Spike? It's you. It's really you! My therapist thought I was holding on to false hope, but…I knew you'd come back. You're like…you're like Gandalf the White, resurrected from the pit of the Balrog, more beautiful than ever. Oh…he's alive Frodo. He's alive.

Andrew ,'Damage'


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.


Sophia Brooks - Jan 30, 2018 1:56:11 am PST #21605 of 30002
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Sometimes I think my entire job is being astonished at the wasteful ways people do things. Or their inability to figure out how to do things on the computer.

I would want to go out and cuddle the Pallas Cat.

-t. I get the caution. I have been dangled a promotion to basically do the same job for a year and a half. I don't really think it will ever happen unless I get an offer somewhere else. But this sounds more decimate- it has a date! Our bS thing on salary is that supposedly you can only ever get a 10% raise within the university no matter how many pay grades you go up. Which I know is not true because I have received a larger than 10% raise three times. I mean, it is true there is a policy, but policies can be broken.


JZ - Jan 30, 2018 3:58:32 am PST #21606 of 30002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

I'm thinking Tino got to Fred.

Having observed Hec attempting to cope with Fred for years now, I'm thinking Tino and Fred go back a long way together.


Jesse - Jan 30, 2018 4:15:24 am PST #21607 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Are you saying there's some connection between Fred and Tino?


-t - Jan 30, 2018 4:22:46 am PST #21608 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I see what you did there, Jesse.


Connie Neil - Jan 30, 2018 5:43:17 am PST #21609 of 30002
brillig

Mushu the Pallas Cat was lured into a trap with some mice and is no longer on the run. He didn't go far, just snuggled into a small construction yard not far from his exhibit, and he's safe and warm now. Sadly, he did not get to fight crime with an octopus buddy--That We Know Of!


Vonnie K - Jan 30, 2018 5:52:11 am PST #21610 of 30002
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.

Howdy! Popping in quickly to ask for some travel advice.

I am planning to go on a work conference in Madrid in late April that goes from Saturday to Tuesday, which will go toward my conference leave (we are allowed 5 days a year). I can take the rest of the week to see something of Spain. I can do either 1) Barcelona, or 2) Seville +/- Granada but not both with the 3-4 extra days I have. Which should I pick? I have no Spanish and I feel like Barcelona would be easier travel-wise, but... Alhambra! Seville-Granada would definitely mean more travel time and hustling though.


Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 30, 2018 6:02:07 am PST #21611 of 30002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Counter the Alhambra with the Sagrada Familia and throw in Barcelona's flourishing nightlife as a bonus?


javachik - Jan 30, 2018 6:21:27 am PST #21612 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.

Barcelona.


Calli - Jan 30, 2018 6:22:14 am PST #21613 of 30002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I loved Barcelona the brief while I was there, but I haven't been to the others for comparison. They might be even more delightful.


Vonnie K - Jan 30, 2018 7:08:41 am PST #21614 of 30002
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.

I was leaning toward Barcelona so nice to have validation. :) Plus I can fly out of Barcelona airport at the end of the trip instead of going back to Madrid. The photos of various architectural marvels in Barcelona are amaaaazing.