When I was in college, the standard response to excessive complaint (spearheaded, I believe, by keshwyn and alhandra) was:
You wanted a bunny, so we got you a bunny. Then you wanted a puppy, so we got you a puppy. So the bunny ate the puppy. Now you want another puppy. Moan moan moan. Whine whine whine. Complain complain complain.
I tend to shorten this to 'bunny, puppy' and include it as sort of a footnote when I know I'm being a petulant brat.
A petulant brat who is running out of things to do other than the taxes, at that. Argh.
Ah. Apparently of the same genre as the statement, "[collective noun of your choice]. You buy them books, you send them to school, and what do they do? They eat them." A friend used to (and for all I know may still) say that about people who were doing completely incomprehensible things.
I donwanna tidy the spare room and clean it for my sister who is arriving tomorrow night, but she practically brought me up when my mother was sick and I'm scared that if the house isn't clean enough I'll get in trouble.
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(D'wanna do work. But I should. Should get food first, though.)
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Unfortunately, I'm running out of things that I d'wanna do less than I d'wanna do the taxes.
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"Bunny, puppy."? I do not get the reference. Please to enlighten? (Or not, since you are, after all, at least in Elisian, a Hawk o'Darkness.)
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You wanted a bunny, so we got you a bunny.
Then you wanted a puppy, so we got you a puppy.
So the bunny ate the puppy.
Now you want another puppy.
Moan moan moan.
Whine whine whine.
Complain complain complain.
I tend to shorten this to 'bunny, puppy' and include it as sort of a footnote when I know I'm being a petulant brat.
A petulant brat who is running out of things to do other than the taxes, at that. Argh.
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