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mariacallas said:
The only difference I spoke of was WHO I confide my innermost thoughts to, in response to the previous post of Fjones about not wanting to hear gossip . I was agreeing with the fact that if someone I was not close to started gossiping about others to me, I would be wary, but it doesnt mean I'd fuck that person over (duh). If someone tells me something, anything in confidence, even the most trivial matter, you can bet you wont hear anything from me. It doesnt matter who its coming from either, a secret is a secret.
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To clarify my earleir statement (when I said, "no, it is not what I meant") and to reply to this post as well --

What I meant was, I don't think people should get in the habit of saying "Thisi s a secret" and then saying somethign that seems trivial. If what I am being todl isn't very important, why tell me it is a secret? That becomes difficult to keep track of.

Certain things are obviously meant to be private and don't really require "This is a secret."

I had one friend who told me a lot of "secrets" that I really had no reason to know. I don't know why she did it. I then had knowledge about other people that I didn't really want or need.
 
AmorRoark said:
Off-topic but, you go to DePaul? WTF? I just graduated in the spring! Do you know dyslecstasy? Did she introduce you to bluelight? I agreed with your distaste for Fest. I never went and don't regret it.
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???????????

I don't know what or where DePaul is. I was using "spring festival" as a generic term for the spring event hat schools have that usually involve a band coming to the campus.

I apologize for any confusion that resulted from my being vague.
 
xxkcxx said:
FJones...I didn't know you were from Chicago as well.

Just for school or have you always lived here?
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My apologies, it seems I created some confusion.

I guess more than one school has the All-American Rejects coming to play.

BLeeech.
 
Fjones said:
To clarify my earleir statement (when I said, "no, it is not what I meant") and to reply to this post as well --

What I meant was, I don't think people should get in the habit of saying "Thisi s a secret" and then saying somethign that seems trivial. If what I am being todl isn't very important, why tell me it is a secret? That becomes difficult to keep track of.

Certain things are obviously meant to be private and don't really require "This is a secret."

I had one friend who told me a lot of "secrets" that I really had no reason to know. I don't know why she did it. I then had knowledge about other people that I didn't really want or need.
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Hehe I guess some people are just that way. :) Or, people who tell you something trivial and say its a secret , and you find out they told the whole world anyway. Peeve!
 
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Nah, I take the blame. Also, I saw saying "Bleech" at the notion that more than one school wants the band to play, not at the misunderstanding :)

On a rare note, I don't seem to have a pet peeve today! That's a first.
 
lacey k said:
I fuckin hate it when my cat farts. That bitch is nasty! She always gets all up on my shit cuddlin laying on myarms liek she is right now while i type on the lap top. Im just chillin here with a nice furry kitty with me n then its like Awww shit, wats that smell? That bitch farts up a storm i swear to god. I never seen a cat fart before, but it could only be her cuz it sure as hell aint me and her ass is like two feet from my face. :X Thats foul yo.
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A cat I had a few years ago, Stinky Pete, used to fart too. He'd get under the covers and fart. Or he'd jump up on my lap and fart in the day.
I think it might have been his diet. Judging by the severed mouse heads he left on the doormat, he ate a couple of mice every night. And he got scraps from the BBQ ribs place around the corner.
 
Well, I have another one! And it kinda has to do with secrets as well.


I hate when you are trying to talk during class (in my case outpatient rehab classes) and get away with it so you have to whisper, and then you realize that the person you are conversing with DOES NOT know how to whisper and speaks at almost his normal level.
 
Fjones said:
???????????

I don't know what or where DePaul is. I was using "spring festival" as a generic term for the spring event hat schools have that usually involve a band coming to the campus.

I apologize for any confusion that resulted from my being vague.
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I concluded you were at DePaul because we've both had the same artists come to our spring festivals. I guess it's not that weird. ;)
 
spork said:
I hate it when people try to talk in class. ;)
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lol...i should have explained better. I don't mean talking for the sake of talking, I mean like you are trying to understand what the teacher is saying and are missing something so you ask the person next to you to clear it up and they do it by speaking in their normal voice.
 
On a similar note, I've been really bothered by nauseous/nauseated.

If you say you are nauseous, you are saying you make people sick.
 
I really cant stand when people chew with their mouth open or make smacking sounds when eating or chewing gum. It drives me fucking INSANE. When people do that I almost want to take their food away and tell them they cant eat until they chew without sounding like a cow.
 
When people ask you, are you ok, do you want to talk? And you say yes, and two minutes into talking about your situation they interrupt you and begin talking about their own...

Don't ask me if I need to talk if you're the one who clearly needs to :p
 
^It's common to hear people say they're nauseous when their stomach is upset, but language sticklers hold that nauseous means to induce nausea, whereas nauseated means you feel sick. So when you're describing how sick you feel, you should say you are nauseated; when you're describing something that makes you sick, you should call it nauseous.

At least that's how you should do it if you want to be extremely proper. Most usage guides note that the improper use is far more common than the proper use, which is always a bad sign for a rule. And the Merriam-Webster Dictionary of English Usage even goes so far as to say there is no basis for the rule. So it's likely that the confusion will continue for a while and eventually nobody will object when you say you feel nauseous when you're sick. Whether that will happen in 20 years or 200 years, I don't know.

http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-comments.aspx
 
xxkcxx said:
^It's common to hear people say they're nauseous when their stomach is upset, but language sticklers hold that nauseous means to induce nausea, whereas nauseated means you feel sick. So when you're describing how sick you feel, you should say you are nauseated; when you're describing something that makes you sick, you should call it nauseous.

At least that's how you should do it if you want to be extremely proper. Most usage guides note that the improper use is far more common than the proper use, which is always a bad sign for a rule. And the Merriam-Webster Dictionary of English Usage even goes so far as to say there is no basis for the rule. So it's likely that the confusion will continue for a while and eventually nobody will object when you say you feel nauseous when you're sick. Whether that will happen in 20 years or 200 years, I don't know.

http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-comments.aspx
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Ah, gotcha, I thought you meant that both nauseous AND nauseated implied that you make people sick, rather than feeling sick.

To which I then wondered how one would say that they actually felt nauseous and/or nauseated. I was just confused, lol.
 
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