Death is your art. You make it with your hands day after day. That final gasp, that look of peace. And part of you is desperate to know: What's it like? Where does it lead you? And now you see, that's the secret. Not the punch you didn't throw or the kicks you didn't land. She really wanted it. Every Slayer has a death wish. Even you.

Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'


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.


Gudanov - Jul 12, 2016 4:49:15 am PDT #24382 of 30003
Coding and Sleeping

No one is here! Where is everyone?

Out looking for Pokemons?


Sophia Brooks - Jul 12, 2016 4:56:32 am PDT #24383 of 30003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I don't understand the Pokemon. When I worked at JC Penney we sold stuffed pokey-men and Jiggly Puff was super cute.


Jesse - Jul 12, 2016 5:02:13 am PDT #24384 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Oh man -- I just overheard one of my very few African American coworkers telling someone she's not comfortable going to the rally at police headquarters tomorrow night. Ugh.

...which just goes to show that thing on FB was right -- every post on the internet is either about racism or Pokemon right now.


Sophia Brooks - Jul 12, 2016 5:24:31 am PDT #24385 of 30003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

There is also the vocabulary quiz. [link]

I am so confused by this question:

The antonym of catalyst is: current
damp
nadir
prevention

I think it has to be nadir because it is the only noun in that list, but that doesn't make a lot of sense. Prevention makes sense, but is not the right part of speech.


Steph L. - Jul 12, 2016 5:59:08 am PDT #24386 of 30003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Prevention makes sense, but is not the right part of speech.

They're both nouns.


meara - Jul 12, 2016 6:06:17 am PDT #24387 of 30003

That vocab quiz had a lot of parallelism issues. Did not like. (I would've gone catalyze/prevent)

Pokemon and racism. Yep.


Sophia Brooks - Jul 12, 2016 6:19:01 am PDT #24388 of 30003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Ok. I was saying in my head "A Catalyst", "A Prevention" and it sounded wrong.


Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 12, 2016 6:36:51 am PDT #24389 of 30003
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Think of it as prevention takes the article "the" rather than "a."


Sophia Brooks - Jul 12, 2016 6:43:43 am PDT #24390 of 30003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Tanks. I was thinking of sentences like "That chemical is a catalyst, this chemical is a prevention". Which makes no sense!


Sue - Jul 12, 2016 6:44:43 am PDT #24391 of 30003
hip deep in pie

I went with damp defining it as in preventing or smothering a reaction.

ETA: Note, I did the test, did pretty well, then took it again and did worse.