Timelies all!
Rainy and cold here. Bleah.
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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.
Sheryl - Jan 16, 2013 1:00:31 pm PST #7972 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
JZ - Jan 16, 2013 1:01:05 pm PST #7973 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Also, he didn't ask. He just told me his son was 15 and would be donating, and then when I said no he wasn't and no he wouldn't, he called the blood bank and told them the exact same thing. Not a speck of asking.
Also, does he think every department here is hermetically sealed away from every other department and none of us compare notes (or, apparently, know how to read a calendar)?
Our chief surgeon pointed out that I could always call him back and offer to postpone his son's surgery 3 months so he'd be old enough to donate; God knows there are other kids who'd be happy to have his earlier surgical date.
Liese S. - Jan 16, 2013 1:01:19 pm PST #7974 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
WTF!
Connie Neil - Jan 16, 2013 1:01:25 pm PST #7975 of 30001
brillig
Or saying "That is unacceptable" in a no-nonsense voice will magically change the immutable procedures that are in place. Because people panic when they have to say No to other people.
(I love when customers give me the silent treatment when I tell them something they don't like. I don't mind sitting and not saying anything for several minutes.)
flea - Jan 16, 2013 1:01:32 pm PST #7976 of 30001
information libertarian
Anyone who tells you their toddler is a "huge Niners fan," you know who's really the huge Niners fan in that household.
tommyrot - Jan 16, 2013 1:34:00 pm PST #7977 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.
So apparently having a small lunch and then working out four hours later isn't the best idea.
SuziQ - Jan 16, 2013 2:00:42 pm PST #7978 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
I love the idea of rescheduling the surgery so he can donate. Choice 1 - surgery now with blood bank blood or Choice 2 - surgery later with autologous blood. Pick one and then SHUT UP.
Calli - Jan 16, 2013 2:43:54 pm PST #7979 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I sent "your learnings" up to another editor who told me it hurt her soul, but there was so much else wrong with the material that that probably wouldn't even make the top 10. Which is sadly true.
Who postpones their toddler's open heart surgery for some sporting event? I don't care how cool a temporary tattoo he's getting the kid. Priorities, for god's sake!
§ ita § - Jan 16, 2013 3:30:23 pm PST #7980 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Yes, technically he was born in a year that is 15 digits prior to the year we're inhabiting now, but LEGALLY HE IS 14, and you robotically repeating, "But he's fifteen" after you've confirmed his birthdate to me does not magically confer legal fifteenity on him. Bad dad, no biscuit.
How is that not epically (word of 2013, so far) stupid. I would give my parents back and go into a caregiver lottery. A border collie would make more sensible medical decisions.
a) it isn't your decision
b) it won't happen.
Poor guy, JZ being all mean to him when his boo boo is sick. No feelings...
erikaj - Jan 16, 2013 3:34:54 pm PST #7981 of 30001
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
(Gives Dad #1 Special Comment face) Although, actually, he is probably having trouble dealing. Which can really *look* like being delusionally crazy.