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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.


Gudanov - May 27, 2010 12:20:51 pm PDT #2037 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping

It seems like the days of piloted close support missions are coming to an end.


tommyrot - May 27, 2010 12:23:18 pm PDT #2038 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.

It seems like the days of piloted close support missions are coming to an end.

Yeah, at least for dangerous missions where there's strong anti-aircraft defenses.


msbelle - May 27, 2010 12:26:51 pm PDT #2039 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Wow, catching up was a little terrifying. I think tommy may need some time away from google.


Kat - May 27, 2010 12:55:18 pm PDT #2040 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

HA. Tommyrot = googlefu.

I am back from the DMV where I had a super pleasant DMV worker (who made a special March of Dimes donation card for Grace! With red hearts!) and it took less than hour for TWO transactions AND I was able to get my license renewed early because I already had an appointment.

And in other flowing with bureaucracy news, I have an appointment with social security tomorrow and I got a letter today from Medi-cal saying I needed to go to Social Security and sign her up for Medicare. This, my friends, is serendipity!

(AND we bought another new car seat. Please do not ask how many car seats we have purchased because I lost count around 6, but the one in K's car had a giant slab of sytrofoam fall off that Noah picked up, asking, "What's this?")


§ ita § - May 27, 2010 12:56:55 pm PDT #2041 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Hokay, I'm missing something here. Who can wear pigtails? chart. How can Zooey Deschanel's pigails be more questionable than Tila Tequila's? How can they be more infantilising than Baby Spice's? And I don't even really like Zooey. Some of those are just kids. Some of those are women working the Lolita angle. Some of those are women whose hair is worn in two. She's awfully dramatic and naysaying with the whole "can't do this over 19" angle.

Signed,
Mutton.


Sheryl - May 27, 2010 12:58:02 pm PDT #2042 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

Brief, heavy rainstorm here. Meanwhile, Nova is staring intently at a bug. Yeah, my life is exciting.


Atropa - May 27, 2010 1:04:18 pm PDT #2043 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Some of those are women whose hair is worn in two.

raises hand I'm wearing pigtails right now, because it's an easy way to keep my hair semi-controlled under my hat without putting it up in a bun.


Kat - May 27, 2010 1:05:36 pm PDT #2044 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

The pigtail thing cracked me up! The article is, well, tone deaf.


§ ita § - May 27, 2010 1:08:32 pm PDT #2045 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

The author is also apparently a child, which makes it even creepier.


Beverly - May 27, 2010 1:15:18 pm PDT #2046 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Definition needed. In my lexicon, "pigtails" means hair parted in the center and braided. Hair parted in the center and put in twin ponytails is...ponytails, high on the head, over the ears, low on the neck, all ponytails, plural.

Hair gathered into a single braid is a braid, or a pigtail. Plait is a synonym for braid, either verb or noun. Hair gathered into a single ponytail, to one side or centered, high or low, is a ponytail.

When people say pigtails, do they mean twin ponytails? What if someone says "a single pigtail", do they mean a braid? Or a single ponytail?