(150-77)/77=.94805 = 94.8 %
eta: did it for ya in a crosspost!
You know, I've saved lives. Dozens. Maybe hundreds. I reattached a girl's leg. Her whole leg. She named her hamster after me. I got a hamster. He drops a box of money, he gets a town.
Simon ,'Jaynestown'
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.
sarameg - May 12, 2011 4:43:19 pm PDT #8042 of 30001
Cass - May 12, 2011 4:43:30 pm PDT #8043 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.
Those are some darn good principles.
Is anyone coming to JPL's Open House this weekend? We have neat stuff and rovers and it's free! Oh and I will be volunteering and telling people where the bathroom is and that climate change is not a hoax, I think. If they ask. Mostly they just want to know where the bathroom is.
I would love this! Um, the Open House bit. I can generally find bathrooms. Man, if I still lived in La Crescenta...
Ginger - May 12, 2011 4:53:54 pm PDT #8044 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
What's the motivation for lying?
There are guys who want to argue that ties are as bad has pantyhose, heels, bras, makeup and all the other uncomfortable accoutrements of corporate dress for women.
§ ita § - May 12, 2011 4:57:18 pm PDT #8045 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't actually have any inherently uncomfortable accoutrements of corporate dress, so I can't comment on the comparison. My bras and pantyhose aren't uncomfortable, my makeup is optional and minimal and I certainly can't feel it, and I don't wear uncomfortable heels.
I believe the guys who have told me that they are uncomfortable in ties. I cannot see why any of them would lie to me about it, especially since none of them were making any sort of comparative points. They were just saying they felt strangled wearing ties, period.
Scrappy - May 12, 2011 5:13:05 pm PDT #8046 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
My DH had to wear a suit and tie to work every day when he worked at William Morris. He HATED it and got rid of all his suits (except one for funerals and the like) when he left. He didn't loosen his tie until he was ready to take it off because it wrinkled it and who needs the drycleaning to smooth it out?
Consuela - May 12, 2011 5:30:54 pm PDT #8047 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
There are guys who want to argue that ties are as bad has pantyhose, heels, bras, makeup and all the other uncomfortable accoutrements of corporate dress for women.
Yeah. It's not that I disbelieve the discomfort of a tie, but it's far less of an imposition than the traditional accoutrements of femininity are, at least in Western culture. Even if we enjoy wearing skirts & hose & whatnot, the expectation in professional quarters is that we dress with more creativity and variety than men do, and that we wear makeup and jewelry, none of which men are obliged to do.
§ ita § - May 12, 2011 5:44:00 pm PDT #8048 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Women are obliged to wear jewelry? I buy makeup, although even the most conservative places I've worked have had plenty of women (including myself) go face-naked, but jewelry?
Consuela - May 12, 2011 5:48:38 pm PDT #8049 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Obligated? Nope. But it's part of the general package, like Teppy mentioned upthread.
I once told someone I hadn't been on a date in a while, and she protested that I wore earrings. I think she thought that wearing earrings was a signal that I was both female and straight.
None of the rules are requirements these days, and most of us ignore a lot of them when we feel like it. But they're still out there, in the air.
DavidS - May 12, 2011 5:50:45 pm PDT #8050 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I once told someone I hadn't been on a date in a while, and she protested that I wore earrings.
Heh. That's such a sitcom kind of line.
"But you wear earrings!"
meara - May 12, 2011 5:54:50 pm PDT #8051 of 30001
I once told someone I hadn't been on a date in a while, and she protested that I wore earrings. I think she thought that wearing earrings was a signal that I was both female and straight.
hahahha! Earrings are pretty much the only jewelry I wear. Otoh, I have been known to wear earrings that are more "dykey" as part of my general style.