Willow: Happy hunting. Buffy: Wish me monsters.

'Beneath You'


Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


§ ita § - Jun 20, 2014 4:12:07 pm PDT #412 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I did it! I was one circle short for placement. Taking a transcription break may have helped.


Hil R. - Jun 20, 2014 4:12:44 pm PDT #413 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

That part I can do--it's getting the angle correct. I can get the lines in the right length with the compass 2 tool, but somehow the angle's not right. I think I might have had another idea, though, lemme try that.

Think congruent triangles.


Hil R. - Jun 20, 2014 4:37:08 pm PDT #414 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I made some vegan brie. It was supposed to solidify and didn't, so it's more of a sour cream consistency than a brie consistency, but it tastes really good. (The recipe uses agar to get it to set, and I think I'm heating the agar wrong, but I'm not sure what the problem is.)


meara - Jun 20, 2014 5:08:45 pm PDT #415 of 30000

Ok, awkward question: I'm stayin with my sister for the weekend ( seeing my mom post-cancer-surgery). Her house is three stories. They keep the cat boxes on the third floor (where the guest room is). The second and third floors stink of cat piss. I'm not sure if they don't realize or just can't figure out a way to fix it or what ( it may also be related to how warm it's been, and how the A/C is very cool downstairs but needs a separate window unit upstairs). Do I just go buy some febreeze while they're out of the house??


Sue - Jun 20, 2014 5:12:43 pm PDT #416 of 30000
hip deep in pie

With Oz tending to pee everywhere, sometimes I don't notice for a couple of days. But I am super paranoid that my house might smell like cat pee. I frequently ask my friends who haven't been over in a while.

Are you close enough to your sister that she won't flip out? I would mention it, as nicely as possible...maybe even jsuit bring up the cat(s) and maybe she'll mention their peeing problem.


sarameg - Jun 20, 2014 5:19:17 pm PDT #417 of 30000

I'd check the litterbox first (see if it needs changing), but I'd ask about it. Febreeze won't do that much, especially if it is an actual peeing problem rather than just popourri du pee (believe me, I've walked into my house after being gone an hour when it is hot and been aghast I hadn't been able to smell the rank box before.)

But then "Jesus KEERIST WHO FARTED?!" is an acceptable greeting in my family, so we're pretty open to that sort of critique.

Yeah, it's embarrassing to them, but better to know (or just be able to apologize for your pissy cat) than be unawares.


meara - Jun 20, 2014 5:20:13 pm PDT #418 of 30000

We are right but she also thinks I have zero tact or social skill, sometimes, so I'd prefer to not reinforce that idea...


Sue - Jun 20, 2014 5:40:37 pm PDT #419 of 30000
hip deep in pie

Also, if they throw the dirty cat litter in a bin and don't take it outside, that will stink things up pretty badly. (Currently guilty of that.)


Burrell - Jun 20, 2014 6:27:21 pm PDT #420 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

My sister keeps the litter box up near the kitchen and her kitchen always smells of cat pee to me, but since she's the older sister and has the nicer, bigger, cleaner house (and she doesn't take criticism well), I have never mentioned it. It would just lead to a nasty comment about some failing of mine, and I don't want to start it.


Zenkitty - Jun 21, 2014 12:10:55 am PDT #421 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Also, if they throw the dirty cat litter in a bin and don't take it outside, that will stink things up pretty badly.

That causes the worst cat-pee stink. I may be a bad housekeeper, but that's one thing I always do: take the bag of dirty litter outside immediately, even if just gets to the porch and not all the way to the bin. I had a petsitter once who left a week's worth of dirty litter in the trash can in the kitchen. Man, the house reeked when I got home.

eta: not judging or anything, that's like, literally the one thing I always do.