What'd you all order a dead guy for?

Jayne ,'The Message'


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.


WindSparrow - Aug 30, 2013 4:14:31 pm PDT #3972 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.

I'm glad the orthopedist had guidance for you, ita_! but sorry that it makes your appetite evaporate.

Me? I am currently at work. We had an extra person scheduled to work yesterday, so I went home early then. Supervisor refused to yield to pressure from the squeaky-wheel type person who always wants to leave early, on the grounds that I have 300 hours of PTO accumulated, and never call in sick. So today, after 3/4 of the individuals who live here left to spend the weekend with their respective parents, I was happy to stay and let that same person leave early. It has been a peaceful evening.

And tomorrow I'll be working at the easiest house. Also? Possibly leaving early depending on how many of those people have gone off with family.


Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 30, 2013 4:17:27 pm PDT #3973 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

Yeah, "Hey Ya" was one of the few songs that didn't get old despite being played nigh-constantly on the radio. I think the being paired with footage from "Smile Time" in a fanvid made it impossible for me to tire of it.


Juliebird - Aug 30, 2013 4:33:03 pm PDT #3974 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

It's so fun!


Jesse - Aug 30, 2013 4:34:09 pm PDT #3975 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

"Hey Ya" just won Grantland's Best of The Millennium bracket.


Steph L. - Aug 30, 2013 4:41:32 pm PDT #3976 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Seamus Heaney, Mary Oliver, Billy Collins?

Always marry Billy Collins. Which leaves fuck Mary Oliver (which is sad, because I'd like to marry her, too), and chuck Seamus Heaney.


§ ita § - Aug 30, 2013 4:53:09 pm PDT #3977 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I feel exceptionally betrayed by my stupid ankle. For some reason, I was depending on little soft tissue damage, but there's no way to get the avulsion fracture the doctors described without ligament/tendon damage. Just! Break sounds so clean, relatively....and such a tiny one.

I have pointed out to my sister that I easily fail her pathological liar test. She's not revisiting her criteria, though.


meara - Aug 30, 2013 4:55:07 pm PDT #3978 of 30000

I have pointed out to my sister that I easily fail her pathological liar test. She's not revisiting her criteria, though.

What is her test?


§ ita § - Aug 30, 2013 4:59:21 pm PDT #3979 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

It's about the number of "exceptional" things about yourself you can slip into one conversation (that's not technically about you). I'm the queen of inconsequentially "exceptional". I think her threshold is around six.


Trudy Booth - Aug 30, 2013 7:57:09 pm PDT #3980 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

I bumped into a John Hughes marathon on tv. Do I own all the movies? Yes. Am I still watching the chopped up tv versions? Well, duh.

They're so PERKY!

For whatever reason my tired brain read that as John HOLMES. You can see why I'm laughing my ass off.


SuziQ - Aug 30, 2013 8:15:25 pm PDT #3981 of 30000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

Pornypants rides again!