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rionaleonhart) wrote2011-07-10 11:21 am
rionaleonhart) wrote2011-07-10 11:21 am
'We Could Give Loads Of Thumbs Up!'
I'm visiting my family at the moment, and so it's time for more tales of family adventures!
(Scene: around the dinner table. Dad is talking about what he would do if he won £166 million on the lottery: give each of his children ten per cent, put ten per cent in a trust fund for his wife to set up charitable initiatives, try to spend ten per cent in the first year, buy a sports car and a country mansion...)
Fred: So, would you give any to your cousin? (Note: I don't know the exact details and I'm going to withhold some of the details I do know for the sake of discretion, but Dad's cousin has basically screwed him over with regard to a financial matter.)
Dad: (without hesitation) I would bankrupt her. I would hit her with lawyers like she wouldn't believe.
Joseph: You'd look quite bad in the newspapers.
Fred: Couldn't you get her some sort of clever present?
Dad: I think bankrupting her would be quite a clever present.
Mum: It's not exactly a 'present'.
Riona: You could send her an envelope containing a newspaper clipping about your win and fifty pounds.
Dad: Yes, I could do that.
(pause)
Dad: And then I'd bankrupt her.
(Scene: my brothers and I are carrying a chest of drawers to our house. A group of teenage girls pass on the other side of the road. We do not know them.)
Girls: Lily, you can tell the truth; everyone else thinks she's weird as well.
Fred: (calls loudly) THAT'S MY SISTER.
Thanks, Fred.
It was my brother Joseph's birthday party yesterday! At one point, I was taking a quick break from all the socialising when I heard pained yelling from multiple voices. Concerned, I went downstairs to investigate.
There were nine people piled on Joseph's bed.
This was not an orgy, I should clarify; it was just a lot of people piled on a bed. I have absolutely no idea how this came to be the case. It's not a small bed, but I strongly suspect it wasn't designed for nine.
Finally and unrelatedly: here is an absolute joy of an X-Men: First Class fanvid. It's almost frightening how well it works. LET'S GET DOWN TO BUSINESS...
(Scene: around the dinner table. Dad is talking about what he would do if he won £166 million on the lottery: give each of his children ten per cent, put ten per cent in a trust fund for his wife to set up charitable initiatives, try to spend ten per cent in the first year, buy a sports car and a country mansion...)
Fred: So, would you give any to your cousin? (Note: I don't know the exact details and I'm going to withhold some of the details I do know for the sake of discretion, but Dad's cousin has basically screwed him over with regard to a financial matter.)
Dad: (without hesitation) I would bankrupt her. I would hit her with lawyers like she wouldn't believe.
Joseph: You'd look quite bad in the newspapers.
Fred: Couldn't you get her some sort of clever present?
Dad: I think bankrupting her would be quite a clever present.
Mum: It's not exactly a 'present'.
Riona: You could send her an envelope containing a newspaper clipping about your win and fifty pounds.
Dad: Yes, I could do that.
(pause)
Dad: And then I'd bankrupt her.
(Scene: my brothers and I are carrying a chest of drawers to our house. A group of teenage girls pass on the other side of the road. We do not know them.)
Girls: Lily, you can tell the truth; everyone else thinks she's weird as well.
Fred: (calls loudly) THAT'S MY SISTER.
Thanks, Fred.
It was my brother Joseph's birthday party yesterday! At one point, I was taking a quick break from all the socialising when I heard pained yelling from multiple voices. Concerned, I went downstairs to investigate.
There were nine people piled on Joseph's bed.
This was not an orgy, I should clarify; it was just a lot of people piled on a bed. I have absolutely no idea how this came to be the case. It's not a small bed, but I strongly suspect it wasn't designed for nine.
Finally and unrelatedly: here is an absolute joy of an X-Men: First Class fanvid. It's almost frightening how well it works. LET'S GET DOWN TO BUSINESS...
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