You do well to flee, townspeople! I will pillage your lands and dwellings! I will burn your crops and make merry sport with your more attractive daughters! Ha ha ha! Mark my words! Ooh! Ale! I smell delicious ale!

Olaf the Troll ,'Showtime'


Natter 74: Ready or Not  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


brenda m - Dec 10, 2015 4:24:50 am PST #11099 of 30003
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

Oh he knew. how could he not? He's just not used to being forced to act in things he doesn't want to.

Half a billion in brutality settlements. So far. He knew.


Laura - Dec 10, 2015 5:09:12 am PST #11100 of 30003
Our wings are not tired.

That's what I figured, Brenda. There is surprisingly little coverage on this since The Donald monopolizes the news cycle.


Fred Pete - Dec 10, 2015 5:24:48 am PST #11101 of 30003
Ann, that's a ferret.

For cat pilling, we use a thing with the horribly hilarious name of Pill Popper. It's a syringe -type thing, where you put the pill in the little rubber end, pry your cat's jaws open, and shoot the pill down their throat with the plunger.

I second the Pill Popper. Perhaps the most wonderful invention ever. We get ours at our vet for $8. (The little rubber end wears out eventually.)


-t - Dec 10, 2015 5:48:27 am PST #11102 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I really did not want to get out of bed this morning; it's chilly and raining and staying curled up in a blanket would be just the ticket. But I did. Forgot to bring my water bottle with me to work (remember to hydrate, my friends) and put my Aeropress together backwards when I went to make coffee. Shoulda gone with my first instinct.


msbelle - Dec 10, 2015 5:50:43 am PST #11103 of 30003
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I am so happy Ozzie's meds are a shot instead of pills.

Jesse do they have you giving her the hairball/laxative gel stuff? My cats both take it easily. Sylvester actually loves it.


Connie Neil - Dec 10, 2015 5:58:13 am PST #11104 of 30003
brillig

Adulting victory that shouldn't be as big a deal as it is. My toilet has been wobbly, which is a simple matter of shimming the side that has the gap. But my anxious brain kept bleating about how I'd screw it up somehow, that it was a sign of horrible things etc. etc. The other day I marched myself into Lowe's and bought some shims, and last night I grabbed my competence by the throat and spent five whole minutes lining them up and cutting off the extra bits. Then sat down, frowned at the slight wobble that remained, but called it good for now.

Adulting without a net sucks.


Sophia Brooks - Dec 10, 2015 6:27:37 am PST #11105 of 30003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I never, ever want to give my cat a pill again. She hated me, and it really needed two people.


Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 10, 2015 6:48:46 am PST #11106 of 30003
"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

Sophia, is this the cat that's attacked you in the past?


-t - Dec 10, 2015 7:08:24 am PST #11107 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I have seen the bubble wrap that doesn't pop. It's weird, but impressive as an engineering design.


brenda m - Dec 10, 2015 7:13:39 am PST #11108 of 30003
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 think you mean EVIL.