I just think you're freakin' out 'cause you have to fight someone prettier than you.

Dawn ,'The Killer In Me'


Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.  

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.


Sophia Brooks - Jul 06, 2010 10:21:09 am PDT #10688 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I really wish my boss was a better writer, because everything she has to say is great, but nurses are taught to be very brief and she is fairly new to academic writing. She ends up with either "short and choppy with sentence fragments" or what my professor called "bad learned prose" where you basically dress things up with big words and passive voice.

Many, many nurses write like this, and get published, so I don't want to be too critical of her writing (even though I just want it to get better). But uncomfortable.


brenda m - Jul 06, 2010 10:23:16 am PDT #10689 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 the problem is that the two items are redundant. Rising cost of healthcare v. healthcare spending. Is there really a substantive difference there? I would go with one or the other because with both it's going to sound wrong either way to some readers.


Gudanov - Jul 06, 2010 10:26:41 am PDT #10690 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping

It's one of the oldest and ugliest lies in the creationist bag of tricks: blame Darwin for the Holocaust. It's been debunked countless times.

I've never really understood this argument, even if Hitler cited evolution/natural selection as a motivating reason for the Holocaust, it says nothing about the validity of the theory. I suppose the idea must be that we should suppress the science regardless of the evidence.


Jessica - Jul 06, 2010 10:27:13 am PDT #10691 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

This is unfair - it's hotter here in Brooklyn than at my parents house in DC where we just left! We were driving northeast for 5 hours! Isn't that worth at least a few degrees???

And I still have to go back outside to go grocery shopping and return the car. Blast.


Jessica - Jul 06, 2010 10:29:48 am PDT #10692 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

even if Hitler cited evolution/natural selection as a motivating reason for the Holocaust, it says nothing about the validity of the theory.

No no no, everything Hitler ever had even a remote connection with is automatically and permanently linked with EVIL.

For example: Nazi uniforms included pants. THEREFORE, pants-wearing caused the holocaust. Everyone who is not a nudist obviously loves Hitler and should be shunned by all right-thinking people.


tommyrot - Jul 06, 2010 10:32:39 am PDT #10693 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.

Also, the Wright Brothers' theories led directly to 9/11.


Dana - Jul 06, 2010 10:34:30 am PDT #10694 of 30001
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

Goddamnit, was trying to buy an airline ticket and the price went up just as I was about to purchase. Graargh.


erikaj - Jul 06, 2010 10:35:22 am PDT #10695 of 30001
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-

Huff Po has one virtue...making Kos look good. Even though we do have wank outbreaks.


msbelle - Jul 06, 2010 10:35:22 am PDT #10696 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Can confirm the hotness of outside in NY. We are done with appt#1, did a short errand to bestbuy and are now at appt#2. We will be eating at Hooters next and I will have a HUGE iced tea.


brenda m - Jul 06, 2010 10:36:32 am PDT #10697 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

Goddamnit, was trying to buy an airline ticket and the price went up just as I was about to purchase. Graargh.

That is also Hitler's fault.