I gave her everything... jewels, beautiful dresses -- with beautiful girls in them.

Spike ,'Sleeper'


Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess  

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 - Aug 27, 2019 5:09:56 pm PDT #10900 of 30019
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

OMG Becky, look at her lack of original sin

Ha!

Rice bags! Of course! I can totally make one of those.


meara - Aug 27, 2019 6:42:00 pm PDT #10901 of 30019

Wow, this is some serious BS that pisses me off. I love my library ebooks. I also buy a lot of ebooks. Honestly I think this won't drive sales as much as it will drive piracy...

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-t - Aug 27, 2019 6:46:52 pm PDT #10902 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

That sucks. What a terrible idea!


DavidS - Aug 27, 2019 6:58:14 pm PDT #10903 of 30019
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

So it turns out the author behind the Emo Kylo Ren twitter parody account is...Alexandra Petri!

And now there's blowback.


meara - Aug 27, 2019 7:10:00 pm PDT #10904 of 30019

Huh--googling it looks like that came out in January of 2018....but I love Alexandra Petri and somehow that escaped my notice?


aurelia - Aug 27, 2019 8:22:34 pm PDT #10905 of 30019
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Why blowback?


DavidS - Aug 27, 2019 9:22:42 pm PDT #10906 of 30019
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Why blowback?

Ha! From Rey/Kylo shipping fans!

Oh, fandom...


P.M. Marc - Aug 27, 2019 11:13:52 pm PDT #10907 of 30019
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Non-electric heating pads: you really can't top a hot water 'bottle', the rubber kind, for nice heating

SO TRUE.

Speaking of age, guess who has two thumbs and also a 5mm kidney stone? THAT'S RIGHT, ME.

I dislike this. (Edited to add that I like the hot water bottle that has been helping me through this difficult time. I like it very much.)

I have a lot of HS friends on FB. I dig them, but high school was pretty fun for me and also I went to high school with some amazing people.


Calli - Aug 28, 2019 12:50:14 am PDT #10908 of 30019
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Yeowch, PMM! May it resolve soon.


Laura - Aug 28, 2019 2:57:46 am PDT #10909 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.

Yes, heating pads are wonderful. The microwave deals are okay if you have fear of falling asleep and cooking yourself or something. But I don't.

Ouch, PMM! Much ~ma.

They're not missing me, and I feel no impulse to see any of them again.

This!

My kids were supposed to be back to FL yesterday after a week in Tennessee, but they had car issues and the vehicle is stuck in SC until Friday so they are spending a few days in Charlotte with cousins. They had time available to them at work, but not really how they planned to spend it. They seemed in good humor overall about the whole thing.