Everything looks good from here... Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... 'This Land.' I think we should call it 'your grave!' Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! Ha ha HA! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die! Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!

Wash ,'Serenity'


Natter 62: The 62nd Natter  

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.


Allyson - Nov 21, 2008 8:29:20 pm PST #2867 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

You know, I think a name change may be a good idea for little while.


P.M. Marc - Nov 21, 2008 8:34:28 pm PST #2868 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

What would you like to be called?


shrift - Nov 21, 2008 8:37:25 pm PST #2869 of 10002
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

I was 18 the first time someone stalked me online, and thanks to the student directory at my university, he knew where I lived.

That may be why I say to fire a warning shot and then hit the shitweasel with a full frontal assault. It also may be why I'm not going to be reading Twilight anytime soon.


Cashmere - Nov 21, 2008 8:47:39 pm PST #2870 of 10002
Now tagless for your comfort.

I was just watching Thundercars of Indiana on HBO. Damn. I can't believe I grew up around that shit. From the time I was 10 to the time I was 19 I spent most weekends at a racetrack somewhere in Indiana surrounded by douchebags like this in beat up pieces of shit cars. Ugh.

Allyson, we got your back.


Allyson - Nov 21, 2008 8:55:04 pm PST #2871 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

I just don't even want to fire the warning shot, shrift. I'm choosing to completely ignore, and hope this is as escalaty as it gets.

Kristen insists that I should be called "Kristen's Roommate" and yet, I like being "Tim's Girl" and freaking him out in Minearverse...which is ironic given the circumstances.

So I'll be Kristen's Roommate for a little while, if that makes sense/is easily identifiable to Buffistas.


Cashmere - Nov 21, 2008 9:05:25 pm PST #2872 of 10002
Now tagless for your comfort.

Aaaand now I'm seriously creeped the fuck out.


P.M. Marc - Nov 21, 2008 9:24:41 pm PST #2873 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

I've made it so, Kristen's Roommate.


shrift - Nov 21, 2008 9:40:34 pm PST #2874 of 10002
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

I say do whatever makes you feel safe, and that we'll back you up however you need us to.

Also, Cashmere? Yeah. I think I'd probably better not watch Thundercars of Indiana considering that there's an amateur racing dude who sometimes still calls me.


Trudy Booth - Nov 21, 2008 9:58:40 pm PST #2875 of 10002
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

I am very pro-public school. Insanely so. But I can't begrudge ANY presidential parent choosing private over public in DC. I had an awesome public school system. In a district with 3 high schools and little other options and fucking poor, but it shone. It was quite the revelation to go to a fancy-private college and see how many were private-school babes who sneered at public schools.

We're TWINS!

We lived in the fairly pricey area we lived in primarily for the public schools. Much of my extended family has done likewise. The President doesn't so much have that option. And even if you fully supprt the idea that involved parents with intelligent children (who lack any particular learning-challenges) can do well even in a not-great school, the security issues would be a fucking nightmare.

And his kids have never gone to public school anyway. People project a LOT on this guy. He's not anti-war, he's anti THIS war. He's not some big liberal -- he's pretty pragmatic and and inclined to useing approaches favored by liberals. Personally, lifestyle-wise, he's pretty conservative. He's expressed opposition to gay marriage, but (as I understand it) he was ALSO opposed to Prop 8 because of the constitutional issues its likely to get overturned on. Some people are in for a real shock, but they haven't been paying attention.

There are PLENTY of things I'm not going to agree with him on -- but I do agree with the way he finds common ground with his adversaries and believe he makes thoughtful decisions.


billytea - Nov 21, 2008 10:54:37 pm PST #2876 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

U. S. civics quiz: [link]

I missed one (the anti-Federalists). I can haz citizenship?