7 hours until vacation!
On my seventh birthday, I wanted a toy fire truck, and I didn't get it, and you were real nice about it, and then the house next door burnt down, and then real firetrucks came, and for years I thought you set the fire for me. And if you did, you can tell me!
Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Natter 74: Ready or Not
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.
Connie Neil - Jul 02, 2015 7:18:44 am PDT #175 of 30003
brillig
Steph L. - Jul 02, 2015 7:19:52 am PDT #176 of 30003
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
Connie, I hope you have a good time!
Maria - Jul 02, 2015 7:37:06 am PDT #177 of 30003
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
You people are the best. Thank you so much.
Oh no, Kat. I hope Grace is feeling better soon.
JZ, no shame in only feeling relief. Life and death are the nature of things. We can't stop it. And it doesn't make you a bad person for not feeling bad about it. I hope she finds the peace she was evidently never able to find in this life.
Connie, have a wonderful time! I'll be thinking about you this weekend. Escaping was a great way to deal with that particular first.
Strix - Jul 02, 2015 8:04:12 am PDT #178 of 30003
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Have a good time, Connnie! Relax, eat yummy food, get a little drunk.
JZ, look, you're one of the kindest, most thoughtful and compassionate people I know. It's OK to feel relief that a this person who was so horrific and virulent and cruel is gone. And it's OK to feel anger and intense dislike still.
But your quandary is that you ARE kind, ARE compassionate, and you feel conflicted about forgiveness and lovingkindness -- and shame about actually feeling relief.
It's new -- just dug up a lot of intense feelz, I believe, so it'll take a while, but it'll pass from relief to dislike, to a occasional memory, and eventually a shrug, and a "What an evil bitch, man. But, eh, whatevs."
In (not so) short: feeling relief = ain't no shame in that game.
You'd be a freakin' saint or a hypocrite to be all "Oh, I can forgive her now, now that she's no longer with us."
Connie Neil - Jul 02, 2015 8:05:04 am PDT #179 of 30003
brillig
I don't go to Vegas till Tuesday, so I'll spend the time figuring out what to take and bracing myself to try on my swimsuit.
tommyrot - Jul 02, 2015 8:16:05 am PDT #180 of 30003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I need to try this beer: Chicago brewery renames their Donald Trump beer 'Chinga tu Pelo' ('Fuck your hair')
A Latino-owned brewery in the Chicago area is renaming leftover beer they produced for Donald Trump, after he called Mexican immigrants "rapists" and drug dealers.
"We would be doing an injustice to the community we serve (and live in) by engaging in business with someone who does not accept our role in society and expresses a rhetoric of hate and ignorance towards us," said Andres Araya, co-owner of the 5 Rabbit Cerveceria brewery.
Araya told Chicago radio station WBEZ the brewery is going to stop making beer for Trump Tower's Rebar, and instead insult the orange-haired pendejo by re-christening what's left, 'Fuck Your Hair.'
The 50 remaining kegs of the summer golden ale will be sold to Chicago area bars under the name “Chinga Tu Pelo."
Tom Scola - Jul 02, 2015 8:19:17 am PDT #181 of 30003
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Super-depressing fact of the day: After his racist comments, Trump's Republican primary poll numbers have gone way up.
People suck.
tommyrot - Jul 02, 2015 8:21:36 am PDT #182 of 30003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
That's depressing, but it will hurt Republicans.
-t - Jul 02, 2015 8:21:46 am PDT #183 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Seriously? People are so disappointing.
Jesse - Jul 02, 2015 8:23:41 am PDT #184 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
After his racist comments, Trump's Republican primary poll numbers have gone way up.
But from, like, 2% to 4%, right? He's never actually been a serious candidate.