Fred: It's the pictures in my mind that are getting me. It's like being stuck in a really bad movie with those Clockwork Orange clampy things on my eyeballs. Wesley: Why imagine? Reality's disturbing enough.

'Shells'


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.


brenda m - Aug 08, 2011 7:24:14 am PDT #19743 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

I was at a dog-friendly bar yesterday, and there were TWO puppies: [link]

Meep!

I found out this weekend that Darby is a championship camper. Off-leash all weekend and she never went more than a few yards into the woods unless one of us was with her. Though the campground did kind of look like there might have been a highly localized meteor shower. [link]


Becky - Aug 08, 2011 7:36:54 am PDT #19744 of 30001

Good Darby! Me and my friends go camping quite a bit and when we bring the 3 dogs (a chihuahua, a beagle, and a pug) it always ends up looking like we were there to hunt for treasure. Sadly, have not found any treasure yet.


smonster - Aug 08, 2011 7:40:51 am PDT #19745 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

Man, Tom, you take the most amazing pictures!


Allyson - Aug 08, 2011 7:41:44 am PDT #19746 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 wanted to put this story on the Something Good Tumblr, but I know not the way...

India's Space Girls


sarameg - Aug 08, 2011 7:43:53 am PDT #19747 of 30001

You don't have to itemize or price things unless you want to. They have tiers based on stuff like number of rooms, number of inhabitants. From there, you can increase your coverage. If you have an expensive shoe fetish and are a clotheshorse. Original artwork, vintage potholder collection, 8 computers? OK. They've got formulas and a checklist, that's their job, you don't have to figure it out.

Don't let that be a barrier.


§ ita § - Aug 08, 2011 8:03:07 am PDT #19748 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Well, the Geico associated insurance doesn't have anything to help me estimate. It expects me to know already.


shrift - Aug 08, 2011 8:03:53 am PDT #19749 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

So, my dad, under the influence of the local paper and my uncle, has joined the Tea Party. I told him they were extremists not living in a fact-based reality, and left it at that.

Oh, politics. Everywhere I turn, you make me HULK SMASH.


Consuela - Aug 08, 2011 8:08:07 am PDT #19750 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

So, my dad, under the influence of the local paper and my uncle, has joined the Tea Party.

To misquote Jon Stewart: is he disappointed we still have traffic lights?

More seriously: I'm sorry, that has to suck. I discovered one of my old high school pals quoting Michele Bachmann favorably on FB a few weeks ago, and remembered why I disliked FB so much.


§ ita § - Aug 08, 2011 8:09:20 am PDT #19751 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

That's remarkably civil of you, shrift.

Is it fair to think that half of the worth of my apartment is electronics? I really don't know how to estimate clothes and I forget the kitchen and the furniture...

How come they have an "extra silverware" option on the policy and not "extra electronics"?


Allyson - Aug 08, 2011 8:23:10 am PDT #19752 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

That was pretty civil, shrift. I'm impressed.

Hey, because you people know these kinds of things, has anyone ever run across Beastie Boys slash?

I come here because you all don't judge.