So what goes better with Indian food: white wine or red?
Everybody plays each other. That's all anybody ever does. We play parts.
Saffron ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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.
Consuela - Jan 03, 2013 2:48:15 pm PST #6547 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
DavidS - Jan 03, 2013 2:49:11 pm PST #6548 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
How do you moms (and dads, but it seems to be a mom thing with my friends) a) get your kids to do the homework and b) not explodiate with rage.
Emmett's surprisingly good about doing homework. It used to be the source of many tears, especially in 3rd grade when the teacher was giving him a couple hours a night of homework. Completely unnecessary and so stressful. I'm really anti-homework after that experience.
Anyway, he started going to an aftercare program where all the kids had 45 minutes of homework before they could play. It just got them all in the habit. And now he does it himself. I just have to check and remind him and he's usually right on it. He still doesn't study much for tests but that's slowly changing.
Matilda can get very resistant and whiny about it, but fortunately her teacher's assignments are usually pretty interesting. Her aftercare also has a "homework club" so she often gets half of it done there.
The main thing I've learned is no matter what else you do with your homework schedule, make sure they do it before 7pm, or it will end in tears.
DavidS - Jan 03, 2013 2:49:49 pm PST #6549 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
So what goes better with Indian food: white wine or red?
Singha Beer.
(Curry is notoriously difficult to pair with wine, though I've heard some Zins will work.)
Consuela - Jan 03, 2013 2:49:58 pm PST #6550 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Also, that astronaut tweeting this is awesome, but what does MBB mean?
Consuela - Jan 03, 2013 2:50:47 pm PST #6551 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Singha Beer
I don't have time to stop for beer! But I have a bottle of Viognier in the fridge, and a case of red in the closet.
§ ita § - Jan 03, 2013 2:59:33 pm PST #6552 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oh, man, I have meat jealousy now...
But, software can suck it! I just worked out my conditional formatting question on my own!
(Which is good, because when I asked a co-worker where the restart numbering option was in Word 2010, he totally led me up the garden path. It's kinda weird when you think about the things you're just supposed to be competent at, and not that many people are--and then some people are fierce with--there are a few masters of spreadsheets here (I hear pivot and I quake) that blow me away)
Atropa - Jan 03, 2013 3:02:01 pm PST #6553 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Fashion hive-mind question: Remember those crushed velvet broomstick skirts that were everywhere in the 80s and 90s? The super-full ones? Anyone seen them lately? I'm coveting them like mad.
amych - Jan 03, 2013 3:03:30 pm PST #6554 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
what does MBB mean?
"My Best, Bill"
And Nimoy signs his tweets with "LLAP" for "Live Long and Prosper".
Dana - Jan 03, 2013 3:05:45 pm PST #6555 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
§ ita § - Jan 03, 2013 3:10:31 pm PST #6556 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Why do adults pick chunks out of the tops of muffins AND PUT THEM BACK IN THE BOX? It looks like a randy squirrel violated the baked goods from the finance department. I'm less upset about having missed the goodies (I do have two muffins in my purse) IF I CAN'T SEE THEIR BODIES everytime I walk past the kitchen.