Topic: Is getting stuff for Christmas important to you?
derpy !hoovesEJmo started this discussion 14 years ago #24,023
Please answer and discuss.
| Poll option | Votes | Percentage | Graph |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yes | 5 | 36% | |
| No | 9 | 64% |
beckyderp !CATLDyPIBQ joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 10 minutes later[^] [v] #373,368
yes i want shit
Anti !M6R0eWkIpk joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 2 minutes later, 12 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #373,369
Not really. I don't need a watered down pagan holiday to be a materialistic fuck.
derpy !hoovesEJmo (OP) replied with this 14 years ago, 15 minutes later, 28 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #373,370
@373,368 (beckyderp !CATLDyPIBQ)
I am happy you are honest. :)
@previous (Anti !M6R0eWkIpk)
Okay. :)
I am happy you are honest. :)
@previous (Anti !M6R0eWkIpk)
Okay. :)
Postmortem !!Qe8ScDbX+ joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 12 minutes later, 40 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #373,371
No, it isn't important to me, but I enjoy it. It's nice to know you're thought of/appreciated.
doctor dreamworks md !jdTkvovFCQ joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 2 hours later, 3 hours after the original post[^] [v] #373,387
no I don't get shit
Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 2 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^] [v] #373,388
Not anymore.
Syntax joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 6 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^] [v] #373,394
@OP
> Please answer and discuss.
To be honest there really is no new shit I want or need or have room for. I am super busy getting ready for a ski trip and everything I need except for new bindings is all last years STUFF I never was into the fashion nonsense. If its lighter and warmer then sure I will buy it. I make a point of buying the best tires for my car as well as brand new n best bindings for skies each year. Where the rubber meets the road or my feet meet the mountain with only bindings to protect me just in case, that is all I care about.
Been acquiring huge number of new credit cards so as to buy massive quantities of beds n TVs and Stove n Frig n every damn thing it takes to furnish a new house. Each credit card has its own special first use deal that can get me $100 or $30 with 2 or more percent cash back at some point. So when it comes to buying new stuff I am in overload doing it but its not for ME. All for a house to lease out. Missing just one Amazon Chase card to do the final TV buys. Multiple cards each with $30 up front in account but so far not in MAIL!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ranting while I figure out how to tell Falco I fucked up on a promise I made to him.
> Please answer and discuss.
To be honest there really is no new shit I want or need or have room for. I am super busy getting ready for a ski trip and everything I need except for new bindings is all last years STUFF I never was into the fashion nonsense. If its lighter and warmer then sure I will buy it. I make a point of buying the best tires for my car as well as brand new n best bindings for skies each year. Where the rubber meets the road or my feet meet the mountain with only bindings to protect me just in case, that is all I care about.
Been acquiring huge number of new credit cards so as to buy massive quantities of beds n TVs and Stove n Frig n every damn thing it takes to furnish a new house. Each credit card has its own special first use deal that can get me $100 or $30 with 2 or more percent cash back at some point. So when it comes to buying new stuff I am in overload doing it but its not for ME. All for a house to lease out. Missing just one Amazon Chase card to do the final TV buys. Multiple cards each with $30 up front in account but so far not in MAIL!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ranting while I figure out how to tell Falco I fucked up on a promise I made to him.
beckyderp !CaTLdYmooc replied with this 14 years ago, 9 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^] [v] #373,395
Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx replied with this 14 years ago, 4 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^] [v] #373,397
Syntax replied with this 14 years ago, 9 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^] [v] #373,398
@373,395 (beckyderp !CaTLdYmooc)I not so good at saying sorry I fucked up without showing well researched content so he can do something about it NEXT Time. I can slap a sloppy reply 2gether while waiting for telemetry from a Satellite.
Place inside Satellite without a anal thermometer, so I jury rigged one on board and waiting to see if my kludge is up to par or at least good enough to sell to the insurance company funding the life of the bird. Insurance people are only interested in dotting eyes n crossing t's and trying to convince THEM a minor variation is a cool new Protocol, will keep two editors who do work for me very busy re-writing 30 pages of text so as to Con~fucious THEM OR in other words bury the new Protocol in the fyne print something Attorneys are so amazing at pulling off.
I bury shit in text n you seem to decode it and make fun of it all the tyme. Which of course ends up as proof that you and one other actually read this pile of messed up dyslexic text.
Fox !FXYGNx1XR. joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 3 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #373,400
I'd like stuff, as anyone would, but it's not important. I'd rather just spend it in the snowfall with someone I like with hot chocolate or something.
But I get neither the presents, the snow, nor the someone, so at least I have my tasty powder water.
But I get neither the presents, the snow, nor the someone, so at least I have my tasty powder water.
Anonymous I joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 5 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #373,403
First time having a rich girlfriend, its nice, but kinda weird
Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx replied with this 14 years ago, 1 minute later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #373,404
inafter vague answer that didn't actually answer the question
Anonymous G replied with this 14 years ago, 3 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #373,405
@373,400 (Fox !FXYGNx1XR.)
>I'd rather just spend it in the snowfall with someone I like with hot chocolate or something.
> But I get neither the presents, the snow, nor the someone
Ah but let me ask you this: Do you have a long term plan of action to get what you want? What you are asking for is what everyone wants. So why not you? I am sensitive to this re something I need to share with Falco AFTER the fact re a promise
I am looking at a note passed to me yesterday evening with a request to call and get together and that is such a nice thing to get EXCEPT I have GF's that would not exactly be pleased.
@373,403 (I)
That is someThing I am not so good at. My Ego fucks me over if the gal makes more then I do. Has happened and never did work out for all the wrong reasons so good for YOU.
@previous (Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx)
I said it aint exactly EASY to do after the Fact - I made a promise I broke the promise and giving him all he needs for the next time is indeed more work then I can do most proper 2night - Its not like it has to be done tonight or tomorrow but I just need to apologize and give the info so he is on his own AND I am not in guilt trip mode.
>I'd rather just spend it in the snowfall with someone I like with hot chocolate or something.
> But I get neither the presents, the snow, nor the someone
Ah but let me ask you this: Do you have a long term plan of action to get what you want? What you are asking for is what everyone wants. So why not you? I am sensitive to this re something I need to share with Falco AFTER the fact re a promise
I am looking at a note passed to me yesterday evening with a request to call and get together and that is such a nice thing to get EXCEPT I have GF's that would not exactly be pleased.
@373,403 (I)
That is someThing I am not so good at. My Ego fucks me over if the gal makes more then I do. Has happened and never did work out for all the wrong reasons so good for YOU.
@previous (Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx)
I said it aint exactly EASY to do after the Fact - I made a promise I broke the promise and giving him all he needs for the next time is indeed more work then I can do most proper 2night - Its not like it has to be done tonight or tomorrow but I just need to apologize and give the info so he is on his own AND I am not in guilt trip mode.
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Fox !FXYGNx1XR. replied with this 14 years ago, 8 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #373,408
@previous (G)
I do not have a plan for it. To date I have not met anyone I'm really interested in, and none that have displayed interest in me. If I do find such, I may work for it.
However, I'm not going to go search for it, as I wouldn't know where to look and it'd probably be too much of a bother, but I can still want it.
I do not have a plan for it. To date I have not met anyone I'm really interested in, and none that have displayed interest in me. If I do find such, I may work for it.
However, I'm not going to go search for it, as I wouldn't know where to look and it'd probably be too much of a bother, but I can still want it.
Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx replied with this 14 years ago, 3 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #373,411
Syntax replied with this 14 years ago, 8 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #373,416
@373,408 (Fox !FXYGNx1XR.)
Once had a gal who worked for me. Really sweet and very attractive and I was married at the tyme and had already gone to far with another so all I could do was enjoy her presence.
Leslie was her name and at a very young age she ended up with breast cancer that did its thing RAPIDLY. She worked 9-5 and some weekends with me.
Simple conversation. Leslie you say you are lonely and want to meet someone butttttt Leslie you go to work you go shopping and then home and stay home. No hobbies where you will meet anyone nor any active plan on the how to meet anyone. So one day I said Leslie do you expect a White Night to ride up on his White horse and knock on your door and she said YES
She was a Knock out and a very sweet person.
Reminds me re Chans which is the only place I see furries and those in the Genera ---Yesterday I Jitterbugged with 5 very cute gals all dressed/doing/furry/Schick/ The Skunk was the most fun nor did she smell like a Skunk! She designed all the other costumes and her white skunk stripes had built in Christmas lights
@previous (Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx)
Well it had much to do with where one could be and meet n play WITH 1000'S er 10,000 n more fun gals his age and all out for fun as well as at no parking or entry fee cost with more things to have fun with and they do this every year and he asked me to let him know when the next one wasssss n I fucked up being so fucking busy re work and getting this new house from being empty so as to see income. Its rare very very rare I promise anyone anything and then fail to deliver. Its a Jewish Catholic Guilt thing I grew up wid.
Once had a gal who worked for me. Really sweet and very attractive and I was married at the tyme and had already gone to far with another so all I could do was enjoy her presence.
Leslie was her name and at a very young age she ended up with breast cancer that did its thing RAPIDLY. She worked 9-5 and some weekends with me.
Simple conversation. Leslie you say you are lonely and want to meet someone butttttt Leslie you go to work you go shopping and then home and stay home. No hobbies where you will meet anyone nor any active plan on the how to meet anyone. So one day I said Leslie do you expect a White Night to ride up on his White horse and knock on your door and she said YES
She was a Knock out and a very sweet person.
Reminds me re Chans which is the only place I see furries and those in the Genera ---Yesterday I Jitterbugged with 5 very cute gals all dressed/doing/furry/Schick/ The Skunk was the most fun nor did she smell like a Skunk! She designed all the other costumes and her white skunk stripes had built in Christmas lights
@previous (Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx)
Well it had much to do with where one could be and meet n play WITH 1000'S er 10,000 n more fun gals his age and all out for fun as well as at no parking or entry fee cost with more things to have fun with and they do this every year and he asked me to let him know when the next one wasssss n I fucked up being so fucking busy re work and getting this new house from being empty so as to see income. Its rare very very rare I promise anyone anything and then fail to deliver. Its a Jewish Catholic Guilt thing I grew up wid.
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beckyderp !CaTLdYmooc replied with this 14 years ago, 2 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #373,418
Fox !FXYGNx1XR. replied with this 14 years ago, 1 minute later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #373,420
Syntax replied with this 14 years ago, 8 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #373,422
@previous (Fox !FXYGNx1XR.)
The way it has always worked for me seems to be the way it works for most. When you have no one in your life its hard to find that special person.
Yet each time I am in a relationship it seems there is always someone ELSE available. Where were they when I needed them?
So and I do not know you at all cept to see you around here. Usually one finds someone via a mutual interest unless one does something truly dumb and meets someone in a bar or similar poor place to connect up. I never did that except in restaurants, nor at the moment do I remember those working out except for one long term friendship cause I just could NOT make the major move to move it beyond basic friendship NOR is there anything wrong with that - Friends can be far longer lasting then the MORE
@373,418 (beckyderp !CaTLdYmooc)
Girl me thinks you want to provoke n I have not the energy for confrontation 2night n wot the fuck you doing up so late?
If you going to make pancakes for breakfast send some my way.
The way it has always worked for me seems to be the way it works for most. When you have no one in your life its hard to find that special person.
Yet each time I am in a relationship it seems there is always someone ELSE available. Where were they when I needed them?
So and I do not know you at all cept to see you around here. Usually one finds someone via a mutual interest unless one does something truly dumb and meets someone in a bar or similar poor place to connect up. I never did that except in restaurants, nor at the moment do I remember those working out except for one long term friendship cause I just could NOT make the major move to move it beyond basic friendship NOR is there anything wrong with that - Friends can be far longer lasting then the MORE
@373,418 (beckyderp !CaTLdYmooc)
Girl me thinks you want to provoke n I have not the energy for confrontation 2night n wot the fuck you doing up so late?
If you going to make pancakes for breakfast send some my way.
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Fox !FXYGNx1XR. replied with this 14 years ago, 4 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #373,423
Syntax replied with this 14 years ago, 9 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #373,425
@previous (Fox !FXYGNx1XR.)
On my word of honor. My level of Dyslexia, is such that what you see as coherent.....Unless I am working hard at fucking with English as a language.....Most of what I write looks equally coherent to me.
However when someone makes a copy of something I wrote weeks or months ago............I will often say what the fuck was I trying to say.
On my word of honor. My level of Dyslexia, is such that what you see as coherent.....Unless I am working hard at fucking with English as a language.....Most of what I write looks equally coherent to me.
However when someone makes a copy of something I wrote weeks or months ago............I will often say what the fuck was I trying to say.
Fox !FXYGNx1XR. replied with this 14 years ago, 1 minute later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #373,426
Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx replied with this 14 years ago, 39 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[^] [v] #373,437
We need Ash in here to translate.
Anonymous J joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 26 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #373,448
TTEH !JXsxEkDBLs joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 7 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #373,452
lol becky gave the only honest reply
Syntax replied with this 14 years ago, 12 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #373,454
@previous (TTEH !JXsxEkDBLs)
Bottom line is my communication with science n math fills my wallet. Only a few English writers fill wallets re screen plays or books. Calculus is logical n English is not not not.
The Rules of Grammar
I am almost sure by witness of my ear, but cannot be positive, for I know grammar by ear only, not by note, not by the rules. A generation ago I knew the rules-knew them by heart, word for word, though not their meanings-and I still know one of them: the one which says--but never mind, it will come back to me presently.
(The Autobiography of Mark Twain, 1924)
The Queen's English
There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares.
(Mark Twain
I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing. I have a correspondent whose letters are always a refreshment to me, there is such a breezy unfettered originality about his orthography. He always spells Kow with a large K. Now that is just as good as to spell it with a small one. It is better. It gives the imagination a broader field, a wider scope. It suggests to the mind a grand, vague, impressive new kind of a cow.
- speech at a spelling match, Hartford, Connecticut, May 12, 1875. Reported in the Hartford Courant, May 13, 1875
Why, there isn't a man who doesn't have to throw out about fifteen hundred words a day when he writes his letters because he can't spell them! It's like trying to do a St. Vitus dance with wooden legs.
- The Alphabet and Simplified Spelling speech, December 9, 1907
...simplified spelling is all right, but, like chastity, you can carry it too far.> - The Alphabet and Simplified Spelling speech, December 9, 1907
I have had an aversion to good spelling for sixty years and more, merely for the reason that when I was a boy there was not a thing I could do creditably except spell according to the book. It was a poor and mean distinction and I early learned to disenjoy it. I suppose that this is because the ability to spell correctly is a talent, not an acquirement. There is some dignity about an acquirement, because it is a product of your own labor. It is wages earned, whereas to be able to do a thing merely by the grace of God and not by your own effort transfers the distinction to our heavenly home--where possibly it is a matter of pride and satisfaction but it leaves you naked and bankrupt.
- Mark Twain's Autobiography
I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its arbitrary forms, men unconsciously revealed shades of their characters and also added enlightening shades of expression to what they wrote by their spelling, and so it is possible that the spelling-book has been a doubtful benevolence to us.
- Mark Twain's Autobiography
...ours is a mongrel language which started with a child's vocabulary of three hundred words, and now consists of two hundred and twenty-five thousand; the whole lot, with the exception of the original and legitimate three hundred, borrowed, stolen, smouched from every unwatched language under the sun, the spelling of each individual word of the lot locating the source of the theft and preserving the memory of the revered crime.> - Mark Twain's Autobiography
Bottom line is my communication with science n math fills my wallet. Only a few English writers fill wallets re screen plays or books. Calculus is logical n English is not not not.
The Rules of Grammar
I am almost sure by witness of my ear, but cannot be positive, for I know grammar by ear only, not by note, not by the rules. A generation ago I knew the rules-knew them by heart, word for word, though not their meanings-and I still know one of them: the one which says--but never mind, it will come back to me presently.
(The Autobiography of Mark Twain, 1924)
The Queen's English
There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares.
(Mark Twain
I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing. I have a correspondent whose letters are always a refreshment to me, there is such a breezy unfettered originality about his orthography. He always spells Kow with a large K. Now that is just as good as to spell it with a small one. It is better. It gives the imagination a broader field, a wider scope. It suggests to the mind a grand, vague, impressive new kind of a cow.
- speech at a spelling match, Hartford, Connecticut, May 12, 1875. Reported in the Hartford Courant, May 13, 1875
Why, there isn't a man who doesn't have to throw out about fifteen hundred words a day when he writes his letters because he can't spell them! It's like trying to do a St. Vitus dance with wooden legs.
- The Alphabet and Simplified Spelling speech, December 9, 1907
...simplified spelling is all right, but, like chastity, you can carry it too far.> - The Alphabet and Simplified Spelling speech, December 9, 1907
I have had an aversion to good spelling for sixty years and more, merely for the reason that when I was a boy there was not a thing I could do creditably except spell according to the book. It was a poor and mean distinction and I early learned to disenjoy it. I suppose that this is because the ability to spell correctly is a talent, not an acquirement. There is some dignity about an acquirement, because it is a product of your own labor. It is wages earned, whereas to be able to do a thing merely by the grace of God and not by your own effort transfers the distinction to our heavenly home--where possibly it is a matter of pride and satisfaction but it leaves you naked and bankrupt.
- Mark Twain's Autobiography
I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its arbitrary forms, men unconsciously revealed shades of their characters and also added enlightening shades of expression to what they wrote by their spelling, and so it is possible that the spelling-book has been a doubtful benevolence to us.
- Mark Twain's Autobiography
...ours is a mongrel language which started with a child's vocabulary of three hundred words, and now consists of two hundred and twenty-five thousand; the whole lot, with the exception of the original and legitimate three hundred, borrowed, stolen, smouched from every unwatched language under the sun, the spelling of each individual word of the lot locating the source of the theft and preserving the memory of the revered crime.> - Mark Twain's Autobiography
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Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx replied with this 14 years ago, 9 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #373,457
TTEH !JXsxEkDBLs replied with this 14 years ago, 1 minute later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #373,459
Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx replied with this 14 years ago, 1 minute later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #373,460
@previous (TTEH !JXsxEkDBLs)
Haven't you heard? Mark Twain quotes are always relevant and explain everything.
Haven't you heard? Mark Twain quotes are always relevant and explain everything.
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TTEH !JXsxEkDBLs replied with this 14 years ago, 4 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #373,462
@previous (Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx)
"When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction." - Mark Twain
"By what right has the dog come to be regarded as a "noble" animal? The more brutal and cruel and unjust you are to him the more your fawning and adoring slave he becomes; whereas, if you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward--you will never get her full confidence again." - Mark Twain, Biography
"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way." - Mark Twain
"When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction." - Mark Twain
"By what right has the dog come to be regarded as a "noble" animal? The more brutal and cruel and unjust you are to him the more your fawning and adoring slave he becomes; whereas, if you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward--you will never get her full confidence again." - Mark Twain, Biography
"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way." - Mark Twain
Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx replied with this 14 years ago, 4 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #373,464
@previous (TTEH !JXsxEkDBLs)
> "When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction." - Mark Twain
He was a wise man. :')
> "When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction." - Mark Twain
He was a wise man. :')
Anonymous K replied with this 14 years ago, 2 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #373,466
Syntax replied with this 14 years ago, 49 seconds later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #373,467
@373,462 (TTEH !JXsxEkDBLs)
Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
- Mark Twain, a Biography
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
- Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
A composite dog is a dog that's made up of all the valuable qualities that's in the dog breed--kind of a syndicate; and a mongrel is made up of the riffraff that's left over.
- Mark Twain in Eruption, p. 222. Used in "His Grandfather's Old Ram" speech.
The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man's.
- Letter to W. D. Howells, April 2, 1899
Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
- Mark Twain, a Biography
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
- Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
A composite dog is a dog that's made up of all the valuable qualities that's in the dog breed--kind of a syndicate; and a mongrel is made up of the riffraff that's left over.
- Mark Twain in Eruption, p. 222. Used in "His Grandfather's Old Ram" speech.
The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man's.
- Letter to W. D. Howells, April 2, 1899
Green !BEERiVqJJw joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 2 hours later, 9 hours after the original post[^] [v] #373,503
No.
doctor dreamworks md !jdTkvovFCQ replied with this 14 years ago, 2 hours later, 12 hours after the original post[^] [v] #373,515
i too want shit