Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.

'Time Bomb'


What Happens in Natter 35 Stays in Natter 35  

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.


Kat - May 17, 2005 12:39:46 pm PDT #5036 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Sniff. Sniff.

I'm assuming someone posted it in the 200 messages above I skipped?


lori - May 17, 2005 12:42:26 pm PDT #5037 of 10001

Probably - I also read it on another board.


Topic!Cindy - May 17, 2005 12:44:19 pm PDT #5038 of 10001
What is even happening?

I think expensive is associated with high-class. Not equated.
And some of this is location and culture (subculture) dependent, I think. Some of the rattiest looking Yankees (in the New England sense, particularly Mainers) you'll ever see, are filthy rich, and live a spartan life.


§ ita § - May 17, 2005 12:47:12 pm PDT #5039 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I'm assuming someone posted it in the 200 messages above I skipped?

Moi, naturelllement.

(that means "Me, naturally." msbelle)

With groups of women, I can feel like I missed something key when learning to socialise. Which I probably did, being raised in a mostly female family and going to all girls schools from age 11.


libkitty - May 17, 2005 1:05:03 pm PDT #5040 of 10001
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs

Sniff. Sniff.
I'm assuming someone posted it in the 200 messages above I skipped?

I read this as:

Sniff. Sniff. I'm assuming someone posted in the 200 messages above I skipped?

I got all excited, as this is how I feel much of the time as I try to keep up with just a few threads, and fail miserably.

Sigh...


Betsy HP - May 17, 2005 1:14:01 pm PDT #5041 of 10001
If I only had a brain...

This just in: different search engines do things differently:

There's more than one search engine?

:: clasps Google to her bosom ::
:: Google suffocates ::
:: weeps ::


shrift - May 17, 2005 1:14:18 pm PDT #5042 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

With groups of women, I can feel like I missed something key when learning to socialise.

The gauntlet of wedding and baby showers I'm running this year has only reinforced my feeling that, yes, my acculturation is wildly incomplete.


§ ita § - May 17, 2005 1:16:41 pm PDT #5043 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

The gauntlet of wedding and baby showers I'm running this year has only reinforced my feeling that, yes, my acculturation is wildly incomplete.

I've been lucky in that most of those things either fall into family, college friends, or krav circles -- all a bunch of gender freaks in their own way.

And I mean the term freak very gently.


Sheryl - May 17, 2005 1:19:53 pm PDT #5044 of 10001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

Happy Birthday Vortex!


Polter-Cow - May 17, 2005 1:20:24 pm PDT #5045 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Happy birthday, Vortex!