Never goes smooth. How come it never goes smooth?

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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.


sumi - Apr 02, 2014 5:22:50 am PDT #24246 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!

It was good to see ita posting again. Even though I missed her.

I just got a google alert for GRRM chockful of "Winds of Winter" April Fool's stories.

And I saw lovely gallery of photos of mammals from the Mammal Society's Mammal Photographer of the Year contest. (It's a UK society and the contest focused on UK mammals.)

BTW, are roe deer and white-tailed deer related species wise?

There was a picture of a roe deer in the gallery and the caption makes me think that the two species are similar.


sumi - Apr 02, 2014 5:22:58 am PDT #24247 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!

Sorry about the double post.

And I'd actually read people upthread talking about how slow posting on the b.org has been. . . i.e, I should have known to not click again.


Theodosia - Apr 02, 2014 6:39:10 am PDT #24248 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Back from NH -- on my way to the LL Bean outlet, I found there was an actual Hobby Lobby store, but I wasn't curious enough to stop in to not buy anything.


Connie Neil - Apr 02, 2014 7:53:00 am PDT #24249 of 30000
brillig

Joy, the security certificate for the bill pay page for the phone company has expired, so I can't pay the bill. Way to go, technology company.


Tom Scola - Apr 02, 2014 8:19:23 am PDT #24250 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Oh, great. SCOTUS just ruled that bribery is protected free speech.


Liese S. - Apr 02, 2014 8:41:43 am PDT #24251 of 30000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Oh no, that was a big one. I believe the entirety of the failure of the system rests on campaign finance reform and this just put all that down the tubes.

We don't have a democracy. We have a feudal system.


Connie Neil - Apr 02, 2014 9:00:48 am PDT #24252 of 30000
brillig

Well, feudalism at least involved a contract that both sides acknowledged. The serfs served the lord, but the lord looked after the serfs. Robber barons, now . . .


Calli - Apr 02, 2014 9:17:45 am PDT #24253 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Oh, great. SCOTUS just ruled that bribery is protected free speech.

Well, damn.


EpicTangent - Apr 02, 2014 9:28:35 am PDT #24254 of 30000
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

Well, yeah. Can't practice my protected First Amendment rights without a congressman or two in my pocket, now can I?


Amy - Apr 02, 2014 9:36:26 am PDT #24255 of 30000
Because books.

I don't even understand how that can be.