We were going to the Evil Overlord’s house for a cook-out, but he’s been putting in ten-hour workdays and is completely wiped, so it was called off. I don’t blame him a bit. I plan to spend the day lounging about, eating barbeque and chips and drinking beer, and doing nothing particularly useful. I sincerely hope he does likewise.
Have a great one, everybody!
Having trouble buckling down and doing work today for some reason. My current project is tidying the pantry—not an easy task, because our pantry shelves are twice as deep as they should be. Either I use only half the shelf, and don’t have space for everything, or I use the whole shelf and stuff gets lost in the back and not seen until the next pantry-tidy. I had stuff in there that expired in 2004.
So this time I’m electing to only use half the shelf space, which means about half our stuff needs to get tossed. I made a good start on it yesterday, and then today I came downstairs and started farting around on the computer instead. Because I don’t want to clean the damn pantry. It’s boring.
The post title comes from The Music Man, “Ya Got Trouble”:
And all week long your River City
Youth’ll be fritterin away,
I say your young men’ll be fritterin!
Fritterin away their noontime, suppertime, choretime too!
Yep, that’s me.
| What happens… | When you/your friends do it, it is… | When other people do it, it is… |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Post a critique of a piece of fiction: | Perfectly legitimate commentary on something you read. | Bullying and persecution. |
| 2. Make disparaging personal remarks about a writer: | Totally fine. The writer deserves it because |
Bullying and persecution. |
| 3. The writer responds negatively: | Standing up for yourself. You are bravely fighting back against unjust criticism, and exercising your right to free speech. | Pathetic, attention-seeking behaviour. They are whining and should grow a thick skin. Furthermore, it is an attempt to suppress free speech. |
| 4. The writer’s friends respond negatively: | Admirable. They are loyal and true and standing up for their friend. | A mass attack. They are a bullying cabal who are banding together to persecute you. |
| 5. Totally unconnected observers respond negatively: | Impartial validation of your position. They are clearly sensible, intelligent individuals who came to a fair conclusion totally on their own. | Dogpiling. They have been brainwashed by propaganda and/or are secretly in cahoots with the bullying cabal. Either way, it’s more persecution. |
Originally posted by fluterbev.