Wow, that posted before safari crashed.
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
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.
sarameg - May 30, 2013 5:08:43 pm PDT #24269 of 30001
Juliebird - May 30, 2013 5:12:55 pm PDT #24270 of 30001
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
One of these days I'll get a floral cooler. From, you know, one of the many florists going out of buisiness. My current situation is in the basement, where I have to ask the two tenants to close the laundry room door when they put the dryer on so they don't fry my flowers, and rely on the residual AC to keep the flowers until Saturday. We're so professional!
Stood in line for a bottle of wine. New guy at the register floundering about what to do about my lack of id. Then floundering because my purchase is double stamped and won't scan. Line keeps backing up behind me and no one seems to care about resolving that or my own issue. Not shopping there again.
DavidS - May 30, 2013 5:29:03 pm PDT #24271 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Emmett's already back wearing his tux. I think he'll wear it about four times before prom, including going to pick Matilda up from school tomorrow.
Also, he decided that tux pants are very butt flattering, so he took a selfie of his bum.
Jesse - May 30, 2013 5:31:17 pm PDT #24272 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Make sure to ask him if they are space pants.... because his ass is out of this world!
Matt the Bruins fan - May 30, 2013 5:32:47 pm PDT #24273 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
And no, when it comes to breeding, nurture is definitely not stronger than nature. I am not an alarmist, and I know some sweet pits, but just remember how often you've read the stories about the child or person who was mauled where the owner says, "the dog was always so gentle. We can't believe this happened!"
Yeah, my cousin had a sweet, affectionate rottweiler that had been raised with love and well-trained, but would snap if startled. She once had to use a fallen limb to keep the dog from killing another family pet that triggered her chase instinct. And at my best friend's wedding I had to restrain his German shepherd from attacking the bride's little brother. Just because a dog is gentle and loving with people it considers family doesn't mean it'll behave the same way toward strangers.
le nubian - May 30, 2013 5:36:13 pm PDT #24274 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
yikes ita!
sarameg - May 30, 2013 5:50:47 pm PDT #24275 of 30001
Boo on ita's parents not communicating.
Loki is sleeping on my mac's power converter thing. I get it in winter, but a source of warmth really isn't indicated right now...
§ ita § - May 30, 2013 6:58:09 pm PDT #24276 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think we're at "Oh, that's not so bad, right?" Which is pretty much defcon baby bears around our house. Grump.
Cass - May 30, 2013 7:28:19 pm PDT #24277 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Loki is sleeping on my mac's power converter thing. I get it in winter, but a source of warmth really isn't indicated right now...
Puppycat hangs out on my Time Capsule. It has warms. Which is ridiculous given how hot it is here but she loves her some warms.
Burrell - May 30, 2013 7:48:10 pm PDT #24278 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I came home from stretch class hungry, but I'm bored of the food we have here (at least the food that I can eat right now). Growing up, one of my favorite breakfasts was baked eggs, but it always seemed like such a bother as you have to put the eggs in a bath in the oven. But then I realized--the microwave can do it! So I just nommed down a baked egg with parm on top and ye gads was it good!
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