The "What Are You Doing This Moment" Thread

[uhhhhmmmm4]

WHY DID I EAT ALL OF THOSE SUGAR FREE GUMMY BEARS!!!!????

 

[Master_Yoda77]

Sugar Free? Fuck that nonsense.

 

[uhhhhmmmm4]

Sugar free uses- whats the word? Lycasin?- it makes a laxative effect. If you eat a lot, you shit your brains out. Look it up, i tried it out of curiosity. Bad idea.

 

[dwellerINTHEdark]

I think curiosity got the best of you there.

 

[SentinelSlain]

curiosity shat the cat

 

[Addo_Of_Nex]

Opting to skip a shower before work in favor of a last minute Wu-Tang marathon, even though I surely reek of beer, smoke, and pussy.

 

[waif]

Getting ready for a date. Going to an Italian place in the North End. Definitely hankering for some veal parmesian.

 

[SentinelSlain]

I eated too much salt because the lid came off the container and I was too hungry to bin the food. Must drink water...

 

[KafkaX]

Getting ready to see Wolves In The Throne Room tonight with some awesome friends.

Can't. Fucking. Wait.

 

[dwellerINTHEdark]

Nice, enjoy that show

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

watching Sons of Anarchy... again.

 

[Nephilim96]

My mom told me today that she's thinking about moving in with some guy she knows and letting me get my own place! (that she will pay for until I can afford it myself). It's cheaper than getting a 2 bedroom apartment for both of us, and I sure as hell am happy with the idea.

That bitch is changing her fucking mind. FUCK

 

[Onder]

is UM running slow for anyone else?

Yes it's fucking ultraslow. The pages don't even load up like half of the time.

 

[-CC-]

How come it doesn't make sense to say "I'm better than you're" when "you're" is short for "you are"?

Read this in another thread, but no one was able to come up with a complete answer. I'm expecting Einherjar to save the day.

 

[Einherjar86]

How come it doesn't make sense to say "I'm better than you're" when "you're" is short for "you are"?

Read this in another thread, but no one was able to come up with a complete answer. I'm expecting Einherjar to save the day.

I've never been asked this before. Not sure I can save the day, but I can give a few perspectives.

First, I wouldn't say that it "doesn't make sense" to use "you're" at the end of the sentence, "I'm better than you're." If we're reading the sentence, then it does make sense; it just sounds strange. If we're speaking the sentence, on the other hand, it raises potential confusion because "you're" sounds just like "your"; so, if you say to someone "I'm better than you're", they're liable to ask "better than my what?"

That's little more than a practical reply. On a grammatical level, this strikes me as one of those instances of language in which propriety and ordinary use trump rigid grammatical adherence. That said, I do believe there is a rational reason for not using "you're" at the end of a sentence.

In this specific case, "you're" is actually excessive; what the speaker is saying is "I'm better than you." The "are" is merely an extra verb that clarifies nothing; "I" already am (presumably, since someone is speaking to me), so I don't really need to specify that I am.

Let's take the following, more complicated example: "I'm better than you're at baseball." The contraction "you're" still seems odd even in this case, when the "are" is needed since something further is being clarified about the direct object "you": "I'm better than you are at baseball." Professionally speaking, this is a poorly constructed sentence since it relies on the passive; a more appropriate construction would read: "I play baseball better than you do."

That said, I can't think of any strict reason why it's incorrect to use "you're" in this scenario. It's not incorrect to use the passive voice, it simply gets confusing if you use it too much. That would be my "scholarly" explanation, but now I'll give the "better" (i.e. simplest) explanation: it just doesn't sound good.

 

[Onder]

My mother's latest ex died, what the fuck. He was 48. We have a lot of stuff from him around the flat. he used to give her logs, cacti and other things. Plants and stuff. He was a gardener. We never did much talking but when we did it was about beer or plants. He liked different kinds of beer. I guess he was afraid of death and death took him. Mom used to bribe me so I would leave the appt so they'd be alone and shit. Goddamn.

 

[Carpe Mortem]

Got a cajon box yesterday, so jamming along with some music with it. Been kinda wanting one for awhile now as a quieter stand-in for a drum kit till I can afford it and a house to play it in. Only slightly ashamed of what a hippie I feel like. It's pretty fun!

 

[Funerary_Doom]

I'm so out of the loop with everything. A close friend of mine from high school is not doing too well. She has end stage renal disease, just undergone open heart surgery and has lupus. I keep asking her to hangout and her response is always, "i don't want my old friends to see me like this." Fucking heartbreaking. I don't want to grow up anymore.

 

[dwellerINTHEdark]

Lupus is horrible. That really sucks.

 

[KafkaX]

Got a cajon box yesterday, so jamming along with some music with it. Been kinda wanting one for awhile now as a quieter stand-in for a drum kit till I can afford it and a house to play it in. Only slightly ashamed of what a hippie I feel like. It's pretty fun!

A djembe is a far better drum, imo.

I'm so out of the loop with everything. A close friend of mine from high school is not doing too well. She has end stage renal disease, just undergone open heart surgery and has lupus. I keep asking her to hangout and her response is always, "i don't want my old friends to see me like this." Fucking heartbreaking. I don't want to grow up anymore.

One of my best friends has lupus. Im not sure how people know because I thought it was undetectable? They just diagnose off your symptoms? I really dont know what lupus is other than that, and her body hurts like all the time.