You never know if a girl's gonna say 'yes', or if she's gonna laugh in your face and pull out your still-beating heart and crush it into the ground with her heel.

Xander ,'Help'


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 30, 2025 10:25:52 am PDT #7468 of 7487
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 7487
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 7487
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 7487
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 7487
I look more rad than Lutheranism

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 7487
Punishingly Intricate

Science!


Calli - May 31, 2025 9:40:46 am PDT #7474 of 7487
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 7487
I look more rad than Lutheranism

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


JenP - May 31, 2025 10:01:32 am PDT #7476 of 7487

And your evil hand is holding the Bible. Irony.


Steph L. - May 31, 2025 10:07:05 am PDT #7477 of 7487
I look more rad than Lutheranism

I'm kind of disappointed at how not-evil my hand is. Maybe when I get surgery for the left one, it'll become evil.