I'm very sorry if she tipped off anyone about your cunningly concealed herd of cows.

Simon ,'Safe'


Natter 69: Practically names itself.  

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.


Cass - Oct 20, 2011 4:35:40 pm PDT #2526 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.

Oh, do they do that?

Well, they spay. And if the cat is pregnant when they start, she isn't when they're done. It's not an awesome thing but neither are more abandoned cats.


le nubian - Oct 20, 2011 4:39:38 pm PDT #2527 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

how do you all feel about Texas reducing the number of meals prisoners get? This doesn't sound right to me.


§ ita § - Oct 20, 2011 4:39:50 pm PDT #2528 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

God, teen pregnancy.

Has anyone heard of microcurrent pain treatment? I can't tell where the woo ends with my sleep psychologist. It's just, the intensity with which she pushes this is creepy, and she's really bad at explaining anything scientific.

Also, to some degree, fuck her. Don't ask me if I want to stop my emergency room visits like it might not have not occurred to me before. You are not the bearer of all epiphanies. I have been working on this for years, plus I'm not stupid.

I vacillate between thinking she's talking down to me and wondering if it's a revelation to her too, or was. Not that she's all crap--her relaxation techniques are both valid and valuable, but she seems alternately surprised that I can modulate my heart rate myself, and being sure it's a result of my martial arts spiritual evolution. Tae kwon do, capoeira, and krav maga, lady. So not about the qi.


-t - Oct 20, 2011 4:44:20 pm PDT #2529 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

how do you all feel about Texas reducing the number of meals prisoners get?

Three hots and a cot really does seem like the minimum you should expect.


sarameg - Oct 20, 2011 4:45:04 pm PDT #2530 of 30001

Yeah, one of those things.

She's really cute with her mismatched socks.


Jesse - Oct 20, 2011 4:47:37 pm PDT #2531 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Kind of embarassingly, I didn't actually know what spaying was until just now! I don't know what I was thinking -- they tie their tubes?? Come on now.


Beverly - Oct 20, 2011 4:49:18 pm PDT #2532 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Yeah, our Jenny arrived preggers, delivered and went into heat two days later. We knew it was bad and wrong, but she was driving us crazy so we let her out. She was calm and happy and all attentive mama when she came back. And yup. So we had her spayed before things got too far along. She was able to continue to nurse her first litter, though, till they were eating well. Not a happy solution, but needs must.


§ ita § - Oct 20, 2011 4:53:55 pm PDT #2533 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Are the prisoners still getting the same number of calories? Are they making them into chipmunks? Isn't fewer supposed to be considered worse in just about every situation? I don't care so much about what prisoners have to look forward to, as much as it just seems inhumane and unhealthy. Andthe fact that sick prisoners still get three squares seems like an implicit admission of that.


Polter-Cow - Oct 20, 2011 4:56:36 pm PDT #2534 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Also, they're calling a meal served between 5 and 7 AM "brunch." That's just wrong.


le nubian - Oct 20, 2011 5:12:20 pm PDT #2535 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

In other news, apparently Louisiana just banned legal tender for second-hand merchandise.

Have legislators and policymakers lost their minds?

You cannot ban legal tender. Can you?