Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.

'Time Bomb'


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.


DebetEsse - May 27, 2020 11:09:17 am PDT #21685 of 30019
Woe to the fucking wicked.

After that video, I was real disappointed in my local Costco apparently letting 2 different people be in the store without masks. I asked employees if they were aware of the lady in the black tank top without a mask, and they were all "Yeah. Oh. That's a different lady. Yeah."

Way to undermine the work on health and safety branding, folks.


EpicTangent - May 27, 2020 11:18:18 am PDT #21686 of 30019
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

Looks like Laura called it - no launch today.


chrismg - May 27, 2020 11:19:30 am PDT #21687 of 30019
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade

Yep, scrubbed due to weather. Nuts.


DXMachina - May 27, 2020 11:33:48 am PDT #21688 of 30019
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Waiting for the tweet about NASA being wusses from Trump.


Laura - May 27, 2020 11:47:32 am PDT #21689 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.

Yes, doesn't look so good for Saturday either. I was looking forward to it, so digits crossed that the rainy season takes a break.


Matt the Bruins fan - May 27, 2020 11:51:22 am PDT #21690 of 30019
"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'd be careful about calling people wusses when a change to launch window calculations could see a discarded booster rocket touching down in the West Wing instead of the Pacific Ocean.


Sheryl - May 27, 2020 12:16:06 pm PDT #21691 of 30019
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

Gary had the NASA feed on his tablet, and was showing Mr. S stuff. Was disappointed with the scrubbing of the mission.(both of them)


meara - May 27, 2020 12:37:15 pm PDT #21692 of 30019

Ok y'all am I crazy/overly weird, or somewhat normal, in being annoyed when my roommate puts giant bowls (like mixing bowls) or pots in the dishwasher? I feel like they ought to be washed by hand because they take up so much room that it means you have to run the dishwasher like three times as often/it fills up super fast? And for pots I feel like they may not get super clean in the dishwasher? But maybe I'm a weirdo and everyone else is like "but if it CAN go in the dishwasher why would you hand wash it?"


bennett - May 27, 2020 12:37:30 pm PDT #21693 of 30019

msbelle - I thought about writing Corporate, but I expect the only real way to change local behavior is to take my business elsewhere and say so. Which I couldn't do today. I'll have to be more careful the next time I need to return something.


Toddson - May 27, 2020 12:56:31 pm PDT #21694 of 30019
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

a discarded booster rocket touching down in the West Wing instead of the Pacific Ocean

Or worse - Mar a Lago