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[FearfulJesuit]

I finished Fifty Shades of Grey. I decided to read it to see just how bad it was.




I was not disappointed.




Laters, baby. (I need to get a T-Shirt that says that...)

[Bauglir]

Should I ever require a funeral, there will be strippers. And blackjack. And whiskey. In fact, forget the funeral! I'll just request that my body be donated to something, and the money thereby saved be put into an overnight stay at a casino for my loved ones.

[RedKing]

I finished Fifty Shades of Grey. I decided to read it to see just how bad it was.

Having vaguely heard of this thing, I just looked it up on Wikipedia.

WTFBBQ?? This thing grew out of a Twilight erotic fanfic. Written by the user "Snowqueens Icedragon".
You have GOT to be shitting me. And it's sold 10 million copies and surpassed Harry Potter as the fastest-selling paperback in history in the UK.

ಥ_ಥ

That sound you hear is every writer with skill in the world saying "FUCK THIS" and going off to do something else.

[GlyphGryph]

Donate your body to the Casino!

[Bauglir]

WTFBBQ?? This thing grew out of a Twilight erotic fanfic. Written by the user "Snowqueens Icedragon".

Wait, really? Hopy shit. I thought people were saying that as an insult meant to describe the quality of the writing and the subject matter. I didn't realize it was a literal description!

[RedKing]

WTFBBQ?? This thing grew out of a Twilight erotic fanfic. Written by the user "Snowqueens Icedragon".

Wait, really? Hopy shit. I thought people were saying that as an insult meant to describe the quality of the writing and the subject matter. I didn't realize it was a literal description!

The Fifty Shades trilogy was developed from a Twilight fan fiction originally titled Master of the Universe and published episodically on fan-fiction websites under the pen name "Snowqueens Icedragon". The piece featured characters named after Stephenie Meyer's characters in Twilight, Edward Cullen and Bella Swan. After comments concerning the sexual nature of the material, James removed the story from the fan-fiction websites and published it on her own website, FiftyShades.com. Later she rewrote Master of the Universe as an original piece, with the principal characters renamed Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele and removed it from her website prior to publication. Meyer commented on the series, saying "that's really not my genre, not my thing ... Good on her – she's doing well. That's great!"

Now that I've read that, THIS makes so much more sense:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[Loud Whispers]

Wjhyat.

[scriver]

I know what you mean.  I've always felt like people at funerals and grieving in general tend to be mostly focused on themselves, as if it's more about their "loss" than the person who actually died.  This has always seemed backwards to me.  I've never met anyone who was like "When I die, I want everyone to be fucking depressed and cry a lot."  I think the proper response to a person's death should be to celebrate their life.

I'm sorry, but I can't really say anything but, well duh
Of course funerals aren't about the person getting buried. Of course it's about those left behind. The dead is, after all, dead. Gone. It's the grievers that has emotional stuff to deal with. They're the ones who have to say good bye and keep on living. They're the ones who need the funeral. The dead guy is just a useless, slowly rotting hunk of carbon by now, there's no reason to care about him other than in how others relate to him

I dunno about you, but the few funerals I went to, nobody fucked at all.

Damn you and your unquoting German ways! Now I'll never know what it said. But it must have been glorious.

[Leafsnail]

You have GOT to be shitting me. And it's sold 10 million copies and surpassed Harry Potter as the fastest-selling paperback in history in the UK.

Isn't that because everyone bought the hardback of Harry Potter?

[penguinofhonor]

I saw FSOG in the store the other day. I was almost tempted to buy it but I'm smarter than that.

Also, fanfiction sells. This is the moral of that book.

[Morrigi]

You have GOT to be shitting me. And it's sold 10 million copies and surpassed Harry Potter as the fastest-selling paperback in history in the UK.

Isn't that because everyone bought the hardback of Harry Potter?

For the love of all that is sacred, I hope so.

[bukitodinos]

Is it wrong that i want some backwards thinking idiot to argue with me?

[Aqizzar]

Is it wrong that i want some backwards thinking idiot to argue with me?

Kinda.  I feel that way sometimes when I have something on my mind.  But then I remember that nobody I've ever gotten into an argument with has ever said, "That's a really good point, I guess I was completely wrong," like the prepared script in my head says they should.

[Descan]

I think that the people who would say "I guess I was wrong" are more often actually correct than not, because they've already said "I guess I was wrong" and changed their mind accordingly in the past.

The fact that I try and say "I guess I was wrong" when the chips are down has NOTHING TO DO with this analysis.

[Pnx]

Mother has been on the warpath all day. One of these days someone is going to wind up seriously injured in this household... Well more serious than the time she cracked my father's head with a laptop at any rate.