Guess where his father was born?
Oh, it's OK that they were living in Mexico, because they're were good Americans who were just following their beliefs.
Mal: Then I call it a win. What's the problem? Inara: Should I start with the part where you're stranded in the middle of nowhere, or the part where you have no clothes?
'Trash'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
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.
Connie Neil - Sep 17, 2012 1:57:36 pm PDT #22438 of 30001
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§ ita § - Sep 17, 2012 2:19:27 pm PDT #22439 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Not all 3rd world countries are Somalia, not ail first world countries are the US. There's not enough room in the lists for everyone to be at the top or the bottom.
My flight to LA had been canceled. I was travelling with a friend of my sister for the first leg, but she's gone home now. Maybe that was a teeny mistake. Hope not. Hope i can still get out tonight, because this migraine is robbing me of the ability (and will) to stand.
The friend is mad at my mother. It's a bit weird that she tells me this, but we're all a lot closer than we were on Thursday. She was in a dominoes game against my parents, and the 'rents kicked her team's asses. Apparently Da talked trash like an older Jamaican man talks trash, no problem. But she was highly disturbed by my mother's "oh, I don't even know what I have in my hand" style of self denigrating winning. She felt it was cruel and unsportsmanlike. Uh, my mother is a genius with low self esteem? I think I talked her off the ledge a little, but I have honestly never seen my mother play dominoes. It's entirely plausible that her uncertainty was born of newness, and her winning born of an incredible deftness with numbers and patterns.
sj - Sep 17, 2012 2:29:32 pm PDT #22440 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
In other news, I'm watching the new Pyramid, and am glad that in 30 years, it will be as hilariously dated as the original. Just saw a category of "things associated with hipsters."
There's a new Pyramid? Where? When?
meara - Sep 17, 2012 3:09:23 pm PDT #22441 of 30001
not ail first world countries are the US
Well, yeah. I think most of them (hello Northern Europe!) are better, eh?
-t - Sep 17, 2012 3:13:24 pm PDT #22442 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
There's a new Pyramid? Where? When?
The Game Show Network, 6pm Eastern, weekdays. I'm trying not to get into the habit of putting it on every day, because I certainly don't need more TV, but there is something about that game that is fun to watch.
sj - Sep 17, 2012 3:15:09 pm PDT #22443 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
The Game Show Network, 6pm Eastern, weekdays. I'm trying not to get into the habit of putting it on every day, because I certainly don't need more TV, but there is something about that game that is fun to watch.
Thanks. I used to love watching the old one.
Consuela - Sep 17, 2012 3:15:22 pm PDT #22444 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
§ ita § - Sep 17, 2012 3:15:43 pm PDT #22445 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Well, yeah. I think most of them (hello Northern Europe!) are better, eh?
Depends on what you value. Few people actually trade it in, despite "ermagerd, the US _sucks_" chatter all over the web.
On stand by for later tonight. Please let me get home tonight. I have tomorrow off, but that's ER time. Which I really desperately need. Yesterday, in a literal sense.
Okay, back to the counter.
Consuela - Sep 17, 2012 3:16:54 pm PDT #22446 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Good luck on the flights, ita! I'll cross my fingers for you.
meara - Sep 17, 2012 3:35:44 pm PDT #22447 of 30001
Trade it in like move somewhere else? I guess in theory I could, but it's not easy (not that moving to the US is easy!) and less urgent of a change, really. Though if I were needing/wanting to move from a 3rd world country, I'd probably go with whoever was easiest to move to/become a citizen of/whatever, and better than my current situation, rather than "who is the most awesomest ever".