The quote is from Cambridge student Kenneth John Freeman's 1907 dissertation. [link]
It's called a blaster, Will, a word that tends to discourage experimentation. Now, if it were called the Orgasmater, I'd be the first to try your basic button press approach.
Xander ,'Get It Done'
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.
Ginger - May 09, 2013 3:11:53 pm PDT #22023 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Kat - May 09, 2013 3:12:55 pm PDT #22024 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Everybody bow down to Ginger's mad skillz!
Jesse - May 09, 2013 3:17:02 pm PDT #22025 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
VERY nice.
flea - May 09, 2013 3:18:44 pm PDT #22026 of 30001
information libertarian
There *is* a Roman author who said something pithy about the youth of today; I've taught the work in Classical Civ. But I'm damned if I can remember what it is, and Google is failing me. (I am pretty sure what I'm thinking of is not Cicero's oration against Catiline.)
le nubian - May 09, 2013 3:28:48 pm PDT #22027 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Ginger,
*kisses*
So, I guess I am heading back over to the Web site to put a cherry on the sundae of my argument.
Juliebird - May 09, 2013 3:29:40 pm PDT #22028 of 30001
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Hyperbole and a half's Depression Part Two
That, um, sounds a bit too familiar. Except I have absolutely no problem with being bright and shiny for the masses.
Amy - May 09, 2013 4:18:21 pm PDT #22029 of 30001
Because books.
I just read Hyperbole and a Half. It was weirdly reassuring and terrifying, how well I understand everything she said. The dead fish really got me. Did you see there are 5,000 comments? Amazing.
sarameg - May 09, 2013 4:22:35 pm PDT #22030 of 30001
Her post is oh so valuable. Not just because it resonates with people, but because it does a damn fine job of explaining to folks who have not been there what it is like. I've been depressed, but nothing ever like that. It never occurred to me that coming out the other side, your brain would be overloaded with learning to feel and process emotion. What she described reminds me a lot of watching toddlers when they flip out. They do it because they're just FEELING and cannot regulate or process it. The tools just aren't there yet.
ION, I took fake sudafed this morning because I just couldn't stand the chest tightness and real sudafed made me feel so awful last time (grindy joints, anxious, wired, hateful) and it feels like it didn't do anything effective but make me anxious and give me rebound wheezies when it wore off. Swim was ...poor.
sarameg - May 09, 2013 4:56:44 pm PDT #22031 of 30001
Pumpkin is definitely becoming the queen bee of the house. She stole a treat from Lokes and he looked affronted but didn't even challenge her. But he was never alpha material, and she certainly is. I think she only deferred to Devi because Dev flat out ignored challengers and wouldn't budge (P hissed at her all.the.time. Devi just stared.)
I do still miss the conversations. The Pumpk has made some forays, but pretty much they both only talk to demand....
Atropa - May 09, 2013 4:57:39 pm PDT #22032 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
That, um, sounds a bit too familiar. Except I have absolutely no problem with being bright and shiny for the masses.
Same here.