I prefer to give my weight in stones.
Nothing worse than a monster who thinks he's right with God.
Mal ,'Heart Of Gold'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Cashmere - Sep 07, 2011 9:10:05 pm PDT #24727 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 07, 2011 10:08:45 pm PDT #24728 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Ugh. Just woke up on the couch from a dream that combined my job doing something about managing location shooting on Nantucket and a house infested with setient tarantulas . shudder
§ ita § - Sep 07, 2011 11:32:14 pm PDT #24729 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Calli - Sep 08, 2011 1:01:21 am PDT #24730 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Frontline's kept my cat bloodsucker-free, and I take him for outdoor walks several times a week. I wish we had similar stuff for humans. But I hadn't heard there's a generic for it--I'll have to look it up. Thanks!
Toddson - Sep 08, 2011 4:16:05 am PDT #24731 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Someone once commented that if the U.S. ever really did go metric, the only people who'd be comfortable with it would be scientists and drug dealers.
le nubian - Sep 08, 2011 4:23:55 am PDT #24732 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
The problem is that I learned metric and imperial in school, but I don't have a frame of reference for imperial. Cookbooks aren't written in metric, my car does not display metric, I don't think in metric (although I used to for temperature, not anymore). It would be almost like learning a new language. I would have to mentally convert all the time.
le nubian - Sep 08, 2011 4:28:57 am PDT #24733 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Jessica - Sep 08, 2011 4:38:47 am PDT #24734 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I would have to mentally convert all the time.
Driving to Canada every year has me pretty comfortable with switching between miles and kilometers, but gas prices break my brain - intellectually I know it's not really that much more math, but for some reason the conversion from USD/gallon to Canadian cents/liter is really difficult to do on the fly!
Jessica - Sep 08, 2011 4:49:50 am PDT #24735 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
UGH - there's a 9/11 truther posting in my local parenting listserv. (Someone asked if there were any "talk to your kids about 9/11" resources in our neighborhood and now the list is FULL OF CONSPIRACY NUT SPAM. GET OUT GET OUT GET OUT!!)
Toddson - Sep 08, 2011 4:50:56 am PDT #24736 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
In re metric - I've also found that people who work with beads do fairly well with metric measurements ... in very small increments.