Terminalcoffee discussion

Welcome again, sir!

and again!

James, it is a delight to have you with us. There are very good people on goodreads, and some very assholians on goodreads. Hey! That's just like in the real world! Why didn't any of you point that out to me? Huh?

Anyway, glad you're here. Have fun, read reviews, read books, post tons of reviews, and never be surprised when a thread based upon your review suddenly turns into a discussion of something utterly unrelated.

James wrote: "I just wanted to introduce myself. My name is James, and I joined good reads yesterday."

:) Hi James.

Heidi has a polar bear avatar, beware of her. She's a mad cajun who leaps into other people photos, and lives in Arkansas, and! says geaux Tigers. That's an LSU thing I suppose. I live in Kentucky, bourbon and horses.

Welcome to TC, James. Please take no mind of Stephen.

Oh, now no forgetting me. I'm the sycophantic needy one. Make no mistake. Do tell us about your small town drama? I live in a 11,000 person town/city, whatever that qualifies as.

Sometimes it gets like Twin Peaks in this town.

Don't let Heidi's sunny disposition fool you. She'll shove a giant stick up a grizzly bear's ass just to prove her badassedry. Plus, her martial arts skills may or may not provide her with some kind of black ops employment that she's not at liberty to discuss freely around here, unless you want a fatal boot to the colon.

I told you, Heidi is dangerous. I wouldn't be surprised if she were a Ninja!

SHUSH, you two!

zipping it

James wrote: "Heidi wrote: "SHUSH, you two!"

My lips are currently glued together. Nothing more from this peanut gallery :)"


You're okay, James. You're the new kid on the block. I was directing that to Stephen and Gus, specifically.

Gus wrote: "She'll shove a giant stick up a grizzly bear's ass just to prove her badassedry."

I would never hurt a bear, Gus.

Dont' believe a word she .......gah..........help!........help! Oh Ge......


gurgle

James, Heidi's not that mean. She likes to share her drinks.

Here. Take a sip.

I think it's all fun?

RandomAnthony wrote: "She likes to share her drinks. Here. Take a sip."

That's not funny. :P Meanie.

Bull Bander. Look it up, RA. I have one with your name on it.

Do Not Go Near it RA
it is castration device.

Poor James. He's probably deleted his account already.

James wrote: "Everyone here seems so nice ...."

"Seems" is the operative word, James. No ... just kidding again.

Well then, YOU share your drink with him, RA.


::hovers protectively over tea::

Oh, well protecting the caffeine source is completely different than sharing a Mai Tai.

Stephen wrote: "Oh, well protecting the caffeine source is completely different than sharing a Mai Tai. "

I wouldn't share that either, if it were mine.

That's about all we're good for really. Join in, bantering is like gold around here.

Stephen wrote: "That's about all we're good for really."

Speak for yourself, paleface.

Heidi is the only person I know who would downplay her badassedness. If someone said, "I saw Gus slaughter an entire horde of half-crazed Mongols with just a can of Red Bull and a corkscrew," I would be absolutely flattered. Because I know that to be true.

Of course it's true. I know it to be true. I was there.

Everybody knows you don't open a Red Bull with a corkscrew.

Of course not. One should only ever "shotgun" a Red Bull.

The corkscrew was for removing the scrotum from every single one of those douchey Mongols who decided to mess with me.

Ah. I see.

Gus wrote: "Heidi is the only person I know who would downplay her badassedness."

But I'm really NOT a badass, Gus. >:/

My sense is that Heidi is a gentle, sensitive badass. I could be wrong ....

Alter egos maybe?

Larry wrote, My sense is that Heidi is a gentle, sensitive badass.

She is. I get the sense that she's the type of person who could, heaven forbid, survive a plane crash, and, instead of rocking back and forth and drooling like a loony bin patient all loaded up on lithium in a padded cell, or fleeing away in flames, she would rush back into the flaming wreckage, kung-fu kick the fuck out of burning metal, and rescue as many stranded survivors as possible.

Tell me I'm wrong, Heidi.

She can't, because she is a badass. Hi, I'm back!

Gus wrote: "Larry wrote, My sense is that Heidi is a gentle, sensitive badass.

She is. I get the sense that she's the type of person who could, heaven forbid, survive a plane crash, and, instead of rocking b..."

Gus wrote: "Larry wrote, My sense is that Heidi is a gentle, sensitive badass.

She is. I get the sense that she's the type of person who could, heaven forbid, survive a plane crash, and, instead of rocking b..."

I don't know. I've never been in a plane crash.

Anytime I've been smack dab in the middle of some sort of crisis event or trauma (after a tornado or during/after a robbery, taking someone who's clearly having a stroke to the ER), I've been the one to just start doing something, and I tend to stay clear-headed and somehow conveniently naive to danger, but does that make one a badass?

I can't stand it when someone questions my ability to hang, though. Pride. It's a sin. I know... I try to not let it get the better of me, and I'm not perfect, but I'm better in control of it now that I'm older and more mature - one guy told me once, "I bet you hit like a girl" (while I was still wearing my martial arts uniform several hours later after getting off from teaching the adult black belt classes), and I didn't take that well.

Normally, I'm against violence (my pride and immaturity won that battle that night - I was 22ish), but I sure enough punched him in the jaw as hard as I could - all 5'1 5/8" of me sitting on the kitchen countertop right in front of his 6'5"ness.

He said I didn't hit like a girl. I won't lie - I was pleased.

I have no clue as to whether or not I could still "not hit like a girl" (I despise that phrase - girls can totally be tough, if not tougher than guys). I haven't felt compelled to punch someone since then.

Same thing happened again while out with Gus and some friends one night after dinner a few years ago - Gus's friend's friend came out to dinner with us and then out to a pub/conversation after we'd closed down the restaurant. Gus and Jaime had left us by then.

Friend of Gus's friend was a nice guy and all... but after a few drinks, the conversation was steered in a direction I didn't like - he said he'd taken martial arts and he could beat me up (I don't remember how the conversation was started - usually, I just try to avoid it altogether around drunk people because they always taunt). I told him he might be able to... and he might not.

He tried... and tried again... and again... and again and I didn't hurt him - I never struck at him, but he ended up on the ground several times.

Ergo, Heidi is a nice badass.

Huh. Nobody ever says they could beat ME up.

Who would want to beat you up Jackie?

Nobody who feels like talking about it apparently, Stephen.

So it seems. I wouldn't beat you up because you take nice bike rides. Now we can't be sure of Larry or Jim because the ficus causes them to do very unusual things from time to time.

I ... uh ... uh .... Jackie. Uh?

Oh there he is, lurking about. Yes, have you any reason to beat up Jackie?

I'm thinking. I'm thinking.

Maybe because she did not have a drippy green video? That's a pretty serious infraction.

Jackie "the Librarian" wrote: "Huh. Nobody ever says they could beat ME up. "

It's the black belt, Jackie. Apparently some people see it as an invitation to be obnoxious.

I don't want to be you up Jackie, or Heidi, or anybody else for that matter.

Now Jim, you couldn't be a successful international art thief without beating someone up. That Rembrandt for instance, surely you had to punch a guard for that.

Brain not braun Stephen.