He doesn't travel well. He's like fine shrimp.

Anya ,'Touched'


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.


Tom Scola - Jun 07, 2013 10:57:45 am PDT #25197 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

If Batman is in a force-chokehold, he still has time to reach into his utility belt and throw a batarang. Can Vader use the Force offensively and defensively at the same time?


§ ita § - Jun 07, 2013 11:01:19 am PDT #25198 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

But what if Vader force-chokes him?

If Batman is not concerned with super strength, heat vision, ice breath, flying opponents, etc, the force? Come on. The force couldn't kill a Robin. And we know what their lifespans are like.


Maria - Jun 07, 2013 11:02:10 am PDT #25199 of 30001
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift

I love us so much. That is all.


Steph L. - Jun 07, 2013 11:02:12 am PDT #25200 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

I love all of you.


Maria - Jun 07, 2013 11:02:34 am PDT #25201 of 30001
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift

AWESOMEST x-post ever with La Tep.


Steph L. - Jun 07, 2013 11:02:46 am PDT #25202 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Hee! Of course that was a great big love x-post.


Steph L. - Jun 07, 2013 11:03:02 am PDT #25203 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

AWESOMEST x-post ever with La Tep.

Except for our second one.


JZ - Jun 07, 2013 11:03:57 am PDT #25204 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Matilda does love her some princesses, but it's gratifying that her favorite is Princess Diana of Themyscira.

In less gratifying girly news, one of our new faculty members is growing... discouraged would be putting it mildly. Since arriving here as colleague, mentee, open-heart-surgical protegee and pet statistics wizard of the new division chief, she's had to deal with endless incidents where senior faculty members turn to her at the end of meetings and say, "Your enthusiasm is nice, but students aren't really supposed to come," or preop families spend an hour watching as she examines their kid and then sitting down for another hour to discuss the upcoming operation in incredible detail, and then say, "Thank you so much, you've been so helpful! When do we get to meet the surgeon?"

And just today, a parent who'd heard about another faculty member resigning called to ask whether a new surgeon had been assigned to her child's case yet, and to say, almost apologetically, "I'm really not sexist *at all,* it's just that I'm more comfortable with male doctors. Nothing against this surgeon, I've never heard anything bad about her; I just really prefer men. But I'm not sexist!"

What the actual fuck, people?


tommyrot - Jun 07, 2013 11:06:02 am PDT #25205 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

OK, could Robin defeat Yoda?


Dana - Jun 07, 2013 11:07:19 am PDT #25206 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Please, Yoda would kick any Robin's ass.