BTW - I have never personally attacked you, but you have seen fit to personally attack me 3 times now. And you apparently consider yourself better than me. Why?
Bane is an english word meaning roughly poison, Bain is a french word meaning bath, place of privacy or sometimes place of renewal. In my criticism of the childish reactions that I was seeing I still could not bring my self to actually refer to literacy as poison. Not even in irony.
I attempted to explain this in privatly in e-mail to our would-be bodhitsava, but he chose to be ugly instead. So I am pointing out his lack of literacy here.
The kind who isn't a fit parrent in the first place. I doubt that it makes you feel any better, but this happened to Josephene Baker too. Althogh I think she got even by living a much better life than she would have had with her mother and step father.
Well, I have changed my mind. I banged off a quick one for you guys.
The Rookery
Literacy, ever having been the bain of poets, The man chastised me for recommending books.. And his friends, unaware that this is where such work resides Could not line up behind him fast enough
To advise me that if I don’t like it, I shouldn’t read it Ignoring their own advice.
I'm not opposed to poetry in general. I'm opposed to people posting 48 stanzas of a stream of barely conciousness that goes no-place and tricking me into wadding though it for no reason other than because they would like to fancy themselves as poets. I don't enjoy bad productions of Shakespeare either. Nothing against bad actors, just don't like it.
All I'm trying to say is, the level of play could be higher.
I'm new here, and if I ever remeber how to go to sleep again I'll probably be around a lot less, but I have to wonder: Do you guys realize just how *bad* some of this poetry is? Some of it is literally gibberish. Do you guys know how to find a poetry slam where you live? Or even some books on tape or something? Poetry, done well, is really quite profound.
P.S. - I'm more of a Single Malt kind of a girl m'self. Leaning toward the sherry cask finished ones lately. Although most decent highlands make my day. :)
I still have a recipe for soup around here somewhere. Not bad actually. Ironicially, tastes a little grassy though, you want to counter it with Lemon Grass or Oregano or something kind of agressive on the palet like that.
I think it is more likely that this girl has identified her friend as a "safe place" and is saving up all of these feelings to talk about and unload on her friend from time to time. I think all you really need to do is point out to your friend that she is committing a friendship foul and that you are starting to feel used.
Well, if bathing genuinely isn't an option for her that's unfortunate. Perhaps if you frankly and in a clinical and conversational manner discussed some alternative means of hygene with her, such as applying hand sanitizer to skin folds frequently or frequent use of baby wipes to help her maintain cleanliness between baths? Also, I'm not sure I understand why this condition would be agrivated by bathing. Perhaps if you expressed a curiosity as to the medical reasons why and what homeopathic efforts may be made to assist with this. Perhaps olive oil mixed with the bath water to control excessive drying?
She may also tend to be stinky because of diet. You may look for a way to bring up whether she eats a lot of garlic and fish sauce etc... At the end of the day, you're pretty much going to have to tell her this, in your opinion, can hurt her career or learn to live with it.
oh, mental note: guilt works well with terriers. They'll literally die over battles of will, but act like they've hurt your feelings or you are dissapointed in them and they crumble like a house of cards.
I know how you feel. Some days I just have no idea how I'll scrape myself together for another one tomorrow. Funnily, I usually think of a quote from Mandy Petenkin (sp?) a show called "Dead Like Me" when he points out that he enjoys things, like the lovely deliciciousness of key lime pie. And if he stopped being, he couldn't enjoy things anymore. Then I change my context. I don't have the brass ring. I have no long term man, and I've settled so deeply into my singles life that I sometimes wonder if I haven't made plans to be single forever. But I have little dogs that love me and good friends, and while I *hate* my current employer, I genuinely do like my little piddly job.. so, whad-da-ya-gonna-do?
Me, I'm going to (figuratively) enjoy the lovely deliciousness of some Key Lime Pie. And, figure out tomorrow, tomorrow.
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Bad Poetry
BTW - I have never personally attacked you, but you have seen fit to personally attack me 3 times now. And you apparently consider yourself better than me. Why?