Simon: I'm trying to put this as delicately as I can... How do I know you won't kill me in my sleep? Mal: You don't know me, son. So let me explain this to you once: If I ever kill you, you'll be awake, you'll be facing me, and you'll be armed.

'Serenity'


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.


Amy - Oct 20, 2010 11:14:00 am PDT #818 of 30001
Because books.

I wanted to tell them that there has been a paradigm shift and to think outside the box so that we can actualize the potential of the situation and proactively solution the situation.

That actually hurt a little bit to read. "Solution" as a verb is like a knife in my back, man.

Fall fell here, for sure. I could have actually used gloves today! Or maybe fingerless ones. Something. A sassy scarf, perhaps.


P.M. Marc - Oct 20, 2010 11:15:58 am PDT #819 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

(Sidenote: queer != the same thing in all locales, so internationalization may have something to do with its fall from favor as a catch-all. It's apparently pretty specific to 100% homosexuals in some areas. I had to clear up a LOT of confusion on my flist because of that.)


Jesse - Oct 20, 2010 11:16:00 am PDT #820 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I think it's about time for QUILTBAG.

There was a thing on the Times website (not sure if it was in the actual paper) recently about STEM, for science-technology-engineering-math, as used in education, and how it's stupid. But honestly, it's so much better than SMET, which is what they started with....


Connie Neil - Oct 20, 2010 11:17:00 am PDT #821 of 30001
brillig

I think the U stands for going "Ummmm" as you try to think of a good answer for the question "So what do you identify as?" Or "And what do you call your--well, that person who lives with you who makes the wonderful cookies, you know, him? Her?"


Steph L. - Oct 20, 2010 11:22:00 am PDT #822 of 30001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

I've seen QUILTBAG used nonmockingly, too. And I think the U is for Unsure.

Also, I own no purple, and we're having dinner with a big group of people tonight who are QUILTBAG and QUILTBAG-friendly, and I fully expect to be given shit for not wearing purple. Not mocking shit, real shit.

And I have a cold and feel awful and will gut anyone like a trout who tries it.


Amy - Oct 20, 2010 11:22:21 am PDT #823 of 30001
Because books.

I think they need to remember that seven-digit rule, though. I can barely remember LGBT correctly, much less ... whatever that was up there.


Steph L. - Oct 20, 2010 11:24:59 am PDT #824 of 30001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

I can barely remember LGBT correctly, much less ... whatever that was up there.

That's why QUILTBAG works!


§ ita § - Oct 20, 2010 11:25:36 am PDT #825 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I don't understand you people with no purple. It's a lovely lovely colour. Come over to the grape side. My decision this morning was pretty simple--warmest uncrinkled thing meant the sweater. And it's the right purple that I can match it with one of my purple pendants.

I'm trying to decide which is more ironical and useful for every #2 situation--Electric Boogaloo, or The Squeakquel. I think I've decided Electric Boogaloo wins, and that it may even be acceptable to slide The Squeakquel in for subsequent sequels.


DavidS - Oct 20, 2010 11:27:30 am PDT #826 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I'm trying to decide which is more ironical and useful for every #2 situation--Electric Boogaloo, or The Squeakquel. I think I've decided Electric Boogaloo wins, and that it may even be acceptable to slide The Squeakquel in for subsequent sequels.

It's important to remember that before Electric Boogaloo the go-to sequel for all joke making was "The Bride of..."


§ ita § - Oct 20, 2010 11:28:28 am PDT #827 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

It's important to remember that before Electric Boogaloo the go-to sequel for all joke making was "The Bride of..."

Dude, you're OLD.