It's like, in the middle of all this, I'm paranoid that you'll think I don't like poetry.

Buffy ,'Empty Places'


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.


msbelle - Dec 04, 2024 3:38:35 pm PST #3831 of 3923
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

As with most, if not all, high profile murders, thankful that the murderer appears to not be a brown or black person.

Meanwhile watching South Korea and France in political upheaval is something.


megan walker - Dec 04, 2024 3:57:06 pm PST #3832 of 3923
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Meanwhile watching South Korea and France in political upheaval is something.

I might need another fallback plan.


meara - Dec 04, 2024 3:57:55 pm PST #3833 of 3923

Well, you have EU citizenship and speak Italian, right? Sounds like you’re set!


megan walker - Dec 04, 2024 4:02:36 pm PST #3834 of 3923
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Well, you have EU citizenship and speak Italian, right? Sounds like you’re set!

Listen, France could be on the brink of another revolution and their politics would still be better than Italy's.


javachik - Dec 04, 2024 4:21:11 pm PST #3835 of 3923
Our wings are not tired.

True that. Having just been in beautiful Vienna for a week, a text from one of us (can’t remember her Buffista name!) reminding me of Austria’s politics was well-served. OTOH, as a colleague pointed out today, our “left wing” politicians would be considered center right in many places in the EU.

Portugal, Ireland, and NZ are all (aspirational) possibilities for me at this point.


Calli - Dec 04, 2024 5:16:08 pm PST #3836 of 3923
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Wasn’t United Health the company that put an AI approval bot in place that rejected 80% of legitimate claims? I don’t think killing people is a good idea, but if someone had to interrupt the path of a bullet, there were worse options.


msbelle - Dec 04, 2024 5:16:21 pm PST #3837 of 3923
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I haven’t had cable in 19 years, but today when my TiVo wasn’t getting a signal to my tv, I found out I have access to 24 hour news channels on my smart tv from the major networks. So with the assassination and the ouster of world leaders and cabinet nominee nonsense and Supreme Court transgender case, I kept it on all day. Literally from 9am until now almost nonstop. And there has been basically no movement in any of these stories. How do people do this day after day?


Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 05, 2024 1:52:31 am PST #3838 of 3923
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

I've really been pushing the online surveys this week to fund a third Adirondack chair for my patio. Among the ones I completed were a celebrity PR survey that featured both Jonathan Bailey and James Franco (my answers, shall we say, varied WIDELY), and a telecommunications survey where AT&T was the focus. I believe they're going to have to throw out my answers to all of the above to avoid skewing the results.


sj - Dec 05, 2024 4:58:08 am PST #3839 of 3923
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

We have a snow day.


Jessica - Dec 05, 2024 7:03:51 am PST #3840 of 3923
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

In other terrible American health insurance news, I just found out about this!?!?!?!!

I don't condone murder, but YEAH, not at all hard to sympathize with the motivation here.