Learning which animals are dangerous must be really easy in Australia. Just memorize the list of safe animals, sheep, and you know the rest are trying to kill you.
Zoe: Planet's coming up a mite fast. Wash: That's just cause, I'm going down too quick. Likely crash and kill us all. Mal: Well, that happens, let me know.
'Shindig'
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.
Gudanov - Nov 19, 2015 12:27:02 pm PST #9412 of 30003
Coding and Sleeping
Connie Neil - Nov 19, 2015 12:35:21 pm PST #9413 of 30003
brillig
Gud needs a Like button.
Though sheep can be mean.
Edit: "Australia: Yes, it's trying to kill you."
Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 19, 2015 12:51:50 pm PST #9414 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
Good on you for seeing your friend through that awful experience, JZ. I'm sure you were a huge comfort to her.
SuziQ - Nov 19, 2015 12:55:09 pm PST #9415 of 30003
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Oh JZ. You were wonderful to stay and you have the bestest heart.
I'm still in SLC and we had the good, the bad, and the ugly in the office today. The good - free lunch! The bad (ok, not bad-bad, but a set-up bad for the ugly) - it was a chili cookoff. The ugly - too many beans...
Another hour in the office and then I head off to the airport. Hopefully flights are on time and easy.
billytea - Nov 19, 2015 1:08:23 pm PST #9416 of 30003
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
That was so good of you, JZ.
billytea - Nov 19, 2015 1:14:02 pm PST #9417 of 30003
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Learning which animals are dangerous must be really easy in Australia. Just memorize the list of safe animals, sheep, and you know the rest are trying to kill you.
And yet, our life expectancy is four years longer than America's. You might ascribe that to diet, or lifestyle, or better access to health care; but the truth is that we are just that bad-ass.
JZ - Nov 19, 2015 1:15:57 pm PST #9418 of 30003
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Just had a brief but cathartic phone call with a faraway mutual friend who has been a part of his tightest inner circle for years--she's utterly wrecked and feels all the worse for being at the other end of the continent and totally unable to fly out for any memorials, and some of the extravagantly sorrowing FB posts by people who barely knew him (many of whom didn't even like him much when he was alive) were starting to make her just the smallest bit throatpunchy (a lot of them are marvelous and revelatory, but a couple are walking the line toward what Addams Family Values has taught me to think of as What About Debbie). It was oddly comforting to let her vent a bit and then cry together about him and his daughter.
Jesse - Nov 19, 2015 2:05:19 pm PST #9419 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh, that's so hard, JZ. I'll always remember sitting in the hospital with my grandmother the day she died, and it was kind of great, but she was 94, and had been more or less fine the day before. I can't even imagine.
Sheryl - Nov 19, 2015 2:26:40 pm PST #9420 of 30003
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Congrats to Juliana and family!
{{{JZ}}}
billytea - Nov 19, 2015 2:32:10 pm PST #9421 of 30003
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
This is incredible. Abebooks has created a web page devoted to weird books: [link]
You too can savour such delights as "Baboon Metaphysics" or "How to Live with an Idiot". Or (I kid you not, but someone sure as hell is) "Liberace: Your Personal Fashion Consultant". (Any thoughts that hey, that Liberace chap could cut a fine figure on occasion, that doesn't sound so bad, will rapidly be dispelled by the picture on the cover.)
For myself, I finally lost it completely and had to flee the office when I got to "Your Three-Year-Old: Friend or Enemy?". I myself know that when Ryan was three, perhaps 70% of my parenting was taken up with admonishments that "You're either with us or you're against us".