We have arrived at the point in doing taxes where we stare at numbers in befuddlement and I wonder, again, why we didn't pay someone to do this.
Weird love's better than no love.
Buffy ,'Dirty Girls'
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.
Dana - Apr 14, 2013 8:07:53 am PDT #18620 of 30001
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
§ ita § - Apr 14, 2013 8:08:51 am PDT #18621 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Tom Cruise scares me. I know this is more of a reaction than I should have to a movie star, but he does. His sincerity is so...sincere. And there is just so much force behind everything, like this is going to be the handshake where everyone strips naked and pledges their eternal servitude to him. Nothing is casual. "No one has a house that big!" [in order to hang a certificate of Irishness] "I do..." whispers Cruise in a voice that's technically quiet, but blows the top off sotto voce and blasts every consciousness. I'm kinda glad my Graham Norton recording was interrupted.
Hil R. - Apr 14, 2013 8:53:06 am PDT #18622 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Apparently Justin Bieber visited the Anne Frank House and wrote in the guest book, "Truly inspiring to be able to come here. Anne was a great girl. Hopefully she would have been a believer."
Jesse - Apr 14, 2013 8:59:53 am PDT #18623 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Not Belieber?
§ ita § - Apr 14, 2013 9:04:48 am PDT #18624 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Hey, people who are up to date in British schools--when did "college" become a term for sixth form? I don't know how I could have managed 6 years of schooling (two of which in sixth form) and not be aware of it, so I'm trying to see if I was clueless, or this is a relatively recent term.
"We use sex to communicate more than any other medium," sez Larry Flynt.
Uh, no?
Hil R. - Apr 14, 2013 9:05:13 am PDT #18625 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
You're right, it was "belieber."
Jesse - Apr 14, 2013 9:06:49 am PDT #18626 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
A headhunting firm whose emails I get is having a twitter contest -- most retweets wins. Is it just me, or is that TERRIBLE? I would be so pissed if my friends started retweeting these people incessantly.
Jesse - Apr 14, 2013 9:07:25 am PDT #18627 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
You're right, it was "belieber."
So that's gross, but less offensive.
§ ita § - Apr 14, 2013 9:18:52 am PDT #18628 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Most retweets really only has short term value for the company concerned--I'm going to be put off them, especially if this is how I hear of them.
Hmm. Twenty past eleven. I think this is a decent time to call the nurse. She's enough late for "between ten and eleven", right?
le nubian - Apr 14, 2013 9:43:08 am PDT #18629 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
The Bieber thing is just so ridiculous. Some on my twitter feed are blaming it on him being 19. I read Anne Frank in high school or jr high and I was fucking DONE. Emotionally fucked up for months. Read holocaust texts for months later. Went through a whole "human beings are terrible" phase, reading about worldwide atrocities and shit.
Granted, I was kind of intense as a teenager. But there is no fucking way I would have written bullshit like that at age 14 much less 19.
I have been highly amused at the twitter response. One person expressed regret that Gandhi wasn't alive to read his tech columns. Another made up fake quotes from Bieber like: Usher would have discovered Malcolm if he had lived.