2G1C is sufficiently nasty that it looped right back round into ridiculous for me. I can see it might not have done that for everyone.
So I won't link.
Unless you ask...because then it's not my fault.
AND THE SHOTGUN WAS TOTALLY SAFE.
Death is your art. You make it with your hands day after day. That final gasp, that look of peace. And part of you is desperate to know: What's it like? Where does it lead you? And now you see, that's the secret. Not the punch you didn't throw or the kicks you didn't land. She really wanted it. Every Slayer has a death wish. Even you.
Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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 § - Mar 22, 2011 5:47:13 pm PDT #29692 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Trudy Booth - Mar 22, 2011 5:52:33 pm PDT #29693 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
When in Mozambique, I ate half an avocado sprinkled with salt with a spoon and a portuguese roll. For breakfast and lunch. And possibly dinner. The avocados were the size of footballs. And I've NEVER had one as good since.
Someone grab Cass before she goes to Mozambique.
Or at least make her stop at Costco for some Benadryl on the way.
shrift - Mar 22, 2011 5:57:55 pm PDT #29694 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Somehow I've successfully avoided watching 2G1C, and I'd like to hold onto my innocence for as long as I can.
Strix - Mar 22, 2011 5:59:56 pm PDT #29695 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Damn, now I want an avocado.
I like to eat my salty, lemon avocado on the garlic-rosemary triscuits.
I had that for many a meal when I was single.
Polter-Cow - Mar 22, 2011 6:02:28 pm PDT #29696 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Somehow I've successfully avoided watching 2G1C, and I'd like to hold onto my innocence for as long as I can.
Me too. Maybe we can film a video of us not watching it.
Cass - Mar 22, 2011 6:14:27 pm PDT #29697 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.
I ate half an avocado sprinkled with salt with a spoon
Oh dear deities that sounds amazing.
I have recently hit CostCo for more Benedryl, I'm good.
Someone grab Cass before she goes to Mozambique.
Ha!
Kat - Mar 22, 2011 6:35:10 pm PDT #29698 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Transferring from Minearverse where I mis posted: HOLY SHIT: McGill's MBA program went from under $2000 a year to $29,000 as a tuition jump within one year!
Kat - Mar 22, 2011 6:36:07 pm PDT #29699 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I'm not sure how the MBA program managed to stay so cheap--I imagined it had crept up in the 20 years since I was there.
ita, there is definitely THIS aspect. But the jump in one year seems so scarily outrageous.
§ ita § - Mar 22, 2011 6:39:09 pm PDT #29700 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My copied response from Minearverse:
McGill was seriously one of the best bargains in quality education out there. It was $600/semester when I started and $1200/semester when I left¹. I'm not sure how the MBA program managed to stay so cheap--I imagined it had crept up in the 20 years since I was there.
I mean, it was one of the top 15 universities in the world at the time, and we had a shitload of American students there because it was cheaper for them to be international students there than go to their own state schools back home.
¹:Oh, the ruckus at the raise! One of my best friends chained herself to the outside of the Registrar's Office in protest. Given that I'd lent her a semester's tuition just beforehand and she was also shamelessly abusing bursaries...I mean, she just showed up at this McGill office and they gave her money...I had medium to little sympathy for her.
But the jump in one year seems so scarily outrageous.
That could totally bust your ability to finish the degree (or did they say something about grandfathering?). Still, tons of people who would have thought they were going to go, suddenly really couldn't.
le nubian - Mar 22, 2011 6:43:13 pm PDT #29701 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
yeah, there are a lot of colleges who are needing to make that tuition jump. A bunch of European universities are going that route and since there are some governors who are fuckwads, there will be a lot of state universities going that route too.
Penn State just had half its state appropriations cut.