Sometimes I miss having powers... Oh. Oh! I know what this is! This is peer pressure! Any second now you're gonna make me smoke tobacco and--and have drugs!

Anya ,'Showtime'


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.


Vortex - Jan 28, 2010 2:43:23 pm PST #4732 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

Except now they're saving it for special occasions.

Like, Sunday? (I wouldn't was JBM on work coffee. I'd save if for a relaxing morning)

Can you make hummus with bacon fat? Maybe I'd like that.

Hmm, I don't know. I wonder how the texture would be because bacon fat is not liquid at room temperature. Perhaps an experiment . . .


Liese S. - Jan 28, 2010 2:48:55 pm PST #4733 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

I save my Kona coffee for special occasions. I call them, "mornings." I technically own other coffee, but it is foul dreck, fit only for consumption of desperation.

What about goose grease? I bet hummus made with goose grease would be yum.

This is our ninth year at our current jobs. The mind, it boggles. I always previously used to get antsy around five years. Like if I somehow stuck with a job too long, I'd have committed too much of my life and identity with it. This one, that's water under the bridge.


§ ita § - Jan 28, 2010 2:50:12 pm PST #4734 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Like, Sunday?

This is what I said. Someone suggested to one of them that Valentine's Day was appropriately special, and he gave one of the most derisive laughs I've ever heard. Warmed my heart, it did. What heart there is left.

I wonder how the texture would be because bacon fat is not liquid at room temperature

There is that. But in the spirit of adding to the amassed knowledge of the human race!


Jesse - Jan 28, 2010 2:52:06 pm PST #4735 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I've never been at a job longer than about three years.


Jessica - Jan 28, 2010 3:02:58 pm PST #4736 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Can you make hummus with bacon fat? Maybe I'd like that.

Only one way to find out!


Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 28, 2010 3:06:16 pm PST #4737 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

I've been at this particular job 12 years and in my company for 22.


Vortex - Jan 28, 2010 3:16:58 pm PST #4738 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

I've been at the University for 8 years, but this job for only 3. Ironically, I loved the two jobs that I had before this one that I have been at for the longest.


Calli - Jan 28, 2010 3:53:10 pm PST #4739 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I was at my previous job for 8 years. I could see staying at my current one for another 2 or 3, depending on how things go.


smonster - Jan 28, 2010 3:57:46 pm PST #4740 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

Oh my dear lord. Apologies if this has already been linked. How to fail on Facebook: [link] I laughed out loud at least five times.


Kathy A - Jan 28, 2010 4:05:37 pm PST #4741 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Let's see:

Company #1: Exactly 1 year
Company #2: Ten months
Company #3: Nine months
Company #4: 17+ years

I had a few months off between the first three jobs due to layoffs/recession of the late 80s/early 90s, and have been really lucky to remain here as long as I have.

Funny thing is that the job I started with is a lower-level version of what I'm doing now (I did have three other positions in between), and I have the same two bosses I had 17 years ago, only they've switched places--my original manager is now my direct boss, and the assistant manager is now her boss.