Denture cleaner is brilliant at getting tea stains out of mugs. And it ate through a bunch of the water depositing in the bottom of the wine carafe that I use for water at night.
Flames wouldn't be eternal if they actually consumed anything.
Lilah ,'Not Fade Away'
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.
Cass - Jun 08, 2012 1:03:11 pm PDT #8966 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.
shrift - Jun 08, 2012 1:04:20 pm PDT #8967 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I went to see Prometheus this afternoon with about 100 of my coworkers. I don't know what I'm doing this weekend.
§ ita § - Jun 08, 2012 1:05:27 pm PDT #8968 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I usually use bleach to rid myself of tea stains.
Father's Day? Do I have to go look that up or something? No...my mother's birthday isn't *that* soon.
Man, when I slump in this chair it hurts my buttbone so much that I look like a real freak reseating myself. Poor buttbone. Poor me.
Jesse - Jun 08, 2012 1:33:13 pm PDT #8969 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Customer service question #2: Muzak is a punishment, right?
Must be.
le nubian - Jun 08, 2012 1:58:37 pm PDT #8970 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Connie Neil - Jun 08, 2012 2:01:11 pm PDT #8971 of 30001
brillig
Okay, who has worked phone support before and can confirm for me that sometimes, if things aren't going well, you "accidentally" disconnect people.
I actually never have, though I occasionally wish I were the sort who would. It's grounds for a lot of trouble if such is suspected at my work.
Consuela - Jun 08, 2012 2:03:22 pm PDT #8972 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Fascinating short story about, well, us. Sort of: [link]
DavidS - Jun 08, 2012 2:09:54 pm PDT #8973 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
It's strongly worded and its message is clear: the Vatican's intrusion is "excessive". Here's the full text released yesterday morning. It is, as James Martin puts it, "fathers and brothers coming to the defense of their sisters. " It's a nuanced and respectful defense of core Catholicism, asserting that the current Vatican's insistence on total control over all issues, even those where there can and should be "courageous discernment", is actually against Catholic teaching, as expressed in the Second Vatican Council.
Schism! Schism! Schism!
Thanks for the Giants Math, tommyrot. Looks like a mix of the pythagorean method used to calculate wins based on runs alllowed vs runs scored (some teams win above or below their pythag, but the pythag is a better measure of their True Talent level and better predicts what they could do going forward) and a Strength of Schedule calculation.
I think that pug just never learned how to coordinate its front and hind legs. You see that sometimes in puppies where the back end starts drifting forwards or to the side.
Calli - Jun 08, 2012 2:33:18 pm PDT #8974 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
It's kind of amazing that Sterling's story was written ~15 years ago.
Consuela - Jun 08, 2012 2:36:19 pm PDT #8975 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Isn't it, though? That whole pay-it-forward element reminded me of Reddit's annual Secret Santa thing.