Go, sister of Sox!
Anya: We should drop a piano on her. It always works for that creepy cartoon rabbit when he's running from that nice man with the speech impediment. Giles: Yes, or perhaps we could paint a convincing fake tunnel on the side of a mountain.
'Touched'
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.
Calli - Sep 25, 2013 4:24:54 pm PDT #6664 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Consuela - Sep 25, 2013 5:18:58 pm PDT #6665 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Bravo Sox!Sister! I wish I'd known in advance. To be fair, it's been hard to cheer for Oracle, because Ellison is a jerk and nobody likes him. But I would happily cheer for the team...
amych - Sep 25, 2013 6:10:07 pm PDT #6666 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
TBH I was cheering for OMG crazy space-age pirate airfoil boats DID I MENTION PIRATES!! and trying really hard to ignore the Larry factor altogether.
Um. Not that Sox!Sister is an actual pirate. But if you have a freakin' 50mph super-stealth frickin' sailboat, I say you owe it to the universe to ram and board your enemies at least once for my amusement. Yes?
Juliebird - Sep 25, 2013 6:43:59 pm PDT #6667 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Just because I didn't like the thread count: "Hiiiii!" /Peanut
§ ita § - Sep 25, 2013 7:03:23 pm PDT #6668 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Does anyone here choose their doctors looking for a name they prefer? Do you base it on "Bill" is a better doctor for me than "Fluffy"?
I don't even know the first names of many of my doctors--I have a recurring appointment with one whose surname I can't remember either.
"If you can't imagine seeing a doctor with that first name, don't give it to your kid." "Right. Sometimes that's all you have to decide between doctors, and Bill Smith is a better choice than Fluffy Watson."
I think I'd be too embarrassed to say that out loud, much less defend it.
Aims - Sep 25, 2013 7:07:25 pm PDT #6669 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Does anyone here choose their doctors looking for a name they prefer?
When we were still in LA and I was choosing my OB tha would deliver Em, I based it on the most Anglo-sounding name possible because I have a hard time understanding heavier accents and I get super embarrassed when I don't understand and won't ask for clarification. I figured that giving birth was one of those times when I needed to really be able to understand what my doctor was telling me. So I figured, you can't get much more Anglo than Pearson.
He was from Dublin. So, yeah. I don't so that anymore. Heh.
Amy - Sep 25, 2013 7:15:49 pm PDT #6670 of 30000
Because books.
I have a hard time understanding heavier accents and I get super embarrassed when I don't understand and won't ask for clarification.
Hey, Aims is me!
Juliebird - Sep 25, 2013 7:19:13 pm PDT #6671 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
I'm a giant bigot and avoid anyone with an Italian/Spanish sounding name, because I've found that I can end up with a GP who is geared towards Spanish speaking populations and isn't so hot on actual American English. And of course, once I get to the office, I only ever interact with the bitchy subdoctor who makes me want to never go in for a cold (like now) because she focuses on all the other shit I'm ignoring that's wrong with me. (this is a terrible thing to be bitching about, but, if I go in for a cold, I want to be treated for a cold, not whatever else you find that I'm happy to ignore for now).
Scrappy - Sep 25, 2013 7:40:28 pm PDT #6672 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I don't care about ethnicity, but I'm an education snob. I look at the schools they went to.
-t - Sep 25, 2013 7:43:21 pm PDT #6673 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I have picked doctor's based on the coolness of their name. My current primary care doc is named Minerva and I did choose her because I like her name. Because what else did I have to go on? But not because it's a more competent name than the other options, because I just arbitrarily like it.
I can't imagine a name that would make me not see that doctor, though. Slash, maybe? Probably for some people Igor would be troubling, but that's my dad's name, so, different associations for me. Would Dr. Nevaeh Whatever or Dr. Apple Something worry me? Well, I wouldn't choose them over Minerva, but I'd certainly see them if that's how things shook out.