And I have 13 days before I get to see Cashmere!
No. You're missing the point. The design of the thing is functional. The plan is not to shoot you. The plan is to get the girl. If there's no girl, then the plan, well, is like the room.
Early ,'Objects In Space'
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.
Lee - Jul 15, 2011 4:44:43 am PDT #16749 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
JZ - Jul 15, 2011 4:51:34 am PDT #16750 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I saw Richard Dawkins wearing dark sunglasses indoors.
Was he being followed into an elevator by a horde of women chewing gum?
Please, please say yes, even if he wasn't. Just imagining it gives me a mean little happy.
§ ita § - Jul 15, 2011 5:12:46 am PDT #16751 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Should I wear the granny boots or the oxfords to work today? I'm wearing a red turtleneck, gored denim knee length skirt, and red tights.
You have until I finish brushing my teeth to decide. Please help.
Allyson - Jul 15, 2011 5:19:19 am PDT #16752 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I was in the elevator on my way down to the welcome reception, and it was packed. And quiet.
Until we landed on the convention center floor. And before the doors opened, some dude said, "I MADE IT THE WHOLE WAY WITHOUT AN ELEVATOR JOKE!"
- crickets*
Jesse - Jul 15, 2011 5:19:55 am PDT #16753 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oxfords.
WTF is an elevator joke?
Allyson - Jul 15, 2011 5:20:06 am PDT #16754 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Oxfords, ita.
§ ita § - Jul 15, 2011 5:20:07 am PDT #16755 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Well, you're no use.
eta: Oxfords!
Jesse - Jul 15, 2011 5:21:43 am PDT #16756 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I mean, I understand what an elevator joke would be, but not why they would be near-compulsory.
Gudanov - Jul 15, 2011 5:29:24 am PDT #16757 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
WTF is an elevator joke?
How many elevators does it take to change a light bulb? Two, one to change the light bulb and one to play soft muzak.
Urm... okay, not a very good one.
Allyson - Jul 15, 2011 5:33:13 am PDT #16758 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
There was a huge meltdown before TAM.
Picture it like Buffy fandom, and Dawkins is Joss Whedon, and Rebecca Watson is me. Those are your two players. Got it? So here's the story:
Rebecca Watson was on a panel in Dublin, talking about their skeptic fandom stuff, and then went out to party with some other fans. At 4am, she said, "I'm exhausted, I have to go to sleep," and left the bar.
A man followed her into the elevator and said, "I think you're really interesting. Do you want to go back to my room for coffee?"
Watson declined.
Later, when doing a podcast, Rebecca mentioned that Elevator Guy went about things the wrong way, that it isn't cool to ask a woman alone in an elevator to go back to your room at 4am, it's just sort of creepy.
Just like that. It was sort of off-the-cuff, since she often gives talks on male privilege and inappropriate behavior toward the few women who attend these events.
Of course, the dudes in the skeptic fandom went completely ballistic about how silly women are, and the women went ballistic about how fucking clueless men are.
PZ Myers, who often falls on the side of the angels in matters such as these, wrote about it on his blog.
Dudes again went ballistic on the sheer stupidity of women and such. (women did this as well)
One of the dudes was Dawkins, who posted a diatribe on how privileged Watson is to be afraid of men in elevators when her sisters in Africa are getting their clitorises cut off.
The logic fail in Dawkins argument was pointed out to him several times, but he dug in.
Phil Plait (kind of the Tim Minear of the fandom) took it all over to his blog and ipped Dawkins a new one.
Everyone who has posted about it gets flooded with MRAs who are butthurt that women can vote.
This all happened just a few days ago.
You need an ax to cut the tension.