Sir? I think you have a problem with your brain being missing.

Zoe ,'The Train Job'


The Crying of Natter 49  

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.


sarameg - Feb 07, 2007 6:40:07 am PST #8682 of 10001

Management laid off my backups. So.

I've found the liquid Robutussin works faster initially, though that may be the shock of the taste and alcohol or something.

The coughing is just throat irritation. There's nothing in my lungs (well, air.) It's all stupid reflex. But I haven't had another today!

That's like asking someone how they didn't roll over on their kid.

My dad spilled coffee on his kid. Is that a double whammy?


-t - Feb 07, 2007 6:41:17 am PST #8683 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Daybreak question

That didn't occur to me when I was watching, but it's a good point. I think the implication was that epilepsy generated the feeling of deja vu and repeating the day, but not full on hallucinations of actual events. But once you start doubting your own perceptions, how do you draw that line? So, it wouldn't prove anything, exactly, but it might reassure him by not contradicting his perception. Jazz hands.


beth b - Feb 07, 2007 6:41:26 am PST #8684 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

The story was bad. The pannel was horrid. I had to stop listening. While I am not sure that there is a lot of discrimination against athiests. There is some. interestingly godless and unamerican often go together in speeches.


Jessica - Feb 07, 2007 6:49:45 am PST #8685 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

There's not a lot of active discrimination, but being an atheist isn't something you want to admit to in most of the country -- atheists are routinely ranked as the least trustworthy group in America (below both gays and Muslims) every time someone decides to do a survey about it.

saying atheists should keep their mouths shut and then they wouldn't get crap about their beliefs

This, sadly, is a very common attitude. Being an atheist (and mentioning it in public) is considered impolite in a way that being a believer is not.


Gudanov - Feb 07, 2007 6:54:26 am PST #8686 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping

It just makes me mad. How about it had been a story about Muslims? Would CNN have a panel of non-muslims with a 2/3 of them talking about how muslims need to shut up and 1/3 saying they have a right to speak about being muslim but that he finds them distasteful?


SuziQ - Feb 07, 2007 6:59:57 am PST #8687 of 10001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

Well, in "good?" sick news. I actually took a sick day yesterday and passed some work off to the gal I've been training. Now I'm back and will see if she did it right and how much time it took her to do it. I'm kinda afraid to look.


Lee - Feb 07, 2007 7:02:14 am PST #8688 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

I just emailed in sick. I feel bad for doing it, but on the other hand, now I won't risk killing myself or anyone else trying to drive, plus I get to go back to bed, and then have a jammies day for the rest of the day.


Jesse - Feb 07, 2007 7:03:28 am PST #8689 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Yay sick day! Boo sick. I'm having a jammies day, but I'm really supposed to be working. So far, I've had one really frustrating phone call, and a brief attempt to buckle down. Soon? Actual buckling down.


shrift - Feb 07, 2007 7:03:44 am PST #8690 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

There seems to be a widely-held belief that there is nothing keeping an atheist from committing immoral acts because we don't believe in God or heaven and hell.


Nutty - Feb 07, 2007 7:07:30 am PST #8691 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

There seems to be a widely-held belief that there is nothing keeping an atheist from committing immoral acts because we don't believe in God or heaven and hell.

For instance, I am eating smores poptarts right now! And I don't feel bad about it!

Also, I am requierd by the secret bylaws of unbelieverdom to own leather pants. Cause, you know. Evil.