'Day' is a vestigial mode of time measurement based on solar cycles. It's not applicable. I didn't get you anything.

River ,'Out Of Gas'


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.


JenP - May 02, 2024 5:34:42 pm PDT #84 of 3430

Yah, I was thinking, those are not necessarily mutually exclusive...


-t - May 02, 2024 6:20:38 pm PDT #85 of 3430
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Knives Out 3

Pink sparkly hearts


erikaj - May 02, 2024 6:39:13 pm PDT #86 of 3430
Always Anti-fascist!

In a weird way, I feel like my life is happening backwards. like this could seem like a thirty-year retirement. Except, for not working? I am busy as hell. At 62, maybe I'll have a Chinese baby and publicist.


Calli - May 02, 2024 6:56:13 pm PDT #87 of 3430
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

My parents both had pensions, which let them retire with some level of comfort and with really good health insurance. Both had years of cancer treatments and the costs were almost entirely covered. They didn’t leave a whole lot, but they never feared outliving what they had.

I would love a pension. Was it Reagan or Nixon who signed off on letting employers switch to 401ks? I mean, damn both of them for various reasons, but definitely damn the one who stuck us with the tender mercies of the stock market ruling our future well being.

However, I am a lifelong member of team soft and squishy, so at least I have that going for me.


Pix - May 02, 2024 7:01:08 pm PDT #88 of 3430
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

I was actually coming in here to say that I'm using this report from one of our vendors that refers to expected inventory at the beginning of a period so my chart is full of columns labeled "TOTAL BOP" and that sounds like a much better time than it actually is

Unrelated to everything else, but I just learned that young Gen Z/elder Gen Alpha have redefined "bop" to mean "A name to call a female who gives head to anyone. They call them a bop because when they give head they bop there heads." NO. NO. WHAT.

My parents both had pensions, which let them retire with some level of comfort and with really good health insurance. Both had years of cancer treatments and the costs were almost entirely covered. They didn’t leave a whole lot, but they never feared outliving what they had.

Yep, this. It wouldn't have been enough to pay for assisted living, but it got Dad through 20 years of frugal retirement.


-t - May 02, 2024 7:15:58 pm PDT #89 of 3430
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

My dad ended up with a pension and a 401k and I am pretty darn glad of that. My parents also have good health insurance through Dad’s retirement arrangement. I don’t think he was much older than I am now when he retired, come to think of it. Huh.


Jessica - May 02, 2024 7:18:35 pm PDT #90 of 3430
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

young Gen Z/elder Gen Alpha have redefined "bop" to mean "A name to call a female who gives head to anyone. They call them a bop because when they give head they bop there heads." NO. NO. WHAT.

WHAT NO. DO NOT LIKE.


aurelia - May 02, 2024 8:02:29 pm PDT #91 of 3430
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Knives Out 3

I am on board with this scenario.


meara - May 02, 2024 8:29:43 pm PDT #92 of 3430

Gen Z/elder Gen Alpha have redefined "bop" to mean "A name to call a female who gives head to anyone. They call them a bop because when they give head they bop there heads." NO. NO. WHAT.

What? No. This is wrong. Saying “that song is a bop” is already slang from a generation younger than me, they can’t redefine it like that!?!

I played pickleball. I was better than last time (though still far from good) but it was much nicer weather than last week, and my teammates and the team we played against were pretty cool. So yay that, I was kinda nervous.


DavidS - May 02, 2024 9:13:43 pm PDT #93 of 3430
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I'm collecting pictures of Jacqueline from her family, and her brother Chris sent me a batch.

By the time Jacqueline was in in high school and college, she and her sibs barely saw each other. They each went to different high schools, she was older, she was off to college.

So Chris' own pictures of her jump from xmas '92 (when she was a few years out of college, and after a period of serious depression) to xmas '93, and it's shocking how much she changed in that year.

Admittedly, the '92 picture has her looking bleary on Xmas morning, and nobody looks great in that moment. But she'd put on a lot of weight, and she didn't know what to do with her hair.

And in 1992 she's lost a lot of weight, because she's back in RenFaire and also getting cast in local theater. She's focused, she's found her tribe at Faire, she's getting acting gigs. She got her first bob specifically to be in the play Hayfever, and she looks happy and fab. Really beautiful though she didn't see herself that way yet.