Xander: Look who's got a bad case of Dark Prince envy. Dracula: Leave us. Xander: No, we're not going to "Leabbb you." And where'd you get that accent, Sesame Street? "One, Two, Three - three victims! Maw ha ha!"

'Lessons'


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.


-t - Oct 22, 2014 7:50:29 am PDT #8655 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

She may have gotten bees.

Good luck for some kind of good outcome, shrift.


Calli - Oct 22, 2014 8:01:12 am PDT #8656 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I hope your long-shot comes through for you, shrift.


shrift - Oct 22, 2014 8:06:40 am PDT #8657 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

If I relocate to the Bay Area, at least I'll be able to watch most of my hockey games online on NHL GameCenter because they'll almost all be out of market? And it would allow me to put a lot of distance between me and Sales.

There are a huge number of cons I could list, but I don't need to feed my anxiety.


flea - Oct 22, 2014 8:28:32 am PDT #8658 of 30000
information libertarian

My cousin works in Ottawa and posted (on Facebook) a photo taken from her office of the shooting location at the War Memorial. It's directly in front of her office. (She seems to be calm and fine, but, whoa!)

(Edit, I guess she was not entirely calm because she misused an English word in her post - she's fully bilingual but French is her nursery tongue, and she called the man shot "a military" which is the direct translation from the french - a very unusual mistake from her.)


Ginger - Oct 22, 2014 8:36:45 am PDT #8659 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Scary.

It looks like one gunman is down, but they don't know if he was acting alone.


Toddson - Oct 22, 2014 8:59:53 am PDT #8660 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Ages ago we had a group occupy the town hall and take a number of people hostage. (This was in the days before cell phones, so there was no contact with any of the people who worked in the building.) A woman I worked with was very concerned, because her brother was a city employee. Afterwards, it turned out he'd spent the entire time hiding under his desk. She was very relieved.


Jesse - Oct 22, 2014 11:30:34 am PDT #8661 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Ugh so embarrassing -- I just started crying in my meeting with my boss. Especially embarrassing because (as I said to her) it's 90% hormones! As I did not say to her, I have been this overwhelmed for weeks and did not cry, even to my mother!


Connie Neil - Oct 22, 2014 12:04:23 pm PDT #8662 of 30000
brillig

I don't think anything undermines women as much as the infuriating, helpless hormonal crying.


Burrell - Oct 22, 2014 12:28:41 pm PDT #8663 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Ugh shrift, that sucks.

And msbelle, I'm sorry it has been such a hard patch. You are a great mom, and mac knows it. I do feel ya on the yelling front. I yelled at my kids yesterday and immediately regretted it sooo much. I wish I didn't have a temper. I can keep it at bay, but I can't keep it at bay all the time.


-t - Oct 22, 2014 12:31:17 pm PDT #8664 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

For a while there I was completely not embarrassed to cry in public for any or no reason. I think I've lost that, and I miss it. Stupid societal norms.