RP Listener Forum - Radio Paradise

Posted: Dec 22, 2007 - 12:49am

Right now I am reading every post I ever made to this forum. Listed without regard to context.

Not sure how cool I feel about that.

Posted: Dec 21, 2007 - 11:55pm

winter wrote:

Going to sleep.

Goodnight, all.

What he said.

Well, sort of. Got a Paul Auster book to hang with for a bit first.

Had fun, have fun. See you all next time.

Posted: Dec 21, 2007 - 11:46pm

Going to sleep.

Goodnight, all.

Posted: Dec 21, 2007 - 11:45pm

Pining

Posted: Dec 21, 2007 - 11:32pm

cookinlover wrote:

It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy when you explain it all in such a romantic way.

If I'm not full o' the Christmas spirit, I guess I'm full of something else.

Posted: Dec 21, 2007 - 11:27pm

cookinlover wrote:

It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy when you explain it all in such a romantic way.

Posted: Dec 21, 2007 - 11:26pm

rgj13 wrote:

Gifts themselves are an odd and fraught social ritual. Primarily they're the residue of societies that gave them as forms of supplication or obeisance, or as gestures of diplomacy. So there's a subtext of power dynamics in their exchange, lots of opaque social obligation stuff.

It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy when you explain it all in such a romantic way.

Posted: Dec 21, 2007 - 11:20pm

zipper wrote:

You nailed it! I feel so much better now. ;)

Gifts themselves are an odd and fraught social ritual. Primarily they're the residue of societies that gave them as forms of supplication or obeisance, or as gestures of diplomacy. So there's a subtext of power dynamics in their exchange, lots of opaque social obligation stuff.

Posted: Dec 21, 2007 - 11:15pm

rgj13 wrote:

Sometimes me too. All the attention is on you (or some of it, anyway), and it can feel oddly performative to have to demonstrate your gratitude and delight, or whatever it is you're supposed to respond with.

You nailed it! I feel so much better now. ;)

Posted: Dec 21, 2007 - 11:13pm

rgj13 wrote:

Well, I worked in retail for awhile, so wrapping is an activity in which my thinly-veiled low-grade OCD can find full expression. It is kind of silly that we all go to the trouble, but it's a little weird that we buy each other all this crap once a year anyway, so silly is relative.

btw

Yeah, it is kinda weird. I can easily see you wrapping gifts, btw.

If someone comes over with a bottle of wine or something for the dogs, I'm delighted. Otherwise, I'm difficult to please and I have to don my delighted face no matter what's wrapped. And there's the whole do I open it now or save it for later? I may or may not have a retaliatory gift for the giver. Or if you're invited over "to exchange gifts," I feel like I'm going into battle. It's just uncomfortable for me.

I can't possibly be the only soul who feels this way!

Posted: Dec 21, 2007 - 11:08pm

zipper wrote:

Seriously! Opening gifts makes me uncomfortable - I can't possibly be the only soul who feels that way. Keep it simple. Nothing more than a gift bag and a poof or two of tissue paper is plenty.

Sometimes me too. All the attention is on you (or some of it, anyway), and it can feel oddly performative to have to demonstrate your gratitude and delight, or whatever it is you're supposed to respond with.

Posted: Dec 21, 2007 - 11:08pm

zipper wrote:

I don't know those.

What do they do with them?

Twirl and dance. And eat more E.

Posted: Dec 21, 2007 - 11:07pm

agnes wrote:

The green sticks those hooligan kids take to dance clubs.

I don't know those.

What do they do with them?

Posted: Dec 21, 2007 - 11:06pm

zipper wrote:

Seriously! Opening gifts makes me uncomfortable - I can't possibly be the only soul who feels that way. Keep it simple. Nothing more than a gift bag and a poof or two of tissue paper is plenty.

Well, I worked in retail for awhile, so wrapping is an activity in which my thinly-veiled low-grade OCD can find full expression. It is kind of silly that we all go to the trouble, but it's a little weird that we buy each other all this crap once a year anyway, so silly is relative.

btw

Posted: Dec 21, 2007 - 11:06pm

zipper wrote:

I don't know, Doctor. I was hoping you could tell me.

I have no idea.

Posted: Dec 21, 2007 - 11:05pm

zipper wrote:

Alligators and astronauts.

The green sticks those hooligan kids take to dance clubs.

Posted: Dec 21, 2007 - 11:04pm

winter wrote:

Seriously? Why?

I don't know, Doctor. I was hoping you could tell me.

Posted: Dec 21, 2007 - 11:03pm

agnes wrote:

True. Cocoa butter and bingo chips.

Alligators and astronauts.

Posted: Dec 21, 2007 - 11:03pm

zipper wrote:

Seriously! Opening gifts makes me uncomfortable - I can't possibly be the only soul who feels that way. Keep it simple. Nothing more than a gift bag and a poof or two of tissue paper is plenty.

Seriously? Why?

Posted: Dec 21, 2007 - 11:01pm

rgj13 wrote:

Style points to that gift-giver.

Seriously! Opening gifts makes me uncomfortable - I can't possibly be the only soul who feels that way. Keep it simple. Nothing more than a gift bag and a poof or two of tissue paper is plenty.