...burning baby fish swimming all round your head.

Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'


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 § - Jun 16, 2013 10:24:43 am PDT #26039 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Oh, man--I forgot! Nurse Woo is now Nurse Woo Madoff! She was giving me financial advice last week--telling me I needed to do something related to Dinar Inc. Buy some...dinars, I guess? She was more vague about how that was supposed to work than she is about stem cells or quantum physics. I looked at a couple websites, and there's no explanation of how this is a money-making venture, but...enh.

But then I did find a great moneymaking venture! RipoffReport.com purports to be for the consumer--you can bitch like negative yelp reports, but then they also have the infrastructure for the service being complained against to rebutt. So they are making it from both ends. I don't see why anyone would use them, since their lack of conviction seems really patent (and when it comes to picking sides, I'd assume they go with the pocketbook, not Silkwood).

Now that I've solved my yoghurt problem with Sprouts (new favourite supermarket), I can focus on my granola problem. Trying to find the perfect not-that-nutty oaty dried fruity goodness. Mmmm.

Turns out the FB account is legit, although I have no idea what she was thinking. I reset the password and logged everyone else out of the account to go look, and it's an Irish chick born in 1987. Total...whatever...I couldn't work out the simplest email analogue to send one of her friends a private message telling them what had happened. Am I posting to someone's wall? What is a wall? Is this instant message? Couldn't really tell.

Congrats, guys.


aurelia - Jun 16, 2013 10:35:20 am PDT #26040 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Aida?

The Jungle Book

Without the lights, no one would notice the elephants.

Exactly!


Liese S. - Jun 16, 2013 10:40:04 am PDT #26041 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

I loved that cut. This one is basically as maintenance free, but you can tell more and it changes more when I go so long without cuts.

I would definitely do it again. But it wouldn't be as much of a statement now, I don't think. I'm kinda saving it for when I get older.


Liese S. - Jun 16, 2013 10:46:55 am PDT #26042 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

I went to an older folks church service this morning and was looking at all the ladies' dyed and curled hair and was wondering what our generation's old lady hair will look like. And I can't see myself wanting to put in more effort than I do now. Used to think I would have old lady long hippie hair. But I think the odds are better for old lady cropped hair.


beekaytee - Jun 16, 2013 10:50:38 am PDT #26043 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant

I think I already have old lady cropped hair.

Not sure what I will do when the henna covering my sort of cool grey outlives its usefulness. But, I can guarantee it will not be a blue rinse!


Zenkitty - Jun 16, 2013 11:05:57 am PDT #26044 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Homeowners: as I'm searching through listings for apartments, I'm starting to get the idea that to get what I want, I'll need to actually get a house with a mortgage. There's a house that looks like that would be less than I'm paying now on rent, with more space (and if it's mine, I can do whatever I want, and have extra cash for higher heating bills and repairs).

If this is a question, I vote for buying a house. But I like buying houses.

Used to think I would have old lady long hippie hair. But I think the odds are better for old lady cropped hair.

I plan to cut mine real short and dye it blue.


Jesse - Jun 16, 2013 11:09:27 am PDT #26045 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I know a lady who has some purple in her medium-length white hair. It's awesome.


Sheryl - Jun 16, 2013 11:23:05 am PDT #26046 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

Back from Connecticut. The 50th anniversary celebrations were pretty low-key. My parents sponsored the luncheon after services, and then had a barbecue(for New England values of barbecue) at their house in the evening. The latter event was a little dull for us, as it was my parents' friends, some of who I didn't know. Still, it was nice.


meara - Jun 16, 2013 11:24:20 am PDT #26047 of 30001

Now that I've solved my yoghurt problem with Sprouts (new favourite supermarket),

How did Sprouts solve your yogurt problem??

For FB, I'd probably just post as a status update "I AM NOT (NAME), BUT SHE USED MY EMAIL ADDRESS TO SET UP THIS ACCOUNT...MAKE A NEW ONE! USE THE RIGHT ADDRESS" and figure her friends will tell her.


-t - Jun 16, 2013 11:46:07 am PDT #26048 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I know a lady who has some purple in her medium-length white hair. It's awesome.

I am planning on having that hair! I don't have a lot of grey yet, but what gray I do have is white like fishing line, so I figure someday (knock wood) I will probably have mostly white and the purple that barely shows up against my current dark brown will look fantastic.