The Not Happy Thread

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  1. Cave Troll

    Cave Troll It's Coffee O'clock everywhere. Contributor

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    I forgive you for this biting revelation. And I am sorry you see and think such things of me.
    I respect your views and opinions, and I respect your right to have them.
     
  2. The Dapper Hooligan

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    I like you, you're a fun guy and I don't really have any negative feelings towards you, but if I found myself in a pair of stirrups with you between my ankles, I too would be reevaluating the sequence of events that brought me there. And to be honest, I think you would do the same.
     
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    Imagine for a moment a graft or surgical reconstruction, and that such was subject to perpetual scrutiny and constant physical stress. That requires a carpet surgeon.
    Now consider a description of a surgical procedure, however gruesome :D There are no props or visuals, and yet there is presented enough detail to create the scene in the minds eye. CT, Super Genious! :-D
     
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    need to change fingers in that shot!
     
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  5. Rzero

    Rzero Reluctant voice of his generation Contributor

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    Day 3 of 7 with no air conditioner in the house. At least it's only 97° today! @#$% *]&% +$;% @^% #<^% /?&%* @#$% (*$[%^ *&#${%^ @#%>$^#^ !@#$}$%* (&^//!@!!!
     
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    California desert air is kicking me with those temps too. I always try the library or movie theater during the day.
     
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  7. Cave Troll

    Cave Troll It's Coffee O'clock everywhere. Contributor

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    I think its funny everybody razzes me. :rofl:

    And here I am thinking that the sweet old
    ladies who are liberal with the 10g+ needles
    and such, make me me look like a kitten by
    comparison. Apparently being a guy and
    someone who doesn't want to be considered
    scary, is. Yet nobody bats an eye at Granny
    in welders gear, using a blow torch to shave
    their subs junk. Tomato suspension bridge
    right...:rofl:
     
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    :superlaugh:
     
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    I suspect that's because sweet old ladies with piercings and a blow torch obsession don't routinely go on writers forums to post about it... you kind of ask for the attention you get by making a big deal about it on a forum not dedicated to the subject.

    Imagine this was a meatspace writers group - each of the members are introducing themselves "Hey I'm sue and I write romance, that's great I'm bob and I write thrillers.... Hi everyone I'm cave troll and I write Sci fi, but hey never mind that, did I tell you about my fetish for dressing up as a dentist..."
     
  10. Rzero

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    Except that if this were that, Sue and Bob would be respectively obsessed with and talk just as incessantly about the military and a cat or English tea and mechanical engineering. Everyone here's got their thing they talk about that isn't writing. I mention my kid more than anyone probably cares to hear. In my case, it's all I have going on outside writing at the moment.
     
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    this is true but i'm not complaining that people are singling me out as that military guy... or hey moose he drinks tea.

    My point is that if you (or more pertinently CT) don't want to be thought of as "that guy with the medical fetish thing" may be having a big reveal of opening a box of surgical gloves, or posting pictures of your scourged back isn't the way to go

    If the grandma who likes blow torching her subs junk were a member and regularly talked about that, she'd definitely get razzed for it (except that she'd have got banned as thats way over the acceptability line)
     
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    Fair enough. You're probably not wrong in your assessment of fault, but The Not Happy Thread is a place we complain about things that we, as often as not, brought on ourselves. I know I do.
     
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    It was actually a little comforting to me to know that his hands weren't as large as they looked in his avatar.

    Just know that if I poke a bit of fun, I do it with all the love I have in my heart.
     
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  14. Cave Troll

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    At least I don't moonlight as a ventriloquist. :superlaugh:
     
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    Suddenly confronted by circumstances which I have been putting off. Anxiety through the roof. :(
     
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    I happen to be in love with a woman who likes the color teal. I also happen
    to not be a fan the greasy feel of cocoa butter. I am however a fan of pampering
    my lady. So it was from a romantic gesture, and show that I care about the
    simple things. Who doesn't like a partner they love that goes the extra bit,
    to make them feel special? So if planning ahead and paying attention to
    my partners likes is messed up, then I will plead guilty on all accounts. :)
    (Also I give one hell of a full body massage). :p
    So if trying be a better guy is wrong, while sharing with a lover in their own
    personal way is wrong, then god help me I don't want to be right. :D

    There is your context. :)
     
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    It is a very nice colour. It has to be said.

    teal.png
     
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    One of my personal favorites.
     
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    Hopped out of the shower to find my cat was sitting on the sink and she stayed there watching me as I toweled off and got dressed. She's been a good cat this past decade, but it may be time for her to go.
     
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    Similar story: I was taking a whiz the other day and my dog decided to poke his head over the toilet. Long story short, he needed a bath anyway.
     
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    You, sir, are a freak, deviant, miscreant, and a malcontent.

    Shame.
     
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    @The Dapper Hooligan and @Homer Potvin but on the other hand, your respective fur children have obviously inherited your writers' curiosities and general sense of "twisted", so there's that...
     
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    If I was browsing the paperbacks in a bookshop and read that as an opening line to one of the books, I'd be taking it straight to the counter, payment at the ready.
     
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