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I think mine would say things like COMPROMISE or LET OPTIMIZATION = PESSIMIZATION
The U in USB used to stand for Universal.
It's a little wordy, but I'd be tempted by, "That whereof we cannot speak, thereof we must remain silent."
CHEERFUL RESIGNATION
MY LORD AND SAVIOR IS AIRBNB
COMMODITY FETISH
But I predict heebie will own this thread whenever she shows up.
4: actually I'd just go with "SLAB"
If you can read this I've called the cops on you.
On NextDoor it's "This information has been reported to the police."
10: Or maybe I could read the OP...
Antonyms will serve you well here. SCATTER. DAMNED.
On the whole I'd rather be in Philadelphia.
I assume there are some out there that simply say "Jesus" which I think could easily be improved by just adding an ellipsis.
My mother really, really wanted her first and only tattoo to be "Born in pain, live in fear, die alone". I mean, she's not *wrong*. I still thought she might regret the reactions.
Maybe I should embroider it for her. Cushion? Bell-pull? The mass market ones are particularly infuriating for their indifferent calligraphy, I couldn't imitate that, cramped counted-thread cross stitch would have to do.
CNC milling made this a lot less expensive than you might think.
The "Welcome Back, Kotter" remake was dark.
4: actually I'd just go with "SLAB"
Cats can have such little a bitch.
Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate.
Nothing wrong with a classic.
After my grandmother passed, I inherited some junk of hers, including a needlepoint that read "Love One Another". Which is really kind of unlike her. At a bare minimum it should have been followed by ", goddamnit."
Or Vincero if you want to get the grammar right
Around 2009, when Occupy was in the news, we drove far enough from the coast that the yard signs started getting conservative and passed a huge one reading OCCUPY MY ASS. There's a phrase for any occasion.
Occupy My Ass brand home enema machine.
On the Contrary: I have liked poetry on the wall (painted on the wall itself by hand, nice script) in Mexico. Neruda, indoors at a hotel. I don't especially like Neruda, so the poem wasn't doing the work there.
More like graffiti that way, less of an afterthought or concealing gesture.
My gym has the kinds of irritating signs S dislikes with slogans, bad typefaces, bad graphic choices printed indifferently. I don't like those.
There should be room to like cliched gestures, they're part of living. If I dislike the decorator, I'll dislike the decor, but having a quick hot take is better for me if I only respond when I'm sure.
Also, I know lots of lovely people who dress or housekeep/decorate badly. Scorn there makes me worse.
On the Contrary: I have liked poetry on the wall (painted on the wall itself by hand, nice script) in Mexico. Neruda, indoors at a hotel. I don't especially like Neruda, so the poem wasn't doing the work there.
More like graffiti that way, less of an afterthought or concealing gesture.
My gym has the kinds of irritating signs S dislikes with slogans, bad typefaces, bad graphic choices printed indifferently. I don't like those.
There should be room to like cliched gestures, they're part of living. If I dislike the decorator, I'll dislike the decor, but having a quick hot take is better for me if I only respond when I'm sure.
Also, I know lots of lovely people who dress or housekeep/decorate badly. Scorn there makes me worse.
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Are we going for most demoralizing? maybe diet tips or how to land a man. "A minute on the lips, forever on the hips" could work for either.
"In this house, we respect 'Til Tuesday, but we are more interested in Aimee Mann's later solo career."
"The only thing all your failures have in common is you."
The classics never go out of style.
And a great chunk of La Rochefoucault would fit the bill.
"When the vices give us up we flatter ourselves that we are giving them up."
via 5/3/8, one of their rules for Thanksgiving dinner, which would be good embroider and hang:
"You're definitely not going to win that argument."
(They go on to ruin it by adding "... and that's okay.")
KITSCH IS THE ABSOLUTE DENIAL OF SHIT
The house down the street that had a Trump sign now has a "Season's Greetings" sign. I was thinking of cutting out letters from magazines to make a note reading "Stop the War on Christmas," but then I decided that maybe they had had a change of heart. Also, it turns out there are no magazines in the house.
Also, sometimes I'm not really very good at remembering exactly which house is which.
one of their rules for Thanksgiving dinner
I have several relatives for whom my rule comes from WarGames: the only winning move is not to play. But if I put that on a sign, they might be on to me.
53 I generally observe that rule as well. My God it's sorely tested by the Trumpers or, before them, Fox News geezers, that try to provoke some sort of disapproval so they can claim to be victimized.
Speaking of arguments, is it really the case that the London Bridge stabbing was stopped by a convicted murderer on day release and somebody from Poland?
Narwhals aren't really. Somebody just made one as a joke, like the jackalope.
All the football hooligans were still looking around for somebody who still gets the news on paper so they could make a Millwall brick, but the Polish guy just grabs the "Narwhal" tusk.
Sort of on topic if the theme is being crotchety -- has a radio station ever tried the slogan, "No Christmas music ever!"?
55: unfortunately not - he had already murdered two people. He was brought down on the street outside by a murderer on day release with a fire extinguisher and a Polish cook with a narwhal tusk. Being Polish, he had a natural fondness for charging into battle with black-clad genocidal fanatics against the odds armed only with an obsolete long pointy thing.
BASE SLANDER, OUR TUSKS REMAIN EFFECTIVE COD HUNTING TOOLS
No love for the unarmed guy who gets the takedown?
I'd take a narwhal tusk over a knife any day. It looks like he gets in a good jab to the belly while staying out of knife range. Fire extinguisher mostly just obscures the action.
IIRC it is still a topic of debate what, if anything, marshals actually use their tusks for.
You can give a Narwhal any name you want. They're fictional.
Even if they are real, I'm guessing that if Marshal's tusk is hanging on the wall somewhere in London, he's dead.
Most Marshals prefer fire extinguishers despite their uselessness in cod hunting.
He was brought down on the street outside by a murderer on day release with a fire extinguisher and a Polish cook with a narwhal tusk.
If you showed this sentence to somebody who had been isolated from the media for a week, what odds would you give on them believing it?
Zero. Murderers are released with ankle bracelets, not fire extinguishers.
|| Since I update about her occasionally, a final update: Mom died this afternoon. It has been about 13 years, and she was suffering terribly for the last several. I have no idea how to properly eulogize her. She was difficult and irritable and unhappy with herself, and I'm sorry she didn't get whatever help would have allowed her to be at peace with who she was. Ironically, she was at her happiest in the early stages of the disease, when she could forget all her petty grudges and whatever else ailed her. She got to live her fantasies of popularity and fitness and happiness in the middle years. I've been saying goodbye for a long time. This is the last one. |>
Me, of course. My browser has Alzheimer's, too, apparently.
My sympathies for you and your family.
71: I'm sorry for your loss. I've seen these long, grueling goodbyes and I know they're not easy.
I know it's been a long, challenging road, yndew, and I'll be thinking of you.
That was me, because I read the medical literature.
Sending my sympathy and condolences, ydnew
76: I had heard about that, but I wasn't thinking that people were doing it for long enough to get burnt down there. Ouch!
That's why I'm spreading the warning. Because apparently, it doesn't take long to get a burn on skin that hasn't seen the sun.
Very sorry, ydnew. I hope you can find some peace.
My sympathy ydnew. The long goodbyes are hard.
Ydnew, what a long, hard goodbye. My deepest sympathy.
I'm sorry, ydnew. That's a hard road to walk.
Ydnew, deepest sympathies. Anything more I could say would be grandstanding, but at least one sort of suffering is over.
I'm sorry, ydnew. It's been such a long time and a lot of pain. I'm sorry you that she couldn't get the kind of resolution you mention, but hope there will be some peace and relief for you now.
Thanks, all. Everyone has been great, with the glaring exception of AJ's mom, who was deeply offended that I sent a text telling other people in their family before AJ was free to call her. She also was miffed I hadn't set a memorial date yet, not 70 minutes after I received the call myself. She needed to get it on her calendar! She will, of course, make the 4 hour (one way) drive to be there to "support" me.
We'll have the memorial on what would have been my parents' 49th anniversary, at Dad's suggestion.
91: Wow. AJ's mom sounds challenging. Sorry you have to deal with that part too.
Just tell her you're postponing 'til the 50th anniversary, for poetic effect.
Sorry for your loss, best of luck for what's next.
It's a lousy way to go, both for the person and the people around them, and the emotions are complicated all the way through. I'm sorry, ydnew.
I'm sorry, ydnew, and I hope things are easier for you going forward.
So sorry, yndew.
Sorry, too, about AJ's mom, who has clearly grasped the important concept that this is all about her.
My condolences, ydnew. Long declines like that are so hard, and you're bearing weight you don't even feel until it's gone.
re: OP game, i nominate "Veblen goods"
ydnew: condolences from a complete stranger