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.


billytea - Nov 26, 2008 12:51:13 pm PST #3432 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.

My parents were both in the Labor Party (my dad resigned after becoming a judge). D served on the National Executive, M stood for election to the ACT Legislative Assembly. My family's always been fairly politicised, though it's my older brother and I that take the greatest interest.


msbelle - Nov 26, 2008 1:03:56 pm PST #3433 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

mark the clocks - the parents landed about 30 hours ago, had my first yell at them and my first muffled f-bomb. My god but they are unable to adapt.

The annoyances:

- I asked my dad to do one chore, make a shelf and put it up - I said what I wanted, 2 pieces of wood, L - brackets, plain wood is fine just get it up. I even have some wood for him to use if he would cut it down a bit with the hand saw. It is not up. new wood was bought, it has been primed and paint was bought to paint over that. so I have partial packages of brackets and screws, and 2 aerosol cans of paint now and no shelf up.

- when I came home, every light in the house was on, even in rooms with doors closed.

- I had told my mother another chore I wanted done, but hadn't spoken to my dad, of course they plowed ahead. I have a live 220 outlet in mac's room and I wanted it removed and a plat faceplate put over it. He did that and then wrote on the faceplate, in a prominent wallspace in the room, in black permanent marker "220 VOLT". It looks stupid and ugly, so I'll be replacing that.

- Shit is spread out all over the place, my mother is awful about it in the kitchen - used things do not get put in the sink, trash is left on the counter, food from lunch left out - there is not room for that in a NY apt kitchen. my dad had his coat hanging one place, his hat on a table and his gloves in another place, none of which were the room where he is staying and the largest room in the place.

Good god y'all.


Barb - Nov 26, 2008 1:08:43 pm PST #3434 of 10002
“Not dead yet!”

- Shit is spread out all over the place, my mother is awful about it in the kitchen - used things do not get put in the sink, trash is left on the counter, food from lunch left out - there is not room for that in a NY apt kitchen. my dad had his coat hanging one place, his hat on a table and his gloves in another place, none of which were the room where he is staying and the largest room in the place.

I think that's about the point you'd see reports of me in a clock tower.

Sending patience ~ma your way, belle.


msbelle - Nov 26, 2008 1:13:34 pm PST #3435 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

he is now reading OUT LOUD news off his computer. I turned off the tv which he normally would have on, because I cannot deal with the noise and we do not watch news in my house. MY house, my rules.

3rd day in a row mac did not do homework at afterschool. As upset as I am with him, I am furious with the afterschool teachers and have already put in a call to the administrators.

So pretty much I am ready to TAKE SHIT ON! Whose got something, I am ready for hire for yelling at folk, laying down the law, what have you.


tiggy - Nov 26, 2008 1:20:00 pm PST #3436 of 10002
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore

hivemind question! i have a recipe calling for 3 EXTRA large eggs. i only have large eggs in the house. is this going to make a huge difference in the recipe? should i add another egg maybe? or just suck it up and go to the store?


ChiKat - Nov 26, 2008 1:22:10 pm PST #3437 of 10002
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?

Oh, msbelle. I am so sorry. Much patience to you and a cluestick for your parents. Oh! And the afterschool teachers. What is that?


ChiKat - Nov 26, 2008 1:25:22 pm PST #3438 of 10002
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?

tiggy, there's a chart halfway down on this page with egg size substitutions: [link]

They say 3 large eggs = 3 extra large eggs, so you ought to be good!


tiggy - Nov 26, 2008 1:26:05 pm PST #3439 of 10002
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore

hooray! thanks, ChiKat. i knew someone here would know. off to bake my pies.


msbelle - Nov 26, 2008 4:20:56 pm PST #3440 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

everybody's traveling or cooking aren't they?


megan walker - Nov 26, 2008 4:23:08 pm PST #3441 of 10002
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Not me. Well, I'm cooking dinner, but not for tomorrow.