These are stone killers, little man. They ain't cuddly like me.

Jayne ,'The Train Job'


Natter 61*  

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.


msbelle - Sep 24, 2008 5:55:48 pm PDT #473 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

anyone know anywhere online I can get the last 15 min of Criminal Minds premiere?


tommyrot - Sep 24, 2008 5:56:27 pm PDT #474 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.

He goes on to explain how this will lead to a commercial collapse, at which point we are so very, very boned.

Yeah, that seems very possible to me (I've been following the peak oil stuff for a while now too. Although it's hard to explain, peak oil has pretty much made me stop driving.)

ION, my almond shrimp is nummy, except for the celery (celery is not food).


tommyrot - Sep 24, 2008 6:02:52 pm PDT #475 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.

How far behind is Comedy Central?


§ ita § - Sep 24, 2008 6:06:49 pm PDT #476 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

anyone know anywhere online I can get the last 15 min of Criminal Minds premiere?

Tried the CBS website?


Hayden - Sep 24, 2008 6:06:57 pm PDT #477 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

How far behind is Comedy Central?

They record at 5pm ET, right?


msbelle - Sep 24, 2008 6:08:58 pm PDT #478 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

yeah ita, I found nothing, I was looking off the CM page.


billytea - Sep 24, 2008 6:12:59 pm PDT #479 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

My understanding of the financial crisis thingy is that, in essence, if the financial sector tanks it takes the rest of the economy with it, because every sector, governments on down, needs finance to grow. So no bailout probably equals a depression.

However! A government bailout means that the people who played fast and loose with finance (and I believe in this round it's more the greedy and the gamblers than the genuinely corrupt) can stuff up in monumental fashion and they don't suffer the consequences, not to the extent they should. And that just means that the next time the financiers catch a whiff of testosterone, they'll be beating their chests and declaring "I AM SPARTACUS!!" Or something like that. Because if it pays off, they're rich, they're the 300-pound silverback gorilla with their own harem and surprisingly tiny testes; while if it fails, hey, not their problem. The government'll sort it out. Which means that there's going to be another crisis, and it'll be worse.

The solution to both these pitfalls is to combine any bailout with improved regulation and oversight (I think transparency is a good place to start, let the markets know what risks the banks are taking), and to make sure that there's plenty of pain for the captains of finance who forgot in spectacular fashion that markets go down as well as up. I'm sure the current administration will get right on that.


tommyrot - Sep 24, 2008 6:35:05 pm PDT #480 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.

The Daily Show is cracking me up....


quester - Sep 24, 2008 7:11:23 pm PDT #481 of 10001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.

Last thing that made me smile?

Jon Stewart


§ ita § - Sep 24, 2008 7:16:11 pm PDT #482 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I haven't been that wholly impressed with the "superior" taste of organic fruit and veggies, and I'm not supposed to be buying organic on my jobless budget, but they were filed out of place.

Good mishap. I've been pathologically having cereal and porridge so I can put them in and it's nummy.