I know I'm a bad poet, but I'm a good man. All I ask is that... is that you try to see me—

William ,'Conversations with Dead People'


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.


Jesse - Nov 06, 2011 9:30:17 am PST #5001 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

And for others it helps because of psychosomatic stuff--but hey, it helps.

Yeah, exactly.


Jesse - Nov 06, 2011 9:30:40 am PST #5002 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Also, ugh pneumonia! That's no fun. Can you take sick time?


Amy - Nov 06, 2011 9:30:41 am PST #5003 of 30001
Because books.

meara! Good god. I'm glad you went.


Anne W. - Nov 06, 2011 9:34:42 am PST #5004 of 30001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

Gah! Feel better, meara! I'm glad you went to the doctor.


DavidS - Nov 06, 2011 9:40:19 am PST #5005 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Get better, meara!

Ladies and gentlemen, my little sister.

Get smarter, Little Cow!

Incidentally, your brother is now named Rebel Cow. In my mind, at least.


§ ita § - Nov 06, 2011 9:40:55 am PST #5006 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

That is not good fat burning! Stop it immediately! I hope the meds give you relief stat.

If you want to see the screwy duck penis in action, look here. What I hadn't realised until reading it on IO9 right now (although BT surely said so--it just never sunk in) is that the female duck's vagina corkscrews in the opposite direction, which is why the ejaculation is so explosive, and can tear through vaginal walls to get to its goal. However, I'm not sure how the female duck actually lets the right one in. What's the trick to surmounting that geometrical incompatibility?


Sue - Nov 06, 2011 9:48:04 am PST #5007 of 30001
hip deep in pie

You know what's not fun? Getting attacked by your own cat. Really, attacked is too strong a word because he doesn't aim to harm, just to intimidate. That's pretty hard to keep in my head when Oz is coming at me all puffed up and snarling. We were outside and a strange cat came through the fence. Oz immediately puffed up twice his size and went after him, and I was yelling at him to get away. Oz, to his credit, didn't follow him into the front yard, but he did remain freaked out. I walked too close to him about 10 minutes later and he went after me. I mostly remained calmed, but I did yell at him at first, until I remembered that will just escalate him.

Sigh, the vet was not wrong about him being territorial.

Of course, now he's lying on the floor, calm as anything.


Sue - Nov 06, 2011 9:49:03 am PST #5008 of 30001
hip deep in pie

Oh meara, feel better.


billytea - Nov 06, 2011 9:55:12 am PST #5009 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

What's the trick to surmounting that geometrical incompatibility?

In essence, patience, care and cooperation.It's not impossible, just a difficult fit.


Allyson - Nov 06, 2011 9:55:39 am PST #5010 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

There is nothing that makes me feel more helpless and stupid than being unable to light my pilot. I'm frozen. My fingers are too cold to type. And I can't figure this shit out.