Why would next Saturday be this Saturday? Next Saturday is a week from now.
This is an unsatisfactory area of language.
No. You're missing the point. The design of the thing is functional. The plan is not to shoot you. The plan is to get the girl. If there's no girl, then the plan, well, is like the room.
Early ,'Objects In Space'
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.
Dana - Mar 14, 2019 3:00:07 pm PDT #5963 of 30019
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Steph L. - Mar 14, 2019 3:03:23 pm PDT #5964 of 30019
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Seriously, this is why I get super specific, like "this Saturday, the 16th, 2 days from now." (To which Tim will invariably -- and 100% seriously, bless his heart -- reply, "NEXT Saturday?")
Connie Neil - Mar 14, 2019 3:09:05 pm PDT #5965 of 30019
brillig
I'm having flashback twitches.
NoiseDesign - Mar 14, 2019 3:14:37 pm PDT #5966 of 30019
Our wings are not tired
I give dates. Why leave it up to a possible mistake when specificity is an option?
msbelle - Mar 14, 2019 3:23:27 pm PDT #5967 of 30019
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I am Dana,
Atropa - Mar 14, 2019 3:32:59 pm PDT #5968 of 30019
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I give dates. Why leave it up to a possible mistake when specificity is an option?
This. Also, because next vs this is something Mr. Loomycakes and I wrangle over.
I know there was at least one that I hit in West Seattle when I was up there. I can ask my nieces what's still up there.
Yes, please!
Jesse - Mar 14, 2019 3:54:49 pm PDT #5969 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I knew you people would understand!!
Tom Scola - Mar 14, 2019 4:20:34 pm PDT #5970 of 30019
hwæt
Pathetic Bachelor Tales, by Tom Scola
So I went to do my laundry this morning, so that means I had to strip my bed of the only set of sheets I own. Only I discovered that I had ripped a big hole in my fitted sheet overnight, which means that I now had zero sets of sheets to use on my bed. And I began to wonder: maybe if I had washed the sheets more than every month or so, maybe they would have lasted longer? Or maybe if I hadn't tried to bleach the hell out of them in an (unsuccessful) attempt to keep them from yellowing so badly, maybe they would have lasted longer, too?
So anyway, I went online and ordered new expensive-ish sheets (and new pillows, too, what the hell). And since the company I ordered from is also in Brooklyn (you can probably guess what company it is), my new sheets were waiting for me when I came home from work today! Except that I guess I should wash my sheets before using them for the first time, and I don't want to do another load of laundry today. So I guess I'm stuck with my ratty old sheets for a little while longer.
Jesse - Mar 14, 2019 4:33:53 pm PDT #5971 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I'm going to guess that if you had washed them more they would have crapped out sooner. But maybe get a spare set of sheets and alternate?
Laura - Mar 14, 2019 5:06:58 pm PDT #5972 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
I go with avoiding saying "next Saturday" like the plague, since I can never be sure what the other person will understand by it.
This.
Tom, I have never washed new sheets before I used them.