Crap. Crap. Crap.
NEW YORK -- The city's transit workers, one month to the day after they stranded 7 million riders with a crippling three-day strike, voted Friday to reject their new three-year contract by a margin of just seven votes.
Hell, I don't know. If I had wanted schooling, I'da gone to school.
Jayne ,'Ariel'
Natter 42, the Universe, and Everything
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, flaming otters, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Tom Scola - Jan 20, 2006 10:26:41 am PST #1619 of 10002
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
bon bon - Jan 20, 2006 10:29:22 am PST #1620 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
NEW YORK -- The city's transit workers, one month to the day after they stranded 7 million riders with a crippling three-day strike, voted Friday to reject their new three-year contract by a margin of just seven votes.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE. (My understanding is it's an out-of-control radical faction of the union.) Bob was telling me this morning that the union wants to lower the retirement age to 20.
Jessica - Jan 20, 2006 10:33:14 am PST #1621 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Dear Transit Union,
Get Your Shit Together, NOW
Love, NYC
§ ita § - Jan 20, 2006 10:33:28 am PST #1622 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
did the concussion occur that time you fainted
This. Still no word on why I fainted.
I am about to be fries and duck curry.
flea - Jan 20, 2006 10:36:54 am PST #1623 of 10002
information libertarian
In future, please only faint languidly onto downy pillows. Thank you.
§ ita § - Jan 20, 2006 10:41:06 am PST #1624 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
There really isn't enough languid in my life. Must redress.
sumi - Jan 20, 2006 10:45:31 am PST #1625 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
Jonathan Rhys-Meyers has been cast as Henry VIII in a Showtime production called The Tudors.
sarameg - Jan 20, 2006 10:46:25 am PST #1626 of 10002
What a strange reaction!
We figured it must be that he thought you were talking to him, and he liked to be carried when you talked to him. If there was a person standing nearby, he didn't do it. Also? You were guaranteed to stay in one spot and lavish attention on him, what with the short cord and all.
He had some odd tics. We handraised him from a couple days old, so some were probably our fault. He was a very nice cat.
I am a listerine strip, if I were to believe other people's fortunes.
Mmm, shoes.... but I can't get over there today. Maybe this weekend. Though I'm still in post-holiday frugal till it hurts mode, so....
(I don't need to be. I think it is just the horror of the Big Numbers on my cc-statement. Even though they are/were totally budgetted for. They are just Big.)
§ ita § - Jan 20, 2006 10:49:23 am PST #1627 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
God, I love good fries. Or maybe I love ketchup. Either way, it works out.
Plus--pineapple duck curry.
tommyrot - Jan 20, 2006 10:50:58 am PST #1628 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.
This is sad:
Kids' views on scientists
London's Science Learning Centre surveyed 11,000 adolescents about their opinion of science and scientists. The results they've reported so far are a bummer. Meanwhile, the numbers of 16-18 year-olds taking physics, chemistry, and math A-level courses have dropped big time over the last 15 years. From the BBC News:
Around 70% of the 11-15 year olds questioned said they did not picture scientists as "normal young and attractive men and women"...
They found around 80% of pupils thought scientists did "very important work" and 70% thought they worked "creatively and imaginatively". Only 40% said they agreed that scientists did "boring and repetitive work".
Over three quarters of the respondents thought scientists were "really brainy people".
Among those who said they would not like to be scientists, reasons included: "Because you would constantly be depressed and tired and not have time for family", and "because they all wear big glasses and white coats and I am female".