None of it means a damn thing.

Mal ,'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.


aurelia - Nov 05, 2016 8:21:11 am PDT #897 of 30002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

A friend of a friend literally said on Facebook: " I think it is in your every right to vote for Hillary. I just ask for the same respect back even though I am voting for a crazy, racist Cheeto."

Foaf has a right to the vote but not to respect. Especially when they acknowledge that they're voting for a crazy, racist Cheeto.

I feel bad that this is where my mind goes, but now I'm really curious about the effects of, say, political ads on voting patterns in dementia a patients.

I would guess the ads wouldn't have a big effect on those with short-term memory issues, but it probably varies wildly for each individual.

I am standing up to post this because if I'm sitting a cat parks on me right as I'm ready to get up and do something. I really need to get the remaining extra furniture out of my home and go pick up my Theracane from work so that I can destroy the knots in my neck before the weekend ends.


Jesse - Nov 05, 2016 9:13:53 am PDT #898 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Foaf has a right to the vote but not to respect. Especially when they acknowledge that they're voting for a crazy, racist Cheeto.

Agreed!

I just remembered I should get a flu shot. So sign me up for the alien probe, I guess.


Dana - Nov 05, 2016 9:48:16 am PDT #899 of 30002
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

Woohoo, we have a washer now and we can do laundry. We are doing laundry. It was quite an ordeal to get the whole installation done, but I am going to ignore that part.


-t - Nov 05, 2016 10:12:58 am PDT #900 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Oh, man, I need a flu shot, too. Maybe Tuesday?

And to do laundry, but it's low priority right now. It will become higher priority tomorrow when I have to come up with clean clothes that are appropriate to wear to work, but it's not an urgent need today.


Strix - Nov 05, 2016 10:49:02 am PDT #901 of 30002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

I went to sleep with a bad headache, and woke up with the same. Sleep usually cures a headache, so I'm irritated. Drinking tea, and taking a Rx Aleve,

My mom and sister helped Dad fill out his voting form, and by "helped" I mean filled out and signed. Dad's always voted straight Dem, with the exception of voting for his h.s. buddy (R) who was a judge for many years.

If anone else had tried to "help" my dad, who's in a lock-down memory care unit, vote, fucking heads would roll.


Jesse - Nov 05, 2016 11:00:56 am PDT #902 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

That was my mother's position -- spouse or POA, sure. Anyone else? Hell no.


Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 05, 2016 1:07:56 pm PDT #903 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

I'm just glad my folks are both of sound mind, and more proactive about voting than I am (filled out absentee ballots weeks ago thanks to Dad's disability). I have a couple of relatives who are highly religious Trump supporters, and it completely mystifies me how they can't see that anything he says about religion or traditional family values is pure BS. Most of the family is Republican (we're the die-hard Lefty branch), but I suspect a number of the others will be so disgusted by Trump that they hold their noses and vote for Clinton or a third party candidate.


-t - Nov 05, 2016 2:57:25 pm PDT #904 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I have mopped my kitchen floor. It's been a long fucking time since that got done. Now to the living room. Well, after I watch and episode of Supernatural. Or maybe while, the living room is where the TV is, after all.

Not that the kitchen is all done, of course, but that's not the goal right now. I'm going for presentable and functional, which is challenge enough.


Kat - Nov 05, 2016 3:56:33 pm PDT #905 of 30002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Ugh. Canvassing calls are the worst. Sending canvassing messages via FB though are simultaneously worse and better. Swing Vote Go is helping me do that. [link]


Jesse - Nov 05, 2016 4:07:44 pm PDT #906 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I think everyone I know on FB is either engaged in the election, or I'm not sure how they would vote!

I have pulled a lot of pork and kind of burned my fingertips. Ah well.