Angel: I can stay in town as long as you want me. Buffy: How's forever? Does forever work for you?

'Lies My Parents Told Me'


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.


Burrell - Dec 21, 2009 10:10:15 am PST #26565 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

I explained that dishes are a CONSTANT job and they need to be done more than once a week

Ah, the dishes. I try to go to a zenlike place about the dishes. Like yours, my DH just doesn't get that dishes need to be done every day. I don't understand it, but I find that my marital happiness is better rewarded if I can just accept this strange cognitive lapse in an otherwise intelligent man.

Lately he has been quite insistent that I can't wash dishes while I am recovering. Even so, he isn't able to bring himself to wash the whole batch in one sitting, but at least he's washing some of the dishes every day. That's good enough.


Gudanov - Dec 21, 2009 10:11:27 am PST #26566 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping

Thanks for the link again. I don't think I scrolled the outline far enough the first time I looked.


tommyrot - Dec 21, 2009 10:15:06 am PST #26567 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.

“H32 jet helicopter is propelled by blazing ramjet engines on blade tips at Camp Rucker Army Aviation Center. (1956)”

The coolest thing about a helicopter with rotor blades powered by ramjets? The rotor blades are surrounded by a ring of fire. Johny Cash would have approved.


SuziQ - Dec 21, 2009 10:15:59 am PST #26568 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

Burrell, I have to accept the same when it comes to CJ. Cooking is my thing and dishes are supposed to be his. But when he forgets, I try to just do them and not get upset about it. Less stress on both of us. He does a bunch of chores, including cleaning the litter box. I'm happy to pick up the slack on dishes and not have to deal with the litter box.


Burrell - Dec 21, 2009 10:17:00 am PST #26569 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Same deal at our house, SuziQ.


Jesse - Dec 21, 2009 10:18:14 am PST #26570 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I am the person who can't do all of the dishes all of the time, most of the time. I hope my future spouse isn't also that person!


Typo Boy - Dec 21, 2009 10:22:39 am PST #26571 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Yeah. The formatting sucks. You have to scroll pretty far before you realized that it is an index to a bunch of posts rather than just a single post. It is a true conceptual index, so that most posts are linked are under more than one category. The idea is that any time you encounter a talking point you can just scroll down the index to you find something pretty close to what the denier is saying and the click onto a refutation that will probably be broad enough to rebut the particular version. Sometimes you will have to search a little, but its never taken me more than a few tries to find refutations.


Gudanov - Dec 21, 2009 10:23:59 am PST #26572 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping

The ring of fire helicopter is awesome.

I've got to go airplane geek here for a moment and share two of my favorite prototype aircraft from the 40s.

The XP-55 Curtiss Ascender [link]

And the Vultee XP-54 Swoose Goose [link]

Neither made it to production, but they looked cool not making it.


tommyrot - Dec 21, 2009 10:27:54 am PST #26573 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.

The XP-55 Curtiss Ascender [link]

That was a cool-looking airplane, but not really a great design due to stability issues. I think the Japanese Shinden (another canard fighter) was better, but the war ended before it could enter production: [link]

Also, I think the Shinden looks slightly better.


Typo Boy - Dec 21, 2009 10:28:06 am PST #26574 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Oh, and here is a really short answer to the specific 1998 point.

[link]

That is actually from a shorter site doing the same thing "How to talk to a Climate Skeptic" does.

[link]