On my seventh birthday, I wanted a toy fire truck, and I didn't get it, and you were real nice about it, and then the house next door burnt down, and then real firetrucks came, and for years I thought you set the fire for me. And if you did, you can tell me!

Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'


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.


Allyson - Jan 12, 2010 8:29:57 am PST #922 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

Yeah, but I don't snog you guys.


Jesse - Jan 12, 2010 8:30:28 am PST #923 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

OK, there is that.


msbelle - Jan 12, 2010 8:32:25 am PST #924 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

YAY Allyson!


§ ita § - Jan 12, 2010 8:33:08 am PST #925 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

You had me live at the foot of your bed for months. Snogging is nothing compared to that.

Though it is potentially true I approach snogging wrongly.


Calli - Jan 12, 2010 8:40:01 am PST #926 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

So, New Boy is arriving on Friday,

and

I tried on a rockin' corset, but then realized I would never be able to hook it on my own.

It seems like 1 could be useful with 2, eventually. Assuming he's worthy of the awesomeness that is Allyson.

In other news, my office style guide has finally adopted the serial comma. One of my coworkers has been tasked with adding it to every appropriate spot in the new website text. When she told me this I raised my fist, shook it, and said, "The righteous have triumphed!"

And, in spite of some earlier grousing, I know that I work in the right place. Because no one even turned their head when I did that.


Jessica - Jan 12, 2010 8:42:00 am PST #927 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Hey Tep - today's Slashfood is all about Cincy: [link]


brenda m - Jan 12, 2010 8:42:52 am PST #928 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

Heh. I like the sound of this one:

Pork Chops Tart
Serves 3
You will need:
•5 pork chops
•4 chillis
•130g bacon
•20g chocolate
Instructions:
1.sauté the pork chops
2.throw the pork chops away
3.slice the chocolate
4.rinse the bacon
5.eat the chillis
6.enjoy


tommyrot - Jan 12, 2010 8:43:07 am PST #929 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.

What's so funny? Why an ape will never laugh at another's misfortune

Evolution has enabled humans to use laughter to mock and ridicule others while apes simply laugh to enjoy themselves, a scientist revealed today.

Dr Marina Davila Ross, of the University of Portsmouth, has previously studied how humans learned to laugh from their great ape ancestors.

In her latest research she found that primate species have since developed different functions for laughter.

While Asian apes laugh for laughter's sake, African apes laugh to influence others and humans can use laughter to sneer at others.

Dr Ross said: 'Humans and the African ape developed laughter further than the Asian great ape to have an effect on others.

'But something happened in the last five million years which means humans use laughter for a much wider range of situations than our primate ancestors.

'Laughter occurs in close to every imaginable form of human social interaction, including to mock others.'

It would suck to be an ape. I mean, what would be the point to living if you can't "use laughter to mock and ridicule others"?


Jessica - Jan 12, 2010 8:44:51 am PST #930 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Now I'm gonna have "Schadenfreude!" stuck in my head for the rest of the day.


brenda m - Jan 12, 2010 8:55:20 am PST #931 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