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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.


Steph L. - Nov 01, 2007 10:31:13 am PDT #9841 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

How much are new CO2 cartridges?

They refill them for $20, which I think (though I'm not sure) includes shipping.

Their CO2 cartridges are a weird proprietary design, so that you can't get them refilled some other (cheaper) place -- that's the only thing that gave me reservations about buying it.

I finally decided in favor of it just because of all the plastic bottles I buy every week. Even though I recycle them (usually), it would be better if they didn't have to be made in the first place.


Stephanie - Nov 01, 2007 10:33:27 am PDT #9842 of 10001
Trust my rage

I don't understand the brain that can't follow this:

I tried, very patiently, to explain that with 1,000 books, an extra charge of (to make it easy) ONE GODDAMN DOLLAR per book would equal $1,000. So therefore $2.50 per book would be $2,500. NOT $400.


erikaj - Nov 01, 2007 10:34:41 am PDT #9843 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

I saw the earwax video on Countdown. It's pretty embarrassing, because it doesn't look like he was doing something else...it's pretty overt.


Gudanov - Nov 01, 2007 10:35:33 am PDT #9844 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping

Yeah, I can totally get swapping the numbers and getting the wrong answer. It's the sticking to it after the error has been pointed out that I don't get.


Stephanie - Nov 01, 2007 10:56:26 am PDT #9845 of 10001
Trust my rage

I'm leaving for the day so I won't be able to follow-up on this, but if you had something wrong with one foot that required you to wear a tennis shoe (for example), would you wear a tennis shoe on the bad foot and a regular, work-appropriate show on the good foot, or two tennis shoes?


Dana - Nov 01, 2007 11:05:14 am PDT #9846 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

if you had something wrong with one foot that required you to wear a tennis shoe (for example), would you wear a tennis shoe on the bad foot and a regular, work-appropriate show on the good foot, or two tennis shoes?

I would wear shoes that matched, because the heel height of two different shoes may very well be different, and that'll fuck up your hip.


Sophia Brooks - Nov 01, 2007 11:15:43 am PDT #9847 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I agree with Dana. Although I once work with a woman who hurt her foot and wore her husband's slipper on one foot and a work appropriate shoe on the other.


Jesse - Nov 01, 2007 11:20:11 am PDT #9848 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Yeah, I would wear matching shoes if at all possible.


§ ita § - Nov 01, 2007 11:28:13 am PDT #9849 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I think you're already not work-appropriate with the one shoe (though perfectly excusably so) and before you even get into messing up your hip and spine two matching shoes will look more work-appropriate than just one, I'm thinking.


sarameg - Nov 01, 2007 12:10:10 pm PDT #9850 of 10001

OK, my brother just sent pictures of the nephews. Including D in the Optimus Prime costume he (brother) made. They used the storebought mask and printed jumper, but then took a box and made the torso (semi-cab.) They strapped tires from my brother's remote cars to D's elbows and knees and.. he can transform. Seriously. Freaking awesome.

That was one happy kid.