The Thread For Those Who Feel The Need To Share With Us All The Banal Details Of Their Lives- Page 106

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 3:45pm

God, I hate those things. Even though I KNOW it's going to pop out at me, I have to avert my eyes while "waiting" because I freak every time.

[smartpenguin78]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 4:18pm

I have the same problem, no matter how much I try to use logic and not be afraid. I know it is coming but I still fall off the chair. Basically I just hate whoever forced me to look at the crap at that point.

[SorryGrateful]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 4:22pm

OH my gosh, penguin, the avatar is too cute! I don't know how, but you top yourself every time.

[smartpenguin78]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 4:25pm

Thank you SG.
I enjoy a good avatar, I'm glad you like it. I wish I had a better "photoshoping" program, to work out the kinks.

Just to be clear, I did not draw the picture. It is the one from the marvelous New Yorker review of SWEENEY. I did "modify" it to suit my tastes though.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 4:32pm

I hate people. I especially hate stupid young people that are so caught up in themselves that they refuse to take a good look at the real world.

I just read something on LJ were some girl thought that someone willingly risking contracting HIV from his partner was romantic, because if he died too, he wouldn't want to have to live the rest of his life alone.

*HEADDESK*

I mean, how can ANYONE be so stupid?!

[smartpenguin78]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 4:34pm

And just when I thought people can't get any stupider.

[kissmycookie]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 4:40pm

stupid stuff is not banal... it's well, stupid.

[WindyCityActor]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 5:09pm

Have to spend a good part of the evening memorizing lines.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 5:11pm

We just have a power outage, and I was scared.

[SorryGrateful]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 5:12pm

Um, em, what's going on with the non-Raul/Adam avatar. That's what's really scary.

[kissmycookie]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 5:12pm

But y ou get to leave soon, right Em?

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 5:16pm

Soon, yes!

Adam will return, fear not.

[kissmycookie]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 5:18pm

No fears... For the time being, I'll just gaze at the current one...

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 5:22pm

*loves him*

Yikes, I hope my power doesn't go out again.
(a) I have an intense fear of pitch darkness and not being able to see
(b) It's COLD here
(c) I'll have absolutely nothing to do, and will be required to stare at nothing until I fall asleep.

[smartpenguin78]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 5:27pm

The stupid part was not the action itself, but the girl who thought it was romantic to get aids and die together. The entire situation reeks.

I like the new av, Em, but it is hard to tell that it is you.

[Kringas]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 5:29pm

I'd say the reaction and the action are both fairly idiotic.

[smartpenguin78]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 5:39pm

Sorry, I agree totally. I see I implied that. Both action and reaction are ridiculous in the extreme.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 5:53pm

I'd heard of bug-chasing before, but this girl thinking it was romantic (and not sick and twisted) just pushed me over the edge. I wanted to hunt her down and shake her, because that's just ridiculous and a dangerous mindset to be in. I left a strongly-worded message basically telling her she was off her rocker.

The worst part was when she said that she didn't think the decision to have unsafe sex was harming them in any way. I need a drink.

[Plum]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 7:50pm

Oh, yes. Disease is sooo romantic. It's just like in operas where the heroine dies of consumption while singing an aria.

Seriously, the girl needs to read something like Emma's death scene in Madame Bovary.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 1:30am

Kringas, that's a disturbing -- yet fascinating -- article. I'd never heard of that before.

What exactly did this girl say? That is was Romeo and Juliet "I'll die with you" romantic? I'm confused. Maybe in some fantasy world the sentiment is romantic, but... wow.

Anyway, SG -- he's back!!

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 1:43am

Yeah, but even in that horribly warped mindset, it's not even classically romantic. It's messy and awful, and anyone who had any idea what they were getting themselves into would probably change their minds in a second. I mean, I can see that the whole "I don't want to live if it means ever being without you" mindset contributes to something like a suicide pact, but contracting a disease isn't even a predictable, quick death.

Not that it's not totally twisted to begin with, but it's also illogical.

[SorryGrateful]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 10:25am

I can't stop looking at the picture of my cat that's on my desktop. She's so cute!!!

Can you be a crazy cat lady at 24?

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 2:05pm

I have to wake up REALLY EARLY tomorrow and I AM NOT HAPPY.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 2:06pm

oops, double post.

Updated On: 1/4/06 at 02:06 PM

[kissmycookie]

Posted: 1/4/06 at 2:10pm

Em's really not happy. she said it twice.