Yay!
Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
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.
Tom Scola - Mar 16, 2016 10:59:12 am PDT #17683 of 30003
hwæt
Steph L. - Mar 16, 2016 10:59:19 am PDT #17684 of 30003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Yay!!!
flea - Mar 16, 2016 11:01:13 am PDT #17685 of 30003
information libertarian
Go Team Benign.
In Local Child Pron Case news, the newspaper cites the FBI as reporting that the person has admitted guilt. It looks bad. My friends across the country are just finding out and are at "confused," while I have already cycled through "horrified" and am now at "ferociously angry and the Greeks had a great word for this: sparagmos."
I just feel like half my country is composed of idiots and assholes. Which I didn't presume before but now that sounds about right.
If you worked at a public library, you would be pretty sure it was more than half idiots, but less than half assholes. That's my take, anyway.
-t - Mar 16, 2016 11:01:23 am PDT #17686 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Glad to hear it, Consuela!
Although it took me a minute to realize you weren't just contributing to the ongoing conversation in a cryptic and laconic fashion.
Steph L. - Mar 16, 2016 11:01:31 am PDT #17687 of 30003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
These 2 sentences mean the exact opposite, right?
"Please do not include a sentence about date of data analysis if the study was conducted 3 or more years ago."
"Please do not include a sentence about date of data analysis if the study was conducted within the last 3 years."
Because I feel like I'm going crazy here. (More editing guidelines being handed down. We were told sentence 1, and I just got feedback that I did it wrong, because sentence 2. BUT THEY'RE OPPOSITES.)
-t - Mar 16, 2016 11:04:18 am PDT #17688 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Idiots>assholes is weirdly reassuring, flea.
I don't know what to say about the other thing. Other than "how terrible!", which I will probably continue to repeat with great sincerity.
Consuela - Mar 16, 2016 11:05:35 am PDT #17689 of 30003
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I will have to get regular biopsies, but that's better than major surgery.
Connie Neil - Mar 16, 2016 11:06:26 am PDT #17690 of 30003
brillig
I think those sentences are opposites, Teppy.
-t - Mar 16, 2016 11:06:29 am PDT #17691 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
No sentences about date of data analysis! If you must reveal the Date That Must Not Be Spoken, for god's sake do it in a sentence fragment!
Steph L. - Mar 16, 2016 11:10:46 am PDT #17692 of 30003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I think those sentences are opposites, Teppy.
Okay. I feel less crazy.
If you must reveal the Date That Must Not Be Spoken, for god's sake do it in a sentence fragment!
Oooh, this.