Mal: Ready? Zoe: Always.

'Serenity'


Natter 55: It's the 55th Natter  

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.


hippocampus - Nov 20, 2007 10:06:15 am PST #3307 of 10001
not your mom's socks.

I had no idea that the serial comma was thought to be old-fashioned. I think it is just, you know, correct!

tosses editorial glitter over lisah

I embrace the apostrophe in this sort of situation only when it makes things clearer, as in "There are 6 I's in the first clause of this sentence."

gets some on Teppy too.


tommyrot - Nov 20, 2007 10:11:38 am PST #3308 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.

From The Onion: This Is The Point In The Blow Job Where I Have To Be Careful What I Say


Sue - Nov 20, 2007 10:14:22 am PST #3309 of 10001
hip deep in pie

My coat is out for delivery! I hope that I will be able to pick it up this evening.


Gudanov - Nov 20, 2007 10:16:02 am PST #3310 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping

I guess he has made up something called the Vital Force, then made up the property that the VF acts like a gyroscope that quantum states of angular momentum (just means the angular momentum can only change in small steps not smoothly), somehow got a wave function out of this angular momentum (no idea how), and determined that this function somehow relates to a wave function of disease symptoms (what the hell?) and since this relates to a wave function of homeopathic effects (what the hell?) provides a mechanism for how homeopathy works. That's going pretty far down the rabbit hole trying to prove that water cures disease.


Trudy Booth - Nov 20, 2007 10:17:01 am PST #3311 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

not to mention that some beer drinkers are, you know, WOMEN

Sweet girl, women may drink beer, but they don't like it. They just do it to make men happy. Or because their boyfriends pressure them. Or because they don't respect themselves because their fathers were distant and stuff.


Aims - Nov 20, 2007 10:21:37 am PST #3312 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

Is it ironically funny to anyone else that the city assessor couldn't find her way out of my freaking office?


erikaj - Nov 20, 2007 10:35:53 am PST #3313 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

IME, Mr. Fry is right. But maybe I know lots of candyasses.


beekaytee - Nov 20, 2007 10:37:24 am PST #3314 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant

I really don't have the experience to say that this this true or not. Anyone else?

I have actually found this to be true.

I can count on one hand the number of people I've been able to truly 'get down to it' with in an impassioned debate that does not eventually turn into something personal.

And frankly, the numbers of times in any given week I have to give the 'but what that person said couldn't possibly be about YOU" speech to my clients cannot be counted.

When I've traveled, sitting around the table talking about the news of the day was such a joy in England, Scotland and Denmark...it showed in sharp contrast just why we 'joke' about the forbidden topics in 'polite' conversation in this country. Politics, religion, money and sex.

It feels to me as if we are so afraid of the impact of other people's views of ourselves that we'll go to any length to avoid opening ourselves up. The sad fact is, at least in with the work I've done with clients, that the imaginating of what someone else thinks about you is much, much worse than the actual fact.


tommyrot - Nov 20, 2007 10:42:19 am PST #3315 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.

This is really gross for an x-ray: [link]

“Young male was holding a homemade explosive device. The fuse of the device was lit, and the patient was unable to throw it away before it detonated.”


Typo Boy - Nov 20, 2007 10:46:08 am PST #3316 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Yeah, I've found the same. We really have trouble with friendly arguments around politics in this country.