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The worst one for me was Fred. I think its pretty hard to find a closer relationship for two people to have then twin brothers.
What are we having for dinner?
you're sick!
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So I'm going to attempt an analysis of The Tick. Note that my only exposure is Amazon's rendition. (I know there's a cartoon, and I assume there're comic books as well.) Anyway, here goes. Spoilered for wall-of-text, not for spoilers:
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As someone who avidly read the comics (Back off, kid. We're a hedge.), watched the cartoon AND the Warburton series, I absolutely love the new Tick on Amazon. The casting and the writing just make me so danged happy. When *I* am unable to find fault with something, well... okay, I'm probably ill. Be that as it may. TICK IS AWESOME.
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As someone who avidly read the comics (Back off, kid. We're a hedge.), watched the cartoon AND the Warburton series, I absolutely love the new Tick on Amazon. The casting and the writing just make me so danged happy. When *I* am unable to find fault with something, well... okay, I'm probably ill. Be that as it may. TICK IS AWESOME.So I'm going to attempt an analysis of The Tick. Note that my only exposure is Amazon's rendition. (I know there's a cartoon, and I assume there're comic books as well.) Anyway, here goes. Spoilered for wall-of-text, not for spoilers:
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If there is anything you want to see from the series in real life let me know.
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*SIGH*. Not quite as proud of my kids as I thought.
Impus Major continues to be a Force of Awesome, both agreeing to a 2-week extension of his banishment from Whimseyshire so I can store the Celica there, and being perfectly happy to have "New Kid" over.
Impus Minor vetoed New Kid's visit because he "doesn't like him".
I have to work out whether it's an actual personality thing, or whether it's just discomfort because New Kid is "different". I can accept the former. If it's the latter, part of maturity is accepting those with whom you're not necessarily comfortable.
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I haven't read anything after this post yet, so I may not be up to speed on latest info.
I'm also the parent of an autistic child. The Adult Kid (27 in a few weeks) has a couple forms of autism as well as a mental condition that makes the whole recipe difficult to manage. When she was a teen things were very tough at times. "Is this particular behavior simply because she's 15, or is this because her brain is really not properly translating the words we're saying, or is this because of the other issue?"
Parenting styles *have* to change as a kid ages *no matter what* the kid has going on. Things that work when the kid is 9 has no bearing on what's happening when they've turned 12. And whatever you're trying to do when they're 12 has very little hope of still working by the time they turn 13.
Autism is in no way a single condition that you can just pull out a handbook and say "OH, we just have to do THIS instead! Solved!" What Lynora goes through as a parent is completely unrelated to what I went through because our kids' forms of autism are not even remotely close to similar.
And yet...from that description NH gave and without being there (ALL THE DISCLAIMERS)...I see a parent that doesn't know how to adapt to the changing landscape of her kid. The teen years are hard with any kid. The kid is close to being an adult and they know it, but they're nowhere near as ready or mature as they think they are. The mistakes made during those years are amplified in severity. The more restrictive you are the harder they try to fight, yearning for freedom.
She has to see that regardless of his autism, he's a growing kid first. He's not a set of unchanging conditions to be managed. And unfortunately, he probably can't tell her that on his own either. He's going to need someone to speak for him before things get out of hand, and just as importantly, she needs to be willing to listen. Left unchecked, I see a volcano that will eventually erupt, and it won't be pretty.
But again, I'm no expert. I'm simply experienced at what happened with The Adult Kid, for good and bad.
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As someone who avidly read the comics (Back off, kid. We're a hedge.), watched the cartoon AND the Warburton series, I absolutely love the new Tick on Amazon. The casting and the writing just make me so danged happy. When *I* am unable to find fault with something, well... okay, I'm probably ill. Be that as it may. TICK IS AWESOME.So I'm going to attempt an analysis of The Tick. Note that my only exposure is Amazon's rendition. (I know there's a cartoon, and I assume there're comic books as well.) Anyway, here goes. Spoilered for wall-of-text, not for spoilers:
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A guy I knew 20+ years ago was *really* into The Tick. He was a friend of a friend, and while I liked the guy at the time, I still considered him to be rather odd.
Let me say that again, because I find it terribly important. I considered him to be rather odd.
Since then, I've found out more information from a female friend who also knew him back then, and my opinion of him got much, much worse. Stuff I didn't know at the time. If I had, my life may have turned out much differently as a potential convicted felon.
I could not get into The Tick when he tried to introduce it to me back in the mid-late 90's, and it's been kind of tainted by mental association with him ever since.
Given what I know of LM, and how her tastes and mine match fairly well in some areas of entertainment, I may be able to trick my mind into associating it differently and give it another chance.
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Autism is in no way a single condition that you can just pull out a handbook and say "OH, we just have to do THIS instead! Solved!" What Lynora goes through as a parent is completely unrelated to what I went through because our kids' forms of autism are not even remotely close to similar.
I think anyone who wants to understand autism needs to meet our three: One is totally independent, has utterly no use for people, and will not do anything for you unless you explicitly tell him to. He just does his own thing, and everyone else in the world is an annoyance until he decides he wants to talk to them.
The next is the aforementioned "shy guy".And the third is the least functional of the three, but so sweet-natured you practically think of him as having Down's Syndrome rather than autism.
Anyone interacting with the three of them without knowing any better would call them three completely disparate things.
You're late with them today.
Your late with them today.*you're
Leave me alone I'm working.
Also its *You're* because it started a sentence.
I think we've established my occasional ambivalence towards capitalization.Your late with them today.*you'reLeave me alone I'm working.
Also its *You're* because it started a sentence.
If I accept that you would have to accept my ambivalence for " ' " and since I don't see that happening here we are!
Ah, but capitalization (or lack thereof) does not typically change one word into another. A change in spelling can.If I accept that you would have to accept my ambivalence for " ' " and since I don't see that happening here we are!I think we've established my occasional ambivalence towards capitalization.Your late with them today.*you'reLeave me alone I'm working.
Also its *You're* because it started a sentence.
"china", uncapitalized, is a plate. "China", capitalized, is a country.
"comet" is an astronomical object. "Comet" is a cleaning powder."burgundy" is a color, and a wine of that color. "Burgundy" is the French region that produces the wine.
Similarly, "cheddar" is a cheese, and "Cheddar" is an English city where the cheese became known.
A "jack" lifts cars up, but if a "Jack" can do that I wouldn't want to fight him.
"coke" is most properly the term for a fuel product made from destructive distillation of coal via high heat. "Coke" is the well-known synonym for Coca-Cola, which gets its name from the original (but LONG since discontinued) use of coca leaf extracts (i.e. cocaine) in the drink.
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FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!
I think the oxford comma is more of a choice then a necessity.
No response so clearly I have won.
Autism is in no way a single condition that you can just pull out a handbook and say "OH, we just have to do THIS instead! Solved!" What Lynora goes through as a parent is completely unrelated to what I went through because our kids' forms of autism are not even remotely close to similar.I think anyone who wants to understand autism needs to meet our three: One is totally independent, has utterly no use for people, and will not do anything for you unless you explicitly tell him to. He just does his own thing, and everyone else in the world is an annoyance until he decides he wants to talk to them.
This sounds a lot like me tbh....
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I think the oxford comma is more of a choice then a necessity.
I think you're wrong =)
"We invited the strippers, Stalin and Hitler."
"We invited the strippers, Stalin, and Hitler."
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All I heard is Orthos ordered some strippers! My boss bought a party bus this spring, I'm sure if we invited him along he'd let us use it.
Cheddar is also money.
Coke could mean cocaine.
Jack, is an a!&@#%&.
Happy whatever day it is for non specific reasons!
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Oh, and for the record, I was talking with the solar site manager yesterday and he said, "Yeah, thanks for sending me that schedule about the parking! Made it really easy to prioritize you so we wouldn't have to deal with all that."
So it was a combination of being ornery with the invaders and communicative with my company. And I'm sure a bit of being nice.
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Autism is in no way a single condition that you can just pull out a handbook and say "OH, we just have to do THIS instead! Solved!" What Lynora goes through as a parent is completely unrelated to what I went through because our kids' forms of autism are not even remotely close to similar.I think anyone who wants to understand autism needs to meet our three: One is totally independent, has utterly no use for people, and will not do anything for you unless you explicitly tell him to. He just does his own thing, and everyone else in the world is an annoyance until he decides he wants to talk to them.
The next is the aforementioned "shy guy".
And the third is the least functional of the three, but so sweet-natured you practically think of him as having Down's Syndrome rather than autism.Anyone interacting with the three of them without knowing any better would call them three completely disparate things.
And allow me to add a fourth with my experience. You know after a five minute interaction with my brother that there will never be any level of independence. Ever.
I have no idea how my parents do it.
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I think the oxford comma is more of a choice then a necessity.
No response so clearly I have won.
Don't make me come over there.
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All I heard is Orthos ordered some strippers! My boss bought a party bus this spring, I'm sure if we invited him along he'd let us use it.
Hmm. Seems we are indeed another day closer to the end.
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Fun trips down memory lane.
Tiny T-Rex, as a toddler, used to call Winnie the Pooh "Poopie Bear".
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Lack of comma costs company $5 million
"Ending a case that electrified punctuation pedants, grammar goons and comma connoisseurs, Oakhurst Dairy settled an overtime dispute with its drivers that hinged entirely on the lack of an Oxford comma in state law.
The dairy company in Portland, Me., agreed to pay $5 million to the drivers, according to court documents filed on Thursday."
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Why does NobodysHome insist on having a laser printer at home?
"Oh, the California Driver's License handbook is 132 pages? Gee... on my inkjet at roughly $0.25 a page for ink that's pretty expensive. On my laser printer at $0.035 a page for ink I really don't care..."
Why does NobodysHome insist on having a laser printer at home?
"Oh, the California Driver's License handbook is 132 pages? Gee... on my inkjet at roughly $0.25 a page for ink that's pretty expensive. On my laser printer at $0.035 a page for ink I really don't care..."
I love laser printers. I eventually want to get a color laser printer.
I love laser printers. I eventually want to get a color laser printer.Why does NobodysHome insist on having a laser printer at home?
"Oh, the California Driver's License handbook is 132 pages? Gee... on my inkjet at roughly $0.25 a page for ink that's pretty expensive. On my laser printer at $0.035 a page for ink I really don't care..."
I have a high disposable income and yet those have continued to elude my grasp.
Some day, when we stop going on trips, I'll actually manage to get one...
EDIT: Wow.... looks like they've gone down quite a bit in price. Unfortunately, now they're all trying to come prebundled with auto-refill crap.
Can you just sell me a &$%&$&* printer and let ME order the ink when I need it?
All I heard is Orthos ordered some strippers! My boss bought a party bus this spring, I'm sure if we invited him along he'd let us use it.
Hmm. Seems we are indeed another day closer to the end.
Not if it isn't true.
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Are you saying stocking up on paint stripper would accelerate the end of this miserable space rock? To Menards, away!
Hey now, some of us are enjoying our time on this space rock!
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Ah, but capitalization (or lack thereof) does not typically change one word into another. A change in spelling can.If I accept that you would have to accept my ambivalence for " ' " and since I don't see that happening here we are!I think we've established my occasional ambivalence towards capitalization.Your late with them today.*you'reLeave me alone I'm working.
Also its *You're* because it started a sentence.
"china", uncapitalized, is a plate. "China", capitalized, is a country.
"comet" is an astronomical object. "Comet" is a cleaning powder.
"burgundy" is a color, and a wine of that color. "Burgundy" is the French region that produces the wine.
Similarly, "cheddar" is a cheese, and "Cheddar" is an English city where the cheese became known.
A "jack" lifts cars up, but if a "Jack" can do that I wouldn't want to fight him.
"coke" is most properly the term for a fuel product made from destructive distillation of coal via high heat. "Coke" is the well-known synonym for Coca-Cola, which gets its name from the original (but LONG since discontinued) use of coca leaf extracts (i.e. cocaine) in the drink.
Cheddar isn't a city, it's a small-ish town, with a gorge. They like to age the cheeses in nearby caves. (To be a city in the UK, you need to have a cathedral, or I think you can get city status on the whim of the Monarch as well).
In other news, I saw the world champion sandwich board wearer today, checking his phone while carrying around a sign saying:
WAKE UP SATAN'S BRAINWASHED CATTLE
On his back.
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Yes! Let it begin!!
Ah, but capitalization (or lack thereof) does not typically change one word into another. A change in spelling can.If I accept that you would have to accept my ambivalence for " ' " and since I don't see that happening here we are!I think we've established my occasional ambivalence towards capitalization.Your late with them today.*you'reLeave me alone I'm working.
Also its *You're* because it started a sentence.
"china", uncapitalized, is a plate. "China", capitalized, is a country.
"comet" is an astronomical object. "Comet" is a cleaning powder.
"burgundy" is a color, and a wine of that color. "Burgundy" is the French region that produces the wine.
Similarly, "cheddar" is a cheese, and "Cheddar" is an English city where the cheese became known.
A "jack" lifts cars up, but if a "Jack" can do that I wouldn't want to fight him.
"coke" is most properly the term for a fuel product made from destructive distillation of coal via high heat. "Coke" is the well-known synonym for Coca-Cola, which gets its name from the original (but LONG since discontinued) use of coca leaf extracts (i.e. cocaine) in the drink.Cheddar isn't a city, it's a small-ish town, with a gorge. They like to age the cheeses in nearby caves. (To be a city in the UK, you need to have a cathedral, or I think you can get city status on the whim of the Monarch as well).
In other news, I saw the world champion sandwich board wearer today, checking his phone while carrying around a sign saying:
WAKE UP SATAN'S BRAINWASHED CATTLE
On his back.
Or, and I'm just thinking outside the box here, get in this huge iron kettle with free Wi-Fi to twiddle on your phone while you baste... I mean, marinate, yourselves.
You can even check your Facebook status while you're cooking... I mean, relaxing.
Family weekends. Old traditions. Like doing weird dances to the music on the radio while doing the dishes with my dad.
My aunts nearly ruined the Beatles by singing and dancing to it while doing the dishes before opening presents on Christmas Eve.
I understand they were gifts, but it really felt like we earned those action figures.
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If there is anything you want to see from the series in real life let me know.As someone who avidly read the comics (Back off, kid. We're a hedge.), watched the cartoon AND the Warburton series, I absolutely love the new Tick on Amazon. The casting and the writing just make me so danged happy. When *I* am unable to find fault with something, well... okay, I'm probably ill. Be that as it may. TICK IS AWESOME.So I'm going to attempt an analysis of The Tick. Note that my only exposure is Amazon's rendition. (I know there's a cartoon, and I assume there're comic books as well.) Anyway, here goes. Spoilered for wall-of-text, not for spoilers:
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So... you're going to come to my house, dress up in a blue lycra outfit, and casually knock out walls to remodel my kitchen by beating up bad guys in it?
It must be Christmas again already!
Haha, we are both LARPers. We can do reasonable acting. Also, I lost my sense of shame ages ago.Honestly, I think if we adopt a kitty apprentice, there wont be much happening, because kitty will play with the ropes. Altough that is also fun.
Hehe…
Have so sense of shame either, though that for a couple of different reasons...faulty brain-wiring included.Still...
Your playful attention makes me feel appreciated ^^'
*Sends hugs and snuggles*
Yep. Winter can come back now. Musquitos are out. I'm done with the nice weather. Back to freezing please.
*Groans*
Yea tell me about it! I'm sought out by the buggers like I'm some kind of open bar for mosquitos.
Family weekend. I packed just one book and internet is s!%@. I have been bored for hours amd it is glorious.
Just got home myself yesterday from the annual (family) Easter-dinner at my grandmothers. It was fine...a bit boring, but still nice and cozy in that 'several generations dining together, discussing the world situation, arguing over politics and telling old stories' kind of way.
Still...Good eating, fairly pleasant company and some good laughs...all in all a pretty good time.
Yeah Ive been in a grouchy mood of late too. Closed down Ironfang Invasion, decided that it's not worth it trying to make things work. I guess I should admit I'm suffering from burnout and just don't do anything more on the RPG end.
*Picks up Mort kitty and puts her down on his lap, while giving her many scratchies*
Anything I can do to help lighten your mood Mort?
And don't feel bad about having some RPG burn-out, its something most of us deal with on occasions. I usually deal with it either by taking a break or just shift to/learning a new 'system' to play around with.
[whining]Cancer sucks![/whining]
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~pulls out a box of duct tape~ Alrighty. You can now tape my mouth shut. After all, silence is golden, but duct tape is silver.
No need to excuse yourself Sharoth, your worry is very understandable.
I too hope your mother can get her surgery over and done with, so her healing can begin.** spoiler omitted **
I wish you the best luck Synos, and hope you two can find some kind of last relationship-solution that benefits all of you (you, her and the children).
I'm having the problem that my husband, my kids and I all have the day off and everyone is annoying the snot out of me.
*Sends hugs, back-pats and a glass of Rum*
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This next post is mostly for Drejk.
My daughter yesterday referred to the Warsaw Mermaid as the "Warlock Mermaid".
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As someone who avidly read the comics (Back off, kid. We're a hedge.), watched the cartoon AND the Warburton series, I absolutely love the new Tick on Amazon. The casting and the writing just make me so danged happy. When *I* am unable to find fault with something, well... okay, I'm probably ill. Be that as it may. TICK IS AWESOME.So I'm going to attempt an analysis of The Tick. Note that my only exposure is Amazon's rendition. (I know there's a cartoon, and I assume there're comic books as well.) Anyway, here goes. Spoilered for wall-of-text, not for spoilers:
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It really is!
I might be a little dense, but literally just last night I realized what Brown Tingle is a reference to. This show just keeps on giving!