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UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Austin, TX
Posts: 20,012
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Oh great. Well thank you very much for THAT, Zen. Excuse me while I go slit my old, wrinkled wrists in private.
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Doctor Wtf
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Badelaide, Baustralia
Posts: 12,861
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You think that's bad? I read recently that a team of archeologists is excavating a site where Atari used to dump their unsold games. They're hoping to find a stash of about 2 million ET games.
That's right. Archeologists are searching for the ruins of our childhood. ![]()
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trying hard to be a better person
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Posts: 16,493
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Geez. I was hoping to come here and find some inspiration. All I got was confirmation. I'm a dumb old crone who's living in the past. A time when it was ok to say women should act like ladies and they might get treated like one. A time when it was ok to say women and men should be held to certain standards. Sometimes life is just a pain in the arse crack.
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#5239 |
sliding down the razor blade of life
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: just over the edge
Posts: 228
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I refer to it as entering my geezerhood ...
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To shreds, you say?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet!
Posts: 18,449
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If anyone tried entering my geezerhood I'm sure it would be a pain in my arse crack too.
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#5241 |
Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 3,774
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![]() On my best day I couldn't go toe to toe with you, foot.
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To shreds, you say?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet!
Posts: 18,449
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See, you just did.
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#5243 |
UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Austin, TX
Posts: 20,012
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"Irritating" is too strong a word, but I'm suspiciously perplexed.
I don't use LinkedIn, but I'm on there, and a woman I know just extended an invitation to join her network so I ended up on the site. One of the people it suggested I might know is a former Dwellar whose name starts with R and ends with adar. There were no shared connections, and no clues about why LinkedIn might think I know him. I've never emailed him, and I'm not connected to any other Dwellars on LinkedIn that I can recall. I'm trying to figure out how they became so clairvoyant... |
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#5244 |
still says videotape
Join Date: Feb 2001
Posts: 26,813
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weirdness
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Radical Centrist
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Cottage of Prussia
Posts: 31,423
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1. Your friends gave LinkedIn the ability to search their mailboxes for new connections.
2. They didn't Link to him, but LinkedIn remembered the connection anyway. 3. They Linked to you. 4. Their email connections may be real connections for you in real life, LI thinks. Maybe moreso, if two or more of your Linkers have messages from him in their email boxens. That's my theory |
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#5246 |
Doctor Wtf
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Badelaide, Baustralia
Posts: 12,861
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Ohh, it's just the NSA trying to be helpful. Why is everyone so paranoid?
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Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl. |
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#5247 |
polaroid of perfection
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: West Yorkshire
Posts: 24,185
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Mother is a super-spiteful mode today.
I have avoided it so far, but she's really laying into Dad. She's now told him to bin the stupid fucking roses he's planted in pots. Not sure how they have aroused her ire, but she says she didn't ask for them, didn't want them, only wanted two to plant on the graves so they may as well be binned. And he will. He'll put them in the bin, just because she is in a pissy mood. SLAM goes the microwave. BANG goes the cupboard. It honestly isn't me this time, we had a pleasant convo this morning. I'm still going to hide though. We'll play nicey-nicey-family later because Maureen is coming over. I'll still hide. It's extremely rare for me to eat with them anyway as dinner is a flashpoint. Maybe it was an email, she was on here just before me.
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Encroaching on your decrees
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland
Posts: 7,016
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I must teach you to knit next time you're here. It's great for removing yourself from the immediate environment ;-)
Sent by thought transference
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Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 3,774
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Removing yourself from the immediate environment is key in (abusive) these situations. Knitting is a good way. So is Zen breathing while focusing on something in the distance. Even though others will decide you're touched, you tend to get excused early.
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still says videotape
Join Date: Feb 2001
Posts: 26,813
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