Posts by Emma Hart
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Often the shitty times were either the logical end to something that had been wonderful or the catalyst to something better
You know, on consideration I think you're entirely right about this. Every time I seriously think about the whole Pam debacle I'm reminded of how wonderful one of my friends/co-workers was at sticking her neck out to support me through it. Stops me disappearing entirely into my own... navel.
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Call me, we'll put together a deal.
As far as I can throw you, darling.
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Geek jewellery, what's the world coming to.
*cough*
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Can we watch?
Hey, when I'm standing on the table yelling "World Domination!" someone has to clap politely.
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I know I'm meant to be curious (note - that's not bi-curious) about what provoked an employer to focus on your sexuality like that, right?
Far be it from me to 'should' your curiosity. It was a long drawn-out tawdry tiresome series of disputes, as it usually is. To be fair, she wasn't just homophobic, she was also racist, and the last I heard she'd fired her second-to-last employee because 'Polish Catholic' wasn't Christian enough for her. I think there was a point at which she spent more time thinking about my sex life than I did.
Wasn't it pineapple lumps per picosecond?
That rings a little bell, though it's not the set I have. What's weird is when you have a conversation with someone about something that happened fifteen years ago and discover that you have two almost entirely different sets of memories about it. I remember you and Pauline being unable to work out what I saw in Mike the Bartender, and me waiting until he was walking away from us and saying 'there it is'. But that may turn out to not have been you at all.
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Or golden point period where only a try counts (ie no poxy drop-goals) and 1 man is removed from each team every 7mins.
As above, but played solely by each team's cheerleaders.
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But still, all the people who actually mattered in this case seem to have had their heads screwed on right, and that's what counts.
Indeed, that was highly happy-making. And Mr Tonti-Filippini's actual background makes this statement:
He said it was a psychiatric disorder qualifying under American guidelines as a psychosis because "it's a belief out of accordance with reality".
simply hysterical. A belief out of accordance with reality is a psychosis. Trans-substantiation, for instance.
Set your phrases on stun!
Let the Binge Begin
My man, I like your attitude! I've always felt language should be like that friend you have who, just when you're crawling off to bed at four a.m., says 'hey, I know! let's drive to Taupo! It'll be great!'.
I may or may not be keeping a secret record of PA's linguistic inventiveness.
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Binge thinking!
I love this phrase, because it covers not just intense overload brainstorming thinking, but also those bullshit sessions you have in bars and those things that seem like a good idea when you're trashed. You know, that 'screw it, it's only twenty ks, I'll just walk' thinking you can only do when you're pissed.
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it needs tightening up before she gets free
Dude, that is a whole nother conversation.
So how do you change the name/label they have in their mind to prevent these knee jerk reactions? (or perhaps these are two seperate things?)
When I talked to my daughter, it went something like this. You know Scooby Doo? He's a dog, right, and dogs are real. But real dogs don't wear clothes*, walk around on their back legs or say 'ruh-oh Raggy'. Likewise, fictional witches are green and warty and ride broomsticks and stuff, and real witches don't and aren't. Discerning the second should be no more difficult than discerning the first.
*No they frickin' don't.
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Goodness Emma, that's a bit callous. But I suppose if they're going to die, then down at the doctor's is as a good a place as any.
Just so long as they don't take any medical professionals with them. And actually, if all the fatalities could be programmers with well-paid cushy interesting jobs, that would also be choice.