Bester: Mal. Whaddya need two mechanics for? Mal: I really don't.

'Out Of Gas'


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 - Aug 16, 2020 2:08:55 pm PDT #24926 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I think my most recent ancestral connection to Canada would've been in the 18th century, and that was more in the way of people living in a part of upstate NY that was actually across the border rather than purposeful being Canadian citizens.

I suppose there might be some possibility of claiming Russian citizenship, my dad recently met some distant relative online who is still there, but that seems like a pretty bad idea.


msbelle - Aug 16, 2020 2:26:08 pm PDT #24927 of 30019
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

My friend in Wales is moving to Spain before Brexit fully closes things. She is really fed up with Johnson.


amyparker - Aug 16, 2020 2:43:21 pm PDT #24928 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.

msbelle, if your friend is on FB, if she hasn't joined the group Plan B Lounge already, I recommend that she do so - she'll get a lot of advice from folks who've already made the move.


Sheryl - Aug 16, 2020 3:23:32 pm PDT #24929 of 30019
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

I have no familial ties to Canada. alas. Even if any of the countries my ancestors came from were places I'd want to live, I'm at least third generation American on both sides.


Zenkitty - Aug 16, 2020 3:45:34 pm PDT #24930 of 30019
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

There's no place else I want to live, not really. I'm an American, and I always will be no matter where else I might end up. I just want my country to become a place I feel safe and proud to be in.


Calli - Aug 16, 2020 5:02:43 pm PDT #24931 of 30019
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I have no familial ties to Canada. alas. Even if any of the countries my ancestors came from were places I'd want to live, I'm at least third generation American on both.

Same. The most recent immigrants in my family were Dad's Finnish grandparents. And while Finland is lovely and seems to be run by sensible people, I'm too distant, generationally, to have a claim.


Beverly - Aug 16, 2020 5:15:44 pm PDT #24932 of 30019
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

No family for either of us in Canada, either. Tempting, though, given we're 20 miles from the border and have crossed often for day trips. We can't do that now, of course. But as I say, we have no family anchor there, and I doubt they'd welcome us on our own merit.


Gudanov - Aug 16, 2020 5:37:09 pm PDT #24933 of 30019
Coding and Sleeping

If you told someone a decade ago that a President would be facing reelection with double-digit unemployment and 170,000 dead from a mishandled pandemic while he was working to destroy the Postal Service, they would probably think that they didn't have a chance at a second term. And yet it's starting to tighten and will very likely be a very close election.


Gudanov - Aug 16, 2020 5:38:11 pm PDT #24934 of 30019
Coding and Sleeping

I mean that's third leading cause of death territory and things aren't exactly getting better.


meara - Aug 16, 2020 7:10:59 pm PDT #24935 of 30019

Oh my gosh. Very unexpected thunder and lightning here! Puppy was quite startled and so was I! But tried to reassure him its normal. And that we almost never get 99 degree days like this and it will be better tomorrow. Yuck!!