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I've never given advice, but I've been on both sides of that. Usually when it's the non-sarcastic side it's because I've been having on off day and my sarcasm detection thingy is malfunctioning.

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I'm not sure my sarcasm detection thingy has ever worked. First thing I did when I saw Zanzjan's post was to try to remember all the stupid stuff I said and if it related. Luckily she said it wasn't here.


Must crawl back in hole. I need another 500 words before I cry about the quality.
 

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Ew service industry woes. I sympathise. *hugs*

I can do it (I have been a waitron for far too many years in the past) and I can put on the "Let me help you with that" face and be super-friendly and all that crap, but working in a restaurant taught me 2 things:

1) I loathe humanity

2) For a damn good reason.

That snow picture was gorgeous, btw.
 

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Ew service industry woes. I sympathise. *hugs*

I can do it (I have been a waitron for far too many years in the past) and I can put on the "Let me help you with that" face and be super-friendly and all that crap, but working in a restaurant taught me 2 things:

1) I loathe humanity

2) For a damn good reason.


That snow picture was gorgeous, btw.

Yes!

A billion times yes
 

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Ew service industry woes. I sympathise. *hugs*

I can do it (I have been a waitron for far too many years in the past) and I can put on the "Let me help you with that" face and be super-friendly and all that crap, but working in a restaurant taught me 2 things:

1) I loathe humanity

2) For a damn good reason.

That snow picture was gorgeous, btw.

Yes!

A billion times yes

There's this great Buffalo Tom song called Soda Jerk.

Jerked my fountain
Ice cream mountains
I suppose I'm just too late
Form a line here
I think I'll die here
These people nauseate me


I laughed out loud when the first time I ever heard it.
 

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the weather at my house. Picture courtesy of my big sister....

What a gorgeous photo! You live in a lovely place, Junely. :)

Working the graveyard shift at 7/11 for two years, even though it was in a very nice neighborhood, was the cause of my belief that all peeple is stoopidz.

You get some really, really strange ones at 3:45 am.

hm. I wonder what this says about me. ;) I have always been an insomniac and only sometimes sleep more than 6 hours (usually 4, sometimes not at all), so I have occasionally been shopping at 4am. On the plus side, the stores are nice and quiet, then! Even WalMarts!

Mostly, though, I listen to audiobooks or radio shows in the wee hours. At the moment, I'm listening to Bleak Expectations (half price at audible for a while), which has some of the best similes I've heard in ages (i.e., "Unburdoning myself to him was a strange sensation, like rubbing treacle into a dolphin or not punching a Frenchman.") :)

Anyway, I've got to get to work and sort out our file server... Hope you all have a lovely day! :)
 

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You folks make me smile. All of you.

But I still don't wanna get out of my cozy bed for work...
 

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Good Morning Friends!

I woke up and realized I have like three blogs that are over due for an update. So I'll be in my blogging cave for most of the morning. *yawns and chugs hot coco*

Read and comment? Here's a petition, if you want one.

Wow, this is interesting. When did credit cards start caring where their money goes? As long as they get paid back (with interest) it's none of their business what people are buying. And are they cracking down, say, on porn sites too? Very interesting.
 

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*pokes thread* Are we alive in here? Anyone else awake?

Come on, where's all you east coast people and Europeans?

Did Monday kill y'all and nobody told me? :(

*inserts coffee IV into thread* Maybe this will help. ;)

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*pokes thread* Are we alive in here? Anyone else awake?

Come on, where's all you east coast people and Europeans?

Did Monday kill y'all and nobody told me? :(

*inserts coffee IV into thread* Maybe this will help. ;)

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Don't poke a sleeping z-word. They'll get up and eat your brains!
 

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Sorry, unemployed slacker here (at least until the 26th). I only crawled out of bed at 10:45.

OTOH, I'm starting to feel like a normal human again. I think it's the whole "getting enough sleep" thing.
 

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Sorry, unemployed slacker here (at least until the 26th). I only crawled out of bed at 10:45.

OTOH, I'm starting to feel like a normal human again. I think it's the whole "getting enough sleep" thing.

Glad to know someone else is alive and kicking in here. I'm getting very lonely.
 

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Read and comment? Here's a petition, if you want one.

I'm torn about this to be honest... because of the aim of this is the incest porn stories... Like I Had Smex with Daddy. A lot of this started with All Romance Books.... They now have guildlines to suggest you not suggest incest in your book title. Probably a good idea. *shudder*

I do wish they would make a difference between erotica and straight up salacious porn. There is a difference...
 

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I'm torn about this to be honest... because of the aim of this is the incest porn stories... Like I Had Smex with Daddy. A lot of this started with All Romance Books.... They now have guildlines to suggest you not suggest incest in your book title. Probably a good idea. *shudder*

I do wish they would make a difference between erotica and straight up salacious porn. There is a difference...

I'm with BL on this, on both counts. I don't think there's ever a case for supporting anything depicting the sexual abuse of minors, regardless of how it is dressed up.

But it's a fine line with that rape one. Would Girl With the Dragon Tattoo violate that one, for example?

I would also think existing laws would sufficiently cover this, if they were enforced.

Worth pondering, at least.
 

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I'm torn about this to be honest... because of the aim of this is the incest porn stories... Like I Had Smex with Daddy. A lot of this started with All Romance Books.... They now have guildlines to suggest you not suggest incest in your book title. Probably a good idea. *shudder*

I do wish they would make a difference between erotica and straight up salacious porn. There is a difference...

I'm with BL on this, on both counts. I don't think there's ever a case for supporting anything depicting the sexual abuse of minors, regardless of how it is dressed up.

But it's a fine line with that rape one. Would Girl With the Dragon Tattoo violate that one, for example?

I would also think existing laws would sufficiently cover this, if they were enforced.

Worth pondering, at least.

I see what you guys are saying (and I agree, I'm not into Erotica or even normal Romance for the most part). I think the issue here is people's rights. Do these credit card companies have the right to pressure Paypal into pressuring book sellers on what they can and can not sell? There was another article I found Here that explains it a bit better. It's all about the money.
 

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Hihi all! How is everyone today? I turned in first round edits yesterday so I'm a little brain dead right now. :(
 

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But it's a fine line with that rape one. Would Girl With the Dragon Tattoo violate that one, for example?

Only my opinion, but probably not, because it's not the main focus of the story and isn't portrayed in a way that makes it seem like it's a good thing. Know what I mean?

Then again, I mean - if we took the stance that portraying things in works of fiction that are illegal (as in the four points that PayPal has a problem with) should be censored, we'd never have any murder mysteries and Hannibal would never have been published/filmed. But then there's the whole 'expressly for the purposes of titillation' angle... I can see both sides of that as regards written fiction, though. On the one hand, depicting it in written fiction doesn't actually hurt anyone and may help people with those urges to never act on them. On the other hand, it may make things worse.

It's pretty subjective... I can see why it's divisive!
 

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oh, and I had a terrible dream I was a vampire, and stuck with this little girl that I knew, but didn't know. She was a vampire, too, and let's just say... I didn't trust that little monster.

Write it! Srsly. With baron bacon!
 

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Write it! Srsly. With baron bacon!

we also had a vampire cat and a pigeon. We were in a car (the sun only didn't hurt us if we were behind glass, I guess, or maybe it was special glass) The brat threw the pigeon out and said "Oh, maybe it'll change back." When it just laid there, burning, she said she was going to go out and get it, despite the sun. I was scared, and at the same time, I wanted to lock her out. *shudders* How long before she threw me out in the sun???
 
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