are crushes awesome or what?

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total dud. i refuse 2 have them anymore.

― pisces, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

i should note that dom could have also posted goatse and he would have redeemed this thread

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

Aw, pisces! Not even TV Husband/Wives?

― Sarah, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

I fear Dr..Strongo has been spending too much time crushing on those SOUR GRAPES (do you see).

― Sarah, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

You're not fooling anyone w/ that curmudgeonly exterior, Jess.

― Laurel, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

mostly I just like her huge bags full of photographic equipment

Ha ha, you said huge bags.

I am never without a good crush. It passes the time. Although I do think somehow that it was more acceptable when I was 19 than it is now that I'm 36.

― accentmonkey, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

six years of false fronts

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

I did hear on the radio today that plastic surgery is almost compulsory in the US :(

― Sarah, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

A girl who always checks out a camera on Fridays and has the exact same voice as Marla Singer.

― en i see kay, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

Was just looking up the actors in House in advance of tonight's season 2 watching, and found myself thinking "gosh Doctor Billy Kennedy looks quite hottt there" ARGH ARGH THE GOGGLES THEY DO NOTHING.

― Sarah, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

1. Guy who asked me out for coffee yesterday - cute, but too much of a bad-boy type i would never really end up with.
2. Guy I used to date who I now shamelessly flirt with on msn
3. Mark Ruffalo.

― Roz, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

go with number 1!

― pisces, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

i've made the mistake of Doing Something About My Crush which may well lead to tears :(

― ken c, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

and i'm thinking tears as in things that fall out of eyes rather than a possible outcome of over enthusiastic sex :((((((

― ken c, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

In your flesh or clothing?

― Michael White, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

Haha I am! Seeing him on Friday. Can't hurt... much. :D

― Roz, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

er xpost to pisces

― Roz, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

here's to not refreshing before posting.

― Roz, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

There is cute person working in my office but apparently I am unable to speak in his presence...or so you'd guess from what just happened.

― Laurel, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

Do you stammer or babble, laurel?

― Michael White, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

"just because i don't say anything, doesn't mean i don't like you.."

― ken c, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

No, I keep schtum.

― Laurel, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

Babbling would at least be normal behavior for me.

― Laurel, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

You and me both, lady.

― Michael White, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

My problem with crushes is that I spent nearly the first 20 years of life taking pains to conceal all signs of liking anyone, ever, and then found myself unable to make any of the silly & coy but mutually understood gestures that '80s teen movies would have one believe were the norm. So when I have a crush on someone and don't know what to do, I either ignore 'em hardcore or turn even more brusque than usual. It's embarrassing but fortunately there's alcohol.

― Laurel, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

I used to be like that, Laurel, but now I flirt with everyone, so I flirt with my crushes safe in the knowledge that I can always claim to flirt with anyone and if they so desire, they can flirt back.

― Michael White, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

― Archel, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh and new House is on tonight!

― Archel, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

It's embarrassing but fortunately there's alcohol.

i think we should get matching tattoo's later this month.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

haha i was gonna say, that's quite the slogan

― rrrobyn, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

béguin

Really? I have been reading about béguines, who were sort of amateur nuns in medieval France. Nuns without the vows. Do the words relate, I wonder?

Anyway, crushes are dud dud dud. I mean they're better than the Iraq war but worse than finding a hair in your pizza.

Yesterday some absurdly hot hottie came and sat directly across from me in the computer lab and my brain shut down and I couldn't focus and, after a few attempts at getting further work done, I had to leave. Screw that noise.

― Casuistry, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

thread title otm. Crushes are either awesome or wahtttttt???!!!

― kenan, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

Anyway, crushes are dud dud dud.

shockah. Anyway, know that any of your opinions are forever tainted by the fact that you prefer cuddling to fucking. You are officially weird.

― kenan, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

and if kenan declares a person weird, it is definitely official.

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Tuesday, 6 March 2007 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

I am happily crush free, and my Helloween "Keeper of the Seven Keys - The Legacy" DVD/CD boxset arrived today! Awesome!

― jel --, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

xpost :)

― kenan, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

I was going to add that my views on the topic are well known around here and so my posting that was perhaps redundant. But I also thought that posting the fact that my views were well known was also obvious. And I didn't manage to vent about yesterdays' hottie to anyone yet, so why not here?

― Casuistry, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

Crushes are classic if they stay as just crushes.

― jel --, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

yeah jel is probably otm

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Tuesday, 6 March 2007 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

béguines.

Béguin in the sense of avoir un béguin pour qqn apparently comes from the verb béguiner.

The béguines were nuns without the vows and the very lack of vows was a testament to their piety. The verb meant to act like a very pious person and eventually, by extension, the expression [avoir un béguin pour qqn came to mean to be single minded and then especially in relation to always having someone (or something) on one's mind, so yes, Chris, they are apparently related, though I hadn't known till you pointed it out.

― Michael White, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

The béguines were nuns without the vows and the very lack of vows was a testament to their piety.

That's not what my sources suggest! Since the béguinage didn't require vows, you could leave any time. This made it (at least in the view of the "men of letters" of the time, c. 1300) a bit suspicious -- women were only half-cloistered, after all, and it was almost a way of them to sidestep social structures. So it was seen as sort of conveeeeeenient that women be religious for a while until something presumably better came along.

But a crush is a sort of amateur, disposable devotion. Interesting.

[That dictionary site looks awesome, I am totally crushing on it.]

― Casuistry, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

This made it (at least in the view of the "men of letters" of the time, c. 1300) a bit suspicious -- women were only half-cloistered, after all, and it was almost a way of them to sidestep social structures.

However, eventually the béguines became seen as bigots (or paragons of piety), for whatever reason, (the suspicion of the 14th century may have given way to an admiration for women who stayed even if they didn't have to, I don't know) and to act like one was faire la béguine and eventually béguiner. Interestingly, there were béguins in medieval Belgium male equivalents to the ladies, but the present word for 'crush' only dates back to the 19th cent and derives from the verb, supposedly.

― Michael White, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

I'm trying to think of an English equivalent. "I've got a major vestrywoman for that barista"?

― Casuistry, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

Go up to the barista and tell her you'd join a monastery if the order worshipped her (and there were no vows of celibacy, obviously). Let me know how it all works out.

― Michael White, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

jon williams and bernie mac

― homosexual II, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

I still can't see Billy Kennedy in House without laffing, however I think I might have a crush on Dr Cameron - she has that whole seemingly cute and fragile yet actually strict and steely thing going on...

But, but those awful waistcoats! At this stage my crush on Hugh Laurie, which began when I saw him in Peter's Friends is beyond ridiculous.

I am enjoying the dictionary discussion.

― accentmonkey, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

Cameron does nada for me.

― Michael White, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

J'en ai toujours au moins un petit béguin pour une demoiselle ou une autre.

i now have a crush on michael white.

― lxy, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

C'est mignon, lxy. Dis, tu viens ici souvent? ;)

― Michael White, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

I have crushes! They are not healthy ones though, one on a girlfriend of a wonderful bro who is not to be betrayed, one on roomy's (married) boss, and another on a doesn't-meet-half-plus-seven-rule youngster of a baristress at coffee shop around corner (how original).

There is a girl I was bros with back in high school who was always hot but I just didn't get it back then, I have seen her at the grocery every Monday for 3 weeks, I am afraid I am grocering on Mondays now just to see her. This however is likely just a crush of convenience and will pass with the clementine sale.

― nickalicious, Tuesday, 6 March 2007 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

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classic hardman tombot posts in there

― tweeship journey to 77 (mh), Monday, 13 May 2013 02:22 (thirteen years ago)

pulling bird ends in drunken drag wank tourney = dud

― dylannn, Monday, 13 May 2013 04:55 (thirteen years ago)

congrats louis! how far did it go?
― modestmickey, Monday, March 12, 2007 1:03 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

― ḉrut (crüt), Monday, 13 May 2013 04:58 (thirteen years ago)

I'm shocked by the levels of self-righteous puritanism and misanthropy demonstrated by many posters in this thread back in 2007. A perfectly amusing anecdote about a harmless erotic skirmish was apparently going to ruin a young man's future. Well, here we are six years later. Did it?

No it did not. The person in question has proved the pompous, humourless scolds completely wrong; he's a respectable and responsible educator with glowing testimonials. He obviously boasts interpersonal skills far beyond those of his critics.

― Grampsy, Monday, 13 May 2013 06:11 (thirteen years ago)

Yeah I remember once when there was the wife of some fellow who was in the papers for getting arrested for being a racist or something, she was posting here how awful it all was and next week she was getting quoted verbatim from ILX by some bitch reporter who didn't read the FAQ, not that it mattered one bit.
TOMBOT wrote this at 2007-03-12 17:40:55.000

I don't think I've heard this one. ILX was quoted in some news program?

― how's life, Monday, 13 May 2013 10:42 (thirteen years ago)

Yes

― peel hat-trick narrows (electricsound), Monday, 13 May 2013 10:43 (thirteen years ago)

Except it was a paper iirc

― peel hat-trick narrows (electricsound), Monday, 13 May 2013 10:43 (thirteen years ago)

The only thing I found was when the New Zealand Herald ripped off content from a thread, but it was Adorable Parent Factoids and not anything about racist criminals or anything.

― how's life, Monday, 13 May 2013 12:23 (thirteen years ago)

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