Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.

Buffy ,'Sleeper'


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 - May 29, 2025 11:43:12 am PDT #7466 of 10113
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I hate car repairs.

I adjusted some things on my car insurance and was all excited because it saved me over $100 on the 6 month premium.

Then the quote for repairs needs on my car, non-working locks, under carriage cover replacement with the braces it connects to. $3500.

Bleargh.


Calli - May 29, 2025 6:36:29 pm PDT #7467 of 10113
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Yikes, msbelle. Would it be worth taking to another mechanic for a second quote?

I’ve been asked to come in for a second interview for one of the jobs I’ve applied to. Yay! I’m not sure if it’s right for me, but that’s part of what interviews are for.


Trudy Booth - May 30, 2025 10:25:52 am PDT #7468 of 10113
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

So I had this (I presume) ganglion cyst on my top knuckle of my middle finger and it was getting big and uncomfortable enough that I was going to discuss it at my next doctor's appointment in a few months and then...

Had too much champagne at a work thing, closed my hand in the fire door when I went to walk the dog - problem solved.

Hurt like hell for about eight seconds when it happened, tender now but not as bad as when the cyst was pre-rupture. I just keep mushing it and hoping it won't come back. Die! Die!


Laura - May 30, 2025 11:25:34 am PDT #7469 of 10113
Our wings are not tired.

Ouch! Ow! Yikes! I hurt just thinking about it. FWIW, I have good luck using coconut oil on cysts.


lisah - May 30, 2025 11:33:05 am PDT #7470 of 10113
Punishingly Intricate

The “traditional” method for getting rid of ganglon cysts is to smack them with a bible so…


dcp - May 30, 2025 11:34:59 am PDT #7471 of 10113
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

Perhaps it was a blessed fire door.


Steph L. - May 30, 2025 12:53:18 pm PDT #7472 of 10113
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

The “traditional” method for getting rid of ganglon cysts is to smack them with a bible so…

I hope this was figured out with a control group that got whacked with a secular book of the same size as the bible. But the bibles and secular books would have to be covered in brown paper so it could be a methodologically rigorous double-blind comparison.


lisah - May 30, 2025 2:20:55 pm PDT #7473 of 10113
Punishingly Intricate

Science!


Calli - May 31, 2025 9:40:46 am PDT #7474 of 10113
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I’m imagining Steph chasing after someone with a paper-covered family Bible in her hands yelling, “Get back here! This smacking is for science!”


Steph L. - May 31, 2025 9:42:43 am PDT #7475 of 10113
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

You have to imagine me wearing a lab coat while I do it. For science.