I don't fancy spending the next month trying to get librarian out of the carpet.

Spike ,'Chosen'


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.


billytea - Jun 14, 2012 3:15:02 pm PDT #9710 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Roundabouts, or as we New Englanders call them, rotaries, are awesome. Traffic studies indicate that they are both safer and keep traffic moving more smoothly than traffic lights.

Exactly! Why does the baby American Jesus hate SCIENCE?!

Biyi tends to be quite direct, and has little patience for social convention getting in the way of clear communication. Which I think goes a long way towards explaining why she emigrated from China, and possibly why she works as an interpreter.


§ ita § - Jun 14, 2012 3:34:58 pm PDT #9711 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

If someone explains themselves with YOLO, they're saying it's not a logically or perhaps even emotionally defensible decision? I'm totally not getting the nuance of this lingo.


Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 14, 2012 3:37:18 pm PDT #9712 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

I thought that basically meant "Yeah, it's stupid, but I'm gonna do it anyway."


Amy - Jun 14, 2012 3:38:27 pm PDT #9713 of 30001
Because books.

What does YOLO stand for?


dcp - Jun 14, 2012 3:46:03 pm PDT #9714 of 30001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

I was really upset because the way he brought it up after made me feel like it was a HUGE character flaw that everyone has been bothered by for a long time and that I'd been acting like an oblivious asshole for months and getting in the way of work getting done and pissing off the client (he specifically mentioned me stepping on the lines of our business owner).

Seems to me you should give him a thorough dose of constructive criticism on how to correctly offer constructive criticism.


-t - Jun 14, 2012 3:53:03 pm PDT #9715 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

And you also don't get points for waiting at the stop sign until I get there.

I sometimes do this. When I'm turning left and I know people blow through the opposite stop sign all the time, I wait to make sure they are, in fact, stopping. It's not being polite, it's fear.

The baby American Jesus can drink whisky from the cat bowl for all I care.

I need to look for opportunities to repeat this. Maybe have a stamp made up.


le nubian - Jun 14, 2012 3:53:17 pm PDT #9716 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

don't play with my YOLO!


bon bon - Jun 14, 2012 3:57:07 pm PDT #9717 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

Bob Bob just made a FB joke-post about people wasting their lives writing YOLO on FB all damn day. [I had to ask what YOLO meant. I suspect it's mostly college students who do it.]


-t - Jun 14, 2012 3:57:19 pm PDT #9718 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

The county that Davis is in? I am so confused.


Polter-Cow - Jun 14, 2012 3:58:04 pm PDT #9719 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

You know the story of the Feminist Frequency Kickstarter project, and how she's been so badly trolled by 4chan?

No, but I looked it up, and huh. I didn't look too deep into the actual trolling, but what the shit. Felicia Day recently got flamed for doing a music video where she identified as "Gamer Girl" and wore eyeshadow. Girls play games. Get over it, Internet.

What does YOLO stand for?

I just learned this at a comedy show on Tuesday! It stands for You Only Live Once.