I just stopped watching basketball once the Bulls started sucking.
Did you see the Bobcats one? They're totally nostalgic.
Mal: Can I come in? Inara: No. Mal: See? That's why I usually don't ask.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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.
§ ita § - Oct 27, 2010 6:45:53 am PDT #2198 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Trudy Booth - Oct 27, 2010 6:46:48 am PDT #2199 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Maw Maw kills me.
Tom Scola - Oct 27, 2010 7:29:26 am PDT #2200 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Allyson - Oct 27, 2010 7:36:40 am PDT #2201 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I am off to the pharmacy in search of something to kill these symptoms.
My mom donated a copy of my book to my elementary school library, which is adorable.
She's been giving me various versions of the I AM SO PROUD OF YOU speech.
tommyrot - Oct 27, 2010 7:37:44 am PDT #2202 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.
-t - Oct 27, 2010 7:54:27 am PDT #2203 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Sadly, only got to see the second episode last night due to technical difficulties.
The first one will be on again on Saturday, at least on my local channel. Halloween episode.
I'm liking it a lot. I think I'm a Greg Garcia fan. Though I'm not going to go back and watch Yes, Dear.
§ ita § - Oct 27, 2010 7:56:55 am PDT #2204 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Hmm. I don't know if those covers are all S&M. They are mostly bondage, though.
DavidS - Oct 27, 2010 8:12:04 am PDT #2205 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
The top 7 S&M covers of Lois Lane. Seriously.
I had all of those 70s issues, including the #1 crotch dart, Lois on a target issue.
Those never tweaked me at all. Not like the Mort Weissinger era weird ones where Lois would get a massive egg-head, or the Jim Aparo Spectre stories (where people were turned into wood and fed through crosscut saws).
tommyrot - Oct 27, 2010 8:18:46 am PDT #2206 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.
This video made me a little sad:
Charlie and Spike are two kittens with Myotonia Congenita, otherwise known as ‘Fainting Goat’ syndrome. At the slightest sound, the kittens respond by collapsing and falling into a rigid paralysis which lasts about a minute before they return to normal. This condition has hardly ever before been diagnosed in a cat, is rarely found in dogs and is more common in goats. The kittens are able to walk, but they cannot run or jump. aside from this they are normal.
tommyrot - Oct 27, 2010 8:22:33 am PDT #2207 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.
Coolest. Bug. Evah?
Assassin Bug Eats Spiders After Feigning Capture
A species of assassin bug has been found which creeps onto spiders’ webs and pretends to be prey, then devours the spider when it comes to investigate.
The creature, known to entomologists as Stenolemus bituberus, and actually in the spider family itself too, is the subject of a paper just published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B by Annie Wignall from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. Wignall describes the exact process of “aggressive mimicry” by which the assassin bug stalks its target.
Most predators conceal themselves in order to capture prey, but the assassin bug takes the opposite approach — overtly advertising its presence in a way that entices its dinner to investigate. Web-building spiders use vibrations in their web to detect when it’s caught something, so they can go over, bind it in more web, and eat it.
The assassin bug slowly approaches the spider on its web, using its forelegs to pluck the silk threads in a manner that simulates the vibrations of a fly struggling after being caught. Wignall studied the behavior of the bugs, and found that the response of the spider to the predator was the same as its response to when a vinegar fly or aphid was caught in the web.
Once the spider is close enough, the assassin bug lashes out, and eats the poor unsuspecting arachnid. Most of the time, anyway — Wignall also observed a few occasions of spiders counter-attacking the bugs and killing and eating them instead.