Take me, sir. Take me hard.

Zoe ,'War Stories'


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.


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.


Gudanov - Jul 12, 2016 6:49:09 am PDT #24392 of 30003
Coding and Sleeping

That is so cool. Good Luck, DavidS!


Steph L. - Jul 12, 2016 7:01:07 am PDT #24393 of 30003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

So, the POTUS approached JAMA and said he would like to write an article about the Affordable Care Act, and it was published today. Can you IMAGINE being the poor editor who had to edit the President???? (It wasn't me.) Or having to follow up and pester him if he didn't return the article on time?

Apparently this is the first time a POTUS from the modern era (however that's defined; it was in a press release) has been published in JAMA. The whole company is losing its shit. In a professional way.


Gudanov - Jul 12, 2016 7:09:49 am PDT #24394 of 30003
Coding and Sleeping

Makes me think of Jon Favreau who became Obama's speechwriter in the 2008 campaign. He was like 23 at the time. Apparently his first meeting with Obama was after he removed a part of a speech that happened to be Obama's favorite part.


Sophia Brooks - Jul 12, 2016 7:14:14 am PDT #24395 of 30003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I just realized there are 2 Jon Favreaus.


Gudanov - Jul 12, 2016 7:17:25 am PDT #24396 of 30003
Coding and Sleeping

Yeah, I just realized that not too long ago. I started listening to a podcast Jon Favreau was on and started wondering who the hell is the actor/director guy, when I was expecting a political guy.