It just sounds so much more cultured.
Zoe: What's that, sir? Mal: Freedom, is what. Zoe: No, I meant what's that? Mal: Oh. Yeah. Just step around it. I think something must've been living in here.
'Out Of Gas'
Natter 57 Varieties
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.
Vortex - Mar 12, 2008 10:37:19 am PDT #4576 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Trudy Booth - Mar 12, 2008 10:41:34 am PDT #4577 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
The McGreevy's have been he said/she said from the start with this. His people saying "she knew for a long time" and hers saying "this was a complete shock". I suspect the truth lies somewhere intbetween and was amped by both for the divorce case (which seems to have been particularly ugly).
beekaytee - Mar 12, 2008 10:42:05 am PDT #4578 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
not making things even more public by refusing to attend and shifting more attention/speculation to yourself probably has its appeal
I don't know. I'm going to applaud the first shat upon wife who wakes up from that press-conference stupor they all appear to be in (mandated sedation?), shakes her head and says, "WHAT am I doing here?" then walks off.
Appearances are one thing, compounding your pain by furthering whatever facade your marriage has turned out to be, seems quite another.
Emily - Mar 12, 2008 10:42:36 am PDT #4579 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Huh. And now I know something about Damascus steel, and why stainless steel is (mostly) stainless, and... stuff!
Polter-Cow - Mar 12, 2008 10:45:42 am PDT #4580 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Share with the class, Emily!
Emily - Mar 12, 2008 10:55:33 am PDT #4581 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Er, okay. Damascus steel, also called "Wootz steel", seems to have been made (in India, Sri Lanka, and China) by using a furnace powered by monsoon winds (I don't know, I just think that's cool for some reason). It produced almost pure steel and was known for its ability to hold an edge, maybe because of carbon nanotubes (whatever those are).
Alternately, it refers to a steel used in Middle Eastern sword-making in the, er, second millenium AD. These are I guess different types of steel, and Damascus here refers to the visible grain pattern. Maybe.
And stainless steel contains chromium, which forms an invisible layer of chromium oxide on the surface impervious to water and air and quick to reform when scratched.
Polter-Cow - Mar 12, 2008 11:05:42 am PDT #4582 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Neat! Go, go, chromium oxide!
-t - Mar 12, 2008 11:07:06 am PDT #4583 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Neat!
Sophia Brooks - Mar 12, 2008 11:08:11 am PDT #4584 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I think I want to put my eyes out. I really don't go anywhere to talk on the internet except here, TWOP and livejournal, but I have become obsessed with Gossip Girl, and I have read everything on TWOP, so I ventured out and there are twelve thousand posts with exclamation points and all caps and emoticons, when I want to talk about the symbolism of Blair's headband. Why do I like teen shows?????
tommyrot - Mar 12, 2008 11:08:43 am PDT #4585 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.
Aluminum does the same thing (without needing to be in an alloy) - a thin layer of aluminum oxide quickly forms up exposure to the air, which prevents further oxidization (i.e. rust).