Oh, no, Brian Dennehy died. I always liked him.
Mal: Ready? Zoe: Always.
'Serenity'
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.
Consuela - Apr 16, 2020 9:42:10 am PDT #19892 of 30019
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Jesse - Apr 16, 2020 9:43:03 am PDT #19893 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Although last night dinner was half a bag of potato chips and some trail mix, and half a bottle of rose in my friend's back patio. Yay healthy.
That is so many food groups! I say you're good.
I'm accidentally getting a meal kit box thingy tomorrow, and I'm just glad I know about it now since I'm going food shopping later. It's not what I would have picked but I've decided that's kind of good, because at least it's different than what I would make myself.
Calli - Apr 16, 2020 9:49:53 am PDT #19894 of 30019
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Happy birthday, Drew!
Dana - Apr 16, 2020 9:56:13 am PDT #19895 of 30019
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I'm glad regions are getting together to plan recovery and all that, but I actually find it kind of stressful, because Texas sucks? Like, my life is being held hostage by a governor who chastised the state for only buying the second highest number of guns in the U.S. and a lieutenant governor who said grandparents should just get COVID and die for their grandkids.
Laura - Apr 16, 2020 10:20:24 am PDT #19896 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
I wish I could say things were better in Florida, but we are stuck with a Trump wannabee governor until the 2022 election. His ads during the election included his toddler child "building a wall".
Shir - Apr 16, 2020 11:07:51 am PDT #19897 of 30019
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Shir, are sky and water plural in Hebrew? In English we can say "the skies" and "the waters" but the meaning is a little different. Language is fascinating.
They are! No singular version for sky or water. News has a singular version - and it's "new". And by that I mean that's the literal translation of the singular form. It took me years to remember that even though it ends with an s and the (supposed) singular is new (as in Hebrew), it's still a singular. C'mon, language!
And huh, thanks for telling me that. I felt there was some difference just from reading, but I never officially learned it and only now googled it.
Toddson - Apr 16, 2020 11:21:44 am PDT #19898 of 30019
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Shir, English is hard. Often weird. It uses a lot of idioms and has lots of irregular verbs.
Theodosia - Apr 16, 2020 11:33:41 am PDT #19899 of 30019
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." ― James D. Nicoll
askye - Apr 16, 2020 11:46:49 am PDT #19900 of 30019
Thrive to spite them
English is a weird language.
There was excitement - Penny was AwOL for about 90 mins. But she came home!
And now Matthew is making burgers but he is adding molasses to them as a seasoning for some reason I don't understand but hope is edible.
-t - Apr 16, 2020 12:05:39 pm PDT #19901 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Molasses burger sounds good to me. Not very far off from some bbq sauces (I am the opposite of a bbq purist)
I ordered an assortment of pastas (pizza place offers a meal that's sort of a sampler of pasta dishes + a salad, I jumped on that for my post-Passover meal) but I don't think it's coming for a while. I suppose I could check.