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[yiskah]

Hmmm. Well, what the hell: ANONYMOUS COMMENT FRIDAY!. Give me something to enthrall or amuse or shock or entertain me while I slog through a kafrillion job applications, pls.

NB: any comments constituting a personal attack on ANYONE will be summarily deleted. Um, unless it's your smelly co-worker or someone like that. You know what I'm talking about. This is for FUN and not for SNIPING.

Comments

[doetja.livejournal.com]

Yay, anonymous Friday! I'm happy cos I've just got two days of work in May so I might not starve after all. Hurrah!

[doetja.livejournal.com]

Wait, I'm doing this anonymous thing wrong, aren't I?

[(Anonymous)]

This is yiskah, but I am posting anon pour encourager les autres. I am totally going to be on teevee in Canada! Talking about my book! Life is very very odd, but great.

[(Anonymous)]

Oooh that's awesome!!!

[(Anonymous)]

I give it large and assertive on my journal but I'm actually a bit shit really. I don't always think lj is good for my mental health but I'm addicted to it.

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

I think that is true of a lot of people, anon. Perhaps a break from LJ would be a good thing? Anyhow, I am sure you are not shit at all.

xxx

[(Anonymous)]

Gulp, let's hope this is anonymous:

I have been snogging (etc) my ex on a rather frequent basis of late. I have no idea what we are doing. It'll all end in tears I'm sure.

And yet I am happy and do not care, so ner.

(Readies finger to delete IMMEDIATELY if not in fact anon)

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

As long as you are happy and not hurting anyone then what's the harm? A lot of things end in tears but it doesn't mean they're not fun and worth it at the time...

[(Anonymous)]

I have everything I ever wanted and I still whinge about it. I'm sure people find me really annoying and I totally dare you to say you don't because HOW WOULD YOU KNOW?

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

You are right, perhaps I do find you really annoying! But I also think that this is something that everyone does; unfortunately it seems to be human nature to concentrate on the small imperfections and not the WIDER PICTURE OF GOODNESS. I totally do it myself - hello, I have had my life's wishlist basically granted, and here I am qvetching about my ongoing job search? Pah.

[(Anonymous)]

I spend way too much time when I should be working on LJ/Facebook/Myspace and a variety of other places. I am addicted. It is not good. AT all.

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

God, me too. My solution while at home is to unplug the internet (no home of mine will ever have wireless if I can help it), but unfortunately that doesn't work at work. Argh.

[(Anonymous)]

I spat in my boss's coffee yesterday morning when they weren't looking.

I am justified because this person is on leave today and did not warn me that a serious heavy duty news story concerning an aspect of our work is breaking in the media and in about an hour I am going to be deluged by press queries from other tv/newspaper outlets and I haven't been briefed and I am going to be in the shit through no fault of my own.

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

Pahahahahaaa! Yes, I think that that is totally justified. People power!

[(Anonymous)]

There's something I want. To get it, I need to do something that scares me. I'm working up to doing that thing, but too slowly and I'm afraid I'll never get the thing I want.

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

Don't beat yourself up about it, anon. As long as you're making progress, does it matter that it's not as fast as you'd like? x

[(Anonymous)]

Can we all start talking about shagging now, please, like we do whenever Ultraruby posts an anonymous comments thread?

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

God, yes, please - someone? Anyone?

(This seems to be the general pattern of anonymous threads: ultraruby gets the sexy stuff and lovely whimsical observations; chiller getsa whole load of people telling her that they fancy her, and I get angst and cries for help. More sex please!)

[(Anonymous)]

I was thinking about posting something quite significant here, but now I'm thinking that folk will be able to tell it's me simply by my choice of phrases or distinctive punctuation...I don't know.

To (almost) quote Rolf Harris...can you tell who it is yet?

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

...Mum?

No, seriously, no idea. Please post, I am dead curious now! My fave method for anonymising: type out what you want to write, change the capitalisation, stick in a few typos, use a few synonyms for main words, and bingo! NO ONE NEED EVER KNOW.

[(Anonymous)]

Should I change my earrings on a regular basis? I mean, is that a sensible, obvious kind of thing to do? Because I don't, and they're fine, except when I take them out once in a while to fiddle with them, the interior bits are kind of black and manky. But the piercings seem absolutely fine. Ugh.

[(Anonymous)]

I have had the same three silver sleeper earrings in my ears for the last four years, and probably will for many years to come.

I don't think you have to change them unless they're making your ears sore.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm worried that I might be getting bored of my partner. I don't want to fall into the trap of being more attracted to exciting (which can imply dangerous or distant) than to good and kind. But I'm getting antsy, I don't know if I'll be able to stop it - and I wanted this one to work out.

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

Oh, I am sorry to hear that, anon. Your partner sounds like a good person, so I hope you find a way to keep the excitement going!

[(Anonymous)]

I'm tired of being alone. I don't want a all-compassing relationship but it would be nice to wake up next to someone for awhile.

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

I understand the feeling. I hope you get what you want, anon.

[(Anonymous)]

I've just dealt with a man who had the most amazing blue eyes.

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

Ooooh. Though I admit that I prefer a nice set of dark eyes myself (because I am a big narcissist), or green.

[(Anonymous)]

1. I am still madly in love with MY partner, still so giddy that it actually alarms me 'cause I've never kept feeling like this about someone for so long before.

2. I am on the verge of doing something I swore that I wouldn't do, because of a really serious shift in my thinking about it of late. I am still not sure if I'm going to talk about it in my LJ, because I'm also not sure if I really want anybody's opinion about this outside of two or three people that I trust.

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

1. Aw, that is great!

2. And ooh, exciting! And now (of course) I am dead curious, so I hope you do talk about it on LJ, while totally understanding why you'd have reservations.

[(Anonymous)]

I just posted something so spectacularly embarassing (and exaggerated) and didn't anonymise it, that I now have to delete my journal and possibly my entire life. Goodbye...

[(Anonymous)]

assuming you've already deleted it, I know you can trust Jess with the information. It'll be fine.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm just about to move in with my lovely boyfriend. I'm a bit scared because I've never lived with a boyfriend before, hell, before him, I'd never even been out with anyone for longer than four months. We've been going strong for about a year now, and I love him more than anybody else, and he's so good for me and treats me so well. We've never even had an argument. I can't help but be a bit worried though because I've never done this before, never shared a bedroom, and if it goes wrong it'll probably mean curtains for us.

So we're taking the precaution of getting a 2 bed place to give us extra space...what do you think?

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

I think it's always a little nervous-making to move in with a partner, but I think getting a 2-bed is an excellent idea. Very exciting stuff, though, anon - good luck with it!

[mirrorblue.livejournal.com]

I actually wanted to slag myself off. Is this alright under the yiskah code of conduct?

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, that is totally acceptable. Carry on!

[(Anonymous)]

Yesterday I did a telephone interview a man who is passionate, articulate, professional, a little bit anarchist, and speaks with a smidge of a Geordie accent. About halfway through I realised that I wasn't just interviewing him for an article, because I have no need to know things like how old he is, which part of the city he lives in, what music he's interested in.
I just sent him an email asking for a face shot to accompany the piece. Now, my editor did ask for one, but I still feel like a shameless, shameless stalker.
This is all ok, right? I'm not crazy, am I?

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

Of course it's fine! your editor asked you to, so it's WORK.

It'll be interesting to see where this goes next, though...

[(Anonymous)]

Hurrah! How I've missed Anonymous Friday! But I have no shocking or enthralling comments to leave.

Well, actually...OK. A friend of mine is getting married next year for the wrong reasons. Heaps of our other friends have gotten married recently, and she decided she'd like to have a party and be the centre of attention, so she proposed to her poor boyfriend of 6 weeks, who was too timid to say no. Now she wonders why nobody is as enthusisatic about her wedding as they are about other weddings.

I am a bad friend for not giving her a reality check, aren't I? And I'm also a bad friend for secretly hoping her boyfriend grows a spine and the whole thing falls apart? Thought so.

[(Anonymous)]

"she decided she'd like to have a party and be the centre of attention"

ETA: I admit she hasn't SAID that, but it's pretty obvious.

I think it's funny whenever LJ asks me to confirm that I am human.

[(Anonymous)]

My significant other tells me I am beautiful and brilliant and sexy and talented and all-around wonderful on a regular basis. And while I don't think that these are lies (they are certainly true according to my SO's perceptions, at least), but I just don't see it. I wish I could. I always say thank you and all (having been Drilled in Proper Manners by my Lovely and Conscientious Parents), but I wish more than anything that I could see those things in myself.

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

I wish you could too, anon. For the record I think that a lot of people feel this way.

[(Anonymous)]

How do I cope with a cat who takes revenge for being wrapped in a towel while being medicated by peeing on every bit of terrycloth she sees? This same cat also has "fright piddling" issues (she loses control when sufficiently startled). The number of puddles I'm mopping up suggests that she is some kind of frightened, vengeful reservoir of pee. I want her to feel safe and happy, but she obviously doesn't.

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

Oh, poor cat, and poor you! I am useless at pets so I have no suggestions, but I have to say that the phrase 'frightened, vengeful reservoir of pee' made me laugh and really should be an LJ user title.

[(Anonymous)]

Right. I think people who live in houses, right, with other people, and who have amazing teal coloured shiny skirts, yeah, should just, right, GIVE them to whoever they live with. Just randomly.

Is all I'm sayin'.

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

Yeah, right, but NO.

[(Anonymous)]

PS: Also (I just left the last LJ comment), I would like to add:

Rarrrr! Rarrrr!



Delete this!!11! Haa! In yer face!

Gosh, this anonymous commenting malarkey is fun, isn't it? No wonder everybody does it! I should've tried it yonks ago.

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!

*ducks, cowers*

[kasku.livejournal.com]

I'm really seriously going insanely crazy and I can't stop drinking. Last night it was half a litre of rum. I'm smoking loads of cigarettes and am less and less quietly desperate and more and more manic and just need someone to HELP me! I'm not anonymous either. It's too obvious who I am. : )

[chiller.livejournal.com]

What can we do to help? Tell. xx