Harrow: You didn't have to wound that man. Mal: Yeah, I know, it was just funny.

'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.


Jesse - Jan 10, 2013 5:52:29 am PST #7188 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Talking shit, but sassy.


tommyrot - Jan 10, 2013 5:53:22 am PST #7189 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

"throwing shade". What does that mean?

They are Shadow Master, Master of Shadows?


lisah - Jan 10, 2013 5:55:25 am PST #7190 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate

Isn't throwing shade an old school phrase? Maybe regional? I will have to look it up!


tommyrot - Jan 10, 2013 5:57:08 am PST #7191 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Urban Dictionary:

throw shade

to talk trash about a friend or aquaintance, to publicly denounce or disrespect. When throwing shade it's immediately obvious to on-lookers that the thrower, and not the throwee, is the bitcy, uncool one

"How does Kimmy keep any friends? Last night at the party all she did was throw shade at people."

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lisah - Jan 10, 2013 5:59:28 am PST #7192 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate

Yes! Was a drag queen thing since the vogueing days.


Sophia Brooks - Jan 10, 2013 6:03:19 am PST #7193 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

All of the sudden I am seeing it everywhere! Especially in reference to Glee actors?


bon bon - Jan 10, 2013 6:53:07 am PST #7194 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

It probably gained currency because of Drag Race, but they define it in Paris Is Burning, so the term probably dates from the 70s.


Sophia Brooks - Jan 10, 2013 7:02:25 am PST #7195 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

That makes sense!


Frankenbuddha - Jan 10, 2013 7:03:59 am PST #7196 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

I mean, c'mon. Does the world need semi-aquatic rodents?

So you probably don't want to know about the ones that can fly, then?

t /joking


§ ita § - Jan 10, 2013 7:46:44 am PST #7197 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

This week is a bad pain week for me, and as a result, other people are mindboggling.

Web design is calling me in a frenzy because all their links are broken, and can I check if the web content management application is working?

Guys? You have a hyphen in your links that doesn't belong there.

That was half an hour while he kept me on the phone while he tried to fix it, which meant I missed the development review meeting where neurotic developer #1 re-reviewed changes that went in front of the board in October. That broke my heart, in a way that involves no heartbreak at all.

Neurotic developer #2 keeps inverting priorities so we can't deliver on our commitments, despite having made the commitments face to face with the users. It's like if someone's not looking over her shoulder telling her to do tasks that involve people not her, she won't. I swear, our team is a haven for developers with anxiety disorders who avoid contact with people outside the team, and avoid mentioning they're falling down on contact they were told to make.

I got so much achieved yesterday, though. Maybe I need to take a walk and come back and dive in...