I'm glad she apologized, Cyber. The witch.
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'
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.
Trudy Booth - Jun 29, 2005 6:58:44 am PDT #5400 of 10001
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
§ ita § - Jun 29, 2005 7:00:52 am PDT #5401 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I took a cookie from an absent co-worker's desk. She has bags and bags of different open sweet snack foods, and I just snapped. I left a note (I took a cookie. I couldn't not take a cookie -- ita). I won't go to cow-orker hell, will I?
I'm reasonably sure she said they were fair game.
Reasonably. CV -- that ended really well considering how it started!
Topic!Cindy - Jun 29, 2005 7:04:10 am PDT #5402 of 10001
What is even happening?
I left a note (I took a cookie. I couldn't not take a cookie -- ita). I won't go to cow-orker hell, will I?No. You won't go to cow-orker hell, because you left that note, which actually is adorable, and would have shamed me (and I'm an notoriously possessive of my cookies) for not offering you one, in the first place.
-t - Jun 29, 2005 7:11:35 am PDT #5403 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
No hell for note leavers.
So say I.
tommyrot - Jun 29, 2005 7:12:30 am PDT #5404 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.
I scream! Ice cream! For free! Free ice cream!
Starbucks offers free ice cream
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Starbucks Corp., whose sales growth has slowed in recent months, said Tuesday it would give away free ice cream at more than 6,000 of its U.S. coffee shops Wednesday afternoon.
The company said in a statement it is trying to generate interest in the Starbucks brand of ice cream, which it has been selling in grocery stores since 1995 as part of a joint venture with Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream Holdings Inc.
And you might not believe this, but there is not a Starbucks within walking distance of where I work!
sarameg - Jun 29, 2005 7:12:42 am PDT #5405 of 10001
ita, the Polite Cookie Thief!
but no, not a shooting offense.
-t - Jun 29, 2005 7:26:56 am PDT #5406 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
And you might not believe this, but there is not a Starbucks within walking distance of where I work!
Me neither. And I just realized this, but there isn't a Starbuck's on my route between home and work.
But I do have frozen yogurt at ghome, so all is not lost.
Volans - Jun 29, 2005 7:28:49 am PDT #5407 of 10001
move out and draw fire
There's a Starbuck's not too far from me (you doubted?), but they aren't doing the promotion.
OTOH, Alpha Beta was giving away free Haagen-Dazs all last week, so I can't complain.
shrift - Jun 29, 2005 7:37:01 am PDT #5408 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Huh. I just bopped down the street for some lunch, and two young women were handing out free flowers. Red roses, to be exact, no doubt to promote a flower shop.
I ended up with a rose on the way to the deli. I ordered my food. As he was packaging up my soup, register boy asked, "So, would you rather get free flowers on the street, or flowers from your boyfriend?"
I blinked at him in confusion for a couple of minutes in 'does not compute' mode. The question was problematic because the default assumption was that I a) cared, b) had a boyfriend, and c) liked flowers. For the sake of argument, let's pretend all of the above are true, but then, I'd still need more data. Are the flowers from said non-existent boyfriend for a happy occasion, or did he screw up? Did he get me my favorite flowers, or just generic flowers because that's what you do when you're in a relationship? I mean, I need to know these facts in order to evaluate the question properly!
And that's when I realized I was insane.
JenP - Jun 29, 2005 7:37:44 am PDT #5409 of 10001
A week of free ice cream? That's fantastic. Every place should do that.