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[nostabbing]

[Handwritten | Parker's Notes| Not Posted To Network]
THINGS I WOULD LIKE FOR MY BIRTHDAY

1. Money
2. Unmarked bills with non-sequential serial numbers
3. Loose diamonds
4. Money
5. Gold bars
6. Gold bars are kind of hard to move, though
7. They're heavy and not easily liquidated, also clunky
8. Money

THINGS ALICE WOULD LIKE FOR HER BIRTHDAY

1. Vege
1. World peace
1. ...Bunnies?????

THINGS NORMAL PEOPLE LIKE FOR THEIR BIRTHDAYS

1. Money
1. No bad guys ruining their lives
2. TV...s
3. Stuff they like
4. ?????

THINGS HARDISON WOULD LIKE FOR HIS BIRTHDAY

1. Video games
2. Robots
3. Stolen cell phones
4. Can you steal the internet?
4. The bank of Iceland
5. Pretzels
6. Doing stuff with me ?

THINGS ELIOT WOULD LIKE FOR HIS BIRTHDAY

1. Cooking
2. People to punch
3. Bad guys to punch
4. Sterling to punch
5. I would like Sterling to punch too

THINGS NATE WOULD LIKE FOR HIS BIRTHDAY

1. Alcohol
1. Alcohol
2. Forgiveness

THINGS SOPHIE WOULD LIKE FOR HER BIRTHDAY

1. Artwork
2. Diamonds
3. Fancy jewelry
4. Clothes
5. Shoes
6. Shoes should have been #1
7. SO MANY SHOES
8. For Nate to stop being so stupid
9. I bet princesses have a lot of cool stuff though

THINGS ISHIMARU WOULD LIKE FOR HIS BIRTHDAY

1. Justice
2. More of those cool bleach pen thingies
3. Red

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What do you think makes something a good present? Like a birthday present. You're supposed to give somebody a thing they'd really like, right? And if you don't know what they'd like, you ask them about it and maybe they tell you.

What if they tell you the stuff they like and you don't like it? Because you think it's not a good present or whatever. Does that make it a bad present?

If you're the person being asked what you want for your birthday, are you supposed to not ask for stuff that would make people feel bad about giving it to you?

...Also, why do people give each other presents on Christmas instead of giving them to Jesus? It's not everyone else's birthday on Christmas.

I mean I guess maybe it's some people's but it's not everybody's who gets presents on Christmas.

...And why isn't "Happy Birthday" a Christmas carol, then?

Comments

[nostabbing]

...What if potato chips only came in one kind, though.

[berkthorn]

Then I can still buy as much as a Dragonite can carry, can't I?

[nostabbing]

I guess some people think it's weird to give somebody that many potato chips.

[berkthorn]

Have you tried telling them that you really really like potato chips?

Er, or whatever it is that they think is weird?

[nostabbing]

Yeah, but then they feel bad because potato chips are a weird present and they don't want to buy someone potato chips.

[berkthorn]

But why not, if it's what you like?

[...Dragons are a lot simpler than people.]

[nostabbing]

Because I guess only weird people ask for potato chips.

Normal people wouldn't do that.

[berkthorn]

Hey, potato chips are pretty good.

[He can fondly remember times when he'd consumed bag after bag as he binged on dragon- and superhero-themed tv shows, so long ago.]

People will get used to you not being normal eventually. Not normal is the best kind, in my opinion.

[nostabbing]

I think there are some kinds of weird people don't really get used to.

[berkthorn]

Well I don't believe that.

[nostabbing]

People don't get used to cannibals. Cannibals are weird.

[berkthorn]

Okay, but there's a difference between eating potato chips and eating people... I think cannibals are a little more than weird.

[nostabbing]

But you still don't get used to them.

[berkthorn]

No, I guess not. I'd hope you're not a cannibal, though.

[nostabbing]

I'm not! It was just an example.

[berkthorn]

Great!

And I guess I will change my statement to "I don't believe people can't get used to weird, so long as that weird is within reason and not harmful." Cannibals are a bit extreme, even for me.

[nostabbing]

Then how do you know what's within reason?

[berkthorn]

Asking for birthday potato chips is within reason.

I guess as long as it's not a weird I have to be afraid of, if that makes sense? But even then, weird isn't really the word I'd use, anymore.

[nostabbing]

So you should find out what your friend is afraid of first, and then not ask them to do that.

[berkthorn]

Maybe? Though I doubt most of the things you'd want are things your friends would be afraid of. So it should be fine?