I mean... I know missionaries study other languages to better be missionaries. When the Olympics were in SLC they had a whole bunch of volunteers translators because of it. [link]
So it could be legit.
You got all kinds of learnin' and you made me look the fool without tryin', and yet here I am with a gun to your head. That's 'cause I got people with me. People who trust each other, who do for each other, and ain't always lookin' for the advantage.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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.
Trudy Booth - May 22, 2025 2:54:09 pm PDT #7372 of 7386
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
JenP - May 22, 2025 3:04:59 pm PDT #7373 of 7386
That is weird, Matt. I, too, would have been suspicious.
Guys. Husband signed an offer letter on Monday that was contingent on several years' contract coming through to the company... and he just found out it did! OMG. Relief doesn't even describe it. He starts in a week.
I can only release half the job~ma, though, because my ass is still unemployed.
But everything has gone from ever increasing degree of tilt and closer to capsizing back to upright and, if not moving steadily forward yet, at least upright and not leaking.
P.H.E.W.
meara - May 22, 2025 3:11:57 pm PDT #7374 of 7386
Yay Jen! That’s so good!!
Matt I would’ve really wondered if it was ICE or the proud boy’s or some shit.
Steph L. - May 22, 2025 3:21:45 pm PDT #7375 of 7386
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Guys. Husband signed an offer letter on Monday that was contingent on several years' contract coming through to the company... and he just found out it did! OMG. Relief doesn't even describe it. He starts in a week.
Excellent!
-t - May 22, 2025 3:41:31 pm PDT #7376 of 7386
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Congrats, JenP! Relieved for y'all to have that come through!
That is weird, Matt. A know a guy who did his mission somewhere that was primarily Spanish speaking but "tracking down" Spanish speakers does seem deeply sus. Could be sketchy missionary, could be ICE or someone less official trying to look relatively benign.
Matt the Bruins fan - May 22, 2025 3:48:02 pm PDT #7377 of 7386
"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
Yay Jen!
I'm pretty sure this guy wasn't a Proud Boy, he looked like a Mormon missionary and was polite. But the way ICE is currently being run I wouldn't put it past them to recruit preppy Aryan-looking College Republicans and put them in dress shirts and backpacks to avoid tipping people off while they search door-to-door for Latino households.
erikaj - May 22, 2025 3:50:02 pm PDT #7378 of 7386
Always Anti-fascist!
missionaries do that, I think, but this doesn't feel like a good time to be all "You want the Garcias down the street."(Also, I wouldn't sic missionaries on someone either...I've talked to too many.)
-t - May 22, 2025 3:52:07 pm PDT #7379 of 7386
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, wait, just one guy? I feel like Mormon missionaries always come in pairs.
Sheryl - May 22, 2025 4:20:30 pm PDT #7380 of 7386
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Heading up to Baltimore for Balticon tomorrow. Should be fun.
Happy Birthday Java Cat!
-t - May 22, 2025 4:23:57 pm PDT #7381 of 7386
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Have fun storming the Balticon, Sheryl!