I'm investing my money in my mental health
Does buying myself ice cream cones count as an investment, then?
Anyway, it should. (Not in the middle of winter, but, you know, any other time.)
I caught her on a park bench, making out with a *chaos* demon! Have you ever seen a chaos demon? They're all slime and antlers.
Spike ,'Sleeper'
Natter 33 1/3
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.
Nutty - Mar 09, 2005 11:32:26 am PST #5612 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
DXMachina - Mar 09, 2005 11:34:26 am PST #5613 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
But isn't part of the purpose of the planked wood floors to provide a little give? I mean, you could play on concrete and not have any dead spots, but it's harder on the joints.
I dunno. Most wood floors I've played on have been pretty hard. I think the greater advantage wood has is that it's smooth, so you don't rip skin up if you hit the surface. Also, it was a college and high school gym, so really not a lot of games compared to what an NBA player would play.
Allyson - Mar 09, 2005 11:38:25 am PST #5614 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Allyson, where did you get this? Do you have a link. I must get one for my nephew
JPL store.
aurelia - Mar 09, 2005 11:50:07 am PST #5615 of 10002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I know stages and dance floors use sprung wood flooring which is usually tongue-in-groove planks, on top of ply, on top of something else (I think this part varies). Anyway, it is a pretty solid floor, but with just enough give that it's less likely to destroy ankles and knees and such. A quick google tells me that this is common in sports, too.
eta: And reading further tells me that sports flooring lays the boards differently for a thicker, harder floor. So, I dunno either.
Steph L. - Mar 09, 2005 11:51:25 am PST #5616 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
And I have now ascertained that there is only ONE other person in my office who pronounces "cot" and "caught" the same way. Everyone else has enough vowels to pronounce them differently.
I am now cracking up my co-workers by sitting here muttering "cah-ah-ah-tttt," "cawt"!
Alibelle - Mar 09, 2005 11:51:28 am PST #5617 of 10002
Apart from sports, "my secret favorite thing on earth is ketchup. I will put ketchup on anything. But it has to be Heinz." - my husband, Michael Vartan
TAR: Rob was playing a semantics game about lying. He didn't actually bribe the security guard not to tell the other teams (and he didn't ask them to lie, he just asked them not to tell the other teams about the better bus), he told some other guy, and the security guard was nearby. So when he was accused of lying after asking if he told the "security guard" he was all like, nope!, didn't do that. In spirit the other racers were right, but semantically Rob was telling the truth.
Mostly, I thought it was just funny, though, so YMMV.
sj - Mar 09, 2005 11:53:14 am PST #5618 of 10002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
JPL store.
I don't know what this is.
msbelle - Mar 09, 2005 11:55:22 am PST #5619 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I have only about 10 vowel sounds.
tommyrot - Mar 09, 2005 11:56:31 am PST #5620 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
A quick google tells me that this is common in sports, too.
For no reason in particular, I am now picturing a "quick google" as a small bird-like animal that periodically comes up behind you and whispers in your ear....
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 09, 2005 11:57:35 am PST #5621 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
In retrospect, I may have potentially ignited a flamewar on TwoP. Someone posted a snippet of showfic using Goonies quotes, and I responded that I hated Sean Astin so much in that movie, I wanted to slap him hard enough to make Patty and Cathy Lane collapse in pain on their Nick at Night reruns.
We'll see if the author takes it as a personal slam rather than a tengental movie gripe.