Jayne: Well... I don't like the idea of someone hearin' what I'm thinkin'. Inara: No one likes the idea of hearing what you're thinking.

'Objects In Space'


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.


Steph L. - Dec 11, 2009 9:59:14 am PST #24378 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Did you guys hear the thud my eyeballs made when they whirled out of my head and hit the floor rolling?

No, because I was too busy looking for my own. Which was hard, what with them already being out of my head.


tommyrot - Dec 11, 2009 10:00:37 am PST #24379 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.

Knowing your girlfriend is XY despite having lady parts must be something to wrap your head around.

Huh. I don't think it would be for me. But that's just a hypothetical for me (at this point in time, anyway).


Jesse - Dec 11, 2009 10:02:11 am PST #24380 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Who will Usain Bolt run against?

Um, whoever he wants, I guess.


Dana - Dec 11, 2009 10:02:20 am PST #24381 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

A cheetah?


Jesse - Dec 11, 2009 10:03:43 am PST #24382 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Good one!

I'm just thinking, there's got to be some better way than making a checklist of what makes someone female.


Trudy Booth - Dec 11, 2009 10:04:07 am PST #24383 of 30001
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

Who will Usain Bolt run against?

They're welcome to put him up against me.


Aims - Dec 11, 2009 10:04:58 am PST #24384 of 30001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

I'll go head to head with him.

t high fives SPP


Theodosia - Dec 11, 2009 10:05:07 am PST #24385 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Reputedly there are a number of top supermodels who are actually androgen-insensitive XYs. The XY expresses as a tall lanky frame and higher-than-normal-for-female metabolism (meaning they tend to be naturally slim), and their boyish slim curves result from the lower amount of estrogen that testes produce.

Were it not for the lack of menstruation (lacking a womb) and subsequent gynecological investigation, these women would have gone through life unaware of their XY status.


Strix - Dec 11, 2009 10:08:10 am PST #24386 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Where does the term "bat shit crazy" come from?

I know dried guano was used for something, but I can't remember what? Can it carry rabies or a psychoactive agent?


Jesse - Dec 11, 2009 10:08:29 am PST #24387 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

OMG, I have to share this from Carolyn Hax's chat, because it made me laugh out loud:

I was once dating a similar guy, and my very Catholic family was intrigued. He was a carpenter to boot (Jewish carpenter, ha, ha) I brought him home for Christmas, and he declined to go to church, he would feel "uncomfortable." I should have told him to pretend he was an anthropologist. Instead he decided to make a special breakfast for the family while we were at Mass.

Now, I had met him and was living in Alaska, so of course he was a big hunter. He brought special deer sausage in a cooler on the plane to make for my family. Evidently he got pretty hot while cooking, so stripped down to his tank top undershirt.

So, we all troop in from church, and there's my hairy Jewish Alaskan boyfriend in his undershirt. My mom went upstairs to change and said to my sister "WHY is there a Jewish carpenter in his undershirt making REINDEER sausage in my kitchen on CHRISTMAS?"

For various reasons, the relationship didn't last.