Seriously - assuming we're talking about "best friend" level of friend. As awesome as my wife is, **** happens, but if my best friend of like 30 years kept info like that from me I'd be unbelievably hurt.

WTF

Decided to write a story, so I can get some practice at writing so I can write a movie or something and make millions (inspired by the crappy writing that was Bridesmaids, heh).

So if you get bored and have nothing better to do and want to read something I wrote, have fun (and for the sake of the story, "Majerle" is pronounced "Mar-Lee")

www.idspispopd.net/story.odt

Im a big fan of criticism, so if it sucks feel free to tell me, if you tell me why itll be helpful, but if not thats fine to

What good is telling him going to do, other than unburden yourself of the knowledge? Ive always said you shouldnt ever tell someone something if youa re just telling them in order to make yourself feel better.

If I was married and my wife cheated on me once a long ass time ago, id rather not know.

Cheating is like the ultimate betrayal in a marriage. I don't see the difference between currently doing it and did it a year or so ago.

I will say though, if you are the friend in this position, you better come correct with the evidence.

I read the whole thing. Has some potential. Apart from a few typos, such as "id" and "tho" (nbd since it's, I'm assuming, an early draft), and the average sentence being too long, I like it.

I like how part one establishes the crisis, immediately. Cuts right to the chase. It yearns, however, for two-or-three more sentences painting the peril of Majerle, establishing it with vivid sensory detail. You have "raging waters" and "unyielding rapids" already, but, alone, those are not enough. Come up with some specific details about her peril (e.g. "she was tumbling towards a sheet of knife-like rocks," "she momentarily disappeared beneath the foamy mist."¹)

If anything, I'd add a paragraph or two to the opening and remove one or two from the middle.

^{1 I'm just coming up with these on the spot, so, with a little bit of thought, you can surely create better ones.}

some LOL ones:

Jon Stewart Jew
How to pronounce Juan
Polite word for Mexican
Empty threes
MP3
Diane Sawyer swimsuit pictures

Somebody I know was telling a story about a no-masturbation contest that ended because the loser was watching CNN or whatever and could no longer contain himself when Judy Woodruff came on screen.



In searching for this, Google Images did suggest "young Judy Woodruff," which seems pretty much in the same vein.

I have a distinct memory of hearing Dr Laura say something along these lines when I was a kid, and even as a 9 year old I remember thinking that was ****ed up and pathetic.

btw if someone cheats and no one finds out and safe practices were followed then is it a victimless crime

how so?

My best friends' family have a hairless cat. I have a normal haired cat. I'm unsure how to proceed.

With or without hair:

CAT, n.
A soft, indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.

Pics of cats:

http://i.imgur.com/Fa9jy.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/vAcPR.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/rt4FN.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/ctOtq.jpg

Sadly I have more picture of their cat than my own on my phone.

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Turns out it's his wife, not his girlfriend.

Generally, yes. But I had to talk to HR to make sure that keeping them on the same shift / same area wasn't going to be negligence on my part if they decided to kill each other.

I think a guy having sex with his wife is totally normal, unless my reading comprehension is poor again today

No Garcia. No men should ever have sex with their wives.

Mark Haines dead at 65 - combined with Erin Burnett leaving, CNBC screwed

I was not aware anyone watched CNBC when it's not the Olympics

So either in this thread, or last month's- there was a discussion of brushing teeth in the shower and rinsing and I had some back and forth with nbats and Gizmo about it.

Now, every morning as I brush my teeth, I recall that conversation and have to think about Gizmo (yay) and nbats (boo). My real life needs a restraining order from my internet one.

you are a very strange man

You're killing independent Dids!

Speaking of vacation time, I get a crapload of time off at my job and need to take several weeks in the next few months or it goes away. But I don't have like, any vacations planned, nor do I have a family with like kids to take to Disneyland.

Does anyone have good ideas for what I should do? Like, cheap worthwhile summer projects.

Take every Monday off for the next six months

i never understood why companies do this? why does the vacation have to go away, and why can't they just pay you?

i freelanced for a company, where their vacation didn't roll over, and they didn't pay out for unused vacation. so everyone took their vacation at the end of the year, which was a pretty important time for them, to get work done. they ended up having to hire a bunch of freelancers at a pretty high rate, i'm sure.