You know, with the exception of one deadly and unpredictable midget, this girl is the smallest cargo I've ever had to transport. Yet by far the most troublesome. Does that seem right to you?

Early ,'Objects In Space'


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.


Sue - Jul 03, 2016 2:16:01 am PDT #24033 of 30003
hip deep in pie

This post is making my morning. [link]


Jesse - Jul 03, 2016 2:42:04 am PDT #24034 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

So great!

Pride is a great movie! Though it made me cry on an airplane.

Every movie makes me cry on an airplane, I think.


Sue - Jul 03, 2016 3:18:42 am PDT #24035 of 30003
hip deep in pie

I loved Pride so much.


Fiona - Jul 03, 2016 3:24:23 am PDT #24036 of 30003

Every movie makes me cry on an airplane, I think.

A clear case of AALS.


Jesse - Jul 03, 2016 3:29:56 am PDT #24037 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

YES! It's also true of Call the Midwife at any altitude, but I really love a good clean cry like that. One time on a plane I watched a movie I had never heard of about Reese Witherspoon and some Sudanese refugees, and I swear every scene made me cry -- they alternated between happy and sad tears, but all tears! That remains my high-water mark.


billytea - Jul 03, 2016 4:08:46 am PDT #24038 of 30003
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Oh dear God. So the extremist I mentioned above, Pauline Hanson, who's returning to Parliament this election. Going to be a Queensland senator. Her party's platform, right on their official website: [link] For the Cliff notes, scroll down to the section, "Pauline Hanson's One Nation Policy". Top of the pops:

Call for an inquiry or Royal Commission to determine if Islam is a religion or political ideology

Yaaaaay.

Ryan occasionally asks me, who do I think is worse - Donald Trump or Tony Abbott (our previous PM). That's easy, Trump is way worse. I now have a point of comparison. Trump is if Pauline Hanson became a viable candidate for Prime Minister.


sarameg - Jul 03, 2016 4:17:25 am PDT #24039 of 30003

Am I ready to move furniture? No. Am I going to anyway? Yep.


Zenkitty - Jul 03, 2016 6:12:22 am PDT #24040 of 30003
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

billytea, I feel for your country's bad choices in governance.

Why is it that I can't get my sister to understand that I need more definite plans from her than "we'll call you when we're on the way"? I stopped doing that with them that time I waited all dressed up ready to go out for FOUR HOURS after they called "20 minutes away". I just told her, I'm in pajamas and I'm not getting dressed until I know where I'm supposed to be and when.


Jesse - Jul 03, 2016 6:24:30 am PDT #24041 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

It's weird to think about different paths in life sometimes. A few years ago, I saw an old coworker. We were both about six months into dating someone, and both thought it was about to be some kind of turning point. I broke up with mine, she married hers and is about to have their second kid! Not that I wanted to marry that guy.


Kat - Jul 03, 2016 7:05:05 am PDT #24042 of 30003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

sara, YAY furniture!!

I'm watching the Great British Bake Off. Even though I've seen this one. Don't care. Can't wait.