15 YEARS IS BIG METAL CHICKENS
OMG I can't breathe I'm laughing so hard. Also, I need to move to the suburbs so I have room for a big metal chicken in my front yard.
Yes. Men like sports. Men watch the action movie, they eat of the beef, and enjoy to look at the bosoms. A thousand years of avenging our wrongs and that's all you've learned?
Xander ,'End of Days'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
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.
Jessica - Jul 08, 2011 3:03:10 am PDT #15809 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
sarameg - Jul 08, 2011 3:17:03 am PDT #15810 of 30001
So. Power outage last night, three trunks failed simultaneously and the UPS failed to kick in.
Strange feeling of deja vu. Strange urge to unlock my computer and bolt out the fire exit.
§ ita § - Jul 08, 2011 4:51:48 am PDT #15811 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
How much water do you boil? Like, you gotta make a cup of tea, how much water is in your kettle? My sister keeps filling mine up, but I only like to have 2c in there at a time.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 08, 2011 5:53:02 am PDT #15812 of 30001
"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 did a big balance transfer to BofA to take advantage of the best interest rate I could find, but have no emotional attachment to them. If someone else comes along offering me a better long-term rate I'll drop 'em in a heartbeat.
I do my regular banking through a formerly-local-now-regional bank whose people have been very polite and helpful on the rare occasions I've had an issue. (Thankfully they've never done anything like the bank that mistakenly deposited one paycheck in savings rather than checking and put a hold on the next one due to low balance just as my rent came due.)
Liese S. - Jul 08, 2011 6:02:21 am PDT #15813 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
What in the world, sara? Last time wasn't enough for them?
I only boil enough to do whatever I'm doing. Otherwise it's wasted fuel to boil what's just going to cool down. I used to fill the kettle and then have water in there all the time, but the logic kicked in and I stopped doing that. I don't like not having enough, though.
But during most of the year, I'm boiling water for my tea and for the birdbath, so I have some volume flexibility.
Tom Scola - Jul 08, 2011 6:10:15 am PDT #15814 of 30001
hwæt
Whoah. Obama just suddenly got a whole bunch of grey hair.
Kat - Jul 08, 2011 6:12:38 am PDT #15815 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I don't keep any water in the kettle. But I boil an entire kettle because it's what I use to make iced tea. So I guess if I were only making a cup of tea, I'd probably just boil the cup I need + a little more.
tommyrot - Jul 08, 2011 6:14:56 am PDT #15816 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.
Huh. It sounds like the Space Shuttle is go for launch in about 12 minutes. This is the final Shuttle flight.
Holli - Jul 08, 2011 6:15:35 am PDT #15817 of 30001
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore
I've had good luck with PNC, although their Virtual Wallet is so annoying and hard to use that I just canceled it and went back to regular online banking. But it was really easy to cancel and they didn't give me a hard time or anything. They also never dinged me for keeping a student account for like four years longer than I was supposed to. And the actual people at the branches have always been super nice.
Sue - Jul 08, 2011 6:15:59 am PDT #15818 of 30001
hip deep in pie
I use my kettle only occasionally, but since it lives on the stove, I keep a little bit of water in it just in case I turn on the wrong burner.