with bacon grease and duct tape, we should be able to solve all the world's problems.
What'd you all order a dead guy for?
Jayne ,'The Message'
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.
msbelle - Mar 15, 2011 6:29:42 pm PDT #28608 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
DavidS - Mar 15, 2011 6:30:29 pm PDT #28609 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Wow. There are fifty very very brave nuclear techs in Japan trying to stave off a nuclear catastrophe. From NYTimes.
A small crew of technicians, braving radiation and fire, became the only people remaining at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station on Tuesday — and perhaps Japan’s last chance of preventing a broader nuclear catastrophe.
They crawl through labyrinths of equipment in utter darkness pierced only by their flashlights, listening for periodic explosions as hydrogen gas escaping from crippled reactors ignites on contact with air.
They breathe through uncomfortable respirators or carry heavy oxygen tanks on their backs. They wear white, full-body jumpsuits with snug-fitting hoods that provide scant protection from the invisible radiation sleeting through their bodies.
They are the faceless 50, the unnamed operators who stayed behind. They have volunteered, or been assigned, to pump seawater on dangerously exposed nuclear fuel, already thought to be partly melting and spewing radioactive material, to prevent full meltdowns that could throw thousands of tons of radioactive dust high into the air and imperil millions of their compatriots.
-t - Mar 15, 2011 6:30:50 pm PDT #28610 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I have an entire book of bacon.
I want to go to there.
Oh, wait, it's not a book made of bacon here you peel off the leaves and fry them up, is it?
Still probably pretty good.
dcp - Mar 15, 2011 6:34:58 pm PDT #28611 of 30001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Disturbing yet fascinating video of the ground moving in a Tokyo park during the earthquake: [link]
SuziQ - Mar 15, 2011 6:54:25 pm PDT #28612 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
dcp - wow, thanks for the link. That is amazing. And the guy sounds so calm for most of it.
shrift - Mar 15, 2011 6:55:10 pm PDT #28613 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Steph, are you still up? My roommate has a mixing medications question: [link]
meara - Mar 15, 2011 7:09:54 pm PDT #28614 of 30001
psst! cook it in the oven on a sheet pan lined with foil. No splatter, and you just throw away the foil.
But then do you still collect the grease, off the foil somehow?!?
Cass - Mar 15, 2011 7:13:22 pm PDT #28615 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.
The foil bends into a half-assed funnel and you can just pour it off. Easy peasy. Pumpkin pie.
Trudy Booth - Mar 15, 2011 7:17:36 pm PDT #28616 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
(This is why it BLOWS MY MIND my stepson cannot even make a sandwich and he's almost 9.)
Lordy. At 9 I used to cook dinner for the family on a pretty regular basis.
beekaytee - Mar 15, 2011 7:20:50 pm PDT #28617 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant
(This is why it BLOWS MY MIND my stepson cannot even make a sandwich and he's almost 9.)
I've been watching Junior Masterchef Australia. It is inCREDible. 8-12 year olds who are basically 5 star chefs. Creative, poised, skilled and cordial.
Somehow, I can't imagine that show making it in America.