You should stop listening in on other people's lives. Everyone's fingernails are dirty when you get close enough. If someone jabs them into your (or someone else's) eyes, you should respond. Prior to that, sticks and stones and STFU.
Well, hm.
Having recently re-entered dating after a ten-year hiatus and having similarly found someone astonishingly fantastic in what seems a preposterously short time, I can sympathise with the phantom feeling of impending doom, aka the "other shoe" syndrome.
Mine seems to be doing very well (knock on many various types of woods) after three months, despite all appearances which would lead even me, evaluating from the outside in, to objectively raise suspicions of a "rebound". Sure, "the honeymoon" is over now, but I've found the deficiencies to be not just tolerable, but perhaps even additive to the pleasure - in the sense that at least it feels more natural and I no longer have to wonder why it all looks so too-perfect.
Bottom line is that my mother once said that being with someone for the long haul is not so much about finding someone whose assets you greatly treasure as much as finding someone whose faults you can accept. It's probably the best advice she's ever given and perhaps it can help you out as much as it has helped me in deciding where I stand.
Good luck.
Alnedra
I didn't accuse everyone of being fuddy-duddies. Just pointing out that often fuddy-duddies can be right on par with the things they grumble about. It seems I'm in the minority and the lack of link-checking on FPPer's part sure is hard to defend. But it needed to be said, I thought. Sorry. Really, I didn't mean to stir the pot.
I would guess the "1 FPP/day" limit is a whole lot more pertinent on pages like meta, where, erm, there are a lot of posts, not here, where, erm, there are not. The whole Net Curmudgeon bit smacks too much of the STFUNOOB, +o, RTFM webgrump culture that, quite frankly, is about as useful and fun-to-watch as a double FPP.
Just my $0.02.
Damn, hard to believe no one's mentioned Lucretia My Reflection. Also:
- Animositisomina
- Wish/Last
- most of the Dirt album
and, incongruously,
- any Chris Isaak while on the PCH
Those were "routines"? Seriously, I thought a few of the responses she made were verbatim.
posted by anatinus 16 years ago
In "Curious George: Neighborhood Ethics?"
You should stop listening in on other people's lives. Everyone's fingernails are dirty when you get close enough. If someone jabs them into your (or someone else's) eyes, you should respond. Prior to that, sticks and stones and STFU.
posted by anatinus 16 years ago
In "Curious George: I"
You *want* avast. Nothing but good things to report.
posted by anatinus 17 years ago
In "Woman sees her own heart on display at a medical exhibition."
Am I the only one wondering what the big deal is here?
posted by anatinus 17 years ago
In "Sidney Besieged by Frothing, Foamy Ocean of Doom: "
Who's Sidney?
posted by anatinus 17 years ago
In "The sacred and the human."
"And for the record, the language of the FPP isn't mine, but is from the link." Then y'ought t'have quoted it.
posted by anatinus 17 years ago
In "Strange Maps"
Pretty shweet, quidnunc. Kuds.
posted by anatinus 17 years ago
In "Snickers' Super Homophobia"
"Packed with penis, Snickers really satisfies." Not the brightest peanuts in the turd.
posted by anatinus 17 years ago
In "I now have a reason to go to France."
Well, gee, it sure is great that you now have a reason to go. 'Cause, I mean, there couldn't have been any before, right?
posted by anatinus 17 years ago
In "Curious George: rebound or real?"
Well, hm. Having recently re-entered dating after a ten-year hiatus and having similarly found someone astonishingly fantastic in what seems a preposterously short time, I can sympathise with the phantom feeling of impending doom, aka the "other shoe" syndrome. Mine seems to be doing very well (knock on many various types of woods) after three months, despite all appearances which would lead even me, evaluating from the outside in, to objectively raise suspicions of a "rebound". Sure, "the honeymoon" is over now, but I've found the deficiencies to be not just tolerable, but perhaps even additive to the pleasure - in the sense that at least it feels more natural and I no longer have to wonder why it all looks so too-perfect. Bottom line is that my mother once said that being with someone for the long haul is not so much about finding someone whose assets you greatly treasure as much as finding someone whose faults you can accept. It's probably the best advice she's ever given and perhaps it can help you out as much as it has helped me in deciding where I stand. Good luck.
posted by anatinus 17 years ago
In "Apple unveils iPhone and Apple TV"
Yes, but can you use the camera to make iContacts? ho, ho, HOoo...!?
posted by anatinus 17 years ago
In "With Subtle Reminders, Stereotypes Can Become Self-Fulfilling"
Wow, cues about the arts make people think more about the arts. How WEIRD.
posted by anatinus 17 years ago
In "News 14 Carolina gets pwnt"
glama, THANK YOU.
posted by anatinus 18 years ago
In "It is a vibrator for your iPod, there I said it."
Alnedra I didn't accuse everyone of being fuddy-duddies. Just pointing out that often fuddy-duddies can be right on par with the things they grumble about. It seems I'm in the minority and the lack of link-checking on FPPer's part sure is hard to defend. But it needed to be said, I thought. Sorry. Really, I didn't mean to stir the pot.
posted by anatinus 18 years ago
I would guess the "1 FPP/day" limit is a whole lot more pertinent on pages like meta, where, erm, there are a lot of posts, not here, where, erm, there are not. The whole Net Curmudgeon bit smacks too much of the STFUNOOB, +o, RTFM webgrump culture that, quite frankly, is about as useful and fun-to-watch as a double FPP. Just my $0.02.
posted by anatinus 18 years ago
In "The Newbie's Guide to Detecting the NSA"
ŧΞħ м∂†яŀж ĦΔŹ ω
posted by anatinus 18 years ago
In "Curious George and his car tunes."
Also, anything by Accept or Furr.
posted by anatinus 18 years ago
/me thanks quidnunc kid for making me cry
posted by anatinus 18 years ago
In "Curious George: Que est-ce que ringtone?"
Theme from Wallace and Gromit.
posted by anatinus 18 years ago
In "Curious George and his car tunes."
Damn, hard to believe no one's mentioned Lucretia My Reflection. Also: - Animositisomina - Wish/Last - most of the Dirt album and, incongruously, - any Chris Isaak while on the PCH
posted by anatinus 18 years ago
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