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05-18-2009, 11:43 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2004
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Shannon insisted that she wasn't sick and that it was just allergies but now I have the same symptoms, bitch lied to me : (
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05-19-2009, 12:45 PM
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#552
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: On the fast road to Nowtown!
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Fucking sinuses...
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05-19-2009, 03:40 PM
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#554
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Earth.
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I made a bad mixed drink and wasted a splash of peach schnapps.
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05-19-2009, 06:47 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: London
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I am in serious danger of buying another fur coat.
There is a second hand one, nearly forty years old, going on offers. It's timberwolf, nine pelt, and not from any farmed animals. I love old furs. Very warm, very beautiful, and better to reuse the things than to bury or burn them as some animal rights groups seem to wish. It's from Northern Canada, originally, where such an item would have been practal rather than purely luxurious.
And I will freely and openly admit- it's beautiful. I like beautiful things, I like wearing and being seen to wear beautiful things. I won't buy new furs, I don't support fur farming. But this thing is beautiful, not farmed, and rather older than me. I want it. I dread to think how much it could end up costing.
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05-19-2009, 06:53 PM
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#556
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Earth.
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Go for it.
Why was that a rant, haha?
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05-19-2009, 06:53 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: NoVA
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You would have LOVED this old coat of my grandmother's. It was probably a good fifty years old, and it was.. fur seal? This lovely, rich, velvety brown. It was a beautiful coat. Very flapper-esque.
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05-19-2009, 07:13 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: London
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Ophie- it was a rant because I need to be saving money and have no willpower when faced with things that I want. I really want it, but I also want to have internet and food for the next month. Should have made that clearer.
Oooohh.... damn it, I just want to be swathed in the skins of powerful predators.
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The noblest sentiment I have encountered and the most passionate political statement to stir my heart both belong to a fictional character. Why do we have no politicians as pure in their intent and determinedly joyous in their outlook as Arkady Bogdanov of Red Mars?
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05-19-2009, 07:47 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
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Originally Posted by Delkaetre
Ophie- it was a rant because I need to be saving money and have no willpower when faced with things that I want. I really want it, but I also want to have internet and food for the next month. Should have made that clearer.
Oooohh.... damn it, I just want to be swathed in the skins of powerful predators.
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I WILL FUCK YOU WITH A GUN IN MY HAND!
Is that what you want, Delk?!
TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT FROM ME!!!!!
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05-19-2009, 09:06 PM
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#560
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Join Date: Nov 2006
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My boyfriend's Mom has cancer, and I've no idea what to say for fear of saying the wrong thing, and it makes me feel like a stupid and useless twat.
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05-19-2009, 09:22 PM
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#561
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Cali
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Its pretty hard to say the wrong thing. Back when I was going through everything with my dad there were quite a few times when Jake said things that were a bit upsetting but to be honest it was far better that he say those things than constantly worry about what was okay for him to say. It is really hard to get through the day when everyone around you is walking on eggshells and it really made it hard for me to talk to people about what was going on but I knew that I could always take to Jake.
I hope the best for his mother.
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05-19-2009, 09:27 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
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Thank you, Solumina. I just hate making people feel worse... and I *know* it's usually worse to say nothing, but... I find it difficult.
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05-19-2009, 09:38 PM
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#563
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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Do they know if she's going to be okay?
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05-20-2009, 10:06 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
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She has to start treatment within a month (so on top of that, they had to cancel a fairly costly Mediterranean cruise), but I don't know what kind she has...
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05-20-2009, 10:18 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Cali
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Well you can never quite tell how these things will go but they wouldn't have recommended canceling the trip if she didn't have a fighting chance.
Also since you mentioned that you want to talk to him but don't really know what to say I really want to encourage you to tell him just that so he knows that your not talking about it isn't because you are avoiding talking about it, this way he knows that if he wants to talk he knows that he can go to you. Sometimes people think that just because they are your best friend or significant other that it goes without saying that you can always talk to them but when you are going through something like this it really turns your world upside down and all of those unspoken things just go right out the window and you need to hear them said.
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05-20-2009, 10:42 AM
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I am planning on telling him that next time I talk to him. It's another thing that's been torturing me, is that I'm afraid he'll think I'm avoiding the issue.
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05-20-2009, 02:08 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Delkaetre
I am in serious danger of buying another fur coat.
There is a second hand one, nearly forty years old, going on offers. It's timberwolf, nine pelt, and not from any farmed animals. I love old furs. Very warm, very beautiful, and better to reuse the things than to bury or burn them as some animal rights groups seem to wish. It's from Northern Canada, originally, where such an item would have been practal rather than purely luxurious.
And I will freely and openly admit- it's beautiful. I like beautiful things, I like wearing and being seen to wear beautiful things. I won't buy new furs, I don't support fur farming. But this thing is beautiful, not farmed, and rather older than me. I want it. I dread to think how much it could end up costing.
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Without wanting to be "that" guy........ isn't wearing it in itself a statement that it's beautiful and desirable, whether it affects current farming or not? I can't help but feel that that's to the detriment of the cause you seem to be generally against.
La BelleDame - you can't really "do" anything. Just be there, let him be cranky, and let him have his way over the little things. And Solumina's right - it's better to say the wrong thing than nothing at all and just sit there making sad eyes and sympathetic head-tilts when he talks about it. People often aren't as fragile as we expect them to be when the shit hits the fan. Good luck to all of you - let us know if it turns out okay.
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05-20-2009, 02:10 PM
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#568
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: At work.
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Life is hell right now. I hate Arizona.
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05-20-2009, 06:06 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Earth.
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Why could she just not count the stupid pre-tests, instead of giving me a day and a half to do 19 of them!?
And I also have science to make up.
If I don't I will flunk, or pass with a "D" which, would still get me grounded...maybe.
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05-20-2009, 06:24 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
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Originally Posted by LaBelleDameSansMerci
My boyfriend's Mom has cancer, and I've no idea what to say for fear of saying the wrong thing, and it makes me feel like a stupid and useless twat.
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Don't say anything.
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05-20-2009, 07:12 PM
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#571
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Join Date: Nov 2006
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Ophelia, do you say that in jest? Or to give me bad advice? If neither, why? I ask because internet isn't the best at conveying sarcasm and body language and tone...
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05-20-2009, 11:20 PM
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Originally Posted by LaBelleDameSansMerci
Ophelia, do you say that in jest? Or to give me bad advice? If neither, why? I ask because internet isn't the best at conveying sarcasm and body language and tone...
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I'm not joking and I don't care enough about you to give you bad advice.
There is nothing you can say to make the situation any better or less terrifying. Someone dealing with this doesn't need words.
Just be there.
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05-21-2009, 12:24 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Cali
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Have you gone through that Ophie? Being there for someone is all well and good but for most people the words do make quite a difference.
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05-21-2009, 02:25 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Cali
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Gah my sinuses are pissing me off, a good saline rinse seemed to help a bit but I'm still a long way from being clear and pain free
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05-21-2009, 08:38 AM
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: Ipoh,Malaysia
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La Belledame - I have a friend's mum passed away due to cancer and i understand a bit of your situation..I agree with Ophie though...Sometime you don't need a word but your presence will make a different...
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