Time for some thrilling heroics.

Jayne ,'The Train Job'


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.


Sue - Nov 17, 2013 10:23:06 am PST #12256 of 30000
hip deep in pie

I now think, in addition to all the other things you don't think about them doing, that celebrities are never working with just their natural hair.

Oh yeah. Sometimes it's obvious, but I think they use fake hair way more than I think they are.

I am having a hair emergency of another kind. Found gaps between the wood and the cement foundation on the side of my house where I thought the mice were getting in. Used some spray foam to fill the gaps. Had to get in between the house and my quince shrub to do it. Got my hair caught in the shrub and managed to get foam in my hair trying to free myself. I will now be spending the night trying to get this crap out of my hair.


Tom Scola - Nov 17, 2013 10:23:49 am PST #12257 of 30000
They pay me in WOIMS

It goes back much further than that.


Ginger - Nov 17, 2013 10:25:55 am PST #12258 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Sometimes the trick that gets dried paint out works: rub olive oil into your hair, then shampoo. Otherwise, the only thing that dissolves that stuff is acetone.


Ginger - Nov 17, 2013 10:30:02 am PST #12259 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

It goes back much further than that.

It goes back at least to Asimov's 1953 The Caves of Steel, including the storyline of the human cop who doesn't trust his robot partner.


Dana - Nov 17, 2013 10:40:23 am PST #12260 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

But this time, the robot is black! Or whatever Michael Ealy is, besides lovely.


DavidS - Nov 17, 2013 10:40:26 am PST #12261 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Would someone like to research hairstyles for me? (Chorus of NOOOO.)

Chorus of What?!

With your tight curls, Zen, I'd check black hairstyles for looks.

I like this look with the short bangs.

Slightly side swept.

This is a very casual but cute look.


-t - Nov 17, 2013 10:42:03 am PST #12262 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

So that's the catch. I think I mention Verizon offered me a cheaper service plan? Turns out that excludes my beloved Personal Hotspot, which the guy who called me certainly did not mention. Chatting with a Verizon rep to try to add it back to my plan, she tells me I can't. Not it will cost a bunch of money or lose my previous savings, just I can't. Not pleased.


Sue - Nov 17, 2013 10:44:44 am PST #12263 of 30000
hip deep in pie

Sometimes the trick that gets dried paint out works: rub olive oil into your hair, then shampoo. Otherwise, the only thing that dissolves that stuff is acetone.

Oooh thanks. I am already working the acetone. Well, nail polish remover with acetone in it.


Sue - Nov 17, 2013 11:08:14 am PST #12264 of 30000
hip deep in pie

Ginger, thank you. The olive oil is working like a charm, and it much less nasty smelling than the acetone. (Not to mention I am having a strange sense memory of a Greek restaurant in Vancouver.) You are a fount of wonderfully useful information!


meara - Nov 17, 2013 11:11:00 am PST #12265 of 30000

Ouch, spray foam in hair sounds bad! Good luck with the nail polish remover.

Those uniforms are horrible. Wow.

I now think, in addition to all the other things you don't think about them doing, that celebrities are never working with just their natural hair.

Since I found out Juliana Margulies wears wigs on Good Wife, my feeling that all of celebrity beauty is an unattainable ideal is only strengthened. My hair will never look like that because it is not a wig. Hrmph.