Posts by Deborah
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And Danielle? Instructions for making rolled oats pancakes? Pleeeeaaaase?
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unless his wife makes them*. Unfortunately not all of us have a similarly exploitable member of the proletariat at home...
Self-linking here, but you won't find this anywhere else on teh interwabs. My latest Friday Feminist quote, from the marvellous Louisa Lawson, who edited a woman's journal in Australian in the 1890s.
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The "Code of Social Responsibililty" was a nasty initiative from Jenny Shipley. It was a survey, full of leading questions, about people being "required" to contribute to society, and people on benefits being "required" to make some return. I kept a copy of it for years and years, but it seems to have been lost in one of our (far too) many moves. My partner and I took great delight in answering the questions in exactly the wrong way. This should give you a flavour of what it was all about. And take a look at what the Wesley Wellington Mission said about it.
Unfortunately for Jenny, she didn't get the answers she wanted, so it sank without a trace.
Steven, I'm so sorry that you had that wretched experience.
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Sockpuppet!!!
I forgot to mention that I put triangle on a triple word score.
It was a marvellous moment in married life.
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Once I used my last seven tiles to make triangle. My husband has not forgiven me, and I haven't played since.
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I've had those pupil-dilating drops, so my optometrist could take piccies of the backs of my eyes. Amazing. I got lots of very odd looks for the next few hours.
I've never had the it's-a-brain-tumour-but-not-a-bad-one experience, 'though I have had the OMG-I've-found-a-lump-in-my-breast experience. It was... frightening, the first time. And completely benign. By the time I found the third one, some years later, I had gotten a little blase about it all, 'though I still got it checked out as soon as I found it. Benign, again, thank goodness.
I'm very glad to hear that Adric is a passive wee chap. Your sangfroid in the face of looming disaster astounds and humbles me, Emma.
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Sort of like a popularity contest but more detailed as to why people don't like you. I would fail. Very badly.
You would win, muchly. I would click the thumbs-up every time I saw your name.
Apropos of edits: I clicked preview and corrected this little error...
the thump-up
...before posting.
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OMG. You are joe's spleen!
Actually, Danielle, that's Stephen's tongue, prominently displayed on his Metafilter page.
I really think Stephen ought to have warned us before he posted that link.
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NO THREADING!
I love the way the conversation meanders back and forth between two or three or more themes. I would read LESS on PAS with threaded comments. This is because I am a simple soul, and threading that goes more than one or two deep just confuses me.Just a few for minutes for editing is enough - all you should really be doing is fixing up typos and formatting anyway.
RSS - clipped is fine.
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Then I apologise.
My suggestion was only meant to be that if she took ownership of the story (that I mistakenly thought was genuine) then it would have had more impact.
I didn't mean to piss on anyone.
Oh go away with the passive aggression. An apology immediately followed with suggestions about how to do things better. Good one.