Mother's day
 

One step ahead of ya -- for Easter I sent cards out (with pics of the Little Fan) and said "hey, I left some of Little Fan's pics for ya in case you wanna send them to your mom and dad or something. Easter cards too." He got the hint, who knows if it will stick. Is it rude to stop sending cards to people who never, not for any occasion, have sent me a fucking card??

ThrashersFan

Mother's day
 

No. It's just an easy way to save $2.50 and an innocent tree that would have to die to make and send the thing.

Martha Stewart's been disgraced--it's okay to lighten up with that crap.

I'm sorry if I pissed anyone off today with the edits. I wasn't being power-hungry, I was just trying to spare people from having to scroll left to right to read the forums. I would never edit the content or words of anyone's posts, I just want you all to know that. If someone has a problem with me trying to keep pictures that are posted from being a nuisance, I will stop resizing them and we can let people post all the 1024x1024 pixel images that they want.

And the crack towards Less was said tongue in cheek. If there was an obvious spammer, I would let leagl handle it.

Mother's Day
 

No, it isn't rude. My mother "forgot" my birthday having decided I didn't exist thus negating the need, in her mind, to ever acknowledge my birthday ever again. I reciprocated and never sent her another card, present or acknowledged her existence.

Pictures of Fashionable Accountants, Part One
 

Bilmore... you left out the best part: Fruitcake in the edwardian tuxedo's submission to Plated's secret court of justice.

I almost forgot all about that.


Good times. Good times.

Survivor/EcoChallenge
 

Seriously, no. My compensation is not page-hit driven. As Thurgreed alluded to, I am just lazy, and it is easier to link than to cut and paste. In the future, though, I will try to consider the delicate sensitivies of people that don't want done here what they did there.

Thanks MR.

And really folks, you need to understand how much effort Mr has put into the site, most of it unacknowledged.

He remains the key to keeping the site running smoothly, whenever there is a problem he is on top of it, and/or I immediately go to him for his assistance.

He's not power hungry, he simply was messing around with Less and trying to make the board more readable, he certainly didn't mean to ruffle any feathers, and he never would have removed Less or anyone's links without talking with me or Slave first.

Mother's Day
 

There has to be an alternate holiday for those of us with either Mommy Dearest-moms or gone moms. I suggest the Mommy Dearest victims take yourselves out for a fantastic dinner, pop a bottle of champagne to celebrate your survival skills, and have a day of total relaxation, pampering, and self-indulgence.

Me, my mom's deceased, so I'm lighting a candle for her for that 24 hours, buying a big bunch of her favorite flowers to enjoy, and making a pitcher of her favorite margaritas to drink in her honor.

Geez, people, stop trying to take my job!

The only power I have here is editing political spam and fixing code.

It's what I live for . . .

Even(your lowly fb mod)Odds

Fuck, I guess I can't do anything right today.

;)

Mother's Day Poll
 

Only slightly more painful than my imaginary knee burns.

Yeah, you suck. You better get your mom a really good present.

Mother's Day
 

I am fairly certain I will get one of two gifts I have hinted about lately. The DeLonghi Retro toaster oven that Bilmore thinks I won't use:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0...1.MZZZZZZZ.jpg

or Xena: Warrior Princess Season One on DVD:

http://images.bestbuy.com/mandm/imag...d/xena_dvd.jpg

It doesn't matter which, though, because I'm just going to by the other for myself. I'm kinda hoping for the toaster, because Xena, while she had many skills, wasn't really a super mom.

Mother's Day
 

She probably had a toaster oven.

Mother's Day
 

Thanks PJ. Good suggestions. My mother did the ultimate: she died on Valentine's Day. Now, Mr. Fubu and I never enjoy this day as it should be enjoyed. However, I feel a great relief that the b***h is finally outta our lives.

Mother's day
 

No, it's like the "invitations" rule: issue one, and if the person doesn't make a counter offer (or accept), you have made all the effort required of you and can stop. If you are desperate to maintain/establish a relationslhip, you can issue up to three without acceptance/reciprocal invitations, but after the 3rd you are obligated to stop, because you are pestering a person who has affirmatively expressed a lack of interest. 3 regretfully rejected invitations is civil-eze for "piss off, I want nothing to do with you, you stalker."

Similarly with cards & notes and such. If they don't send one back, you can stop. If they don't send one back after you've sent 3, you SHOULD stop. And if anyone bitches about it later, you can say with all confidence, "oh, you never wrote back, so I assumed your silence meant you were ignoring me to break things off." All social etiquette is based on the idea of reciprocity - no one has duties to anyone else who doesn't have reciprocal obligations to them, and the abandonment of the obligations on one side relieves the other. (NB: Reciprocity does not mean equivalence.)

I tend to send out cursory Christmas cards to a wider group, though, just so they have my address in case anyone wants to die and leave me their fortune.

Mother's day
 

Thank you, thank you, thank you. I don't know what I did before I found this board. Miss Manners must have had a fucking twinge in her head everytime I made a move. I am gonna save a lotta jack by not sending out all of these awful fucking cards. Fuck it, I won't even do Christmas anymore -- they don't need my address because I don't know anybody with money anyway (except me, of course). No, really! No, not really. Woohoo, I feel like a weight has been lifted. All of these people who are "related" to me only because their son had the luck to marry me can fuck off.

Why do in-laws always say stupid shit like "call me mom" or the like? You are not my mom. I don't even like my own mom so why the hell would I want another. I have met you like three times, fuck I don't even feel real comfortable using your first name. Shit, I shoulda just stayed single.


ThrashersFan

Mother's day
 

You're sassy!

Is it Margarita time, yet?

:beer: :beer:

Mother's day
 

Are you my sock? We were probably, at least, best friends in law school.

AMM

Mother's Day
 

I had a birthday "forgotten" before too. It sucked, but hey I got over it. I suggest you do so too. Life is too short.

Mother's day
 

Thank god my MIL never said that shit. She just said "call me [MIL's real first name]" : much better, in my opinion.

Say it ain't so.
 

Sugar free yoghurt ain't - http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/co...d809f00c9.html

Say it ain't so.
 

Wow. Between this and the Tucker Max sex lawsuit, the Palm Beach Post is definitely the place to go for hard-hitting investigative journalism.

Say it ain't so.
 

I'm shocked. Shocked. Please somebody tell me how there can possibly be sugar in Milky Way or Malt Ball frozen yogurt!

AM(and to think they had to actually test the stuff)M

And you thought there was racism on AI
 

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic

It's not so much money as simply OJ's iconic status. Burger coverred that better, with fewer words to boot.

And there's something to Thurgreed's constant refrain of race, enough to give a certain persuasiveness to the saying that race is to America what caste is to India and class is to England.

Mother's Day
 

My mother "forgets" my birthday every year. I suspect it has something to do with denial about her own age. When my sister made her a grandma, Mom was more than a little pissed.

AM(now we call her the "G" word just to keep her regular)M

Confidence
 

I saw Confidence this evening and enjoyed it. I have a weakness for crime films, and a bigger weakness for Rachel Weisz, which might account for my response.

X-men 2 was OK too...better than the first, but I don't think I liked it as much as everyone else.

Survivor/EcoChallenge
 

You are a haiku retard. How hard is it to count to five?


SPOILER BELOW



Best moment of the show was at tribal council where Heidi said that she deserved to win b/c she was a such a good player that the remaining men were all terrified of her. Yeah, they looked petrified when you were still in the first stage of the immunity challenge trying to untie those hard knots (I hope you didn't ruin your manicure) and they were already done with the challenge. Seriously, she never won a single individual challenge -- what would they be scared of? Maybe they were petrified her oversized implants would melt when their camp burned down - burned plastic smells awful.

Survivor
 

Can someone explain to me why that horrible whining bitch (yes, I know I said it's sexist and I barely ever use it--it was that or the "c-word") Jenna has survived this long? (1) she's not that pretty, but is constantly saying how beautiful she is and how men are so intimidated by her Aphrodite-ness; (2) she complains whenever she loses, so that she gets an entirely unfair result for herself, like when whatsername paid $300 for a letter from home at an auction and Jenna, who'd blown all her cash on peanut butter and chocolate, sobbed until everyone agreed to give her hers too, thus obviating whatsername's sacrifice; (3) I honestly cannot recall anything useful she's done.

Many thanks for any enlightenment.

Survivor
 

Because people want to end up in the final two with a whiny bitch who has alienated everyone so noone on the jury will vote for her. You know how this show works, right? Would you want to go to the final two with someone nice and sweet who everybody loves?

Survivor
 

Yes, precisely the strategy that made teh weakest link an incredibly boring game. Everyone voted to eliminate the strongest link, meaning all the idiots were left in the end unable to make any money for teh winner to take home.

Mmmm(Goodbye)Burger

Demi Moore Accused of Sexual Harassment
 

by her emotionally traumatized ranch hand:

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/sto...2p-75218c.html

This concludes my lurid celebrity-gossip-of-the-day update.



:shame:

Survivor/EcoChallenge
 

SPOILER BELOW


I was even more amused when she bragged about how she was the mastermind behind every plan and plot in the game. While I understand that Rob was right to want to go up against Jenna in the final 2, part of me thinks that Jenna will go next and then whoever wins the final immunity will take Rob to the end. I think that the other guys would rather be up against Rob than Jenna. I can't decide whether everyone will be pissed at Rob and vote for the other guy or whether he'll get the you're-an-asshole-but-I-respect-how-you-played-the-game vote.

Shocking News!
 

Typing Monkeys Don't Write Shakespeare
By JILL LAWLESS, Associated Press Writer

"LONDON - Give an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of typewriters, the theory goes, and they will eventually produce the works of Shakespeare.
_
Give six monkeys one computer for a month, and they will produce a mess.

Researchers at Plymouth University in England reported this week that primates left alone with a computer attacked the machine and failed to produce a single word.

"They pressed a lot of S's," researcher Mike Phillips said Friday. "Obviously, English isn't their first language." "

Full text: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...monkey_authors

===============

With such a smart research plan, I'd rather associate with the monkeys than the researchers.

Demi Moore Accused of Sexual Harassment
 

It seems a shame that she would waste her time on this guy when there are so many of us out here who would welcome a little Demi-grope.

Demi Moore Accused of Sexual Harassment
 

That guy must be gay. Who the hell turns down Demi Moore? Granted, she's getting a little older, but I'm sure that dude is no spring chicken, either.

Mother's Day
 

Me too. The guilt alone when my mom realized that the date had passed and she had forgotten was enough for extra presents and sucking up for YEARS.

It was great. Sure I was a little hurt when she forgot, but I got over it pretty quick. She didn't mean any harm. And I have forgotten hers before.

Shocking News!
 

At first, said Phillips, "the lead male got a stone and started bashing the hell out of it.


"Another thing they were interested in was in defecating and urinating all over the keyboard," added Phillips, who runs the university's Institute of Digital Arts and Technologies.



Ok, now I have thought of doing the former. The latter just seems a little, well, nasty.


I like that you can buy the results

http://www.vivaria.net/experiments/notes/publication/
http://www.kahve-house.com/society/shop/

Mother's Day
 

Didn't some columnist from the chicago sun times say something like "There is a time when you should stop expecting people to celebrate your birthday. That time is age 13"?

Or something along those lines.

:)