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  1. PrettySquareGal

    The Doggy Bag

    When you haven't finished what's on your plate at a casual restaurant, do you ask to take the rest home? What about at an upscale place? Is it in bad taste to do so?
  2. PrettySquareGal

    Amazing! Fabulous! Awesome!

    Yes, I am saying technology is a purveyor of brevity without meaning which is not the same as meaningful economy of speech. Yes, there have always been one word descriptors, but more and more people are using one word to convey meaning that is lost in the few word choices.
  3. PrettySquareGal

    Amazing! Fabulous! Awesome!

    I still say it when it fits.
  4. PrettySquareGal

    sick and tired of new scrap appliances.

    ha. :)
  5. PrettySquareGal

    sick and tired of new scrap appliances.

    Agreed 100%. I love my kitchen. Most of it hasn't changed since the original owners decorated it in the 1960s.
  7. PrettySquareGal

    Amazing! Fabulous! Awesome!

    See, this is also what I consider a sad tale of 2012. Anything beyond a tweet or text is now considered a "dissertation." I see a sentence or two as brevity. "Word" dates back to the 1970s. I used it a lot in NYC at that time. It's not a descriptor but an affirmation of agreement.
  8. PrettySquareGal

    Amazing! Fabulous! Awesome!

    As do I. I don't use it to describe something unseen to someone else but if someone offers to do something nice for me, as an example. "Oh, that would be swell! Thanks!"
  9. PrettySquareGal

    sick and tired of new scrap appliances.

    Bravo!!!!!!!!!!
  10. PrettySquareGal

    sick and tired of new scrap appliances.

    Then I take it that you aren't really living in your mother's basement. :o
  11. PrettySquareGal

    Amazing! Fabulous! Awesome!

    I would prefer actual descriptors to one word quantifiers. If something is truly fabulous, awesome or amazing I think it's worthy of a sentence or two. For example, instead of "omg it was so amazing" I'd like to know what about it specifically was amazing? If it's a person, what about them do...
  13. PrettySquareGal

    Amazing! Fabulous! Awesome!

    It's not just the younger generations. I see it across the board...
  14. PrettySquareGal

    Amazing! Fabulous! Awesome!

    True, but I wonder if versatility in the ability to experience life has become diminished since so much of it is now reduced to pixels, tweets and texting. It becomes easier to be amazed by very little.
  15. PrettySquareGal

    Amazing! Fabulous! Awesome!

    You know, you're right about "amazing" and birthday party magicians! Also, side shows. I think, though, that unlike in the past when superlatives (that's the word I was looking for, thanks) were overused, just with different words, that those things were a lot closer to "amazing" et al than...
  16. PrettySquareGal

    Amazing! Fabulous! Awesome!

    It seems that the only positive adjectives people use online these days are "amazing," "fabulous," and "awesome" although "awesome" has given way to "amazing" it seems. Do people no longer have a basic grasp of a diversity of descriptors, or do they truly thing that a twitter update or a pair...
  17. PrettySquareGal

    sick and tired of new scrap appliances.

    I'm sorry you feel that way because I enjoy reading your posts. I'm on facebook and have a blog, but this is also the only forum I participate in. I, too, used to find more of a connection here. The past couple of years I've not felt a connection...I've even felt too old-fashioned. When I...
  19. PrettySquareGal

    sick and tired of new scrap appliances.

    I agree 100%.
  20. PrettySquareGal

    sick and tired of new scrap appliances.

    Nah. We have the ability to nuke the whole joint to smithereens and poison it for millions of years. Yet we can't make a toaster that lasts. [huh]
  21. PrettySquareGal

    sick and tired of new scrap appliances.

    It's human, not just hippie or green chic to care about the health of the planet. :) I think those who profess not to care either truly don't because they have values I can't understand or they aren't in touch with their own humanity.
  22. PrettySquareGal

    sick and tired of new scrap appliances.

    Some people love the planet and the species presently living on it other than humans and would be sad to see its demise. Others have children and want there to be a planet for them on which to live.
  23. PrettySquareGal

    sick and tired of new scrap appliances.

    Planned obsolescence seems like the good old days when things at least worked as intended right off the conveyor belt.

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