Congratulations, Vortex!
You know me! I'm like, "Go school! It's your birthday!" Or something to that effect.
Willow ,'Empty Places'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
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.
sj - Apr 02, 2013 5:08:37 am PDT #16918 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Trudy Booth - Apr 02, 2013 5:32:42 am PDT #16919 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Congratulations, Vortex!
We need to figure out a way to do the wave in here.
lisah - Apr 02, 2013 5:34:42 am PDT #16920 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
Yay, Vortex!!!
Nora Deirdre - Apr 02, 2013 5:37:10 am PDT #16921 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Great news, Vortex!
I am in a small nonprofit, and I'm paid OK (not great, but whatevs), and get health insurance paid for. We also only have 2 weeks of vacation (plus 5 days sick) but we get 2 weeks off at Christmas as well as a nice Mardi Gras and Thanksgiving break. Tom gets paid well, but has three weeks general PTO that is used for vacation, sick, bereavement, etc. I think it's awful, but the worst part is, that he negotiated that when accepting the job, and everyone else in the company has only TWO WEEKS PTO total per year. (except, I imagine, the executives)
Burrell - Apr 02, 2013 5:39:22 am PDT #16922 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Congrats, Vortex!
Can I ask for a few crossed fingers today? My conference is today, and I just want it to go well.
Jesse - Apr 02, 2013 5:53:19 am PDT #16923 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Good luck, Burrell! I'm sure it will be great.
everyone else in the company has only TWO WEEKS PTO total per year.
Holy shitsnacks, that's terrible.
I work for a big nonprofit with decent pay and OK benefits. I have three weeks of vacation and I think two of sick? I pay a medium amount for mediocre health coverage (apparently the family plans are super expensive.).
flea - Apr 02, 2013 5:57:48 am PDT #16924 of 30001
information libertarian
One thing I have found fascinating about insurance is that, at least when it was an issue for us, me + kids was much cheaper to insure than me + spouse (and of course me + family was the most). Which makes sense when you think about it, since a spouse could be any age and potentially getting sick, whereas kids are obviously young and as a rule pretty healthy. So for some time I am the kids were on my insurance at work, while mr. flea was on his grad student insurance. (And to put me and the kids on his grad student insurance would have been RIDIC. Of course, if I hadn't been working we'd probably have qualified for Medicaid.)
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 02, 2013 6:03:53 am PDT #16925 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
Yay Vortex!
§ ita § - Apr 02, 2013 6:11:58 am PDT #16926 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Sois sage, Burrell, as me mum would say. Not in the same sentence as I called her me mum, though, usually.
I tried to watch it back when it aired and found it not amusing at all, nigh on unwatchable
I think they were choosing the eps to shill for his new HBO show, but they seemed pretty clearly standup stretched into thirty minutes (he was an awful actor, great standup), which was made clear by some of the standup they showed afterwards that overlapped precisely with half an episode. But the ep where his wife has her first orgasm, and Jerry Minor across the way has a wife that's using a vibrator (I keep forgetting I met Jerry when he worked with Colin, and I can never remember why he's so familiar) had a payoff that I would have loved to see on Friends-- the husband uses the vibrator on himself when the wife leaves the room. A bit to much dick, though. And I don't say that lightly.
I missed the start of my 7am meeting because we had a 6:30am incident. Whoopee? Speaking of which, I should pee--I got straight out of bed onto work calls, and I'm not *that* work from home person.
Note to self: buy more white peach tea, buy more powdered citrus. If I ran out of both at the same time...oh, the terror...
erikaj - Apr 02, 2013 7:06:41 am PDT #16927 of 30001
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Count me in on the "Lucky Louie" being gross bench. Although I haven't watched it for a long time, maybe now that I get what he was going for better, I might find more humor in it. Hec, funny you should mention that, as I totally use "hilarious" much less frequently than I used to.