And we live to fight another day.

Mal ,'Objects In Space'


Natter 34: Freak With No Name  

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.


Aims - Apr 11, 2005 11:13:54 am PDT #4718 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

Ain't they just?

sigh.


Kathy A - Apr 11, 2005 11:20:32 am PDT #4719 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Getting some fresh genes into that bloodline helped out a lot with the looks, even if it did shake up the family's moral certainty.


Lyra Jane - Apr 11, 2005 11:23:01 am PDT #4720 of 10001
Up with the sun

I think Harry is kind of handsome, in a redheaded jock sort of way, but William to me always looks a little freakish -- too much like if someone took photographs of his mother at that age and mathematically adjusted them to show what she would have looked like if she had been born a man.

Though bon bon's picture does make him look very nice indeed.


Lyra Jane - Apr 11, 2005 11:23:04 am PDT #4721 of 10001
Up with the sun

Didn't need to say it twice.


JohnSweden - Apr 11, 2005 11:28:44 am PDT #4722 of 10001
I can't even.

This is a picture of the new turf at SkyDome/Rogers Centre

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For the hockey afficionados in the crowd, apparently the little truck in the picture is called a Sandboni.


Steph L. - Apr 11, 2005 11:41:21 am PDT #4723 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

the scarily possessive mother of a war friend of his to whom he'd made a deathbed promise (which he stuck to, caring for her until her death, but by all accounts she was batshit crazy and jealous, plus HOTT, so there was a whole twisted mothersexlover thing going on that left him emotionally fucked for a good many years)

Huh. I never knew that. That's fucked-up, yo.


tommyrot - Apr 11, 2005 11:54:59 am PDT #4724 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Time may indeed be on your side. If you can just last another quarter century.

By then, people will start lives that could last 1,000 years or more. Our human genomes will be modified to include the genetic material of microorganisms that live in the soil, enabling us to break down the junk proteins that our cells amass over time and which they can’t digest on their own. People will have the option of looking and feeling the way they did at 20 for the rest of their lives, or opt for an older look if they get bored. Of course, everyone will be required to go in for age rejuvenation therapy once every decade or so, but that will be a small price to pay for near-immortality.

I'll believe it when I see it.

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brenda m - Apr 11, 2005 11:58:27 am PDT #4725 of 10001
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

Uh-huh. And we can't manage people's arthritis pain without making their hearts explode. I'm not too worried.


JZ - Apr 11, 2005 11:59:53 am PDT #4726 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Yeah, Tep, it was utterly fucked up. His moral rigidity his insistence on being as harsh and judgmental toward himself as toward anyone else, just made it all worse.

Everyone who knew them both was convinced that they had had an affair, and everyone was also convinced that it ended after just a couple of months. But Lewis couldn't allow himself to walk away from the mess: he'd promised his friend to take care of his mother, and the fact that he'd subsequently slept with that mother and she'd turned out to be mentally unbalanced didn't free him from that promise; in fact, in his mind, he was now more responsible for her than ever. She was unwell, widowed, without a son, and now fixated on him because he'd sexually used her, so clearly the only thing that could make it all worse than it already was would be to abandon her. So he stayed. He supported her and her daughter financially, said "How high?" every time she told him to jump, and made a conscious decision not to get involved with any other woman while she was alive because, having been such a selfish sex-obsessed bastard, the least he could do was spare her that pain. (And this was even before his conversion; he was a furious atheist at the time, but no less a rigid moralist.)

So seriously fucked-up. Stubborn, emotionally immature, trying so damn hard to do the right thing and be honorable and flailing without a fucking clue.


Jessica - Apr 11, 2005 12:11:01 pm PDT #4727 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

People will have the option of looking and feeling the way they did at 20 for the rest of their lives, or opt for an older look if they get bored. Of course, everyone will be required to go in for age rejuvenation therapy once every decade or so, but that will be a small price to pay for near-immortality.

Oooh. Want.