Um, well, we listened to aggressively cheerful music sung by people chosen for their ability to dance. Then we ate cookie dough, and talked about boys.

Giles ,'Get It Done'


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.


§ 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.


§ ita § - Nov 06, 2011 10:04:36 am PST #5011 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

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

Good god, that's some metaphor shit writ large, huh?


amyth - Nov 06, 2011 10:04:42 am PST #5012 of 30001
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen

meara! Glad you went to urgent care. Hope you get better soon!


meara - Nov 06, 2011 10:17:54 am PST #5013 of 30001

Yeah, I have a z-pack and albuterol now (though it's the first time I've used an inhaler, and I think it just got all over my tongue, even with the spacer). Plus my insurance is being whacky (in a bad way) about how much they're paying for prescriptions, so I have to call them Monday.

I can take sick time in theory, but I'm supposed to fly to Phoenix Tuesday evening. And there's a ton of stuff I didn't get done LAST week because I was sick...argh.


Steph L. - Nov 06, 2011 10:20:07 am PST #5014 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Part of the reasoning behind it was that, for distance cyclists, there is a lot of muscle repair each night and the gluten supposedly slowed down the healing by causing inflammation. I'm going to look and see if I can find something about it, but that was the general idea.

Without having done any research myself, I feel like there are a lot of wackadoo health claims around various dietary changes. That said, if they aren't leading to malnutrition, I vote whatever works for you.

I think the deal is that *if* a person has gluten issues, then eating it can cause inflammation (not just gastrointestinal issues; there is a host of problems that gluten causes for people who are sensitive to it that have nothing to do with the gut).

That's not the same as saying that gluten causes inflammation for everyone, because it doesn't. For people who don't have a problem with gluten, eating it won't lead to any physical problems (except maybe extra weight if they eat nothing but Little Debbie snack cakes [man, I MISS Little Debbies SO MUCH]).

It's like peanut allergies (or any other allergy) -- if you have the allergy/sensitivity, eating it will cause you problems. If you don't have the allergy, then eating it won't cause problems.


sarameg - Nov 06, 2011 10:21:08 am PST #5015 of 30001

Um, honey? You don't mess with pneumonia. It can seriously take you out for weeks and weeks if you don't take it easy.