We gotta go to the crappy town where I'm the hero!

Wash ,'Jaynestown'


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.


DavidS - Sep 28, 2010 1:25:56 pm PDT #26593 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

DCI Tennyson vs. Cracker (for Comic Relief)


Amy - Sep 28, 2010 1:26:55 pm PDT #26594 of 30001
Because books.

Yeah, but it's implied that there is a good reason, isn't it?

I always thought it was meant more along the lines of "the reason will have meaning," at some point.


Steph L. - Sep 28, 2010 1:27:57 pm PDT #26595 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Some of those reasons are just shittastic, is all.

Yeah, but it's implied that there is a good reason, isn't it?

I think that *is* the implication, yeah, but I like to be a smartass and reply to people's platitudes with things like "Sure, but some of the reasons are shittastic."

I don't play well with others.


-t - Sep 28, 2010 1:33:08 pm PDT #26596 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

"It's always darkest before the dawn."

I always think of that when I'm up before dawn, in a musing about the conditions under which it is literally true way. It's always coldest before the dawn is more often true, I suspect. Though I am assuming, in my interpretation, that "before" means "just before". It is almost always darker before dawn than after dawn, I suppose.

What's that line? Optimists believe we live in the best of all possible worlds, pessimists fear that that is so. Something like that.


JZ - Sep 28, 2010 1:33:26 pm PDT #26597 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

When you assume, you make an ass of you and me.

Oh, that one totally makes me stabby.

One of my friends had a crazy boss who used to lecture the staff about how, "Whenever you point a finger of blame at someone else, always remember you've got four more fingers pointing at yourself." Which is simultaneously homicide-inducingly irritating, factually wrong (really? Your thumb is pointing back at you? What kind of freak are you?), and in his case incredibly hypocritical since he was also constantly flying into rages of blaming everyone on the planet but himself for his crappy business.


Jesse - Sep 28, 2010 1:35:11 pm PDT #26598 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I always thought it was meant more along the lines of "the reason will have meaning," at some point.

Yeah, I think that's even worse. I don't think anyone ever says, "My son died, but now I understand it was to teach me {whatever, I can't even finish the sentence}..."

You know what platitude is true, though? Bacon makes everything better. Tonight's example? Half-assed corn chowder. I am so much better at half-assed soups than almost any other food category.


Steph L. - Sep 28, 2010 1:35:55 pm PDT #26599 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

"Whenever you point a finger of blame at someone else, always remember you've got four more fingers pointing at yourself." Which is simultaneously homicide-inducingly irritating, factually wrong (really? Your thumb is pointing back at you? What kind of freak are you?)

Did anyone else just point their finger to see what the thumb on that hand did?


Amy - Sep 28, 2010 1:36:12 pm PDT #26600 of 30001
Because books.

Now I want bacon.

Yeah, I think that's even worse. I don't think anyone ever says, "My son died, but now I understand it was to teach me {whatever, I can't even finish the sentence}..."

I think it's absolutely awful, but I've known people who absolutely meant it that way.


Jesse - Sep 28, 2010 1:36:13 pm PDT #26601 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

One of my friends had a crazy boss who used to lecture the staff about how, "Whenever you point a finger of blame at someone else, always remember you've got four more fingers pointing at yourself."

I taught that to my family recently! Except with three fingers, because I'm not an idiot. But I was doing it as a joke.


tommyrot - Sep 28, 2010 1:36:18 pm PDT #26602 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.

"Whenever you point a finger of blame at someone else, always remember you've got four more fingers pointing at yourself."

Yeah, that makes no sense. If that were true, it wouldn't make any sense for anyone to blame anyone else for anything.