Mal: Inara, think you could stoop to being on my arm? Inara: Will you wash it first?

'Heart Of Gold'


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.


shrift - Nov 30, 2005 9:45:09 am PST #8067 of 10006
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Y'know, I can think of a handful of slashers who would deny Actual Queers equal rights.

They're Not Gay, They Just Love Each Other?

shrift, I think you need to respond calmly with I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.

Aw, too late. I just got off a conference call with them.


Gudanov - Nov 30, 2005 9:45:16 am PST #8068 of 10006
Coding and Sleeping

I even know at least one gay Republican....

I don't get that. If a political party had denying me rights as part of it's platform, I'd become a single issue voter.


DavidS - Nov 30, 2005 9:48:12 am PST #8069 of 10006
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

The scorpion, a six-legged thing called Hibbertopterus, was about 5 feet (1.5 meters) long and 3 feet (1 meter) wide. It is long since extinct.

I didn't think exoskeleton type critters could get that big. Not out of water anyway.


Jessica - Nov 30, 2005 9:48:12 am PST #8070 of 10006
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Unrelated to either gay rights or the Vatican, Gregory Peck's Walk of Fame star has been stolen:

Nov 30, 2005 — LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Gregory Peck's star has gone missing, believed stolen, from the Hollywood Walk of Fame by someone in possession of a cement saw and "very good taste," Hollywood's honorary mayor Johnny Grant said on Wednesday.

Grant, the former radio and TV star who is now chairman of the Hollywood Historic Trust, said the world famous pink star set in a black square that has honored Peck for more than 40 years had disappeared sometime in the last two weeks.

"It was somebody who knew how to use a cement saw and was probably dressed as a construction worker," Grant said. "Whoever it was had very good taste."

eck's star is the fourth to be stolen since the Walk of Fame honoring film, TV and radio celebrities was begun along a stretch of Hollywood Boulevard in 1960.

The stars of Gene Autry, Jimmy Stewart and Kirk Douglas all disappeared during construction projects years ago.


tommyrot - Nov 30, 2005 9:48:19 am PST #8071 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.

I don't get that. If a political party had denying me rights as part of it's platform, I'd become a single issue voter.

Well, maybe for some folk, civil rights aren't as important as tax cuts. Or maybe they're self-loathing gays.


P.M. Marc - Nov 30, 2005 9:48:54 am PST #8072 of 10006
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Actual Queers have a habit of not picking out the kind of curtains you want them to, unlike fictional character queers.

This just makes me wonder why more characters in domestic slashy fics don't choose blinds or Roman shades.


Emily - Nov 30, 2005 9:49:21 am PST #8073 of 10006
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

I don't get that. If a political party had denying me rights as part of it's platform, I'd become a single issue voter.

I think for many people a political party is like a religion. You may disagree with some of the stuff they're saying, but you don't leave because of it, you try to change it. Until enough of the stuff becomes bad enough, and maybe then, but people can have really high standards of what's offensive enough when it comes to a group they really identify with.

Did that make sense? My cat-induced lack of sleep is really catching up with me.


P.M. Marc - Nov 30, 2005 9:50:59 am PST #8074 of 10006
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Did that make sense?

Yep. Sadly.


Katie M - Nov 30, 2005 9:55:40 am PST #8075 of 10006
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies

Y'know, I can think of a handful of slashers who would deny Actual Queers equal rights.

They're Not Gay, They Just Love Each Other?

Actually, I'd guess Gay Sex Is My Kink, But That Doesn't Mean I Approve Of It In Real Life, Haven't You Ever Heard Of Fiction Before?


P.M. Marc - Nov 30, 2005 9:57:09 am PST #8076 of 10006
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Actually, I'd guess Gay Sex Is My Kink, But That Doesn't Mean I Approve Of It In Real Life, Haven't You Ever Heard Of Fiction Before?

Bingo.