ION, there's an assisted suicide question on our ballot next week, and one of the anti ads is a true testament to the power of tone of voice. I pretty much agree with everything the guy is saying, if you change the tone of voice from "skeptical of this bullshit" to reasonable.
I kissed him, and I told him that I loved him. And I killed him.
Buffy ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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.
Jesse - Oct 28, 2012 5:45:31 pm PDT #27445 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Consuela - Oct 28, 2012 6:00:15 pm PDT #27446 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Oh, man, my oldest niece is supposed to fly to Chile to meet her parents on Thursday (her sister is in Valparaiso on exchange this fall, so it's an excuse for a fun family vacation). And this afternoon she broke her wrist playing soccer. And she lives in DC, and since they shut down the metro none of her friends can come sit with her, and her cellphone is dying. Surgery tomorrow, and she doesn't even have a book to read in the hospital.
Poor kid! She thinks she can still go to Chile, since she's meeting a friend in Miami and she'll be with family all the rest of the trip, but yikes, how inconvenient!
(GO Giants!)
aurelia - Oct 28, 2012 6:20:51 pm PDT #27447 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
This was a topic here a while back, right? Connie Britton and Sarah Aubrey on Romney's use of "Clear Eyes, Full Hearts". [link]
Consuela - Oct 28, 2012 6:49:18 pm PDT #27448 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
OMG the tension.
One strike away...
Consuela - Oct 28, 2012 6:49:35 pm PDT #27449 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
2-2 count...
Consuela - Oct 28, 2012 6:50:01 pm PDT #27450 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
foul.
Consuela - Oct 28, 2012 6:50:39 pm PDT #27451 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
DONE.
smonster - Oct 28, 2012 6:51:15 pm PDT #27452 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
I love Connie Britton, dammit.
DavidS - Oct 28, 2012 7:08:49 pm PDT #27453 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
...and now it is time for Aims to sing San Francisco songs.
Liese S. - Oct 28, 2012 10:05:15 pm PDT #27454 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
So I know during emergencies phone lines get clogged, but sometimes texts get through since there's so much less data. I wondered what our Easterners would think of the idea of a text tree, where a message could be got through and down the chain until it hit somebody with internet service, so we could know how things were going if internet gets knocked out but phone is still up.
Actually, I want us all to learn morse code and become ham radio operators, but I don't know if even that will do it in a frankenstorm. Anyway, stay safe, peoples, we'll be thinking of you even if you can't get to us.