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• #1   oi

  ouch!

  Jan 29, 2010 at 6:04 pm   rating: 7  
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  • #1.1   oi

    well, this is embarrassing. nobody gets it? absolutely nobody?
    what am I suppose to do? Explain it? What if even then nobody finds it amusing? that’d be embarrassing times 10. fuck it.

    Jan 29, 2010 at 7:49 pm   rating: 15  
     
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• #2   Yertle the Turtle

  Is she truly happy about this, or is it sarcasm? I’d think the latter, but that smiley face tells me otherwise…

  Jan 29, 2010 at 6:08 pm   rating: 3  
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  • #2.1   oi

    sarcasm? no my dear, it’s called keeping color in your cheeks by slapping yourself in face.

    Jan 29, 2010 at 6:12 pm   rating: 27  
     

  • #2.2   Liz

    I think it’s that horribly unconvincing thing some people do when their pride has been hurt, it is basically the equivalent of wearing a sign around your neck saying “don’t pity me! I am TOTALLY FINE!” while cutting yourself.

    Jan 29, 2010 at 6:18 pm   rating: 31  
     

  • #2.3   mamason

    aka-False bravado.

    Jan 29, 2010 at 6:34 pm   rating: 2  
     

  • #2.4   park rose

    or, unveiled sarcasm.

    Jan 29, 2010 at 7:30 pm   rating: 6  
     

  • #2.5   oi

    you don’t scare me mama, not at all. Isn’t bravado always suppose to be fake? bravery however…

    If you need to contact me I will be hiding working in Siberia

    Jan 29, 2010 at 8:12 pm   rating: 6  
     

  • #2.6   infant tyrone

    oi!,
    A quick review of etymology and definitions for bravado makes me think that, even though in common usage it will refer to ‘fake bravery’ 99% of the time, you will probably not get arguments from academics or lexicographers if you use it to indicate the sort of bravery you get from ‘pumping yourself up’ or the sort of outward appearance you project when you ‘put on a show’ to intimidate an opponent. It doesn’t ½ 2B fake.

    But, if you’re worried about Mamason Putin you in your place…Siberia might not be the best place to hide work.

    Jan 29, 2010 at 8:33 pm   rating: 6  
     

  • #2.7   oi

    I did not know that there was a difference between putting on a show and being fake.

    Jan 29, 2010 at 9:33 pm   rating: 10  
     

  • #2.8   park rose

    Bravo is as Bravo do…

    It’s an expression, oi. But I’m sure you know that ♥

    P.S.: mine is not an expression.

    Jan 29, 2010 at 9:53 pm   rating: 1  
     

  • #2.9   infant tyrone

    oi!,
    Take a very basic, face-to-face situation, say a boxing match. Putting on a show to intimidate an opponent can entail making scowly faces at the other fighter before the match begins or maybe shaking the head after receiving a solid punch to tell the other fighter that the punch did not hurt much. Neither of these (especially the first) is necessarily fake. If your bit of bluster before the fight starts can intimidate an opponent, it could result in you getting hit 10-20-30 fewer times during the match (and make it more likely that you will win). Energy wisely invested to reduce bruising.

    It can work in warfare too, but with more complicated footwork due to the large number of soldiers involved.

    Jan 29, 2010 at 10:57 pm   rating: 2  
     

  • #2.10   TheOldSchool

    I see the smiley face as merely a natural display of unbrided enthusiasm.

    Jan 30, 2010 at 1:21 am   rating: 16  
     

  • #2.11   oi

    ok. so you
    1) tried to show a difference between being fake and putting on a show for a moment or not.
    2) are saying that bravado is not a pretended bravery.
    Look ty, I really don’t have patience for arguing about glaringly obvious things. so go ahead and throw a block party. You just won this argument!

    Jan 30, 2010 at 7:26 am   rating: 7  
     

  • #2.12   Sue Do Nim

    False bravado.
    Safe haven.
    Redundant? Sure.
    Perfectly acceptable? Of course.

    Jan 30, 2010 at 12:03 pm   rating: 4  
     

  • #2.13   infant tyrone

    oi!,
    It wasn’t an argument, not on my side anyway.
    It was about as argumentative as stating the specific gravity of sodium.

    Sure, its 11 electrons/protons and 12 neutrons give it an atomic weight of 23 and a s.g. of 0.98.
    But if you could isolate or create an isomeric sample with one or more extra neutrons per atom, you might be able to get it to sink in water.

    You’re invited to the block party if you have time.
    It runs on Gimlet Avenue from Jumbo Shrimp Street to Near Miss Circle.
    Wait, that’s the parade route for St. Oxymoron’s Day.
    Oh, just drop by the ‘hood, it’ll be glaringly obvious where it’s at.

    Jan 30, 2010 at 2:23 pm   rating: 6  
     

  • #2.14   mamason

    Why would anyone be afraid of me? Do I come across as anything other than sweetness and light? Let me know who said so and I’ll kick their ass.

    Jan 30, 2010 at 4:34 pm   rating: 8  
     

  • #2.15   oi

    oh I see you were not arguing.
    Let’s rewind, shall we?

    I pointed out in a playful way to mama that false bravado is kinda redundant because false part is included in bravado.
    You said,
    “you will probably not get arguments from academics….”
    [nope not a challenging language at all]

    Summing up you said that I would not get points for using” fake bravery” in place of “pumping yourself” in a convoluted language.

    Basically you challenged me for something I never said to start with. [because whatever your fact was, it was not "false bravado is not redundant", and if it was then it's of course not a fact]

    Just for you recap one more time,
    Nope you were not arguing or challenging me in anyway.
    you were just stating a fact which had nothing to do with what i said except that it included one -two words from what I said but of course in a challenging language.

    Dude, do they pay you for this shit? Why would anybody write such a useless crap?
    They certainly are not paying me, so this is the last time I read your post. [also for the sake of my sanity]

    Jan 31, 2010 at 12:53 am   rating: 3  
     

  • #2.16   oi

    oh mama I love your reply. I wish I can thumb it more than once.

    Jan 31, 2010 at 12:54 am   rating: 1  
     

  • #2.17   oi

    reading this whole thread again, I can see that you were talking about the other use of bravado as in more pronounced expression of your abilities* for strategic advantage in war/match etc. It was glaringly obvious that I was talking about bravado as in pretension of bravery but you took it completely out of context as in stand alone statement and challenged me for something I never said. What the hell? I guess it’s better for everybody that I don’t read your vertigo inducing comments. Probably others love it but I can’t stand it.
    * however it’s still up for the debate that it would be fake or not, as true measure of the ability won’t be confirmed until the result of the match.

    Jan 31, 2010 at 1:33 am   rating: 3  
     

  • #2.18   infant tyrone

    @2.5 (8:12 PM) Isn’t bravado always suppose to be fake?
    @2.17 (1:33 AM) …I can see that you were talking about the other use of bravado…

    Somewhere in the 321 minutes between these two you seem to have either discovered or remembered that bravado is not necessarily fake. Hmmm.

    I was curious about whether Mamason’s “false bravado” was redundant.
    I found evidence to suggest that the farther back in time we go, the less redundant it is. That is (like I said at the beginning), probably 99% of people today imply falseness when they use the word bravado, but at some point (maybe 200 years ago) that figure would have been more like 50%.
    Some online dictionaries today do not refer at all to false bravery/courage but only to the swaggering/blustering outward appearance involved.
    So, my take-away from this is that although “safe haven” is redundant, “false bravado” is more clarifying than redundant.

    Sorry, I have no clue what you are referring to with the word “challenged”, so I really can’t address that.

    I will challenge your last sentence, though. I propose that what the result of the match will tend to demonstrate is not whether the show of bravery was fake or not (that’s something we would only know by knowing what was actually in the bravado-displaying fighter’s mind). I would say the result of the match will tell us is whether that display was justified.

    Sorry if this makes you vertiginous.
    If so, yeah, probably better if you scroll through in the future.
    I’m really not trying to make anyone dizzy, least not that’a'way.

    Jan 31, 2010 at 11:27 am   rating: 2  
     

  • #2.19   oi

    Did you say something? yes you did. Do I care what was that anymore? nope. Go overboard and directly address it to me. Am I going to read it? nope.

    Jan 31, 2010 at 12:04 pm   rating: 2  
     

  • #2.20   GhostWriter

    I realize that nobody is listening to/reading this thread anymore, but I think it’s important to point out a glaring error on the part of Infant Tyrone.

    The number of subatomic particles per atom is not a reliable determiner of specific gravity.

    Witness potassium, an element similar to sodium, but with a much larger number of neutrons (et al.) and yet a lower specific gravity.

    In addition, you need not create some oddball sodium atom to get it to sink in water; you need only to heat the sodium to about 90°C. When you then drop it in 90° water, sure- it’ll sputter, hiss and smoke, but it will also sink.

    Seriously; try it!

    Feb 1, 2010 at 3:39 pm   rating: 2  
     

  • #2.21   infant tyrone

    GW,

    I remember my 1967 high school chemistry demo of sodium and water.
    I’ll take your word for the behavior on and then in 194° F. water as well as for the contrast with potassium.

    My idea was that if you could indefinitely keep adding neutrons to sodium, then eventually you would change the SG. Maybe if they were truant Catholic neutrons that would be different (cause you can’t count on them for Mass).

    If as a thought experiment that doesn’t make it for some reason, feel encouraged to school me again. Science is almost always fun + useful.

    Thanks,
    ty

    P.S. Fun and useful and, as I think Richard Feynman said, in effect,
    “…the business of finding out for sure that we’re wrong about something.”

    Feb 1, 2010 at 4:33 pm   rating: 1  
     

  • #2.22   anglophile

    Wow. You guys just totally lost me.

    But then, I went to public schools, so you know….

    Feb 1, 2010 at 4:37 pm   rating: 1  
     

  • #2.23   AhSookieSookieNow!

    Am I wrong, or are we witnessing intelligado and erudado here? (Subtlety is so easily lost in electronic communication, I thought I’d better ask to be sure.)

    Feb 2, 2010 at 11:25 am   rating: 2  
     

  • #2.24   infant tyrone

    Yes, you are not wrong, although that can mean more than one thing.

    Unless you meant something like surveillance and erosion, in which case you’d be so far off base that you’d be in the Superbowl.

    And if you meant intelligatio/erudatio, wait for GW’s input, cuz this Homey don’t play that…

    Feb 2, 2010 at 12:18 pm   rating: 0  
     

  • #2.25   oi

    @ 2.23 I started reading your comment and felt like your style is kinda close to certain somebody I distaste. so had to stop in the middle. Nothing personal though.

    Feb 2, 2010 at 2:04 pm   rating: 0  
     

  • #2.26   GhostWriter

    I have only played a few roles ending in “…atio.” They include Horatio (Hamlet), and a one-man show featuring the musings of Patricia, Jackie Onassis’s jealous sister-in-law (Patio).

    Currently, I am working on an aria titled, Truant Catholic Neutrons (in B-flat minor).

    Feb 2, 2010 at 2:05 pm   rating: 2  
     

  • #2.27   Sirius¤

    Truant Catholic Minors is more likely to get the Church’s blessing. They never had much use for science.

    Feb 2, 2010 at 2:51 pm   rating: 1  
     

  • #2.28   hehe

    I heart Feynman

    Feb 2, 2010 at 3:30 pm   rating: 1  
     

  • #2.29   infant tyrone

    GW,
    1) You may need to check with ASCAP or something like it.
    I saw a punk group called Truant Catholic Neutrons in the early ’80′s.
    I may have them confused with a choir called Truant Catholic Neuters. Just a letter or two can make such a difference.
    DOB >>>>DOA a lifetime’s worth of difference

    2) Maybe a duo-show with the famous Symbionese Liberation Army hostage and JO’s SIL exchanging handslaps/claps and raps?
    Pattycake on the Patio
    or JO’s SIL delivering the lines in a Creole dialect?
    Patois on the Patio
    If I get a vote, I’m thinking franchise.

    Sirius,
    Science/Church…yeah, definitely trailing edge in a good century.
    But they were hell on wheels for surgery on boys that could sing, no?

    Both y’all make me feel young + silly like Kenneth the Page.

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• #3   Fresca

  I have to admit, I find this kind of awesome.

  Jan 29, 2010 at 6:11 pm   rating: 5  
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  • #3.1   TheOldSchool

    That’s kind of brave of you to admit, Fresca.

    Jan 30, 2010 at 11:45 pm   rating: 1  
     
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• #4   anna

  you gotta look on the bright side!

  Jan 29, 2010 at 6:13 pm   rating: 3  
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  • #4.1   PA all over the place

    … or look at the bride side!

    Jan 29, 2010 at 6:30 pm   rating: 11  
     

  • #4.2   MAMARILLA2

    Life’s a piece of shit when you look at it. Life’s a laugh and death’s a joke; it’s true.
    Always look on the bright side of life.

    Jan 30, 2010 at 11:03 am   rating: 6  
     

  • #4.3   Fanboy Wife

    So her wedding was cancelled but she is still waiting for her dress? Is she saving it for when she gets engaged again?

    Jan 30, 2010 at 5:27 pm   rating: 1  
     

  • #4.4   chilly

    She’s probably already paid for the dress and is waiting for it to arrive so she can sell it and recoup the costs.

    Feb 1, 2010 at 2:38 am   rating: 1  
     
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• #5   infant tyrone

  Went to a wedding about 1980 in Seattle where the groom never showed.

  Compared to the angst + anger-filled church that left, this is merciful.

  Hope the cost of the dress was refunded. Take notes, save receipts, and never be afraid to call your credit card company’s fraud department.

  Jan 29, 2010 at 6:14 pm   rating: 19  
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• #6   Melissa

  Holy… just… Wow. This girl is cah-razy!

  Everyone knows need to order your dress at least 6 months in advance.

  Jan 29, 2010 at 6:24 pm   rating: 8  
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  • #6.1   jadefirefly

    Oh, at least! And that’s if it doesn’t need to be altered to fit.

    Can you imagine the status updates if the wedding -was- still on? Hoo boy.

    Jan 29, 2010 at 7:24 pm   rating: 5  
     

  • #6.2   TheOldSchool

    Yet there were people who snickered when I opened my nudist wedding chapel.

    Jan 30, 2010 at 1:24 am   rating: 15  
     

  • #6.3   park rose

    Well, it was cold, but really! Grandma’s pince-nez, which fortunately magnified everything, did come in handy. Can you really blame us for our mirth and stifled glee (in the name of decorum)? As you stood there officiating, everything looked, well, so disproportionate. One good thing, though, was that at least the best man didn’t have to worry about dropping the rings. The human body comes equipped with so many useful appendages.

    Jan 30, 2010 at 1:41 am   rating: 4  
     

  • #6.4   infant tyrone

    The “Bridal Chorus,” played at almost all traditional weddings as the happy couple marches to the altar, is sung in quite a different setting in Richard Wagner’s opera Lohengrin. In this opera, the chorus starts singing as the hero, Lohengrin, accompanied by his new wife, Elsa, enters the bridal chamber, which is dominated by a very large bed. Their attendants then help them disrobe for their wedding night. Because of this sexually oriented scene, some religious sects have objected to using the “Bridal Chorus” as a wedding march.

    Sometimes it’s pince-nez, sometimes opera glasses.
    Like the physicists say, what is observed depends on the instrumentation.

    Jan 30, 2010 at 2:30 pm   rating: 3  
     

  • #6.5   Sirius¤

    Here comes the bride!

    Jan 30, 2010 at 5:36 pm   rating: 1  
     
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• #7   Bunnee

  Wow. I’m kind of new at Facebook, but is her profile picture a wedding dress?

  Jan 29, 2010 at 6:38 pm   rating: 0  
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  • #7.1   Kirsten

    I think the wedding dress has been pasted over the top of the profile pic so we can’t see who it is

    Jan 29, 2010 at 7:11 pm   rating: 8  
     

  • #7.2   Neeners

    Or did she just want all her friends to imagine how she would have looked in the dress?

    Jan 29, 2010 at 10:55 pm   rating: 0  
     
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• #8   Escape Goat

  Nothing like an awkward, 3rd-person tragic narrative. Thanks again, FB.

  Jan 29, 2010 at 6:44 pm   rating: 9  
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• #9   Rose

  Several months later, she posts her suicide note as a facebook status update.

  Jan 29, 2010 at 6:55 pm   rating: 3  
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  • #9.1   infant tyrone

    In a parallel universe, one in which Annemaria Schroedinger’s cat survived, her status update consists of court documents relating to her mental state, 30-day incarceration for involuntary “man”slaughter, 200 hours of community service, and 2 years of follow-up observation.

    Barely heard by her attorney during her plea agreement allocution…
    “I thought getting that guy off the gameboard was community service !
    Oh, I’ll follow up all right, but next time, no stabbing.”

    Jan 29, 2010 at 7:12 pm   rating: 2  
     

  • #9.2   Neeners

    Her inner child screaming, “I gave up a year of Doritos and ice cream so I could fit in the damn dress and Tim calls it off. Someone’s gotta pay damn it! Now I’m listening to my mother say I told you so constantly…..that Tim is a no good *&^%$… and your not getting any younger.”

    Pan to Miss Jilted a month later: sitting on her sofa watching reruns of Family Feud and wearing the beautiful wedding dress covered in orange nacho cheese handprints that she should have worn in October. She had asked the UPS man if he was single, but now incoherent, drooling, and dishelved, she makes Baby Jane look good, doritos bags and empty Haagen Daaz containers scatter the the floor ….(insert more here)

    Jan 29, 2010 at 10:58 pm   rating: 2  
     

  • #9.3   AuntyBron

    Hey, for Doritos and Haagen Daaz I’d get jilted, too.

    Jan 30, 2010 at 12:38 am   rating: 1  
     

  • #9.4   Neeners

    I’m a Lay’s person myself…..but enough about my sex life.

    Jan 30, 2010 at 5:26 pm   rating: 1  
     
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• #10   Lulabelle

  Every cloud really does have a silver lining!

  Jan 29, 2010 at 7:00 pm   rating: 2  
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• #11   rossy

  I would take status updates like this over the hundreds of anti-Obama soapbox speeches from my “friends” any day…

  Jan 29, 2010 at 7:01 pm   rating: 36  
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  • #11.1   Neeners

    Tell me about it…I can’t get one damn email message from my uncle that isn’t some right wing bs or anti Obama propaganda. He’s ruined everything you know… Just push delete when I see his name anymore

    Jan 29, 2010 at 11:08 pm   rating: 4  
     
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• #12   pony girl

  Maybe she can spend her alone time learning when to use ‘was’ and when to use ‘were.’

  Jan 29, 2010 at 7:11 pm   rating: 7  
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  • #12.1   park rose

    Disagree.
    Sorry, ty (below). Didn’t realise yours was a gigglebrax attempt.

    Jan 29, 2010 at 7:33 pm   rating: 0  
     

  • #12.2   infant tyrone

    ‘at’s OK, rose…
    I was gonna delete + repost, but I saw a chance to look for a good version of Bruce’s Bondage Anthem so I could reprise the power/trust thing.

    But I was blind to the bridle/bridal possibilities.

    Someone’s been gone too long, and it weren’t we.

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• #13   infant tyrone

  Hey PG,

  Welcome back.
  Early cold if you’re home.

  Finally, someone in this cyber-dump who knows that the subjunctive is more than just the half of the power-and-trust duo in the half-inch sisal !

  Ooops, nesting failure !
  Just to make up for it, here’s a powerful tune I trust you’ll like.
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-EDQEgESvw

  *Scoped over a page of YT clips but they’re all muddy arena sound…
  so we luck out with the debut live performance…y’all deserve the best.

  Jan 29, 2010 at 7:21 pm   rating: 1  
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• #14   Hmmm

  Am I the only one who wonders if Tim had something to do with the dress being “delayed”?

  Jan 29, 2010 at 7:29 pm   rating: 1  
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• #15   Neeners

  Me thinks she is still thinking about the damn dress even though she doesn’t need it anymore. And she is posting it so all of her ‘friends’ and tim can see it as well. Hmmmm….. Well who dodged the bullet here tim or dress girl???? I think she has major issues and her life is not so ‘awesome’. Next post will be asking all her friends how to make homemade pipe bombs or something. =o(

  Jan 29, 2010 at 7:36 pm   rating: 1  
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  • #15.1   FeRD

    Um, yeah. “Dodged a bullet” is referring to *Tim*. That much seems clear.

    Jan 29, 2010 at 7:42 pm   rating: 3  
     

  • #15.2   park rose

    I thought it referred to her, as in she dodged one. But there isn’t enough info to go on. I agree with number 11. Agree with mama, too, I think it’s false bravado, and I don’t think it’s a smiley face. I think it’s a shocked face with a chin… but then, I’m not an expert on emoticons.

    Jan 29, 2010 at 10:04 pm   rating: 0  
     

  • #15.3   TheOldSchool

    You’re all wrong. I’ve made the study of emoticons my life’s work, and I can state definitively that the one this woman used was what we in A.E.S. call the “partially nibbled Cheerio.”

    In many cultures, a jilted bride employs the pnc as a means of signalling to other potential mates that, while her hymen may now be somewhat tattered, it is still reasonably intact.

    “Just for you! Special deal. You. Me. Sleep. Make baby. Upstairs. Now. No. You no need wait for dress. Fuck dress.”

    Jan 30, 2010 at 1:36 am   rating: 3  
     

  • #15.4   anglophile

    \o/

    Jan 30, 2010 at 7:31 am   rating: 1  
     

  • #15.5   park rose

    |0|

    Jan 30, 2010 at 10:25 am   rating: 1  
     

  • #15.6   infant tyrone

    You make boom-boom, me lie back and think about Thailand ?

    P.S. (rose, |o| = absolute value of “O” ? or absolute value of zero ?)

    Jan 30, 2010 at 10:36 am   rating: 0  
     

  • #15.7   park rose

    Jet Jackson determined that this emoticon = ‘meat curtains’.

    Jan 30, 2010 at 10:50 am   rating: 2  
     

  • #15.8   anglophile

    I thought that was {o}

    Or is that just me?

    Jan 30, 2010 at 1:00 pm   rating: 3  
     

  • #15.9   infant tyrone

    I’m thinking the carnal variety surely outstrips the range of intuitively graspable typographic symbology. Not that there’s etc.

    Jan 30, 2010 at 2:43 pm   rating: 1  
     

  • #15.10   park rose

    Ah, it was me, ‘glo. Maybe I should edit my comment? Shouldn’t be late night after drinking posting allowed. *sigh*

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• #16   Indira

  A few weeks after my beau called off the wedding, I realised I’d had a lucky escape and was in “life is awesome” mode, too. But then, we hadn’t set a date and I hadn’t been dress shopping!

  Jan 29, 2010 at 7:49 pm   rating: 2  
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• #17   Ethnic Avenue

  I would be calling off the friendship.

  Jan 29, 2010 at 8:26 pm   rating: 0  
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• #18   snatchbeast

  Team Tim, obviously

  Jan 29, 2010 at 9:26 pm   rating: 0  
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• #19   DC

  Seems more like an invitation to a pity party (aka begging for attention) rather than bravado. THen again, isn’t that what FB is for (according to half the self-indulgent posts I see)? ell-oh-ell and smiley face

  Jan 29, 2010 at 9:35 pm   rating: 1  
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• #20   Pterosaur

  Previous Facebook updates:

  “It’s totally COOL that the florist lost my order. Those imported orchids would’ve clashed with my hair ANYWAY.”

  “It’s really FINE that little Sarah has chicken pox. Flower girls are SO last season. Didn’t want one after all. REALLY.”

  “One karat is more classic ANYWAY. Nobody really wants a BIG diamond.”

  It looks like Tim came to his senses.

  Jan 29, 2010 at 10:17 pm   rating: 17  
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• #21   Neeners

  Tim and the dress betrayed her. What next?

  Jan 29, 2010 at 10:37 pm   rating: 1  
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• #22   david

  M███████ will you marry me?

  Jan 29, 2010 at 10:45 pm   rating: 5  
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  • #22.1   infant tyrone

    My first reaction was “Arrgh, he can’t be serious !”

    On further review, the refs have concluded that as long as she doesn’t take delivery of the previous wedding dress, you have a fairly solid six months to test out this relationship…. Dr. Hannibal Briggs says check it out.

    Jan 29, 2010 at 11:11 pm   rating: 2  
     

  • #22.2   anglophile

    I have ample evidence that demonstrable craziness has almost no impact on a woman’s ability to elicit a marriage proposal, ty. Especially if she’s skinny and has big boobs.

    Jan 30, 2010 at 7:47 am   rating: 12  
     

  • #22.3   infant tyrone

    No argument, glo’. Somewhere after one or ten million anecdotes
    we have to admit “there’s something happenin’ here.”

    So, Twisty and crew blame the Patriarchy. It’s an ethos.
    http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/

    I’ll take the 5th (or a pint) and blame the DNA.
    Don’t want to get into nature vs. nurture.
    The first 2000 or so days of nurture are typically
    done by…Oh, Hi there, Mom.

    Jan 30, 2010 at 9:34 am   rating: 2  
     

  • #22.4   M.

    Sorry! Still engaged! :0)

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• #23   Canthz_B

  Sounds like someone was more in love with the wedding than with the groom.
  Also sounds like Tim figured that out just in a nick of time.

  Jan 30, 2010 at 1:14 am   rating: 12  
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• #24   Edwina the Defrocked Nun

  My niece, who was living with her third child’s father while still married to the father of kid 1 and kid 2, eventually kicked guy 2 (are you following this?) to the curb. We were all fairly relieved when her Facebook status changed from “It’s complicated” to “Single.”

  Jan 30, 2010 at 7:50 am   rating: 2  
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• #25   M.

  Hey everyone, it’s “M.” :0) Just letting you know Tim is still my fiance. We didn’t call off the wedding entirely, just moved it to a better date in the future. :0) LIFE IS AWESOME!

  Jan 30, 2010 at 8:19 am   rating: 1  
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  • #25.1   forest_rose

    Awww, that’s good news! Congratulations – and I hope that dress turns up soon!

    Jan 31, 2010 at 1:29 pm   rating: 0  
     
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• #26   M.

  Some of you are being very mean! :0(

  Jan 30, 2010 at 12:08 pm   rating: 1  
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  • #26.1   Wade

    Next time, dear, use the word “postponed” rather than “called off.”

    Or better yet, remember that some thoughts are best left unexpressed, especially on Facebook.

    ;o)

    Jan 30, 2010 at 12:59 pm   rating: 9  
     

  • #26.2   infant tyrone

    Wade,
    Next time ?
    As oi! said, “Ouch!”
    Please don’ tell me “M” stands for Mobile or Memphis.

    An’ here I sit so patiently
    Waiting to find out what price
    You have to pay to get out of
    Going through all these things twice.

    Jan 30, 2010 at 2:39 pm   rating: 0  
     

  • #26.3   M.

    Obviously didn’t post this thinking I’d see my personal thoughts on this website! Surely most of you have done the same.

    The new date is set for June 19th. :0)

    Jan 30, 2010 at 3:38 pm   rating: 0  
     

  • #26.4   Wade

    Welcome to the internets, M.

    And congratulations!

    Jan 30, 2010 at 3:54 pm   rating: 1  
     

  • #26.5   anglophile

    Oh, so you have your FB profile set to private except to friends and family, M?

    Guess you gotta figure out who would do such a thing to you, then.

    Jan 30, 2010 at 3:56 pm   rating: 5  
     

  • #26.6   infant tyrone

    And decide if it’s worth losing a gift just so you can ‘forget’ to invite them.

    Or will you be pragmatic and cut them loose after getting the kewl loot ?

    Jan 30, 2010 at 5:06 pm   rating: 1  
     

  • #26.7   Neeners

    And obviously from looking at this site before you thought we were nice????? No degenerates and misfits need a soap box too …. Congratualations ……I think! Good luck and many kids and all that. Stay away from the Doritos in that dress!

    Jan 30, 2010 at 5:24 pm   rating: 1  
     

  • #26.8   TheOldSchool

    I just talked to Tim. He says he’s getting nervous, because, to his mind, M has been fast-tracking this too much.

    He doesn’t want to cancel the wedding — just delay it so that he can be 100 percent sure that he’s doing the right thing.

    His ideal scenario would be to just live together for a a year, or so … with several different women (one at a time, of course, he’s not a mormon), and then, if M proves herself to be pick of the litter, he says he’ll agree to spend the rest of his life with her, alone.

    What’s more, he said that once the pre-nups are signed, and they are married, he vows to consider possibly keeping his cheating on her to a reasonable minimum.

    Jan 31, 2010 at 12:18 am   rating: 8  
     

  • #26.9   infant tyrone

    And that’s just the kind of guy Tim is.
    Go try and compliment him on what a prince he’s being.
    He’ll just tell you, “Don’t mensch-en it, it’s just how I am.”

    Jan 31, 2010 at 12:29 am   rating: 2  
     
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• #27   Joe 2

  The wedding dress pic is a nice touch.
  “THIS is how awesome I WOULD have looked!
  Behold my works, ye mighty, and despair!”

  Jan 31, 2010 at 7:21 am   rating: 0  
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  • #27.1   Neeners

    We never look as good as we think we are going to….bra overhang sees to that!!! I am always saying to myself ‘where the hell did that come from’?

    So much for working out after age forty. Do I have to stay at the gym 2 hours every night to get rid of that or just cut out every good tasting thing in my pantry?

    Jan 31, 2010 at 12:28 pm   rating: 0  
     
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