Ah, yes, of course. The gypsies, they gave you your soul. The gypsies are filthy people. Ptui! We shall speak of them no more.

Ilona Costa Bianchi ,'The Girl in Question'


Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


megan walker - Mar 08, 2010 10:35:15 am PST #14797 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

I had no idea it was so fraught!

Thanks for the link, at my place we were all wondering what the heck that was.


erikaj - Mar 08, 2010 10:37:51 am PST #14798 of 30001
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-

I know aasloads of women who would start giggling like Beavis at the thought of Rahm, showers, and, um, poking.(Way too many of my online girls who are not Buffistas think it's cute to list their online name as say, Whimsy McDumshit-Emmanuel...which fandom can I blame for this and can I send it back there?)


§ ita § - Mar 08, 2010 10:45:09 am PST #14799 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Wah. The guy at the T Mobile store turned my phone off. Which, normally, not an issue. Except I took it in because my power button wasn't working. So now that he popped the battery out, I can't turn it back on. I'm hoping that connecting it to my computer turns it back on (it worked over the weekend), but I'm grumpy because I did tell him it would happen.

And I have to pay UPS charges for the warranty replacement, and find a UPS dropoff. Hopefully I can do that in our mailroom at work.


tommyrot - Mar 08, 2010 11:07:40 am PST #14800 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.

In'eresting: The Jobs Of Yesteryear: Obsolete Occupations


smonster - Mar 08, 2010 11:10:48 am PST #14801 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

Xposted with Bitches.

Oh all-knowing hivemind, I come seeking assistance on a friend's behalf.

Friend foolishly and generously co-signed on a car lease with his now ex-gf. She also moved in while they were dating and is still living there and paying a pittance for rent. He gave her 30 days notice and now she's making life hell, has not looked for a place yet, and he's afraid she's going to take the car and leave him on the hook for payments.

Friend lives in Wake County, NC, and can't afford a lawyer.

Any words of wisdom? Online resources?


Ginger - Mar 08, 2010 11:14:37 am PST #14802 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

I was trying to finish a card for my sister's birthday that really should have gone in the mail Saturday. The printer gave me the "low ink" warning, but I thought, "I have the 'photo value pack' that came with the printer." I put in the colored cartridges, but the black one didn't look like the old one and didn't fit correctly. I fiddled with it a while, then turned to Google and found that I was one of many people who had the same problem, because the #564 black in for the Photosmart Plus printer is different than the #564 black ink for the non-Plus printer. Now I've spent about five hours on an hour project and still have to go out and hunt down the correct black ink, something that is still fraught with potential failures, since THEY HAVE THE SAME NUMBER. HP FAIL.

Also, I'm out of stamps and I ate all the Thin Mints.


Sophia Brooks - Mar 08, 2010 11:16:11 am PST #14803 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

In'eresting: The Jobs Of Yesteryear: Obsolete Occupations

And we wonder why there are no jobs to be had!


tommyrot - Mar 08, 2010 11:19:59 am PST #14804 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.

And we wonder why there are no jobs to be had!

Ban the refrigerator! Let's put icemen back to work!


DavidS - Mar 08, 2010 11:23:34 am PST #14805 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

In'eresting: The Jobs Of Yesteryear: Obsolete Occupations

My Dad was both a pinsetter and a river driver when he was a teenager. He was also a soda jerk and bragged about his subtle and complex soda mixes (I think the Lemon Coke best.)


tommyrot - Mar 08, 2010 11:26:44 am PST #14806 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.

A Russian site with tons of pictures of an Ekranoplan: [link]

The thing is just huge and amazing.