Hey, man, where are my pants? I have my hippo dignity!

Oz ,'Bring On The Night'


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.


Kat - Aug 18, 2013 3:08:35 am PDT #2767 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

ita, wrt to cell law, the deal is it's hands free. So if it's set to go and talking to you and you never touch it, then it's fine. (This is what my friend in the LAPD tells me). It's also why speaker phone, with you holding the device nearish your face and yelling is a no -- you may as well just use the phone regular then because either way you are breaking the law.

Which meant the day went downhill from there
I've never been sure how to use this--downhill implies fast and out of control, uphill implies difficult and unpleasant. Since either direction is bad, I feel weird about the lack of a clear opposite.

THIS is why I hate hiking. Like the metaphor, at least here, all hiking is unpleasant in BOTH directions because too mountainous. Maybe the opposite of uphill/downhill is a straight path (like a land version of smooth sailing)?


Calli - Aug 18, 2013 3:20:56 am PDT #2768 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Burrell, I hope your sister is through with all the medical stuff soon.

I'd rather bike than hike. All downhill from here is a good place to be for a biker. All uphill less so.


Jesse - Aug 18, 2013 3:29:36 am PDT #2769 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Oh Burrell, I hope days continue to get better for you and your sister.

Jesse, Good Stuff is on the trending blogs list on the Tumblr app.

I'm not sure which is the chicken and which is the egg? I mean, isn't it trending because of new followers?


Jesse - Aug 18, 2013 3:35:05 am PDT #2770 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Is anyone still confused about preferential voting? [link]


Tom Scola - Aug 18, 2013 3:35:13 am PDT #2771 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

It’s not trending as much as this tumblr, though.


Jesse - Aug 18, 2013 3:36:11 am PDT #2772 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

That is amazing!


Theodosia - Aug 18, 2013 4:00:33 am PDT #2773 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"

I guess i shouldn't be surprised at the prevalence of guns in those pictures. Cats would kill us more often if they had opposable thumbs.


Sue - Aug 18, 2013 4:08:28 am PDT #2774 of 30000
hip deep in pie

I don't think cats would need guns to kill us if they set their mind to it.


Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 18, 2013 5:06:17 am PDT #2775 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

If the one I was petting this morning is any indication, getting distracted by grass, pebbles, bugs, etc. might be a major stumbling block for them.


Steph L. - Aug 18, 2013 5:10:24 am PDT #2776 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism

listened to "Welcome To Night Vale" off my iPod (one earbud in--I know that much).

Which is very interesting. I don't much like the weather, though. And it's hard to tell which things will come up in later episodes. I'm kind of scared the answer is "all of them". The narrative device is a bit hard to track.

I'm not a fan of the weather. I thought the conceit was funny as hell in the first episode, but then...not so much.

I'm on episode 11, and some stuff comes back, but not everything. NOT YET.