On my seventh birthday, I wanted a toy fire truck, and I didn't get it, and you were real nice about it, and then the house next door burnt down, and then real firetrucks came, and for years I thought you set the fire for me. And if you did, you can tell me!

Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'


Natter 43: I Love My Dead Gay Whale Crosspost.  

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.


§ ita § - Mar 17, 2006 2:43:59 pm PST #4759 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

it always gets moved to by the door.

For the people who use paper towels to open the door, I guess.


DavidS - Mar 17, 2006 2:44:23 pm PST #4760 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

::very glad to have urinals as an option::


Emily - Mar 17, 2006 2:45:09 pm PST #4761 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

Without forward admittance, the public washroom is a venue most likely to affect every user of every age group and every gender.

"Without forward admittance"? What does that mean?


Jesse - Mar 17, 2006 2:45:26 pm PST #4762 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

When you are short, it is really hard to squat. the toilet at the theatre where i work is some sort of freaky tall toilet where my feet don't touch the ground sitting on it normally!

Some of the handicapped-accessible toilets at my school are high enough that I'm on tiptoes! And I'm way taller than you. I don't use those if I can help it.


§ ita § - Mar 17, 2006 3:03:46 pm PST #4763 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Some of the handicapped-accessible toilets at my school are high enough that I'm on tiptoes! And I'm way taller than you. I don't use those if I can help it.

I usually use those, and never notice until it's occupied and I try a normal stall and have that empty air moment where I fall.


Jesse - Mar 17, 2006 3:05:40 pm PST #4764 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I'm sorry, but that image makes me laugh. I fell into a sofa the other day, but hardly ever onto the toilet.


§ ita § - Mar 17, 2006 3:07:14 pm PST #4765 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I don't fall in in. I fall towards, when my quads relax.

So stop it.


JZ - Mar 17, 2006 3:07:31 pm PST #4766 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Quick trivial first-world dilemma poll -- Hec is getting antsy about the trip to Vegas and wants me to get tickets now. Gambler!Phil gave us all his credit card info for ticket-getting... except, it turns out, the all-important phone number, without which we're SOL. Hec has already left to pick up Emmett (though I seriously doubt he has Phil's number anyway), and I sent an email to Phil but he hasn't responded.

Should I:

a. Keep waiting, and watch the ticket prices continue to go up and up, or

b. just go ahead and put them on one of my credit cards and eventually get paid back? (Which would anyhow save Phil the $100 extra it'll cost to have paper tickets mailed to us, which is the way we'd have to do it otherwise)


Allyson - Mar 17, 2006 3:07:36 pm PST #4767 of 10001
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

Too short to squat.

I wish I could just call my boss and tell her that I'll take the next 40 minutes Leave Without Pay. Seriously. I just want to go home and have a cuppa tea.


-t - Mar 17, 2006 3:12:01 pm PST #4768 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Sorry, JZ, that is exactly the kind of decision I hate making for myself.

If one is squatting, there is no reason not to lift the seat out of the potential pee zone.