Time for some thrilling heroics.

Jayne ,'The Train Job'


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.


Shir - Jun 20, 2018 3:09:17 am PDT #26401 of 30002
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".

Yay Laura!

Trap is installed! Thanks to back channels and not proper channels, though. We now only need the cat to find it. Crossing fingers for sooner rather than later. (Update: cat broke out of the trap. Back to the drawing board, and convincing Proper Channels to take away metal thingie so that cat will have a chance to survive the weekend without feeding, for an open window is better than a dead cat that is stuck in a hard-to-get-to-place in the ceiling).

I also printed an FAQ regarding ceiling cat because I've been answering the same questions/statements for too long. "There's a cat in the ceiling. It meows". Dear, it's a trapped cat. It won't start a physics' lecture in Swahili. It meows. That's what they do.


Jesse - Jun 20, 2018 4:15:25 am PDT #26402 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

That's amazing, Laura. But I'm still mystified as to what she thought she was defending without having any facts.

CEILING CAT IS REAL!!


Laura - Jun 20, 2018 4:18:36 am PDT #26403 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.

But I'm still mystified as to what she thought she was defending without having any facts.

The "sources" of information she had been using were publications like the National Review. I am encouraged that she took the time to research more widely and changed her mind in the face of facts. Sadly, this seems to be the exception rather than the rule lately.


Toddson - Jun 20, 2018 5:42:58 am PDT #26404 of 30002
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Seemingly the DHS secretary decided to go out to eat (ironically at a Mexican restaurant) and was driven out by protesters standing around changing "shame, shame".


Toddson - Jun 20, 2018 5:45:02 am PDT #26405 of 30002
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Dana, once - years ago - I acted as an in-house trainer on the computer system. I wrote up little instruction sheets as needed and shared them. One of the staff copied hers and shared them with her father; he'd reached the point where he was on a first-name basis with his computer's tech support people.


Laura - Jun 20, 2018 5:48:19 am PDT #26406 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.

Seemingly the DHS secretary decided to go out to eat (ironically at a Mexican restaurant) and was driven out by protesters standing around changing "shame, shame".

As a general rule I let recognized people dine out without annoying them; I'd make an exception for people that take kids away from parents and keep them in cages.


Gudanov - Jun 20, 2018 5:58:12 am PDT #26407 of 30002
Coding and Sleeping

Seemingly the DHS secretary decided to go out to eat (ironically at a Mexican restaurant) and was driven out by protesters standing around changing "shame, shame".

I don't know how people keep working for Trump. How could it be worth it?


Jessica - Jun 20, 2018 6:05:13 am PDT #26408 of 30002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

As a general rule I let recognized people dine out without annoying them; I'd make an exception for people that take kids away from parents and keep them in cages.

Yeah, I think if your policy is forcibly separating asylum seeking parents from their asylum seeking infants, I see no moral issue with a crowd of protesters forcibly separating you from your enchiladas.


Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 20, 2018 6:07:05 am PDT #26409 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

Or entrails. IJS.


Toddson - Jun 20, 2018 6:23:51 am PDT #26410 of 30002
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

The white house is now having enough trouble finding people who will work there that they had a booth at a job fair on Capitol Hill (I saw one suggestion that they're afraid the pay they'd receive wouldn't cover future legal bills).