I-I'm just taking things without paying for th... In what twisted dictionary is that stealing?

Willow ,'Showtime'


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.


Allyson - Sep 08, 2011 10:57:32 am PDT #24871 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

The g.d. baby boomers refuse to retire.

It's an issue, I think, because of the stock market crash. A lot of my olds can't afford to retire, and some really would like to. They're trying to get back what they lost. And it's unsettling in science/tech, because we do need young post-docs to come in. We sort of depend on the passing on of knowledge to new generations of scientists. It's worrisome.


Consuela - Sep 08, 2011 10:57:38 am PDT #24872 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

The g.d. baby boomers refuse to retire.

Tell me about it. I'm the youngest professional woman in the office, if you don't count the contractors. And I so want My Nemesis to retire, but she won't until her daughter's out of college (and probably not then).


meara - Sep 08, 2011 11:01:25 am PDT #24873 of 30001

I am singing Schoolhouse Rock in my head as we speak. "Interjection! Excitement! And Emotion!"

Hah! Me too! "Interjections! Show excitement, or emotion! And are generally set apart from a sentence by an exclamation point, or by a comma if the feeling's not as strong..."


Allyson - Sep 08, 2011 11:07:10 am PDT #24874 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 hope I'm not slinging paperwork when I'm 65. I wish I could work in education or public affairs. I'm just not the right type or am missing some integral skillset I can't put my finger on.


flea - Sep 08, 2011 11:13:36 am PDT #24875 of 30001
information libertarian

People not retiring, or retire-rehiring, is a huge issue at the EPA. Where mr. flea worked, he was very young, at 42! They closed the child care center because no employees except us and one other family had small children.

I have gray hair, and it's fine color-wise, but it's so curly and stands up and it's been coming in this way for 5 years now and I still don't know how to deal with it.


Jesse - Sep 08, 2011 11:13:45 am PDT #24876 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

It's an issue, I think, because of the stock market crash.

Oh, absolutely. The combination of actual financial need and good health, etc. My mother (66) keeps saying she doesn't know what she would do, since she has no hobbies.


Strix - Sep 08, 2011 11:14:42 am PDT #24877 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Ha, I'm trying to imagine you as a teacher, and not to say you don't have the smarts to be a good one, but I think your head would LITERALLY (yep, really explode) over the WTFF fuckwaddery present in the field.


msbelle - Sep 08, 2011 11:15:06 am PDT #24878 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

people, develop hobbies!


msbelle - Sep 08, 2011 11:22:40 am PDT #24879 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

happy to make people snort.

Does anyone here write thru in their normal writing, like business writing?


Consuela - Sep 08, 2011 11:25:23 am PDT #24880 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Hell, no.