Pigs are too smart and stubborn to make really good pets.
DH is mad because I let our babysitter give Owen a fish--a beta--without asking. I told him it's not a puppy, it's a freakin' fish. A hard to kill, low maintenance fish at that.
Sex with robots is more common than most people think.
Spike ,'Lineage'
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.
Cashmere - Sep 04, 2008 6:26:18 pm PDT #7194 of 10003
Now tagless for your comfort.
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 04, 2008 6:32:27 pm PDT #7195 of 10003
"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
Just don't let him watch Finding Nemo again anytime soon.
billytea - Sep 04, 2008 6:32:57 pm PDT #7196 of 10003
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Pigs are too smart and stubborn to make really good pets.
I've heard much the same about having kids.
Kat - Sep 04, 2008 6:36:35 pm PDT #7197 of 10003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
except the smart part is questionable, billytea. I say this after watching Noah drink out of his water table side by side with the dog.
NoiseDesign - Sep 04, 2008 6:37:53 pm PDT #7198 of 10003
Our wings are not tired
I've heard much the same about having kids.
Yeah, but kids don't make very good carnitas.
billytea - Sep 04, 2008 6:43:33 pm PDT #7199 of 10003
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
except the smart part is questionable, billytea. I say this after watching Noah drink out of his water table side by side with the dog.
No, no, that makes perfect sense. The dog has keener senses than Noah, so by staying close to him at a vulnerable moment (head down to drink), he maximises his chance of receiving advance warning of any oncoming predators. Such as Grace.
Yeah, but kids don't make very good carnitas.
Look, I love children, but I can never finish a whole one.
sarameg - Sep 04, 2008 6:49:02 pm PDT #7200 of 10003
My uncle farms pigs. If you really want fresh pork (omg, the best porkchops I've ever had were at his house. Shortly after I'd cooed over the wee piglets. Yes, I felt demented.) I could always ping him. Or call him. I don't know if he has internet. And he is in MN, a ways away.
My dad's pet name for me was always Piglet because apparently I sounded just like the piglets on my grandpa's (uncle bought it) farm when they were nursing. And then he had pork chops.
(OK, I don't know about that last part, but still. We're ok with that. I helped chop piglets' tails which was horrific, but apparently best method at the time. Still alarming.) And those chops were DAMNED good. The bacon, sublime.
DavidS - Sep 04, 2008 7:09:09 pm PDT #7201 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Wasps are such uncomplicated creatures. Eat it, hump it or sting it, and then eat it or hump it.
So...basically Reavers then, huh?
ita, I don't think you really needed stitches to finish your look.
I'm afraid that all the Palin stuff that makes us go "WTF?!?!!" makes Republicans and undecideds go, "Fuck yeah!"
That's my fear.
And I've been saying "WTF?!" for almost eight years now. So. I'd like to stop.
§ ita § - Sep 04, 2008 7:09:17 pm PDT #7202 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
kids don't make very good carnitas.
Ship them down to Mexico for some proper training. They can learn.
Lidocaine's wearing off. I wish I knew if my bendy straw could hold up to cocoa. I really want cocoa.
The hospital is so much my cheers that Polgara managed to get recognised when she went in by herself. I'm not proud.
I have pork chops in the freezer. Mmmm.
Liese S. - Sep 04, 2008 7:28:18 pm PDT #7203 of 10003
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I think your bendy straw could survive cocoa. However, if you have only one bendy straw and your bendy straw is your only method for ingesting fluids, I would perhaps not risk it.
Unless you really really want to.
Hee. I wonder what Cash's DH would have thought if he'd been my dad when I won two fish at the county fair. Actually, I'm not entirely sure what my dad thought. I had a habit of winning ridiculously large and improbable prizes at fair contests. At first they always thought I wasn't going to win, but eventually they started checking the prizes available before they'd let me play.
I think fish are a fairly reasonable impulse pet.