It's simple. I slap 'em around a bit, torture 'em, make their lives hell...Sure, the nice guys'll run away,but every now and then you'll find a prince like Spike who gets off on it.

Buffy ,'Get It Done'


Natter 78: I might need to watch some Buffy for inspiration

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.


askye - Aug 27, 2024 2:49:00 pm PDT #2293 of 4159
Thrive to spite them

RFKjr has this and the bear story but the GOP is freaking out because Tim Walz posted about his dog and him and his dog at a dog park and the dogs in the two pictures WEREN'T the same DOG! Walz Was LYING about his DOG!

or you know he took a picture of a dog at the dog park.


askye - Aug 27, 2024 3:03:25 pm PDT #2294 of 4159
Thrive to spite them

My shoulder is feeling better not as much as I would like. What I would like is to be able to take more than a day to rest it. Tomorrow starts my 5 days in a row and I have to go back on Thursday for re evaluation.


erikaj - Aug 27, 2024 3:29:45 pm PDT #2295 of 4159
Always Anti-fascist!

I've heard of Republicans getting dogs for their campaign ads and bringing them back to the shelter afterward.


Hil R. - Aug 27, 2024 4:12:18 pm PDT #2296 of 4159
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Got through my first two days of teaching for this semester. I'm teaching three classes in-person, which is the most I've done in a while -- the past few years, I've had one or two in-person and the rest online. It's three sections of the same class, though, so at least that's just one prep. Already had to make one complaint to the classrooms people -- I generally teach while sitting on a tall chair at the front of the classroom and using the overhead projector, and the chair in one of the classrooms is totally broken. Like, the height won't adjust, and if you lean back even slightly the whole thing tips over. So, working on getting that replaced. Other than that, classes going well, just tiring.


EpicTangent - Aug 27, 2024 4:22:17 pm PDT #2297 of 4159
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

Wow, Hil, if they ever just had you set up right at the beginning of the semester it'd be rather a miracle!

Hil, I actually wanted to ask you a question. I'm trying to figure out what exactly my relationship is to my cousin's granddaughter (2nd cousin? once removed?) I'm sure I could figure it out if I really sat down and tried to figure out the math, but I thought with all the genealogy study you've done you could probably help me without all the agita. So, can you tell me what my (female) cousin's granddaughter (on the maternal side, our mothers were sisters if it makes a difference) is to me? (If this is something you'd usually charge for or is any other way an overreach, feel free to shut me down. I promise not to get cross).


Sparky1 - Aug 27, 2024 4:27:25 pm PDT #2298 of 4159
Librarian Warlord

Your cousin's granddaughter is your first cousin twice removed. Your daughter and your cousin's granddaughter would be second cousins once removed. Your granddaughter and your cousin's granddaughter would be third cousins.

Anyhoo, I once worked with JFKJr's first wife, and . . . IMO he's not a good human being.


EpicTangent - Aug 27, 2024 4:38:56 pm PDT #2299 of 4159
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

Thanks for the info, Sparky. We've been working on what to have her call me (auntie-cousin is a semi-jokey go-to in our family, but she's a little bit delayed, so I'm trying to simplify rather than complicate - so first cousin twice removed is, unfortunately, a lot). We might just go with "Tia" (the other side of the family is Mexican), I like it and she should have plenty of Tias so she shouldn't be confused. My cousin suggested we just use my name, but with 50 years between us, I feel like there should be some sort of "honorific".


JenP - Aug 27, 2024 5:02:04 pm PDT #2300 of 4159

If she's your first cousin, then her granddaughter is your first cousin twice removed. (Her daughter is your first cousin once removed). If you had a child, your child and her child would be second cousins. Their children would be third cousins. I won't do the removed on those... unless you want me to, heh.

My Uncle Freeman taught me all o' that at my grandmother, his mother's funeral. He was so awesome. I miss him.


-t - Aug 27, 2024 5:02:33 pm PDT #2301 of 4159
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

In my dad's family, you'd just be an aunt. Any relation (or family friend) a generation up (or more, we didn't use greats either) is pretty much aunt or uncle. Uncle Walter, for example, might have actually been my dad's uncle, or my grandmother's, or a cousin of some sort, I have no idea.


JenP - Aug 27, 2024 5:02:58 pm PDT #2302 of 4159

Oh, ha, ha, ha! I rushed to post the answer, so I didn't see that Sparky had answered. Like a child I can be when I get excited.