Raise your hand if 'ew.'

Buffy ,'Same Time, Same Place'


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.


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.


§ ita § - Jan 20, 2011 2:00:00 am PST #17727 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

David Oyelowo, the actor from Five Days.

The actor from Spooks! His accent was brilliant. It didn't occur to me to think of a British actor, between that and the facial hair. Coolness-thanks.

Don't think I'm going into the office tomorrow morning, fuckit. Too much pain. At least my brain had the decency to give me a dream with Tom Hardy cuddling and JGL joking (Tom later turned into a Latino construction worker, but it was all good).


Jesse - Jan 20, 2011 3:06:42 am PST #17728 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I take chiros with a grain of salt, erin--they seem to think they can solve everything from sinus problems to diabetes.

Yeah, they definitely think that. I know a chiropractor, and once he felt the back of my head and told me I have digestion problems. But then he did some magic on my neck that felt great! No change in my stomach, though.


Tom Scola - Jan 20, 2011 3:46:41 am PST #17729 of 30001
hwæt

There was an accident on the BQE this morning, and I was woken up by a traffic helicopter that was hovering over my neighborhood at 6:30am. Motherfuckers.


tommyrot - Jan 20, 2011 4:44:54 am PST #17730 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 was woken up by a traffic helicopter that was hovering over my neighborhood at 6:30am.

I hate that. Helicopters need more power and make more noise when they hover at altitude....

ION, A detailed look at one of the most awesome production cars in the history of the universe:

Driving the Awesome Mercedes 300 SL ‘Gullwing’

Lots o' pretty pictures....