I'll be fine. I'll be your bounty, Jubal Early. And I'll just fade away.

River ,'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.


tommyrot - Jan 06, 2010 8:15:19 am PST #29590 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.

Missing patient found dead in hospital

A 60-year-old man, missing for five days, was found dead in a doctor's waiting room at a hospital. From Daily Dispatch Online:

It is alleged the man was seen by a nurse and a doctor on December 24, and five days later his decomposing body was found locked inside the room.

Health spokesperson Sizwe Kupelo said that bread and the keys of the room were found inside the room with him.

“We condemn such misconduct and hospital managers who don’t want to manage will have shape up or ship out,” Kupelo said.

The man’s family came looking for him but were using a different name to that which was used when he was admitted to the hospital, he said.


Lee - Jan 06, 2010 8:18:12 am PST #29591 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

New Guy is just asking to get punched in the dick, isn't he?

Repeatedly.


megan walker - Jan 06, 2010 8:19:54 am PST #29592 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Not that it happens very often, but I hate being accused of cheating, even in jest, mostly because I don't see the point of it. I would have no satisfaction in winning if I knew I had cheated.


Nicole - Jan 06, 2010 8:20:00 am PST #29593 of 30001
I'm getting the pig!

DH and I tried playing Lexulous with his mom. After the first couple of games we were labeled as cheaters because she wasn't winning. I tried explaining that it takes a while to get back into the swing of things with a game like Scrabble, but she blew me off. Soon after she just got real snippy and then stopped playing completely.

She still sends invites to other online competition type games and we've decided to ignore them.


Burrell - Jan 06, 2010 8:20:01 am PST #29594 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Wow, is New Guy playing at something? I repeat, what a tool.

WRT letting the kids win, sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. Depends on the circumstances, the game, and whether or not our kids are still learning the rules. We have two kids who want to win, and since they can't both win every time, it's not worth our while to throw games to them on a regular basis.


tommyrot - Jan 06, 2010 8:21:00 am PST #29595 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 Expulsion from Eden, Written with Internet Catchphrases (A short comic)


Scrappy - Jan 06, 2010 8:21:11 am PST #29596 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

My family had evening games of Michigan Rummy and Monopoly when I was a kid. No cheating was allowed, but we were expected to help our little brother who couldn't read yet. Sometimes that meant helping him to win, which was actually fun.


Aims - Jan 06, 2010 8:25:21 am PST #29597 of 30001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

At Christmas this year we were playing a bastardized version of "Catchphrase" where each person got a point for saying the right thing instead of teams. After smoking the group pretty good, my dad declared, "NO MORE Entertainment or Food! Aimee keeps smokin' us!" But my dad is very strange in that he makes what we like to call "The Greg Rules" for damn near any board game. The "Challenge Rule" in Trivial Pursuit is HUGE in my family and has caused many an argument between teammates - usually my mom and dad. The only games I have yet to see him change are chess and checkers.


Connie Neil - Jan 06, 2010 8:26:58 am PST #29598 of 30001
brillig

Hubby and I are not allowed to be on the same team for any trivia/obscure knowledge-based game. We always get assigned to opposite teams so we'll cancel each other out. Takes all the fun out of it.


DavidS - Jan 06, 2010 8:28:22 am PST #29599 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

When I played physical sports with Emmett when he was little - mostly handball - I had to rein in my game considerably. But that seemed like a fair handicap. Also, I slowly introduced the basic notions of strategy (such as pulling the other player out of position by going side to side) until he got very good and could beat me straight up.

Most of the board games we played were more about chance than strategy so he had an equal chance of winning. But I would throw games because it was more about the social engagement and learning new stuff. There was no way he could compete with me when he was younger and it was no fun for him to lose all the time.

Now he can beat me at chess pretty regularly.

He was pretty obnoxious about rules interpretation so I did have to institute a rule that I was the only arbiter of rules or we wouldn't play at all.

He's totally okay with losing baseball games, but he hates losing to me at tennis.

JZ is super competitive and can be a bad sport when she loses at board games. She grew up in a cut throat board game family.

I would say my POV with playing games with kids is more about teaching them how to play and making it fun for them. So I'm more like the momma tiger which will mostly kill an antelope and then let the cubs in to finish the kill.