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Buffy ,'Showtime'


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.


Steph L. - Sep 02, 2013 8:52:07 am PDT #4115 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

So I am watching the live stream out of Miami of Diana Nyad finishing her swim. It is very confused and I don't even know how far out she is, except pretty close.

I was watching it, too, and amused by the small dog on a surfboard. Everyone wants to cheer her on!


Laura - Sep 02, 2013 8:54:03 am PDT #4116 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

The Miami feed crashed so I switched to CNN.


Steph L. - Sep 02, 2013 8:56:13 am PDT #4117 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

I'm watching on CNN, too. Is the small wave to the right of center Nyad?


Steph L. - Sep 02, 2013 8:59:17 am PDT #4118 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Twitter is saying she made it. BADASS.


quester - Sep 02, 2013 8:59:41 am PDT #4119 of 30000
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.

There seem to be a lot of people leaving the beach. Is it over?


Connie Neil - Sep 02, 2013 9:03:33 am PDT #4120 of 30000
brillig

Where was she swimming from?


Steph L. - Sep 02, 2013 9:04:54 am PDT #4121 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Havana.


§ ita § - Sep 02, 2013 9:06:05 am PDT #4122 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I had zero idea where she was going to or from, but as soon as I got the idea someone was distance swimming I thought Cuba to Miami was the best. I wonder if my subconscious fed that to me...

Does she have a message of some sort, or she just picked a nearby place?


-t - Sep 02, 2013 9:06:35 am PDT #4123 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I think I did the fabric softener thing and it was pretty easy and fast, but I only had two half-walls to do (paneling along the bottom half, the breakfast nook part of the kitchen). Trying one room and seeing how it goes sounds like a good approach, you really can't know what you are dealing with until you start in.


Amy - Sep 02, 2013 9:14:10 am PDT #4124 of 30000
Because books.

Yeah, we took down wallpaper from probably the '50s once, and it felt like actual paper. It was a mess, because it really needed to be scraped. But I've pulled down other paper that came down in long strips, as others have described -- usually newer, slightly more vinyl-y paper.