Imponderables: Ridin' For A Fall
POSTED BY: nvghostrider
UPDATED: Thursday, October 1, 2009 02:30
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Originally posted by traveler:
Makes me wish I had seen "Underworld" and "Twilight". But I didn't and can't comment.
I liked the first Underworld, second...not so much.
Twilight movie was so-so. There was some wasted potential. I loved the books.
(Zeek's not really the audience for the books, nor are you. ;) In fact, I don't really know of any men that have read and enjoyed the books.)
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"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." - George Bernard Shaw
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I will read about any subject, both fiction and non-fiction, but I have no recall of reading any vampire stories. I have seen a few films. I think the last film I saw was the Anne Rice story "Interview with a Vampire". I think I got the title right.
http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
Traveler
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*glimpses in*
*boggles and picks up jaw...'cause...HOLY COW! What made the old-timers come back for a visit? (YAY!)*
Traveler! *waves*
Thanks for everyone .02 plat on my imponderable. Posed the question to a teacher I know who I've worked with and knows me best (my mom). She reminded me that most folks have no idea what a teacher does or how much work an elementary teacher has to do and know (math, science, social studies, reading, spelling/vocabulary, grammar, art, physical education, music -- depending on grade, that can include knowing how to teach two or more instruments...) plus all the other stuffs a teacher has to do....and that I'm right in my choice and beliefs about teaching little kids. 
(As for the adults that act like little kids...I've got ice cream sammiches for the ones who can show me how to behave nicely to each other...even if they disagree. *hands out sammiches to MsA, Traveller, CK, NVG, FLT,...purposely bypassing RugBug and Zeek* 
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Traveler sheds a tear for RugBug and Zeek.
No ice-cream for you guys.
Meanwhile smacks his lips.
http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
Traveler
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ooh. sammiches, thanks Neko ^_^
hey, hand over the ice cream, Traveler. :P
Quote:me and a friend were having that discussion the other day. she's head over heels for the books but thought the movie was awful, and as a fan of tracking book-to-movie conversions I have to agree. We were also talking about how the trailers for the new one look infinitely better--probably because they signed on a different director. A lot of times I think disappointing conversions end up so because the director is rushing, or doesn't know what s/he is doing. I think that was the case for the first movie ><;;
Originally posted by RugBug: Twilight movie was so-so. There was some wasted potential. I loved the books.
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Originally posted by RugBug:
(Zeek's not really the audience for the books, nor are you. ;) In fact, I don't really know of any men that have read and enjoyed the books.)
I have heard of some. I have not yet read them, but am not opposed to. I normally cannot stand fiction books written by females other than Elizabeth Gage, Elizabeth Moon, or Danielle Steele.
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Quote:Hallo, Sweetheart.
Originally posted by CaliforniaKaylee:
Hey guys,
Quick hello and goodbye.
Sorry to read that you suffer from the same asshole allergies that I do. =(
I hope to eRun into you again sometime.... 8(
Quote:((considers mimicking 'Neko))
Originally posted by Dancingneko:
NOOOO!! *grabs onto an ankle and becomes teh human ball and chain* Stay! Pwease?! *big ole sad eyes*
If there was ever a good reason to be a ball-and-chain, this is it.
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Hey, kids. Nice to read you all again. Was avoiding forums for a while, but since I've been hanging out in the B&G thread, I figured I may as well pop in here to say "Hi"...
...and ask for Imponderable Opinions. Heh. Secret agenda, me.
I'm just exhausted. My allergies to asshole people are going into over-drive. Here's one reason... smallified, cuz it's really fucking long....
In March, someone on a different Firefly fan forum asked me for a huge favour: she was having a charity event with a "steampunk" theme, and desperately needed to borrow some things from me. More than that, she needed me to send them to her over-night. So I did. I spent that entire evening sorting through my possessions, packing them up, and took them all to the Post Office the next afternoon; over-night delivery of the heavy package ended up costing over $50. She received everything and was so gracious and delighted.
Then, about a month later, I left the forum for unrelated reasons. ((sniffle, wheeze, cough cough cough)) Since communication with this person dropped off to nearly nothing, I decided to ask for my stuff back. I mean, it had been nearly a whole month already, the event was over, so there was no good reason to hold on to my property. Email after email had been ignored for about a month - May - before she responded. Unfortunately, her response was short and contained no real information. Week after week after week, I sent emails and received nearly nothing back from her. On rare occassion, she would finally respond, promising to send my stuff back to me. One time she even promised to send my stuff back Wednesday; I came to find out recently that she decided to wear my stuff to a convention that Saturday instead.
Throughout all this time, when she deigned to respond, she would give me nothing but excuse after excuse. After about four months of this bullshit, I decided to make it a little more public by sending her questions via Twitter. Oops. Apparently that was the wrong thing to do and ended up making me the bad guy in the situation. I guess public embarassment is unacceptable and I am a horrible person for doing it.
Oh well. So, after four months of nearly begging her to return my property (mind, most of it was one-of-a-kind hand-made or antique stuff, all in costing over $1K... so, no, I wasn't going to let it go), she finally found her way to a Post Office and sent my property back.
Well.
Most of it.
I sent her an email the following week to explain that she forgot at least two items, and asked her to please send them back. No response. Emailed again. No response. Emailed again. Finally, she responded. We discussed the option that, since Post Offices are such elusive hard to get to creatures, she could always bring my items to Dragon*Con if she absolutely could not get to a post office. No committment from her either way. Dragon*Con comes and goes, and with the busy weekend plus my being sick for one of the days, I couldn't find her.
The weekend after D*C, I emailed her (to both of her accounts) explaining why I couldn't find her and asking that she send my stuff back. No response. A week later, I emailed her again. No response. This past Sunday, I went so far as to send her a message to her Facebook account, since she's just the awesomest little social butterfly ever. Still no response.
This has literally been a SEVEN MONTH ordeal, with virtually no communication from this woman, with being chastised by her for trying to pr
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Knowing who it is you're talking about, and having not only been on the same end of what I think of as 'entitlement issues' as you, but also having asked around and found various people that have ended up in similar situations (some official announcements/threads/AGM minutes from her organisation also add public/legal proof of precedence), I have no problem with trying the name'n'shame route, although I'm thinking that it might be better (although expensive) to just go straight to lawyers.
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HK: that really sucks. It makes me hate people even more. You go out on a limb, trying to be helpful and friendly and what do you get in return? Jack-ass-ery. I haven't personally been in your situation, but have been in a community that was screwed over by a trusted member. And it happens over and over.
I would support an outing. You'll get some people who don't believe you and will argue back, but it sounds like you've been more than gracious in your 1)lending of the items, 2)shipping of the items, 3)requests for them to be returned. People need to be responsible.
My two main boards do a secret santa gift exchange over Christmas. One board will not out members who don't send the gift. The other does. I can't say the second has a better success rate as it is a much smaller board/community so there is more pressure to follow-thru, but as a smaller community, even small infractions have more impact. An outing may work for you for that reason.
E-mail her first, telling her you will out her if you don't have the items in your possession in X amount of days.
There really is no excuse to be an asshat.
(and can I say I'm sort of disgusted that she would wear items after her event was over without your express consent. That's rotten.)
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"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." - George Bernard Shaw
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I love it when people do that. Jesus, how hard is it to go to the post office? It takes about five seconds.
Don't really know what outing her would do, other than really piss her off, and get everyone else on her case, which may or may not work :P I'm kinda tetchy on these sorts of things 'cause I don't like making people mad, but seven months and almost never returning your emails is a bit ridiculous. You were being kind by letting her borrow them and she shouldn't be so reluctant to send them back. I'd say give her an ultimatum before doing anything rash.
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