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In response to the spoilers of Stephenie Meyer's last installment of the Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn.

violetisblue: ...women have goals other than the hero's needs? How selfish of them.

jonquil: But it's okay, because they turn out to be irrelevant anyway. (In one of the above [examples], the female spends the WHOLE EPISODE begging for, literally, a room of her own. Ha.)

neadods: In a world like that, if she did get a room of her own, it would have yellow wallpaper.

Context.

"I'm so sorry that me expressing my thoughts and opinions has your panties in a wad and scrunched up your ass. I am deeply, profoundly sorry that it's so very uncomfortable because your head is in the way."

elorie thinks that context is doing too much yoga.

  vinnysbigmouth says in response to a co-worker's desire to celebrate:

Me: No. If you’ll look here on this piece of paper, I tried to find a number that would quantify the degree to which I am not doing any of that, but I ran out of room for the decimal places. Suffice it to say that the only way I’m doing any of what you just described is if you kill me, shove your hand up my ass and use me as a puppet. Then we’ll talk. But as it stands, if there is life in my body and no hand up my ass, this is not happening.

Full post here - worth the click!!

abarero doesn't read e-books:

I think this should be the prime reason that no matter what happens in the future, we need paper-made books for throwing purposes.

Whether it's "OMG WHAT THE SHIT DID I JUST READ!?!" angry throwing, as I'm sure many a copy of Twilight has been used for or even "Oh noes! Intruder in my house! *bashes them with Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix* which hasn't happened to my knowledge, but in the event there is an intruder in my apartment- that book will be my weapon of choice.

Context is defenstrated.

When news local to you over the last 3 months has included a fatal bridge collapse, devastating flooding, and Republican primaries, why is it that you have to freak out and flail over an earthquake of 'moderate' magnitude happening nearly 400 miles from me?

Seriously. It's just an earthquake. 5.8 is not big.
The sky did not try to suck my stuff off of the face of the planet, as happens to someone within 400 miles of you every goddamned tornado season. And sure, earthquakes are unpredictable save based on geologic history that suggests that you get a big one (like '89 or '06) roughly every 85 years.
roughly every 85 years.
You can't move your shit either way: the earth will worry your house around like a terrier with a rat, the tornado will (or won't) hit your place and pull the roof off.
One you have a few hours' warning. The other you can kind of notice before it gets to the point of lethality.

So what's the big deal about an earthquake twice a century, when you guys have tornadoes, every damned year, in a place that gets so many you nickname it 'Tornado Alley'?

I just don't get the lack of proportion here. UPDATE: on reflection, I do get some of it. California is LONG and BIG. It's about 400 miles from my door to the earthquake that just happened. Think of it this way, maybe, Midwestistan: worrying about my experience of an earthquake that struck LA is like calling me in Chicago to ask me if I'd weathered the tornado that hit St. Louis: same distance, same possibility of correlary damage at such a distance.

Love, and see you in a week,
colubra

Context is f-locked and qwp.

fireholly on poor word choice: That sentence is like a chair. The last word of that sentence is like the pin you find when you sit in the chair.

Context here.

Over at bad_rpers_suck, beardedtroll on when Villains Go Woobie:

"It wasn't *our* fault that the deity in question was more focused on his sappy romance with a townsperson and their unborn baby (*gag*).


'I will call him Mini-Me: the destroyer of toys, the bane of teddybears, the despoiler of nappies, He Who Crawls Just a Little More Quickly Than You Give Him Credit For'"


QWP, context is here and ranty.