Hey, man, where are my pants? I have my hippo dignity!

Oz ,'Bring On The Night'


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 - Dec 10, 2018 5:37:37 am PST #2887 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Yikes, msbelle! Maybe googling the stove model can get you instructions? There must be a way to replace the coils.

Fun, meara! That sounds so cosmopolitan and jet-set-y!

I have emailed-in-sick after working from Thursday and working a half day on Friday and basically sleeping all weekend. Tired of this.


msbelle - Dec 10, 2018 5:40:30 am PST #2888 of 30019
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Yep it was on. Burned a pot of popcorn, but luckily did not destroy the pot. Oh I'm sure the coils come out I just need to disconnect the electricity to the whole symyove before I try again.

I'm not so sure I can find replacements since this is so old.


Jesse - Dec 10, 2018 5:41:41 am PST #2889 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

That sounds really fun, meara!

Yep a flame. The metal of the burner is clearly damaged, so it wasn't food on the burner. I tried to remove the coil burner last night, but could not.

Oh yikes!


Jesse - Dec 10, 2018 5:43:41 am PST #2890 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

And feel better, -t!

I don't know why I feel like I don't have any time on the weekends (possibly because I don't have that much time on the weekends!), but I'm trying to schedule in the rest of my Christmas shopping, and the main problem is lack of ideas. So I guess I can go to the bookstore and get inspired, or at least grab something at random!


-t - Dec 10, 2018 5:45:31 am PST #2891 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Random books seem like good gifts to me. It's something I'd get for myself.


Jesse - Dec 10, 2018 5:46:30 am PST #2892 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

My mother was like, "I'm not sure [relative] reads that much?" At this point, I don't care! All gifts are equally crappy! Or great! Who knows???


Calli - Dec 10, 2018 6:08:46 am PST #2893 of 30019
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

My niece and nephews and their spouses have taken up camping. This year I got them gift certificates to their state park systems. If they go over well, that may be their gifts for the foreseeable future. I just don't live close enough to them to have a sense of what would be helpful, otherwise, and my sister seems to be over the whole collecting ideas and sending them to me thing. Which is fair—she's not my Christmas concierge.


Amy - Dec 10, 2018 6:12:02 am PST #2894 of 30019
Because books.

My mother was like, "I'm not sure [relative] reads that much?" At this point, I don't care! All gifts are equally crappy! Or great! Who knows???

Right? And a book is always a non-offensive gift, unless it's about, like, Hitler or something. They don't take up too much room, they don't go bad, they're relatively inexpensive, i.e. the perfect gift to give.


Jesse - Dec 10, 2018 7:05:30 am PST #2895 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

And a book is always a non-offensive gift, unless it's about, like, Hitler or something. They don't take up too much room, they don't go bad, they're relatively inexpensive, i.e. the perfect gift to give.

Pretty sure I got my uncle a book about Hitler! Well, no, a book about WWII spies, so still non-offensive, and possibly a compulsory gift for a 70ish white man?


-t - Dec 10, 2018 9:15:10 am PST #2896 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

That's brilliant, Calli!