Humor will not be tolerated!! -Portia

I keep using my given name by special request of my bishop and stake president. This pisses me off inordinately. I'm sorry that they feel the need to interfere. Agreed. Especially since there are tons of gender-neutral nicknames in the world (and a long history of common male names becoming common ...

TheBlackSheep wrote:Ditto. I didn't want to make a big thing out of it then, but in the future if you'd rather use another name just let me know.

Thirded.

http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/83805/

Fan-freaking-tastic answer by GA. (Also, $70,000? Who is stressed out about earning $70,000 (unless they live in a super expensive area)?)

http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/83779/ Major kudos for tackling such a sensitive topic and making the advice practical but vague enough for its audience. Along the same topic, I've heard that exercise can affect one's libido, so that might be something for him to try. I loved her answer. Putting ...

I finally saw Up in the Air and I can see why everyone liked it so much but it was also kind of emotionally devastating.

I'm so sorry you're going through this. I wish I had answers for you.

Emiliana wrote:I feel totally selfish for feeling sad about this.

Even if a change is a net positive, it's OK to be sad about parts that will make your life harder.

Zedability wrote:2 pm church on a fast Sunday needs to not be a thing.

Because of jet lag?

Inspired by the fact that Zedability hates the Rankine scale, I propose a thread where you must say something very mundane, but substitute a ridiculous unit of measure for a more common unit of measure (or substitute a unit of measure that is ridiculous, under the circumstances). E.g., for years my ...

menhir - a large upright standing stone, also known as a standing stone, orthostat, lith or masseba/matseva

etymology - French, from Middle Breton: maen, "stone" and hir, "long"


The druid spent an abstemious week in preparation for the ceremony at the menhir.

http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/83657/

There's an episode of The Simpsons where Homer meets the voice actress behind Itchy and Scratchy, so it's definitely a cartoon.

Most of what I know about Sad Puppies is secondhand, but the people I know of who are against it are people I generally respect, and the people I know of who support it aren't.

Whistler wrote:I don't really want to know all the gorey details, but I think it's stupid when people started voting in support of a cause and not based on whether or not they liked the actual books.

Is that an Edward Gorey-influenced typo? (If so, I approve. )

Emiliana wrote:

Zedability wrote:Yayyyy it got approved.

Yaaaaaaay!

I will toast you with my glass of water (that I am using to take my own anti-anxiety medication).

abstemious - not self-indulgent, especially when eating and drinking


The quiet, abstemious environment of the Zen meditation retreat was a stark contrast to the tohubohu of regular working life.

http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/83460/

If anyone else wants to answer this questions, I'd love to get even more responses.

OOOH! I love Persuasion! I had the same experience reading it for the first time not knowing anything about it. The only movie version I have watched is the one on Netflix, which does a decent job. Though in order to communicate to the audience how Anne is feeling, I feel like they took away a bit ...

Whistler wrote:it was an actual topic of much debate in FMH!

Yeah, I read that and thought "Haha!—Wait, that probably really happened."

Whistler wrote:I read a poem that postulated he was making a statement to his sometimes-alcoholic dad ("I don't need whiskey, I just need you").

What poem?

ostranenie - the artistic technique of presenting to audiences common things in an unfamiliar or strange way in order to enhance perception of the familiar. (From the Russian word остранение, as used by the Russian Formalists.) Pasha found that ostranenie was an effective technique in combating her ...