It's simple. I slap 'em around a bit, torture 'em, make their lives hell...Sure, the nice guys'll run away,but every now and then you'll find a prince like Spike who gets off on it.

Buffy ,'Get It Done'


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.


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.


dcp - Jun 21, 2014 1:51:06 am PDT #422 of 30000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

Happy Solstice, everyone.


Calli - Jun 21, 2014 3:52:26 am PDT #423 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Yes, indeed, Happy Summer Solstice!


Jesse - Jun 21, 2014 4:40:09 am PDT #424 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

YAY SUMMER.


DebetEsse - Jun 21, 2014 5:04:12 am PDT #425 of 30000
Woe to the fucking wicked.

Happy midsummer! As. I said on Facebook, enjoy the light!


Kat - Jun 21, 2014 5:49:18 am PDT #426 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

YAY midsummer!


tommyrot - Jun 21, 2014 5:57:21 am PDT #427 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

The 24 Words That Are Most Known To Only Men Or Women

Mark Brysbaert of the Center for Reading Research conducted a study of the English words most commonly understood specifically be either men or women.

Here is my attempt to use the 12 most common words most understood by men rather than women:

The paladin checked his encryption codecs and the firing solenoids for his dreadnought's mach 2.5 shells as he watched his biped golems pack their kevlar-armored humvees with claymores and hone their scimitars before they set out to fight bolshevism.

So, all tech or military terms.

And here are the words that women recognize, but men generally don't:

(The numbers represent the percentages of men and women who understand them.)

  • taffeta (48, 87)
  • tresses (61, 93)
  • bottlebrush (58, 89)
  • flouncy (55, 86)
  • mascarpone (60, 90)
  • decoupage (56, 86)
  • progesterone (63, 92)
  • wisteria (61, 89)
  • taupe (66, 93)
  • flouncing (67, 94)
  • peony (70, 96)
  • bodice (71, 96)