if you have a linkedin account, you need to change your passwords. Their password system has been compromised.
A ghost? What's the deal? Is every frat on this campus haunted? And if so, why do people keep coming to these parties, cause it's not the snacks.
Xander ,'Dirty Girls'
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.
le nubian - Jun 06, 2012 6:52:03 am PDT #8535 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
tommyrot - Jun 06, 2012 7:12:08 am PDT #8536 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I just went to a cafe, which had a gaggle of 9 or 10 year old girls in it. Most of them had cellphones. Things have changed since I was a kid.
Do lots of kids that age have their own phones? Or is it because I'm in Highland Park (a wealthy suburb) at the moment?
Hil R. - Jun 06, 2012 7:13:53 am PDT #8537 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I think that's about the age when kids start to get them, since it's the age when they start being allowed out without parents, and the parents want to be able to reach them. Nine seems a bit young, but 12 or so, certainly.
flea - Jun 06, 2012 7:17:56 am PDT #8538 of 30001
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My nine year old niece has an iPhone. She lives in a small city in borderline Appalachia Ohio.
Here, starting in 7th grade the high schools are city-wide, so the kids can be at school a long way from home. And starting in 9th grade they are required to use city buses for transit, no school buses. So I'll probably get my kid one by age 12, and definitely by 14.
sumi - Jun 06, 2012 7:19:27 am PDT #8539 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
DavidS - Jun 06, 2012 7:22:20 am PDT #8540 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Do lots of kids that age have their own phones?
Emmett did from around the time he was 10. But I needed it to coordinate picking him up in the East Bay and also he stopped going to after care around 4th grade so I wanted a way to keep in touch with him.
Consuela - Jun 06, 2012 7:22:37 am PDT #8541 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Oh, msbelle, I'm sorry.
Mac! Consequences! Yikes.
I'm sad about Ray Bradbury--last of the original Grand Masters--but he had a good run. (But let us ignore what he said about Fahrenheit 451 in his later years...)
§ ita § - Jun 06, 2012 7:23:05 am PDT #8542 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Gnargh.
Google is just confusing me. I read recently a quote about you dying three deaths: first when you stop breathing, second something something, third the last time someone says your name. Google isn't helping me find a source, and in fact is introducing a version where it's two deaths. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? Is it a "real" quote, or something that just gets bounced around the internet by emo 13 year olds?
flea - Jun 06, 2012 7:24:14 am PDT #8543 of 30001
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Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 06, 2012 7:27:53 am PDT #8544 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Dunno about the veracity of the quote, but from that progression I'd bet that the second one is when the last person who personally knew you passes away.
ETA: Just as well I didn't bet my life...