Don't you just love this party? Everything's so fancy, and there's some kind of hot cheese over there.

Kaylee ,'Shindig'


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.


Jessica - Jul 12, 2013 9:26:09 am PDT #28956 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

We were just told that when we're instructed to, we have to comment on our crap content, including Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+. Or, you know, we'll get FIRED, since some poor soul has been designated to keep track of the user names we have to give her by five today.

Ugh, DH had a job like that once - the magazine's website was getting no traffic, so the staff was instructed to create sockpuppets and fake comments on all the articles. (Or was it that they were supposed to create fake profiles for the online dating site attached to the magazine? I forget.)

Either way, it was WAY ethically shady, and the magazine went under completely less than a year later.


Amy - Jul 12, 2013 9:28:57 am PDT #28957 of 30001
Because books.

A toaster oven might be a bit heavy to carry home, Jesse.

Either way, it was WAY ethically shady, and the magazine went under completely less than a year later.

Oh, this place is completely shady. All the way in the shade. I'm just waiting for someone to bust them, honestly.


Jesse - Jul 12, 2013 9:47:05 am PDT #28958 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

A toaster oven might be a bit heavy to carry home, Jesse.

Yeah. I am always carrying too-heavy things home! At least the walk is on the Target side of the subway ride.


Tom Scola - Jul 12, 2013 9:49:44 am PDT #28959 of 30001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

From beneath you, it devours.


§ ita § - Jul 12, 2013 9:52:42 am PDT #28960 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Any gmail account will beg you to go all Google+ on its ass. It's annoying, or maybe I shouldn't have 15. That's easy enough. LinkedIn and FaceBook seem like a lot of trouble to fake, but you should be able to whip up a mildly convincing Twitter and G+ secondary account with which to drink the company Kool Aid.

If your fake people need fake friends, I've got alternate identities aplenty. I mean, I can speak to a man about a horse for you.

Why hiccoughs? These are a treaty violation, and fucking with my typing to boot.

Right. I need to get a message to my doctor to try going all out on this admission. I don't want anything to go untried just because they think I'm delicate. DO EVERYTHING.


shrift - Jul 12, 2013 9:58:56 am PDT #28961 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

From beneath you, it devours.

Holy crap, we're all going to die.


sarameg - Jul 12, 2013 10:00:43 am PDT #28962 of 30001

There's a sinkhole forming on my commute to work, clearly a water main leak. They've dug it up and done something, but given the way the road is continuing to collapse I've made sure I know all the alternate routes...


Toddson - Jul 12, 2013 10:06:31 am PDT #28963 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

We had a sinkhole in the middle of downtown a while ago - a month maybe - closed down some major streets until they got it fixed. Caused by an old water pipe bursting underground. Nothing as dramatic as the ones in those pictures, though.


Jesse - Jul 12, 2013 10:09:12 am PDT #28964 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Those pictures are BANANAS. I'm never moving to Guatemala City, that's for sure.


Burrell - Jul 12, 2013 10:17:20 am PDT #28965 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Ugh Amy, what a crappy thing for your boss to ask of you, so shady.