Not that I will actually tell this to Pete.
NO.
Because that leads nowhere helpful.
That is a delightfully subtle description of his reaction.
Jinx? If you and Dreg have been using my moisturizer again I'm going to have to rip off your scaly- hey, what's the deal with your face?
Glory ,'Potential'
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.
Atropa - Nov 16, 2011 4:26:49 pm PST #7169 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Cass - Nov 16, 2011 4:27:14 pm PST #7170 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.
You know, Mt. Saint Helens was pretty fuckin' big and yet most humans are still alive.
Apples and oranges though. It didn't erupt toward a heavily populated area.
Zenkitty - Nov 16, 2011 4:28:45 pm PST #7171 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I'm a lot more worried about the collapse of the economy than I am about natural disasters. But super viruses do freak me out a little.
I like to keep my disasters compartmentalized. I can worry about super volcanoes separately from super viruses. Economic collapse follows on from practically everything, so there's some overlap in the Venn diagram of disasters.
-t - Nov 16, 2011 4:30:10 pm PST #7172 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I have caught myself thinking If the world really does end in 2012 (or the rapture happens or whatever), that would kind of be okay with me. Has to be the whole world, though, local disasters I am against.
bon bon - Nov 16, 2011 4:30:22 pm PST #7173 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
What an earthquake in the cascadia subduction zone will be like: [link]
Beverly - Nov 16, 2011 4:36:07 pm PST #7174 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Just me personally, because I am detached and odd, I don't worry about things I can't directly effect. Waste of good worry.
Sophia, I have a newsboy cap that I need to rehab. The bill was made over this old tagboardy-kind of form that has dried out and snapped in two places. When (if ever) you make caps like this, what do you use for the middle of the sandwich? Regular cardboard seems like it would disintegrate if it got wet (which it will, as I wear the cap to keep rain off my glasses) and isn't substantial enough. Plastic doesn't seem thick enough and won't retain my favorite shape. Suggestions, please?
DavidS - Nov 16, 2011 4:42:48 pm PST #7175 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I don't worry about things I can't directly effect. Waste of good worry.
Moi aussi.
Anne W. - Nov 16, 2011 4:43:34 pm PST #7176 of 30001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
I don't worry about things I can't directly effect. Waste of good worry.
This has come more and more easily as I have grown older. Still not all the way there, though.
sarameg - Nov 16, 2011 4:49:06 pm PST #7177 of 30001
The sun will go red giant. Just as catastrophic as far as this rock is concerned.
I don't have any concrete, catastrophic, world-ending disaster brainworms. Though my earthquake nightmares have gone up. From 0 to all too frequent, pretty much weekly. But I haven't had a tornado or water damage one in a few months!
I did the nuclear war thing as a kid. It was exhausting. I guess now I worry less about the shit that will kill me than the shit that I have to try to survive.
x-post.
§ ita § - Nov 16, 2011 4:51:19 pm PST #7178 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
This has come more and more easily as I have grown older.
I don't want to worry about things I can affect. I mean, my goal is to not worry at all, no matter how much agency I have. My goal is to deal. Handle. That sort of thing. No worry is good worry.
Has to be the whole world, though, local disasters I am against.
I hear ya. I don't want zombies to encroach bit by bit upon the world's population. I want some flash disaster to take us all out.