Sequestration has cancelled fleet week.
There's going to be hell to pay when Samantha Jones finds out.
Never goes smooth. How come it never goes smooth?
Mal ,'Safe'
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.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 24, 2013 5:43:08 am PDT #20344 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
Amy - Apr 24, 2013 5:48:57 am PDT #20345 of 30001
Because books.
Aw, that sucks. Poor sailors.
Jesse - Apr 24, 2013 5:50:24 am PDT #20346 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Poor sailors?? Poor everyone else!
(OK, yes, I guess they aren't solely for decoration...)
msbelle - Apr 24, 2013 5:51:21 am PDT #20347 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Poor bars, poor everyone.
Amy - Apr 24, 2013 5:55:34 am PDT #20348 of 30001
Because books.
Well, true. Also, yes, poor bars.
I saw a whole bunch the year I was up for BEA and met Jessica and Tom and Scrappy and Kate for drinks. One of them lit my cigarette, and asked me to take a picture of him and his buddies. Very sweet. I think ... they also called me ma'am.
Sparky1 - Apr 24, 2013 6:07:35 am PDT #20349 of 30001
Librarian Warlord
My DH has a job offer, hurrah! It's based in Geneva - the last one was NYC. Remind me why we moved to DC again?
Theodosia - Apr 24, 2013 6:19:58 am PDT #20350 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Sparky... which Geneva, some are more exciting than others? :-)
If we can't have a Buffista Island, maybe we could start with an attractively priced pirate ship?
Zenkitty - Apr 24, 2013 6:20:50 am PDT #20351 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
The very premise of that cautious gentle low voice makes me want to go all ultraviolent.
Me too. Someone speaking to me like I'm about to lose my mind is a self-fulfilling proposition; it makes me about to lose my mind.
gummy or "wet" voices give me the heebies, and any kind of fleshy mouth-sound that isn't a clearly articulated word is nigh intolerable.
Oh, yes. Lip-smacky sounds make my skin crawl.
That ASMR stuff is strange. (Humans are strange.) I don't get that response. People whispering to me just annoys me -- and as I recall, it did even before I had some hearing loss, and now, I SAID I CAN'T HEAR YOU, DAMMIT, SPEAK UP.
And yet, that noise that "only" teenagers can hear? I can hear it, for sure.
I wonder if this has something to do with why I dislike listening to audiobooks. The voice of the other person always gets between me and the words. If I'm reading, I can control how fast the words go by.
I'm very good at reading aloud, myself; I just generally don't like listening to other people do it.
Or the almost universally positive response to Patrick Stewart's voice.
There's something about baritone voices. Kate Mulgrew's voice has a sharp nasal edge that I dislike, but I don't hate listening to her.
I guess - also like supertasters - it's making me think about Descarte's Demon. We presume there's a common physical reality that we share, but in reality our bodies process it so differently that it's more like a Venn Diagram overlap of consensed upon reality. With a lot of outliers.
True. We aren't all living in the same world.
Sparky1 - Apr 24, 2013 6:25:47 am PDT #20352 of 30001
Librarian Warlord
Sparky... which Geneva, some are more exciting than others? :-)Switzerland!
DavidS - Apr 24, 2013 6:28:43 am PDT #20353 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
SparkyFam in Switzerland! Cheese and chocolate.
Something for Good Things Happened Today: Guy opens up bag of mulch and finds a newborn squirrel, raises it.