A ghost? What's the deal? Is every frat on this campus haunted? And if so, why do people keep coming to these parties, cause it's not the snacks.

Xander ,'Dirty Girls'


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 19, 2013 8:42:38 am PDT #5734 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

I went and had my boobs smooshed on the way to work, and I got the all clear for the third year in a row.

Right on!!!!

TJs has brought back the pumpkin macarons for the season.

Oh man, I love these so much. I was just there on Tuesday, and they had some pumpkin stuff (I snagged some pumpkin Greek yogurt), but I didn't see the macarons. Must get.


Hil R. - Sep 19, 2013 8:43:56 am PDT #5735 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

That's not her question--do they get to demonstrate comparable affection and sexual attraction to each other? That's the neutering she's frustrated by, and why she goes to South America (virtually) for more orientation-balanced entertainment.

None of the couples on Modern Family are really all that demonstrably affectionate, but from the episodes I've seen (my parents like the show, so I end up watching it whenever I'm visiting them), the gay couple shows about as much affection as the others. A quick kiss on the lips when one of them leaves or comes home, holding hands while sitting on the couch, stuff like that.


Hil R. - Sep 19, 2013 8:46:11 am PDT #5736 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

The couple on The Fosters has been shown more sexually, though still not a ton, because it's still ultimately a show about the kids, and they're the parents.


Hil R. - Sep 19, 2013 8:46:12 am PDT #5737 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Dana - Sep 19, 2013 8:47:24 am PDT #5738 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

My last day of work is September 30. My idiot manager's last day of work is also September 30. They're making her do people's annual reviews before she leaves. I declined the meeting, because I am leaving and there's no point in an annual review.

She just called my work number, and I missed the call. Odds that she wanted to know why I didn't attend the meeting?


Lee - Sep 19, 2013 8:57:29 am PDT #5739 of 30000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

There were complaints mid-season that they were being short-shrifted, but I think mid-season is too soon to decide, and I think they got similar levels of intimacy to all of the other couples on the show.

(Teen wolf) There was one M/M scene in the last few eps that I think was just as/more explicit than most of the het sex scenes on the show.

Though maybe I was just paying more attention.


Dana - Sep 19, 2013 9:00:29 am PDT #5740 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

And I just got another meeting request. I'm not doing an annual review YOU CAN'T MAKE ME.


Theodosia - Sep 19, 2013 9:00:46 am PDT #5741 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"

Quick somebody! Warn me not to get into an argument that lumping "over-stayed visa" and "denied asylum after legally allowed into this country" in with illegal "hopped over the fence" immigrants is not only stupid but completely beside the point.


bon bon - Sep 19, 2013 9:07:56 am PDT #5742 of 30000
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

There's only one romantic couple on the poster, though. The body language of the m/m couple is familial fighting. That's what I read. There's no sexual implication in it, phobic or philic. Given that one of the people on the poster is an out gay man-- who is raising a child-- it's a stretch to see that NBC is indicating how gross gayness is.


Theodosia - Sep 19, 2013 9:15:32 am PDT #5743 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"

Oh lord, now they're insisting that Wikipedia has a liberal bias.