Missing the Paigow (et al.) [sniff]

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
What do we do now?

Holy shit -- you're a white?

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Who cares, since the word "model" has a definition for most guys that each other guy understands and probably has little to do with the true definition. When Coltrane calls Sebby and says, "Dude. Get down here. I've seen like 8 models in this jurnt and I've only been here for five minutes," Sebby knows exactly what's up.

TM

I am aware of that, but thank you. Good to have you around in the world to clear up misconceptions too!

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by pony_trekker
I pity the foo unable to argue with retards.
Literally, 80% of my day is spent arguing with retards. The other 20% of my day is spent here.

I had one genius, no doubt middle third Seton Hall, tell me that I couldn't trigger an insurance policy for a latent disease because the policy had "expired."

But as any street smart cop will tell you, it is really hard to fight a retard.

Thats why I fear Penn St could shit the bed against FL State.

Its hard as hell to play against someone who's so fucked up his next move is always unpredictable.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Thats why I fear Penn St could shit the bed against FL State.

Its hard as hell to play against someone who's so fucked up his next move is always unpredictable.

2. Do you realize I've lost 12 arguments over the years on the PB?

1 was to ncs!

[notcasesensitive]

After years of thinking that I had my mom trained to just buy me gift certificates, I must have done something wrong, as this year she inexplicably bought me velvet tops (multiple! in different colors!) from a store I would never shop at. So I think I'm going to have some sort of store credit at this place when I exchange them. My questions:

1. Should I tell mom that I am exchanging them or let her think that I wanted these things? I've already done my best to leave her with the impression that gift certificates are a good idea if she isn't sure what I might want in the future.

2. What can I buy with this store credit to a place I don't want anything from? Or should I see if they'll just send my mom a refund? I guess that would necessarily entail telling her that I don't want the things.

I hate being scrooge, but I also hate the idea of her wasting money on things that I really don't want. I wish she would just stop buying me stuff altogether, as I pretty much can cover all my own wants and she scrapes by for every penny.

Crap.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
After years of thinking that I had my mom trained to just buy me gift certificates, I must have done something worng, as this year she inexplicably bought me velvet tops (multiple! in different colors!) from a store I would never shop at. So I think I'm going to have some sort of store credit at this place when I exchange them. My questions:

1. Should I tell mom that I am exchanging them or let her think that I wanted these things? I've already done my best to leave her with the impression that gift certificates are a good idea if she isn't sure what I might want in the future.

2. What can I buy with this store credit to a place I don't want anything from? Or should I see if they'll just send my mom a refund? I guess that would necessarily entail telling her that I don't want the things.

I hate being scrooge, but I also hate the idea of her wasting money on things that I really don't want. I wish she would just stop buying me stuff altogether, as I pretty much can cover all my own wants and she scrapes by for every penny.




Crap.

Next year give her your ex's creditors names and ask her to send them some money to pay down his debts.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Next year give her your ex's creditors names and ask her to send them some money to pay down his debts.

This example of your stellar wit reminds me why I've won every argument we've ever had on the PB.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
This example of your stellar wit reminds me why I've won every argument we've ever had on the PB.

What was the average LSAT score of your entering class at North East Texas State University Law School?


Hank Chinaski

'89 Law '92

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
I hate being scrooge, but I also hate the idea of her wasting money on things that I really don't want. I wish she would just stop buying me stuff altogether, as I pretty much can cover all my own wants and she scrapes by for every penny.

Based on my experience, the best you can do in such a situation is to be a graceful recipient. Absolutely do not tell your mom that you don't like the shirts, and really really really don't tell her that you don't want her wasting her limited funds on crappy clothes that you wouldn't be seen wearing on Halloween.

The nice thing about gifts of clothing from people who you don't live with is they need never know that you don't wear the item in question. If you think that she will ever look in your closet, take the tags off and hang them up, and then donate them to the charity of your choice (or give them to a friend with different taste) after next Christmas. If she would never look, do the donation sooner.

And I have found in the same situation (recipient having plenty of dough, relatively, while the giver does not) that restaurant and bookstore gift certificates are perfect for giving in return, and that large amounts on them help me deal with the guilt that comes from receiving a $50 tie that will hang in the closet until St. Vincent de Paul picks it up in March 2007.

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
After years of thinking that I had my mom trained to just buy me gift certificates, I must have done something worng, as this year she inexplicably bought me velvet tops (multiple! in different colors!) from a store I would never shop at. So I think I'm going to have some sort of store credit at this place when I exchange them. My questions:

1. Should I tell mom that I am exchanging them or let her think that I wanted these things? I've already done my best to leave her with the impression that gift certificates are a good idea if she isn't sure what I might want in the future.

2. What can I buy with this store credit to a place I don't want anything from? Or should I see if they'll just send my mom a refund? I guess that would necessarily entail telling her that I don't want the things.

I hate being scrooge, but I also hate the idea of her wasting money on things that I really don't want. I wish she would just stop buying me stuff altogether, as I pretty much can cover all my own wants and she scrapes by for every penny.

Crap.

You know you can't tell her you didn't appreciate the present she picked out for you herself.

Exchange for store credit, and turn the store credit into a gift certificate to regift to her on her birthday.

On another note, I've been baffled at both sides of the happy holidays/merry christmas thing this season, as I expect have most of you. I mean, all this BS about "jesus is religious but santa and trees aren't or are about commercialism" just baffles me, mostly at the ignorance of 90% of the population, and I am much more offended by people insisting on taking other people's well-wishing as insults than I am at having other people's beliefs or lack thereof shoved under my nose. But then there was some commercial on TV this weekend which used as a jingle a traditional christmas carol with the words changed to replace "christmas" with "holiday." I have to admit, I was surprisingly offended. Had they entirely changed the words (say, to sing about the amazing bargains at the store), I would not have been bothered, but this annoyed the heck out of me. I fully support retailers' attempts to appeal to the widest possible consumer base, but, damnit, if you are going so far as to use an actual well-known christmas carol, just own it.

Then again, the last time I was really annoyed by something like this was when the hymnal used at a christmas service, in a fit of PC, changed the "Joy to the World" lyrics to read "let people their songs employ." That shit doesn't even scan. I haven't attended christian christmas services since, and instead celebrate Yule.

BR(and I can't believe I just condoned the giving of a gift certificate - ye gods, what's happening to me?)C

[Not Bob]

She had the nerve to say "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas" to Bill O'Reilly:



(Actually, it's one of the Smoking Gun's favorite mugshots, via the consumerist)

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by Not Bob
Based on my experience, the best you can do in such a situation is to be a graceful recipient. Absolutely do not tell your mom that you don't like the shirts, and really really really don't tell her that you don't want her wasting her limited funds on crappy clothes that you wouldn't be seen wearing on Halloween.

The nice thing about gifts of clothing from people who you don't live with is they need never know that you don't wear the item in question. If you think that she will ever look in your closet, take the tags off and hang them up, and then donate them to the charity of your choice (or give them to a friend with different taste) after next Christmas. If she would never look, do the donation sooner.

And I have found in the same situation (recipient having plenty of dough, relatively, while the giver does not) that restaurant and bookstore gift certificates are perfect for giving in return, and that large amounts on them help me deal with the guilt that comes from receiving a $50 tie that will hang in the closet until St. Vincent de Paul picks it up in March 2007.

St. Vincent de Paul is coming back from the dead in 15 months!

I'd better get my shit together.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
What do we do now?

Sorry, dude. Regular stripes are totally Mojito. If you want some play, you gotta go diagonal.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

India's top tennis player Sania Mirza

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
After years of thinking that I had my mom trained to just buy me gift certificates, I must have done something wrong, as this year she inexplicably bought me velvet tops (multiple! in different colors!)

Has this become socially acceptable?

TM