I walk. I talk. I shop, I sneeze. I'm gonna be a fireman when the floods roll back. There's trees in the desert since you moved out. And I don't sleep on a bed of bones.

Buffy ,'Chosen'


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.


Steph L. - Oct 04, 2018 7:10:39 am PDT #350 of 30019
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

Do I have to celebrate Christmas to get these?

Hell, no! Maybe you could celebrate Cheesemas.

Or know what an Aldi is?

Do y'all not have Aldi in California? t edit I checked their website, and it looks like southern California (like, south of Bakersfield) has Aldi stores. You guys are missing out!


Tom Scola - Oct 04, 2018 7:52:58 am PDT #351 of 30019
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

Remember the girl in Cornwall who pulled a sword out of a lake and is now the sovereign monarch of Great Britain?

It happened again, this time in Sweden.


EpicTangent - Oct 04, 2018 7:54:50 am PDT #352 of 30019
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

Do y'all not have Aldi in California? I checked their website, and it looks like southern California (like, south of Bakersfield) has Aldi stores. You guys are missing out!

Very exciting; I just saw a sign the other day that we're getting an Aldi!

Thoughts on the chocolate house: when you first enter, it probably smells AMAZING. Other than that, meh.

Jesse, I downloaded that Trivia game last night. Hopefully I did the referral code thing right.


Topic!Cindy - Oct 04, 2018 8:09:09 am PDT #353 of 30019
What is even happening?

Remember the girl in Cornwall who pulled a sword out of a lake and is now the sovereign monarch of Great Britain?

It happened again, this time in Sweden.

Would a river count, because I'm thinking we need one of those events involving the Potomac.


-t - Oct 04, 2018 8:46:28 am PDT #354 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Strange women in ponds distributing swords is sounding better and better, I have to say.

I love that the new queen of Sweden is named Saga.


Beverly - Oct 04, 2018 9:04:35 am PDT #355 of 30019
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

"Watery tarts lying about in ponds, distributing swords."

Oh, -t got it right, the watery tarts was this line:'

"You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!"

Conflation is the enemy.


Toddson - Oct 04, 2018 9:14:27 am PDT #356 of 30019
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

That's starting to sound a LOT more reasonable than our current system.


askye - Oct 04, 2018 9:14:29 am PDT #357 of 30019
Thrive to spite them

I had a racist customer. She was also rude to the man I assume was her husband and rolling her eyes at him and wanting me to agree.

He likes Nike shoes. She doesn't want to give them money. I mostly kept quiet and then she said (about the others we had and Nike) "this is going to sound rude but there is no other way to say it , they are all made by the same little chinks".

I wanted to say something forceful but instead I just said "you could have said they are all made over seas" and she interrupted to say "with slave labor".

I was polite and smiling because she is a regular and I can't piss off customers but I wanted to say more


flea - Oct 04, 2018 9:33:54 am PDT #358 of 30019
information libertarian

The down side of customer service.

Today is the MacArthur Award announcements and someone whose 8th birthday party I remember attending won this year! I don't really know her now but I see her on the beach in Cape Cod every summer. (She's an MIT Health Economist.)


Laura - Oct 04, 2018 9:38:28 am PDT #359 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.

Finally: Sen. Heidi Heitkamp says that she will vote against confirming Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.

One down.