Buffy! If I wanted to fight, you could tell by the being dead already.

Glory ,'Potential'


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.


aurelia - Jan 15, 2013 6:27:26 pm PST #7854 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Athletic Wear Inspired by Totem Poles by Adidas Originals

How in the world could Adidas be unaware of the problems with this? It's not like other appropriation fails weren't publicized.

18 severed human heads discovered at O'Hare airport

The photo on that article is hilarious. And now the conversation has me saying, "What's in the box?! WHAT'S IN THE BOX?!!!"


Kat - Jan 15, 2013 6:33:57 pm PST #7855 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

ita, you probably don't watch New Girl, but when I saw this dress I thought of you: [link]


Kat - Jan 15, 2013 6:34:12 pm PST #7856 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

sara, yeah, my usual peeps - Close Up.


Liese S. - Jan 15, 2013 6:36:46 pm PST #7857 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

I'd much prefer a package of steno pads and pretzel m&ms to a package of severed human heads.

Right? I was pretty happy when I opened it up. But then, pretty much anything I might actually receive has got to be better than severed heads. Illegitimate severed heads, because I have got no business receiving body parts of any kind.

I had someone in my class observing today and it was the day that the kids from the group home wanted to share about life in juvie. Sigh.

Ha. Isn't that always how it is?


Kat - Jan 15, 2013 6:44:32 pm PST #7858 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

The best part, it was during a focused socractic seminar. So when he decided to (over?)share, it was while he had the floor and it was on a discussion of the difference between punishment and revenge. So first he cursed and I had to shut that down. Then he had a million personal stories of how juvie isn't a deterrent how he still does drug and drinks alcohol and how kids like him should be locked away for life.

I couldn't figure out if it were posturing or what.

I handled it as best as I could, but honestly, all last semester he fell asleep in class Every Single Day so this is an improvement? Sort of.


le nubian - Jan 15, 2013 6:52:30 pm PST #7859 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

ita,

Revenge:

it isn't clear to me that Nolan did lose a lot of $$. I thought he was bought out or had $$ squirreled away somewhere.


Cass - Jan 15, 2013 6:53:11 pm PST #7860 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.

~ma to your mother and family, DCJ.

And now the conversation has me saying, "What's in the box?! WHAT'S IN THE BOX?!!!"

I am a bad person because I find that line funny by now. Possibly because the movie itself was actually scary and it's my coping method.

I couldn't figure out if it were posturing or what.

It sounds like it could be. Ugh.


Kat - Jan 15, 2013 7:00:51 pm PST #7861 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Cass, except he is in foster care at a group home and I do know he's had two trips to Juvie.


Cass - Jan 15, 2013 7:08:53 pm PST #7862 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.

Oh, I assumed he actually had been in Juvie and had a tough life. I read it as he was acting tougher than the experience - that if he said he was worthless then no one else saying it could hurt him.

I'm realizing now there might be a technical definition of posturing that I don't know.

And I know I am way over identifying your student with N (who can use Google and knows his nickname from me but probably won't be just reading) who seems to think if he lowers expectations enough and does enough "bad" things ... I don't know. I can't follow his logic. I just know that N is hurting his own life more than the rest of our family in the long term. And he's (N) an idiot because he's got so many opportunities. Plus in a few years he's going to be 18 and then he's going to end up screwed at this rate.


§ ita § - Jan 15, 2013 7:19:34 pm PST #7863 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

LeN, I feel like the great big bad thing that happened didn't seem to be that great big or bad--I mean he wants to fix it because that's his stuff but he's still going around bidding half a mil on wine so it's just another day...

I do hands down love him--he's the funniest hottest sweetest character on the show, but much of the impact to that plot point is lost on me. Maybe it was their leadin for Padma and the guy who pines for him? I'm sure they'll do something interesting soon.

Kat--DAMN. That is some poured-in leather. Someone give me a) money and b) half an excuse.... Which reminds me--I never gave you back your black spaghetti strap dress with the leather cutout overlay on the bodice, did I? I am so fucking bad with borrowing clothes...