This here's a recipe for unpleasantness.

Mal ,'Objects In Space'


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.


bennett - Dec 12, 2024 7:59:50 pm PST #4009 of 4180

I've had cataract surgery for both eyes and it was the easiest surgery I've ever had. Being awake during surgery was a little weird but that was the only issue.


flea - Dec 13, 2024 3:47:31 am PST #4010 of 4180
information libertarian

I’ve bought an $80 doormat. Those nice water hog ones from ll bean in the big sizes, like 4x6? Essential if you get snow. (But I am known to be boring.)


Laura - Dec 13, 2024 6:17:58 am PST #4011 of 4180
Our wings are not tired.

I bought my son this doormat for $14, and he loves it: [link] However, this is inside an apartment building, where they have the serious snow and yuck-capturing ones at the main entrance.

It was pretty cool that I could get the consult for the cataract surgery next week. The sooner the better.


-t - Dec 13, 2024 9:43:56 am PST #4012 of 4180
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Helpful to know, flea! I have zero doormats so my perspective is, no doubt, extreme.


P.M. Marc - Dec 13, 2024 12:02:59 pm PST #4013 of 4180
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

My current doormat was $14.99, but a: it was half-off; and b: it's on the covered porch and comes after the large, hardcore mat that we got when we had dogs. A regular doormat gauntlet (we also have one on a low spot on the path to the house).


brenda m - Dec 13, 2024 1:00:03 pm PST #4014 of 4180
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

I’ve bought an $80 doormat. Those nice water hog ones from ll bean in the big sizes, like 4x6? Essential if you get snow.

They live in a high-rise apartment building in Virginia.

To be fair, they’re moving into a nice new apartment after years in a nearby apartment that was honestly kind of a dump. But it’s also the only thing on his list. So I stand by my saltiness. Which is mostly in good humor.

My all-time favorite doormat (which IIRC was actually a Christmas present) was this one: [link]


Gudanov - Dec 13, 2024 1:02:37 pm PST #4015 of 4180
Coding and Sleeping

Our doormat says "Hope you like dog hair"


DavidS - Dec 13, 2024 1:48:22 pm PST #4016 of 4180
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

JZ got the Good Place doormat: "Welcome! Everything is Fine."

And, you know, everything has NOT been fine so I find myself in disagreement with the doormat every time I come home, but don't want to get rid of it since Jacqueline got it.

Also, Matilda spilled a big latte all over it and it has a big stain.

So that's the story of our doormat.


-t - Dec 13, 2024 2:03:47 pm PST #4017 of 4180
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Everything is Fine was always a lie, though. Having a big latte stain kinda makes it better.

brenda's doormat is a good one


JenP - Dec 13, 2024 2:24:13 pm PST #4018 of 4180

Love Brenda's doormat and, thanks to flea, have been looking at Water Hog doormats. Our doormat was, I dunno, probably $20? And it's all faded and stained now after less than a year. Which, I didn't super care until flea came in with the Water Hog...

I'm every advertiser's dream. Except, I don't always but, so maybe not.

Dinner with a friend tonight, and I can't wait. You, know, the friend you get to mutually share all the good, bad, and ugly from the last month since your last dinner? Yeah, that one. And it has been A WEEK chez Jen.

You all, how can it be not even two weeks until Christmas? One of you fell down on the job, is all I'm saying.