My dinner was pita, hummus, carrot sticks and spinach dip.
I'm perhaps over the heat. That's been my dinner pretty much since I got back, which coincides with 90+ weather. Even salads seem like too much work.
What'd you all order a dead guy for?
Jayne ,'The Message'
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.
sarameg - Aug 18, 2009 4:03:00 pm PDT #4447 of 30001
Cashmere - Aug 18, 2009 4:03:14 pm PDT #4448 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
I just had to "reply all" to a anti-tax tea party "commercial" email that my cousin's wife sent to me. A woman asked her son to make a commercial for her tea party organization or something idiotic--a cheesy, iMovie production with stolen, copyrighted images of American Soldiers and public servants.
I replied:
I think Justin and his mother both need to go back and retake a History class or two.
The Tea Act of 1773 actually REDUCED the cost of tea in the American Colonies! The act made legally imported British tea from the East India Tea Company cheaper than the smuggled Dutch imports, after repealing a series of tarrifs called the Townsend Acts.
The Sons of Liberty were NOT protesting taxes. They were protesting Taxation WITHOUT REPRESENTATION. They were refusing to pay taxes passed by a legislative body (British Parliament) in which they had no elected representatives.
By the way, the people Justin showed in this video--the soldiers, astronauts, police, etc. Their salaries are paid WITH TAXES.Really, they should know better than to send me this shit.
sarameg - Aug 18, 2009 4:03:29 pm PDT #4449 of 30001
Oh look! The guy MY DAD GAVE A TOUR TO is on teevee!
Cass - Aug 18, 2009 4:14:43 pm PDT #4450 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I replied
::cheerleads::
I feel virtuous, and somewhat international.
I feel within a thousand miles and hungry. Sadly my Dana-Nav just finds fic recs and not actual food.
Oh look! The guy MY DAD GAVE A TOUR TO is on teevee!On teevee and the awesomest. Really, I chatted about Neil De Grasse Tyson enough that my mom bought one of his books. ... This also happened with Neil Gaiman. Perhaps she is just susceptible to Neil talk.
Steph L. - Aug 18, 2009 4:14:44 pm PDT #4451 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Then they're all, "Oh, I guess I just forget with you."
Translated: "It makes me feel better to consider your race/ethnicity as so unimportant as to be non-existent."
"Colorblind" as a term regarding race needs to be retired. When people say, "Oh, I don't see COLOR; I just see people," all I can think is, how did you not get wiped out by natural selection yet? On the most rudimentary, basic, BIOLOGICAL level -- the way the human eye functions and the brain processes what we see -- YOU GODDAMN WELL DO SEE COLOR. (Yes, I know that there are people who are literally color-blind, and some people have a neurobiological anomaly that makes them see in black-and-white only, but I think you know I'm talking about the vast majority, not the exceptions.)
And where "colorblind" means "I don't use your race/ethnicity/color in order to pre-judge you," well, that's cool, but I still think the term needs to be retired.
t /rantypants
Steph L. - Aug 18, 2009 4:15:48 pm PDT #4452 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Perhaps she is just susceptible to Neil talk.
The test would be Neil Diamond. Pimp his music to her. "Solitary Man" rocks.
t edit Uh, seriously, I like Neil Diamond WAY more than I feel comfortable admitting.
Barb - Aug 18, 2009 4:17:53 pm PDT #4453 of 30001
“Not dead yet!”
The test would be Neil Diamond. Pimp his music to her. "Solitary Man" rocks.
Indeed, it does. Neil is Da Man.
Cass - Aug 18, 2009 4:18:41 pm PDT #4454 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I am going to get the most puzzled phone call when she gets out of the water board meeting and reads her texts... And I'm blaming Tep.
Steph L. - Aug 18, 2009 4:19:49 pm PDT #4455 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
And I'm blaming Tep.
Woot!
meara - Aug 18, 2009 4:21:42 pm PDT #4456 of 30001
I am having a banana protein frappucino (they ran out of the strawberry stuff) and stress for dinner. Though not as much as msbelle, eeep. My flight is delayed, I have a ton to do I can only do at home, I have an early flight again tomorrow, and I found out I have to go to Hawaii on Monday. Which I'd be all for, except I'll get there at noon Monday and leave at 9am Tuesday. Wheeee.