How's it sit? Pretty cunning, don'tchya think?

Jayne ,'The Message'


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 - Sep 06, 2006 2:10:53 pm PDT #6426 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.

Anyone have an example of this? I think my brain is skipping. I don't get it.

I can't think of a good example.

OK, "Aliens live among us. You don't agree? Then how do you know they don't?" I mean, the logical flaw is obvious in that example. But as a rhetorical device, the flaw doesn't have to be obvious, and a non-obvious one would make a better example.


msbelle - Sep 06, 2006 2:12:27 pm PDT #6427 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I think you can go to any political blog and find examples of it Allyson. People who employ it tend to make me want to spew so I avoid them.


Allyson - Sep 06, 2006 2:22:37 pm PDT #6428 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

Okay, that makes sense. Is that a play on "The Lurkers Support Me in Email" do you think?


Lee - Sep 06, 2006 2:25:52 pm PDT #6429 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

I want a milkshake, which is weird, since I don't normally like them very much.


§ ita § - Sep 06, 2006 2:27:29 pm PDT #6430 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

It would be really cool if I could work out how to get Project to show me a list of the tasks with completion dates in the next two weeks in a format I can cut and paste into emails or Word.

It is weird that I'm not sure how much of the silhouette of my shoulders is me and how much is the clothing. My traps may have achieved a life of their own.

And I'd really like to stop shying away from things that make me think of Marni.


JZ - Sep 06, 2006 2:29:19 pm PDT #6431 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.

Stepping in a bit late, but please count me in among the "No such thing as too much Mac news" crowd.


Lee - Sep 06, 2006 2:30:26 pm PDT #6432 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

JZ! How are you? Today was the day you find out about bedrest leavage, right?

How did it go?


Jessica - Sep 06, 2006 2:33:50 pm PDT #6433 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

It follows that every observation of something which is not black and also not a raven is evidence that ravens are black. This is patently absurd.

Well...no. I mean, first you have to prove that ravens exist in the first place. And then you have to look at everything else in existance and determine that all of the nonblack things that exist are not ravens. (Which may be what is meant above by "every observation," but the way it's worded, it sounds like they think looking at a carrot and realizing it's orange is proof that all ravens are black. Which is patently absurd, but it's not how logic works.)


Jesse - Sep 06, 2006 2:37:33 pm PDT #6434 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

JZ, are you still on house arrest?? I would seriously be bonkers by now. And I hate Doing Things.

Speaking of which, I really need to be neatening and straightening in preparation for going out of town, but ugh. Also packing, but that will take 10 minutes.

I am the laziest lazy who every lazed.

Also, I was ridiculously weirded out by leaving work for two days. I think it's because of the lack of lead time for mental preparation.


Cass - Sep 06, 2006 2:38:09 pm PDT #6435 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

Woke up this morning with a pain in my hip(actually in the area where the leg meets the hip).
Ouch. I get that but it's tendonitis. Mine's been aching again and I am pretending that stretching is going to help. Don't wanna play with the big bad needles if I can help it.