Good luck. Try not to kill people. Hands! Hands!

Willow ,'Storyteller'


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.


§ ita § - May 29, 2013 4:04:00 pm PDT #24141 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Okay, this is a weird juxtaposition, but still. I'm looking at this "rape defense" from a self defence teacher, and I can't help but think it looks fussy: [link] I have some issues with what krav teaches you in that position, but I do feel it gives you more room to struggle than this which seems to depend on timing, which is not typically in your favour in these situations.

Anyway, that having been posted...Patrick Motherfucking Stewart. I knew he raised money against domestic abuse in his mother's name as a gesture towards what she could not get, but I did not know he raises money for PTSD in his father's name for similar reasons. Generally being amazing at cons I did also know. But it's Good Stuff worth sharing again (I'm sure he's been on it before, maybe even this).

Unrelated to anything but geekery, can someone read this for me in a way that makes sense:

Plans for a episode featuring a gay couple and and an allegory for HIV existed for the original Star Trek series, but the episode was never produced. The Next Generation eventually featured an allegory about HIV in the episode “Stigma,”

That's just an unfortunate (UNACCURATE, INCROMULENT) usage of the word "original", right?


Scrappy - May 29, 2013 4:35:20 pm PDT #24142 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Loving on Sir Patrick right now.


sarameg - May 29, 2013 4:36:32 pm PDT #24143 of 30001

I should not have googled 'what to expect from a refi appraisal.' I mean, I am going to clean this weekend, but there's precious little to be done with all the boxes downstairs (basement) or my verge-of-clutter state of living downstairs or the fact I really need to dust all things. Cause as much as I'd like it done, it ain't happening this weekend.


Ginger - May 29, 2013 4:36:36 pm PDT #24144 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Craigslist ad:

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Laura - May 29, 2013 4:44:11 pm PDT #24145 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.

Watching the Patrick Stewart video, he is truly one of the good guys.

Must be able to read and write.

Woo! New career time!


Jesse - May 29, 2013 4:45:40 pm PDT #24146 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

That's just an unfortunate (UNACCURATE, INCROMULENT) usage of the word "original", right?

Gotta be. And that Patrick Stewart is definitely in the queue.


brenda m - May 29, 2013 4:51:10 pm PDT #24147 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

Wait, read and write?


Kat - May 29, 2013 5:12:19 pm PDT #24148 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Tough assignment!

Grace was just having something that might have been an asthma attack. I have a high tolerance for labored breathing, but she sounded like she was struggling. I gave her the inhalers. Still had nasal flaring and slight retraction. So I popped her on oxygen and she settled. Sometimes major durable medical equipment is kind of nice.


lisah - May 29, 2013 5:13:01 pm PDT #24149 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate

sara, the refi appraisal is really about how many bathrooms you have and what other houses in your neighborhood cost. I don't think how clean your house is matters too much.


sarameg - May 29, 2013 5:18:45 pm PDT #24150 of 30001

Good to know. In addition to the house that just closed 2 doors down ($165K!!), my neighbor just did a refi as well. Of course, we are a bit of a slow market because people stay, you can't compare Ednor Gardens to the comps in Waverly across the street, anyone who lives in either knows this, and we've got the stray foreclosure sales from people who bought on the bubble and walked away (which is why St Ambrose snapped up the last couple of houses that sold for $160K+ after they were done with them.) It's a confusing neighborhood to comp.