First post in new Natter is all mine!
Spike: Or maybe Captain Forehead was feeling a little less special. Didn't like me crashing his exclusive club, another vampire with a soul in the world. Angel: You're not in the world, Casper.
'Just Rewards (2)'
Natter 60: Gone In 60 Seconds
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.
Gadget_Girl - Jul 28, 2008 12:36:25 pm PDT #5 of 10003
Just call me "Siouxsie Shunshine".
megan walker - Jul 28, 2008 12:36:31 pm PDT #6 of 10003
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Yay!
Kathy A - Jul 28, 2008 12:37:08 pm PDT #7 of 10003
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Yay new natter! Top Ten, even!
SailAweigh - Jul 28, 2008 12:38:05 pm PDT #8 of 10003
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Oooh, it's all shiny and new!
brenda m - Jul 28, 2008 12:38:33 pm PDT #9 of 10003
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Yay!
Glamcookie - Jul 28, 2008 12:39:07 pm PDT #10 of 10003
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
10?
Woohoo!
Burrell - Jul 28, 2008 12:39:26 pm PDT #11 of 10003
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
May I add that I do like the thread title, 'tho it'll need to move fast to live up to its name.
Gadget_Girl - Jul 28, 2008 12:39:55 pm PDT #12 of 10003
Just call me "Siouxsie Shunshine".
Darn, number 5 in new natter is all mine.
Kat - Jul 28, 2008 12:40:03 pm PDT #13 of 10003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
YAY! new thread!
Trudy Booth - Jul 28, 2008 12:41:41 pm PDT #14 of 10003
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
As a sociological class that identifies common traits. "Middle class" is too broad and ill-defined to mean anything in particular.
In general I guess, but in the context in which it is being used in the article that started this discussion it's pretty clearly defined (complete with charts!) and meaning something very particular.
In fact, Ruby Whateherface is pretty much speaking to the "academic class" in her work.