Mal: Can I come in? Inara: No. Mal: See? That's why I usually don't ask.

'Our Mrs. Reynolds'


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.


Amy - Oct 02, 2013 5:47:34 pm PDT #7640 of 30000
Because books.

It was Wilson Bethel. I think I might have been wrong about the bow legs, but he's awfully pretty anyway. And a really good sport.

I wonder if Grace has reached her lifetime maximum benefits yet

Wait, what? There's a cap?!


Kat - Oct 02, 2013 5:48:54 pm PDT #7641 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I am shocked that it's too lamby for you, ita. I contend goat would be to goaty. Hell, most fish is too fishy.

Where is billyt when you need him: Did you all know that polar bears and grizzly bears are hybridizing?!


brenda m - Oct 02, 2013 5:49:03 pm PDT #7642 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

One of the things the ACA fixes.


Kat - Oct 02, 2013 5:50:52 pm PDT #7643 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Amy, prior to ACA, yes. According to HHS, "According to the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Employer Health Benefits Survey, 59 percent of all workers covered by their employer’s health plan in 2009 had some lifetime limit placed on their benefits. In addition, 89 percent of people with individually purchased coverage had a lifetime limit on their benefits."


brenda m - Oct 02, 2013 5:50:58 pm PDT #7644 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

I had buffalo prime rib for dinner the other night. It was delish. I haven't had enough goat to really have formed an opinion.


Kat - Oct 02, 2013 5:51:50 pm PDT #7645 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I'm pretty sure my plan must NOT have had lifetime limits, because I'm pretty sure Grace would have blown through them prior to 2009.


sarameg - Oct 02, 2013 5:57:44 pm PDT #7646 of 30000

Lifetime limits are one of the most vile things ever.

I wish I could go to my employer and ask for their contribution to my insurance in my HSA and go out on the marketplace. My insurance is about to get shittier and more expensive as aetna greedily grasps for more profit before the ACA goes active and all the new regulations fall into place. Several 'fees' in 2014's plan won't last much longer.


-t - Oct 02, 2013 5:57:47 pm PDT #7647 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I like both goat and lamb. And mint jelly. And buffalo. And some pretty fishy fish.

And polar bears and grizzly bears, though not to eat. Well, I haven't tried them. And I've heard that polar bear liver is too full of Vitamin E for humans, so, you know, I'd be nervous about that.

{I had a half a second of thinking "the ACA stops polar beard and grizzly bears from hybridizing?" there}


Ginger - Oct 02, 2013 5:59:12 pm PDT #7648 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

(Vitamin A)


-t - Oct 02, 2013 6:01:31 pm PDT #7649 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I've heard it both ways.