You know, I just... I woke up, and I looked in the mirror, and I thought, hey, what's with all the sin? I need to change. I'm... I'm dirty. I'm, I'm bad with the... sex and the envy and that, that loud music us kids listen to nowadays.

Buffy ,'Lessons'


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.


Maria - Oct 26, 2016 5:59:16 am PDT #147 of 30002
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

I don't wanna work at all today. I just want to snuggle the puppy.


Jesse - Oct 26, 2016 6:17:32 am PDT #148 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

The Final Jeopardy answer last night was "echidna" and I got it right by knowing it's one of only two mammals that lay eggs (and Platypus was not a Greek goddess). So thanks, billytea, for the echidna knowledge I've gathered over the years.

I was watching that going, "Platypus, platypus -- how is platypus Greek?? But it's platypus -- NO IT'S ECHIDNA!!!!"

I'm having one of those days where I hope maybe I am getting a cold so I can stay home and lie on the sofa all day.


Volans - Oct 26, 2016 6:20:55 am PDT #149 of 30002
move out and draw fire

I'm having one of those days where I hope maybe I am getting a cold so I can stay home and lie on the sofa all day.

This is what I'm going with. The rest of Chez Volans have been down with colds for two days so it's plausible. After I finish forcing Dr. Jerkface to actually do something I'm retreating to a sofa and blanket.


-t - Oct 26, 2016 7:05:24 am PDT #150 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Platypus, platypus -- how is platypus Greek?? But it's platypus -- NO IT'S ECHIDNA!!!!

I think I could reach enlightenment using this as my mantra. Koan. Whichever.

I was feeling icky Monday night and was hoping I would feel equally bad Tuesday morning because clearly that would mean I should stay home and curl up on the couch all day, but no such luck.


msbelle - Oct 26, 2016 7:25:14 am PDT #151 of 30002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

A driver at work just casually said that we should go to the opera together (I had just said I needed to practice fancy make up in case I go to the Academy Awards this year).

He is married and has 3 kids.

Unacceptable.


Jesse - Oct 26, 2016 7:28:22 am PDT #152 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Eh.

I was feeling icky Monday night and was hoping I would feel equally bad Tuesday morning because clearly that would mean I should stay home and curl up on the couch all day, but no such luck.

I think we should all stay home regardless! And yet? Somehow in this job I can't give myself the day. I'm not even really getting anything done! But I'm in the office, goddammit.


meara - Oct 26, 2016 7:36:58 am PDT #153 of 30002

That is weird, msbelle.

I have a cold. But since I work from home it just means I'm not going to my coworking space,so I don't infect them. It's not fun. But can't take off work.


DavidS - Oct 26, 2016 7:50:53 am PDT #154 of 30002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

However, two things are worth noting: first, a male may stay attached to a female for months at a time.

New metaphor for the 21st century!

Matilda is home sick today, and snizzling while listening to the Hamilton soundtrack via earbuds. I had to tell her to stop singing along.


Tom Scola - Oct 26, 2016 7:54:08 am PDT #155 of 30002
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

Hey, David, did you see Microsoft's new desktop PC? It has a dial you can place on the screen, that you can use to manipulate stuff.


P.M. Marc - Oct 26, 2016 8:05:27 am PDT #156 of 30002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

This I actually have seen—more than one minor pro hockey player delaying their return home to Canada so they could get medical care under their US doctors. May have been something about familiarity with the team's doctors though.

Probably a combo of that and their treatment being low-pri so they'd have to wait for it.