Hell, I don't know. If I had wanted schooling, I'da gone to school.

Jayne ,'Ariel'


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.


Cass - Nov 29, 2012 5:59:25 pm PST #2655 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.

That "usually" is fucking everything up, which is why no punctuation is good.

I agree. The colon is valid but a total rewrite would be better. Words, so complicated.

I have a chunk missing from my finger because my favorite corkscrew snapped tonight. I loved it so much that I don't have a backup waiter style anywhere. It was my One True Corkscrew. And terribly branded so I don't really know if I can replace it. No corkscrew and a bandaid over a little chunk of missing finger. My pinot grigio is not worth this.


Cashmere - Nov 29, 2012 6:13:03 pm PST #2656 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.

Olivia is very considerate.

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Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 29, 2012 6:30:59 pm PST #2657 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

YUCK. I was reading with the TV turned off tonight, and thus heard the slight rustling noise a mouse was making trying to climb my shower curtain out of the bathtub. Managed to trap it with a cardboard box and remove it from the premises. And bathtub is now as clean as scrubbing with bleach can make it.


DavidS - Nov 29, 2012 7:30:26 pm PST #2658 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Olivia is very considerate.

Awww. Dad of Hearts.


meara - Nov 29, 2012 7:38:25 pm PST #2659 of 30001

Oh, you better bring it, Teppy! I may not have mad editing skillz, but I can pharmaceutical-off with you! Hah!


Burrell - Nov 29, 2012 7:39:53 pm PST #2660 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Eww Matt, unfun.

And yipes Cass! Significantly more unfun! Now the wine has to serve a medicinal function on top of its spiritual one.


§ ita § - Nov 29, 2012 7:40:02 pm PST #2661 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Aw, cute widdle mousey!

So--who's getting a Windows phone? How much do you feel advertising spots on TV affect your purchases of phones? And then for people who spend less time on the internet?

I'm curious about what stands out in those ads to differentiate them from iPhones (I sincerely cannot remember Android ads). I mean, how does one look like it will fix stuff better than the other? Gwen Stefani vs. Zooey Deschanel? Is that what it comes down to?


Cashmere - Nov 29, 2012 7:42:41 pm PST #2662 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.

A friend of mine has a windows phone and swears by it--and he is in a house full of iPhones and iPads.


§ ita § - Nov 29, 2012 7:49:25 pm PST #2663 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

But swears by it for what? What is the differentiator in such a saturated market? I'd imagine most people would be happy with a Windows phone. But who'd be unhappy without one?

Man, I have come bang up against some doozies of security questions recently. Things I'm all "I committed to a favourite?" about. Yoinks.


Cass - Nov 29, 2012 8:08:34 pm PST #2664 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.

I think mice can be cute and part of the local ecology until they are in my space. Sorry you had to bleach, Matt. But it was a tub and not something less porous. So bleaching was an effective technique.

And yipes Cass! Significantly more unfun! Now the wine has to serve a medicinal function on top of its spiritual one.

Medicinal pinot.

Worse, I have to find a new corkscrew. And this one was really nondescript. It looks like most others but I somehow really loved it best. The only things written or stamped on it are italy boomerang and pro-turn. Makes replacing it awkward because Google isn't magically giving me a product to buy and replace it. Unless stores want to let me open a bunch of bottles of wine while deciding.

Which is slightly less probable than my dream of stores having floor models of tea kettles so you can judge your preferred whistle. My current model has glass marbles in it because I debarked it years ago. Serviceable kettle, terrible whistle. Now it just rattles at me.

How much do you feel advertising spots on TV affect your purchases of phones?

I like to think it doesn't affect me or that it only gives me "data" when I am considering consumerism but I know that's not true. I'm guessing they can sway people into getting a level of phone they didn't think they needed or to prefer a model that might not be the most suited to their needs. Advertising is way more effective than people want to admit.