Merry Generic Winter Day-Off With No Religious Content

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Read about this in the local SF paper this morning. The paper talked about what assholes the DJs are (correct), and how sad and sorrowful we should all be for the dead contestant (not correct).

I'm sorry, but really -- when you start feeling sick, stop doing what you're doing. And I would guess that most of the contestants, had they just been listening to the show and to the DJs haranguing anyone who felt sick, would have found it hilarious.

Stupid all around, indeed. The only people I feel sorry for are the dead woman's kids.

This falls under thinning the herd.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen

I am taking a family vacation and have asked the boyfriend to come along. He repsonded that he wouldn't come unless the ex was okay with it. I've asked the ex and he's basically ignoring the question.

I would call, e-mail, text and generally get in the face of the ex until you get an answer from him. It looks to me as if he is trying to exert control over your life and not being fair so if you go along with him you are playing into his plan.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by Not Bob
Well, that does suck. Call him again -- he's not that big of a dick, is he?

As an aside, the boyfriend sounds like a good guy -- he knows that you and the ex have to get along reasonably well at least until the Brazenette is off working on her PhD, and so he doesn't want to be the cause of a problem.

I'll call him tonight. I actually think one of the reasons he was non-responsive is that he was at work and didn't want to get into it. I also think another reason is that he wanted some time to think about it.

The new boyfriend is a really good guy and is trying to assure that we can all sit at one table at the Brazenette's bat mitzvah, when that day arrives.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by taxwonk
This falls under thinning the herd.

Or under for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
(See above re: Britney.)

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I would call, e-mail, text and generally get in the face of the ex until you get an answer from him. It looks to me as if he is trying to exert control over your life and not being fair so if you go along with him you are playing into his plan.

This explains why I didn't want to ask his permission in the first place. I did not want to give him veto power over my life.

Nonetheless, I don't think he's being a total dick (yet). I only asked him this morning.

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
My grandmother had five pregnancies (six kids) over six and a half years. It makes me tired just to think about it. She lived to 93.

good god I can't even imagine how many smelly diapers that is.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
This explains why I didn't want to ask his permission in the first place. I did not want to give him veto power over my life.

Sounds like your bf is giving him veto power over your relationship, not you.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Sounds like your bf is giving him veto power over your relationship, not you.

You all now fully understand my situation.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Sounds like your bf is giving him veto power over your relationship, not you.

sounds to me like she is trying to carefully negotiate through 3 people's wishes, and she is doing fine, and people should quit telling her that any one of the 3 is acting wrong.

[robustpuppy]

Playing card:
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[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
I used to feel sorry for her and think she got a bit too much flak for her (lack of) mothering skills, because she always seemed very devoted to Sean, and her utter cluelessness seemed inevitable given the poor parenting she has obviously received.

But if she is pregnant again, ew. I mean, her womb wasn't even cold before she got knocked up by some new guy. You would think that it should be a rocky place to a stranger's sacred sperm for at least a few months postpartum.

She's the Carla Tortelli of pop music.

So today's discussion is post-partum sex? Has someone notified lactation lover?

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Playing card:
http://www.bullshitbingo.net/cards/bullshit

My law firm thinks that is a gambling site. Bullshit Bingo, indeed. I think I just got one of the corner squares.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by nononono
They actually had this story on Larry King last night, with commentary by Dr. Laura (???). The whole thing reminded me of why I have never watched an entire segment on Larry King. Boring and insipid.

My favorite Larry King moment of late* was when, after Bush's recent speech about the "surge," he asked whomever he was talking to what the reaction to the speech was among Iraqis in Baghdad. Where it was ~5:30 a.m.

He used to be fun on the radio, twenty+ years ago.

* In the Heard About category.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
sounds to me like she is trying to carefully negotiate through 3 people's wishes, and she is doing fine, and people should quit telling her that any one of the 3 is acting wrong.

She asked to be rated.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Playing card:
http://www.bullshitbingo.net/cards/bullshit

I bet we could fill that card with just one Spanky PB post.