Oh, yeah. There was this time I was pinned down by this guy that played left tackle for varsity... Well, at least he used to before he was a vampire... Anyway, he had this really, really thick neck, and all I had was a little, little Exact-O knife ... You're not loving this story.

Buffy ,'Beneath You'


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.


Sue - Jan 23, 2017 8:16:50 am PST #6028 of 30002
hip deep in pie

This is my oven. No drawers: [link]

Ooh!

Warming drawers can also revive hypothermic lambs: [link]

My is an Eaton's store brand oven. They closed in the late 90s, so it's around 20 years old. Works fine, though, so I can't justify replacing it. When it goes...I am so getting a two oven stove.


Steph L. - Jan 23, 2017 8:17:37 am PST #6029 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Warming drawers can also revive hypothermic lambs:

I feel like this happened in a Trixie Belden book, too.


Jesse - Jan 23, 2017 8:36:39 am PST #6030 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

-t, that was me, and yes, feel free!

I was going to say, that is a good one, but not mine!


-t - Jan 23, 2017 8:40:20 am PST #6031 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Oops! Thanks Jess, and sorry!


bennett - Jan 23, 2017 9:02:52 am PST #6032 of 30002

Maybe Feral Boy is remembering an oven like my Grandmother's 30s era one - huge oven, broiler underneath which doubled as a warming oven, that you never had to turn on because the pilot light was always on and provided the warmth.

Mind you, when the wind was from the right direction it could blow out the pilot light and eventually blow up the house if you weren't careful. I'll settle for an electric starter for my gas oven.


Steph L. - Jan 23, 2017 9:05:06 am PST #6033 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Maybe Feral Boy is remembering an oven like my Grandmother's 30s era one - huge oven, broiler underneath which doubled as a warming oven, that you never had to turn on because the pilot light was always on and provided the warmth.

And that may be, but the fact that he's shocked -- shocked!!! -- at the age of 60-something that there can be more than one kind of oven with a warming drawer is still a little boggling (just like it was weird as shit that he didn't understand how someone might be sore after lifting weights).


Calli - Jan 23, 2017 9:17:50 am PST #6034 of 30002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Some people honestly don't feel pain the same way many of us do. Until he died, my dad said he never had a headache. He had felt stomach pains, so I was able to describe it as a stomach pain that you couldn't relieve by throwing up, and he sort of got it. He never claimed that other people didn't have those pains, though. He just didn't experience them himself, and asked for context that would help him understand. (He had troublesome teeth, but never needed anesthetic for dental work, too, as he said he didn't feel much pain from that either.)


Dana - Jan 23, 2017 9:23:40 am PST #6035 of 30002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

My husband's grandmother supposedly never had a headache. I can't even imagine.


flea - Jan 23, 2017 9:44:28 am PST #6036 of 30002
information libertarian

Well, I finally got notified that I did not get that job, the one I interviewed for in September. Now I have to decide what I want to do for the rest of my life.


Gudanov - Jan 23, 2017 9:47:51 am PST #6037 of 30002
Coding and Sleeping

Sorry to hear about the job, flea. I vote that you become an infamous hacker that exposes government corruption around the world.