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	ruby_tuesday 2005-07-04 05:27 am UTC (link)
	Your first two links go to the same place. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	viggorlijah 2005-07-04 05:46 am UTC (link)
	Fixed! Thanks for pointing that out. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	caoilainn 2005-07-04 05:43 am UTC (link)
	not seeing the wank here at all. Trying, but failing. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	wankprophet 2005-07-04 05:51 am UTC (link)
	Wank happens when someone uses an innocuous phrase and other people jump in to take it so damn literally that one wonders whether they defy all laws of astrophysics to believe in "sunrises" and are still wondering exactly how now brown cow. Plus, political correctness -- always a wanky good time. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	mistressrenet 2005-07-04 06:21 am UTC (link)
	Thank you. I was trying to say that, but all that would come out was 'how can you not see the wank?' And I so wanted to use my knitting icon.... (Reply to this)(Parent)

	wankprophet 2005-07-04 05:47 am UTC (link)
	Historically, knitting wanks (yeah, we've had a few) tend to go in otf_wank. But, you know, whatever. (Reply to this)

	xero_sky 2005-07-04 05:52 am UTC (link)
	I don't think the OP meant to offend anyone, but hopefully now she'll realize that maybe that isn't something to joke about. Homicide, especially spousal homicide falls into that category for me, especially on such a public forum. The complete lack of anything resembling a sense of humor about this confuses and frightens me. cries (Reply to this)(Thread)

april_hurst
2005-07-07 10:26 am UTC (link)

Me too. Oh noes, not free speech! Anything but that! One must only say things that will never, ever offend anyone, even those with abnormally delicate sensibilities.

That would restrict all Internet publications to weather reports and mathematical formulae. Until someone complained about minus signs being phallic and plus signs not being a strong enough yonic equivalent, and then the meteorologists win the Internet, literally.

"---- is going to kill me" is an idiom, and any native or at least fluent English speaker who fails to understand that either has a legitimate neurological problem causing her to take things way too literally, or is stupid.

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	twocorpses 2005-07-04 06:05 am UTC (link)
	Yeesh. This is exactly why I left the CROCHET community - shit like this happening all the time. Jeez!! (Reply to this)(Thread)

	blackjackrocket 2005-07-04 06:50 am UTC (link)
	Share? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	twocorpses 2005-07-04 06:52 am UTC (link)
	Oh it's been wanked here before I'm sure. It was quite a few months ago anyway. People just getting all up in arms about stupid shit pretty much exactly like this post. :P (Reply to this)(Parent)

	altera 2005-07-05 02:57 am UTC (link)
	I posted this one a while back: http://www.journalfen.net/community/otf_wank/207728.html (Reply to this)(Parent)

	kakegodess 2005-07-04 06:18 am UTC (link)
	How stupid. It's getting to where you can't say anything without offending someone on the internet. Her husband probably just teases her about all the yarn, I know mine does. (Reply to this)(Thread)

altoidsaddict
2005-07-04 08:30 am UTC (link)

I was teased in elementary school. Every year, scores of teased children commit suicide. Your comment about teasing offends me.

Of course, I'm only teasing.

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footsie
2005-07-04 11:30 am UTC (link)

"How stupid. It's getting to where you can't say anything without offending someone on the internet."

Yeah. In real life, it usually takes a little work to offend someone that moronic. And I love the playground monitor mentality here: "Ideally, it would be nice if folks were more mindful when they say these sorts of things."

I'm so, so, so sorry you're offended by Kwispy's choice of idiom. I could just kill myself over the mental anguish it caused you.

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	lurker32 2005-07-04 06:53 pm UTC (link)
	SUICIDE IS NOT A JOKING MATTER. >:O (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	phosfate 2005-07-05 03:19 am UTC (link)
	Is too. Shoots self in head. Blood spatter spells out HA HA on wall. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	kannaophelia 2005-07-04 05:17 pm UTC (link)
	My cousin hides her new Barbie purchases in the wardrobe and brings them out only at tactful times. I'm ALMOST SURE her husband isn't planning to saw off her arms and legs and stow her in the freezer. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	lurker32 2005-07-04 06:47 am UTC (link)
	stares I-- buh-- wh-- MOMMY THE CRAZY PEOPLE ARE HURTING MY HEAD AGAIN. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	aerobot 2005-07-04 10:10 am UTC (link)
	GASP! OH NOES! Quickly, you should file a police report for this evil harassment!!11!! (Reply to this)(Parent)

(Anonymous)
2005-07-04 08:59 am UTC (link)

I find that, usually, the best way to deal with people who are that humorless, sour and just plain stupid is to ignore them. Don't answer their lemon-faced nonsense.

How anybody could get offended and sniffy about "abuse" when hearing "My husband's gonna kill me" is beyond me. Hasn't "[blank]'s gonna kill me" been an American idiom for like, decades now? Where was this woman raised, in a bomb shelter?

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	ahiru 2005-07-04 11:57 pm UTC (link)
	I'm currently working as a cashier. I have to ask people if they want the store's brand card and a ton of the women I ask answer, "If I did that my husband would kill me!" Apparently this must mean my area either has a large population of battered women or a large population of insenstive women. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	fandom_bitch 2005-07-04 09:08 am UTC (link)
	And yet another reason why I avoid knitting comms at all costs, even if knitting is my favourite hobby of all time. Sheesh. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	princessdot 2005-07-04 11:10 am UTC (link)
	YOU! Outta my head! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	papervolcano 2005-07-04 11:32 am UTC (link)
	Some of the smaller ones aren't all that wanky - I've never seen any wank in brit_knits or 20s_knitters yet (watch as they explode now I've said that...), but knitting is an incredibly wanky place, for reasons I've not yet been able to fathom. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	princessdot 2005-07-04 11:42 am UTC (link)
	Ok true, I love HP_Knitting, Weasley_sweaters...... hey! I have an idea! Is there a "knitting" here on JF? ~goes off to check and, if not finding of one, making of one~ (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	altera 2005-07-05 02:55 am UTC (link)
	Hey, combining HP + Knitting, the wank would be AWESOME!!! (but do take it to hp_knitting, as weasleysweaters is mine ;D (and I could get so wanky over the fact that they copied my idea for a community... ahem) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	kakegodess 2005-07-05 10:02 pm UTC (link)
	Do it, do it! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	the_wanlorn 2005-07-04 09:22 am UTC (link)
	The internet is far too much of an un-PC place for people like that. shakes head sadly (Reply to this)

	funwithrage 2005-07-04 09:26 am UTC (link)
	Y'know, when I got home at five AM last night and talked about my roommates killing me...expressing fear for my life. Clearly. Yeaah. (Reply to this)

aerobot
2005-07-04 10:10 am UTC (link)

Point #1: Motherfuckin' LORDY, it's just a saying! I once said my teacher was gonna kill me because I accidentally got tomato sauce on a library book. Does this mean she's an abusive teacher? No, IT'S A FUCKING SAYING.

Point #2: Hey, y'know what? Some couples are so tight on money that they MUST decide together if they buy something expensive. Buying a big expensive thing can be rather important to the household as a whole, which is why both partners discuss it. It does NOT mean they have to report to each other. And of course, if you don't like that, then maybe marriage is not for you.

Point #3: Get a fucking grip. Put the knitting needles down and go outside for a while in the fresh air. Alright?

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mistressrenet
2005-07-04 10:38 am UTC (link)

Hey, y'know what? Some couples are so tight on money that they MUST decide together if they buy something expensive. Buying a big expensive thing can be rather important to the household as a whole, which is why both partners discuss it. It does NOT mean they have to report to each other. And of course, if you don't like that, then maybe marriage is not for you.

Dude, tell me about it. One woman did say she discussed 'important' purchases, but a ton of impulse purchases can really drain a couple/family budget too.

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	kate74 2005-07-04 01:56 pm UTC (link)
	Word! And knitting - not so cheap. Used to be - if you wore handknits it was like wearing poverty as a badge - in a playground "Eww - you can't afford proper clothes" kind of way. Now it costs twice as much to make stuff as it does to buy it. Sadly, that (along with a bad case of "can't be fagged") is one of the main reasons I don't knit any more. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

princessdot
2005-07-05 02:04 am UTC (link)

I have people I knit for [*ONCE*] that had the attitude that that stringy thing I spent hours upon hours on, and way too much money on said yarn? Not as good a gift as the real gifts that are store bought.

One nephew I made a Gryffindor scarf for his birthday? Later says he never thought it was something I had made him since it, "looked too good and it was cool!"

Other little nephew I made Gryff scarf for and he and his little buddies all raved over just how much I have to love him since I had to have spent SO much time on it! :O

Guess which one gets whatever he asks for, and which one is never getting anything else I knit?

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	aerobot 2005-07-05 02:17 pm UTC (link)
	Geez, kids these days. My nana made my sister and I stuffed dolls that she knitted, and now they're handlooms. She still gives us knitted clothes hangers - I mean, they're incredibly lame, but we appreciate it on some level. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	aerobot 2005-07-04 03:40 pm UTC (link)
	No kidding. My dad got a little cross with my mother after she got addicted to ebay. XD (Reply to this)(Parent)

	absurdwords 2005-07-04 07:37 pm UTC (link)
	I am offended by "motherfucking". That's no laughing matter. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	phosfate 2005-07-05 03:23 am UTC (link)
	To be fair, it depends on whose mother. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	princessdot 2005-07-04 11:12 am UTC (link)
	Thanks for reminding me why, even tho I love knitting, I stay AWAY from that scary place. Every time the amnesia has kicked in and I've ventured there I have seen this type of thing. Eesh! And now I must go before my boyfriend kills me for being online so late. (Reply to this)

	redatt 2005-07-04 03:31 pm UTC (link)
	'I'm a bit of a clothing-whore, and I'm always put-off when another woman says, "Oh, my boyfriend/husband/whatever wouldn't ever let me wear that!" or "...would kill me if I wore that!"' Why does she say she's a 'clothing-whore'? Whoring is not a joking matter! I'm always so put off by people who use that word so flippantly. (Reply to this)

	dodyskin 2005-07-04 05:09 pm UTC (link)
	there's more Ssh. Reading. (Reply to this)

	(Anonymous) 2005-07-04 07:11 pm UTC (link)
	These people are killing me with their comments. Yes, I know it's a really common form of humor. But think about the underlying message I did and I agree: Harry DOES love Draco. Ani Mouse (Reply to this)

	theblackscorpio 2005-07-04 10:17 pm UTC (link)
	Funny, how I drop in my Friends List on occasion and there is always a knitting wank there :o (Reply to this)

	rosalita 2005-07-05 01:25 am UTC (link)
	I swear, people like this give me cramps. I once got taken to task on a newsgroup for saying that someone needed to be taken out and shot. Some moron jumped all over me for advocating violence. (Reply to this)

sadisticferret
2005-07-05 02:19 am UTC (link)

I have to wonder if one of these posters is the crazy vet tech at the vet's office I work at. We all pretty much have to walk on eggshells around her.

Me (to other kennel tech): Joe, if you don't stop being such an asshole, I'm going to strangle you with this catheter.

Joe: Sorry.

Crazy tech: Could you please not talk about death, even in jokes? This is coming from a woman who was abused by her last boyfriend, okay.

Me: Um, okay?

Of course, she's allowed to joke about killing the stray cats all she wants and god-forbid you so much as say "boo" to her and...

~ahem~ I'm sorry, was I wanking? I'll mop up.

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	phosfate 2005-07-05 03:26 am UTC (link)
	Could you please not talk about death, even in jokes? "Who said anything about killing him? I'mo choke the bastard right into a sleeping car on the Schiavo Express." (Reply to this)(Parent)

	ultimate_cin 2005-07-05 03:05 am UTC (link)
	Some people just really need a sense of humor. Or a good slap upside the head. Whichever is easier. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	(Anonymous) 2005-07-05 10:52 am UTC (link)
	In a perfect world, giving them one would result in the other. I'll leave you to figure out which is which. ~Mousie mousie (Reply to this)(Parent)