Sometimes when I'm sitting in class... You know, I'm not thinking about class, 'cause that would never happen. I think about kissing you. And it's like everything stops. It's like, it's like freeze frame. Willow kissage.

Oz ,'First Date'


Natter 59: Dominate Your Face!  

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.


DavidS - Jun 04, 2008 10:36:15 am PDT #1055 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

So we've had a giant email kerfuffle over our Little League playoffs.

Our team, the Cubs, finished first so we're the top seed. We get a bye in the first round and were scheduled to play our first game tonight at 5:30.

We have a 12 player team and two kids are away this week on a school field trip, one is hurt and one has a school concert that he can't miss without it affecting his grade.

That leaves 8 kids and a forfeit. So we ask the opposing team for some rescheduling; possibly Thursday, possibly Friday or even an early start to today's game (so our musician could play then go to his concert).

This goes around and around until the opposing team's manager blows up and calls us assholes and morons. They can make no accomodation (after trying to reschedule) so the game is going to be at the regularly scheduled time on it's originally scheduled day. Our hurt player is going to suit up and just do what he can do.

Funny part? Now it looks like the opposing team won't be able to get their nine players to the field on time for today's game.

The game will probably still go on but be delayed.

Which sucks for us because our musician will have to leave early and he's one of our best players.

But the reason one of their players is going to be late is because they tried to rejigger their schedule to accomodate us.

It's just weird that there's been all this sturm and drang and the end result is: game played as scheduled.

Or possibly - they have to forfeit because of our nefarious plan.


Theodosia - Jun 04, 2008 10:41:11 am PDT #1056 of 10003
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

And the cookie manufacturers rejoice!


Jessica - Jun 04, 2008 10:48:19 am PDT #1057 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Chris Hitchens wishes waiters would stop refilling his wine glass.

The vile practice of butting in and pouring wine without being asked is the very height of the second kind of bad manners. Not only is it a breathtaking act of rudeness in itself, but it conveys a none-too-subtle and mercenary message: Hurry up and order another bottle. Indeed, so dulled have we become to the shame and disgrace of all this that I have actually seen waiters, having broken into the private conversation and emptied the flagon, ask insolently whether they should now bring another one. Again, imagine this same tactic being applied to the food.

(He's not a lush, he's just a victim of Big Sommelier! Why oh why will the all-powerful restaurant server lobby not let him beeeeeeeeeee?)


amych - Jun 04, 2008 10:50:43 am PDT #1058 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

I always thought he was more of a Scotch drunk anyway. Maybe the problem is that all that extra wine takes up too much space and forces him to get wasted less efficiently?


sarameg - Jun 04, 2008 10:51:00 am PDT #1059 of 10003

Ah crap, my flowerbuckets are going to get flooded. If not knocked over.


Jessica - Jun 04, 2008 10:53:23 am PDT #1060 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

More to the point, he doesn't seem to realize that a simple "no thank you" will put a quick and painless end to this traumatic event so he can continue with whatever scintillating anecdote he was in the middle of dazzling his dining companions with.

[eta: Oh wait, here's the real heart of the matter:

Not everybody likes wine as much as I do. Many females, for example, confine themselves to one glass per meal or even half a glass. It pains me to see good wine being sloshed into the glasses of those who have not asked for it and may not want it and then be left standing there barely tasted when the dinner is over.

It's not refilling his glass that's a problem, it's refilling the glasses of all his lightweight lady-friends. Makes perfect sense.]


aurelia - Jun 04, 2008 10:54:01 am PDT #1061 of 10003
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Yikes! [link]


shrift - Jun 04, 2008 10:56:38 am PDT #1062 of 10003
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Again, imagine this same tactic being applied to the food.

Oh, the utter insolence! Imagine if the waiters had the absolute temerity to inquire if one would also like dessert. Have they no sense of decency?


shrift - Jun 04, 2008 10:58:30 am PDT #1063 of 10003
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

It's not refilling his glass that's a problem, it's refilling the glasses of all his lightweight lady-friends.

So basically this is the snootified version of crying "party foul!" when someone knocks over a glass of the precious alcomohol.


tommyrot - Jun 04, 2008 11:02:15 am PDT #1064 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Huh. Chicago makes the cut

ATHENS - Chicago has advanced to the final phase of the contest to become host city of the 2016 Summer Olympics, although it has ground to make up on its three remaining rivals before the International Olympic Committee's 110 members choose the winner Oct. 2, 2009.

The IOC executive committee decided Wednesday to eliminate three of the original seven bidders, Prague; Doha, Qatar; and Baku, Azerbaijan. That leaves Chicago, Rio de Janeiro, Madrid and Tokyo.

eta:

Both the USOC and Chicago 2016 officials expected the report to show concerns about transport, given the aged nature of the city's subway and bus systems

No surprise there....