great, cleaning up the cat hoark led me to cough until i hoarked also. and lemme tell ya, arrabiata sauce is NOT fun coming back up. *sigh* why do i keep these feline contagions around?
Book: Afraid I might be needing a preacher. Mal: That's good. You lie there and be ironical.
'Safe'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
erin_obscure - Jan 19, 2011 8:32:41 pm PST #17717 of 30001
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
javachik - Jan 19, 2011 8:43:03 pm PST #17718 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
ita, Judge Weldon? David Oyelowo, the actor from Five Days.
Cass - Jan 19, 2011 9:00:10 pm PST #17719 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Australia, what is the deal? Sharks in the STREETS. They're not even staying in swimming pools or bathtubs.
billytea - Jan 19, 2011 9:27:04 pm PST #17720 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Bull sharks have an unusually high tolerance to fresh water, and have been found even 50 km upriver. This one's a novelty, though. (They're also known man-eaters, so this isn't entirely comfortable news.)
Cass - Jan 19, 2011 9:41:13 pm PST #17721 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Bull sharks have an unusually high tolerance to fresh water
Yes. This is why I now freak out in now entirely justified ways about sharks in rivers and lakes and ... pools. Okay, the only addition to my freaking out was learning a few years ago that bull sharks totally will go in fresh water. The fear was already there. But now it is JUSTIFIED fear.
I will now add "sharks in the streets" to my list of fears. And maybe think about moving back to a more desert location where there are fewer possibilities of street sharks.
Sharks.
In the streets.
That is not cool, Australia. Not cool.
billytea - Jan 19, 2011 10:14:17 pm PST #17722 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I actually think it's quite awesomely cool, in and of itself. However, in defence of my homeland, I will point out that this does not actually happen when we're not coping with massive natural disasters.
Cass - Jan 19, 2011 10:29:31 pm PST #17723 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Logically, it's amazing and damn Nature is cool and, yes, terrifying.
Logic isn't so much driving my tugboat when it comes to sharks. They activate the phobia thing.
billytea - Jan 19, 2011 11:36:16 pm PST #17724 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Logic isn't so much driving my tugboat when it comes to sharks. They activate the phobia thing.
I feel confident promising that should you ever visit Melbourne, we will be able to keep our rivers shark encounter-free.
Calli - Jan 20, 2011 1:13:03 am PST #17725 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
should you ever visit Melbourne, we will be able to keep our rivers shark encounter-free.
Or at the very least, your roadways.
billytea - Jan 20, 2011 1:21:40 am PST #17726 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I will also endeavour to maintain a distinction between our rivers and our roadways, which is more than Brisbane can promise you.