Niska: Mr. Reynolds? You died, Mr. Reynolds. Mal: Seemed like the thing to do.

'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.


Jesse - Oct 19, 2015 10:40:04 am PDT #7306 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I can see running off to Hawaii for clean air and good food as a viable choice for someone who wants to make the most of their remaining days rather than engaging in a drawn-out fight if there's not much chance of successful treatment, but not as an alternative treatment strategy.

Yeah, that.


Dana - Oct 19, 2015 10:41:49 am PDT #7307 of 30003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

drags Monday's carcass into the thread

lights it on fire

sneers and drinks a margarita while it burns


-t - Oct 19, 2015 10:44:21 am PDT #7308 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Mmm, margarita.

Margarita in Hawaii.

Mmmm.

I may have found my happy place.


shrift - Oct 19, 2015 11:00:59 am PDT #7309 of 30003
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

I hadn't been paying attention to the BK black bun thing! IIRC, there were some Kool-Aid flavors that would do something similar.


Maria - Oct 19, 2015 11:04:57 am PDT #7310 of 30003
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift

Dana, do you have room around that bonfire for me? Just give me the tequila straight at this point.


Sophia Brooks - Oct 19, 2015 11:08:45 am PDT #7311 of 30003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I hadn't been paying attention to the BK black bun thing! IIRC, there were some Kool-Aid flavors that would do something similar.

Then there are beets! I was also taking some vitamin supplement which turned my pee BRIGHT ORANGE.


Dana - Oct 19, 2015 11:11:24 am PDT #7312 of 30003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

backs away from bonfire and widens the circle of the damned

summons the bartender for Maria


-t - Oct 19, 2015 11:18:28 am PDT #7313 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

There's some genetic condition that makes people's skin blue, which can be treated with something that, coincidentally, turns one's piss blue, so the treatment is colloquially refered to as "pissing out the blue".

If I am recalling an article read decades ago at all correctly. And if I'm not, well, it's a good story, anyway.


Burrell - Oct 19, 2015 11:18:32 am PDT #7314 of 30003
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

I can't understand people who want to fight it with "cleaner air and food." While it certainly helps to take a holistic approach, I'm also not going to discount sound medicine backed by science.

I have a bunch of those people in my class right now. My health science class that is. One wanted to write about using positive thoughts and the placebo effect to cure cancer. Um... sigh? Oh and I have another who wants to explore the ethical implications of medications that are also considered toxins. As opposed to what? Medications that are also foods I suppose. Good ol' coconut oil, looks like you got your work cut out for you.


brenda m - Oct 19, 2015 11:22:20 am PDT #7315 of 30003
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

I hadn't been paying attention to the BK black bun thing! IIRC, there were some Kool-Aid flavors that would do something similar.

Basically it's the sheer amount of blue food coloring they need to use to get the black bun that is at issue, when combined with yellow bile.

In Japan where they've had these for years, they use squid ink so no issue.