I like pancakes 'cause they're stackable. Ooo, and waffles 'cause you can put things in the little holes if you wanted to.

Buffy ,'Potential'


Natter 47: My Brilliance Is Wasted On You People  

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.


Allyson - Oct 05, 2006 9:35:08 am PDT #2221 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

I've been wrestling with editor's notes, and don't really get how to do them smoothly. It's hard to describe. I want to accept some changes, reject a few, and then there's highlighted suggestions for added text from my editor. So I'm having issues doing the note, then deleting the comment, then accepting my own changes...it's confusing. Or maybe it's my disorganized brain. I feel like I'm defusing a bomb.


erikaj - Oct 05, 2006 9:35:14 am PDT #2222 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

Ciao.(because I'm y'alls sheep) Book banners: Like the Worst People in the World and Farenheit 451(which I'd remembered as something I read but I think I am wrong about that. ) But I get the irony anyway.


§ ita § - Oct 05, 2006 9:38:00 am PDT #2223 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I do love Track Changes. But I begin to hate it when other people publish documents with the changes unaccepted.

The hell? Does no one proofread?

Irritating assed morning, and now I have to go to Costco. And not spend money. And can't work out why my health insurance company thinks I'm inactive. And why people want $697 of my monies.


Jessica - Oct 05, 2006 9:39:37 am PDT #2224 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I want that woman to show me where it has been proven that the Harry Potter books have harmed children.

Well, some of them are pretty heavy. I bet they'd hurt if you dropped one on your foot.


Gudanov - Oct 05, 2006 9:42:47 am PDT #2225 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping

I want that woman to show me where it has been proven that the Harry Potter books have harmed children.

It's the argument that they promote religion that is really nuts though. OTOH, she's getting nowhere with all of this nonsense.


Cashmere - Oct 05, 2006 9:43:02 am PDT #2226 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.

And of course, all those kids getting nearsighted from all that reading.


tommyrot - Oct 05, 2006 9:45:11 am PDT #2227 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.

Funny family planning advice sign

I'm not sure if it's a Photoshop job or not, but if it's real, it's damned funny.


Gudanov - Oct 05, 2006 9:45:18 am PDT #2228 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping

Right? It's not like Avada Kedavra actually works, y'know.

Well, you have to really mean it to get any of the unforgivables to work.


Ailleann - Oct 05, 2006 9:47:31 am PDT #2229 of 10001
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda

And of course, all those kids getting nearsighted from all that reading.

Plus lack of sleep.... not getting enough exercise....

My crazy!conservative coworker doesn't want her kids reading Harry Potter books, as she thinks they encourage the occult. Because apparently even the existence of magic in fiction will make magic (which is badbadbad) "normal for kids." She also thinks that JKR is deliberately including specific references to the occult in order to influence children.

Even repeating that makes me @@.


Sparky1 - Oct 05, 2006 9:49:55 am PDT #2230 of 10001
Librarian Warlord

I knew someone was going to go on the record with this idea eventually: [link]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A state lawmaker, worried about a recent string of deadly school shootings, suggested arming teachers, principals and other school personnel as a safety measure and a deterrent.