restrictive definition fo dating do you use that dinner and a movie with someone you want to sleep with doesn't count?
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Orion wrote:
Prak_Anima wrote:Or we're just dealing with different definitions of dating.
What bizarrely restrictive definition fo dating do you use that dinner and a movie with someone you want to sleep with doesn't count?
Maybe he thinks dating should only happen between spouses.
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Orion wrote:
Prak_Anima wrote:Or we're just dealing with different definitions of dating.
What bizarrely restrictive definition fo dating do you use that dinner and a movie with someone you want to sleep with doesn't count?
If they want to sleep with me too, then sure.

(ie: if both parties want to bump uglies, it's a date. If I'm interested, but they clearly aren't, or I'm not really sure, then I don't really consider it a date until they've shown interest in manipulating my bits)
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That whole article was obviously not written by a native speaker, and might have been hard translated or aggregated. But they really do suggest getting engaged or getting married before you get to know each other, which is insane.
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Whatever wrote:
That whole article was obviously not written by a native speaker, and might have been hard translated or aggregated. But they really do suggest getting engaged or getting married before you get to know each other, which is insane.
Divorce is relatively simple.

See, the woman announces her intentions to divorce by putting nails in his breakfast. Once the Intentional Nail has been bitten, the husband can acknowledge her intentions with Acknowledgement Chain.

Then she has to stab him with the Divorce Papers Knife, and he had to sign it in blood with the Razor Quill of Bloodletting.

And then they all beat themselves with the Moron Bat.

*Wheel of Time Abridged*
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.

--The horror of Mario

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Maxus wrote:Divorce is relatively simple.
Simple enough that you can do it via text message!
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HAH!

But, seriously, there was an Abridged Wheel of Time someone did that you can't find online any more (unless you ask me nicely, because I saved the webpage in a rare moment of prophetic foresight) where they make fun of Aiel culture.

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Melaine: Sorilea, you must help me marry Bael.

Sorilea: I will give you the Offer Dagger, which you will use to stab him in the shoulder as a sign of your love.

Melaine: I hope he will club me with the Acceptance Club, which will show his acceptance of my offer.

Sorilea: Then you will whip him with the Joy Whip, which will show your joy,

Melaine: And he will pelt me with the Honeymoon Pebbles.

Sorilea: And eventually, you will attack him with the Childbirth Spear.

Melaine: Then we will all beat ourselves with the Moron Bat.
Thom: Are you sure you don’t need help this time?

Nynaeve: How dare you insult us! We aren’t fools!

Ronde Macura: Drink this, fools.

Nynaeve: Ah, nice, delicious fool tea.
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He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.

--The horror of Mario

Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
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I generally have no intention of sexing people I date. I have had sex before and it isn't anything special but a woman that actually has similar tastes as me who doesn't run screaming into the night the second she sees me is valuable beyond measure.

EDIT: I just realized that despite all I have been through relationship-wise, I have never actually been "friend-zoned".
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I just got a call and my 4 year old who takes the bus to preschool is apparently being shifted to a different bus. The new ride is scheduled to arrive about an hour and 15 min earlier than the old one. Next week is going to be interesting. Waking up at 5am is balls since I have a hard time falling asleep before midnight.

We may say screw it and go back to me driving him to school in the morning since my job is amenable to it (whereas when I worked at the call center there was no way). I'd just be sad because he loves riding the bus.
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was there any reason for switchting a kid to such an early bus?
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Stahlseele wrote:was there any reason for switchting a kid to such an early bus?
The new driver was the person who called and all she knew was that she had a new kid on her route. She assumed he'd never ridden before, rather than having been on a different bus this whole year.

I'm guessing more kids got added to the route my son's old bus was on and he got bumped, but the new driver wasn't in the know.

We were lucky before with his pick-up time since he was about the last kid before the bus went to the school. Kinda spoiled us.



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Oh hey, something 4-year old related that I am required to share. A conversation with my son and my wife.

My son came upstairs with a doll from his play house and made it jump on the pantry, then said "Mommy, this is you."

Mom: So, is it a mom, that's why it's me?
Son: Yes, it's you when you were a girl.
Mom: Oh, okay.
Son: And when you're nicer, you can be a daddy.

Apparently he was banned from kindle for the day since he kicked his younger brother, which was likely why mommy wasn't as nice as daddy. I asked him when I got home why he kicked his brother.

Me: Why did you kick your brother today?
Son: Because I'm big and my leg is big.
Me: So did you do it on accident or on purpose?
Son. On purpose. He took my kindle.

Apparently the why he was going for was his choice of attack method, not motive. He's come a long way from when he was about 3 and a half and couldn't use any grammar- mostly just 1 word utterances.
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That's awesome.

I realized that when I say "a Nerf gun" my son actually hears "an erf gun (erf = Earth)" He came into the room the other day pleased as punch because he had a planet gun, not an Earth gun like mine.
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I think my phone might have been stolen. Or most likely lost. I've reset all my passwords and stuff that I have linked to the cell phone, so I don't THINK anyone can get into my facebook or anything (if it is in fact stolen, they most likely swapped out the sim card anyway).

Still, uber lame.
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erik wrote: Apparently he was banned from kindle for the day since he kicked his younger brother, which was likely why mommy wasn't as nice as daddy. I asked him when I got home why he kicked his brother.

Me: Why did you kick your brother today?
Son: Because I'm big and my leg is big.
Me: So did you do it on accident or on purpose?
Son. On purpose. He took my kindle.
Yeah, my four-year-old will give me answers when I ask her "why" questions. I can't tell if it's because she doesn't know what the word means, or because she doesn't want to incriminate herself. I'll get similar responses when she hurts her one-year-old sister:

*I hear a noise, and Alice (the one-year-old) starts crying*
Jane (the four-year-old): Sorry!
Me: What did you do?
Jane: I said "I'm sorry!"
Me: What did you do?
Jane: I said "I'm sorry!"
Me: No. Why did you say you're sorry?
Jane: It wasn't my fault!
Me: What wasn't your fault?
Jane: I said I'm sorry!
Me: What did you do to Alice that mad you say you're sorry?
Jane: I hit her.
Me: Why?
Jane: She took my toy.

So, I don't think she's having trouble understanding me; I think she knows she's in trouble, and looking for a way out. It reminds me of a time I saw her walking, then veer toward the cat who was lying near the wall and kick her. I asked her why she did that, and she claimed the cat was in her way.

I'm glad she hasn't hit that Machiavellian stage of lying, yet. It makes it a lot easier to tell when she's lying.
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My four year old is the same way, but I honestly think it's a comprehension problem. He's pretty consistent in answering a why question with how he did something. And when you ask him a question about what he did, he answers with the last immediate thing he did, not the thing before that that you actually want to hear about.
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You guys are a lot more patient than my parents were. When I was 3 my parents would slap the piss out of me if I didn't give them the answer they wanted immediately. And the second time I wouldn't give the answer they wanted I got smacked with a yardstick a couple times.

I learned pretty quickly.
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Count Arioch the 28th wrote:You guys are a lot more patient than my parents were. When I was 3 my parents would slap the piss out of me if I didn't give them the answer they wanted immediately. And the second time I wouldn't give the answer they wanted I got smacked with a yardstick a couple times.

I learned pretty quickly.
That actually explains a few things.
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It was good preparation for real life. Except instead of being smacked people scream at you, call you names, shun you, make up lies to get you in trouble at work, and try to sabotage your projects. I miss the days where screwing up only got your ass beat.
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