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.
Gunn: The final score can't be rigged. I don't care how many players you grease, that last shot always comes up a question mark. But here's the thing. You never know when you're taking it. It could be when you're duking it out with the Legion of Doom, or just crossing the street deciding where to have brunch. So you just treat it like it was up to you—the world in balance—'cause you never know when it is.
'Underneath'
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.
Jesse - Jul 03, 2016 3:29:56 am PDT #24037 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
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.
Consuela - Jul 03, 2016 7:43:20 am PDT #24043 of 30003
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I find GBBO to be excellent for rewatching.
Connie Neil - Jul 03, 2016 8:34:11 am PDT #24044 of 30003
brillig
And yet another vivid dream, but this one involved someone who was lost, I think.
Roommate's cat likes to sleep with me. In my dream, I wanted to roll over, but something was crowding my legs. I muttered at the cat to move, and I realized the cat was against my hip. My dream told me there was a French bulldog named Berenice sleeping on my legs, and she was very peeved at having to move.
I have never met a French bulldog in real life, much less one named Berenice. I told her I was pleased to make her acquaintance, but if she wanted to share the bed she was going to have to let me roll over.
Brains are odd.
Laura - Jul 03, 2016 9:06:22 am PDT #24045 of 30003
Our wings are not tired.
We were going to have a holiday gathering here today but the weather is funky and people are tired and just wanna chill so we cancelled. Instead of cleaning the house and shopping and cooking I am still sitting here in my jammies at 2 PM with dishes in the sink. I have done zero work on my many office projects either. I am sloth. I have also spent an appalling amount of time browsing Facebook which has been an emotional roller coaster of rage, optimism, depression, delight, and a dozen other feels.
I really need to do something productive. I think I shall start with a swim while it isn't storming.
aurelia - Jul 03, 2016 9:42:14 am PDT #24046 of 30003
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
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 just saw a play about that. All the possible paths from a given moment in a relationship. Constellations. I recommend it.