Kaylee: You're nice, too. Mal: No, I'm not. I'm a mean old man.

'Serenity'


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 - Sep 23, 2010 1:37:37 pm PDT #25749 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Happy Birthday Emmett!

Theresa and tommy must be my siblings! I cannot balance either! I actually have this weird habit of tapping the front of the stair with my foot as I go down if I cannot look at my feet. In college, my BFF asked me why I always walked with my head down, like I was worried, and I told her no-- I am looking at my feet!


-t - Sep 23, 2010 1:39:42 pm PDT #25750 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Fire ants, msbelle? Those are the only critters I will go ahead and poison. Hate. We used to get some kind of powdery stuff to sprinkle around the nests to wipe them out. Sadly, another nest would eventually crop up somewhere else.


smonster - Sep 23, 2010 1:44:25 pm PDT #25751 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

My allergy to fire ants is why I ended up serving in Moldova instead of Francophone Africa.


tommyrot - Sep 23, 2010 1:44:58 pm PDT #25752 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.

I actually have this weird habit of tapping the front of the stair with my foot as I go down if I cannot look at my feet.

I do that sometimes too.

OK, people who have a bad sense of balance - do you suffer from motion sickness more than most people too? I do - I wonder if they're related.


Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 23, 2010 1:46:34 pm PDT #25753 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

Oof. Just posted this in the comments to a friend's status complaining about his neighbors filing a formal complaint against him instead of knocking and asking him to turn it down.

Is it possible their attempts to do this might have gone unheard? Last year I had to call the cops on my downstairs neighbor at 1 am because the music and yelling was too loud for anyone to hear me pounding on the door like a bongo drum.


Burrell - Sep 23, 2010 1:53:53 pm PDT #25754 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Oh Cash, how awful for your friend.


Theresa - Sep 23, 2010 2:04:17 pm PDT #25755 of 30001
"What would it take to get your daughter to stop tweeting about this?"

do you suffer from motion sickness more than most people

The upside is never having to yell shot gun cause no one is going to argue that you should ride where you can see.


Sophia Brooks - Sep 23, 2010 2:06:29 pm PDT #25756 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Yes, I too, always ride in the front!


Scrappy - Sep 23, 2010 2:08:49 pm PDT #25757 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Balance is a skill which can be improved with practice. When I started skating, my coach gave me a piece of 2x4 and I had to put it flat on the floor and stand on it on one foot, so I was a couple of inches off the floor. I was supposed to do this for 5 or 10 minutes at a time. First, I just had to stand, but then as the weeks went on, I had to start holding my other leg up or closing my eyes or reaching overhead.

I really sucked at first but definitely got better as time went on.


DavidS - Sep 23, 2010 2:16:31 pm PDT #25758 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Completely reconsidering good study habits via neuroscience.

Guess what? Having a quiet, dedicated space to study is not best. Moving around and having a stimulating environment helps your brain create a neural scaffolding of associations.