Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "Telling someone that a behavior is in their blood only works if you're talking about their immediate family. Anything outside that or back farther than the grandparents is nonsense."

• They don't realize they're talking about death but I can hear it behind their voices
• a radical thing called "talking to women and taking their answers seriously"
• The only difference between men and boys is the size of their shoes and the price of their toys.
• Talking about money is more taboo than talking about sex
• Deal with the flames on their terms or yours
• How do cows get all their nutrients, when they only eat grass?
• Having an S on a transcript rather than a B
• it seems to me as though most actors spend their entire lives not accomplishing anything
• Why guys care if their partner spits or swallows
• E2 is unfriendly to new noders (and also is a secret plot to drain their blood to support the aged)
• If only the spaghetti westerns were half as good as their titles
• If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will accidentally shoot their children
• So we drank their blood...
• Men who are willing to listen to women talk about their periods
• How can I talk about love when the bacon is burned and the house is an absolute mess and the children are screaming their heads off and I'm going to miss my bus?
• No drugs or money kept in box. Blood and urine specimens only.
• The monkey children were everywhere back then. Their fedoras littered the roads.
• Drowning their sorrows in blood
• Some foods, I am convinced, are packaged only for families of 3 or more and bulimics
• The dark riders were not sleeping. They were only resting their eyes.
• What do girls think about guys when they catch guys staring at their breasts, but the guy is actually trying to read her shirt?
• Everyone Thinks the Best about Their Own Children
• "By their very nature, negatives ought to be more abstract {than positives}."
• mermaids never miss their legs in the sea because mermaids know that there are better ways to move through the ocean than kicking.
• Look around for the people doing the good work, follow their lead, stay calm.
• All blues hail Mary with her roses...but you're their masterpiece
• I am sorry but when you were talking I was admiring the shape of your lips and evaluating their kissability
• dead insects are flipped over on their backs
• No dreamer’s diagram so symmetrical and so faultless on paper can guarantee anything. Only we can guarantee, only our behavior under pressure.
• 2D people can only see the inside of their head.
• How can someone worship a dead naked man nailed to a cross as their god?
• Their feet grow dark with his blood
• They left the streets stained with blood, and their howling could be heard long after they were gone
• Apple-pie families and their flaming wreckage
• I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh and they shall be drunk with their own blood like wine
• you can only make me dizzy if you're spinning me in leaves or snowflakes
• you will not keep the attention of plebeians, they only listen with their eyes
• Corporations only feel hits to their wallet
• You can tell a lot about a person from their e-mail address
• Why female athletes are paid less than their male counterparts
• Ever seen two people talking to each other in their sleep?
• I have no idea what you're talking about, so here's a picture of a bunny with a pancake on its head.
• I didn’t know why it took girls so long to do their makeup until someone showed me how to dismantle the patriarchy with an allen wrench and a roast chicken ballotine.
• the morning snowdrops fall like dew in the sunlight and fill my heart with their icy cold and all i can think about is you
• People who carp about their jobs
• Do we forgive our fathers in their time or in our time?
• To women, to hide their teeth, if they be rotten or rusty
• Capitalize, please
• Wandering about with keys dangling from an oversized shoelace around your neck
• The one thing I wanted more than anything was for someone, just once, to tell me they don't know what they'd do without me
• There's nothing more annoying than to try to rebel against someone who's totally supportive about whatever you want to do
• I am phone posting from a gazebo outside of a library while using their WiFi in the rain
• Every lousy Kraut beady blue-eyed bastard I see, I just jerk back on my BAR and pump some lead in their face.
• memories are a mob of dead ex-girlfriends standing outside your bedroom window, their heads and shoulders shelves for snow.
• In the Spirit of "Build Back Better", How about Bring Back Banishment?
• Talking about love is like dancing about architecture
• What I really want is for my troubles to be a puddle on your shoulder
• We only care about the cute animals, everything else is food
• As if it were the arm of someone who'd pulled me back from speeding traffic.
• It's hard to be enthusiastic about reading and books with someone that openly admits to being a bad reader
• Back to work
• "What *should* we be worried about?"; or how too many cooks make a statistically average soup
• Beautiful words are nonsense if you can't hear how you're saying them.
• People who get worked up about misspelling Colombia
• No one asks me if I'm a Satanist or anything because I take the precaution of wearing a predominantly flannel and hawaiian shirt-oriented wardrobe
• What Everything does better than anything else
• I don't know why but I always love episodes without words. like just something about them makes me feel calm or something..
• If you're not doing anything bad, you have no reason to fear government censorship.
• Why faster than light implies back in time
• Put That Thing Back Where it Came From or So Help Me
• Among the fields and small houses lies a boy I can only dream about
• immediate family
• A Pleasant Blood Work Experience
• the flecks of smoke and sparks don't conjure you back from the ground or heaven
• transubstantiation only works if you accept Aristotelian metaphysics
• The only significant bit of nonsense I carried around in those days
• Outside the train station she was the only person wearing an Orange raincoat and a look of surprise
• either only mean people live that long, or mean lives make mean people
• Once you realize you're in charge of your own mood, you've only got yourself to blame.
• Military exemptions for only or sole surviving sons
• The only thing worse than being uninformed, is being informed and not caring
• A lie only hurts when it's told by people you care about
• Talking about death 2
• tell me about the outside world. what part of it that i do not understand hurt you?
• most people don't know what they're talking about anyway
• Anything more than a handful is a waste
• You can never become anything if you're not good at math
• Bragging about a high IQ is way worse than bragging about having a large dick. The latter can at least be demonstrably used for something and be put to good use.
• What Italian guys are really talking about when they say "Ey Oh"
• I don't think that there's anything worse than being ordinary.
• Something I thought only I thought about
• All the while he was talking she was thinking what his whiskers would feel like on the back of her neck
• Archived E2 FAQ: Back Up Your Work (document)
• Stand back from the doors or they might kill you
• Blood Work
• I got your back but you're best to watch your front
• I know you're up there. I am but a discontented symbol birthed from the blood of your terrible pen.
• my blood approves, and kisses are a better fate than wisdom
• then only the soil harbors angry blood
• A family is only as sick as its secrets.
• Blood is thicker than water
• He backed the verbal car into the garage, only to crash it into the wall
• You're Only Old Once!
• Mexico, or maybe farther. I don't know the details.
• talking can only give you away
• You're the only one who doesn't know
• You're only half a bitch without the heels
• Farther than I could see
• Revolving doors that only open when someone exits
• Is this true or only clever?
• It's only temporary unless it works
• I'll pretend I just cursed myself by saying this, so when it doesn't happen I have something to fall back on other than you
• I still can't think of anything about Fight Club that changed my life
• This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About
• It hard to forget you now that my parents are okay with talking about you.
• Someday my life will be interesting, and I will come back and tell you about it then
• painting yourself into a corner today is better than spending a week thinking about painting
• For someone who writes about love as much as I, writing about it when it's real sure is hard.
• how do I air an attitude gripe about family?
• What in God's holy name are you blathering about?
• It's hard to be enthusiastic about music with someone who physically sneered at Hamilton
• How to get away at work without doing anything
• Jesus said, "I love him, for he is my brother." He was talking about everyone.
• "You want to know the only thing you can assume about a broken down old man? It's that he's a survivor."
• This moment will never come again. Would you rather enjoy it or complain about it?
• I still can't think of anything, or how Fight Club changed my life
• Look, I don't mean to be an asshole or anything, but...
• Anything more than a mouthful is a waste
• Is there anything more British than a man sick on beef?
• Be something... be anything other than this
• Find someone who dreams about people like you
• If you're not doing anything bad, you have no reason to fear free speech.
• Some days are magic, and I can do anything. The other days, I just have to wait, and hope it comes back.
• Some times your elders may know what they're talking about
• Textbooks you save because there's that one chapter in back you refer to every two years or so
• You're not gonna do anything stupid are ya??
• Never Eat Anything Bigger Than Your Head
• You're going home in the back of an ambulance
• Looking back... or ahead? (e2poll)
• Back when our blood was still warm
• Slide, thud, whoosh, crunch, or: Catholic Rally Stage 1 Fights Back
• Don't kill your invisible husband to see what he looks like or you'll sob your heart out. But don't worry about the millions of invisible men coming to attack your village because they won't kill you if you don't know how to fight them.
• The good guys and the bad guys were on the back of the boat and I swear I only turned my back for a MINUTE but when I came back, they'd killed Mozart.
• What are you talking about?
• insufficient hatred, lust or love for anything
• For one moment, it is more important to take in the spectacular than to worry about the pressing business of staying alive.
• I don't want to go back to work
• The Joy of Pair Bonding: Talking About Sex
• Give it back or I bite the little blue man
• There’s nothing like a trail of blood to find your way back home
• Back to Work in the Time of Covid?
• Hot Damn 5! The Dysfunctional Family Reunion Strikes Back
• Only trusted fingers trace our bare backs
• Come back safe; we don't want any dead heroes in this family

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