My food is problematic.

River ,'The Message'


Natter 40: The Nice One  

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 - Nov 22, 2005 7:48:52 am PST #6337 of 10006
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

Me, too, Trudy! I, and 3 of my siblings, look so much alike our baby pictures get mixed up, but I was POSITIVE I was adopted.

YES! And I wasn't even pissed about it or "I'm not your REAL child wah wah wah, you HATE me". I just wanted them to 'fess up and get it over with.


Jessica - Nov 22, 2005 7:49:00 am PST #6338 of 10006
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Yeah, I've heard it's a common fantasy/delusion/whatever-you'd-call-it.

Or maybe it means we're all onto something...


Tom Scola - Nov 22, 2005 7:51:14 am PST #6339 of 10006
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

When I was a kid, I wondered if my whole reality (parents, siblings, fellow students) was all part of some elaborate scientific experiment on me.

I used to think that my reality was some sort of elaborate movie set. The places I was at every day were real (home, school, etc.), but the stuff further away was fake. I thought that if the car would stop on some random road and I got out, I could see how everything was made up just for me.


Trudy Booth - Nov 22, 2005 7:55:03 am PST #6340 of 10006
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

I always wanted to know about the car on the road that was first in line. And where was that?


Allyson - Nov 22, 2005 7:55:07 am PST #6341 of 10006
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

Blockbuster was open on Thanksgiving in Massachusetts. And on Christmas. I worked the entire day on xmas, as the lone Jew. And I felt AWFUL for the kids who got roped into working it as well.

Retail doesn't pay enough, especially on days like christmas, because most of the people shopping at the Blockbuster on xmas day? Complete asswipes.


Gudanov - Nov 22, 2005 7:56:38 am PST #6342 of 10006
Coding and Sleeping

I thought that if the car would stop on some random road and I got out, I could see how everything was made up just for me.

I know I was surprised when I discovered that everything was made up for shrift instead of me.


§ ita § - Nov 22, 2005 7:57:35 am PST #6343 of 10006
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I know I was surprised when I discovered that everything was made up for shrift instead of me.

Couldn't have happened for a nicer girl, though.


askye - Nov 22, 2005 7:58:25 am PST #6344 of 10006
Thrive to spite them

When I was a kid I always wondered if people really saw the same colors as everyone else. (I've mentioned that here before). I didn't think there was any way to prove that the color we call red looks the same to everyone else. But the colors were consistent, so if you have a bowl of cranberries, a stop sign, and a red ball then every person will see the colors not as uniform but with the variations (darker, lighter, etc) but some people see the color as purple or blue or whatever. When names of colors were being made the people picking the names looked at the same thing and said "that's red!" and they all agreed the thing is red even though everyone saw it differently.


Scrappy - Nov 22, 2005 7:58:53 am PST #6345 of 10006
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Back when I was a stripper, I worked on Thanksgiving one year. Talk about sad, the guys who come into a strip club on Thanksgiving day are the saddest bunch of losers and dicks you would ever want to meet.


tommyrot - Nov 22, 2005 7:59:40 am PST #6346 of 10006
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

When I was about five or so, I asked my mom about the control thingie in the fridge. She explained that it controlled the temperature. I somehow thought she meant the temperature outside, for the whole world. I thought that was cool but I was confused about how that could work.