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27 September 2007

It's OK Glamour has a column with cute sayings like "It's OK to spend all of Saturday in your PJs" and "It's OK to not want to do dishes". What's OK in your book?
post by: ThePinkSuperhero at: 12:27 | 53 comments
To get high, watch tv and eat a big honkin' burrito you have to set down when your arm gets tired.

To pay way too much money for vintage tchotchkes on eBay.

To chew three pieces of gum at a time.
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur 27 September | 12:33
It's OK to have a slice of pineapple, a piece of cheese and a Magnum for dinner.
posted by essexjan 27 September | 12:34
It's OK to deceive the nation as to whether or not you have actually visited certain celestial bodies.
posted by mullacc 27 September | 12:37
It's okay to hate me.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 27 September | 12:41
Its OK to spell "ok" in lowercase.
posted by fallenposters 27 September | 12:46
Nothing is ok, everything is more or less all right.
-Alastair Whatevery
posted by Divine_Wino 27 September | 12:55
It's okay to drink so much coffee that you start to hear the wallpaper.

It's okay to make out in the car, if you don't inflict it on an unwilling audience.

It's okay to declare a personal snowday. (I do this once a semester, if I remember.)
posted by Elsa 27 September | 12:57
It's OK to wear skateboarder shoes in middle age.

It's OK to sit sometimes and do nothing but think.
posted by BoringPostcards 27 September | 13:04
I stand by my previous answers:

http://metachat.org/index.php/2006/02/15/it_s_ok#comments
posted by rainbaby 27 September | 13:06
Hehehe, yes, I re-use ideas for posts from my posting history!
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 27 September | 13:07
It's ok to get really stupid falling down drunk with your friends.

It's OK to go to Burger King, drop $20 on whopper juniors, and pig out with friends.
posted by kellydamnit 27 September | 13:09
It's okay to spend your weekends doing fuck all nothing but eating and reading mediocre fantasy novels. At least, I surely hope it is.
posted by mygothlaundry 27 September | 13:12
It's okay to have fast food for dinner during the week with the kids while your spouse is on a business trip.

It's okay to shop online for yet more purses/shoes/clothes.

It's okay to let your kids have an occasional mental health day.

It's okay to lick the spoon (and bowl) when making brownies!
posted by redvixen 27 September | 13:17
It's ok to let your cat eat cheetos dust off of your t-shirt... As long as your wife doesn't catch you doing it.
posted by drezdn 27 September | 13:17
It's OK to fart. No, really, go ahead. Just don't try too hard or you might shart; that's not OK.
posted by Hugh Janus 27 September | 13:24
It's okay after two little glasses of wine to whisper, "Ooooh. I'm a tiny bit tipsy." It's okay if you do this on every occasion when you have more than one drink.

I learned late in life: it's okay to be half of one of those couples, the lovey-dovey hand-holding couples who make everyone around them want to barf.

It's okay to spend an entire evening online looking at bento box blogs.

It's okay to think the internerds who live in your computer feel like real friends a lot of the time.
posted by Elsa 27 September | 13:28
I have such a girl crush on mygothlaundry.
posted by small_ruminant 27 September | 13:28
It's okay to dance like a complete dork. (Though you won't get hit on when you do.)

It's okay to do pretty much anything by yourself, even when you're a woman.

And what Elsa said about internerd friends.
posted by small_ruminant 27 September | 13:33
It's OK to pretend to be talking to your pets when really you're talking to yourself.

It's OK to get up really early every morning to workout so you can have the gym to yourself and then come home and have a shower and a nap before work. It's insane, but it's OK.

It's OK for a grown-ass man to mope around the house like an angsty teenager, as long as there is no one around to see him.

It's a little OK to long for the days when women were mere chattels who did as men said when your wife goes out of town for a month. Just don't make a habit of it.
posted by Lentrohamsanin 27 September | 13:41
Oh,it's OK to listen to records by Severn Darden, and also to sneakily try to pimp your own post in somebody else's.
posted by Lentrohamsanin 27 September | 13:45
It's okay to write a boy's name in your notebook while waiting for your case to be called. It's even okay to draw little hearts next to it. But it's not okay to let the other counsel see it.
posted by crush-onastick 27 September | 13:54
It's OK to dress your baby in nothing but a diaper because it's unseasonably hot and he's outgrown all his summer clothes and he'd just spit up all over whatever you put him in anyway.

It's OK to think that crush-onastick is freakin' adorable.

It's OK to sharpen a pencil with your teeth because you don't own a pencil sharpener and WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU REQUIRE I FILL THIS FORM OUT IN PENCIL? WHO THE HELL EVEN USES PENCILS THESE DAYS?
posted by jrossi4r 27 September | 14:08
It's ok to call in sick from work to stay home and play video games.

It's ok to do a one-time only dealie where you do something dumb like pay 50.00 for a black chain with a cameo on it even though you know it's really only worth about 3.00, because you never buy yourself anything pretty or girly or fun (except video games).
posted by iconomy 27 September | 14:32
It's ok to play hookie from work to watch your BF play Halo, catalog your movie collection, eat pork rinds, and wear your pajamas all day.
posted by youngergirl44 27 September | 14:32
He he... are you playing hookie today too, iconomy?
posted by youngergirl44 27 September | 14:33
I use pencils. I thought it was OK. Really, I didn't know.

*runs away, cries*
posted by danostuporstar 27 September | 14:38
It's okay to spend all of every day in your PJs, really.
It's okay to have soup for dinner most nights if you really like soup.
It's okay to love where you are and also yearn to be someplace else, especially if someplace else is an ice cream truck down by the river.
posted by jessamyn 27 September | 14:47
It's ok to re-use ideas.
posted by Daniel Charms 27 September | 14:57
Yep, youngergirl44...playing Halo! So have you and your bf sniped each other yet, or is that too personal? ;P
posted by iconomy 27 September | 15:00
It's OK to be an anachronism, dano.

especially if someplace else is an ice cream truck down by the river.
It's OK to hope that Jessamyn's dream comes true because she has that open-door policy on visitors and you could totally use a stay in some ice-cream-intensive waterfront property.
posted by jrossi4r 27 September | 15:00
iconomy! that's great!

it's okay to blush at jrossi and grin stupidly
posted by crush-onastick 27 September | 15:02
It's ok to use Windows (even Vista is ok).
It's ok not to want to change the world.
It's ok to be Geore W. Bush.
posted by Daniel Charms 27 September | 15:17
I only got sniped once! Woo Hoo! Have you found the 'ban hammer' yet? That's at least what I call it. It's ok to make interweb references while beating the shit out of your opponent in Halo.
posted by youngergirl44 27 September | 15:36
"It's OK to not want to do dishes"

It's not okay for a magazine like Glamour to split infinitives.

Waitaminnit, it's Glamour. Nevermind.
posted by shane 27 September | 16:00
It's ok to play hookie from work after having a horrifically bad week, sleep in, buy cookies and eat said cookies with a big glass of soy milk and feel mopey. It's also especially ok if you justify the day off by doing important errands and going to the laundromat.
posted by SassHat 27 September | 16:07
It's not okay for a magazine like Glamour to split infinitives.

Ok, I won't let Glamour take the blame- I wrote the one about the dishes.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 27 September | 16:16
It's your thread. It's OK to split infinitives.
posted by shane 27 September | 16:25
It's OK that I don't know what "splitting infinitives" means.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 27 September | 16:26
The infinitive verb form is the "to" form, like "to want." Nothing should split (come between) the "to" and the "want," although I sometimes dislike this grammar rule, since "to not want" together sounds so much more emphatic than "not to want."
posted by shane 27 September | 16:43
/analgrammar
posted by shane 27 September | 16:44
English should embrace infinitive splitting; it's about time we rebelled against our Latin oppressors.
posted by small_ruminant 27 September | 16:54
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary: [T]here has never been a rational basis for objecting to the split infinitive.
posted by matthewr 27 September | 17:20
Oh wow... there's a LOT that's okay at my house.

Skipping yoga...
Farting in bed...
Letting the neighbor take out the trash bins every week...
Addressing one another with racial epithets...
Uh... I really oughtta stop there.
posted by scarabic 27 September | 17:36
It's OK to do whatever you want, as long as you aren't hurting anyone and/or anyone involved is consenting. Really.

It's OK to use pencils. I do it all the time.
posted by dg 27 September | 17:37
In our house:

It's OK to fart, if you give fair warning (a giggle suffices).
It's OK to enjoy commercials that are overly sentimental.
posted by muddgirl 27 September | 18:41
It's OK to have breakfast for dinner or pizza for breakfast; in fact, it's OK to have pizza for breakfast the morning after having breakfast for dinner!

It's OK to use a pen to do Crosswords and Sudokus, make mistakes and write the corrections with big arrows pointing to them over the Bridge Column or Mary Worth Comic.

It's OK to hit on girls who dance like complete dorks.

It's OK to say you spent the day in your PJs when you don't wear PJs to sleep.

It's OK to split infinitives, and split infinities.

It's OK to feel superior to people who don't know who Severn Darden is.

It's OK to be an anachronism, an antagonist, an arachnid, an anchorman or an ampersand.

It's always OK to fart when you're alone. (But there's something questionable about spraying the air to get rid of the smell when you're alone)

It's OK to re-use post ideas in MetaChat, but not more frequently than once every 1.6 years.
posted by wendell 27 September | 19:34
It's OK to flirt promiscuously when you're single. Or bring home men, get them drunk, and sketch them while they're nude and pased out.

Actually, if you're single, nothing is really off limits.
posted by Orange Swan 27 September | 20:22
It's ok to be recently divorced, unemployed, starting your life over at 32, and dating someone all your friends think you should break up with because he'll never marry you. At least I hope it is.
posted by Twiggy 27 September | 21:00
Twiggy: it is.
posted by crush-onastick 27 September | 21:11
Awww...thanks, crush.
posted by Twiggy 27 September | 21:20
Twiggy, not only is it OK, it sounds like perfect therapy.
posted by dg 27 September | 22:23
It's OK to speak and type in whatever why I see fit without taking any fucking stick over it.
posted by chuckdarwin 28 September | 08:15
It's okay to spend all weekend playing WoW, not showering and eating junk food.
posted by deborah 28 September | 11:53
← Bunny! OMG! DO NOT WANT! || I just said "Oh, that sucks" to a nun. →

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