It's my estimation that... every man ever got a statue made of him, was one kind of sumbitch or another.

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Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served  

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 - Nov 08, 2016 12:21:29 pm PST #1201 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

We should have curtains. Automatic or not.

Oh my, aurelia! Glad you were not so fuzzled by sleep that you picked it up and put it with the toys before you realized...


-t - Nov 08, 2016 12:22:16 pm PST #1202 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

That's kind of awesome, Sophia. Surely you could flag down someone going to Susan B's grave and have them give you a ride to the polls, if necessary?


Volans - Nov 08, 2016 12:22:19 pm PST #1203 of 30002
move out and draw fire

I always need red pandas, but I'm about ready to start 36 hours of being a facilitator / camp counselor at a hackathon, so I will have no screen time until Thursday. Probably no me time either. It's going to take every ounce of extraversion I can find.

But it will distract me!


Sophia Brooks - Nov 08, 2016 12:25:54 pm PST #1204 of 30002
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I just have to be in line by 9pm, so I am not really stressed, but I can't believe the cars and the people here! It is really neat!


Sophia Brooks - Nov 08, 2016 12:27:58 pm PST #1205 of 30002
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

OMG the cemetery is all lit up and I could see a great big line of people! It is really beautiful.


DavidS - Nov 08, 2016 12:31:15 pm PST #1206 of 30002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

My bus is caught in Susan B Anthony grave traffic! Let's hope I make it to my polling place!

Irony of ironies!

I agree, Laura. I'm all about the Scantron ballots for the reasons you mentioned.

So, Slate has a new election tool called Turnout Tracker and that's obviously going to be the little bar this crack-addled rat will keep hitting for the next several hours.

ION, the entire Colorado computer voting system went down.

Also problems with the voting machines in Pennsylvania.

Looks like GOP efforts at voter suppression may have been somewhat successful in North Carolina. We'll see.

BUT it's all gonna be moot and probably an early evening because Florida is trending to Clinton early.

Also, Ohio still looks kind of encouraging for the Dems.


Jesse - Nov 08, 2016 12:31:19 pm PST #1207 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

That is awesome. [edit: Sophia. Not being stuck, of course, but the reason for it.]

Plus as somebody just reminded me, they automatically opened the curtain behind you when the vote was registered and the tumblers reset. A very dramatic flourish.

I feel like my machines in PA did that, but NY didn't, or vice versa? Definitely in one of them, you had to push your way through curtain and I found it very disconcerting.

Left work early, got to my polling place at 5ish, and there was no line! Like three people in the process of voting. Scanning the check-in sheets it really looks like everyone either voted early or this morning. (I refuse to say "early voted.)


DavidS - Nov 08, 2016 12:37:59 pm PST #1208 of 30002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Also, even though the polls showed it being close in New Hampshire it really looks like HRC has a significant lead there. Which would be great for the Senate race.


Steph L. - Nov 08, 2016 12:42:52 pm PST #1209 of 30002
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

Also, Ohio still looks kind of encouraging for the Dems.

When I checked at 5:00, I was shocked that HRC had a lead, no matter how small.


msbelle - Nov 08, 2016 1:08:58 pm PST #1210 of 30002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Surgery is complete. I have not been out yet. I am at counseling with Mac now ( he is in) and I hope he will go to the hospital with me after this. He would not come to dinner with the grandparents last night. I don't know if he does it get it or does not care that surgery is a big deal and seeing people when dying is a possibility is kinda a good thing to do.