Captain was looking for a pilot. I found a husband. Seemed to work out.

Zoe ,'Bushwhacked'


Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.  

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 - Jan 10, 2022 11:58:32 am PST #12014 of 30000

I am trying to dye my hair periwinkle but am a bit worried that the roots (like 2” of them) were a little too yellow despite toner and will be sort of green? Fingers crossed. The ends should look nice at least. Maybe I can cover the roots with another color/darker color?

Obviously I am doing this instead of writing the “leadership text” I’m supposed to be writing about the various times when I embodied my company’s values….


DavidS - Jan 10, 2022 11:59:33 am PST #12015 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Sometimes I type 4 when I mean f. Because it starts with an f? I think? It's weirdly hard to correct one whatever neuron misfire happens.

I remember in elementary school trying to spell "of" and getting stuck on "uv" for way too long. And this was after I'd been an avid reader for many years.


Steph L. - Jan 10, 2022 12:04:58 pm PST #12016 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

Sometimes I type 4 when I mean f. Because it starts with an f? I think?

I can't tell you how often I type a 3 for lower-case "e." I feel like it might make a bit more sense if it was in place of capital "E," but no, it's for the lower-case. I think my fingers are typing with zero input from my brain.


bennett - Jan 10, 2022 12:15:49 pm PST #12017 of 30000

FWIW, Discovery+ has 4 years of "The Repair Shop". I think it's actually about 5 years but that's what the season drop-down says.

Personally, I can't handle TV drama at the moment. I need feel-good shows.


Toddson - Jan 10, 2022 12:36:01 pm PST #12018 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

I remember when typewriters were going out and computers/word processers were coming in. SO many people who'd used a lower-case "l" for "1" as well as an upper-case "O" for "0" couldn't understand why things didn't work. I remember people being told that with the new technology each character counts as itself - no substitutions allowed.


-t - Jan 10, 2022 12:43:20 pm PST #12019 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

3 and e are right next to each other on the keyboard. And they rhyme, which when spelling something in my head might make a difference. And I still have l33tspeak in my head as an almost legitimate way to spell. So, yeah, 3 for e happens.

For a while there 0 had a slash through it so I could easily tell it from O and I appreciated the assistance.


shrift - Jan 10, 2022 12:56:44 pm PST #12020 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

FWIW, Discovery+ has 4 years of "The Repair Shop".

...now I have to ask myself if I want to sign up for a 7-day free trial and binge-watch all of "The Repair Shop" that wasn't available on Netflix when Netflix still had it.


NoiseDesign - Jan 10, 2022 1:09:42 pm PST #12021 of 30000
Our wings are not tired

SO many people who'd used a lower-case "l" for "1" as well as an upper-case "O" for "0" couldn't understand why things didn't work.

I learned to type on a manual typewriter that didn't have dedicated "1" or "0" keys so I learned with that substitution. At the same time I had a computer at home and was teaching myself basic programming, so I had to get my brain to switch back and forth on typing.

I also got into the habit of putting a slash across my "0" when writing by hand, but I eventually stopped doing that. I do, however, still slash my "7" when writing long hand.


meara - Jan 10, 2022 1:48:46 pm PST #12022 of 30000

...now I have to ask myself if I want to sign up for a 7-day free trial and binge-watch all of "The Repair Shop" that wasn't available on Netflix when Netflix still had it.

You and me both! Hmm.


-t - Jan 10, 2022 2:15:12 pm PST #12023 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I also got into the habit of putting a slash across my "0" when writing by hand, but I eventually stopped doing that. I do, however, still slash my "7" when writing long hand.

Same. I will slash my zeros if its in a password or something where it isn't obvious from context that it's a number. Also Zs if I'm printing, so it's clear they aren't 2s