V. sad about Elizabeth Edwards - when I heard yesterday's news, I kind of assumed that "resting at home" was code for "hospice" and "could be weeks" was code for "please don't come sniffing around here". But still. She was smart and sharp and by far the class in the marriage, or very possibly the whole damned state.
Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
amych - Dec 07, 2010 1:25:51 pm PST #9495 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Atropa - Dec 07, 2010 1:59:27 pm PST #9496 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I need help from the Hivemind! How do I tell someone from my previous job agency that when/if my manager opens up the vendor position for me, I have chosen to go with a different agency? The tricky bit is that if the vendor position doesn't happen, my previous job agency is the one that is the best bet for finding contract work. (They just suck as a vendor company.)
§ ita § - Dec 07, 2010 2:03:18 pm PST #9497 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I almost posted this in b'crazy, but here: Flaming drives online social networks.
The researchers also noticed that avalanches of negative emotion – floods of messages with low happiness scores, spurred by a single post – produce self-organised behaviour amongst users.
Negative emotions accelerate the number of messages sent by users, in turn generating social groups from nowhere, says Thelwall. A single post can quickly generate a community of feeling if it is provocative enough.
It's not our fault! It's in our nature!
billytea - Dec 07, 2010 2:05:39 pm PST #9498 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.
It's not our fault! It's in our nature!
Doctor Who posited much the same dynamic to make himself feel better about his partial failure in Genesis of the Daleks.
§ ita § - Dec 07, 2010 2:07:05 pm PST #9499 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What failure, poopyhead??
beekaytee - Dec 07, 2010 2:07:32 pm PST #9500 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant
It's not our fault! It's in our nature!
One of the ways I help dog people understand the distinction between the way they think, compared to their pets is:
Primates stare at trouble! That's why soap operas, politics and car wrecks are so compelling.
It's a survival instinct that is the burden of the higher order thinker...It is constant, even when we'd be better off without it.
Now I can add flame wars and social media as examples.
tommyrot - Dec 07, 2010 2:08:12 pm PST #9501 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
What failure, poopyhead??
Yeah, it all turned out well, as Daleks are inherently amusing.
billytea - Dec 07, 2010 2:11:28 pm PST #9502 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.
What failure, poopyhead??
His instructions were either to destroy them or modify their development to make them less one-note emotionally. He didn't accomplish either, instead only imprisoning them for a millennium or so.
§ ita § - Dec 07, 2010 2:12:03 pm PST #9503 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
His instructions were flawed.
meara - Dec 07, 2010 2:30:16 pm PST #9504 of 30001
ow do I tell someone from my previous job agency that when/if my manager opens up the vendor position for me, I have chosen to go with a different agency?
So does that mean that you might want to work with that agency in the future? Will you be applying for the job through an agency, or what? How does it work?