You do well to flee, townspeople! I will pillage your lands and dwellings! I will burn your crops and make merry sport with your more attractive daughters! Ha ha ha! Mark my words! Ooh! Ale! I smell delicious ale!

Olaf the Troll ,'Showtime'


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.


Sophia Brooks - Oct 25, 2015 11:10:24 am PDT #7811 of 30003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Poor little teething babies!

I am having a minir argument with a friend- so I want to know if I am crazy-- Animal Farm is about both communist and capitalist systems not being right, right? Because communism sounds good, but then then pigs become humans! And that is bad! right?


Sophia Brooks - Oct 25, 2015 11:11:56 am PDT #7812 of 30003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Poor little teething babies!

I am having a minir argument with a friend- so I want to know if I am crazy-- Animal Farm is about both communist and capitalist systems not being right, right? Because communism sounds good, but then then pigs become humans! And that is bad! right?


Rick - Oct 25, 2015 11:14:32 am PDT #7813 of 30003

It's inspired by the Soviet revolution, but I think it applies to any political revolution. I'd say that the core message is not so much anticommunist as "Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss."


Dana - Oct 25, 2015 11:23:08 am PDT #7814 of 30003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

JESUS CHRIST SAINTS WHAT THE HELL.


Atropa - Oct 25, 2015 12:22:04 pm PDT #7815 of 30003
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Last night's Gothic Witches' Ball was ... well, not the level of event I'm used to attending. Everyone was very sweet, but it was like a prom crossed with a dance at a small con.


Sophia Brooks - Oct 25, 2015 1:24:18 pm PDT #7816 of 30003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Thanks Rick! My friend thinks it is a ringing endorsement of capitalism, and I just don't think it is the case.


Kat - Oct 25, 2015 1:35:13 pm PDT #7817 of 30003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Babies are enigmatic. When they get older, they are more verbal but no less enigmatic, unfortunately.

My two are on the coach with football on doing Spanish on the ipad.

I had a totally weird thing happen on the way to the gym. Some lady pulled up next to me and looked at me full on when we were on the street. I pulled in front of her after a block or two and then about a mile later, I pulled into the parking lot at the gym. I had to drive around to find a spot. So I did and fussed with parking. Then when I got out of my car, she was waiting there in her car. Or at least I think it was her. I went up the steps into the gym and she drove away.

Weird, right? Creepier still because she was in a prius so her car was silent and I didn't hear it sneak up on me.


Burrell - Oct 25, 2015 2:09:52 pm PDT #7818 of 30003
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Eww creepy, Kat


Juliebird - Oct 25, 2015 2:40:50 pm PDT #7819 of 30003
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

Scored some steampunk goggles and bowler hat at party city! Don't really have clothes to go with them, though. I want to wear the hat every day, it's so nicely shaped.


-t - Oct 25, 2015 3:03:02 pm PDT #7820 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Yup, that's weird, Kat. Maybe it wasn't her

I have so much stuff I should be doing but I am so tired. I need a day to recover from my eweekend. And ten another day to get stuff done. Yes, that might work.

Until that gets arranged, I suppose I'd better figure out what absolutely must get done today or tomorrow will be disastrous, because making myself do anything at all is going to be haaaaard.

But first I'm going to finish watching my recorded football game. I know the final score but I believe there are plays in there I need to see for myself. Also, very curious as to whether my Fox channel cut over to the Miami-Washington game at some point the way my parents' Fox apparently did - tried to see what was happening in the game when I stopped by about noon, the guide and "info" said it was the Saints game but it was not.