But? There's always a but. When this is over, can we have a big 'but' moratorium?

Fred ,'Smile Time'


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 - Nov 14, 2012 6:34:58 am PST #822 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Argh, Nora. Maybe you should hit things! But only soft things -- don't want to hurt your hand.


Consuela - Nov 14, 2012 6:36:41 am PST #823 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Yay le n! Boo, Nora! So sorry.

Hey, did you all know there's an entire subsection of the economy in place to deal with managing elderly folks? I mean, I knew about retirement communities and whatever, but I didn't know there was an entire nationwide franchise that organizes seniors' moves into assisted living, conducts the move and unpacks everything, appraises the belongings left behind, runs estate sales, and cleans and sells the empty home.

So useful! IOW, I have a mover on board, yay.

Still no word on my job, feh. So frustrating.


erikaj - Nov 14, 2012 6:45:31 am PST #824 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!

I'm the opposite of excited about thanksgiving, because Stepmonster is playing hostess again. But, you know, grandma wants us "all together" so I'm falling on my sword. My family has two speeds...fighting and drama, or the awkward silence of people who never learned to have conversations...my grandma's dreams make me sad. we're never going to have the movie ending.


le nubian - Nov 14, 2012 6:46:13 am PST #825 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Man, Sorry Nora.

The good news doesn't last long. Apparently water was spewing out of a sprinkler pipe.

I cannot believe this.


meara - Nov 14, 2012 6:51:04 am PST #826 of 30001

Suela, that DOES sound super useful, dang.

Nora, that sucks. Also le nubian. Dang!

The plumber came and replaced the bad part with the correct part, and they are not charging me anything, since they put the wrong part on in the first place (and I already paid for that one back in March). Which is awesome. Less awesome--he took off the temp one they'd put on, and it was already rusting up. Which is what caused the last one to go. Now maybe the appropriate one wont' do that, but...it's not a good sign. It was on all of a week!


Jesse - Nov 14, 2012 6:57:42 am PST #827 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I didn't know there was an entire nationwide franchise that organizes seniors' moves into assisted living, conducts the move and unpacks everything, appraises the belongings left behind, runs estate sales, and cleans and sells the empty home.

Is it "It's Your Move"? They are a huge sponsor of my local NPR station.


Frankenbuddha - Nov 14, 2012 6:58:11 am PST #828 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

This is an awesome review, ending with the punchline

That was a thing of beauty. What a magnificent smackdown.


Jesse - Nov 14, 2012 7:00:37 am PST #829 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

On the Guy Fieri thing, I feel like people are taking it as a slam against that style of food, and I really don't think so. I think Pete Wells was prepared to enjoy the things that were described on the menu, and was disappointed with what actually came out.


Steph L. - Nov 14, 2012 7:01:20 am PST #830 of 30001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Okay, my cousin teaches microbiology at a university in Pennsylvania, and does research and whatnot. She posted on FB that her research team is getting t-shirts made, but they want to have (her words) "street nicknames" instead of their real names. So she asked for suggestions for hers, because she can't think of one, and doesn't want them to just give her one. She said preferably science-geeky.

I told her I can science-geek pretty well, but I need to know her research area and/or what she teaches.

This is the answer: "Microbiology. Infectious diseases. STDs. Chancroid."

There is no nickname I can come up with that she's going to want printed on a t-shirt. (Okay, I'm considering "Infectious T," since her name starts with T.)

Any suggestions that aren't ridiculously dirty? (Seriously, the STD category [and I'm surprised she doesn't call them STIs] alone is a GOLD MINE. But all I'm coming up with is really, really inappropriate.)


tommyrot - Nov 14, 2012 7:01:22 am PST #831 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.

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