wrod. And so many Apple people are *so* annoying. (now, people don't generally need permission to be assholes, whatever the trigger is, but they really have internalized that whole "too cool for school" image.) But my posting about a computer problem is NOT your frickin' cue to step in and wax rhapsodic about your damn MacBook. Honest to god.ETA: Having Rahm Emanuel as my tag makes some conversations extra funny.
Anya: We should drop a piano on her. It always works for that creepy cartoon rabbit when he's running from that nice man with the speech impediment. Giles: Yes, or perhaps we could paint a convincing fake tunnel on the side of a mountain.
'Touched'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
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.
erikaj - Sep 23, 2009 11:36:07 am PDT #10392 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
flea - Sep 23, 2009 11:37:17 am PDT #10393 of 30001
information libertarian
Re: crash test, go team crumple zones and airbag!
erikaj - Sep 23, 2009 11:39:30 am PDT #10394 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
Rachel Maddow used that footage to illustrate Why Regulation Matters. She's so smart.
tommyrot - Sep 23, 2009 11:42:30 am PDT #10395 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Rachel Maddow used that footage to illustrate Why Regulation Matters. She's so smart.
Yeah. And oh boy did the auto industry scream and cry about the evils of those regulations back in the '60s and '70s... as well as hire private investigators to dig up dirt on Ralph Nader.
DavidS - Sep 23, 2009 11:48:25 am PDT #10396 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I didn't find it snarkful; I know there are both non-Starbucks and non-Apple folk around.
Well, I'm not snarking at Starbucks (I get coffee there frequently), or Apple (currently on one). Just the the idea of the cards.
Laura - Sep 23, 2009 11:49:41 am PDT #10397 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
I'm not sure why MP is bringing this up now...
The whole thing is sick and horrifying, but she is pushing her new book. t /cynic
Kathy A - Sep 23, 2009 11:51:22 am PDT #10398 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I remember watching a documentary on I think the Science Channel that was all about the development of car safety equipment. At one point, they had footage of an interview some tv reporter was doing with a mom sitting in her late 60s/early 70s car with her kindergarten-aged son sitting beside her. She was talking about how she didn't want some government hack telling her that she had to wear a seatbelt or, god forbid, make her child wear one. All I could picture was that sweet-faced boy being thrown through the windshield when she's in a crash.
Jesse - Sep 23, 2009 11:52:13 am PDT #10399 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That always seems to be the case with HR departments! (no offense, Scrappy.)
Actually, I think HR in general has an image problem because part of their job interacts directly with the rest of us, but not all of it. So when they aren't doing the interaction part, I can't figure out what they are doing -- because I don't really know what the other part is. Which is not their fault.
(Not that I'm letting this specific person off the hook because I really don't think she's using her time effectively...)
brenda m - Sep 23, 2009 11:54:57 am PDT #10400 of 30001
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
Thank you all for reminding me I'm out of coffee and need to run down to SBUX before they close. We do not need a repeat of this morning's Red Bull Cola. Bleh.
DavidS - Sep 23, 2009 11:55:15 am PDT #10401 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Right, people keep thinking that Mad Men plays it for laughs or exaggerates that culture, but Nader (ptooie!) really created a revolution in how people thought about safety.
I remember a standup comedian riffing on the world before car seats and how you'd put the baby on the shelf by the rear view window of the car. All you'd worry about was flipping the baby over so it wouldn't get a sunburn. Which is funny - but people totally did that!