Happy Solstice, everyone.
This is so nice. Having everyone together for my birthday. Of course, you could smash in all my toes with a hammer and it will still be the bestest Buffy Birthday Bash in a big long while.
Buffy ,'Potential'
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.
dcp - Jun 21, 2014 1:51:06 am PDT #422 of 30000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
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)
Theodosia - Jun 21, 2014 6:01:41 am PDT #428 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"
I appear to be bi-vocabularish. I wonder if there's a Facebook gender assignment for that....
Amy - Jun 21, 2014 6:05:43 am PDT #429 of 30000
Because books.
My whole takeaway from that is, "Taffetta, darling."
Hil R. - Jun 21, 2014 6:08:27 am PDT #430 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I know all of the words on the women's list, and most of the ones on the men's list. And the ones on the men's list where I don't know the actual definition, I do know the vague category, like "it's some kind of weapon." (Except solenoid. Had to look that one up.)
tommyrot - Jun 21, 2014 6:12:42 am PDT #431 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.
Of the women's terms I didn't know bottlebrush, mascarpone and wisteria.
I know all the men's terms except I was a unsure what a paladin was (but I knew it was some kind of soldier).