This girl at school? She told me that gelatin is made from ground-up cow's feet and that every time you eat Jell-O there's some cow out there limping around without any feet. But I told her that I'm sure the cow is dead before they cut its feet off, right?

Dawn ,'Never Leave Me'


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.


amyparker - Mar 16, 2020 3:09:06 pm PDT #17927 of 30019
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.

Hey, Teppy, is there room on the "GODDAMN IT PARENT WHY" bench?

My father went to Ohio last week, to help make sure that church members would be all right now that meetings are stopping for the foreseeable. He lives in Pennsylvania! He is a 75-year-old man who told me two weeks ago that his cancer treatment didn't work! WHY THE SHIT WAS HE IN OHIO?


Steph L. - Mar 16, 2020 3:11:11 pm PDT #17928 of 30019
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

WHY THE SHIT WAS HE IN OHIO?

That's where stupid-ass fathers congregate?


Dana - Mar 16, 2020 3:15:09 pm PDT #17929 of 30019
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Super happy about my klonopin prescription right now.


amyparker - Mar 16, 2020 3:15:30 pm PDT #17930 of 30019
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.

  • throws hands up in frustration and rage*


dcp - Mar 16, 2020 3:18:52 pm PDT #17931 of 30019
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

Introvert powers, activate!

Hear, hear!


Atropa - Mar 16, 2020 3:27:26 pm PDT #17932 of 30019
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

On the one hand, my dad and his ladylove are STAYING THE FUCK HOME. Good job, dad!

On the other hand, he was working on an antenna cable for one of his ham radio towers in the back yard; it snagged on something, he pulled it really hard, and the end WHIPPED INTO HIS FACE.

"It's fine!" he said. "I was wearing glasses! The scrape next to my eye just needed a bandaid."


-t - Mar 16, 2020 3:33:10 pm PDT #17933 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Dads, man.

I'm so glad we have us!


Laura - Mar 16, 2020 3:34:26 pm PDT #17934 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.

Parents!!


lisah - Mar 16, 2020 3:36:46 pm PDT #17935 of 30019
Punishingly Intricate

I was fine until my mom told me they don't have a thermometer and I can't find one online to ship to them and so she's just going to "run out to Walgreen's tomorrow to get one." Argh!!!


Kate P. - Mar 16, 2020 3:43:22 pm PDT #17936 of 30019
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

I'm grateful they are taking this seriously but they are also used to being able to go out and go for walks pretty much every day

Whoa, they aren't even supposed to go outside for a walk? Yikes. We are basically sheltering in place here too, but we are for damn sure getting outside every chance we get.

...And in the time between writing the above and hitting Post, the sink fell out of our kitchen counter! It is currently being held up by cookbooks and several cans of beans and soup I had stockpiled, while we wait to hear from the insurance claims adjuster, likely tomorrow. And then someone has to come into our house to fix it, which I'm not thrilled about...