And the thing is, I like my evil like I like my men: evil. You know, straight up, black hat, tied to the train tracks, soon my electro-ray will destroy metropolis BAD.

Buffy ,'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.


meara - Nov 05, 2020 7:32:17 am PST #28825 of 30019

I got up early (because puppy) and went to the coffee shop and got my friends coffee. Apparently so early the dude forgot to put the milk in their lattes, annoyingly. (Didn’t realize until I got back to the hotel)

Now listening to NPR on my phone, as there’s no tv in the hotel room!


JZ - Nov 05, 2020 7:57:07 am PST #28826 of 30019
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

WTF, meara? Milk in the latte seems like a KEY ingredient. It's right there in the name!


Jesse - Nov 05, 2020 8:03:23 am PST #28827 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Seriously! If there's one thing a latte should have, it's milk!


Laura - Nov 05, 2020 8:08:06 am PST #28828 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.

That ain't right, meara.


-t - Nov 05, 2020 8:16:27 am PST #28829 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Have I told the story about my German teacher ordering "Cafe au lait mit keine kaffee" to get milk because she wasn't sure how to say just "milk" in French?

Well, that's pretty much it, so now I have.

But I feel like meara's barista had something like that in mind


Gudanov - Nov 05, 2020 8:22:43 am PST #28830 of 30019
Coding and Sleeping

Something that has made me feel better is the way the election process and election coverage is just rolling along in machine-like fashion even as Trump rage tweets and litigates. I think I had underestimated how well-worn those grooves were.


Laura - Nov 05, 2020 8:48:30 am PST #28831 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.

Yes, even Fox is ignoring his outrage with them calling states against him.

Another awesome election precinct thing, the Clerk, or big boss for the precinct was 18 years old!!! She had already done previous elections. She was so mature and capable it just was overwhelmingly satisfying to see. Step on up kiddos. Your turn!


amyparker - Nov 05, 2020 9:14:51 am PST #28832 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.

Matt, health ~ma to your mom and your kitties.

JZ and Calli, I am so happy that you were able to reach common ground politically with your dads. I have counted it a success when I have been able to swerve the conversation with my father into gardens or home inspections: he's drunk some of the QAnon Kool-Aid, but was too ill to vote this year and his doctors are not holding out hope of his seeing another election.

It's been harder for Ken: this is normally the time of year when he's in Utah, and that's shifted over the last six years from "staying with his dad and family" to "booking an AirBnB and a rental car, and spending a day out of the two weeks with them". My ex has been Trump'ing it all over FB for the last month, and this year Ken's opted to "stay home and write about space archaeologists like a sensible human", as my best friend put it (she's a working archaeologist, his degree is in anthropology, and he consulted her on CRM issues). I am sure that the virus was a major part of the cancellation, but as Sara further said, " 'It's the Apocalypse, sure you don't want to spend some of your precious time with people who make you want to throw things?' is not a question we need to ask our children".


Laura - Nov 05, 2020 10:31:41 am PST #28833 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.

So, can the secret service check Trump's bags before he leaves to make sure he isn't stealing the silver? Well, he is into gold, so any gold fixtures or artifacts?


-t - Nov 05, 2020 10:40:39 am PST #28834 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I saw a joke about whether the Secret Service will continue to protect a former president in prison and I keep thinking how that is a legitimate question that I very much hope we find out the answer!