Plus, I've been told and choose to believe, older women get treated respectfully in France.
Looks like civilization finally caught up with us.
Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
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.
Theodosia - Sep 24, 2013 9:31:24 am PDT #6472 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"
chrismg - Sep 24, 2013 9:42:04 am PDT #6473 of 30000
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
why backspace when you can ramble?
ita !, I stared at this for a while, wondering why it wasn't parsing, until I realized - in one of her Spider-man novels, Diane Duane described automatic weapons fire as sounding like "someone holding down backspace on an electric typewriter".
(I guess you'd know now - does it?)
msbelle - Sep 24, 2013 9:42:43 am PDT #6474 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Theo - I hear you on all that (but where I am is really not that humid).
msbelle - Sep 24, 2013 9:50:44 am PDT #6475 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
btw - was listening to this program on my npr station when I went to get lunch. Might be of interest to many here [link] about the rise of people living alone in the last 60 years.
§ ita § - Sep 24, 2013 10:01:14 am PDT #6476 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I guess you'd know now - does it?
You know, I have remarkably little experience with electric typewriters! I went almost from manual to computers, thanks to growing up in Jamaica. So I only have the other side of that experience tattooed into my brain (unsurprisingly, it is).
I intend to fire one (it's not a bucket list thing, it's a "not while my head hurts so much" thing) sometime--at least before I have any overt intention of using an electric typewriter.
JZ - Sep 24, 2013 10:15:48 am PDT #6477 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Castle-priced, but all updated since it's been used as a guest house for the last whatever years. Walking distance from tons of stuff. 10 bedrooms plus a separate apartment in back. Come on, Buffistas, who wants to pool funds and move to San Francisco?
Connie Neil - Sep 24, 2013 10:15:49 am PDT #6478 of 30000
brillig
You know, that's a fair description (the electric typewriter thing.) Having a rifle club's shooting range half a mile up the canyon from where I work, I get to hear all sorts of gunfire.
msbelle - Sep 24, 2013 10:48:34 am PDT #6479 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
here is why I need you people to come live near me. Actual quote just said to me "What the fuck is tiramisu?"
Zenkitty - Sep 24, 2013 10:55:34 am PDT #6480 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Cash, all good wishes for your mother.
ita !, that's all terrifying, and your amazing friends sound like superheroes to me. Also, what kind of SUV was he driving?
Gud, that is an excellent photo! Wow.
Castles are beautiful to look at and misery to own. I love old homes, but for actual living in, I'll take a modern house over a quaint and charming old one any day.
Working from home means that coughing your face off and feeling like crap isn't a reason to not go to work. Alas.
shrift - Sep 24, 2013 10:56:17 am PDT #6481 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Actual quote just said to me "What the fuck is tiramisu?"
It's "pick me up with those delicious, coffee-dusted ladyfingers, baby" followed with a clarification that Marscapone is not a fish.