Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle.

Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'


Natter 69: Practically names itself.  

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.


Consuela - Feb 24, 2012 7:24:23 am PST #23543 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

le n, are trolling us? t grins

Some lawmakers are actually siding with misguided parents on this front. USA Today reported last week that seven states are considering comprehensive opt-out laws.

ARGH. Hulk SMASH.


le nubian - Feb 24, 2012 7:34:10 am PST #23544 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

I think I have figured out that the group in "some lawmakers" want to KILL us.


Jessica - Feb 24, 2012 7:43:53 am PST #23545 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

So if I'm following the legislative logic here...what we really need is a vaccine that's administered vaginally. Because then it could be legally mandated.


Consuela - Feb 24, 2012 7:44:46 am PST #23546 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Jessica FTW.


tommyrot - Feb 24, 2012 7:50:26 am PST #23547 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.

This might have been posted a long time ago. But since it's Friday, here's a video of Alcoholic Monkeys Stealing Cocktails from Caribbean Beach-Goers

In 2009, the BBC television show Weird Nature went to the West Indies island named St. Kitts to film vervet monkeys snatching cocktails from beach-goers and then proceeding to get drunk. According to the clip, the monkeys were brought from West Africa 300 years ago with the rum-making slaves and they acquired a taste for alcohol from eating the rum’s leftover fermented sugar cane. The footage was produced and directed by award-winning media company, John Downer Productions.

Drunken monkeys!

What's interesting is the percentage of monkeys who are teetotalers and alcoholics match match human percentages.


le nubian - Feb 24, 2012 7:51:17 am PST #23548 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

So if I'm following the legislative logic here...what we really need is a vaccine that's administered vaginally. Because then it could be legally mandated.

Damn, Jessica.


Jessica - Feb 24, 2012 8:04:32 am PST #23549 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Oh my god the drunken monkeys clip. One of my all-time favorite research requests. So many memories!


Steph L. - Feb 24, 2012 8:27:20 am PST #23550 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

We bought a new washer last night (top-loading, agitator-less HE washer), and it gets delivered in a week. The old washer still works, but is very, very noisy and possibly possessed by a demon. So I did laundry today.

I am now Googling laundromats. Balls. The one load I put in the washer did in fact wash and rinse, but the spin cycle has given up the ghost. So I wrung that load (t-shirts, socks, and oh my god yoga pants) out by hand into the washtub and threw it in the dryer, where it will probably take 10 hours to dry. Maybe 20. (Okay, probably 90 minutes, but hyperbole is more fun.)

All I really need to wash still is my load of stuff I hang up -- sweaters, jeans, etc. So I only need to do one load of wash at the laundromat, but damn, is it going to not be fun lugging home a load of wet (but, one presumes, at least spin-cycled) laundry.

Modern problems, I haz them.


Typo Boy - Feb 24, 2012 8:41:07 am PST #23551 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Ginger, that is really terrible. I'm angry on your behalf, but also angry at our health care system in general.


§ ita § - Feb 24, 2012 9:12:13 am PST #23552 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I think you've crossed threads, TB.