Tom Scola, in Bitches:
Thanks to Fox News, there are SO many people out there who sincerely believe that trolling is an acceptable form of discourse.
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
Coffee On My Monitor Again
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WindSparrow - Aug 17, 2010 3:16:36 am PDT #495 of 1328
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Aims - Aug 17, 2010 11:39:01 am PDT #496 of 1328
Shit's all sorts of different now.
It's just funny.
amych in Natter re: FB shenanigans:
You are not to blame for the vikings. Your interesting facebook companion is like "BUT THE VIKINGS!" and other people are like, bzuh? And then he's like "JFK! VIKINGS!" and other people are, here, have some trufax. And he's all "CIVIL WAR! VIKINGS! WILL NOBODY THINK OF THE VIKINGS!!!"
Polter-Cow - Aug 17, 2010 11:51:43 am PDT #497 of 1328
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
A conversation about interracial marriages turns to geology in Bitches:
Shir: Actually, thinking about it for a second: I have Hungarian, Polish, English, Lebanese, Israeli and German blood in me - and that's just up to the grandfathers' generation. One more up and there are countries which don't even exist today.
Mixing rocks.
Jessica: Mixing rocks.
Anyone else just have a Willow moment?
(Mix rocks? Why would anyone want to - oh.)
Jars: No! No mixing rocks! Sedimentary rocks with sedimentary rocks. Volcanic rocks with volcanic rocks. Metamorphic with metamorphic!
Shir: Racist!
Ginger: Rockist!
Polter-Cow: Geologist!
Ginger: But sedimentary rocks are already mixed.
Aims: NO EXCEPTIONS!
amych: I am shocked and saddened by this display of Tectonic Supremacism in our midst.
Jars: See what can happen? It's a slippery slope! And do sedimentary rocks last? Do they? A few million years and they weather away!
Ginger: They don't stand by their principles! Under pressure, they become entirely different rocks.
WindSparrow - Aug 17, 2010 12:58:43 pm PDT #498 of 1328
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
P-C, I would include this, too, in with the Rockist! Racist! bits, as it is part of what made me snicker.
Polter-Cow: Geologist!
Polter-Cow - Aug 17, 2010 1:08:10 pm PDT #499 of 1328
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I wanted to include it, but I felt weird COMMing myself. I'll stick it in to break up Ginger's.
WindSparrow - Aug 17, 2010 1:13:15 pm PDT #500 of 1328
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
I kinda thought you might feel that way, that it might help to validate it for you.
brenda m - Aug 17, 2010 5:21:37 pm PDT #501 of 1328
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Or to make her look craxy. That's always worthwhile.
brenda m - Aug 17, 2010 5:26:01 pm PDT #502 of 1328
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Pulling one piece out of a very serious conversation but:
Shir: I think that we've established that people are totally wrong.
Burrell - Aug 18, 2010 6:06:37 am PDT #503 of 1328
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
billytea: I discovered this morning that he understands "Where are the penguins?" in Chinese. My son!
Ginger: It's probably the sentence he's heard most often, along with "Where are the echidnas" and "Who's a little naked mole rat?"
Spidra Webster - Aug 18, 2010 9:57:11 am PDT #504 of 1328
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
In Bitches:
Nora Deirdre: You are not responsible for my mental health!
Steph L.: Actually, I control it from afar.