There are cockroaches in Mexico big enough to own property.

Cordelia ,'Lessons'


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.


Laura - Jul 08, 2019 9:56:25 am PDT #9358 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.

Tennis! Super 15 year old Coco is from my town, played in the impoverished community center where DH coached the little kids basketball. Very exciting stuff.

In what did I do to get such responsible kids news, son and DIL went to a geneticist today. She had previously met with her Ob/Gyn who suggested the consult. The doctors feel she should get with the baby making soon. They brought all their info and the only real concern is the geneticist feels she should have c-section(s). Big diabetes factors on both sides, but they can do a bunch of stuff to help with that. The concern is with the size of both of them the possibility of huge babies increases and with her EDS that can screw up her hips badly. They are just such planners it amazes me.


Laura - Jul 08, 2019 9:58:12 am PDT #9359 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.

Yikes, Hec!!! Take it easy, man. That is scary.


Steph L. - Jul 08, 2019 10:02:05 am PDT #9360 of 30019
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Bubblewrap and maybe one of those germ-free bubbles for you.

This, too. You can ice your shoulder inside the germ-free bubble.


Jesse - Jul 08, 2019 10:03:52 am PDT #9361 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Is Wimbledon happening now? Shit, it's July. How did that happen?

I'm sure this was only my routine for a couple of years, but I 100% believe that the 4th of July is for watching Wimbledon and then Law & Order.


Jesse - Jul 08, 2019 10:05:13 am PDT #9362 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Oh but I actually came over here to report that the institution of higher education for which I work apparently has a program which is abbreviated BSDM. That took me quite a few minutes to get past.


DavidS - Jul 08, 2019 10:07:47 am PDT #9363 of 30019
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

That is scary.

It would have been scary except it happened so fast I was on the ground instantly and I wasn't hurt.


Steph L. - Jul 08, 2019 10:07:53 am PDT #9364 of 30019
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Oh but I actually came over here to report that the institution of higher education for which I work apparently has a program which is abbreviated BSDM. That took me quite a few minutes to get past.

I always wonder, when things are named like that (or have suggestive logos, or whatever), is there NO ONE who looked at the name and said, "This might not be the best choice because of other connotations"? Or maybe that person exists but got overruled.


Jesse - Jul 08, 2019 10:15:13 am PDT #9365 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I mean, they had to rename the Antonin Scalia School Of Law, right? I think the person gets overruled.

Also also, did you see this thing Sue Bird wrote about her girlfriend? And the World Cup? [link] (I couldn't actually finish it because it's kind of exhausting in its style, but also great.)


-t - Jul 08, 2019 10:16:52 am PDT #9366 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I'm sure this was only my routine for a couple of years, but I 100% believe that the 4th of July is for watching Wimbledon and then Law & Order.

I used to do Breakfast at Wimbledon for the 4th of July. I didn't do it ironically, but it always kinda seemed intrinsically ironic. I thought about it on Thursday but didn't have the energy.

I hope you have a good safe word picked out, Jesse. Appropriate to the setting and such.

I was coming in here to wail that the aluminum tariffs are forcing price increases on our Bacon Grease Cans, woe! What a strange sentence to think and have make sense.


-t - Jul 08, 2019 10:18:43 am PDT #9367 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Coco is literally all I have heard about Wimbledon and that was like a week ago? Days and days, anyway.