I'd be the one sighing heavily and giving people the disappointed-in-you face.
"C'mon, man! We just talked about dangling participles! Get your head in the game!"
I like books. I just don't want to take on too much. Do they have an introduction to the modern blurb?
Buffy ,'Lessons'
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.
Dana - Aug 18, 2016 11:22:43 am PDT #26301 of 30003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Connie Neil - Aug 18, 2016 11:23:52 am PDT #26302 of 30003
brillig
"C'mon, man! We just talked about dangling participles! Get your head in the game!"
Oxford Comma Wars! Last Stand of the Double Space After a Period! Which Words Really Should Be Capitalized!
Dana - Aug 18, 2016 11:30:01 am PDT #26303 of 30003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
This must be what the Olympics are like in Dictionopolis from The Phantom Toolbooth.
Zenkitty - Aug 18, 2016 11:30:04 am PDT #26304 of 30003
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Semicolon, Colon, or Comma: Sudden Death Round
Gudanov - Aug 18, 2016 11:33:37 am PDT #26305 of 30003
Coding and Sleeping
You could get Sarah Palin to write the text being edited and William Shatner to read the results.
Toddson - Aug 18, 2016 11:37:58 am PDT #26306 of 30003
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
in Esperanto, perhaps
EpicTangent - Aug 18, 2016 11:56:24 am PDT #26307 of 30003
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Oxford Comma Wars! Last Stand of the Double Space After a Period! Which Words Really Should Be Capitalized!
I'm surprised how passionate I feel about all of these!
Sue - Aug 18, 2016 2:25:28 pm PDT #26308 of 30003
hip deep in pie
Which is why I love Great British Bake-Off, people rarely cry, though some crack under self-induced stress--but then one of the comic-relief hosts goes over and comforts them! The judges just give people stern looks. No one yells.
I heard (maybe it was here?) that apparently if someone has a real meltdown, Mel and Sue will stand around them swearing, so the producers can't use the footage.
Dana - Aug 18, 2016 2:42:01 pm PDT #26309 of 30003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
If that's not true, it's the best urban legend ever, because it's told everywhere.
billytea - Aug 18, 2016 2:52:39 pm PDT #26310 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.
I heard (maybe it was here?) that apparently if someone has a real meltdown, Mel and Sue will stand around them swearing, so the producers can't use the footage.
That almost qualifies as a British tradition now. Jon Pertwee, when he was playing the Third Doctor, had advice for his coworkers. Reshoots were expensive, so no matter how bad a take was, if it was at all usable they'd go on. Pertwee told Caroline John and Katy Manning, if they were unhappy with their performance and needed a retake, they should swear on camera. Best way to render it unusable and force a reshoot.