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Ugh' date=' that sounds awful. Sounds like she needs an intervention. Or an exorcism (?) :D[/quote'] All her kids have just buried their heads in the sand and won't say anything to her, so it never gets any better. The woman's sister is the same actually - a horrible, vicious drunk. Neither are much nicer people sober really.
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Well that sucks for you. Still it's not like you have to be around them all the time or anything is it? Also WTF? I'm away for a couple of days and someone comes on here crusading against Barney the Dinosaur? Sorry Gorbo but this individual really is too rediculous not to poke fun at.

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Tomorrow I am going to Italy for New Year's, so if I don't see you (but I will try to write!) I would like to wish you all a happy, happy, happy new year and I hope you will all accomplish everything you want to and just be simply happy and fulfilled. I also hope you will all have a great time on the "big night" and that you will be surrounded by your love ones. Enjoy people :D :D

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Soooo, anyone have any new years resolutions? I think mine will be to once and for all get a handle on myself (drinking/eating habits, frivolous spending, cutting out toxic associates, being an idiot in general) and also to simply put my all into a music project in memory of my friend whom passed a couple months ago, he would always fuck with me about how little I played so I wanna make him proud. Now I just gotta get my damn amp back...

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I resolve never to watch The Notebook again. That movie was even worse than I expected. Apart from the odd genuinely funny line of dialogue and some great acting from the old people, it was a massive sack of crap. And before Mindy whines about manliness, everyone in my family disliked it - my mom perhaps most of all. The story was pathetically thin (worse even than most romantic dramas), most of the characters were at best base-trim archetypes with no particularly interesting traits, Walt Whitman's poetry is even worse than last I'd heard it, the main plot distracted from the far more emotionally involving story about an old man experiencing the pain of watching his wife succumb to dementia whilst undergoing physical degeneration himself, and some of dialogue was just revoltingly indulgent and self-serving, especially the parts where the old woman remarks on how good the story is. The male lead is weirdly obsessive but apparently not enough to stop him from getting some ass on the side whilst the female lead is away, without showing any particular affection for the other woman in question. Perhaps worst of all, the female lead was just an indecisive, incompetent, irresponsible, compassionless, nymphomanic wretch who couldn't so much as take a dump without supervision. Her fiancee kinda gets tossed by the wayside despite being an entirely likeable character whom the female lead ostensibly likes a lot. Oh, and the female lead is rich. And the guy is poor. God forbid we have a romance that doesn't involve some kind of prejudice, otherwise we might actually have to try to justify the behavior of the individuals and put more than 20 minutes into crafting the relationship between the two characters. One could argue it's just fantasy and so the expectation of realism is misplaced, but Gurren Lagann is fantasy and that had a 3-hour fight that culminated in robots larger than galaxies beating the crap out of each other. The Notebook has Rachel McAdams shoving Ryan Gossling. The movie tells rather than shows, and tells in a way resembling a precis rather than a real story. It's extremely difficult to understand what emotions are at work because nothing gets developed. It's perpetually giving the audience orders without any particularly good reasons for those orders, perhaps because the writers were so scared of revealing the idiotic rationale behind this nonsense that they decided to just not write anything and 'let the audience decide' to create the illusion of complexity and nuance so all those dumb bastards on Tumblr can dispute the subtext.

I want to stop planning events. I am the one who always organizes everything among my friends' date=' and not once was I called a control freak because I expect feedback a few days earlier when I'm planning something for 15 people. So I am tired of everything and this year I just give up.[/quote'] My mom ends up in the same position all the time because she's too nice to say no to people.
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I resolve never to watch The Notebook again. That movie was even worse than I expected. Apart from the odd genuinely funny line of dialogue and some great acting from the old people, it was a massive sack of crap. And before Mindy whines about manliness, everyone in my family disliked it - my mom perhaps most of all. The story was pathetically thin (worse even than most romantic dramas), most of the characters were at best base-trim archetypes with no particularly interesting traits, Walt Whitman's poetry is even worse than last I'd heard it, the main plot distracted from the far more emotionally involving story about an old man experiencing the pain of watching his wife succumb to dementia whilst undergoing physical degeneration himself, and some of dialogue was just revoltingly indulgent and self-serving, especially the parts where the old woman remarks on how good the story is. The male lead is weirdly obsessive but apparently not enough to stop him from getting some ass on the side whilst the female lead is away, without showing any particular affection for the other woman in question. Perhaps worst of all, the female lead was just an indecisive, incompetent, irresponsible, compassionless, nymphomanic wretch who couldn't so much as take a dump without supervision. Her fiancee kinda gets tossed by the wayside despite being an entirely likeable character whom the female lead ostensibly likes a lot. Oh, and the female lead is rich. And the guy is poor. God forbid we have a romance that doesn't involve some kind of prejudice, otherwise we might actually have to try to justify the behavior of the individuals and put more than 20 minutes into crafting the relationship between the two characters. One could argue it's just fantasy and so the expectation of realism is misplaced, but Gurren Lagann is fantasy and that had a 3-hour fight that culminated in robots larger than galaxies beating the crap out of each other. The Notebook has Rachel McAdams shoving Ryan Gossling. The movie tells rather than shows, and tells in a way resembling a precis rather than a real story. It's extremely difficult to understand what emotions are at work because nothing gets developed. It's perpetually giving the audience orders without any particularly good reasons for those orders, perhaps because the writers were so scared of revealing the idiotic rationale behind this nonsense that they decided to just not write anything and 'let the audience decide' to create the illusion of complexity and nuance so all those dumb bastards on Tumblr can dispute the subtext. My mom ends up in the same position all the time because she's too nice to say no to people.
You seem annoyed.....and bitter:p Dont worry, you will soon have a nice little romance of your own=D hehehe
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I resolve never to watch The Notebook again. That movie was even worse than I expected. Apart from the odd genuinely funny line of dialogue and some great acting from the old people, it was a massive sack of crap. And before Mindy whines about manliness, everyone in my family disliked it - my mom perhaps most of all. The story was pathetically thin (worse even than most romantic dramas), most of the characters were at best base-trim archetypes with no particularly interesting traits, Walt Whitman's poetry is even worse than last I'd heard it, the main plot distracted from the far more emotionally involving story about an old man experiencing the pain of watching his wife succumb to dementia whilst undergoing physical degeneration himself, and some of dialogue was just revoltingly indulgent and self-serving, especially the parts where the old woman remarks on how good the story is. The male lead is weirdly obsessive but apparently not enough to stop him from getting some ass on the side whilst the female lead is away, without showing any particular affection for the other woman in question. Perhaps worst of all, the female lead was just an indecisive, incompetent, irresponsible, compassionless, nymphomanic wretch who couldn't so much as take a dump without supervision. Her fiancee kinda gets tossed by the wayside despite being an entirely likeable character whom the female lead ostensibly likes a lot. Oh, and the female lead is rich. And the guy is poor. God forbid we have a romance that doesn't involve some kind of prejudice, otherwise we might actually have to try to justify the behavior of the individuals and put more than 20 minutes into crafting the relationship between the two characters. One could argue it's just fantasy and so the expectation of realism is misplaced, but Gurren Lagann is fantasy and that had a 3-hour fight that culminated in robots larger than galaxies beating the crap out of each other. The Notebook has Rachel McAdams shoving Ryan Gossling. The movie tells rather than shows, and tells in a way resembling a precis rather than a real story. It's extremely difficult to understand what emotions are at work because nothing gets developed. It's perpetually giving the audience orders without any particularly good reasons for those orders, perhaps because the writers were so scared of revealing the idiotic rationale behind this nonsense that they decided to just not write anything and 'let the audience decide' to create the illusion of complexity and nuance so all those dumb bastards on Tumblr can dispute the subtext. My mom ends up in the same position all the time because she's too nice to say no to people.
And because she keeps doing that, people expect to have everything served and just show up and nag about details that they don't like. Not a very nice feeling. We made more fuss about the Notebook than Hobbit here :D
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