Originally Posted by dtb (Post 409268)

Ha - that's almost exactly what I said to her one time. Something like, "I'm sure it was a very difficult decision for her to move away -- and she probably doesn't even know all the reasons. I'm sure it was hardest for her to leave you."

I also told her (the stepdaughter) that she should ask her mom about it one day. But nobody talks to her about it. They change the subject or mumble some platitude. It's so weird. Poor thing sees and feels that her mother is gone, and everyone around her acts like it's the most normal thing in the world, and my SD knows and feels that it isn't. Honestly, I think she appreciates the reality check from me (the tempered reality). That I acknowledge that it's a difficult and strange thing that her mother did (walking out with no explanation -- the differing reasons for "why" don't change that cold fact) at least affirms for her what she's already feeling, instead of pretending that everything is normal. It isn't.

Originally Posted by Fugee (Post 409311)

Legend was OK, not my favorite movie. Will Smith had to carry nearly all the movie by himself with just a dog and random rampaging zombie attacks.

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 409270)

umm, she had the baby and she loves her, so this line is moot. it's like me Pm'ing RT that leagl should never have made Ty a mod.

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower (Post 409286)

The situation worries me.

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 409299)

some people bear their problems on their own backs, and never admit them at all, suffering through the internal pain as best they can- without troubling others or admitting weakness.

so I drink too much, and flower closes the door the moment he gets to his office and masturbates the day away hallucinating that he is actually receiving fellatio.

who is to say which is the best approach?

Originally Posted by Fugee (Post 409311)

Legend was OK, not my favorite movie. Will Smith had to carry nearly all the movie by himself with just a dog and random rampaging zombie attacks.

Originally Posted by robustpuppy (Post 409318)

I thought that Legend movie with Will Smith was about golf. But that does not make sense. Random rampaging zombie attacks and golf don't go together.

Originally Posted by robustpuppy (Post 409318)

Random rampaging zombie attacks and golf don't go together.

Originally Posted by cheval de frise (Post 409317)

Based solely on your respective posts, Flower's approach is clearly superior.

CDF

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy (Post 409307)

Thank you. I will not see that. That is silly.

Originally Posted by robustpuppy (Post 409318)

I thought that Legend movie with Will Smith was about golf. But that does not make sense. Random rampaging zombie attacks and golf don't go together.

Originally Posted by Fugee (Post 409325)

I see the confusion -- he was in two movies with "Legend" in the title.

"The Legend of Bagger Vance" is about golf.

"I Am Legend" is about the sole survivor in NYC of a plague that killed most people and turned the rest into monsters (zombies).

Originally Posted by robustpuppy (Post 409318)

I thought that Legend movie with Will Smith was about golf. But that does not make sense. Random rampaging zombie attacks and golf don't go together.

Originally Posted by Adder (Post 409327)

Careful, you will rival Hank for "most helpful."

Originally Posted by evenodds (Post 409324)

My tortured point is that we can see in the shift over 50 years in the presentation of one novel in three movies, and I would argue throughout our society, that our perception of what constitutes a monster has been shifting. Zombies have become our monsters of choice. (Excluding the romantic allure of Twilight and True Blood, which are not "monster" movies/shows.)

We are focused, it appears, on what happens when society falls apart, rather than on an outsider society operating within our own and feeding upon us, Nosferatu aside.