Mal: If anyone gets nosy, just, you know... shoot 'em. Zoe: Shoot 'em? Mal: Politely.

'Serenity'


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.


-t - Sep 22, 2015 9:02:35 am PDT #5748 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Oh, I see. That sucks.

I think I've had a credit card frozen if I missed a payment. Or I made the payment at 2:05 my time and it has to be in by 5 Eastern. It's one of those card-provider-discretion things, probably. Sometimes they'll just charge you a fee, sometimes they'll freeze the card.


Zenkitty - Sep 22, 2015 9:28:49 am PDT #5749 of 30003
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Plus, their reps keep giving me incorrect information. Not helping. It's ridiculous. I'm going on a business trip next week, and I have to pay for everything up front and get reimbursed. I need this card. The rep told me if I made a payment at a branch it would be posted the same day. Whoops, that's not true.

Of course it's all going to work out okay; I'll just take money from my savings account instead. It's just a bunch of aggravation that triggers my anxiety and requires more energy to avoid a depression spiral. Also, being lied to just pisses me off.


-t - Sep 22, 2015 10:08:29 am PDT #5750 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Well of course it does. Ass 'em in the ear.


Ginger - Sep 22, 2015 10:31:48 am PDT #5751 of 30003
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

What a pain, Zen.

Do I have the first spotting of pumpkin spice bagels?

I wish Publix would send its baggers to TJ's to learn how to use reusable bags. It is not a contest to see how many things can be stuffed into one bag.


amych - Sep 22, 2015 10:35:14 am PDT #5752 of 30003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Do I have the first spotting of pumpkin spice bagels?

Yes, given that SUCH A THING DOES NOT EXIST


Ginger - Sep 22, 2015 10:48:20 am PDT #5753 of 30003
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Pumpkin spice "bagels" - [link]

Admittedly, Thomas' bagels are, at best, round bread.


-t - Sep 22, 2015 11:04:22 am PDT #5754 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Excellent use of scare quotes. Ginger.

So, I'm having a pomegranate as part of my lunch - of all the many Right Ways to Eat a Pomegranate that are floating around the internet I think I have found the one that works best for me, finally. It made me think, as it often does, that six pomegranate seeds is not much sustenance. And then, as I had more peel to wrangle, I got to wondering how the laws of hospitality that Paris violated by running off with Helen while he was Agamemnon's guest were related to Persephone eating Hades' food meaning she had to stay. Does anyone know?

(Hahahaha autocorrect, however I misspelled 'hospitality" I did not mean "hostility")


-t - Sep 22, 2015 11:08:18 am PDT #5755 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I don't think I've actually tried Thomas' bagels, in my head they are English muffins with holes in them.


Kat - Sep 22, 2015 11:37:15 am PDT #5756 of 30003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Wait. They aren't?!

And let's be clear , the only time English bagels are acceptable is when you are living in Belgium and visiting London.


-t - Sep 22, 2015 11:37:47 am PDT #5757 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

They might be, I haven't tested the hypothesis.