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Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet

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.

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Trudy Booth - Mar 13, 2013 12:57:29 pm PDT #14701 of 30001

Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

I am, and have recently been reading about them too. (Apparently, in the northern Pacific at least, resident orcas like eating fish, while the transients go for mammals - sea lions, stray ungulates, whales. And sea lions can tell the difference between the two groups, and don't take evasive action from the residents.)

Apparently resident orcas from opposite sides of the globe will get along fine in captivity as will transient orcas from opposite sides of the globe... but mix one of each? They'll know and they'll attack each other. That's hardcore.

Trudy Booth - Mar 13, 2013 1:11:20 pm PDT #14702 of 30001

Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Which to me is made extra weird by the fact that the two populations eat different things so they're not fighting over hunting rights. And its not territory, because only one group sticks around -- the other is passin' through, eating mammals nobody was eatin' anyway. They're just frikkin racist.

Trudy Booth - Mar 13, 2013 1:28:18 pm PDT #14703 of 30001

Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Alright, now I can't find the article about them fighting in captivity and I'm here at work 27 minutes after I could have left looking for it. It's a sickness.

§ ita § - Mar 13, 2013 1:30:09 pm PDT #14704 of 30001

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

My new boss, who's no longer that new, came by and saw a full sheet doodle. He shook his head as he complimented it, and asked about my materials. Turns out we were both Rotring fans back in the day.

I must do no more full sheet doodles, maybe.

Theodosia - Mar 13, 2013 1:52:32 pm PDT #14705 of 30001

'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Hey, you were throwing around the Sekrit Presbyterian Handshake and I wasn't invited! Fie! Fie!

-t - Mar 13, 2013 3:06:00 pm PDT #14706 of 30001

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Argh, I have something I could be working on except someone else has th efile open so it's Read-Only for me. Oh well, I leave in 5 minutes anyway.

I don't think I have anything to say about this alleged new pope. I only know about him from you guys, could be a conspiracy. Since I read that book about the Basque people, both Francis Xavier and Jesuits make me think "Basques!" I can't tell from the grumpy cat picture if Pope Francis has the long earlobes characteristic of the Basque.

The first pope wouldn't have been European, right? Probably a few after him, also, maybe?

Thanks to y'all's advice (and a nice conversation with my dad last night) I went and gave verbal notice in person at my training today, so they know I'm leaving. I'll finish out the shifts I have scheduled (it's approximately two weeks from now, so that all works out) and write them a nice resignation letter, so hopefully if things change for me and a part-time job becomes desirable again they would take me back.

Jesse - Mar 13, 2013 3:14:23 pm PDT #14707 of 30001

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Popes with birthplaces: [link]

billytea - Mar 13, 2013 3:15:43 pm PDT #14708 of 30001

You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

The first pope wouldn't have been European, right? Probably a few after him, also, maybe?

According to Wikipedia, the last Pope before Francis I to have come from outside Europe was St Gregory III from Syria, elected in 731.

Sophia Brooks - Mar 13, 2013 3:18:51 pm PDT #14709 of 30001

Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I think we need an anti-pope!

Jesse - Mar 13, 2013 3:33:38 pm PDT #14710 of 30001

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

So wait, is there any real reason to think he was thinking of Francis of Assisi and not Francis Xavier?

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