No. You're missing the point. The design of the thing is functional. The plan is not to shoot you. The plan is to get the girl. If there's no girl, then the plan, well, is like the room.

Early ,'Objects In Space'


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.


Kat - Dec 02, 2008 4:46:43 pm PST #4033 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Camping = good fun.

In random news, I keep consulting the Noodle Oracle and it's making me hungry.


Consuela - Dec 02, 2008 5:19:36 pm PST #4034 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Go Keanu, KRM. Way more fun than forced merriment with people who make you shatteringly unhappy.


billytea - Dec 02, 2008 5:34:09 pm PST #4035 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.

What is "evitable" - something that usually doesn't happen?

Something that you could shoehorn into an amateur production of Evita.

In this vein, from my Forgotten English calendar I offer you awk - inverted or confused. (Thus, my brother.) Thence do we derive awkward, which originally was opposed to toward.


beekaytee - Dec 02, 2008 5:38:17 pm PST #4036 of 10002
Compassionately intolerant

In this vein, from my Forgotten English calendar I offer you awk - inverted or confused. (Thus, my brother.) Thence do we derive awkward, which originally was opposed to toward.

Which is why one tends to lean backward when standing around awkward people, eh?


billytea - Dec 02, 2008 5:41:33 pm PST #4037 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.

Which is why one tends to lean backward when standing around awkward people, eh?

I'm just a little sorry it didn't wind up being wakward.


beekaytee - Dec 02, 2008 5:53:10 pm PST #4038 of 10002
Compassionately intolerant

Wawkward.

I just like saying it.

Sounds like a directive from the Minitry of Silly Walks.


beekaytee - Dec 02, 2008 6:10:33 pm PST #4039 of 10002
Compassionately intolerant

On a totally different subject, I need kid's book recommendations for a specific situation.

I have a client couple, two women, raising two adopted children. The kids' mother is deceased and the father is not in the picture.

The girl is 8, understands the situation and does not talk about the dad to the boy. He's 5 and getting to the place where there is some confusion about answering questions about having two moms and where is his dad, etc.

The moms are looking for books to help with the conversation.

What's good out there?


sarameg - Dec 02, 2008 6:19:50 pm PST #4040 of 10002

I really want to whop some sense into a 16-almost-17 year old boy right now. Yeah, the biological mother that abandoned you at a flophouse when you were 7 is really gonna contest custody in another state when she can't afford a lawyer and take your juvie-felony self on now. Don't pull this manipulative, expensive shit on the parents who've been fighting for you most of your life, even when they didn't know how bad it was.


erikaj - Dec 02, 2008 6:35:06 pm PST #4041 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!

Juvenile crime makes you stupid, too? Huh.


sarameg - Dec 02, 2008 6:38:15 pm PST #4042 of 10002

I think teenage+ biggo issues makes more stupid.