Ha! Not a figment!
("Painless", my butt.)
Book: Yes, I'd forgotten you're moonlighting as a criminal mastermind now. Got your next heist planned? Simon: No. But I'm thinking about growing a big black mustache. I'm a traditionalist.
'War Stories'
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.
Zenkitty - Aug 02, 2011 5:45:51 pm PDT #19037 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Connie Neil - Aug 02, 2011 5:51:15 pm PDT #19038 of 30001
brillig
I was going to say, "I've heard of sweatbees."
edit: Zen, where did you grow up? I grew up in Southwestern Pennsylvania, very close to the Appalachian Mountains (which are pronounced Appa-LAY-chin, not Appa-LATCH-in)
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 02, 2011 6:00:02 pm PDT #19039 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
We had sweat bees when I was growing up, but I don't recall ever being stung by one. No regular bee stings either, honeybees and bumblebees are pretty even-tempered around here and I know to move slowly with them. I've gotten plenty of wasp stings though, and I kill the nasty little fuckers on sight if I'm able to.
Zenkitty - Aug 02, 2011 6:04:02 pm PDT #19040 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Connie, I grew up in Tennessee, about 75 miles east of Nashville. Not too far from the Appa-LAY-chins!
§ ita § - Aug 02, 2011 6:04:25 pm PDT #19041 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
OMG, semi-randomly--salesperson, DO NOT CALL ME YOUR QUEEN. Seriously. You are making no sales that way. You are creeptastic and I'm walking away.
Ginger - Aug 02, 2011 6:26:41 pm PDT #19042 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
We had sweat bees in Illinois. Tiny bees with sharp stings.
§ ita § - Aug 02, 2011 6:30:39 pm PDT #19043 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Because of a case on a show I'm watching right now, I googled to see the number of missing children in the US. 2000 children go missing every day. 2000. And multiple news outlets were making a fuss about Celina Cass. That's so disgusting. I mean, I want everything done to find her, but over the week they were yelling about her, 13,999 other kids also went missing, and the national news outlets didn't give a flying fuck. Interestingly, of the 800,000 that go missing every year:
115 children were the victims of “stereotypical” kidnapping. These crimes involve someone the child does not know, or knows only slightly, who holds the child overnight, transports the child 50 miles or more, kills the child, demands ransom, or intends to keep the child permanently.
115.
And an irritating thing on this show, they gave a blanket pass to women involved in couple kidnappings. Only men are that evil. Women are just broken.
Amy - Aug 02, 2011 6:37:57 pm PDT #19044 of 30001
Because books.
I mean, I want everything done to find her
I'm pretty sure she was found dead, sadly.
§ ita § - Aug 02, 2011 6:48:35 pm PDT #19045 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Was she the body I was seeing stories of? I only followed the story in snippets when I was buying bagels.
Amy - Aug 02, 2011 6:51:14 pm PDT #19046 of 30001
Because books.
I saw something about a body found in a river with her name associated, yeah.
I wonder if only local news carries some of the other missing kid stories *because* they're more often [assumed to be, I should have said] disputes, or are taken by someone they know, that kind of thing.
The way the national news will focus on just one case, every once in a while, and really splash it all over, is infuriating, though.