Ask Bella

[Trollax]

Dear Bella...
How does one escape from love?

[riff]

Gnaw your own foot off.

[Guido Finucci]

How does one escape from love?

Why would you want to?

[Rev Thwack]

Fake a headache.

[Malaria test subject #777]

Laugh at it.
Love only hurts when you take it (or yourself) too seriously.

[Irreverend Hugh, KSC]

Dear Bella...
How does one escape from love?

You don't...and you don't want to.

[Bella]

Dear Bella...
How does one escape from love?

Dear Trollax,

What Hugh said.

PS: And what the others said, too. There is no one right answer....you just have to muddle along and do your best like the rest of us.

[Irreverend Hugh, KSC]

Dear Bella...
How does one escape from love?

Dear Trollax,

What Hugh said.

PS: And what the others said, too. There is no one right answer....you just have to muddle along and do your best like the rest of us.

And the annoying thing is that sometimes there are no answers until hindsight can give them to you...ie. You have to go through it first. Try to take it for what it's worth and learn from it. But if you try to escape you'll only run around in a big circle.

[Rev Thwack]

Dear Bella...
How does one escape from love?

Dear Trollax,

What Hugh said.

PS: And what the others said, too. There is no one right answer....you just have to muddle along and do your best like the rest of us.

And the annoying thing is that sometimes there are no answers until hindsight can give them to you...ie. You have to go through it first. Try to take it for what it's worth and learn from it. But if you try to escape you'll only run around in a big circle.

Until you realize that there is a rope with one end tied to you neck and the other end tied to a post in the ground. Fucking rope.

[EvilPoet]

Amy Maran asks Bella:

Why do homeless people always live on the dirty streets of a huge
city like New York? If I were homeless, I would spend my life getting
to Hawaii or someplace warm and beautiful, and be homeless there.

[Rev Thwack]

Dear Bella:

  I've been looking at investing in the stock market lately, and I've been hearing a lot about this company named SCO. Would they be a good choice for me to invest my life savings (plus next months rent) in?

[Bella]

Amy Maran asks Bella:

Why do homeless people always live on the dirty streets of a huge
city like New York? If I were homeless, I would spend my life getting
to Hawaii or someplace warm and beautiful, and be homeless there.

So would I....Hawaii would be my first choice because I grew up there and it's a better place than most to be homeless. In fact, I lived in a tent on the beach there for a while when I was between apartments. Not a bad life at all.

But....at least around here....many of the homeless are mental health patients, *battered women, people with drug and/or alcohol addictions, etc. They stick around because it's what they know and they feel at home in the area, they have friends and family, they understand the local system of resources, or they feel too hopeless to envision a better life in a better place. Also because they are too distracted by the necessity of making it through each day to plan for the future.

*Statistics from the Justice Dept. show that up to 50% of women and children who are homeless are on the street to avoid violence and/or sexual assault in the home.

[Bella]

Dear Bella:

  I've been looking at investing in the stock market lately, and I've been hearing a lot about this company named SCO. Would they be a good choice for me to invest my life savings (plus next months rent) in?

What you shouldn't do is ask me......psychics are notoriously bad at handling money.
That's why it's illegal for us to give advice on the stock market, legal issues, or medical problems.
But I like to live dangerously, so here goes.......the cards say go ask a financial advisor about the stock. Bella says see the question above....and never ever ever bet next month's rent money on anything. Remember Sky Masterson from Guys and Dolls? Bet next month's rent money and you're going to end up with cider in your ear, Thwak dear.

[Iron Sulfide]

Dear Bella,

luck with the ladies has been, while not bad, rather weird.

i think eris is playing tiddly winks with my sex life.

the basic run down goes:

one was crazy (like, xanax and pheno crazy), 3 were cheaters, one was
a cheater and also crazy, and left me for my "gay" best friend, another
only wanted a slice of my nut-berry pie, another let me believe she was
interested while she wasn't at all interested, another one dumped me
because i was, and i quote, "too nice...", another used me as a piece of
meat...

the most recent one just found out she's 1 month pregnant from her ex.
(i knew i shouldn't have said "what else can you throw at me eris?" while
drunk and pissed off a few weenends ago...)

any fnording clue what's going on here bella?

[CaffeinatrixXx]

maybe eris wants you for herself?