I've been out of the abbey two days, I've beaten a lawman senseless, I've fallen in with criminals. I watched the captain shoot the man I swore to protect. And I'm not even sure if I think he was wrong.

Book ,'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.


§ ita § - Jun 16, 2010 9:19:42 am PDT #6945 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Which is more bestiality-ish? Human/minotaur sex, or human/centaur sex?

I'm gonna say--the more animalistic the peen, the more bestiality-ish the act. However, making out with a minotaur is gross, and most people are going to start with first base.

Let's just chuck the hippogriff. There's no win there.

Jessica, I feel your pain. I seriously want to go home, even though today is out-of-painkillers day. And I have a meeting I can't miss and a report due in by EOB. I'd just feel happier about the whole thing lying down.


Jessica - Jun 16, 2010 9:23:21 am PDT #6946 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I'd just feel happier about the whole thing lying down.

Not a day goes by when I don't want a hideaway bed under my desk like in that episode of Seinfeld.

(The new office? The one I won't be working in? Has plans for a "Privacy Room" where people can go lie down when they feel sick, and can also be used for pumping breast milk. I can haz departmental transfer nao?)


Stephanie - Jun 16, 2010 9:28:19 am PDT #6947 of 30001
Trust my rage

You know what is awesome? The smiles on the faces of the little kids holding the hands of the South African soccer players as they walk onto the field. Especially when the announcers have have just been talking about this massacre of children that happen on his day in SA 60 years ago.


Kathy A - Jun 16, 2010 9:29:08 am PDT #6948 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

We have one of those rooms (it used to double as the Massage Room when they brought in a chair masseuse once a month--they didn't pay for the massage, but they at least provided the service in-house). The women's restrooms also have a seating area with cushioned benches (banquette-style) where we can lie down if we need to, but then you get co-workers asking if you're feeling all right. I'm guessing the equivalent area in the men's rooms is filled with urinals.


§ ita § - Jun 16, 2010 9:34:05 am PDT #6949 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I lie down in my car. I get skittish at the idea of doing it where my co-workers could actually see me.

But I get skittish about my co-workers realising I'm not feeling well, which is why I haven't asked my boss if I can go the hell home. Which I totally should, dammit. The meeting at 1:30 is call-in.


Jessica - Jun 16, 2010 9:41:34 am PDT #6950 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Hm, this yogurt seems to be helping a little. Maybe I was low on...yogurt. Or something.

(Lunch didn't help, so it's not just hunger.)


Theodosia - Jun 16, 2010 9:52:53 am PDT #6951 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Dropping in -- what was the person search that people were talking about recently? It wasn't Zabasearch, was it?


Connie Neil - Jun 16, 2010 10:03:45 am PDT #6952 of 30001
brillig

They took the loveseat out of the women's bathroom when they remodeled the building. Bastards. Moved the scale to that area. (The scale is for the annual fitness drives, I think there's one in the men's room as well.) There's also a shower area in the bathroom, but that's where the toilet paper and paper towels are stored.


bon bon - Jun 16, 2010 10:04:10 am PDT #6953 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

IIRC Anita Blake had a rat king. A minotaur is like 50% better than that.


tommyrot - Jun 16, 2010 10:08:45 am PDT #6954 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.

U.S. Army Orders Huge Airship to Aid Combat Missions

The United States Army has ordered a huge hybrid airship longer than a football field to watch over battlefields in Afghanistan by the end of 2011, according to the airship's builder Northrop Grumman Corporation.

The company has received a $517 million Army contract to build up to three of the huge military airships, called the Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicles (LEMV). Such airships would serve as surveillance stations at 20,000 feet (6,096 meters) above sea level and could stay on watch for as long as three weeks at a time.

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That represents a staying power for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance over a longer period of time than what today's robotic drones such as the Predator or Reaper can provide.