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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.


Gudanov - Sep 25, 2018 12:31:06 pm PDT #29915 of 30002
Coding and Sleeping

I mean, my favorite character is still The Mooch, but there is something mysterious about Melania that I like.


Connie Neil - Sep 25, 2018 12:45:10 pm PDT #29916 of 30002
brillig

I can see her silently gliding through the palace, ignored by everyone as a decoration, a dagger concealed in the folds of her skirt, heading towards a private chamber (the TV room, probably, in this case).


Sheryl - Sep 25, 2018 12:46:28 pm PDT #29917 of 30002
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

I guess there was an upside to not being popular(and therefore not invited to parties) in high school. I know there was a lot of drinking at the parties(because people would talk about how wasted they got), but not about anything else.


msbelle - Sep 25, 2018 12:55:27 pm PDT #29918 of 30002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I sincerely hope Cosby just dies very quickly now that he's been sentenced. Truth be told I'd be pretty happy if a few hundred predators just had massive brain aneurisms overnight. I'm sick of people.

Relatedly my depression often looks like anger.

I've been eating out Willy nilly and I overdrew my bank account because stupid.


-t - Sep 25, 2018 1:01:34 pm PDT #29919 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I keep finding myself thinking how assassination seems reasonable to solve some problems, but there's so damn many targets it probably wouldn't be that efficient.


sj - Sep 25, 2018 2:17:53 pm PDT #29920 of 30002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Relatedly my depression often looks like anger.

Ditto.


Topic!Cindy - Sep 25, 2018 3:27:42 pm PDT #29921 of 30002
What is even happening?

Would this be the place to discuss The Manifest (new TV show; first episode aired last night)?

If someone answered Toddson, I missed the answer. Also, Toddson, how was Manifest? I meant to watch it, but worked late and didn't set the DVR.

Today, I watched a screener for A Million Little Things, which premieres Wednesday night on ABC at 10/9 C. It's pretty unabashedly tapping into the same vein as (not plot-spoiiling premise talk --->) * This Is Us, but it is about friends rather than family. * That said, I really liked it, and if I can find the time, will probably watch the screeners for episodes 2 and 3, also.

There's more on the show on the ABC website [link] if anyone's wondering what I'm talking about. David Giuntoli, Ron Livingston, Romany Malco, Allison Miller, Christina Marie Moses, Christina Ochoa, Grace Park, James Roday, Stephanie Szostak, and Lizzy Greene star.

Is anyone planning to check it out?


Amy - Sep 25, 2018 3:39:47 pm PDT #29922 of 30002
Because books.

I keep finding myself thinking how assassination seems reasonable to solve some problems, but there's so damn many targets it probably wouldn't be that efficient.

Thank god someone else thinks this. The first part anyway. I'm willing to work on logistics.

I'm feeling very strange about Cosby. I know what he did, and he deserves everything he gets/got and more, but it's also really hard to associate that behavior with the public figure who sold pudding and talked about "my brother Russell" and was Cliff Huxtable to me for a really long time.

And the fact that the same man who did those things was also doping and raping women just makes me ill. In a "who *can* I trust" way, I guess.


Topic!Cindy - Sep 25, 2018 4:07:12 pm PDT #29923 of 30002
What is even happening?

I'm feeling very strange about Cosby. I know what he did, and he deserves everything he gets/got and more, but it's also really hard to associate that behavior with the public figure who sold pudding and talked about "my brother Russell" and was Cliff Huxtable to me for a really long time.

My theory is that we're feeling like this, because we're no longer in our original timeline. Consider this:

  • Bill Cosby is a serial rapist
  • Donald Trump is President -- of the frigging United States of America
  • Dunkin' Donuts is all: "Our name is now 'Dunkin'."


Sophia Brooks - Sep 25, 2018 4:37:13 pm PDT #29924 of 30002
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

In high school I hated the fact that I was essentially treated as non-sexual (and I know that this isn't the experience of every person with a disability), but lately I'm starting to feel grateful for it.

Me too, although I did not have a disability. But what I was was some sort of attractive to both friend's dads and old men. So I was not assaulted, I had dads talking about how good I looked in a bathing suit from 6th grade on and older men who pinched, groped, and made lewd comments, mostly at my workplace. I remember always making sure if I was putting the lotto numbers up, I did it before opening, because I was sure to get me pinched/groped as I had my hands over my head, but some 60 plus year old man. And I thought nothing of it. Just a thing to endure. So now I am mad, but also with a side heaping of how having a sort of jolie laid face and a sort of Marilyn Monroe body, and just a sense of innocence made me invisible to young men my own age and but just brought out possible predators. And it makes me angry, but also a little glad that I escaped relatively unscathed. But I was perfect prey, because I was like dog shit to young men my own age and I think they sensed it. I think it was only my experience with my cousins being victims and my mother's paranoia that all older men were sexual predators that kept me safe. And it is a weird place to be because I do still sort of resent my mother for being so suspicious and vigilant, because I haven't been in a relationship for around 20 years. I make an assumption that my mom was assaulted or molested due to how vigilant she was about it, but it also could be because she was the mandated reporter that my cousin went to.