Mal: Okay. She won't be winning any beauty contests anytime soon. But she is solid. Ship like this, be with ya 'til the day you die. Zoe: 'Cause it's a deathtrap.

'Out Of Gas'


Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This  

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.


Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 01, 2013 5:16:42 pm PDT #1069 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

How are you with beef jerky (or any jerky)?

Just fine, I eat it as a snack fairly regularly. I know pepperoni is seasoned with cayenne pepper, but I used to eat cajun food all the time without any nausea, so I doubt that could be it.


Lee - Aug 01, 2013 5:17:02 pm PDT #1070 of 30000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Is it too early to start hating on August?


lisah - Aug 01, 2013 5:21:23 pm PDT #1071 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate

No hating on August! (aka my birthday month)

I do not like sweet pickles very much but I love all other pickles! I did a big batch of quickles a few weeks ago that I need to finish eating. And I want to quickle the fennel I got at the market last weekend.


Lee - Aug 01, 2013 5:22:28 pm PDT #1072 of 30000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Sweet pickles are nasty, but everything else Yum


sarameg - Aug 01, 2013 5:24:37 pm PDT #1073 of 30000

I vote for quick August turnaround.

I'm weirdly sad July is gone. It's my birthday month and back in NM, was the onset of my favorite (pre-swimmer) season- the monsoon. Thunderstorms every day. August meant school started. It's a little different out here.

I'll get to NM later this month at least.


sarameg - Aug 01, 2013 5:26:48 pm PDT #1074 of 30000

LOVE SWEET PICKLES.

I used to hate savory but got over that. However, sweet fridge pickles are my swedish grandma. I make and eat them and she's there in all her difficultness. Makes me happy.


Kat - Aug 01, 2013 5:30:57 pm PDT #1075 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

We can hate on August, except for Lisah's bday. I go back to work in a few days. ARGH.


Kat - Aug 01, 2013 5:31:04 pm PDT #1076 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Though, I have worked all through July. I'm running a 300 kid writing contest this weekend. And it's back to work on next Thursday.


-t - Aug 01, 2013 5:32:36 pm PDT #1077 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I have it in my head that I really like sweet pickles, but I really only like particular sweet pickles that are not all that sweet. Cascadian Farms stopped making their baby sweets and only make relish, which I don't like as much (which is a phenomenon we studied in business school, something to do with margins, I always think of that when I am combing the shelves for a good sweet pickle) and then the local brand I found disappeared entirely as far as I can tell so there is a sweet pickle shaped void in my life. And I can't make them the way I like them, tried and failed.

My old mortgage servicer bought back my loan and are already annoying me - my payment is due, but they haven't finished transferring all my information from the interim servicer so I can't verify that my escrow account exists, and they want to charge me a fee for the "convenience" of paying my bill in the only way available to me. Sigh. I am halfway tempted to refi again just to get away from them, but I have no confidence that whoever I went with would actually keep my loan and I sure as hell don't want to get an appraisal.


§ ita § - Aug 01, 2013 5:33:33 pm PDT #1078 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

>sweet fridge pickles are my swedish grandma

To serve granny? Ick.