Invisapeeps 2.0

It's one of those stories that makes the teller look bad. But this is me we're talking about so of course I'm going to tell. *evil laugh*

I had normal regard for this girl and we have always been friendly in the past. Recently she's increased our contact/communication and has become much friendlier. The reason? She wanted to know more about me so she could outdo me in certain things and show me up. At first I was so oblivious because all the things she wanted to share were things I was genuinely interested. But then it got kinda odd that everytime I said I was interested in something she'd have it or do it and come back with proof.

As far as I can remember this started back when I saw a thread on zeta about purses and shoes. I've never been a shoe/purse type of girl but these were AWESOME. I showed her the one's I liked and she got them for herself. This may have been going on longer but that's the first instance that I remember because they were really expensive and orgasmic. I will admit to a twinge of envy over the purse.

Since then, if I say I wish I could do something or have something she does it or gets it. It's been months but I just realized that she is doing these things so I'll be jealous of her. Which of course means that I own her hahahahahaha! It's like I have a human pet. As long as I stroke her ego I can make her amuse me with tricks.

See I told you it would make me sound bad. I feel like she just handed me her leash.

That awkward moment when a guy in a grocery store points to your very low back, where one of your kids has pasted a downward-pointing arrow sticker reading THIS WAY FOR FUN

Mom of half a dozen wrote:

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huckleberry wrote:

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That awkward moment when a guy in a grocery store points to your very low back, where one of your kids has pasted a downward-pointing arrow sticker reading THIS WAY FOR FUN

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  Hahaha OMG! I love your kids lol.

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   me too!  hilarious!

Mom of half a dozen wrote:

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huckleberry wrote:

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That awkward moment when a guy in a grocery store points to your very low back, where one of your kids has pasted a downward-pointing arrow sticker reading THIS WAY FOR FUN

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  Hahaha OMG! I love your kids lol.

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 Mom. do yours team up on you the way mine do? 

The sticker incident occurred more than ten years ago, still haven't broken the code of silence among the three possible suspects...

huckleberry wrote:

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Mom of half a dozen wrote:

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huckleberry wrote:

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That awkward moment when a guy in a grocery store points to your very low back, where one of your kids has pasted a downward-pointing arrow sticker reading THIS WAY FOR FUN

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  Hahaha OMG! I love your kids lol.

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 Mom. do yours team up on you the way mine do? 

The sticker incident occurred more than ten years ago, still haven't broken the code of silence among the three possible suspects...

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  They get me now and then. They are still in the every man for himself phase most of the time, which works for me lol. I am so out numbered, I am going to be screwed if they ever do really team up against me.

That awkward moment when the boss comes up behind you and you're reading a message board.........

That awkward moment when HR tells you in confidence that someone is getting laid off later that day, to see what company-issued equipment she needs to make sure she gets back, and he calls you with a work-related question that afternoon. Even more interesting is when she gives you three names, and over a month later all three of them are still working.

EmmDee wrote:

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Isn't there a better way for HR to request a run down of the equipment an employee has than to put you in that kind of position?

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 No, getting a list is normal, the IT department keeps track of what we've assigned to employees - although she really should have gone through my boss instead of "oh, since I see you fixing the copier..." 

This wasn't nearly as awkward as having HR ask me to find evidence of an employee viewing porn on the company PC, which I did (ewwww) and then seeing the guy almost every day.

 

Fortunately, Mom, it's usually a 'hello' in passing, and since he no longer has computer rights, I don't have to worry about working with him that way.

I don't see how knowing what kind of porn someone watches matters in the least. My husband has all kinds of porn. His job isn't at a computer so he can't (like to think he wouldn't) watch it at work but if someone somehow found out what type he (we) watch I can't wrap my head around them basing an opinion about us for it.

We we like sex. Who doesn't? ok maybe somepeople don't but do they really judge those who do? I find that odd.

I made this argument to a friend once and she said watching porn isn't sex.

Not something that I felt like arguing so I let it go but if I had felt like making a rebuttal I would have said...

Viewing paintings that someone else has created isn't the same as painting them yourself at home in private but who cares? If you like good paintings you like good paintings no matter who painted them.

I don't discuss my sex life with anyone and I don't want to know about anyone else's sex life. I sure as heck don't want to know he's looking at things that demean women and/or men when he's supposed to be working, or what the heck he's doing while he's looking at the stuff.

And dqm, your rebuttal needs a lot of work. Looking at painting is no where near the same as doing the creating involved in painting the picture.

dqm either wrote:

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in my anolgy the painting was the porn and creating your own painting was having sex.

So uh yeah, I agree with you I said that last paragrah first sentence. Looking at porn is no where near the same thing as having sex. Not sure why you think that needs work.

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 I'm probably just slow on the uptake but I don't get the "rebuttal" either.

If you mean that people who like sex must also like porn that's certainly not true.   So I don't see how your statement rebuts what your friend said. 

I had a law clerk years ago who was viewing porn on work computers.  It was extremely awkward, and while I don't think anyone judged him because he liked porn (though I was told that what he was watching was hard-core, some of it violent and very mysogynistic), but that he liked it so much he jeapardized his job to watch it. 

sorry, dqme, I still don't get it.

A lot of people dislike pornography for moral or political rather than estetic reasons, and so might reasonably think less of those who like porn.

I don't personally have strong general opinions about this myself, but I don't like porn that objectifies women and really don't like violent or sadistic porn. I'd be hard-pressed not to judge at least a little if folks were partial to that sort of thing.

huckleberry wrote:

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sorry, dqme, I still don't get it.

A lot of people dislike pornography for moral or political rather than estetic reasons, and so might reasonably think less of those who like porn.

I don't personally have strong general opinions about this myself, but I don't like porn that objectifies women and really don't like violent or sadistic porn. I'd be hard-pressed not to judge at least a little if folks were partial to that sort of thing.

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 I really don't get what porn has to do with politics but I'll take your word for it.  I'm sure people think less of others for all kinds of weird reasons.  I mean some people get looked down on for watching soap operas.  I understand that it happens but I don't get it. 

huckleberry wrote:

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  many people feel that porn is sexist and reflects a view of women as sex objects 

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 Ok I don't see that as politics, I see that as stating the obvious.  Of course the people in porn are sex objects.  That's kinda' the point of watching it.  fwiw, there are men in porn too and yes they are also sex objects.

As far as seeing them as equal citizens?  Not really getting the connection between porn and citizenship either.  Women don't hold any lesser citizenship status in this country.  I mean we don't get counted as 3/5 of a person in the census.

 

 

dqm either wrote:

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huckleberry wrote:

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  many people feel that porn is sexist and reflects a view of women as sex objects 

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 Ok I don't see that as politics, I see that as stating the obvious.  Of course the people in porn are sex objects.  That's kinda' the point of watching it.  fwiw, there are men in porn too and yes they are also sex objects.

As far as seeing them as equal citizens?  Not really getting the connection between porn and citizenship either.  Women don't hold any lesser citizenship status in this country.  I mean we don't get counted as 3/5 of a person in the census.

 

 

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 I'm obviously not communicating this well, as I'm far from an expert, and I'm hijacking the thread yoo, for which i apologize heartily.

I didn't mean "citizens"  as in voting or property rights but rather in the sense of being viewed as full-fledged human beings versus objects for sexual gratification.

Again, I'm probably expressing these ideas very inaccurately.  If you're interested there is a great deal written on the topic. 

I just meant that folks could make judgments about pornography and devotees of pornography based on ideas rather than prudery or snootiness. 

 

 

Papa Bear wrote:

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winds55 wrote:

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Fortunately, Mom, it's usually a 'hello' in passing, and since he no longer has computer rights, I don't have to worry about working with him that way.

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What about the poor soul who got his keyboard?

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  I almost choked on my sandwich when I read this!

Oh, Apple... HAHAHA! You are awesome!

1dog1cat1snake1rat_akaTheZoo wrote:

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When you and your husband are looking through the duplex you're soon going to be moving into, making plans and taking measurements. You walk upstairs to the bathroom and find the landlord-and-lady putting in a shower "system" (as requested) over the free-standing humongous claw foot tub. This is the first time you're really paid attention to the bathroom and you can't believe your eyes. You burst out with, "Who the heck paints a bathroom ORANGE?? (The outside of the tub, woodwork, etc.!!) And the landlady turns around, gives you a LOOK, and very snottily says, "It's PEACH!!" Ouch!! LOL!! :D

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 That awkward moment when you read the above and have to admit - YOU have an "orange" bathroom (not the tub, though, just the walls), which is actually peach.

Hee hee, when I had the girls' bathroom painted, the painter called me twice to make sure it was the right color-"sure this ain't too bright for ya?"

I love orange

You are caught "re-homing" a humongous - AND ugly! - orb weaver spider, from your back yard to the yard across the alley by that home owner. The man maybe wouldn't have even noticed me, but overheard me telling the spider to not come back and popped out of his shed to see what was going on. I hardly need say that if I had KNOWN the guy was there, I would have waited for a better time!!!

The link to "my" spider's pictures:

http://www.natureatcloserange.com/2007/10/fall-spiders-barn-spider.html

Oh, and P.S. Did you know that all kitchen spiders are named Mabel?? Something I found out while researching the spider that I caught in a bug jar. Cool, huh?! :)

 

 

dqm either wrote:

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TAMW

You want to cut FEMA and a week later NYC is under water.

 

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    LOL!

Huck, your kids are so awesome!

huckleberry wrote:

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...it's a special children's liturgy and all the children are gathered at the altar for a talk with the rector about the meaning of the readings. He asks each child in turn "Who are you?" getting various charming and childlike answers.

He gets to your kid and she responds, "Literally or figuratively?"

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 Bwahahahahaha!

I feel your pain huck!  My kid was listening to the story of Lazurus and I hear

"oh COOOOL!  I didn't know Jesus was a necromancer!"

 

  You should have seen me running to get my kid

*honey shhhhhhh when we're here, necromancy is called miracles got it?