“Straight Jewish Woman” is offensive?
Yeah! IIRC Ted Nugent promised to be dead or in jail by 2013! Fucking liar.
What ever happened to Rush Limbaugh’s promise to move to Costa Rica?
No, it stands for Sarah Jessica Warker.
Maybe he meant “brain dead” by 2013. In which case he’s been spectacularly ahead of schedule.
What? Do you want the rain forest to get fouled up?
creepy. I thought this same thing on a completely different website yesterday, well before I saw your post just now.
Yeah, these people are idiots. What are they going to do if a candidate they agree with wins the next election four years from now? Move back here again? :dubious:
He heard about their drug laws.
My issue is this: If it’s really that bad, where the fuck are you gonna go? Even if you already have citizenship elsewhere, it’s unlikely you can escape. If the U.S. gets fucked up, then the rest of the world is in trouble, too. It’s not like the 2008 housing bubble affected only us.
Shh! Don’t spoil their righteous indignation with facts! Wait until they realize that for themselves. That’s the fun of schadenfreude!
This shouldn’t annoy me so much, but it does:
I found a set of carkeys, with a supermarket loyalty card attached, while I was walking along the main street today. Not being near the supermarket concerned, I took them to the local council offices to hand them in. They refused to take them, saying take them to the police station. Our local police station closed its door about a year ago, so that was fucking useful for a start.
Luckily, the nearby Post Office took them in instead, and I promised to post to Facebook’s group for our small town saying where they were. Sorted, right?
Nope, I now have three separate people replying telling me to take them to the supermarket who can trace the address.
a)Bit fucking late, read the post saying I DONT HAVE THEM ANYMORE.
b) I wasn’t going to walk half an hour out of my way to risk the supermarket also declining to take them.
c) If they’re not your keys, just move on to the next post, okay? Or if you must get involved, just share the damn picture and keep what I “should” have done to yourself.
Next time I’ll just walk past the stoopid keys. Or pick them up and go round all the local carparks looking for a new toy for me 
I did a double-take seeing this just now in the hospital gift shop.
Gee, I’m glad you care. :dubious:
Wow, there were intelligence failures several times along that line!
Awww I thought he was clever/cute!
Shows what I know…
I would have no issue getting that in the hospital. Tortoise wins the race. Slow and steady, don’t push it and you’ll heal quickly.
No, Famous Author, you should not be dispensing advice on how to begin a novel.
For one thing, it’s been twenty-five years since you had to hook an editor. You have no EFFING idea how the climate has changed in that time. You have no idea how difficult it is to get in the cracks. You have no idea how tricky beginnings are. And I know that because you got your foot in the door not on the beginning of your first novel–which is 150 pages of rambling irrelevance to the story that follows, and which SHOULD have been axed–but on a monologue that flattered and titillated your male agent.
Good for you. That first book was a great book. Majorly changed my life. Started me writing. Several of the books that came after were quite good, too.
But darling, fucking DO NOT dispense advice on how to begin a novel to writers who are trying to break into the market. You are overstepping your fucking bounds.
Can you tell us who this Famous Author is, or is it a secret?
I’d rather not. I don’t want to be nasty. It’s just that I’ve just finished rewriting the openings of two novels, one of them for the eighth time, and I’m waiting to hear back from my agent what she thinks of them (and if she accepts the eighth rewrite of that particular one, to tell her that she needn’t share the rejection letters this time), and it’s sort of a low point for me.
Word of advice: don’t scratch your cornea. I’ve gone through worse pain in my life, but never have I had to deal with pain that would not abate no matter what I did before. Also, waiting room suck even more than usual when you can’t even read to pass the time.
Thankfully, I’m feeling a whole lot better today.