How's this for a promotional idea?
Friday, Oct. 31 at 7:30 pm, bring your SCARIEST Financial Statement to the theater, and we'll give you a TREAT: Half price tickets for you and a friend for The Voysey Inheritance that night!
And Kaylee, what the hell's goin' on in the engine room? Were there monkeys? Some terrifying space monkeys maybe got loose?
Mal ,'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.
aurelia - Oct 21, 2008 6:45:29 pm PDT #5778 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Cashmere - Oct 21, 2008 6:47:14 pm PDT #5779 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Our sweet little highschool babysitter supports McCain b/c she is extremely pro-choice - really sheltered very Catholic.
I spoke to an undecided voter the other night who has concerns over the abortion issue. I just explained that there are no pro-abortion candidates. Just that Obama would like to see fewer abortions, too--by supporting comprehensive, age appropriate sex education and readily available reproductive health care services for everyone. John McCain wants to prevent abortions by outlawing all of them, period. Without addressing the root causes of unintended pregnancies.
She seemed swayed by that (I hope she was, anyway).
Burrell - Oct 21, 2008 7:07:04 pm PDT #5780 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I sure hope so, Cash.
It must be hard to be a pro-choice, feminist Republican these days.
§ ita § - Oct 21, 2008 8:01:28 pm PDT #5781 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Polgara once pointed out living from 1-10. Knowing you have to represent your pain on a scale for one medical type or another makes it second nature every time you're in pain.
The ER docs ask me when I go in, and sometimes they assume 10 out of 10. Which is kinda flattering, because I'd be handling "worst pain imaginable" with a great deal of grace.
I know better. Worst pain imaginable means I can't talk, much less get myself to the ER. Maybe today's headache wasn't 10 out of 10, but it did render me useless for anything other than covering my face.
Thank dog I'm not actually bouncing into the ER once a week with a 10. I couldn't take being pushed that far that often.
Tom Scola - Oct 21, 2008 9:09:26 pm PDT #5782 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I'm so sorry, ita. When I went into the ER with my kidney stone, I told them honestly it was a 7, and then I had to wait four hours. I think the next time I'll exaggerate.
ION, quite possibly the best xkcd ever: [link]
erikaj - Oct 21, 2008 9:12:12 pm PDT #5783 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
I think a seven sounds awful, Scola.
§ ita § - Oct 21, 2008 9:37:44 pm PDT #5784 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oh, that xkcd needs to be sent to my sister right away! Too funny.
Yeah, I think about telling them ten, but I don't want karma to bite me in the ass. I went to the ER overnight with a nine, and then come home and have a ten, which, really, more exponential than anything else. I mean, I can't *get* to the ER with a ten.
Cashmere - Oct 21, 2008 9:40:00 pm PDT #5785 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Oh, ita, that sucks.
Shir - Oct 21, 2008 9:52:31 pm PDT #5786 of 10001
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
ita, God. That sounds horrible.
I understand the whole karma aspect, but I think it's a kind of reasonability test (not sure that's the right translation: I'm referring to the "what would the common person do in such case?" question in law). And I don't think anyone would point less than 9 or 10 in that case, ita.
I might also mention I know close to nothing about the American health system, but FWIW.
bon bon - Oct 21, 2008 10:01:36 pm PDT #5787 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
The scale seems cruel -- does it affect your treatment? I can imagine how it would be useful for identifying meningitis. But given you have a chronic condition, what do they get out of your numbering?
Two things I am currently enjoying: The John Hodgman interview where his perspective on the election is really interesting from the POV of a pretend fantasist: [link]
And this incredibly elaborate fake company intranet site: [link]