Sir? I'd like you to take the helm, please. I need this man to tear all my clothes off.

Zoe ,'Serenity'


Natter 64: Yes, we still need you  

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.


§ ita § - Nov 11, 2009 2:21:58 pm PST #18743 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

This is why I've basically given up on online dating in favor of these things where people just show up in front of you -- speed dating and the like. It's just meeting a new person.

My speed dating excursion didn't work well. I didn't get any matches. I only randomly meet people I like, it seems. Who like me. And all I can think of when I think back to speed dating is the one guy who said "You look fit" like it was an accusation. For some reason he's the only guy I can remember. Not that any of the others were matches either.

It's not that I've given up, but I think I've given up trying.


smonster - Nov 11, 2009 2:23:34 pm PST #18744 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

Or foil flavored.


Dana - Nov 11, 2009 2:29:21 pm PST #18745 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Lou Dobbs is quitting--tonight's his last show on CNN.

Buh-bye. But yeah, I bet he'll show up on Fox. Ptui.


javachik - Nov 11, 2009 2:30:01 pm PST #18746 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.

Tom, knock 'em dead.

Chikat, is your Forester really noisy? Mine is, which makes talking on bluetooth very difficult, and now that my prime talk-to-boyfriend-who-lives-in-Boston-time is on my way home from work, I need to have a lot less cabin noise. I've been thinking about getting a newer Forester, and wanted to know if the noise problem is any better. Mine is a 2001. I searched online and found some possible solutions for the gusseting, and will try those.


DavidS - Nov 11, 2009 2:38:54 pm PST #18747 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Is it chocolate-gelt flavor, or money flavor? That would be a key factor.

I was just reading Dinosaur Comics and this is exactly the kind of thing Utahraptor would say.

Ergo, Jesse is Utahraptor.


Laura - Nov 11, 2009 2:46:21 pm PST #18748 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.

I have graded 20 long papers (6-10 pages each) 50 short responses (2 pages each) and I still have another 20 long papers to go. UGH. No. Good.

Oh my, I'm exhausted just reading the list.


-t - Nov 11, 2009 2:47:44 pm PST #18749 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I thought we had already established that Jesse is T-Rex. Or T-Rex is Jesse.


billytea - Nov 11, 2009 2:51:04 pm PST #18750 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

This is why I've basically given up on online dating in favor of these things where people just show up in front of you -- speed dating and the like. It's just meeting a new person.

I wound up doing better out of online dating than speed dating, though I did enjoy the speed dating quite a lot. They're really quite different environments.


§ ita § - Nov 11, 2009 2:58:11 pm PST #18751 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

They're really quite different environments.

I think I'm better at presenting myself in person than in text. And I'm better (if only nominally) at liking someone from a brief personal presentation than a brief textual one. I can read a profile and decide I have something to talk to them about, but I haven't read a profile and felt attraction yet. But I can do that in five minutes of exchange of conversation. Just ferreting through profiles to do that...yeah, nsm with the continued trying.


Tom Scola - Nov 11, 2009 3:05:04 pm PST #18752 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Break time. I think I impressed the philosophy major by knowing what predicate logic is.