The person below me

[catinthefunnyhat]

If by "code" you mean the BB Code, I have no complaints. It does everything I need it to do.
If you mean the in jokes and subtle subtext... nah, I mostly like those, even when I'm bewildered by them. (And that's what the archives are for).

TPBM can usually tell who's snarking in fun, who's snarking in annoyance, and who just genuinely dislikes someone.

[theCryptofishist]

No. My prowess at social nuance is nothing to brag about.
TPBM thinks that I just always show off my vocabulary instead.

[catinthefunnyhat]

Well, yes, you certainly do that.
They don't need to be mutually exclusive, though.

TPBM has so much prowess, they're practically a figurehead.

[theCryptofishist]

A prowess is a female prow, after all.
TPBM can place this quote: Fie, fie unknit that threatening unkind prow.

[catinthefunnyhat]

Sounds Shakespearean...
But what is a knitted prow? Is it related to a knitted brow?

TPBM thinks I should wave the white flag now, before it's too late.



ETA: Aha! Thanks to Auntie Google, I now know I was sailing the right sea, even if not in the right boat.

[theCryptofishist]

Are you under attack?
TPBM is reading a book on african art.

[Elorrum]

No I never have in fact. I am having a hard time getting through books these days. I don't even have one in progress and that is really strange. Time to head over to the library.

tpbm has found an author new to them, with a huge body of work they can dig into like a batch of cookies.

[theCryptofishist]

I have discovered Soviet history. For me that's almost the same thing.
TPBM knows how to build a widget.

[maryanimal]

Nope, I don't.

tpbm loves the sounds of giggling children!

[OregonRed]

I do indeed. There is nothing more purely joyful than the sounds of children giggling.

TPBM is happy.

[theCryptofishist]

Meh.
TPBM is staying the course...

[pinemom]

Ya, but I lost the directions...so Im making it up as I go.

TPBM: would just love to find that perfect "outfit" for this yrs family gathering

[theCryptofishist]

Oh my family never gathers...
TPBM had to make a new family, because the old one was so broken.

[pinemom]

True, Thats the family gathering of which I was speaking of.

TPBM, has since put this family first as the other one is beyond broken!

[maryanimal]

yes I have. I love you man!!!

tpbm is searching for something that was lost a long time ago.

[theCryptofishist]

Multiple things. Innsbruck/Seefeld. The idea that I could be renowned. The truth.
Although, my three biggest losses I do not look for. Those are lost for good.
TPBM worries about those "ears cut short."

[catinthefunnyhat]

Yeah, it seems cruel. No wonder the little dog ran away.
TPBM, do yours wobble to and fro?

[lazerfox]

damn right...the result of a year of breastfeeding. Yeah try to get that image out of your head now...

TPBM has milk and doesn't need everyone asking them about it all the time.

[OregonRed]

Nope. I do not drink milk.

TPBM fondly remembers pink milk from their childhood.

[catinthefunnyhat]

No. I deeply hated artificially-strawberry-flavoured things as a kid. I refused to eat strawberry ice cream until I was in my 20s (at which point, I went through a phase where I couldn't get enough of it. Weird).

TPBM thinks lemongrass would be a nice milkshake flavour.

[theCryptofishist]

No. I am peterbed enough by the bizarre ice cream places with black pepper flavoring popping up in my area that I don't want California Cusine Milkshakes in the mix.
TPBM is going to study this menu for a while because I have no credibility and s/he wants to be certain...

[BoyScoutGirl]

After having tried wasabi ice cream and soba noodle-flavored soft serve, black pepper doesn't seem so much of a stretch.

TPBM once painted their bedroom walls black.

[theCryptofishist]

No, but my sister did.
tPbm likes pastels.

[Sail Man]

Nah, I'm pretty much into the primary colors myself

tpbm dabbles in oil painting

[theCryptofishist]

Not in a long, long time. They are wonderful, but oily moop-like.
TPBM tried a new cocktail this week.

[catinthefunnyhat]

Did I...?
No, I don't think so. I have tried a few in the past month, but not this week.

TPBM has a beloved white garment that is no longer white, and s/he is contemplating dying it.

[jella]

Don't we all

Mine is an awesome BEBE linen jumper with the WTF did I sit in stain gggrrrrrrrr


TBPM is afraid to sit in white so they just stand

[theCryptofishist]

Not bloody likely. I'm one of those people (sometimes known as "slobs") who cannot keep a garment white. But I don't like white to begin with. Saturated colors (although I do accept--and love--secondary colors, unlike Sailman), shading into each other perhaps. I bought a white shirt with some "atomic energy" set graphics for 2010, and this year I have two more white shirts, but they will never been white after the first wearing--and it doesn't matter that I'm saving them for the playa. If I wore them today they would get all stained.
Insert joke here. Because we know I don't stand for anything...
TPBM wonders what it is that I do that stains my laundry so much.

[maryanimal]

If it's any way like the way I stain my clothes, Well, I'll send you a gigantic bib like the one I have!!

I'm wondering if TPBM has any good laundry tips to get rid of stains.

[theCryptofishist]

No. Beyond don't run it through the dryer, because that will set that crap for sure.
TPBM believes in white vinegar.