You guys had a riot? On account of me? A real riot?

Jayne ,'Jaynestown'


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.


Volans - Dec 09, 2020 11:25:05 am PST #817 of 30000
move out and draw fire

I don't know this phrase. What does it mean?

It means making a face that looks like: -.-

Unimpressed and kind of blaming the person for doing the thing.

I just saw a MAGA dreidel (shin, hay, gimel, hay) and have decided to hide under a chair for the rest of the year.

sj, one was The Ham Yard and I don't remember the other - it was a hotel restaurant in SoHo. Both were good and not the 400-pound prix fixe that most of the places open on Xmas offer.


-t - Dec 09, 2020 11:25:18 am PST #818 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I feel you on Kaiser docs, juliana. I feel like their whole system limits dr-patient interaction to my detriment. But they have all my records, when I had different insurance and a different doctor my PCP had trouble finding out what happened at my ER visits, so that wasn't good either.

Aw, Chris Evans and bagels, what a happy thought!


Steph L. - Dec 09, 2020 11:31:03 am PST #819 of 30000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

one was The Ham Yard

That is a goddamn fantastic name.


Calli - Dec 09, 2020 11:33:44 am PST #820 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I'd love to see Chris Evans at my local bagel place. I'd settle for being able to eat a bagel there.

Say, are there any parents or caregivers of toddlers, or otherwise toddler-adjacent people, who could recommend some books for a soon-to-be 2 year old, please? She loves music, stuffing her pockets with shiny rocks, and elephants.


DavidS - Dec 09, 2020 11:35:13 am PST #821 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Say, are there any parents or caregivers of toddlers, or otherwise toddler-adjacent people, who could recommend some books for a soon-to-be 2 year old, please? She loves music, stuffing her pockets with shiny rocks, and elephants.

Emmett was very fond of Calef Brown's books at that age: [link]


Calli - Dec 09, 2020 11:36:58 am PST #822 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Cool! Thanks, David.


DavidS - Dec 09, 2020 11:38:32 am PST #823 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Cool! Thanks, David.

I think we had Dutch Sneakers and Polka Bats. Super fun!


dcp - Dec 09, 2020 11:42:26 am PST #824 of 30000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

Unimpressed and kind of blaming the person for doing the thing.

Hmmm. So, not a flat expression or blank face.

How similar to or different from "narrowed eyes"?


-t - Dec 09, 2020 11:49:13 am PST #825 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I'm trying to make feel what my expression does when I am projecting what Volans said and I don't think my eyes narrow. Maybe a little. I think if I did it at you you would know, dcp? But how it is different from my normal face I would be hard pressed to say. It's almost like blank and blanker


Sophia Brooks - Dec 09, 2020 11:51:47 am PST #826 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I'm trying to make feel what my expression does when I am projecting what Volans said and I don't think my eyes narrow. Maybe a little. I think if I did it at you you would know, dcp? But how it is different from my normal face I would be hard pressed to say. It's almost like blank and blanker

I think I know what this is, but I don't know how to describe it. My friend Maria does it. It is almost like she removes herself from her surroundings and is in another place, where she is not having this conversation. It is like the eyes that are the window of the soul become opaque.