I, for one, wasn't looking forward to starting my day with a slaughter. Which, really, just goes to show how much I've grown

Anya ,'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.


-t - Jul 22, 2020 7:44:33 am PDT #23851 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

This is the nurse, Laura? Lots of ~ma, in any case

It's very weird they were told they had to close though.

That's the part that is worrying me. Although burning papers in the courtyard and not letting the fire department on the property is also pretty strange.

I think I remember having a separate "return" button at some point but it's been a while. Like, decades?


Steph L. - Jul 22, 2020 7:53:50 am PDT #23852 of 30019
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Laura, I hope your aunt gets good care and recovers.


Steph L. - Jul 22, 2020 7:53:55 am PDT #23853 of 30019
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Lord give me strength. A friend on Facebook is asking whether a t-shirt (that he wants to buy) with a Miata on it under a rainbow and the text "I'm not gay; I just like Miatas" is offensive.

MY GUY. What the actual fuck. (Fortunately, almost every comment is informing him that yes, it is offensive.)


Amy - Jul 22, 2020 7:58:08 am PDT #23854 of 30019
Because books.

At least he's asking? Yeah, I know.

Random hugs or waves or hair pats to everyone. It's so hot here my brain has begun to melt. Pretty sure I can feel it leaking out my ears.


Laura - Jul 22, 2020 8:14:23 am PDT #23855 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.

This is the nurse, Laura?

Yes. I'm about to call my MIL, her sister, and see what she knows.


-t - Jul 22, 2020 8:19:00 am PDT #23856 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Dang, my brother just told me he got tear gassed and shot with a rubber bullet at the Portland protest last night. I'm actually still glad he went but yikes, another thing to worry about.


DavidS - Jul 22, 2020 8:27:07 am PDT #23857 of 30019
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Dang, my brother just told me he got tear gassed and shot with a rubber bullet at the Portland protest last night.

Shit! Those things are blinding people all over.


Shir - Jul 22, 2020 8:55:23 am PDT #23858 of 30019
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".

Laura, tons of ~ma to your aunt. I hope she fully recovers.

Ouch, -t. How is your brother doing today?


Gudanov - Jul 22, 2020 9:09:44 am PDT #23859 of 30019
Coding and Sleeping

But really, I've enjoyed the SW animated stuff more than the movies recently: the last six episodes of Clone Wars season 7 was excellent. (I have no interest in watching Anakin Skywalker be a whiny jerk so I basically only watched the Ahsoka eps in the final season, and those were great.)

I've watched some of the Clone Wars and, yeah, Ahsoka seems like the most interesting character of the show.


Gudanov - Jul 22, 2020 9:24:58 am PDT #23860 of 30019
Coding and Sleeping

I also saw the new Midway movie not too long ago and it was both better than I expected and not that great. Maybe it was intentional, but it feels more like a movie about the lead up to Midway than the battle itself. So much of what happened at Midway is skipped that it feels very incomplete.

If you give a generous pass for artistic license on a number of details (the ships are way too close together, the Japanese could only dream their anti-aircraft fire was that intense and accurate, the wrong planes are shown in a few places, etc...) it seems reasonably historical, but so much is skipped that you lose the context for the scenes that are shown. I really wished they just did a scroll with the events leading up the battle and used the time to cover more events from the battle. Still, I think it's far superior to the 70s version.