Your relationship made her realize she likes gay men? Color me shocked.
Ex: So, [ogged's full name].
Me: You're going to ask me a relationship question, aren't you?
Is this like how kids know they're in trouble when their mother includes their middle name in addressing them?
Stanley, are you saying that ogged is a gateway to gay?
"So, Rajasthani Ayatollah Houshmanzadeh Ahmadinejad"
"I'm in trooooooouble"
It would be more interesting. Anyway, you don't have to tell us the answer.
I'll just get exbeforelast to tell me. I'm very discreet, you know.
If you just told the answer I don't think that would be violating her confidientiality.
11: We already know the answer!
I'll just get exbeforelast to tell me.
That'll be quite a trick, since she wasn't party to the conversation.
15: [ UNNAMED READER OF UNFOGGED THREADS ] thought I was asian before meeting me.
16 which doesn't prove, a priori, that she doesn't know.
It does, however, establish it prima facie, you snot.
It does, however, establish it prima facie, you snot.
Well, we know already that your ex and exbeforelast speak to each other, so I'll just ask the latter to ask the former. Jeez.
You need to fix the formatting in this post. On my first reading, it sounded like she asked why all the men she dates end up being gay ("Why ... ME"), and then it sounded like she said that you somehow caused her to be only attractive to gay men.
3 and 6 then substantiated this reading.
Perhaps, given the new circumstances, it should be exbeforelast and lastexbefore...?
24: I read it right the first time, but I do think a dash--rather than an ellipsis--is the preferred way to represent the interruption of one speaker by another.
20 actually it doesn't, you only hope it. git.
A dash is not the same thing as two hyphens, ogged.
30 is it an em-dash or a en-dash, though?
Fix yourself a drink, Ben. Those two hyphens will look a lot better afterwards.
She's right. As my vision blurs, they look more and more like a dash. A sexy, sexy dash.
30 is it an em-dash or a en-dash, though?
Well—neither. It's two hyphens.
34: Isn't that the whole problem?
A dash is not the same thing as two hyphens, ogged.
It's how those of us who are sensitive to readability issues across platforms render the dash, my purist friend.
I'm sure ben's saving a link to 36 to deploy whenever ogged uses a non-ASCII character in a post.
It's two hyphens.
Ah, the emo-dash—that dash dashed off in the haste of romantically troubled reflection.
Note Stanley's subtle signal that he is not romantically troubled or reflective.
What's the matter, ogged, html entities not good enough for you anymore? —
—it's your friend and mine.
Note ben's subtle signal that he knows how to do real quotation marks in html.
39: ben's using em-dashes, too. Not sure if your analytical metric holds up.
ben's using em-dashes, too.
Ah, but he's not positing the emotional/typographical typology that you are.
? —--it's
Look at that, you're obnoxious.
There were over 1700 comments today (or yesterday to a lot of you). Is that a record?
ogges is correct. Why must you struggle?
That's what happens when one does a copy/paste of your fancy characters, Ben. Is that what you want? Is it?
When I do a copy/paste of the dash, I get the selfsame dash. And if your argument is that copy-and-pasters of a real dash will end up sometimes producing two hyphens, so we should just use two hyphens to start with, well, that seems like giving in.
There is of course a perfectly good explanation of why the dash comes when you copy/paste —, and that's more or less unavoidable, but it's fairly rare that one has cause to write that (that is, to write "—").
Why is it that when I enter an em-dash directly, the blog turns it into two hyphens? If it's in the business of munging at all, couldn't we arrange for it to munge naked em-dashes into HTMLese?
53 - Ah! Dear Standpipe, it is because of a MT plugin I installed to strip out Microsoft Smart Quotes and other characters that screw up the RSS feeds. It may be somewhat overzealous.
I'll see what I can do, SB, but the blog elf union is a bitch to work with.
Becks is the shop steward and head bitch.
Make it take out Ben's smart quote thingies, too! Notice how they're missing from the cut/paste in 47.
I have a basket of blog elf treats right here. Go to, little blog elves.
it is because of a MT plugin I installed to strip out Microsoft Smart Quotes and other characters that screw up the RSS feeds
This wouldn't be necessary if people composed their blog posts in blood, on the hides of their enemies.
Make it take out Ben's smart quote thingies, too!
Those are straight-up html. <q>.
Becks is the shop steward and head bitch.
Dude, you're about to provoke an unfair labor practice walkout. Tread lightly.
Those are straight-up html.
Yes, but they don't play nice with copy/paste.
These aren't MS smart-quotes: " "
But they get boringified anyway.
I love my plug-in, Bridgeplate. Don't make me smite you.
The Ex's question was something like, "Why must something so trivial as formatting idiosyncracies come between people who otherwise love each other very much?" Am I right?
Don't make me smite you.
Hott!
so trivial as formatting idiosyncracies
Di: banned (and not because of the spelling error).
I love my plug-in
The battery-operated ones just aren't getting the job done anymore.
68: I finally feel like I've accomplished something. Validation!
The intelligibility issue has nothing to do with hyphens vs. em dashes vs. ellipses &mdash it's that the “Me: BECAUSE…” should be on the next line. You all just got sidetracked. So fucking typical.
it's that the "Me: BECAUSE..." should be on the next line
Don't you fucking edit me, Jesus. I'll nail you to the fucking cross. How, pray tell, savior and messiah, would you choose to convey that I interrupted before the "why?" was even finished?
73 gets it right. It took me a few seconds of wondering why the Ex was saying "Why -- Me".
convey that I interrupted before the "why?" was even finished?
I would fudge the story so that I interrupted during the next word.
Ex: Why wo--
Me: BECAUSE HE'S GAY, THAT'S WHY!
Foxy gets it right as usual. Also, I'm disappointed that you didn't notice my quotation marks. I'm beginning to suspect that w-lfs-n is not actually your Mini-me.
Remember those snoring noises I was making, Jesus?
How could I forget? You kept me up all night, snookums.
81: That was when I was carrying you, my child.
SHAZAM
s/redfoxtailshrub/redfoxcheesebig/
Ex: Why ...
Me: Blah blah blah gay.
When I took typing back in 1985 my teacher very clearly instructed us that we were to make a dash by typing two hyphens.
The internet is not a typewriter, zwichenzug.
87: This sounds to me like a metaphysical or, perhaps, ontological point, and I can't quite see it's relevance.
Can you see the relevance of not using apostrophes incorrectly?
89: Now your just trying to change the subject;
89: Now your just trying to change the subject;
89: We call this 'the genetic fallacy'.
I would contend that the internet is -- in fact -- a typewriter -- connected to a series of tubes.