"Netflix is becoming a graveyard stacked with dead series with unfinished conclusions." Paul Tassi, on the cancellation of the Netflix series 1899
Each Javelin round costs $80,000, and the idea that it's fired by a guy who doesn't make that in a year at a guy who doesn't make that in a lifetime is somehow so outrageous it almost makes the war seem winnable. - Sebastian Junger
From Crafting Scenes by Raymond Obstfeld In the final analysis, that’s the (scene) ending’s most important function: to make the reader satisfied with the scene she just read and to make her want to turn the page. Any ending that doesn’t do that is a bad ending.
No statement is so clear that it cannot be misinterpreted, but "fuck off" comes close. (Can I say fuck here or am I supposed to use f followed by three stars?)
In the New Member Start Guide it says: I can think of any number of times that members (and staff) have gotten away with swearing like sailors who were just under the legal limit in their respective jurisdictions, but that's just my memory talking, not an official rule or a staff opinion because I'm not staff anymore.
Yeah the line we take is that its not a problem so long as a) you're not swearing at anyone here and b) its not totally excessive... there was one now ex member who decided to shout fuuuuuck all over his profile info and every post he made because 'its just fun to do'... i had to tell him to knock that shit off because it got old pretty fuckin' quickly
Which reminds me of "Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggy!" while you're looking around for a stick." I don't know the source of that one.
The pissed-off truckdriver use of it is OK as long as you don't get carried away or direct it against somebody on the board.
I've never been a pissed-off truckdriver, but I have been a monumentally pissed-off biker more than once. A simple expletive was not sufficient for certain encounters with people in cages.
Actually, yeah. Above I was referring to cars and the idiots who don't notice bikes, but on a former job, I made more than one trip to the county detention center to talk to a caged client.
Funny because my sister's clients are never caged, but her patients often are. She's mentioned that the reverse should be true.
Damn, that's the second quote I thought was Shakespeare and wasn't. The first was Dorothy Parker's "What fresh hell is this?" which I could have sworn was from Hamlet.
All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every horrible thing you see. The civilized world reads about it, then forgets it, but pats you on the head for doing it and gives you a reward as appreciation for changing nothing. - David Baldacci
"Don’t do it," Eleanor told the little girl. "Insist on your cup of stars. Once they have trapped you into being like everyone else, you will never see your cup of stars again…" - Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
I first heard the song "Rain Just Falls" on a PBS songwriter's symposium back around 1979. It's by David Halley and the refrain continues to haunt me: "But it ain’t on your account that I’m leaving if I’m leaving Rain don’t fall for the flowers if it’s falling Rain just falls."
"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting the bull not to charge you because you are a vegetarian." -- Dennis Wholey
