Oh, Sue, will be thinking of you and your dad.
Mercy is the mark of a great man. Guess I'm just a good man. Well, I'm all right.
Mal ,'Shindig'
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.
Liese S. - Mar 27, 2011 6:06:36 pm PDT #589 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
erin_obscure - Mar 27, 2011 6:07:20 pm PDT #590 of 30001
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
Caller: there's an elderly woman who fell broke her leg! Me: how old is she? Caller: like, over 30.
I'm sorry JZ. I'm surprised a bystanding matron didn't slap him upside the head for verbal stupidity.
Kat - Mar 27, 2011 6:07:42 pm PDT #591 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I've had people ask me if I'm G&N's mom or grandmom before. I mean, I know that I have aged and that the median age of a parent in my 'hood is like 20, but still MEAN.
Strix - Mar 27, 2011 6:15:41 pm PDT #592 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I never, ever assume anyone is a parent or pregnant.
Or assume they are more pregnant than they are, after (when I was working retail in my twenties) I asked a woman who wasn't fat, just wow, out there preggo, "Looks like you're almost ready to have that baby!" and she kind of death-glared me and gritted out "I. AM. 3. And a half. MONTHS!"
I slunk away in abject shame. (But, my god, I hope she was having twins or I can't even imagine how miserable she would be at full-term. She looked 8 months pregnant. Poor lady. I'm sorry!)
JZ - Mar 27, 2011 6:15:59 pm PDT #593 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Lots and lots of heart~ma to your dad, Sue.
And damn, Kat, that is really Not On. You are so not remotely a grandmom (also, Noah in particular looks exactly like the few pictures I've seen of you at his age, but I guess there's no way for a random stranger on the street to know that).
Strix - Mar 27, 2011 6:17:15 pm PDT #594 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Heart-ma for your dad, Sue.
§ ita § - Mar 27, 2011 6:19:51 pm PDT #595 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I never, ever assume anyone is a parent or pregnant.
On the other hand, I do always assume they're dating whoever they're standing next to.
I just don't tell them.
Happy birthday to the twins, Kat! How was the party?
Sue, I hope everything is trivial for your father.
Sue - Mar 27, 2011 6:21:17 pm PDT #596 of 30001
hip deep in pie
Thanks guys. Trying not to stress, but it's hard. Especially being at a distance.
People are rude and clueless asking you all if you're grandmas.
Kat - Mar 27, 2011 6:39:01 pm PDT #597 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Sue, best wishes for your dad.
ita, the party was fun. Sort of insane, but insane in the way I make things insane. [link] is a set of pictures. I look like hell. AND I'm wearing the same tshirt I wore on the day I gave birth.
One of the moms of one of N's classmates is actually my OBs nurse. She pushed me, in a wheelchair, to the hospital on the day the kids were born.
DavidS - Mar 27, 2011 6:56:51 pm PDT #598 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Wow, the nuclear safety issues in Japan seem to have had a huge effect on the German elections, with Merkel's party taking big losses and the Greens making huge gains. Odd how much natural disasters can shape the electorate but Katrina completely destroyed Bush's credibility.
Interesting numbers. I didn't realize this about France:
In fact, the crisis confirmed Germans’ deep angst, exaggerated or not, regarding anything nuclear. A quarter of Germany’s electricity is generated by nuclear power, relatively small in comparison to other countries. In France, it is more than 75 percent; in Slovakia, 53 percent; in Belgium, 51 percent; and in Ukraine, 48 percent, according to the European Nuclear Society, one of the largest lobbying groups for nuclear science, research and industry in Europe.