You're a bloody puppet! You're a wee little puppet man!

Spike ,'Smile Time'


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.


Jessica - Dec 11, 2008 9:57:37 am PST #5514 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I don't know how you folks with little ones resist the urge to scream, sometimes.

Too tired.


Toddson - Dec 11, 2008 9:59:23 am PST #5515 of 10002
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

why is it that in the area of screwing up the world Bush decided to become an overachiever?


DavidS - Dec 11, 2008 10:06:59 am PST #5516 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

and when I let myself think about the steaming pile of shit they're inheriting, my rage is not unlike the sun in its nuclear hot fury.

I try to maintain the historical perspective that my children were not born into the Black Plague, slavery or a debtor's prison.


Burrell - Dec 11, 2008 10:15:31 am PST #5517 of 10002
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

I don't know how you folks with little ones resist the urge to scream, sometimes.

I find my rage is tempered by the same irrational optimism that led to me to have kids in the first place.

I try to maintain the historical perspective that my children were not born into the Black Plague, slavery or a debtor's prison.

That third one may be making a come back.

Speaking of rage, I get rageful when I think about how much slavery there still is in the world.


Ginger - Dec 11, 2008 10:25:08 am PST #5518 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Global warming produces fucked up weather not necessarily just hot weather, no?

I heard someone say it ought to be called "global weirding."


DavidS - Dec 11, 2008 10:27:15 am PST #5519 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Speaking of rage, I get rageful when I think about how much slavery there still is in the world.

Yeah, that one gets me het up.


Connie Neil - Dec 11, 2008 10:28:43 am PST #5520 of 10002
brillig

I'm kind of hoping global climate change continues to give us mild winters. Except that's where our water comes from. A few carefully organized monsoons per season could balance it.


Sophia Brooks - Dec 11, 2008 10:33:24 am PST #5521 of 10002
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I've heard the "global weirding", too, although I am not sure where. The winters in upstate NY aren't really milder, but they are at a different time that when I was young-- starting and ending later, with an extended fall and very truncated spring.

I am making socks for someone for a gift exchange tomorrow! I will be giving them one sock, and I feel like I have been knitting like crazy for the past week. I really thought I could finish in time. I id finish a scarf for someone else at the theatre, and I was working on another scarf that I scrapped. I need to get 2 more done for X-mas.


javachik - Dec 11, 2008 10:34:15 am PST #5522 of 10002
Our wings are not tired.

Global warming produces fucked up weather not necessarily just hot weather, no?

It is also a misnomer of sorts that leads to people wrongly inferring that it's just weather. It's also affecting ocean currents/temperature and we're already seeing massive effects. It's all related, and it's so much, much bigger than "weather".


erikaj - Dec 11, 2008 10:36:58 am PST #5523 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!

I still remember that Christmas, before our festivities started, posting about the sick/withdrawing hookers on Cops...the timing made it sort of ugly on my part, but seriously? Are there men out there with that little humanity? And why can't we shoot them? Because nobody's that nuts, to believe a shaking, feverish-appearing(ha...police report speak, I couldn't verify after all) woman with missing teeth to whom a man gave ten dollars is "exercising choice" Right?