Stuck on Repeats

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

In all honestly, I can say this and I mean it more than any other time I've uttered this phrase: Who cares?

You're right. They are perfect. They are amazing, artificial or not.

TM

America! Fuck Yeah!

[Hank Chinaski]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...#ixzz25VwqLl9Z

somehow I'm reminded of Shape Shifter.

[taxwonk]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...#ixzz25VwqLl9Z

somehow I'm reminded of Shape Shifter.

What a sick fuck.

[taxwonk]

Did I break the board?

[Adder]

Originally Posted by taxwonk

Did I break the board?

Yes. Doesn't work at work anymore for some reason.

[LessinSF]

The sax in "Shine On You Crazy Diamond"

[Shape Shifter]

Originally Posted by LessinSF

The sax in "Shine On You Crazy Diamond"

I was wondering about the recorder in "Stairway to Heaven." Does that count as a horn? And where do harmonicas fall in all of this?

[Atticus Grinch]

Morgan Freeman reads 50 Shades of Grey {YouTube, language NSFW (duh)}

[Fugee]

Some time back we discussed whether the guy hitting on the conference speaker in the elevator was creepy or not.

This is similar but broader.

Bicycle Man is so far out there in scary-probably-psychotic land that he takes away from the writer's main point which seems to be that she hates when she's sitting on the train reading a book and guys hit on her.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by Fugee

Some time back we discussed whether the guy hitting on the conference speaker in the elevator was creepy or not.

This is similar but broader.

Bicycle Man is so far out there in scary-probably-psychotic land that he takes away from the writer's main point which seems to be that she hates when she's sitting on the train reading a book and guys hit on her.

I hate talking to strangers on any form of transit -- I assume they are crazy until proven otherwise -- so I wouldn't ask this woman "what are you reading" or anything like that.

But still-- to compare that to the psychotic and violent bicycle guy, or even to the first three guys who harassed and started screaming at her, is a little whacko.

[Fugee]

Originally Posted by Sidd Finch

I hate talking to strangers on any form of transit -- I assume they are crazy until proven otherwise -- so I wouldn't ask this woman "what are you reading" or anything like that.

But still-- to compare that to the psychotic and violent bicycle guy, or even to the first three guys who harassed and started screaming at her, is a little whacko.

The examples she used definitely detract from her main point. But maybe she wants to point out that she never knows when someone hitting on her is going to turn into a harrasser? I'm not sure.

She does say that the guys who regularly approach her don't take being brushed off very well.

When I take the bus, I am usually on a commuter express where you get a group of regulars who all talk to each other. On the local bus, I'd be more leery of talking to strangers for the crazy factor.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by Fugee

The examples she used definitely detract from her main point. But maybe she wants to point out that she never knows when someone hitting on her is going to turn into a harrasser? I'm not sure.

She does say that the guys who regularly approach her don't take being brushed off very well.

When I take the bus, I am usually on a commuter express where you get a group of regulars who all talk to each other. On the local bus, I'd be more leery of talking to strangers for the crazy factor.

I understand her point but she doesn't make it very well. Every person who is talking to her could be hitting on her, and every person who is hitting on her could be a psycho who will start screaming at her and threatening her.

The same is true no matter where she is -- whether it's public transit, a bar, a party. Should no one talk to her or any other woman? That's not her point, I think -- rather, her point is that men should take it politely when she doesn't want to talk with them and would rather read her book. That's true -- they should. But not because every once in awhile (I simply don't believe that it's a constant threat) there will be a psycho who will start yelling at her in response. But rather, because it's just a decent and polite thing to let someone read her book if that's what she wants to do.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally Posted by Fugee

Some time back we discussed whether the guy hitting on the conference speaker in the elevator was creepy or not.

This is similar but broader.

Bicycle Man is so far out there in scary-probably-psychotic land that he takes away from the writer's main point which seems to be that she hates when she's sitting on the train reading a book and guys hit on her.

I stopped reading after I saw the word "freedoms".

[Fugee]

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?

I stopped reading after I saw the word "freedoms".

Spoil sport.

If you don't participate, we'll have nothing to read but Sidd and Wonk debating sous vide.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Fugee

Some time back we discussed whether the guy hitting on the conference speaker in the elevator was creepy or not.

This is similar but broader.

Bicycle Man is so far out there in scary-probably-psychotic land that he takes away from the writer's main point which seems to be that she hates when she's sitting on the train reading a book and guys hit on her.

I took her point to be that she never know when a guy hitting on her is going to react like that and thus she doesn't like being hit on.

But she's right that men don't understand because it never happens to us.