Random questions...

[Edward]

Originally Posted by lily

What now?

What now?

<- that's what.

(sorry, I was trying to reply and that smiley was one of the ones that randomly popped up on the right)

From both personal experience and observation I'd be really surprised if you got any further this time than last time - there's probably a reason you broke up in the first place. That being said, I don't know jack about you and this person - you have to work out for yourself what you want from them, what went wrong last time and what's going to be different now. If you can't answer all those questions then I doubt you'll get more than a few more good rolls in the hay - which is fine if your answer to the first question is "a few more good rolls in the hay" .

[lily]

Thankyou for your counsel.
And I'm shallow enough to be content with the farewell shag

[Edward]

Originally Posted by lily

Thankyou for your counsel.

Any time

Originally Posted by lily

And I'm shallow enough to be content with the farewell shag

Well aren't we all

As for the best way to arrange that - you're probably in the best position to know. Lines like "Hey, you know what would be fun - let's have casual sex!" may work.

[Renee_Turner]

My friend recommends "nice shoes, let's fuck". This may explain why he's single. Well, that and the creepy amounts of role-play card game thingys he has. I'm sure there's a technical term for them, but I'm not quite geeky enough to know it.

Look out, here come the geeks!

[hails]

Originally Posted by lily

I recently had lunch with my ex.
There was definite vibe-iness - the good kind.
What now?

another lunch. then a dinner. then some breakfast.

make sure you both are absolutely honest with each other in saying what you want - if it busted up last time coz of emotional issues and the vibe (sorry, but that's a fantastic word to use if you want me to break into immature giggles) you're getting is purely sexual, then make it entirely clear that you're just interested in boffing his/her/their brains out. if the problem before was sexual, then don't go back!! make sure these problems are fixed up before you get under covers. if the problem was incidental and has since been resolved, then just go fall in love and have some great sex and be happy.

there, that was easy

[hails]

continuing with the relationship theme...

why is that ex-somethings always reach for their mobiles whenever they're absolutely wasted?

[Mythor]

Current-somethings do it too!

[hails]

but when current-somethings do it, it (hopefully) doesn't make the person on the other end of the line feel moderately stalked.

and the last time i got wasted, i spammed your journal. and the time before that, i wrote a letter. phone calls are too confrontational, even when i'm tequila'd out of my head ;p

[Gutter Monkey]

Originally Posted by Laurenandë

Why do they make people open the plane window thingies when taking-off or landing?

I've been told that it's a counter terrorist protocol. If a plane is landing or taking off and the windows are all closed then alarm bells go off. Dunno how factual that is.

Originally Posted by odtriple

Just found a fuck off big huntsman. Twas technically outside - on the deck. Hopefully the termite stuff will keep them from coming in! Or maybe I jinxed it cos I said it out loud?!

We've just had a lovely sunny day, so I got some washing up on the line and it was dry in no time. So I take it all back inside and I put my good pants back on, and about a quarter of an hour later I was watching TV when I felt something itchy on my leg .... and then the itchy thing moved.
It was the same shape as a red back but a brown colour. I was about to flick it off my leg when it crawled back inside my pant leg. So I walk out into the middle of the room, carefully take my pants off, make sure the spider is actually in the pants and not still on me, then I ran for a bath robe (since my female housemate was around and although I had a really good reason for wandering around the loungeroom in my underwear it's still not polite.) And then I noticed that Rusty from the Scared Weird Little Guys was a contestant on 'The Einstein Factor' so I had to ring some people and tell them.
"Hey, Rusty is on TV!! And I'm not wearing any pants!"

After I watched the show (Rusty lost, but he made a damn good comeback in the 3rd round and nearly drew even) I took the spider outside and released it in some bushes away from the washing line.

Bah. I hate it when you're releasing a spider and you blow it off whatever you're carrying it on and then *it's disappeared* and you're never quite sure if it landed in the bushes or on your leg.

[Duhkha]

Ok, it doesn’t get more random than this…
In the children’s book ‘The Muddle Headed Wombat’, Wombat is referred to as ‘he’, Tabby Cat is referred to as ‘he’, and yet Mouse is referred to as ‘it’. Why? It seems that Mouse is female from ‘it’s’ disposition, plus Mouse wears a dress, so why isn’t ‘it’ referred to as ‘she’ (or alternatively if Mouse is a ‘he’ then why isn’t ‘it’ referred to as such)? Plus anthropomorphism can’t be a factor since human emotions are used throughout the book in relation to all the animals.
So, does anyone have a theory about this? No one in my tute really did…

[hails]

is mouse an actively speaking character? coz i can understand it if wombat and tabby cat are talking about mouse, since wombat and tabby cat are both larger and more intimidating than a mouse and 'it' can be used to signify something seen as lesser or to be patronising. but that might go out the window if mouse is a speaking character...

[Duhkha]

Originally Posted by hails

is mouse an actively speaking character?

Yeah Mouse is a speaking character, that’s what makes it so strange. I could understand if it was a peripheral character, but Mouse, Wombat and Tabby are the three main characters, plus all the peripheral characters are referred to as ‘he’ or ‘she’ anyway! There seems to be no rationale for calling Mouse ‘it’. I just wonder what the author was thinking, what her reasoning was, cos I don't get it.

[Gutter Monkey]

The Muddle Headed Wombat began as a radio play on 'The Argonauts' show on ABC Radio somewhere in the early 1940's (most reports say that it started about 1940, but Ruth didn't move to Australia until 1942) and proved so popular that writer Ruth Park churned out 13 books in the series between 1962 and 1982. Mouse was played by Barbra Frawley in the radio series, so it was pretty darned female. You can still purchase tapes of the original radio series.
Ruth was about 18 when she began the radio play, and about 40 when she started publishing the books. Times were different back then.

[Gutter Monkey]

Poor old Mouse was treated worse than I thought! Here's an excerpt from an artilce about the Argonauts children's radio series:

None of the female members of the team could ever ahieve the same status, because of the strict Public Service rule that a woman must resign upon marriage. It was this rule that in 1950 had cut short the career of Elizabeth Osbourne, one of the architects of the program. Year after year, just as listeners had begun to enjoy the style of any woman Argonaut, she would disappear. (For this reason, the voice of Mouse in The Muddle-Headed Wombat also changed every year or so.)

http://www.efanzines.com/SFC/ScratchPad/scrat004.pdf

Yep, different times.

My guess as to why Mouse is an 'it' and not a 'she' is that any character in any fiction that could be used as a tampon by any of the other characters should necessarily be dehumanised as much as possible.
And that's why I didn't vote for John Howard.

[Renee_Turner]

Originally Posted by Gutter Monkey

\My guess as to why Mouse is an 'it' and not a 'she' is that any character in any fiction that could be used as a tampon by any of the other characters should necessarily be dehumanised as much as possible.

Ah, so now I get why you're called Gutter Monkey.