This is an Unhosted Cafe.
Self-serve food and drinks.
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Lewd, crude, and rude behavior adored.
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Please recommend (and unrecommend the Cafe/Lounge from earlier)
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May the 4’s be with you
24/7 Cafe Closed. Morning Cafe Opened
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Lewd, crude, and rude behavior adored.
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Please recommend (and unrecommend the Cafe/Lounge from earlier)
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Hang on while I get a five-gallon trashcan and the key to the Squirt dispenser.
will you tell me a bedtime story? I can’t sleep.
Well, let’s see here . . . how about the one I told the Queen of the Universe? This one put her to sleep. I’m afraid it’s getting on toward my bedtime, so I have to do a cut and paste job instead of giving it the full Sunday Griot treatment, but I hope you’ll like it just the same.
Check out the page this came from for another version of this story as told by Joel Chandler Harris’ Uncle Remus. It’s much too long to paste into the Cafe, but shore as you’re born, it’s some good storytellin’.
MaryB…Just the person I wanted to see.
I just wanted to say that even though you are a corporate attorney, I still like you. :>) I may not be a big fan of your chosen profession, but as one who has worked in law for 20 years in many different fields, I like most lawyers, especially those who are willing to make their profession known. It is only those who try to hide what they do, that make me uncomfortable. Most of the attorneys that I have known over the years are open, honest, and democratic.
So, if I said anything in the Armando diaries that made you uncomfortable, I apologize. I tend towards broad sweeping statements that are not always 100% true.
I was made VERY uncomfortable by the Armando diaries but not necessarily by you.
I can understand this, but I think it was more that Armando hid his profession than the fact that he does what he does.
I used to work in Insurance Defense, a pretty reprehensible profession, but that is the job I got. The attorneys hated it, but that is the job they got. In any field of law there are interesting aspects and not so cool aspects.
I’m uncomfortable with the fact that there seemed to be a broad consensus that it is perfectly OK to use a lawyer’s clients and business associates against him or her if he or she “deserves it”.
Who the hell gets to decide who deserves it? So if I get into a dispute with one of the people here with one of their little cadre of “friends” they can all decide that I deserve it?
Frankly I doubt I’ll be commenting much in places other than the cafe anymore.
This is getting into complicated territory and I don’t want to turn this place into a place of conflict. Suffice it to say, I understand you postition, I will be limit my scope in the future thanks to you.
random bout of insomnia or was it caused by an entire group of 1800s-era Christmas carolers being transported through time and landing at your doorstep?
on Las Vegas time. And I’m usually wide awake when I’m pissed off.
conversation to return to after a couple of days away (same boat here), but I think it’s important that you give voice to how you’ve reacted to everything. I understand the vulnerability involved, but you also have the ability to give people a chance to consider a fuller picture of the outcome of the actions that they have perhaps deemed acceptable. (((maryb)))
Exactly. You changed me and I doubt I am alone.
You have a good voice and people listen and when they listen, they think.
I am in a position where in order to “give voice” in any meaningful way I have to risk getting into an argument with people who I don’t trust. Who may decide (not today, not tomorrow, but someday) that I “deserve it”. So really it’s a catch 22. The consensus has already been reached. It’s not something that can be “taken back”.
Good night.
Night. Sorry if I brough up bad shit, I just want to apologize and tell you you made me think.
Good…so feel free to comment where you will. We’ll have your back because you are honest and open and yourself, even if we don’t always agree!
I don’t think I can trust the whole “got your back” thing. I’ve noticed that really isn’t the case around here. People are generally left to fend for themselves. And there’s too much riding on it for me to risk it.
I don’t mean you particularly. Please don’t take this personally; I don’t attribute any evil intent to you. But the fact is that this community has come to a consensus that when a someone “deserves it”, this is acceptable behaviour. They haven’t come to a consensus on who gets to decide who “deserves it.”
Sigh…Ok. I can understand that. I don’t say half the stuff I want to. But, it really wasn’t about Armando “deserving it”, even though I can see how you came to think that. He was a monster, so it made it easier, but it was much more complicated than just that.
P.S.: Thank you so much for showing me once again that generalizations are BAD.
we need it for the festivities tomorrow. Here, have some ice cold root beer
I need something stiffer than that to atone and assuage my frustrations over at blogger. I just lost a bunch o that post, because I didn’t take O’s advice from earlier. Grasshopper is humbled and apologizes.
sorry for the frustration, I’m guessing O’s advice had something to do with notepad and writing it there first? It’s a wise suggestion, one that has been passed down through the ages since the advent of ye old browser crashes of ages yore.
Yup. Now I know what everyone bitches about. From now on I’m going to write them in word and save as text only. I lost about 4 good paragraphs, sigh. Now I think I’ll just post the pics with minimal commentary, waaahhhhh.
Again, sorry about that recommend issue earlier.
this is a no hairshirt zone (which ironically, if you follow the link, happened one year ago) [cue Twilight Zone music]
Cheer up! There will be plenty of posts to come and many of us to enjoy what you display and write.
Not a fun thing … 🙁
Can I make another suggestion: make sure you save a copy of your template (again in wordpad) before fiddling w/ it. These are the most nb pieces of advice I can pass on to you b-son.
nb = nota bene?
See Manny, Omir, me … everyone does it at least once — and sometimes more than that … 😉
Yes, note well … or my shortform for important which d has taken me to task over … 🙂
but you kindly showed me the error of my way…:{)
You cdn’s are so nice…can you invade our country and put us out of our misery…PLEASE….<sigh>
… you know they’re reading … 😉
I decided last night that I’m going to stop being nice — nice is blah. 🙂
Did you see NDD stopped by an earlier cafe w/ a great pic and an update on the bbq w/e?
WooHoo! so do we get your not so nice story?! :>)
Just kidding…but nice is overrated. :>)
They must have taken control…whew! I wondered why there were all those military jets flying over my house today.
Hang on a sec, there’s someone at the door, be righ th ascljnsdn lk …………………………………………………………………..
i need to get a different dog that will actually wake up to attack any unwelcomed visitors.
Men in Black got nuttin’ on her…she be bad…:{)
Planning on rescuing you … 😉
Bu sendz hir condolenszs…
I’ll remember that for next time … and give appropriate warnings. 🙂
Ok, I give up for the night. It ate 3/4 of what I wrote twice. And the constant “html not accepted no close for <font> is driving me crazy. I’m going to try to put up a pic and then call it a night.
Send me an email w/ what you’ve got and I’ll see if I can help you out. It sounds like you’re missing one attribute to match the < font > so you’ll need to put < / font > (no spaces) in the code.
that chocolate does wonders, eh? Well I finally got a post up, but not the one I had been writing. Hopefully I can ressurrect it. I’m done for the night on that. Too much frustration and missing out on my favorite folks here.
True, I’ve just started being non-nice, but the sweetheart doesn’t help … LOL. 🙂
Seriously though, did you see what I was talking about w/ the closed attribute tag?
I can picture you off in another dimension of blogland tearing at your hair when you should be here w/ us … 🙂
Yes I think I understand that, but the weird thing is that when I logged in to write that, it had changed my default font and I had to change it back. Maybe that’s where it got screwed up. In any case I managed to save part of the post to work on later. I will look into that code stuff though.
Oh, and there’s not that much hair to tear at these days, so I was just cursing mostly.
That’s weird … It shouldn’t be changing your font. Are talking about the font when you’re in the blogger interface typing up the post or when you view the finished post on the actual blog?
It was in the interface … my default was Times and it switched it to something else. But I’m not going to worry now… at least my changes to the template took and I now have Manny on there, plus a couple of other blogs I haunt religiously.
I think I better call it a night/early morning. I’m going down to say g’night to d…
I’ve been dinkin’ with it for a while trying to get a photoblog up and it changes shit on it’s own…suffice it to say I do NOT need the frustration.
It’s way back burner at the moment, so don’t ask…:{)
If you get it going ‘live’ than can I claim to be your blogmother too? 🙂
What do you mean changes on it’s own … Is there something I can do to help you figure it out?
I mean, ya … what a piece of shit that blogger is. Fuck it. (How’s that for non-nice …)
Welcome to the non-nice world. Have to say I’m relishing it. Though O will never lose her sweetness in my book… I’ll just enjoy the snark as well.
I changed some colors and italics codes, and a couple other tweaks…had it almost looking like I wanted…went away, came back…it’s different. Not what is was b4 nor after…mystery to me.
Thinking about starting over w/ a fresh template… a frustration I choose not to deal w/ at the moment.
I’m thinking if you paste it in the template box, and republished the blog do you see the old settings …
I know it’s frustrating … I’ve been fiddling w/ mine since as long as I’ve had the thing — as you are intimately aware.
Sometimes I think it is easier to start over w/ a basic template. That’s what I did when I switched the font … I couldn’t simply change the font code in the old template b/c it wouldn’t format properly.
It does require some devotion of time.
Initially, then when it looked right I dumped it…when I get serious about it again, we should talk. I’m a real dunce when it comes to coding. Do Not Get It.
Hedin’ for bed…hope your day gets better at FCH and the drama takes a bow.
Peace
Night.
I started doing that about the time I hit the backspace key and wiped out an hours’ worth of typing for the second time.
That sounds fine to me. In fact I’m going to go back to the freezer, get me a gallon of Blue Bell’s finest French vanilla, and have me a five-gallon ice cream float that couldn’t be beat.
I’m off to la-la land now, have a fantastic rest of your night and remember that we’ll be celebrating tomorrow for FroggyBottom’s Birthday. Paz
Me too. Night all and pleasant dreams.
Hey Manny, you and Bud have a good rest there! Thx for the tips tonight, and one last hair shirt for being a bad boy. I’ll definitely show up at some point for the party! whether the b-thingie gets updated, that’s a whole nother issue.
Think Frosty Paws for Bud will ya? Guarantee he’ll love it.
See ya later today … 🙂
Night all…and remember, space is the place…
Peace
I’m off too …
Sweet dreams to you too IVG and your furry loves.
Thx for all the help Olivia. My template seems fine, it’s the rest that seems weird. Anyway, don’t languish too long in FCH today!
And thx for the nice comment over at the b-place. I think I need some chocolate now, but I think I’ll just go to bed instead. There are furry creatures waiting for me there.
The furry loves send their love (proxy am I) your way …
Oh, and still waiting on IT to change somewhat closer to blooming.. but nothing yet.
I’ll send you an email tomorrow explaining.
Sleep well dude and thx for the furry love … 🙂
Do the thing, the intergalactic thing … Saw him in 1984 and life was never quite the same. Glad he found his new galactic dimension wherever it is…