Eivind, it's like saying 'Hail Mary' three times into a mirror in a dark room. If you post this woman's photo anywhere, she appears like a harpy and whines until your eyes bleed.
- Akiva
Google+? I have to find that after wading through all the occupy cat pictures. Does this mean that Verothika will appear on every social media service that debuts in the next 250 years?
- John E. Bredehoft
Here's the conclusion I came to last night: This is my body. While it reserves the right to look slightly different on a daily basis and may look way different 3-6 months from now, it is mine and this is what I look like. I will stop hating it. I will love me for who I am not what I look like. If people want to judge or dislike me because....
...I have wide hips, an ass and some thick thighs, then they can go screw themselves. I'm tired of beating myself up. I have a good life. I have friends who love me. I have a man who loves me for me and doesn't care that I am soft in all the wrong/right places. I have a loving and supportive family. I have no idea why I make myself miserable other than it's always been that way, and I...
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- Mary Carmen
the old saying goes I am responsible for my happiness today. And you have alot of good things going on so enjoy them. Your man, your family, your FFers and of course yours shoes. Happy Good Friday my friend.
- just ZONED
I think you're beautiful, just as you are. And, if you think you're beautiful, then you will be. If you think you're ugly, then you will be. Your outsides reflect what you feel on the inside, so continue to be positive about your body, because there's nothing wrong with how you look.
- Cassandra
Good girl! You're a beautiful woman! It's always the hardest to clean out the junk between the ears than our houses. Continue your fabulousness!
- Hedgehog
*blushes* thank you all. could not do this at all without all your support.
- Mary Carmen
That's awesome. It's going to sound really stupid, but I've been going through the same "overcoming body shame" thing too, lately. Right on, MC!!! (and for the record, you are way better than me at dressing in a flattering way)
- Lo the Baker
I continue to hold the opinion: *swoooooon*
- Johnny
We all have the right to be proud of however we look. Awesome on you for getting there! :)
- <3Heather<3
*gives MC a standing ovation with a few W00Ts thrown in*
- vicster
Great advice for anyone and a great new attitude!
- Paulette
Hi! I don't know you really, but we've 'talked' a couple of times, and I've lurked around a bit. Please forgive me when I tell you that I'm completely jealous of your haircut. It is soooooo cute. I have a weak chin (well 2 or 3 of them :) ), so I have never been able to rock a page boy. I'm sorry that you had a winter of corporal discontent, but you seem like you're recovering well!!! I think that since I can't manage the pretty hair, I will copy the pretty attitude. Happy Easter, and wonderful spring!
- Charleen Mullenweg
Thanks, Charleen! It's an asymmetrical bob and I love it. I part it way on the side and flat-iron it. I love it and I'm definitely asking my dude to cut it shorter next time. I think it is a haircut that a lot of different facial types can wear.
- Mary Carmen
Being comfortable in your own skin is the biggest challenge anyone can face. While self improvement is always a nice goal, loving yourself for being yourself is awesome. Congrats to you! </pseudo-philosophicalism>
- Mike Nayyar
This thread makes me incredibly happy and grateful for all you wonderful people.
- Mary Carmen
Here's the thing that I always yell at myself about: I've been through so much physically, you'd think I would just be happy to be breathing. But some days, I get all on myself about stupid shit.
- Mary Carmen
I have heartbreaking news. I've been asked to relay that the amazing person we know here as carlotta fancypants aka extra super cutie passed away in her sleep in the early morning of Friday, July 23, 2010. I do not have many details to pass along. I can say she was not physically well for some time. I do know this world lost something and grew a...
Sad, sad news. One of the bright stars of my friendfeed experience, as I'm sure she was to all who knew her in real life. I hope that final dream was peaceful. Rest in peace, carlotta super cutie.
- JCunwired
from Android
Oh my God... :( I don't even know what to say. My condolences.
- Penguin
from iPod
I am so sorry…. My most heartfelt condolences to her family and friends. We were the most casual of acquaintances, but I always knew she'd make for a best friend. She was a lovely person and will be sorely missed. Farewell, Carlotta.
- Moody (Sweet FA 4 Life)
I was just looking at her flickr pics. She looks like she was a lovely person. I'm sad I didn't get to know her other than a few threads I remember seeing her reply to. RIP :(
- Tamara
This is clearly not my cat. If this was my cat he's have one arm shoved down into the printer trying to tear up all the internal whirling bits with his bare claws.
- Soup in a TARDIS
Too Funny! Reminds me of the San Mateo Cat Shelter where one of the cats loves to sleep on top of the laster printer where the paper comes out...
- Greg Lato
1600+ to beat the FFundercats live chat thread. I think with this real time now on all threads we're going to see some truly epic comment numbers.
- Simon Wicks
Ivan, no the picture speaks for itself. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Petr, I have no idea what you mean, but thank you. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
@Kol .. :] that, partially, might have been the purpose.... I don't know it exactly either. :] .. was I reflecting on a cat under the fax, and that it is hard to fax that way ... /?:] ... "underfaxing at its worst" ..
- pb:
there ya have me ! :] .... see, to be honest with you, i saw this pic couple days ago, but i let it go, without posting it ..... what does that make me? :]
- pb:
even a flat cat... faxes just can't handle the hair. You'd have to shave the cat first, else the hair will burn and stick to the drum... a mess! (I am extrapolating from transparencies, mind, i don't have access to a cat to test)
- Iphigenie
Hehe, Joelle. This is now tied for the 'likes' top stop. One more then, hehe. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Hehe, Greg. Blimey! Erm, is that not far from 500 likes now? ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Bloody marvelous, Kol. Wish I could like it again... too cute (and help u to 500 likes).
- Roberto Bonini
I couldn't believe it when I logged on from the morning over posting it and saw it was at something 200 likes! You all have a strange fetish with cats and fax machines, hehe. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Am I the only one who saw this and their first thought was - My goodness did someone break that cats neck? It still freaks me out a little
- SteVe C
Steve, it does look a little out of place, but cats are pretty bendy. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
They fax much better if you flatten them first. What?
- The original Kevin
So we can put this post to rest now. :-) 505 likes final count, wow! :-D Good night all!
- Kol Tregaskes
did 3 people really un-like this? now at 506. wtf (edit: uh, oh, yeah, me and 2 + 506 others makes 509. dammit, jim, i'm an artist, not a mathematician)
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
One of the best funny cat pictures I've seen! :-)
- John Collis
Kristian, it appears to be. Hehe, John.
- Kol Tregaskes
ای بابا این پیشول بی خیال نمی شود، بابا پاشو برو دنبال یه بازی دیگه ، از هفته پیش تا حالا تو فکس ولو شدی حوصله ات سر نرفته، پاشو اقلا بپر رو کیبوردی چیزی
- Maryaminaa
It's really only social convention which regards it as inappropriate, same with Xeroxing it, like one does with their b__tocks. Wait are we still talking about cats cats here or...
- sofarsoShaw BAZINGA!
OMGosh 700+ likes now!! LOL. Thank you all 702 of you. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Just remember- this is not a competition, just an exhibition. @Kyle - ever been to Culver, IN? Grew up there before moving to Chicago.
- michael sean wright
Nice: I have been to Culver! You are in Chicago now? I will have to let you know next time I am up your way.
- Kyle Lacy
Not sure about that, but: "Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable." - Swatch, Always Now, 1997 (and yes my lunch, at 1:42am local, is consisting of a double martini so that actually makes some sense to me)
- David HC Soul
are you saying that time "now" has no meaning? i (obv.) reject this but toast your willingness to acknowledge the wisdom of a dean martin martini. now, for you sir, on to the work of most importance. focus on the permanent.
- michael sean wright
Well, I will grant that the sentiment of French Marshall Lyautey has some merit (he asked his gardener to plant a tree and when the gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years the Marshall was said to have replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!').... So I am off to plant some trees....
- David HC Soul
you, i like. and will point you to Hermann Hesse before he won the Nobel Prize for 'The Glass Bead Game' in which he wrote in in the idyllic poem "Hours in the Garden" (1936)- 'I hear music and see men of the past and future. I see wise men and poets and scholars and artists harmoniously building the hundred-gated cathedral of the Mind." - (forword to Glass Bead Game by by Hermann Hesse by Theodore Ziolkowski.)
- michael sean wright
Thanks for the pointer - I'll go search it out.
- David HC Soul
I hope so. The thought is consuming much of my waking hours these days.... But I have to be up in 5 hours... so will have to return to the 'nightcrew' tomorrow night. One thing about time is it does seem to age one....
- David HC Soul
sleep perchance to dream, a wise man said. Billy Shakespeare.
- michael sean wright
Then pause now to ask yourself the following question: "Am I dreaming or awake, right now?"
- David HC Soul
man, most of the ppl who liked this i haven't seen on FF in ages. maybe i'm doing it wrong.
- Joe The Sausage
for most of us we met here, stayed loyal here but the sun set long ago : ( what a rush of a time that was! now we find ourselves over at g+ telling stories of the good ol' days!
- michael sean wright
Meme-inless no more! always been an interesting world with you!
- michael sean wright
oh and... i do have some google+ invites left - email me nicefishfilms at g ma i l dot co m
- michael sean wright
I'm curious now - did google + make you come back to FF? Because that is v interesting.
- WoH: Minding her Steves
yes, we did the podcast when ff was acquired by the book of face.. watched them absorb the real-time elements and i check in from time to time usually through this post as it brings back very fond memories. google + reminds me of the early days of ff - haven't felt that way about any of the social nets that have come since the facedbooked swallow up. heaven knows we've been on them all and they seem so ancient now -- quora anyone? google got it right with +. think it marks the next era for them.
- michael sean wright
Google + right now does remind me of the FF glory days and I am curious to see what happens next.
- WoH: Minding her Steves
so~kana? "WORLD AIR WAYS" to kaite arimasu yooo! ^o^
- keiko-san
@Leo: That's what I was getting at... :) Trying to figure out whether airline was still in existence, or if it is no longer around, when it went out of business. :)
- rowlikeagirl
I wouldn't say it's national pride, MC, rather a sense of peace -- no matter how small -- regained after having thousands of fellow citizens were killed by OBL's efforts.
- Bubba Botts
I think you are right to feel conflicted. The situation that happened on 9/11 has become much more complex and worldwide than when this whole thing started. Still, this is a milestone in this conflict.
- Eric
I'm being a downer I guess. We've lost thousands of lives, spent millions of dollars in retaliation. It just seems kinda anticlimactic and I don't know....one man is dead. One man versus the the thousands lost on both sides. It just feels sad.
- Mary Carmen
More like billions, if not trillions (and accelerating).
- Julian
Me neither...I live about an hour away from WTC...2001 I was pregnant with E wondering what kind of world was I bringing this child in to...I will never forget the silence here after 9/11 and the military ships that were stationed on long island shores...the smokey air and dark skies....I'm sorry but this doesn't feel victorious to me...
- furrworld
Nothing changes. I refuse to believe there aren't thousands willing to take his place, so nothing changes. It's anticlimactic as an "acheivement", and does nothing to reduce my sadness, fear, and anguish about the state of our world.
- Jenica
and the whole "USA USA" really grates on me. i know it happened over there, but lives from other countries were lost, most of the free world's army is over there fighting as well. gah. i will not miss the man, but this changes nothing but who will be elected next time around...
- Terry O'Fee
Scott and I are going to the store (because you'd say "I am going to the store"). But My mother took Scott and me to the store (because you'd say "My mother took me to the store").
- Kirsten
A good trick is to remove "Scott and" in the sentence and see if it makes grammatical sense. (Scott and) I went to the store. Someone bought gifts for (Scott and) me.
- Jonathan Hardesty
Subject: Scott and I. Object: Scott and me. Scott and I are looking forward to opening the gifts for Scott and me.
- I like big Botts
from iPhone
I often find that "me" sounds wrong when it is really correct
- Rachel Walden
Thank you all. Wow, I am terrible with grammar. *embarrassed*
- Mary Carmen
I always have to sort this one out exactly the way Kristin and Jonathan did.
- Shannon - GlassMistress
Mary Carmen, I find that if I didn't learn stuff like this early on, it remains confusing to me to this day. This particular one isn't a problem for me, but there are others that are obvious to most people but still mysterious to me.
- Your Neighbor Steve
"Lie" and "lay" have always been a problem for me, just because none of them sound right when I use them in a sentence.
- Jonathan Hardesty
I took AP Grammar in high school, and was a TA for linguistics for 2 years in college, and I still have to test this one against the options listed above. :)
- Jenica
"Vera Svechina, the alleged stalker (and former stripper) whom Zynga CEO Mark Pincus filed a restraining order against earlier this year, has also targeted Google cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Last month, Svechina followed a blind employee into Google headquarters and dropped off a Russian book and a non-threatening note for Google cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Google security letter reported the trespass, though no chargers were pressed, according to a police department spokesperson. It wasn't the first time Svechina acted on impulses towards Google."
- A. T.
from Bookmarklet
"A security breach in the Playstation Network by still unidentified hackers resulted in stolen personal information, Sony confirmed today. Sony says while personal information was likely stolen they don't believe credit card numbers were and that they hope to have the Playstation Network service back up within a week. The news comes more than nine days after the intrusion and six days after Sony shut down both the Playstation Network and Qriocity services in reaction to the breach. Sony says they've hired a "recognized security firm" to conduct a complete investigation into what happened and have taken steps to enhance security and strengthen network infrastructure."
- Sascha Wasek
from Bookmarklet
Sure hope the old man got that tractor beam out of commission, or this is gonna be a real short trip. Okay, hit it! - Mr. SPOCK
- Steve Cleary
"If you take sexual advantage of her, you're going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater." -- Yoda
- Alex Scrivener
(oh, and probably easier to read if you click on the link...then click on the image to enlarge...read all the way down - and be sure to read the artist's description. rather brilliant, actually)
- Prosey BUTTONS!