I battle evil. But I don't really win. The bad keeps coming back and getting stronger. Like that kid in the story, the boy that stuck his finger in the duck.

Buffy ,'Showtime'


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.


Jesse - Jun 17, 2013 4:49:02 pm PDT #26198 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

One of my friends posts this [link] on Facebook whenever they score, so that's how I keep track.


§ ita § - Jun 17, 2013 4:53:47 pm PDT #26199 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

This makes me BUGFUCK. It is not a petty gripe; it's tone-deaf.

For some reason that makes me feel a lot better. Misery really loves company on this one.

Last year when my neck/shoulder went out, it was a ping! as I was walking across my apartment. Small apartment, short walk.

This year the ping took more like 2 or 3 weeks, but the difference between when I sat down at a co-worker's desk at 3 and right now is INSANE. Like, light-headed (that used to say light, like-headed, so QED) with pain. I'm doubling up on the lidocaine patch, begging off of the paper my sister wants me to read, and seeing if I can get to my muscle relaxants without bending anything other than my wrists.

It's not weird, I suppose, how different pains have different one to ten scales. Frustrating, though, the rich tapestry of ow.


Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 17, 2013 6:12:44 pm PDT #26200 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

They are advertising car lashes (decorative false eyelashes for car headlights) during the wrap-up of tonight's NHL broadcast. The end is nigh.


DavidS - Jun 17, 2013 6:15:45 pm PDT #26201 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

OTOH, the Bruins won.


Steph L. - Jun 17, 2013 6:17:22 pm PDT #26202 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

They are advertising car lashes (decorative false eyelashes for car headlights)

I've been seeing those a lot lately. Mostly on vw beetles.


Lee - Jun 17, 2013 6:35:19 pm PDT #26203 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Getting in the car and driving somewhere far away instead of going to work tomorrow probably wouldn't be a good idea, would it?


DavidS - Jun 17, 2013 6:37:55 pm PDT #26204 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Getting in the car and driving somewhere far away instead of going to work tomorrow probably wouldn't be a good idea, would it?

Or...the best idea all summer. Would work survive a call-in sick day?


WindSparrow - Jun 17, 2013 6:41:56 pm PDT #26205 of 30001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.

Given actual number of calories as opposed to ratio not that different 4 oz clemintine has 20 more calories and a 4 oz tomato. If you are doing exchanges not that different. And a LOT easier to keep track via exchanges than via calorie counting.

Fitday.com calls 'em at 53 and 20 cal. per 4 oz., respectively. Incidentally, by your standards, carrots and onions are also to be considered fruit. Throw in some green peas and you've got yourself the start of a decent fruit salad.


Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 17, 2013 7:06:39 pm PDT #26206 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

OTOH, the Bruins won.

There is that. And my Beantown guys considerately scored both their goals before tonight's Teen Wolf episode, so I feel no regrets for channel surfing between that and the game.


Lee - Jun 17, 2013 7:21:21 pm PDT #26207 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Would work survive a call-in sick day?

Can't happen tomorrow, unfortunately. The other reference librarian in SF is on vacation, plus my glasses broke on Sunday, and my eye doctor is closed on Monday, so I need to go tomorrow.

I just really wish I wasn't this worn out so early in the week.

Maybe planning a trip to New Orleans would help?