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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.


tommyrot - Mar 27, 2008 12:19:51 pm PDT #7758 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.

Well, of a sort. But that was my point, their argument was that legally I couldn't see it and that a doctor had to interpret the results for me. Um, somehow I don't think that you give that spiel to pregnant women.

Huh. I can see the "we're not allowed to interpret it" thing, as an x-ray technician told me that when she showed me my x-ray and pointed to where the break was....


Gudanov - Mar 27, 2008 12:23:31 pm PDT #7759 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping

I don't want to cook dinner tonight.


megan walker - Mar 27, 2008 12:25:03 pm PDT #7760 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Huh. I can see the "we're not allowed to interpret it" thing, as an x-ray technician told me that when she showed me my x-ray and pointed to where the break was....

Yeah, except at that point, I knew I had a cyst and only wanted to know how big it was. After I switched hospitals, I learned that it was all bullshit. Of course, this is also the hospital with the doctor who thought my problems were "all in my mind" and who, after I ended up in the emergency room and had my first (of many) sonograms, said that it didn't necessarily mean anything because "you have a lot going on down there."

I'm just glad Dylan emerged from that place unscathed.


lisah - Mar 27, 2008 12:26:16 pm PDT #7761 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate

said that it didn't necessarily mean anything because "you have a lot going on down there."

By that he meant confusing lady parts I guess?


megan walker - Mar 27, 2008 12:28:35 pm PDT #7762 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

By that he meant confusing lady parts I guess?

One can only hope.


amych - Mar 27, 2008 12:32:02 pm PDT #7763 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Have any of our lawyers or librarians or others done immigration work?

I think Stephanie does something related -- but you might try reposting the question in bitches, what with Frisco's effect on her posting time.


Lee - Mar 27, 2008 12:34:50 pm PDT #7764 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Thanks Amych!


Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 27, 2008 12:35:03 pm PDT #7765 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

The one ultrasound I recall having was borderline painful, but that owed more to the technician pressing a piece of plastic right between hip and thigh where I'd caught myself with a table corner than to the actual ultrasonic waves.

The standard thinking these days is that Metropolis is NYC. Gotham is in Jersey.

Gotham may be geographically located in New Jersey. I think in a metaphorical sense, it was definitely based on New York City, and Metropolis probably owes mostly to early 20th century NYC as well although the newspaper setting is probably Chicago-inspired.


Pix - Mar 27, 2008 12:36:04 pm PDT #7766 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.

I've had a number of different types of ultrasound and never had any pain. Just goop.


Susan W. - Mar 27, 2008 12:46:50 pm PDT #7767 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

Grammar question:

Is it "Department staff maintain..." or "Department staff maintains..."? The former looks right to me, but Word's grammar checker is disagreeing.