Xander: Look who's got a bad case of Dark Prince envy. Dracula: Leave us. Xander: No, we're not going to "Leabbb you." And where'd you get that accent, Sesame Street? "One, Two, Three - three victims! Maw ha ha!"

'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.


Connie Neil - Dec 14, 2017 12:59:44 pm PST #19872 of 30002
brillig

That depends on who is doing it.

From context it seems to related to pregnancy or sex. When it's up and in full view, it's been the OK, but I've also seen it as a low-positioned "my smirk says I'm doing something rude, hur-hur, but it isn't clear so I can't get in real trouble" thing since I was in grade school.


EpicTangent - Dec 14, 2017 1:03:19 pm PST #19873 of 30002
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

Change it to architects, and I'd be super for that.

Add in Engineers and my department will be in.


Burrell - Dec 14, 2017 1:26:55 pm PST #19874 of 30002
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Connie, the "sex" version of the hand gesture tends to include the index finger of the other hand as well, doing the.. uh... gesturing. And there's a "white power" version too - I think it uses the left hand, palm facing in, back of the hand facing out, so that the fingers look like a "W" and a "P", but I'm not sure about that one (what with not be a white supremacist and all).


Connie Neil - Dec 14, 2017 1:40:10 pm PST #19875 of 30002
brillig

OK, makes stupid sense. I saw a Zootopia meme where the bunny is talking to the fox andmaking the gesture with her right hand, calling attention to it, and all the comments were about how of course she was worried about being pregnant with a fox's baby. I really dislike when I don't understand conversations being held in my birth language.


Zenkitty - Dec 14, 2017 1:59:29 pm PST #19876 of 30002
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

The white power people have taken over the OK hand sign. I can't even make that gesture anymore.


meara - Dec 14, 2017 2:30:01 pm PST #19877 of 30002

If they're just holding the fourth finger, not the index finger (which I picture ok being an f in the ASL alphabet, done with index finger), then it's the shocker. Which yes, is dirty.


Sheryl - Dec 14, 2017 3:13:19 pm PST #19878 of 30002
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

Tired. Stressed. In other words, a normal day.


Connie Neil - Dec 14, 2017 6:41:38 pm PST #19879 of 30002
brillig

The maintenance staff here is apparently psychic. My garbage disposal has been making rougher noises than usual, but I decided it was me just not being used to disposals. I came home tonight to a note on my sink from the maintenance people saying the noise from the disposal was normal.

I do not know how they thought to check. It's a garage below me, and I can't imagine any of my neighbors could hear the disposal, much less care. I thought it was part of a scheduled check of the smoke detector, but my building supposed to be done tomorrow, not today, and if they've checked the disposal on the filter change days, they never mentioned it. And the note said it was in response to a request I'd made. But I'd never made one, even though I was considering it. It's a little freaky. I'm not going to say anything about it, because it's something I'm glad to know and it looks like all procedures were followed. Just weird.


Consuela - Dec 14, 2017 7:23:56 pm PST #19880 of 30002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Well that was fun. I decided to clean, and clean out, my refrigerator, since I'm going to have a house-sitter in here for 3 weeks and didn't want to subject her to gross sticky drawers.

While cleaning off the glass shelf top in the sink, it shattered catastrophically. I had bits of glass in a 10-foot radius, and even got a tiny cut on my arm. Happily, it was made of safety glass, but yikes.

And now I am down one shelf in the fridge until I figure out how to get that thing replaced. Oy.


Calli - Dec 15, 2017 1:41:26 am PST #19881 of 30002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

That sounds disconcerting, Consuela.