I'm eleven hundred and twenty years old! Just gimme a friggin' beer!

Anya ,'Storyteller'


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.


tommyrot - Mar 06, 2012 8:55:09 am PST #25403 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

How many people actually listen to Limbaugh?

[link]

Estimates range between 1.5 million and 20 million.


Burrell - Mar 06, 2012 8:57:15 am PST #25404 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

For the lice, a silicone "shine" spray + a good set of combs works better than anything.

Yeah, I'm insisting on the good combs this time, but good to know about the spray. Thanks Plei.


P.M. Marc - Mar 06, 2012 9:03:07 am PST #25405 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Yeah, I'm insisting on the good combs this time, but good to know about the spray. Thanks Plei.

I just got one of the cheap ones at Walgreens, and it made the comb work so much better. We combed daily until it had been two weeks since we'd found anything.


Jesse - Mar 06, 2012 9:04:04 am PST #25406 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Also, the victim in this case was a nice white lady. He's been making horrible racist remarks for years and hasn't been called out for it.

Oh yeah, that too.


beth b - Mar 06, 2012 9:12:05 am PST #25407 of 30001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

I wonder if enough women were just angry and freaked out already over the recent Catholic birth control kerfuffle, the trans-vaginal ultrasound bill, etc.

I think that Rush was the tipping point for a ot of women (and men) and he is some one that is easy to figure out how to fight. Money talks

I proudly wear my Radical Militant librarian shirt.His words, but I take ownership


meara - Mar 06, 2012 9:14:54 am PST #25408 of 30001

Heh. Sunday my roommate and I were at the grocery store and there were Girl Scouts outside selling cookies, and we were like "I want radical feminist lesbian cookies!!" (even though I'm on a diet and she's given up sweets for lent). I think the mom was trying very hard not to laugh, but the girls were either confused or ignored us. (We did buy a box of thin mints)


Consuela - Mar 06, 2012 9:44:46 am PST #25409 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Argh. I get a lot of calls from guys in the field, probably because they know I'll try to help them.

The down side is when they call with a question I seriously do not know the answer to. I am not an industrial hygienist! I do not know what you're supposed to do about potential asbestos exposure if you're working in these old buildings! Argh. And the OSHA site is huge, and there must be someone here somewhere who I can point them to.

Bah. t goes back to calling people randomly


Ginger - Mar 06, 2012 9:53:09 am PST #25410 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

What about this, Consuela? [link]

You'll see there's a hotline number and e-mail at the bottom.


§ ita § - Mar 06, 2012 9:55:59 am PST #25411 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I just got dinged because no one looked at something I put into the system a week ago. I figured, no one told me to stop, I'd move on to the next step. I'd fulfilled all the requirements...this is why I offered to help my manager. Because I put it into the system, sent her an email telling her I'd put it into the system, and she missed it. And I have to move stuff through the system without nagging. There has to be a better way. I have to become part of the system. Fix it, somehow.


Consuela - Mar 06, 2012 10:04:26 am PST #25412 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Thanks, Ginger! I am going to start with someone internal who is supposed to be an industrial hygienist. I do think this guy is too spun up: walking into an old building with asbestos in it, changing a lightbulb, and then walking out, is not going to expose him to anything significant.

OTOH, these are the guys who, a few years back, burned an old shack which had been painted with lead-based-paint, and then sat around the fire for an hour or so... (Yeah, they got sick.)