Gah, I think I'm coming down with something. Do not want. Although then I could lie down and curl up and not do anything, I suppose. Maybe if I add Benadryl to the meds I've already taken (Claritin, Aleve, Tylenol, not all at once) it will help?
'Heart Of Gold'
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.
I think I am going crazy-- I know we are talking about Ben MacKenzie and Morena Baccarin in a thread somewhere, but I can't find it!
ita's
Sophia - ita's thread.
Oh my gosh! What a thread to get off topic in!
The topic is ita would have feels about this. Totally on point.
We must look like such assholes to the rest of the world.
Hello, have you met Italy? Italian politics makes the U.S. look tame by comparison. 63 new governments since Italy became a republic in 1946. The scandals, to include bribes and prostitution as well as election-fixing, are the stuff of legends. This is the country that has elected a former porn star to the House of Deputies more than once.
Not to mention the current British scandal. At least no one on this side of the pond has been outed as someone who put their genitals in a dead pig's mouth. (I mean, I wouldn't be *surprised*, but at least everyone's keeping mum on the weirdo secret cult initiations over here.)
You guys, I just talked to Fred Shuttlesworth's daughter on the phone! AND she asked me for advice about organizing historic papers from her father!
Also this morning I helped a very charming older gentleman with a Caribbean accent find an 1854 newspaper article [on the fugitive slave act], and he turned out to be a chaired professor at Vanderbilt in town for a conference.
I'm all up in African-American history today.
That one at least allows one to legitimately use "pigfucker" in political discourse, which is worth something.
ETA in response to juliana, not flea, in case that is not clear