This was supposed to be a fun post
Lots of good stuff here today.
It is a gorgeous, sunny day. I really love spring. I'm doing a super cool experiment of which I may post a picture later.
This website was brought to my attention and I think some people may get quite a kick out of it (as I did).
Sexy Science
Thanks for all the recipes. I'll finish off the collection tonight for all the cooks out there. Even though I didn't change the formatting much, word was throwing a major hissy fit on Friday and refused to let me finish things.
As for the other thing running around blogland, after my initial reaction of disbelief and upset (once I realised what was actually going on), I was planning on ignoring it. Sadly, it started to spread and I don't wish my silence to be taken for either anonomous disgust or approval.
If my voicing a dissenting opinion is enough to get banished from blogland, I'm fine with that.
Finding out your husband is attracted to someone else? Bad
Finding out your husband is cheating on you? Really Bad
Finding out your husband is cheating on you while you are 8 months pregnant? Really, really bad
Finding out your husband is cheating on you while you are 8 months pregnant and a couple hundred random blogland people already know? Absafreakinglutely really, really bad
Finding out your husband is cheating on you while you are 8 months pregnant and a couple hundred random people already know and have known for ages and a dozen people are cheering him and his mistress on? I don't quite know how to rank that level of humilation, but the words svcktastic and fancrapatistic may be used.
I don't care what type of monster the wife is, she doesn't deserve this.
posted by Aislinn Sirk @ 9:52 AM
41 Comments:
I definitely think you should post experiment pics.
Re: The Mired Love Situation...I knew this all wasn't going to be pretty, but I sincerely hope it doesn't fracture our community.
1. Pictures of your experiments? How cool. Will there be three heads on it?
2. I was expecting sexed up lab coats.
3. Is there anything in that recipe book that I can make tonight?
4. You are absolutely entitled to your opinion. I think in this situation I will have to disagree. I also think what I took exception to(I don't want to speak for anyone else) is that the comment was left somewhat anonomously(sp?) and one a blog entry that really was not asking for an opinion at all. It was an entry about a sick baby. Just seemed to be the wrong place and time. Why not do as you did and put it on their blog?
5. As for banishing you well I tried that about 6 months ago and it did not work so I don't think it will happen!
6. Do you have a sexy lab coat? Do you and Mr. Bob talk chemicals in the boudouir?
I want to see the pic.
Now for the love triangle. I'm lost as usual. I have no clue what is going on. I have a question on my post about if you would remarry if your spouse past. What is your feelings on that.
There are no heads in my experimants, just some "smoke" (actually condensing water vapour). I'll post the pics later.
The people who will get a real kick out of the website would be Coco, Kate and Sneezy. Though, the whole idea is amusing enough.
There are a lot of deserts in the cookbook. I think everyone should just eat deserts for a week after I send out the emails.
I hope the mired love situation blows over. I never asked to see the "reveal" blog, so I never found out there. It's a bit horrifying to me, but after this entry, I plan to go back to my original ignore plan.
Finally, my lab coat is totally sexy.
Sonya, does it matter whether or not I was responsible for his passing?
My biggest fear when I was pregnant with my first was that my husband was going to leave me. Leave me for someone who didn't get all moody and weepy. For someone who didn't represent the huge change about to take place in our life.
I feel so very badly for her. How truly awful.
So Bob, are we finally going to see your pic on the Sexy Scientists website?
Of course lots of scientists are sexy, with & without their lab coats on.
The single best-looking human being I have ever seen was a Fellow at the med school where I used to work. Guy could have made a fortune as a plastic surgeon in SoCal. Little old ladies from Pasadena would have fought each other with flame-throwers to be first in line for his exam table.
And? He was a genuinely nice guy. Always faintly embarrassed when people drooled after him. He and I were friendly because (a) I never went after him like everybody else did (men were supposed to go after me, not vice-versa, lol.) And (b) I called him an "old fart" once when I saw him crawling out his lab at about 5 p.m. on a Sunday afternoon. He was so thrilled! I guess no one had ever called him something like that before. It made him feel regular.
On the other topic. I try to avoid having opinions on the RL activities of boxed friends. Sometimes I avoid having opinions on the RL activities of RL friends too, so at least I'm consistent.
Swami is very smart and? I love the image of little old ladies with flamethrowers.
I do feel badly for the wife, but I do not know the whole story, because I also did not ask for the "scoop" in that blog, so I choose not to judge whatever they are doing. They are grownups and their personal life is not my business.
However, I feel like Zombs does. Disgusted had no right to go about it the way he/she did... anonymously.
If someone does not like what is going on in the situation, they should have the balls to let the person they are disgusted with know who they are. Twas a cowardly act.
...and I doubt very much we'd ban you from blogland. At least you have the guts to stand by your opinion with courage!
Nope. It doesn't matter. LOL!
I would most likely remarry, assuming I wasn't so old, smelly and grumpy that no-one would come near me.
And I plan on being smelly and grumpy when I'm old, cranky and long winded as well.
What is this about you 'becoming' grumpy?
Back to my thermal de-icing now.
I don't think you'll be banned. Your blog is one of the funniest out here. I'd still read it. Every once in a while something blows in and people take sides. Then it blows out and people are friends again. Even my Caps boards have been like this in the past...All message boards/internet communities are like this. I suppose it says something about human behavior, but I don't care enough to figure it out.
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We have the ability to ban people from blogland?!?!?!?!?
Tell me how, tell me how, tell me how. Not that I would use that power, I just want to know how. *grin*
What? Bob is not banned yet?
Bob is still here. Bob is making ice in the fumehood.
No really.
And BTW, that isn't code for anything.
Theoretically, I could actually be banned by Rose. I never did change my password after she made me a blog.
In any case, I'm done with this topic and don't plan to bring it up again.
Tommorrow's topic: Belly tans!
Bob=evil
Bob, can you check your red flag? It's wavin'
What's evil about belly tans?
My belly could use a tan.
I respect your opinion, Bob. I respect that you had the courage to state your opinion. I respect that you carefully chose your language and talked about the situation rather than using adjectives like "repugnant" to describe the people involved.
FWIW, six years ago my first partner spent a year studying in Malta while I was in Baltimore. During the last several months, he was not only dating but actually living with a guy he met there. All of his friends, who I met when I spent two weeks with him over the holidays, knew about the situation, even as they continued to email with me and did not say a word.
Our relationship did not end because of the affair. The affair happened because the relationship was not a good one. Do I wish that things would have unfolded differently? Definitely? I certainly understand the wife's perspective here (though I've never been pregnant).
As for our two friends in blogland, I may or may not have chastised them in private. That's really something between us. Now that a decision has been made, however, I am choosing to be happy for them and focus on the positive aspects of what they have discovered in each other.
Unlike "Disgusted," I do not categorically wish them ill and hope that their relationship will end merely because it had an unconventional beginning.
I don't know the real identity of "Disgusted," though I am familiar with the most popular theory. I still wonder if "Disgusted" could be somebody listed in the links on my blog, somebody I consider a friend. If s/he is one of those people, then I wish that s/he would have acted in the way that you have. I would have welcomed a civil discussion with somebody who addressed this issue as an adult instead of skulking around posting anonymous rants.
*boggle* I'm with the blond(e) you can ban someone from blogland?
Dying. Dying. Dy-ing.
There are no words.
Er sorry. That was meant for the sexy scientist site, rather than a comment on the love fiasco.
I am not commenting on the love fiasco because a) it is none of my business, and b) it really horrifies me and I don't want to get started discussing it.
Eric's comment about the Sexy Science site (lovingly meant I'm sure): Is she crazy?
Yay! Thank-you for all your hard work on the recipe book. I've glanced at it and it looks great.
Another big thank-you to everyone who sent in a recipe.
A couple questions for arkie, though:
I'm out of unicorn. Are there any good substitutions? How about the wendigo? Does it have to be fresh or can I use the dried?
How did Syren get the recipe book? *stamps feet*
I'm loving the cookbook! Thanks for putting it together, bob!
Seana, if you're making the unicorn jelly, substituting dragon is a good choice. It makes a jelly with more of a kick, though. As far as the wendigo, fresh is always better, but if dried is what you have at hand, it's still good.
I'll just ditto HD on the one situation.
I didn't send receipes but want a copy. Unicorn jelly sounds yummy.
I meant to send some recipes from the tavern, but I got busy and forgot about the deadline. I svck.
The recipes were titled V.01 so hopefully new recipes can be added to V.02.
Thanks for putting together our recipe collection. I've got a few more for the next edition.
Hi Bob! :-)
So this Jonathon looks pretty hot. That wouldn't be YOU standing next to him would it? I've seen pics of you but it's been awhile sooo...if that is you, I'm so gellus.
Bob wrote: I don't care what type of monster the wife is, she doesn't deserve this.
I agree with this 100%. I just couldn't find a way to say it without being currish. Not that it matters one hoot what I think to the parties involved. However, I am a part, albeit a small one, of this blogland community. I felt that by not saying anything, I too was in agreement that this situation was all merry and good when I don't agree with it at all. I think what bothers me the most was I found the situation to be rife with self-indulgence.
There are times in life where love/chemistry DOES NOT rule/conquer all.
No way can Bob be banished from Blogland!
I love me some Bob!
I don't know anything about the other thing, I'm lost.
I hope my love for Bob won't cause any fuss though.
I totally forgot about the recipies...I'm sorry.
About the other thing, while normally it is not something I would agree with, this time, this situation, I do. Ryans dad cheated on me when I was pregnant. Really I am glad he did, because I would rather Ryan grow up in a home where there is love than one where there was discourse everyday.
Bob could never be banished from blogland, she'd blow the place up.
I support my friends and wish that their situation had started differently but it didn't and so I agree with HD.
1. The wife doesn't know anything about the "other person". Never will, and doesn't need to. Because it is about years of problems established long before any other relationship formed.
2. The "difficult" discussions weren't planned to be brought up for months. Things happened differently than planned. (Well, actually, they started the month of conception and just got put on hold.)
3. It wasn't intended to get out to a "couple hundred" bloggers. Just close friends who would sit and listen to the whole story and give honest advice. I'm not saying the 'whole story' makes it all peachy...but it certainly avoids the situation getting characterized as you've done.
4. I've always liked you a ton Bob, but this is pure gossip. I can't understand why you wouldn't ask for the whole story before jumping to all the conclusions you have...and posting them on a well-read blog.
If people don't care one way or the other, that's great. If people do care what is going on and why, PM or email me. Just PLEASE don't form an opinion on assumptions alone. That isn't fair and will end up causing a lot of strife.
Sounds like it's already caused lots of strife.
Assumptions can do that.
Dingus, I really didn't bring up anything new. If you thought that the other blog was subtle, you were wrong. If you thought a lot of people didn't know what was going on already, you were wrong. You'll notice I didn't use names and I only used the facts that were shared openly.
I'll PM you too if you like, but I don't think you've actually convinced yourself you are doing anything you could be proud of, so you couldn't convince anyone else.
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