Dawn: I thought you were adequate. Giles: And the accolades keep pouring in. I'd best take my leave before my head swells any larger. Good night.

'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.


Jesse - Jul 28, 2008 11:08:58 am PDT #9987 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

[Edit: Jesse, maybe you should put that college kid under the care of those annoying people from work, and let them annoy each other?]

Ooh, now that's a plan.


§ ita § - Jul 28, 2008 11:11:50 am PDT #9988 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I'm going to stick my neck out and say the British have more of a rigid class system in place than the US.

I don't think you're taking much of a risk here. But the chances of breaking through from upper middle class into the US to the upper class--not that big. Mobility only gets you so far.

if your daughter is marrying an investment banker who grew up poor but makes bank and has the right manners it probably isn't that much of an issue with anyone but Bunny McDougal.

I can do no more than shrug at that. I honestly have no idea.


DavidS - Jul 28, 2008 11:11:59 am PDT #9989 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

More useful to whom?

As a sociological class that identifies common traits. "Middle class" is too broad and ill-defined to mean anything in particular.


Jesse - Jul 28, 2008 11:12:23 am PDT #9990 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Is this the end?

Are you...my friend?

t /New Edition


Toddson - Jul 28, 2008 11:12:28 am PDT #9991 of 10003
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Question for Nilly (possibly stupid, but I'm curious) - when you use a computer in Hebrew, is it in Hebrew characters or in transliterated English/Roman characters?


Scrappy - Jul 28, 2008 11:12:37 am PDT #9992 of 10003
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Firefly, ice cream,
humor, seventeen love, joy--
Nilly is awesome.


DavidS - Jul 28, 2008 11:13:24 am PDT #9993 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Oooh, Jesse's slutting for 10,000.


lisah - Jul 28, 2008 11:13:54 am PDT #9994 of 10003
Punishingly Intricate

To her credit, the person who ran the ad for the family nanny does spell out just how little time off the person they hire would have and says that the person would be the nanny (or, really, assistant) to the whole family. It's not like somebody answering that ad could claim to be surprised by the work.


Jesse - Jul 28, 2008 11:14:08 am PDT #9995 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Oooh, Jesse's slutting for 10,000.

I resent your implication, sir.


Kat - Jul 28, 2008 11:14:15 am PDT #9996 of 10003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

The end is near? yes?