Good Afternoon DU! It's Friday - post your negative thoughts here!

[prolesunited]

You are one day closer to death.

[XNASA]

1. Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

:cry:

[CottonBear]

2. This thread is doomed to sink like a rock.

[Karenina]

42. Forget the thread...

The CIA has just been given carte blanche in IRELAND!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1642550&mesg_id=1642550

[CottonBear]

51. What the hell were the Irish thinking?

:scared: Our Irish DUers and expats need to watch out. They thought that they had escaped the madness that is the * junta and now this...:cry: :scared: :cry: :scared: :cry: :scared:

[Karenina]

62. They are just now finding out...

Another one of those "under the radar" operations.

[RandomKoolzip]

3. I hate it when my wife goes to the store and wastes money on food

that she knows she'll never eat. She refuses to shop at Jewel, opting instead for one of those upscale, expensive grocery stores, and buys all sorts of odd vegetables and things that she'll never eat....for instance, she bought a bag of fiddlehead ferns a few eeks a go. They were expensive.

Having worked in a kitchen where we used fiddlehead ferns, I knew that they were practically useless as food. They tASTE TERRIBLE, have an unpleasing texture, and look like dying caterpillars. So I raised a stink.

A week later, she tries to cook them, is grossed out, and throws them away. That was $6..50!

She does this all the time; I think she wants to buy this "foodie"-type food to fletter her sense of sophistication, but all it does it clog our fridge and waste our money.

Please, Dr. Phil, help my wife get over her habit of buying overpriced, inedible food!

[XNASA]

4. Tastes terrible, has an unpleasing texture and....

...looks like a dying caterpillar?

My fiddlehead fern is an acorn.......yadda, yadda.....:hi:

[RandomKoolzip]

6. "XNASA goes "there," so you don't have to."

That should be your slogan, dude.

[XNASA]

8. I'm just trying to pick up the slack around here.

What with, 'you know who' out of action for awhile.

[RandomKoolzip]

13. Oh, you mean, "Li'l XNASA?"

I'm sorry to hear that.

Actually, when IS our favorite farter coming back?

[XNASA]

18. I'm changing his name from....

'Li'l XNASA' to 'Fiddlehead'.

:cry:

Regarding the latter.....:shrug:

[RandomKoolzip]

26. I call mine "Joanne."

After Joanne Worley, star of "Laugh-In."

I know, typical...but I'm a real milquetoast.

[XNASA]

29. Truth be told.......

Mine is 'Flipper'......

Because he's 'faster than lightning' and he 'lives in a world full of wonder'.

[RandomKoolzip]

36. No shit?

Lucky dolphin.

Before mine was "Joanne," it was "The Facts of Life," because it took "the good," and it took "the bad." Mostly the latter.

Still, it was cool to ask girls if they wanted to learn about "The Facts of Life."

[prolesunited]

11. I don't like pretentious food

and Jewel isn't exactly a cheap store either. We shop at Costco. I have a storage shelf in my basement for the extras and supplement that at a no-frills grocery where we pack our own bags and a farm-stand type store that gets the freshest produce at really good prices. The savings really add up.

I would be pissed, too. The situation sounds dire, but you sure Dr. Phil is the answer?

[RandomKoolzip]

19. Dr. Phil is the answer to ANY question, proles.

"What's Vietnam, daddy?"

"Dr. Phil."

"Mommy, why are plants green?"

"Dr. Phil, honey."

[Chicago Democrat]

35. Reserve Fancy stores for Exotic items you can't buy anywhere else

AND THAT's ALL.

For example certain cheese I love I only can find at Whole Foods. (Gruyere) Cetain Olive (Mt Athos olives from Greece) If you have to have truffles at 6pm on Sat night, they have it.. but its even better to get really special items mail ordered.

But YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT they rip you off! DONT BUY 1) Their meat 2)Their Seafood (unless you special order it, it sits around WAY TOO LONG)3) Their general type items.

Much better deals for lots of luxury items at Italian Grocers they have great stuff at low cost. Trader joes is good too.


I buy luxury meat from D'artagnon or Niman ranch. But I really think Jewel's beef is excellent too, and like 1/3 the price, especially the new dry aged blue ribbon stuff they sell.

[RandomKoolzip]

37. So true...

The worst thing about it is that she'll buy all this.....stuff, then go OUT to eat instead of finding something to do with it. Then she'll make fun of me for shopping at Jewel.

Meanwhile, everytime I shop at Jewel, I buy frozen pizzas and other easy-to-make items that somehow, mysteriously, get eaten by her, while her bok choy or whatever rots in the fridge.

Grrrr.

[StaggerLee]

5. glass is half empty!

We're all gonna die!!!!!


:scared:

[ghostsofgiants]

53. I didn't even get a glass to begin with!

[StaggerLee]

54. Is that like the "I didn't have any shoes...

and then I met a man with no feet" thing?

:)

[ghostsofgiants]

57. Sounds about the same to me

[Bunny]

7. Okay...

You are a fluke
Of the universe.
You have no right to be here.....
And whether you can hear it or not
The universe is laughing behind your back.

[GOPisEvil]

9. I'm at lunch, but yet I have to go back to work.

:(

[Chicago Democrat]

10. The planet is doomed

:cry:

[VelmaD]

12. I hate everyone and everything...

My life is going to hell and it only looks like it's going to get worse.

[prolesunited]

14. I hope you're just joking

Everything OK?

[VelmaD]

16. No...everything is not ok...

I just lost Andy. The man who has been my best friend for nearly 18 years is about to start chemo. And I may well have just fucked things up irreparably with one of my other dear friends just at the time when I need all the friends I can get.

I'm having a rough time and I don't see it getting any better in the foreseeable future.

[prolesunited]

25. I'm sorry

Hang in there. Things always get better eventually. :hug:

[VelmaD]

27. I sure hope so...

All I want in the whole world is to hear "it's benign" and "I'm sorry" but the odds aren't looking very good on either of those. I expect to get hit by a piece of falling airplane wing or a bus or something any second now.

[kitkatrose]

32. I'm sorry.

:hug: If you need someone to vent on, I'm here.

[VelmaD]

34. Thanks...

I appreciate the offer. :hug:

[Lars39]

56. ~

:hug:

[VelmaD]

64. Just got out of a long meeting and saw this...

thank you :hug:

[greatauntoftriplets]

69. Watching the news this evening....

there was a commercial on about some new Subaru SUV that used the song "Dust in the Wind". I've always really liked that song, and while on Messenger, Andy would sometimes play music for us to listen to that he had downloaded. That was one of the songs and I recall once having a discussion on how much we liked the song.

:cry:

I miss him so damn much.

[terrya]

15. Not a negative thought, but....

If you respect others in the Lounge...be circumspect about displaying your feelings of love to that special someone.

Sometimes, it's rather nauseating...

[XNASA]

20. But......

I love you. :pals:

And I don't care who knows. :patriot:

[terrya]

24. Awwwww....now I feel guilty....

It's just that I had to use the ignore function today, XNASA.

A part of me dies a little when I have to do that. :cry:

:pals:

[tigereye]

47. but Terry you are such a sweetiepie!

(well, you are.)

sorry, that's not negative. I'll think of something negative to post in a minute.

[Squatch]

17. It's all downhill from here

[Swede]

21. I have to work tommorow.

:)

[Squatch]

22. Man, that's wicked mean.

[prolesunited]

28. I don't have a job right now

Well, at least until I get released following an awful surgery. To me, having to work tomorrow would be a positive. You'll have to try harder.

[Swede]

33. Sorry to hear that P.

I forgot to mention tommorow is also my birthday and if I don't get everything done at work,I'll have to work Sunday. But I'd still take that over being unemployed.

[BikeWriter]

23. This will probably be another shitty weekend.

[Puglover]

30. I was sooo bummed out reading about Iran hanging

those two teenage boys that when I read about a possible flu pandemic I thought "Well good, the world could use a cleaning up."
Negative enough?

[Dora]

31. I hate my job but my meager paycheck is heroin.

If I don't work we don't eat.

[Trigger Hippie]

38. Dating sucks!

My little potential boyfriend (younger than me) just called me on my cell at work and annoyed me for a few minutes. I vant to be alone!!!! x(

[GOPisEvil]

39. You got that right.

I find the whole dating thing irritating.

[Trigger Hippie]

40. I know!

So, how the hell do people meet anyone they like anyway???? I've met plenty of people I don't like and precious few I do like. Bah! I give up! I'm ready to be the old lady with all the cats now!! Calgon.... TAKE ME AAWWWAAAAAAYYYYY....

[GOPisEvil]

41. They say just go out and do the things you normally do.

Thing is: I mostly sit around my house. :P

[Trigger Hippie]

43. Hahahahah

Yeah, me too. But, I guess the things I normally do suck, because everyone at those places suck, too. Or I just suck. :crazy:

[GOPisEvil]

44. Ah well...I'll figure it out someday. Or I won't. Whatever.

At least I like my own company.

OK - back the office. Sigh...

[Trigger Hippie]

45. Yeah, whatever.

You can't force anything to happen between two people. :shrug:

[GOPisEvil]

46. That is the truth.

"I Can't Make You Love Me" by Bonnie Raitt is one of my favorite sad songs.

[tigereye]

48. I'm not 25!

:cry: :silly:

[VOX]

49. It's Friday, but the weekends are too short. And then it's Monday again.

Might as well not even leave this desk. :(

- - - - -
On the other hand, I want my two days off! :bounce:

[LaurenG]

67. Yea I go into mourning Sunday night. nt

[Bassic]

50. To hell with the negative

Bass guitar still rocks :headbang: :woohoo:

[usedtobesick]

52. I'm stuck in #$^%& Baltimore(sorry to those who like it here)

I want to go home but by the time I get out of work the last flight of the day will be canceled due to thunderstorms and I will not get back to Denver until Saturday and miss another night at home... not that I am frustrated or anything. ya think?

[redqueen]

55. I feel ugly.

:cry:

[Wapsie B]

58. You?

Good god no. Quite the contrary.

:bounce:


:yourock:

[redqueen]

63. It's something I have to address within myself...

no amount of opinions stating otherwise will matter.

Oh, and about your complaint below... join the club. ;)

[LaurenG]

68. Well you sure don't seem like you look ugly

Just so you know, you seem like a beautiful person to me. :hug:

[Wapsie B]

59. Sometimes I feel like I'll never find

the life I want, true love, and the ability to just enjoy the moment instead of having my head in the clouds wishing hopelessly for the future and not doing anything to make the present AND the future better.

[seemunkee]

60. BITE ME!!

Ok, more or command than thought. It's the spirit that counts.

[dajoki]

61. im over the hill

:-(

[prolesunited]

65. What do you consider over the hill?

:shrug:

I'm 42. Should I just throw in the towel now?

[dajoki]

70. different for everybody

i'm 50, but disabled. sometimes my body won't do what i think it should do.:shrug:

[LaurenG]

66. My ex boss used to say, No good deed goes unpunished nt

[FunkyLeprechaun]

71. My sister's boyfriend

after hitting on me numerous times, wants to marry my sister. She plans to say yes.... what should I do?

I feel betrayed.

There that's my negative thought!

[greatauntoftriplets]

73. Warn your sister against him???

The marriage won't be good.

[FunkyLeprechaun]

74. I have warned her

Excuses she's used:

- When he was 1 and a half hour late for her graduation dinner with us (she just became a doctor): He was asleep.

- When he mocked my father's chest shingles (very very painful) calling it "a childhood disease": He was joking

And she's said that we're prejudiced against him because he's a Muslim.

[Joey Liberal]

72. My boss is a fucking MORON

And he's a fucking right winger too.