Laura, would you still <3 me if I told you I was at UF for 6 years? *bated breath*
- Marie is merry.
*sighs deeply* Ok, Marie. Just because it's you, yes. :) (Did my undergrad at a little bitty college in GA and my master's at FSU, when WE BEAT UF IN THE SUGAR BOWL.)
- Laura Lou Who
Relative to Distant Relative: "Oh, you should ask Johnny. He's good with computers"... Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand my annual Xmas Tech Support Season begins... #bitchlips
If you want to get out of it you'll have to fake a breakdown, then hire a patsy that'll allow you smash him in the face with a keyboard. Depending on who is around to witness the event you may never be asked for tech support again...Just don't overdo it.
- Joe Pierce
TELL THEM NO! DID YOU CHANGE YOUR NAME TO DOORMAT WHILE I WASN'T LOOKING?!
- Mo Kargas
free tech support. price: 12-pack imported ale per letter
- Mike Chelen
send questions with self addressed stamped envelop to Johnny c/o The Internet. Questions will be answered in the order they were received. Please allow 4 to 6 weeks for delivery. *disclaimer: Johnny and The Internet not responsible for unanswered questions.
- Michael W. May
I know the feeling except now o have computers and cameras to be an expert on, sigh. I'm Gonna have to work on that face for it though.
- Phill Price
from iPhone
Go get one of those tshirts that says "No, I will not fix your computer". Or at least charge them for it.
- Mellissa Claus
I'm in perpetual tech support hell....... (getting unlimited tea, biscuits and cakes makes up for it tho)
- Roberto Bonini
I stopped doing tech support for free for people outside my immediate family a long time ago. It helps that I have my own company that does tech support. So it's probably a little more obvious to them that I don't work for free than for someone who works a corporate job.
- Jason Huebel
I feel you, Derrick. I'm probably going to see it, but I just don't feel like WOW LOOK AT THAT, when I see the previews. It all just looks like "the valleys are just as uncanny over here."
- Chieze Okoye
I was excited, but the hype machine started too early and now I don't care.
- Amber, Random Time Lord
In a couple weeks it will be fourteen years since cancer came out of nowhere and claimed her, so I tend to get a bit nostalgic around this time of the year. I like to remember the good times, rather than focus on the negative. But seriously, the chick was funny.
- Derrick
even in those few words I feel like I have an idea of who she is, I can't imagine a better way to remember her
- Sir Shuping
An example: I'd just started driving in high school and got the opportunity to pick her up from somewhere. It was a warm day and she got in the car, turned the A/C from it's middle setting and cranked to the highest. She took the hem of her dress and placed it over the A/C vents so that the air puffed out the bottom of her dress. All without looking at me or saying a word. She finally...
more...
- Derrick
LOL to the story! I'm glad you have such great memories of such a special lady. Thank you for sharing them (and her) with us. :)
- Laura Lou Who
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- RAPatton
Dude... you are on fire with the linkage this morning. DO YOU NOT WANT ME TO GET ANYTHING DONE TODAY???? #bitchlips ;)
- MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS
I've completely lost patience for comments like "She needs to eat a sandwich" or similar things regarding women who are thin. I know, I know, it's a reaction against the media norm of framing any woman larger than a size 2 as "fat." But it's still stupid.
No women should be judged by her body. A woman's size & shape & weight is her own business. Hell, even if a woman is suffering from anorexia or bulimia, that's her business, not ours.
- josh neff, geek at large
You are right, Josh. Me saying that she needs to eat a sammich isn't any different than if someone were to look at my picture and say "She needs to go on a diet."
- Yolanda
My health and wellbeing will suffer unless someone makes me a sammich, and I mean like now
- Slippy "WildBeard" Lane
Exactly, Yolanda! One of my best friends is naturally thin. She's never weighed more than 100 pounds. I've seen her eat a ton of food, but she just can't gain weight. Strangers have no problem telling her, "You're too thin! You need to eat more!" And she hates it.
- josh neff, geek at large
Steve... "I'd tap that sandwich." LMAO... the mental image! Tab, the flip side is... some of these girls really do need a sandwich!! :D
- Yolanda
You all need a life. Get off the internet. You spend way too much time on it. #bitchlips
- CW™
As somebody who has friends with severe eating disorders, I agree that comments like that are not helpful in the best case, and potentially harmful in the worst. But I disagree that eating disorders--not just being really thin--aren't our business. Some people need help, and their friends and family (not nosy strangers) should intervene.
- Kaijsa Calkins
When it's friends & family, Kaijsa, absolutely. When we're talking about actors & models that we don't personally know, it's none of our business.
- josh neff, geek at large
So would you take offence if I told you "Your so uptight, You just need to get laid." ?
- CW™
I know Derrick... very wrong and fairly low brow. But could not resist when Steve posted "I'd tap that sandwich" Now laughing at it again. *walks over as Kirk and pulls eyebrow down*
- SAM
Some people need to go on more dates, then they could "Eat a sandwich" plus then "Get Laid" hence solving all issues that others will think they have.
- CW™
CW, and between those things they could "pull that stick out of their ass" and afterward "get over it."
- s t e v e
You point may have some merit, but it's not important enough to even make volume one of things in need of fixing and requiring of effort to correct.
- Matthew DeVries
And those of us who are still stuck looking in the juniors section because apparently "real women's clothing" doesn't start til a size 8 appreciate it.
- Abigail
+1 most comments on this thread. And I would disagree with Mr. Matthew, I think women not being constantly picked at for their weight not falling between a tiny range of ideals would drastically reduce stress, diet scams, and bickering, as well as being a huge step forward for our opinion of men. Women would not feel so imperfect and therefor need less approval, and men just might get laid more, therefor alleviating a huge percentage of the worlds issues.
- Heather
Yeah, I have been just making jokey comments so far, but I'm 100% behind Josh and the rest of y'all. There are certainly things to be said about a society that is obsessed with being skinny, but "eat a sammich" isn't a particularly constructive one.
- s t e v e
Obviously none of you have ever eaten a sandwich.
- Matthew DeVries
I agree with this and with Yolanda and Abigail. That said, y'all are welcome to make me a sandwich.
- joey
Oh damn...I went to comment on Shawn's comment and deleted it. :( To answer, no this isn't date number two, this is a friend coming in on business. Date number two is hopefully later this week. :)
- Derrick
If I were 14 years old I'd make a Disneyland joke, but I'm not.
- Kevin Fox
Haha! Kevin, we're probably going to hang at Downtown Disney and @thewes already pointed out the bellhop and receptionist set off his gaydar. SHOCKING.
- Derrick