Oz is the highest-scoring person ever to fail to graduate.

Willow ,'Him'


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.


amyparker - May 03, 2021 10:03:37 am PDT #6059 of 30000
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.

To my great amusement, "Mobile Reefer Service" does not offer home delivery of pot, but 24/7 roadsite repair of refrigerated trucks.


-t - May 03, 2021 10:12:39 am PDT #6060 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Well, if they want to diversify they'd be even more amusing


Toddson - May 03, 2021 10:43:12 am PDT #6061 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

awww ... Operation Mallard ... a success


meara - May 03, 2021 11:01:48 am PDT #6062 of 30000

Mmm, fish tacos.

I was influenced by a friend yesterday who posted about mangonadas and I decided I needed to go. Luckily a different friend lives nearby and was willing to meet me and hang out for a bit, so it was delicious AND good times.

Not great—one of my teeth is hurting and I fear when I go to the dentist he will say I need to have a filling or a root canal or something. Boo, stupid teeth grinding!


DavidS - May 03, 2021 11:17:29 am PDT #6063 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Boo, stupid teeth grinding!

Dental -ma!

Also, I hear Oregon's got a Covid surge going. So boo to that too.

Matilda's summer job doesn't start until July, so she'll have plenty of time to recover from her June 11th wisdom teeth. Once she starts working she'll be doing 4 hours a day / 20 hours a week all the way up to the beginning of the school year, August 16th. And they better fucking have it in person or I shall lose my mind.

I'm already super grumpy that JZ's job, which had originally committed to WFH to June (starting last March), is now extending to October. I fucking hate the Dean and I hate SFUSD.

In better new, JZ's brother Lukas, and his husband TJ are both out and visiting. They're both fully vaxxed and flew out from NYC. (Lukas couldn't come out initially because his immune system is compromised with his chemo treatments - which have proven completely successful, btw!)

As soon as Matilda gets out of school I'll be driving her over to meet with them, and go JZ's dad's gravesite.

I get my second jab tomorrow. Excited! Though it really won't change my activities that much.

Sounds like the should have the teens (12+) available to be vaccinated within the next few weeks. That would be amazing to have them all done before August.


Steph L. - May 03, 2021 11:22:03 am PDT #6064 of 30000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

My job today involves explaining to an author why (the fuck) we cannot use the term "Coloreds" as a racial category. They were specifically discussing South Africa, and used the term "South African Coloreds" as a catch-all term for mixed-race people. And I was like, in the year of our Lord Black Jesus 2021, how have you NOT heard of the term "mixed-race" what the fuck is wrong with you????

Literally never thought that was a thing that would come up in medical editing. (For real, one of their responses was "I suppose the term 'mixed-race' could be used to imply that the people are more than one race." THAT'S LITERALLY WHAT IT MEANS HOLY SHIT ARE YOU A TRUMP????)


DavidS - May 03, 2021 11:40:57 am PDT #6065 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

For real, one of their responses was "I suppose the term 'mixed-race' could be used to imply that the people are more than one race."

Ha! "I suppose..."

There's no supposition, asshole! It does not imply it but states it directly.


Steph L. - May 03, 2021 11:59:02 am PDT #6066 of 30000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

There's no supposition, asshole! It does not imply it but states it directly.

Right? That's its literal meaning. God almighty.


flea - May 03, 2021 12:14:13 pm PDT #6067 of 30000
information libertarian

Are the authors UnAmerican? Because iirc “colored” is a normal term in use in some areas, although NOT American English obviously.

Edit: [link]


megan walker - May 03, 2021 12:17:38 pm PDT #6068 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Literally never thought that was a thing that would come up in medical editing. (For real, one of their responses was "I suppose the term 'mixed-race' could be used to imply that the people are more than one race." THAT'S LITERALLY WHAT IT MEANS HOLY SHIT ARE YOU A TRUMP????)

Sadly, I am not surprised. I'm working on a revision of an American Government textbook and I think the bothsidesism may kill me.

ION, I'm more than 48 hours past my second Moderna dose and besides a fevered first night and general sluggishness all Saturday, I'm fine.

Fingers crossed for Matilda's wisdom teeth removal!