There are no absolutes. No right and wrong. Haven't you learned anything working for the Powers? There are only choices.

Jasmine ,'Power Play'


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.


-t - Nov 23, 2013 3:34:57 pm PST #12775 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Just curious. They have pretty much the same (multitudinous) offerings, I think.

Man, I used to love selling swiss army knives. So many fiddly options to choose between.

I know my mom was taught to make martinis for my grandfather, although in our house bartending consisted of getting my dad a beer from the fridge (which we certainly did very young). Just not a cocktail kind of household. I feel like people mention that kind of things in a "ha, ha, of course we don't do that" tone these days.

And I realize that I have never taken the legal drinking age seriously, that's just the culture I grew up in, so maybe you shouldn't listen to me on corkscrews appropriateness.


Jesse - Nov 23, 2013 3:36:49 pm PST #12776 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I wish I could get one that wasn't ginormous with scissors, phillips head, and a corkscrew, but I think that is not possible.


Tom Scola - Nov 23, 2013 3:40:57 pm PST #12777 of 30000
They pay me in WOIMS

Take a look at Leatherman tools, Jesse.


dcp - Nov 23, 2013 3:43:56 pm PST #12778 of 30000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

Go Victorinox, choose Victorinox.

I still have my old Super Tinker, but my regular pocket knife for the last ten years has been a Leatherman Squirt S4.


Jesse - Nov 23, 2013 3:50:50 pm PST #12779 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I don't like how the Leatherman looks so much, but I guess it's not about that, huh?


-t - Nov 23, 2013 3:54:40 pm PST #12780 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Yeah, for all three I think you start to get pretty massive. The corkscrew and the phillips head each takes up more space than most blades.


Juliebird - Nov 23, 2013 4:18:51 pm PST #12781 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

I wish that I'd discovered this a month ago: Cryomax Coldpack (from Target). Advertised to last 8 hours. I'd be happy with any non-leaky coldpack that lasted more than twenty minutes. Now I'm on hour two without having had to put it back in the freezer. And that's been my issue with icing my ankle: nothing lasts long enough, have to wait for it to rechill, forget from the waiting, or don't bother cuz it doesn't last long enough.

Bring on the frostbite, baybee!


Jessica - Nov 23, 2013 5:01:44 pm PST #12782 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Last time I checked, botulism toxin was still a toxin. In controlled amounts under medical supervision it can have positive uses (though I don't think paralyzed facial muscles and frozen expressions are a positive use for actresses), just like chemotherapy chemicals, but that doesn't make it not poison.

Last I checked, the same can be said of every other medication, and most food. Toxicity is measured by dosage and application, not chemical components.


-t - Nov 23, 2013 5:02:19 pm PST #12783 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Oh, hey, I did find coffee! An ancient can of decaf in my freezer. Kind of sad, but I am having a cup. I don't even know why. I went and got my annual gingerbread latte this morning, so I shouldn't be that desperate.


aurelia - Nov 23, 2013 10:10:26 pm PST #12784 of 30000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

I would vote Leatherman, too.