Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.

Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'


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.


§ ita § - Sep 03, 2010 9:33:35 am PDT #21950 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I think being on my stomach would make it worse, if I couldn't move.

Great. Dustin's match rained out after three games. So much for the great video at work experiment.

None of the people I need to call are at their desks. I'm about to go for early lunch.


SuziQ - Sep 03, 2010 9:37:40 am PDT #21951 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

And yet I would be fine if I was on my stomach, oddly. Maybe because then I wouldn't be able to see exactly how little space I had?

This is me. Add MRI tunnel. It took everything I had not to freak out like a mammal.


Amy - Sep 03, 2010 9:40:15 am PDT #21952 of 30001
Because books.

Yeah, Suzi, the idea of an MRI freaks my shit out but good.


§ ita § - Sep 03, 2010 9:42:18 am PDT #21953 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

See, with an MRI, I can see daylight and know I can get right out. I can also move around a fair bit, even if I'm not allowed to. Also, I've had seven million of them. If the walls touched me, that'd be different.


Frankenbuddha - Sep 03, 2010 9:42:31 am PDT #21954 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

ION - bouncy, bouncy otters: [link]


Steph L. - Sep 03, 2010 9:43:04 am PDT #21955 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

And yet I would be fine if I was on my stomach, oddly. Maybe because then I wouldn't be able to see exactly how little space I had?

This is me. Add MRI tunnel. It took everything I had not to freak out like a mammal.

Oh my god. When I got an MRI, all I could think was "coffin coffin coffin coffin." What kept me from freaking out was that I had gotten up too early that day so I was already tired, and then I was full of percocet and flexiril, which made me more tired, so I was able to close my eyes and -- not *doze,* really, but I was tired enough to not be wired and alert. Keeping my eyes closed helped me to ignore that I was in a small metal tube.


Kathy A - Sep 03, 2010 9:48:11 am PDT #21956 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

At this point, if I ever had to have an MRI, it'd be like the scene from The Incredibles where they're trying to stuff pre-workout Mr. Incredible into the delivery tube. Not a pretty picture. Luckily enough, there are a lot of open MRI places around here if I ever need it.


Atropa - Sep 03, 2010 9:53:25 am PDT #21957 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Uh, what was in the can?

THIS IS WHAT I WANT TO KNOW. Dude, everyone knows that if you have to use something aerosol to kill a spider, you use Extra-Super hold AquaNet and laminate the thing. And then make someone else dispose of it. In an ideal world, someone else deals with the spiders anyway.


Amy - Sep 03, 2010 9:54:45 am PDT #21958 of 30001
Because books.

Dude, everyone knows that if you have to use something aerosol to kill a spider, you use Extra-Super hold AquaNet and laminate the thing.

But you don't light your lighter while doing it. That would cause a pretty big boom, too.


Frankenbuddha - Sep 03, 2010 9:56:14 am PDT #21959 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Dude, everyone knows that if you have to use something aerosol to kill a spider, you use Extra-Super hold AquaNet and laminate the thing. And then make someone else dispose of it. In an ideal world, someone else deals with the spiders anyway.

I never use aeresol; I usually use a cleaning spray like Fantastik.