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i hate computers. |
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'nuff said. |
I got home around 1:00 yesterday. Took some shoes to be fixed and then went grocery shopping. For 2 hours. Just wandered around the store and bought whatever I wanted. The lady behind me in the check-out said "you must have a big family!" I smiled and nodded. hehehe. Spent $116. I am not allowed to buy anything else until mid-September. My roommate didn't come home last night. I hope she's with her boyfriend and not dead. |
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It's working smoothly today. A. rocks. |
We are running DB2 and FoxPro, DB2 is written by IBM and put out by them. We write FoxPro here and distribute it, I find it amusing we use and rely on our own database software, when it sucks so bad.... But we sell it and people buy it... Fucking morons. |
The point was: IT WAS BROKEN. NOW IT IS FIXED. HUZZAH. About my roommate. Excuse my naivete, but do all girls turn into simpering, smothering flakes when they enter a new relationship? She makes me sick. |
I see the validity of his and Hal's points. We're misusing a term. However, since we all (at work) understand each other when we use this term, I think it's okay to keep using it. We have several different things we use Access for, but we call the big, important one that contains all our info. "the database" to distinguish it from the other things. |
a lot of people call access a db. by the logic of many people here, when something moves into the spoken language as such it becomes as such. as such. man, my communication abilities suck cock. an excel spreadsheet can work as a database. so can a big wall full of small holes. it's just a pet peeve of mine, spider. you can call it whatever you like. |
Can you answer my question about girls? |
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have you ever been goobly over a guy spider? |
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I understand starry eyes and giddiness. I don't understand this. |
get down here, quickly! |
This is her first real relationship. I should probably cut her some slack. |
you speak in the present spider. you have a boyfriend? how long have you known your roomate? |
Um, sorta. I don't know, it's weird. 9 years. |
if this is her first relationship (how old is she???) i doubt shes being manipulative like you say. Only the jaded work methods like that. |
She's 23, and very cynical about men, courtesy of the violent abuse that occurred in her family (not to her). |
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What do you mean "you don't know?" Is he evil? |
what exactly don't you understand? you can understand being giddy and dreamy but not flakey and coy? wow she's 23 and this is her first serious relationship? that seems odd. |
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She *is* emotionally unstable, though. I've never been in a serious relationship either, but you knew that. He's not evil. He's just socially awkward, like me. Aw, I get a stupid smile on my face just thinking about him. As God as my witness, I will never be mean or flakey or simpering around him. I'll try to control the giddiness. |
it's terrible fun. |
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Neener Neener nee-ner! |
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I don't know if he's ticklish. I don't touch him like that. He does blush, though. So do I. |
someday you'll find out if he's ticklish or not. and if he is, you will use it against him as much as possible. i would. |
He's a friend of a friend of my brother's, but he's my age. He's very smart (he studied astronomy) and very well-read, he draws very well, he has the aforementioned charming sense of humor, he's gentle and shy and ever-so-slightly geeky, he pays close attention to me when we talk, and he has a smile that's soft and warm and lovely. He's about 6 inches taller than I am and has dark brown hair, hazel eyes, and rosy cheeks with dimples. I am incredibly fond of him. |
thats ridiculous. i was tickled bitterly by my brother as a kid. to the point where he would sit on me...knees on my arms. i couldnt move...and i would be laughing and crying at the same time....so hard but unable to scream or yell stop or moms attention. Such a feeling of powerlessness. He got me so spooked he could just move his hand toward me and id freak. it was actually very cruel of him, and therefore i get potentially violent when tickled now if my warnings to stop are not heeded. I dont mind it a little bit at first....but even though i may be laughing when i ask you to stop, and you don't because i appear to be laughing.... i have no other way to communicate im getting really angry. |
Funny, I'm listening to the Old 97s sing, "and if you don't love me, would you please pretend?" at this moment. I don't believe in that, though. |
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By teasing, I mean joking with him. Don't worry: I don't make fun of him or cause him any pain. |
I was rediculously ticklish in early high school, but I think it was abused too much. It's nearly gone now. |
Ask him out Spider or I will kick your heiney. |
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when im accused of something i didnt do, or im not being believed....and its something potentiall serious, I laugh. I laugh out of sheer anger and frustration that I'm telling the truth and the other person is NOT getting it. They see me laughing and take me even less seriously, so I laugh some more. thats usually when I wish I had a big ass gun i could fire in the air and get everyones attention. |
express yourself. if you want to kiss him KISS HIM! If you want to hold his hold his hand!!!! shit maybe he has the wait and see policy two....and the two of ya will just sit there for the rest of your lives wondering if the other one feels the way you do. dodo birds!!! |
I have to be careful I don't mess things up. What if he thinks of me as just a friend, and I ruin everything? I would rather be around him as a friend than not be around him at all. This calls for discretion, not impulse. And what made you think about laughing when you're mad? Are you thinking of the Smiths song? |
the longer you go, the more likely he'll just think of you as a friend. |
i cant help to laugh when im not being taken seriously or being doubted. Its out of frustration and anger. Often I can't control hte laughing. The person Im talking to thinks im actually laughing out of good humor which just compounds the problem. How could you possibly mess things up by expressing yourself? If he wants to be your friend, he will be your friend and you inquiring as to the potential of the relationship is not something that should sabatoge it. but you've never been in a serious realtionship. so.... |
Cut *me* some slack. We've got a really good rapport. Just give me some time. |
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how should i say this? FUCK YOURSELF |
it is a generality, as stated. and perhaps i'm jaded by past relationships. but i've never seen a man crying at work. and if you think about how women, in general, treat each other, versus how men, in general, treat each other. the tendancy for excessive sensitivity is firmly in the female court. the tendancy for permenant grudgery is firmly in the female court. |
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listen spider, do what you feel is right, don't let us bully you into doing anything you don't want to. tease him, flirt with him, make him feel special. if he doesn't respond, then it just wasn't meant to be. |
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? ? ? ? ? ? the word is insane. mental. psycho. weird. strange. mad. loony. sanity challenged. |
wanna hear a wafflesong? gimme your email. |
didn't you have "free to be you and me" when you were a kid? |
instability happens. for many soldiers who participate in the battle between order and chaos, crying is a popular strategy. drinking is another. |
crying can be good, if done right. it's a good way to VENT. but so's writing, and talking, and so on. |
Damn, I can't wait to do it again. |
When he was first writing it, he wrote in a function that made him go after people who killed him more often since they were apparently the more skilled ones. But since the damn thing was so good at killing, it translated into revenge during gameplay. He'd be merciless to the ones who managed to kill him once by pure luck. |