Infrastructure is a fragile thing.
Tell me about it.
Signed, barely fit on the fekkin train this morning and not looking forward to getting home
Look, you got a little stabbed the other day. That's bound to make anyone a mite ornery.
Mal ,'Ariel'
Natter 32 Flavors and Then Some
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Trudy Booth - Jan 25, 2005 12:37:46 pm PST #543 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
brenda m - Jan 25, 2005 12:40:55 pm PST #544 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Betsy, do you still have the link for those little infant socks with the mary janes? (That was you right? If not, see below.)
P-C: I learnt all my crazy talk from The Man. Science was learnt from the young. Be young. Don't be The Man.
edited: Slaughering Natter since Two-thousand-Aught-Aught!
Yes, because trying to decipher that made my head explode.
Gus - Jan 25, 2005 12:41:31 pm PST #545 of 10002
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Semi-seriously: If the homeless thing has reached the Unknowing Mid-West, has some kind of threshold been passed?
eta: Brenda, blame The Man. It usually gets a few knowing nods.
Betsy HP - Jan 25, 2005 12:44:18 pm PST #546 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
It was these (not cheap) socks. [link]
JZ - Jan 25, 2005 12:49:57 pm PST #547 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Gus, I am so aghast at your unwanted housesitter and your inability to evict him unaided due to Homeowning While Black that I find myself forced to cobble together a new not-a-word in order to adequately convey the expression on my face. I'm sitting here reading the thread, slack-and-flabberjawed.
Betsy HP - Jan 25, 2005 12:52:29 pm PST #548 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
I think if I came home from a long trip to find a stranger who had taken possession of my house I would just sit down on the spot and DIE.
§ ita § - Jan 25, 2005 12:53:50 pm PST #549 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I have no idea how I'd react. I'd like to think it would involve a large stick, or perhaps one of the knives, but it's hard to say. It would probably take me on the order of minutes if not quarter-hours to actually believe it was happening.
"This is the sort of thing that happens to Gus, not me!"
Famous last words.
DavidS - Jan 25, 2005 12:54:05 pm PST #550 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I think if I came home from a long trip to find a stranger who had taken possession of my house I would just sit down on the spot and DIE.
This doesn't strike me as a robust response.
Betsy HP - Jan 25, 2005 12:54:33 pm PST #551 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
You want robust? Go get ita.
Nutty - Jan 25, 2005 12:56:59 pm PST #552 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I'm still working on how difficult it's got to be to set a shopping cart on fire.
I am thinking, blowtorch.
I think if I came home from a long trip to find a stranger who had taken possession of my house I would just sit down on the spot and DIE.
I would snap, and not in that lovely spring peas way but in that first ten minutes of a horror movie way. I have a thing about my personal space/property, and the voluntariness of my sharing it.