Well, I live in what's basically a reclaimed swamp, so the humidity is horrible. A writer for the Boston Globe, posted in DC, wrote a book called "It Came From The Swamp". Her comment on the air quality in the summer was, "it's like trying to breathe clam broth" (which I quote a lot when it reaches that point).
Saffron: But we've been wed. Aren't we to become one flesh? Mal: Well, no, uh... We're still two fleshes here, and I think that your flesh ought to sleep somewhere else.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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.
Toddson - May 29, 2020 6:57:01 am PDT #21779 of 30019
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Steph L. - May 29, 2020 7:05:54 am PDT #21780 of 30019
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I'm about to unfriend a bunch of people on Facebook because they're clutching their pearls over the audacity of people rioting because they've been systematically dehumanized and murdered by the people in power. That riots are just an excuse to loot. That it's hypocrisy to try to "rank" whether murder or a riot is worse.
Jesus Franklin Lloyd Wright Christ. What the fuck is wrong with people?
-t - May 29, 2020 7:14:01 am PDT #21781 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Ugh, Tep. Even if I were inclined to entertain the "oh no looting" mindset (which I am not and I am grateful I haven't had it dumped on me yet today) it's pretty obvious that murder is worse!
Laura - May 29, 2020 7:22:31 am PDT #21782 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
Yeah, I don't endorse looting, but property can be replaced, lives can't.
Topic!Cindy - May 29, 2020 8:02:18 am PDT #21783 of 30019
What is even happening?
I think we should burn it all down.
I won't, of course, because I'm a 53-year-old white woman with a panic disorder, sitting in my suburban house, in my leafy green neighborhood 1,400 miles away from the current example of the results of our national original sin.
Looting is nothing. It is nothing. Fretting about it is like a fretting about a mild rash, when the actual problem is a brain tumor everyone pretends isn't there. It shows up on every scan, but let's address the contact dermatitis, America.
Looting is nothing.
juliana - May 29, 2020 8:04:53 am PDT #21784 of 30019
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
The reports coming out of MPLS also indicate that most of the looting & rioting is either a) looking for provisions to rescue people, like milk and water, or b) instigated by plants.
Steph L. - May 29, 2020 8:08:41 am PDT #21785 of 30019
I look more rad than Lutheranism
instigated by plants.
I'm going to blame my migraine meds for the fact that I immediately pictured a ficus fucking shit UP.
Topic!Cindy - May 29, 2020 8:14:19 am PDT #21786 of 30019
What is even happening?
The reports coming out of MPLS also indicate that most of the looting & rioting is either a) looking for provisions to rescue people, like milk and water, or b) instigated by plants.
This
I'm going to blame my migraine meds for the fact that I immediately pictured a ficus fucking shit UP.
With a side of this, except I can't blame meds right now.
Steph L. - May 29, 2020 8:16:37 am PDT #21787 of 30019
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I mean, ficuses ARE jerks.
-t - May 29, 2020 8:57:13 am PDT #21788 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
In tiny personal good news - one of the previously furloughed workers in my department who came back is taking some of my accounts off my hands and while the transition is going to keep me a little busy for a few days transferring knowledge it is already a hge stress relief to not have the responsibility for those.