Sometimes when I'm sitting in class... You know, I'm not thinking about class, 'cause that would never happen. I think about kissing you. And it's like everything stops. It's like, it's like freeze frame. Willow kissage.

Oz ,'First Date'


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.


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?


billytea - Dec 07, 2010 2:33:32 pm PST #9505 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.

His instructions were flawed.

I'm not really sure what other instructions you give for a Dalek adventure. Nuance is rare (though ninth Doctor "Dalek" managed pretty well). Still, it gave rise to one awesome adventure:

Time Lord: "ZOMG Daleks R teh suxxors! Do something about it, will you? kthxbye."
Doctor: "Invisible krav maga."
Harry and Sarah: t variously get shot at, tortured, enslaved in a radioactive rocket silo and at one point nearly eaten by a giant walking clam
Nyder: "Ceiling Nazi is watching you plotsturbate."
Davros: "YOU! ARE! MY! CREATIONS! DESTROY! THE! THALS! AND! THEN! CLEAN! YOUR! ROOM!"
Daleks: "THE! DOCTOR! HAS! GIVEN! US! A! TEENAGER! GENE! YOU! ARE! NOT! THE! BOSS! OF! US!"
Good Guys: "Bling to the rescue!"


brenda m - Dec 07, 2010 2:36:49 pm PST #9506 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Do you need to tell them anything? If it opens and they contact you, you could just say "thanks, I'm already aware of it" and let it go at that. If it doesn't, then you haven't hurt anything.


Atropa - Dec 07, 2010 2:37:22 pm PST #9507 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

I might want to work with that agency in the future, since they're the ones who get the largest volume of contracts in the local tech industry.


Cashmere - Dec 07, 2010 2:37:58 pm PST #9508 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.

If you click through these four photos, starting here you can see me skating.


beekaytee - Dec 07, 2010 2:39:07 pm PST #9509 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant

I'm with brenda. Unless there is an open question about your future with them, maybe nothing needs to be said until there IS a question.