River: I know you have questions. Mal: That would be why I just asked them.

'Objects In Space'


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.


Jesse - Nov 30, 2016 1:40:49 pm PST #3123 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

That's great - thanks, Sue!


JZ - Nov 30, 2016 1:58:07 pm PST #3124 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.

meara-ing:

Yay proof of greatness! Boo mysterious leaks! Boo mysterious beeps! Boo gallstones! Boo sick shrift (also, if you feel up to going out to get food, you are pretty much exactly across Golden Gate Park from the Vietnamese hot and sour soup so healing I swear it could raise the dead, but unfortunately they don't deliver so you would have to drag your ass out there)! Continuing to vibe for sumi until informed otherwise!

I am convinced that HRC lost because I didn't wear Madame President on my nails that night.

I would be crushed if that were so, but OTOH our pundits could then stop wasting everyone's time tearing us all to shreds over our inability to adequately empathize with angry white men and urging us to stop talking so much about civil rights and race and gender and other things that prevent angry white men from voting for our team. Sorry, guys, turns out it was just Zen's nail polish, so you can all shut up now.

the Bros of Has who produce objects of play for the people who sign the paychecks for Steve Rogers, Anna and Elsa, and Finn and Rey.

Come on, if you're going to go with that locution it's just mean to not include Son of Coul.


flea - Nov 30, 2016 2:21:37 pm PST #3125 of 30002
information libertarian

So there's this newish online magazine about classics edited by a PhD candidate from Princeton named Donna Zuckerberg. She wrote a forecful editorial about the co-option of classical imagery by the alt-right this week, and then today wrote about the backlash she got, and it suddenly dawned on me as I read the anti-semitic tweets she included that she is Mark Zuckerberg's sister. I am gobsmacked! It never occurred to me - I mean, surely there are a lot of Zuckerbergs!

It must be deeply weird to be Mark Zuckerberg's little sister.


Amy - Nov 30, 2016 2:27:56 pm PST #3126 of 30002
Because books.

C. Cret Buffista (of Buffista Lane on Buffista Island) sent me a lovely Thanksgiving card, and it completely brightened my day. Thank you, C. Cret!


Jessica - Nov 30, 2016 2:28:50 pm PST #3127 of 30002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Hey, can you maybe ask her why I suddenly can't post or comment on FB? It's deeply weird.


dcp - Nov 30, 2016 2:44:06 pm PST #3128 of 30002
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

Awkward incident on the way home from work tonight. I stopped at the gas station and the credit card readers on the pumps were out of service. So I went inside and gave the clerk a $20 bill. The sale amount was $18.12, so I went back inside for my change.

"Pump 2," I said.

"Pump 2, okay," was the reply. "$18.12?"

"Yep."

The clerk tried to give me $18.12.


amych - Nov 30, 2016 2:46:36 pm PST #3129 of 30002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

WOOOOOT PITCHES AND HOME RUNS AND BASEBALL METAPHORS ALL OUT THE YOODLY-HOODLY!


sarameg - Nov 30, 2016 3:12:40 pm PST #3130 of 30002

I swam my usual! Really slow, but I swam it without stopping! Considering the trifecta of headcold, cramps and angry gallbladder, I'm just glad to get back in the water. My lungs are a little grumpy about it, but they needed it.


-t - Nov 30, 2016 3:23:18 pm PST #3131 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

You are frightening, sarameg.

It must be deeply weird to be Mark Zuckerberg's little sister.

Truly. Good for her for talking about this stuff!


shrift - Nov 30, 2016 3:46:55 pm PST #3132 of 30002
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

also, if you feel up to going out to get food, you are pretty much exactly across Golden Gate Park from the Vietnamese hot and sour soup so healing I swear it could raise the dead, but unfortunately they don't deliver so you would have to drag your ass out there

Ooh, thanks for the reminder. I have plenty of food in my refrigerator so I can't justify spending money, although I may change my mind if I continue feeling this terrible.