Sparky - insent.
Bunch of wanna blessed-bes. Nowadays every girl with a henna tattoo and a spice rack thinks she's a sister to the dark ones.
Willow ,'Bring On The Night'
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.
Aims - Sep 11, 2009 6:07:48 am PDT #8017 of 30001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Jessica - Sep 11, 2009 6:11:41 am PDT #8018 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Facebook is driving me crazy - people I unfriended months ago are showing up in my feed again! (Nothing political, thank goodness, just a judicious pruning of "Who the hell is this person again? Where do I know them from?" types.)
StuntHusband - Sep 11, 2009 6:16:34 am PDT #8019 of 30001
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
In Returning News - the suggestion at BoingBoing is that Caster Semenya was not informed of her (she identifies as female, so I'll use that pronoun) test results BEFORE they were published in the media.
I...have no words.
Laura - Sep 11, 2009 6:18:05 am PDT #8020 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
As a callback apparently he's also against vaccinations because they make you ill and let the government track you
My best employee believes that the government was behind 9/11, vaccines are evil, and pretty much any conspiracy theory you ever heard. And yet, a great worker so I do my @@ out of her sight. I have pointed out to her that if she is going to believe what she reads on the internet why not believe the 99.999% that say the opposite of what she buys into. Oh well.
Jessica - Sep 11, 2009 6:18:15 am PDT #8021 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
the suggestion at BoingBoing is that Caster Semenya was not informed of her (she identifies as female, so I'll use that pronoun) test results BEFORE they were published in the media.
I wish I could say I was surprised, but that is really un-fucking-acceptable.
Sparky1 - Sep 11, 2009 6:19:16 am PDT #8022 of 30001
Librarian Warlord
Backflung, Aims. I'm happy to answer any questions I can or put you in touch with our grad students, who probably know a lot more than I do about the program.
Vortex - Sep 11, 2009 6:22:57 am PDT #8023 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
She pointed out that the people who wouldn't hire her for that probably wouldn't hire her for her locks, either. Fair point?
Yes and no. People (particularly older people) can sometimes appreciate the desire to celebrate ethnicity, but have a negative image of tattoos. My mother was talking about a movement in her sorority to not allow anyone with a tattoo to join.
tommyrot - Sep 11, 2009 6:25:11 am PDT #8024 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.
I'm hungry. I have a yogurt here, but... I don't have any spoons. I do, however, have a KFC plastic spork. Which I'm going to have to use.
The horror... the horror....
brenda m - Sep 11, 2009 6:28:55 am PDT #8025 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
I think she's wrong to equate the tatt with the locks, but also that, depending on the specifics of the tattoo, hiding it when necessary probably isn't that big of a deal.
§ ita § - Sep 11, 2009 6:30:12 am PDT #8026 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
the suggestion at BoingBoing is that Caster Semenya was not informed of her (she identifies as female, so I'll use that pronoun) test results BEFORE they were published in the media.
Wasn't the article Hil linked to saying that the South African authorities (the ones that would have informed her) were refusing to accept/admit receiving the information? Let me go look. Here it is:
A spokesman for the International Association of Athletics Federations is reported to have said that its urgent efforts to contact Semenya, the women's 800 metres world champion, were being thwarted by South African athletics authorities. Adding to the confusion, Athletics South Africa (ASA) has denied the claim, insisting that it has not yet heard from the IAAF.