My whole life just flashed before my eyes! I gotta get me a life!

Xander ,'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.


Amy - May 17, 2013 8:34:06 am PDT #22720 of 30001
Because books.

The people at the ALF really need to chill, Consuela. I'm so sorry about another ER visit, but it sounds like you had a good time with your siblings last night.

Trying to and failing at not having each of: anxiety attack/migraine/eyelid twitch.

You're having a very stressful day. Tea?


Fred Pete - May 17, 2013 8:50:31 am PDT #22721 of 30001
Ann, that's a ferret.

Best comfort wishes, Suela. And enough good wine without having too much.


Steph L. - May 17, 2013 9:10:35 am PDT #22722 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

On the GeoGuessr, are people looking for landmarks/signs/whatever and then googling? Because that's all I can figure to do. (Except for one slightly blurry rural vista that I just went "That seems Ohio-ish," and I'll be damned -- it was indeed northwestern Ohio.)


Steph L. - May 17, 2013 9:13:14 am PDT #22723 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

One of my vistas showed a school field trip, with all the kids holding a string to keep them in line, in Andalusia, Spain. And then a picture of that field trip turned up on Picasa: [link]


msbelle - May 17, 2013 9:13:17 am PDT #22724 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

GeoGuesser is blocked by work.

you know what isn't though and is great for passing a slow Friday waiting for emails? The Fug Girls. I had not been on their site for yonks. I still liked the scrolling site better from way back, but it's still a good time, less snarky though - really short posts.


Frankenbuddha - May 17, 2013 9:15:31 am PDT #22725 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

So movers are scheduled for a week from today. I should be able to get everything packed up by then. And the movers have climate controlled storage, so I figured I'd just go with that and cut out the middle man of a different storage facility. One more thing down.

checks another item off of list


brenda m - May 17, 2013 9:20:39 am PDT #22726 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

I'm going on the Ohio-ish approach. And when in doubt, guess Australia.


Fiona - May 17, 2013 9:23:31 am PDT #22727 of 30001

On the GeoGuessr, are people looking for landmarks/signs/whatever and then googling?

Yes; street signs; notices; websites on advertising hoardings. Sometimes signs in Japanese or Korean can also be in English; cyrillic, not so much. Once I ended up on a square somewhere in Russia and all I could do was turn around in circles. I guessed Siberia (there was snow on the ground), but it turns out Siberia is big.

The quality of some of the pictures is so much worse than others. When you finally find a sign and you can't read it properly, that's so frustrating!


Sue - May 17, 2013 9:23:46 am PDT #22728 of 30001
hip deep in pie

And when in doubt, guess Australia.

For me, it's usually somewhere in South America


Connie Neil - May 17, 2013 9:30:37 am PDT #22729 of 30001
brillig

Australia or Brazil. If I can zoom in enough to see Portuguese, I go with Brazil. And if it looks like Middle Earth, it's New Zealand (though the sign for the Kiwi Bank helped).