Oh, meara, you got yourself a cute little bundle of trouble and smarts, don't you? In my experience, those little devils don't listen to me at all. But good luck!
Glad to know I am not the only one occasionally lecturing inanimate objects.
Mal: Take your people and go. Captain: You would have done the same. Mal: We can already see I haven'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 21, 2020 11:30:25 am PDT #25161 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Sheryl - Aug 21, 2020 12:04:42 pm PDT #25162 of 30019
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Another work week done. Not that the weekends around here are all that exciting nowadays.
Beverly - Aug 21, 2020 12:47:19 pm PDT #25163 of 30019
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I saw a post...somewhere, I forget, complaining that Biden isn't forging a new start, he's reactivating Obama's admin. These folks are expecting fireworks and magic shows to make everything better. They fail to recognize how *much* 45 has urgently, gleefully, driven-ly dismantled, broken, wrecked, and thrown away. It's going to take *years* just to get back to the point where Obama left office--if we even make it all the way back. There'll be necessary changes, the world hasn't been static while 45 and his minions have been pulling things apart and throwing them in the dumpster--or in the mudhole, or into the swamp, or down the well. Spoilage and wreckage has been the watchword, and the focus and aim of the 45 admin. If it were possible to just wave my wand and make the last four years disappear--a do-over--I'd do it. But it isn't. We have to gain back the ground we've lost, and make allowances for world changes while we do that.
Not one person on earth could walk into the White House in January and mend the damage while instituting miraculous life-changing policies right off the bat.
And the hardest thing to accomplish is to foster disregard, disdain, disapproval, and any other dis that comes to mind, on all the doomsayers and critics (who have no concrete designs to make anything better, just the platform to criticize)
Rambling, sorry. But the disdain for IQ of the American public plus the lack of willingness to *work together* to accomplish positive progress for everybody--both are sadly lacking. And while we're gorilla-gluing the republic back together we need to be taking America to pre-school and Sunday School and any other formative experience...to teach everyone they *should* absolutely care about each other.
Beverly - Aug 21, 2020 12:55:41 pm PDT #25164 of 30019
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
While driving if I see a car at a crossroads stop sign creep forward I'll deliver a stern, "Stay!" They inevitably stop, and as I pass safely, I say approvingly, "Good car."
Hasn't failed me yet.
msbelle - Aug 21, 2020 1:01:00 pm PDT #25165 of 30019
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I did some texting today for a Dem candidate for Arkansas State Senate. - The intro text says her name, TWICE and Arkansas State Senate. The # of people who respond TRUMP 2020 is puzzling.
-t - Aug 21, 2020 1:10:35 pm PDT #25166 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Perhaps that is how they respond to all texts
"We're out of milk, pls pick some up"/TRUMP 2020
"You up?"/TRUMP 2020
"We tried to deliver your package but you weren't home..."/TRUMP 2020
"This text is related to a DoorDash delivery..."/TRUMP 2020
"Here"/TRUMP 2020
msbelle - Aug 21, 2020 1:12:41 pm PDT #25167 of 30019
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
possibly. We are Repping the campaigns, obviously, so we stick to strict scripts and replies, but it makes me want to start a civics texting group, so I could respond - hey dummy, Trump doesn't make laws for your state - that's your state Senator and those laws affect you a lot more than who is President.
Cashmere - Aug 21, 2020 1:15:03 pm PDT #25168 of 30019
Now tagless for your comfort.
A friend of mine came over for a fire and driveway beers last weekend and she peed in our yard--by her choice. She had a mask so I was fine with her using our bathroom but she plays it safe.
Which is good.
DH pees in the back yard at night pretty regularly. He says he likes to save water by not flushing (he washes his hands in the utility sink by the back door).
Not one person on earth could walk into the White House in January and mend the damage while instituting miraculous life-changing policies right off the bat.
Beverly is wise. It will take us decades to bounce back from this nightmare.
Jesse - Aug 21, 2020 3:23:47 pm PDT #25169 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
We are Repping the campaigns, obviously, so we stick to strict scripts and replies, but it makes me want to start a civics texting group, so I could respond - hey dummy, Trump doesn't make laws for your state - that's your state Senator and those laws affect you a lot more than who is President.
Literally all of our state and local elections will be decided in the primary 9/1, and I still see people locally talking about getting ready to vote in November. It makes me nuts.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 21, 2020 6:33:08 pm PDT #25170 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 did some texting today for a Dem candidate for Arkansas State Senate. - The intro text says her name, TWICE and Arkansas State Senate. The # of people who respond TRUMP 2020 is puzzling.
It wouldn't be puzzling if you lived here. Imagine a bunch of parrots wearing red MAGA caps.