Aren't they something. They're like butterflies, or little pieces of wrapping paper blowing around.

Kaylee ,'Shindig'


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.


Sparky1 - Aug 21, 2018 10:11:03 am PDT #28611 of 30002
Librarian Warlord

May it cause the orange one considerable harm.

Some reports seems to be saying it won't include cooperation. It's also a federal charge, so orange one can pardon him tomorrow if he chooses to do so.


Theodosia - Aug 21, 2018 10:13:27 am PDT #28612 of 30002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Speaking of other languages -- do you know what surprised me recently learning about other alphabets? That some don't have an upper/lower case! I mean, I just kind of assumed would be a rock-bottom standard paradigm for a language, and instead it's almost as if the Roman/Greek/Cyrillic alphabets are kind of an exception to almost all other writing systems.


-t - Aug 21, 2018 10:50:45 am PDT #28613 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Interesting, Theo. It never occurred to me that they might not, but thinking about it now, it's hardly necessary. ee cummings and archie the cockroach got by.


Jesse - Aug 21, 2018 10:55:05 am PDT #28614 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

That sounds very sad, in addition to difficult, Shir.

Now I'm wondering why anyone needs two different ways to write letters anyway.


EpicTangent - Aug 21, 2018 11:29:31 am PDT #28615 of 30002
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

Awesome study of men's vs. women's pockets:

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Laura - Aug 21, 2018 11:40:57 am PDT #28616 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.

And Manafort guilty on 8 counts hung on 10.


Jesse - Aug 21, 2018 12:04:04 pm PDT #28617 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I'm kind of amazed he was found guilty of anything, given the judge and everything.

But back to pockets. I'm still SO MAD about the recent work thing where one of the big bosses casually pulled his phone out of his pocket, and it was a huge phone and he is a small man, and you couldn't even see it was in there. I can sometimes shove my small phone into my pants pocket.


Dana - Aug 21, 2018 12:16:53 pm PDT #28618 of 30002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

NYT:

Michael D. Cohen, President Trump's former fixer, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to campaign finance and other charges. He made the extraordinary admission that he paid a pornographic actress "at the direction of the candidate," referring to Mr. Trump, to secure her silence about an affair she said she had with Mr. Trump.

Mr. Cohen told a judge in United States District Court in Manhattan that the payment was "for the principal purpose of influencing the election" for president in 2016.

That seems good, right? I mean, bad for Trump, therefore good?


Gudanov - Aug 21, 2018 12:28:43 pm PDT #28619 of 30002
Coding and Sleeping

I think the spin will be that nothing in either of these cases has implicated collusion with Russia and therefore doesn't matter.


Gudanov - Aug 21, 2018 12:29:16 pm PDT #28620 of 30002
Coding and Sleeping

I mean, it's not great spin, but that would be my guess.