First, you take a whole bunch of frogs…
A scary dessert salad. Calling it a salad at all is kind of misleading. It has nutrition stats which rival many fast food meals. 500+ calories and 34% of USRDA saturated fat per serving.
Enjoy,
Steven
I bet Opal could find a recipe for peanut butter-balls in this cookbook:
Sold! Except I don’t see any reason for the pasta. Perhaps some Jello instead.
Quivery Frog Eye Salad.
Excuse me, I have to see if I’m getting this. Nothing against Opal, but you say she’s been a “heroine around here.” Really? Really? I can only think of a couple of people over 9 years I would classify as that, and only one them posts here any more.
Celebrity <> Heroine
But you think apologies are useless, which leads me to believe that an apology from you is useless, so why bother?
I don’t believe you or Opal when it comes to “I don’t know the basic dynamics of getting along with people ie, ‘polite blindness’.” You do know; you are aware (if you weren’t, you wouldn’t know enough about it to explain your position so well). If you choose not to ue these tools, there is blowback. You say you’re sorry to clarify your position within the discussion or to smooth over possible hurt feelings. Others do the same for you. How come they have to do the dance and you get to just sit there and judge it (and through it, them)? It comes off, even here, as arrogant and self-centered. These are not qualities that are held in high esteem, generally. You know this as well.
We all have times when we don’t want to jump through the hoops of social discourse. Fine. But Opal seems to demonstrate her impatience with pro forma frequently. And there is this: there are limited ways to attach a ring to a necklace for quick and convenient removal. She’s not unintelligent and could figure this out herself. The purpose of that thread was not a quick release device for her ring, as someone upthread noted, but to draw attention to it and her new status. If you want us to ooh and aah over your ring/beauty/new car/buckeyes/hot bod/quilt/whatever–just say so. We’ll be happy to oblige. It’s more honest-something that Opal herself has said is important to her.
I cannot believe that anyone from the Midwest and Ohio in particular does not know of the Ohio State Buckeyes, the nut buckeye or the confection. If is true, that’s her ignorance and she should have thanked the posters for enlightening her–not lectured them on her vegetarian principles (which are bizarre).
Is she being Pitted for more than the buckeye thread? I’d say so. This is an example of thread drift, more so than the thread that spawned it.
and I am so making buckeyes for Xmas now–I have a craving for them. I’ve never seen them with graham cracker crumbs, though.
That picture. Oh, my god. That picture.
I feel ill.
It. Can’t… hurt-you.
- Jim Kirk
Yeah, I’ve seen it before, and it almost makes me physically ill. I’ve been in a cadaver dissection room at a university before and not felt that ill…and no, Gabriella was not my sock.
And it just stays there! I can’t get it out of my head!
I’m not from Ohio, and even I know what buckeyes are (yummy!) and that they’re not named after anything animal-related. You can call them peanut butter balls all you want, but people in Ohio are still gonna call them buckeyes.
I personally am very offended by Girl Scout cookies. Those poor Girl Scouts.
I don’t understand why anyone even tries to answer any of Opal’s questions any more. I actually had some useful information one time, but I thought it would be completely pointless to even try. Now I read her threads just for entertainment. It’s fun to see how nasty she can be to people who are trying to help her and how many ridiculous reasons she can come up with to explain why she just can’t do that, and would someone else please post some actually helpful information. :rolleyes:
I wonder where I can get a goat spleen bush to plant in my front yard.
Too true! Good to know I’m not the only one who thought that.
That was the joke.
-FrL-
I find it goes away if you imagine popping each delicious little worm out.
Speaking for myself, rather than trying to read Opal’s mind as in my previous posts: Of course I know, and I never said I didn’t know. I understand the dynamics. I know them. I don’t feel them in the way most seem to (at least w.r.t. verbal apologies) and I don’t understand why people think they’re worth anything. But as I explained in my very post, I understand the dynamic very well. I’ve done a lot of thinking about it in fact, and that is part of why I understand it.
Never said otherwise, and strongly implied otherwise, in fact.
See above.
I said in my post I choose to use these tools. Seriously, did you drop in from a parallel dimension where I wrote something completely different than what I wrote?
Who says anyone has to do the dance for me? Not I. I say quite the opposite. To my recollection, I have never asked anyone for an apology, I don’t think I ever would ask for one, and find it annoying and irrelevant when they are offered to me. I accept them in order to “be polite” but feel almost as dirty doing so as when I offer an apology myself. It’s a game I don’t understand the rationale for. I don’t care if you say you’re sorry, and I don’t understand why you care if I say it. It’s a phrase I could say with equal effect regardless of actual intentions, and is for that reason perfectly meaningless.
Very much part of what I was saying.
To avoid further psychoanalyzing/telepathizing Opal, I’ll refrain from addressing the rest of your post.
"You ever notice how men always leave the toilet seat up?
…
That’s the joke."
“You suck, McBain!”
Oh fuck you.
aggghhh
Awesome and I can totally hear the voices in my head. Now I am eager to watch the Simpsons tonight.
The Fuck it can’t!
<Whoomf>
<Whoompf>
::Runs::
I fucked your mom!