When we landed here you said you needed a few days to get space worthy again and is there somethin' wrong with your bunk?

Mal ,'Out Of Gas'


Natter 36: But We Digress...  

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.


§ ita § - Jun 14, 2005 8:55:00 am PDT #1807 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I bounce in a frog bra. However, DKNY lets me be supported for sports and feminine. They should look into that.


tommyrot - Jun 14, 2005 8:58:02 am PDT #1808 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.

Why do they call it the "frog bra"? I'm not sure if frogs and boobies belong together....


Fred Pete - Jun 14, 2005 8:58:38 am PDT #1809 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.

Do you like getting caught in the rain? Or making love at midnight?

Gonna find my baby, gonna hold her tight
Gonna grab some afternoon delight....


DavidS - Jun 14, 2005 9:00:39 am PDT #1810 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

The thing about re-education camps like that is that they have pages and pages of arbitrary rules to ensure that somewhere along the line the prisoners will violate something or other so that the punishments (which are the real point) can be applied. Knowing that they're set up this way may help you endure, because you can "accidentally" violate something minor early, fake breaking down and being "converted" and cruise through the rest of the week. Knowing the process will help you game their system.

These camps all use classic Mind Control techniques (distinct from Brain Washing). They operate on the exact same dynamics of breakdown and rebuild as cults do. Isolation, punishments, scapegoating, forced identification with the group. All that stuff.

Humans suck. In the name of love.


Nutty - Jun 14, 2005 9:00:48 am PDT #1811 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.

So, go ahead and be gay, but for heaven's sake don't be snotty.

Actually I think I would pay cash for the opportunity to witness some Gomorrah-style righteous wrath being perpetrated on the snotty of the earth.

To tie both of Natter's current topics together, this would be an example of Schadenfreude.


tommyrot - Jun 14, 2005 9:01:26 am PDT #1812 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.

Goodbye, Michelle, it's hard to die
when all the bird are singing in the sky,
Now that the spring is in the air.
With the flowers ev'rywhere.
I whish that we could both be there.
We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun.
But the stars we could reach
were just starfishs on the beach


Jessica - Jun 14, 2005 9:01:40 am PDT #1813 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Why do they call it the "frog bra"?

"So you can jump without bouncing"


DavidS - Jun 14, 2005 9:02:17 am PDT #1814 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

So, go ahead and be gay, but for heaven's sake don't be snotty.

I'm down with that.


Emily - Jun 14, 2005 9:10:59 am PDT #1815 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

Just so long as it happens on one of my good days, okay? Because I think I'm snotty from time to time.


Steph L. - Jun 14, 2005 9:12:13 am PDT #1816 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Sodom's sin was actually inhospitality, not buttsex. For real.

Dana, have you ever clapped when a waitress drops a tray of glasses?

Don't you feel all warm and cozy watching people out in the rain?

Being on an elevator when somebody shouts, "Hold the door!"