Geez, everyone is leaving the office early today! I think I'll be outta here in half an hour or so.
The next time you decide to stab me in the back... have the guts to do it to my face.
Mal ,'Ariel'
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.
Kathy A - Sep 16, 2009 12:53:43 pm PDT #9197 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Lee - Sep 16, 2009 12:59:30 pm PDT #9198 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
It was decided that since I was here for so long yesterday doing marketing projects that I shouldn't do any of the marketing projects that came in today (YAY), but that means that I am sitting here without any thing to do, watching the clock not move.
MY DIAMOND SHOES HURT
-t - Sep 16, 2009 1:00:43 pm PDT #9199 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I would think that since you were there so long yesterday you should not be there at all today.
Polter-Cow - Sep 16, 2009 1:02:21 pm PDT #9200 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
MY DIAMOND SHOES HURT
MY DIAMOND BRAIN NEEDS MORE CLUES.
Lee - Sep 16, 2009 1:05:27 pm PDT #9201 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Sheryl - Sep 16, 2009 1:14:51 pm PDT #9202 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Am sleepy, and oddly tense.
-t - Sep 16, 2009 1:35:18 pm PDT #9203 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Upon reflection, I think that the misuse of decimate bothers me less when it is used imprecisely to mean some amount of devastation and more when it is used to mean utter destruction (as in "decimated to the last man" or such), which is much more wrong to me.
§ ita § - Sep 16, 2009 1:42:27 pm PDT #9204 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
some amount of devastation
In my head you can't have too little devastation. Sure, if you're the one in ten, decimation feels pretty ruinous, but your team hasn't been devastated (except emotionally) until more are mowed down.
No, I don't know precisely where the tipping point is. Somewhere around four.
Unrelatedly, I feel cheated that this place doesn't only have chocolate. But as long as the chocolate they do have is essential, I guess they aren't lying. Just seems they should be slanted more that way.
sarameg - Sep 16, 2009 2:10:55 pm PDT #9205 of 30001
I'm so hungry, but I don't wanna make dinner. Bah. (And delivery is not an option, will take longer than it takes for me to get off my ass and make a salad already.)
-t - Sep 16, 2009 2:11:07 pm PDT #9206 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I see your point. But even if you are talking about 40% when you say decimated, that's wrong but not as wrong as 100%.