From the board number discussion in natter:
Dana: I'm number 6.
Jessica: I am not a number, I am a free - oh wait, I'm number 20.
And boys -- let's watch the swearing.
Mayor ,'Chosen'
Coffee On My Monitor Again
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Frankenbuddha - Nov 09, 2012 5:41:53 am PST #915 of 1328
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
erikaj - Nov 15, 2012 4:30:52 am PST #916 of 1328
Always Anti-fascist!
Allyson sets up but Billytea delivers...race, in Natter.
I don't think I need Andrew Ti to help me with this one:
Coworker: I had a really bad morning. There was a truck blocking me in my driveway for a half an hour! It was one of those guys picking through the trash for cans.
Me: Did he at least apologize?
Coworker: Well he was black.
Billytea: So I was running for President, right, because duh, I have the best hair, and my opponent just ran these relentless negative ads that made me look like a heartless plutocratic ideologue who's out to oppress women, Latinos and the poor and middle class. Mostly by quoting me."
"Did he at least apologize?"
"Well he was black."
JZ - Nov 16, 2012 3:53:30 pm PST #917 of 1328
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Discussing the twin pillars of all human society in Natter:
Connie Neil: The grape and the pig--where would civilization be without them?
-t -: Doing fine with beer and goat, I bet.
Polter-Cow - Nov 27, 2012 1:30:17 pm PST #918 of 1328
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Discussing the complexities of programming grammar in Tech:
ita !: I'm being shocked in the other direction by someone on IO9 who's trying to tell me that fixing your code so that it says 1 second instead of 1 seconds during a countdown is introducing dangerous levels of complexity and that the change is too expensive.
Jessica: If {timeleft} ==1 then {word after timeleft} = "second"; else {word after timeleft} = "seconds"
....or am I missing something?
(Caveat: Not a professional programmer! Entirely possible I've introduced something dangerously complex here! Read at your own risk!)
ita !: I'd answer your question, Jessica, but it seems you've crashed the internet with your cavalier use of conditional plurals.
I'd like you to go to your room and think about what you've done.
There's a lesson here for all of us.
Jessica: I...I'm sorry. This is why I can't have nice things, isn't it?
ita !: One nice things.
Frankenbuddha - Dec 20, 2012 6:43:17 am PST #919 of 1328
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
In Bitches, Scrappy with the setup, and billytea for the win
She just sent my Jewish husband and atheist self a Christmas card which wished us "more Jesus in your life." Really? REALLY?Send her a reply saying that sending threatening letters through the mail is a federal offence.
Fred Pete - Dec 20, 2012 8:30:24 am PST #920 of 1328
Ann, that's a ferret.
Ginger also had a pretty good response to Scrappy:
Honey, you can keep the Jesus. You need it more.
Tom Scola - Dec 27, 2012 4:20:17 am PST #921 of 1328
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
In Boxed Set:
Dana: Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellan, and Michael Gambon are combining to make one wizard-telepathic-mutant British starship captain.
Trudy Booth - Jan 04, 2013 9:00:23 pm PST #922 of 1328
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
Jesse - The "wrong" names make me irrationally angry. I'm going to go up to some Girl Scouts on the street and yell "Two Samoas and one Trefoil!!!"
...and then I'll go to Starbucks and order a medium coffee.
Toddson - Jan 18, 2013 4:32:47 am PST #923 of 1328
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
billytea, in Natter.
There are plenty of sites devoted to odd-looking animals (such as my sister's wedding photos on flickr).
billytea - Jan 27, 2013 4:47:54 pm PST #924 of 1328
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
In Natter, ita ! has opinions on Judge Dredd's sexuality:
Someone on IO9 is excoriating me for being a perv who wants Judge Dredd gay because I have established a long history of forcing sexual attraction readings and fanfic onto canon. The conversation? "Judge Dredd is too fascist to not be asexual." "Why would fascism make you asexual? Here is a book with famous fascist sexual perverts" "Oh, so now you're saying all fascists are gay? Are all environmentalists furries?" "No, I said they can have erections." "FANFIC PERVErT" "Hitler and Lenin had sex drives" "STOP SHUTTING DOWN DISCOURSE WITH FAKE GAY" "I think I need to go now."