Funny thing about black and white. You mix it together and you get gray. And it doesn't matter how much white you try and put back in, you're never gonna get anything but gray.

Lilah ,'Destiny'


Natter Area 51: The Truthiness Is in Here  

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 § - May 18, 2007 12:20:45 pm PDT #8169 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Toddson, did you never find a brand that wasn't artificially sweetened? I use JASON or somesuch, and it's fine.


shrift - May 18, 2007 12:23:09 pm PDT #8170 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

I could handle it ... except for my TOOTHPASTE.

I have a tube of toothpaste with a taste that triggers my gag reflex hardcore, and yet I am all, "But it's almost brand new! I can't throw it out!"

I need to get rid of it because you're supposed to brush your teeth after you puke.


§ ita § - May 18, 2007 12:25:04 pm PDT #8171 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I have a tube of toothpaste with a taste that triggers my gag reflex hardcore, and yet I am all, "But it's almost brand new! I can't throw it out!"

I have at least one tube of toothpaste that's artificially sweetened and two or three things of hand soap or lotion whose scents make me migrainey. Just sitting there, taking up space. In case of...something I haven't worked out yet.


Toddson - May 18, 2007 12:27:36 pm PDT #8172 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Luckily, I am now able to enjoy my artificial sweetener addiction ... but it was unpleasant while it lasted. Aftermath of the stroke or the medication? who knows. I asked the neurologist and he'd never heard that one before. Hey! I made medical history! in a teeny tiny way.


§ ita § - May 18, 2007 12:31:23 pm PDT #8173 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

It's always tasted dramatically crappy to me--even so far as an unpleasantly slippery mouth feel. I'm not sure when I worked out it was a migraine trigger, but I wonder how tied in that was.

Most of my trigger foods that I've identified taste bad to me, so I've never had to give up anything nummy.


Lee - May 18, 2007 12:51:34 pm PDT #8174 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

So what did people have for lunch today?

(I thought I'd change up the question, since we covered the weekend yesterday.)


Daisy Jane - May 18, 2007 12:51:44 pm PDT #8175 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

The prosecutor would ask her a question, and she would look pleadingly at the translator and say "Ay, dios mio," or she would look at the prosecutor and say, "Ay, senora."

This breaks my heart.


Kathy A - May 18, 2007 12:54:39 pm PDT #8176 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

So what did people have for lunch today?

Vegetable soup and tuna salad sandwich. I lucked out when I picked up my diet food yesterday--the distributor was short a 1200-calorie bag, but had an extra 2000-calorie bag, and asked if I would like to swap for the weekend for no extra charge. Hell, yeah! So, I wasn't hungry this afternoon, like I normally am.


Dana - May 18, 2007 12:55:42 pm PDT #8177 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Anyway, the robbery victim testified as well. This was the only time the defendant spoke at the trial. While she was testifying, he sort of muttered something, and the defense attorney said, "Shut up!" In the jury room, a couple of the people who spoke Spanish said he'd called her a liar.

There was yet another robbery at the same complex. This guy had a busy morning. A woman testified that he walked into the apartment while she was breastfeeding her child and stared at her. When she screamed, her husband woke up and the guy took off.

We heard from a nurse who did a sexual assault kit on the second rape victim. A crime scene unit was called out to this second batch of crime scenes. They found fingerprints and blood at two of the three scenes, I think. We heard quite a bit from a fingerprint expert, but the short version is that they found his fingerprints and palm prints at those scenes. Both witnesses identified him in the courtroom.

I forgot to mention that the second woman who was raped was a Katrina refugee. She was originally from Honduras, had lived in New Orleans, and evacuated here. She has no family with her. She lives alone.


tommyrot - May 18, 2007 12:56:03 pm PDT #8178 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.

So what did people have for lunch today?

Nummy calamari linguine, with garlic bread.