What is your childhood trauma?

Cordelia ,'Lessons'


Natter 52: Playing with a full deck?  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Trudy Booth - Jul 08, 2007 4:54:56 am PDT #6940 of 10001
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

Single forgetful people probably shouldn't eat. It's all very Darwinian.


Topic!Cindy - Jul 08, 2007 4:57:53 am PDT #6941 of 10001
What is even happening?

Married people's stuff rots, too. Really. I think it's just because life is too fast now.


Cass - Jul 08, 2007 5:22:09 am PDT #6942 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

Single forgetful people probably shouldn't eat. It's all very Darwinian.
We can eat. We'll just likely kill ourselves with food poisoning.

Though not with rice left in the steamer for a really looooong scary time. It was about to introduce itself it had evolved so far. Or try to take over the world. I wasn't sure so I threw it down the disposal and sent bleach after it.


Frankenbuddha - Jul 08, 2007 5:36:30 am PDT #6943 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

I wasn't sure so I threw it down the disposal and sent bleach after it.

Oh great. Now it will just breed in the sewers with the alligators.


Cass - Jul 08, 2007 5:39:06 am PDT #6944 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

But albino, because of the bleach. So they'll make interesting pictures when the Weekly World News finds out?


Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 08, 2007 6:04:27 am PDT #6945 of 10001
"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

I have a different opinion of the finest cheez snack known to man: [link]

Alas, like Doo Dads, they are no longer made. I suspect the Keebler elves put a curse on Nabisco execs to make them stop production on their tastiest snacks.


JZ - Jul 08, 2007 6:41:05 am PDT #6946 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Okay. The next F2F that we're actually able to make it to, we bring a few bags of Barbara's Cheese Bakes and prove it to all you doubters.

They've wrecked me for all other cheesy puff things; the only ones I can even tolerate anymore are the new Cheetos puffy puffs with organic corn and white cheddar, which are clearly a total imitation of Barbara's. Admittedly, though, a successful imitation. They just taste so much... tastier than other cheese puffs, it's crazy.

But then they're not junk. They're just... food.

I maintain that no matter how fancy and organic its base ingredients may be, any food that contains both little to no nutritional value and enough tastiness to cause you to lose control and eat an entire big bag in one sitting, then sit around licking your fingertips and chasing the salty crumbs around the bottom of the bag, is more than worthy of the noble designation of Junk Food.

And, Cindy, I don't think Barbara's has any MSG.

::pointedly ignoring whitefont talk, as still traumatized by Hec's tale of the deliquescing watermelon excavated from the back of our fridge earlier this week::


§ ita § - Jul 08, 2007 6:53:33 am PDT #6947 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Junk food has to be bad for you. Not just not good, but bad.


Dana - Jul 08, 2007 6:57:18 am PDT #6948 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Wimbledon:

Federer is arguing with the computer. Heh. I don't think you're going to win that one, honey.


Jesse - Jul 08, 2007 7:12:38 am PDT #6949 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Bah -- I finally need to put in my air conditioner, but I thought I would go get an actual bracket first, instead of my usual "balance and pray" strategy for keeping it in the window. Apparently the only hardware store in my neighborhood is the one down the street that, as far as I can tell, is only ever open when I'm at work. OK, maybe they're open on Saturdays, but I'm 90% sure they are closed on Sundays. Bah!