Oh! I know this one! 'Slaying entails certain sacrifices, blah blah blahbity blah, I'm so stuffy, gimme a scone.'

Buffy ,'Help'


Natter 37: Oddly Enough, We've Had This Conversation Before.  

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.


Ginger - Jul 27, 2005 10:37:24 am PDT #3375 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

It's HST - Harmonized Sales Tax.

I'm picturing a tax on barbershop quartets.

My karate instructure used to say that getting kicked in the balls wasn't all that big a deal, once you'd had it happen to you several times and realized it wasn't going to kill you. I have no way to verify this statement, although I can say that shots that would have put me down early in my training I was able to shake off later.


Frankenbuddha - Jul 27, 2005 10:37:37 am PDT #3376 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

This. Has. Got. To. Stop.

It is 96 degrees out there. It's supposed to be 76 tomorrow. I'm not buying it. It's so hazy, the sky looks white, but I'm not seeing anything in the way of clouds that would indicate a major change in temprature is coming.

Please let them be right about tomorrow. They've been right all week about this inferno (except that it wasn't actually humid yesterday), and for once they're not putting off the relief until the day after tomorrow like they usually do.

I guess I'll believe it when I feel it.


§ ita § - Jul 27, 2005 10:38:18 am PDT #3377 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

My karate instructure used to say that getting kicked in the balls wasn't all that big a deal

I'm going to try and sell that to some folks at the centre. I don't think it'll work, but it's worth a shot. In fact, I'll offer to help them get used to it.


JohnSweden - Jul 27, 2005 10:38:55 am PDT #3378 of 10002
I can't even.

I'm not sure I understand this. People intentionally hit you in the nuts if you're wearing cup?

No, you just get kicked in the balls a lot as a matter of course playing soccer, and most people don't wear cups because they are restrictive in a game where you have to run a lot at speed. Ball bouncing around between feet means that there will be a fair amount of incidental contact, not to mention the intentional stuff.


tommyrot - Jul 27, 2005 10:40:55 am PDT #3379 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.

I've never been hit in the liver or kicked in the balls. I hope that by saying this I don't incur the wrath of the ball-kicker god....


DavidS - Jul 27, 2005 10:42:52 am PDT #3380 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I've been hit in the balls, and it isn't just painful, but debilitating. Your body is suffused with a deep, hard, spreading nausea that seems to radiate out from your kidneys, whilst you lay there in a gelid gibbering state.


sarameg - Jul 27, 2005 10:43:40 am PDT #3381 of 10002

Frank, I'm feeling the same way. And I like hot. This is just getting....uhg. Mainly because I don't have good cool-down options. I don't even want to know how hot my apartment will be when I get home. It was 75 when I left. The a/c ran all night.

The birds outside my window right now? Are panting. That's not right.


tommyrot - Jul 27, 2005 10:44:58 am PDT #3382 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.

I've been hit in the balls, and it isn't just painful, but debilitating. Your body is suffused with a deep, hard, spreading nausea that seems to radiate out from your kidneys, whilst you lay there in a gelid gibbering state.

Huh.

Well it seems that I've lacked one or two quintessentially male experiences, but I think I'll survive without this one.


brenda m - Jul 27, 2005 10:45:45 am PDT #3383 of 10002
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

It is 96 degrees out there. It's supposed to be 76 tomorrow. I'm not buying it. It's so hazy, the sky looks white, but I'm not seeing anything in the way of clouds that would indicate a major change in temprature is coming.

It's real. We're a day or two ahead of you in this, and it is pleasant and almost cool today after topping 100 on Sunday.


Steph L. - Jul 27, 2005 10:46:04 am PDT #3384 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism

People to the east of me: I promise, it's going to cool off. Between yesterday and today, the temperature has dropped 20 degrees. And the weather system is moving east. Hang in there.