It's kinda' amazing how much getting drunk figures into small town culture in Wisconsin. Also, drinking and driving was no big deal when I was growing up (although I never did it myself). OK, it was not a big deal until kids got killed in drunk driving accidents - then people talked about the problem for a few weeks. But nothing would change.
Book: I believe I just... I think I'm on the wrong ship. Inara: Maybe. Or maybe you're exactly where you ought to be.
'Serenity'
Natter 46: The FIGHTIN' 46
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.
tommyrot - Aug 25, 2006 5:43:11 am PDT #4485 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Sue - Aug 25, 2006 5:44:55 am PDT #4486 of 10001
hip deep in pie
I always love the cranky diner/convenience store people. The crankier they are, the more I love them. Inevitably, they always turn out to be really nice.
Fred Pete - Aug 25, 2006 5:49:33 am PDT #4487 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
There was more discussion of drinking in Wisconsin when I grew up. But it revolved more around drinking age. I grew up near the Illinois state line. After Illinois raised is drinking age to 21, a lot of people came into Wisconsin (where the age was still 18 at the time) to do their drinking.
Also, a lot of people liked to talk about cracking down on the liquor stores that would sell to underage kids. But if anything was done about it, it was after I left.
Jesse - Aug 25, 2006 5:50:07 am PDT #4488 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I can't even go to the starbucks in my building anymore b/c I'll get shit for my long absence!
I got that in my deli when I started working full-time again. "I thought you moved! We never see you!"
Jesse - Aug 25, 2006 6:01:42 am PDT #4489 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
So, my little desktop weather thing keeps making noise at me and distracting me from work conversations -- first there was a tornado warning (!!) in my old neighborhood, but then it got cancelled. Phew!
I do think I'll make it so the thing doesn't actually make noise.
Nutty - Aug 25, 2006 6:03:57 am PDT #4490 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
the servers
Okay, so, skimmy, I realize, but -- anybody else get very far into this discussion thinking it was a conversation about one's close personal relationship with one's tower of internet data storage and processing capacity?
Just me then.
I've never called a waiter a server, because my brain has to work double-hard when words have that many everyday meanings. Cleave, okay, it's a trivia thing and anyway I don't use that word very often. But server, like nose, needs to have only one meaning for me.
Tom Scola - Aug 25, 2006 6:08:09 am PDT #4491 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I keep complaining to my office-mates about the sounds that Weatherbug makes. They turn off the sound, but then a few weeks later, the sound is back on! Very annoying.
tommyrot - Aug 25, 2006 6:09:33 am PDT #4492 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Doesn't Weatherbug install a whole bunch of adware?
Theodosia - Aug 25, 2006 6:11:43 am PDT #4493 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I prefer waitron -- even more impersonal, almost machinelike.
Jesse - Aug 25, 2006 6:14:05 am PDT #4494 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, the Weatherbug sound is super annoying. This is some shit from the Weather Channel, so it just makes thunder noises in case of emergency -- or it did, before I turned the sound off.