I’m about to depart for #cvg2012, the CONvergence con, where I shall spend a long, exhausting weekend with My People: the weirdos, the science nerds, the kids who were too smart to try out for the football team, the laughing accepting tolerant folks who don’t have to conform to the comfortable median. It shall be fun. It will almost certainly be distracting — here’s my schedule of the panels I’ll be on, and there will be others I’ll be attending — so this might be a slow weekend for the blog. Sorry, I’ll be busy.
You could always come on out to the con yourself — we’re partying all night long with the Skepchicks.
(Episode CCCXLIV: Just for the girls.)
Here be I, up at 4am watching the Murray/Federer final.
It’s not like that in the UK. They’re civilised there and the Wimbledon finals are played in the daytime. Sigh.
Watching Men Who Hate Women (or Girl With The Dragon Tattoo because the original is apparently too much for sensitive USian ears), I had to stare at a little spot in the lower left corner of the screen during the rape scene. I used to be able to watch violence on screen. I have become much more sensitive to it.
Beatrice,
I preferred the original title too, it summed it up so nicely. But I don’t speak/read Swedish so I plumbed for the English version.
Louis
If I get around to making the old laptop into a Linux bow, then what’s best for me as a rank amateur?
Violence on screen, especially violence directed against women, is what most upsets British TV viewers. Sex scenes are considered OK, providing adequate warning is given with regards content, and the same with swearing. I rather agree with that. If there are graphic depictions of violence in a TV program I will tend to turn the program off. It is also rather lazy from creative perspective. It is quite possible to suggest violence without a graphic portrayal.
Oh, me too. I used to love me some horror gore slashfest. Can’t go there too often these days.
Oh, and speaking of unexpectedly horrific rape scenes in movies – Strange Days.
Probably Ubuntu, 32-bit version. Depending on the hardware, you might want to look a the version that uses XFCE as the desktop. It is less resource hungry than gnome or kde.
Ubuntu.
As I told Setar, I’d recommend Xubuntu for all purposes. In addition to being bloated (and thus suboptimal for a laptop), the latest version of GNOME has a dreadful interface; I have yet to meet anyone who’s used it and doesn’t hate it.
Oh my god the kitties. So cute.
This is the first time I watched it. Little One was still sleeping. She heard the tiny mews from the kitties, lifted her head up (with unopened eyes and bed hair) and said “kitty?”. I hurriedly turn off the volume and she went back to sleep. So cuuuuuuuuute.
Are the kitties ever let out the box? That seems like a very small space to keep them in all the time.
It just sounds to me like “Ubuntu” is not just Ubuntu anymore.
A bit of googling in the meantime did inform me of Xubuntu being less heavy. Given that the laptop is from ’04, it’s probably necessary.
Louis ,
It wasn’t really on topic, but stupid title changes in general bug me and this one in particular bugged me even more. I felt it was denying the reality of the movie just to spare someone’s feelings. Or rather, fee fees.
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Giving movies with extreme violence +13 warning, but those with a bit of boob showing +18 makes me rage.
Same with parents who forbid their children from watching anything remotely sexual, but have no problem with them watching someone being torn limb from limb. It always makes me think of my friend who loves Terminator. She watched it dozens of times, since she was little. She’d seen all the violence. Only a couple of years back had she found out there were sex scenes in there – her parents had always sent her from the room.
One movie I have but not seen beginning to end is Naked Weapon. The scene that left me in shock was the one where
TRIGGER WARNING
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the boss lady of the training camp for young female spies and assassins drugs three of them and some of her guy lackeys rape them. It’s supposed to teach them how to distance themselves from what’s going on with their bodies if they ever need to have sex with a man they’re assigned to kill. And of course the guys all high-five each other when they’re done.
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It left me wondering how many of the girls who survive that camp are left mentally broken.
Come to think of it, if I can’t keep myself from stopping at that shot, I’m going to get rid of the movie. I can stand gore and psychological scares. Torture scenes and rapes scenes just make me want to chop off the heads of the people doing the torture and rape. Reading about it in a book induces the same reaction, but not as strong.
Really, compared to the aforementioned movie, Bug was easier to watch, and I found that one to be a real mindfuck.
There are seven kitties, but they aren’t always all there. I guess either the box is actually quite big so they are somewhere behind/under the camera or they are taken somewhere else.
(Note: I just got back from a canoe trip, and I have lots of unconnected thoughts about it. Here’s one of them.)
Thoughts from canoeing, #1:
It’s interesting how I think about my body in the backcountry vs. in the city.
In the city, I think: how does my hair look, am I breaking out again, how do my thighs look in these shorts, is this a good colour for me, do I need makeup, have I removed enough body hair today? I worry about my appearance. There are mirrors everywhere.
In the backcountry, I think: do I need to take my inhaler before this portage, have I applied enough sunblock, where’s that damn bug spray? Appearance doesn’t matter; functionality does. I don’t see a mirror for six days, and it’s wonderful.
In the city, I get frustrated with my short, average-weight, solid body. I wish that I was naturally slender and feminine. I go to the gym to lose weight.
In the backcountry, I appreciate my broad shoulders and strong arms. I like the way I can carry most of my body weight on a portage and then paddle for hours without getting tired. I’m glad that I spent all those hours at the gym, because it gave me strength and endurance.
I was never good at sports, and I always hated it when people said that every young person should play a sport. I still think those people are wrong, but now I can see the benefits of having a physical hobby. It would be great for teens (and adults!) to spend more time appreciating the things their bodies can do, without worrying so much about what they look like.
Nutmeg – Agreed. When I run, I forget about how – I just enjoy that I can run for as long as I can.
Nutmeg, what a lovely and insightful post. (saved!)
I want a kitty now.
Actually, I’ve always wanted a pet again. I’ve already started thinking of ways that we could afford one again but it’s too soon for that. I’m getting ahead of myself.
I’m miss my pets. =(
On the kitty cam, I love the the black/tan and grey/tan kitties. That coloring/style pattern has always been one of my favorites. I dunno why but I think its teh awesome.
Beatrice, #12,
WORD!
In other words: I fully agree with your cogent points. ;-)
Louis
P.S. Part Time Insomniac, #13, WTF? Oh that’s just… yeah not watching that film.
Holy fucktonne of shit and shinola! reasonable fellow suffers from the most serious case of cranialrectal inversion I have seen in months!
Aprilcomeshewill:
I saw it. Not bad, as horror flicks go. There isn’t a horror flick on the planet that will ever bother me (or stick with me) as much as Once Were Warriors.
I want to do violence to reasonable fellow.*
*I don’t approve of violence. Don’t take this as an encouragement to do violence to reasonable fellow.
It is not the desire to commit acts of violence on people that marks the difference between the civilises and uncivilised, but the willingness to act on such desires.
Beatrice, be careful when you do things like this. A few years ago, Cath (Now Althea) expressed a similar sentiment and also said, well, not really. And a blog full of dishonest assclams quotemined the statement in order to “prove” that this blog, as an unit, laughed at rape victims and told rape jokes.
Some of those fine people have since moved on to the slimepit.
Janine,
*headdesk*
Beatrice, I am not saying that I disagree with your sentiment. But the simple fact is this, cases like Althea and Rebeecca Watson’s “Guys, don’t do that.” can unexpectedly set off shitstorm.
This is more a reflection of the toxic attitudes of large segments of society then of those these rather minor words.
Ooooo, Newt Gingrich is still dissing Mitt Romney! Just got a robocall from Newt hawking his new movie about Reagan – he starts off talking about how lousy the country was in 1980 until Reagan came along, then said that it’s just like that now, except “we have no Reagan to lead us, so conservative citizens have to band together and work on grassroots efforts”, then goes on to talk about his movie. No mention of Romney anywhere. Buuuuurn.
Janine,
I understand. The *headdesk* is for certain people’s desperate attempts at making Pharyngula look bad.
But I will try not to contribute to that in the future. There are some other things making me mad right now, and some of it is leaking into my feelings about reasonable fellow.
Beatrice, I probably should not have have “warned”. I just wanted to point out that a similar statement set off a shitstorm by people who already hated this place. But also, it is hard to say just what will set it off. I failed in making myself clear.
It was not my intention to tell you to be careful about what you say. But intent is not magic.
So, guess who just had lunch with one Ms Daisy Cutter?
:)
Also, Mr Darkheart is watching Howard the Duck.
*headshake*
Is he watching that willingly?
I watched Howard the Duck once. Once.
Fuck you, too, doctor.
Poor Howard, trapped in a movie he did not produce.
Janine:
Yes!
I asked him why and he said “It’s on HBO and there’s nothing else on right now.” *eyeroll*
READ A BOOK!
Hi there
I’m back from the most wonderful weekend away with friends and friends only. I was sooooooo good to be just me for two days and not “mum”. I love my kids, but it was great to have a weekend without them.
URGENT
Could somebody point me to the direction of DDMFM? Or his phone number or get in touch with him and tell him to send me a mail (nym Ät yahoo DOT de)?
‘Cause I’ll be heading for Berlin in 8 days and it would be a shame if we couldn’t meet because my laptop died.
Janine:
:D
He’s finished two Lee Child books this weekend already. I’m trying to convince him just to take a nap with me.
reasonable fellow is supplying plenty of reasons for anger all on his own.
and now, reasonable fellow is in full meltdown mode. On the thread xe was TZTed.
Going to the airport now — for realz . LOL Have a good day/evening All!
Want to do that someday! With both of you!
Actually, with so many people here!
TTYL you wonderful horde!
With the Swedish version, I was stubborn. It took me a couple of tries to watch it, with me pausing several times within that scene to pace around my house and do other things. That’s a series where I think the depiction isn’t gratuitous or presented in a way where the intent seems to be to titillate (as opposed to, like, torture porn), so I didn’t want to give up on the movie because of it or fast-forward through it.
With the USian version, I was in a theater. Didn’t have time to go untrigger and calm down and stabilize, so I looked at the chair in front of me and did my best to zone out. Later when there was a sex scene I left the room because I was still kinda… Not good.
Giliell,
Done.
But he may not have his phone turned on.
o_O ?
Allo allo
Side rant: mah bewbs are misbehaving. I noticed that my bras are not fitting right, so I went to the Pink-Draped LadyClothes Store, as they have free fittings.
Apparently I’ve gone from a 36C to a 38D. WTF.
/gives Esteleth’s bewbs a stern talking-to
It is not like breasts are static.
I find that shocking!
Nifty:
That would be awesome!
Catch you later!
Sili:
Which one? There’s a whole shit load of us doctors here. (Some of us are lying, some are not. :D )
Dr E:
My boobs have never been consistent. I’ve always kept a couple of different cup sizes around, for comfort’s sake.
(I notice weight gain/loss in my boobs before anywhere else.)
Bewbs…D cups…Bewbs…
{faint}
[Automated Voice]
Dear User, you have broken your Louis 3000 who came across a Bewb conversation unsuspectingly. Don’t worry it will reset itself momentarily but may look funnily at the cat for a while.
[/Automated Voice]
Louis
I did a google image search for “boob fairy”.
Why do I do things that I know I will regret?
LOL @ Louis being broken by bewb talk.
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Ahhhhh, humidity level has dropped and it feels SO much better in my room now! And there’s a breeze. Yay!
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WARNING FOR LOUIS: BOOBS AHEAD…
Is the jump in size permanent or just a side effect of sorts, Esteleth? Either way, it’s annoying when you learn that your boobs have decided they are not big enough and you have to buy all new bras in a new size.
Sili
Thanks a million
boobs
D-cup?
Kids!
thank you all very much. I left the internet kitties open on the screen, and GirlChild and Girl’sBestFriend found it, and now I can’t get any work out of them. It’s all “just a minute, internet kitties are eating” and “just a minute, internet kitties are playing”.
And hey, internet kitties are eating.
I’m home!
Reliable internet!!!
Yay!
Catching up!
Oh why did I open the kitty stream? They’re so adorable when they play, how can I ever turn away? :D
I blame you ImaginesABeach!
ImaginesABeach:
I KNOW! TOO CYOOOOOOOOOT!
I like how mama cat was all, “peace y’all, I’m out” with no warning. She left a confused pile of kittens behind!
I liked Howard the Duck.
They™ don’t make bras small enough for me.
I have not yet been able to view the kitten-cam, would someone repost the link, please? Thanks.
Welcome to the newly delurked.
chigau:
KITTENS!
KITTENS
Mama cat is back!
Mah bewbs are too big.
There was time – like, when I was an undergrad – that I wore a 34B.
*sigh*
I seem to be going the way of the EstelethSister, who is saddled with 34Fs.
OMG KITTIES.
I am attempting to determine how old the kitties are. A few days or so?
Also, how many are there? I’ve seen five at a time, but are there more?
E,
There are four orange tabbies, one calico, one dark grey, and one light grey that I’ve seen so far.
I would say they are 5-6 weeks old. Kitties eyes dont open until they are about 4 weeks old.
Insomniac,
Hell if I know.
I’ve been trying to lose weight lately, which has been working. But as my waistline has shrunk, my boobies have grown. In both band and cup, which seems counterintuitive.
So, seven kitties?
At least 7 kitties, maybe MOAR! :D
Awwwwww! The orange one is all alone!
Over at the “Email” thread, Improbable Joe said:
And I just wanna add a THIS A THOUSAND TIMES on the end here.
F-Cups!
{Faints again}
{Wakes up}
Y’all be trying to break me with increasing breast sizes! What will these breasts do next? Jiggle?* That will cause consternation.
Louis
* With apologies to Bill Hicks whose material I have decided to shamelessly rip off. Makes me as decent as Dennis Leary….oooooh hello the nineties want their material back!
Esteleth,
Smaller waist, bigger BEWBS? You’ll be posing for comic books before you know it with your bum and BEWBS pointing in precisely the same direction in defiance of anatomy.
Be warned, conforming to stereotypical female ideals can cause spinal torsion!
Louis
Grey kitteh is sleepy! Orange kitteh washes the grey kitteh!
:D :D :D
Louis, I can never be a Liefeldian woman. I have essentially no butt and narrow hips.
Louis, you do realize that you are making yourself look like you are a Tex Avery wolf.
Talk about gender stereotypes!
*raspberry*
Grey kitteh is like zzzzzz, orange kitty is like “C’mon, play wif me, y u sleep? Playyyyyy… zzzzzz playyyyy… zzzzz”
Esteleth, they were born on 4 June and yes, there are 7.
Audley and Beatrice
Thanks for the link.
I still can’t open it with my netbook but the real computer is very close.
Janine,
Good point, good point. It was remarkably like what I was aiming for. However, with a slightly more British tint.
;-)
Louis
Mind you this is more appropriate.
Louis
Louis, I am now going to mentally play Yakkity Sax when I read your posts.
I have no idea who Connor Maynard is, but I wanna beat him to a pulp.
Bad time to catch up Comedy Central, I guess.
Janine,
Wait…Americans don’t already do that when any Brit talks?
Wow! Who knew? ;-)
Louis
Audley:
She does that a lot, it looks like. And then there’s about a minute where the kittens don’t know what to do before they’re back to playing or napping.
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Esteleth – Huh, pretty sure I read somewhere that the chest area is one of the first places where many women see definite weight loss (shrinkage, however you want to put it). ‘Course, mine aren’t getting any smaller, so feh.
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Really Louis, did you have to conjure up images of women contorting themselves into pretzels with legs on comic book covers? Owie.
Louis, the word “lechery” is misspelled.
In honor of Esteleth and her bosoms: pasta just for you!
On my back porch
south-facing, sunlight reflected off the white house,
the temperature is
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48°C [118°F]
(it’s only 32°C in the shade)[90°F]
…
damn you, Janine, so will I now
!!! There is a PERSON in the kittehbox!
Camo shorts.
Audley, did you notice that people who bough Pasta Boobs also bought this?
O.o
Esteleth,
Sorry I forgot to put the standard disclaimer that I am not responsible for the content of external websites under my post.
;-)
Louis
My cats are not pleased by the mewling noises coming from my computer.
Nor mine, Audley. Though he is fascinated. I’ve muted it now, because he has some Very Important Sleeping to get back to.
Nor mine, Audley. Morgan just batted at the screen, making concerned-mama noises.
Eat it and squeeze it, Janine.
Apropos of nerds and related critters… Here’s how they prepare Bastille Day in one of Paris’ municipal arrondissements:
http://i.imgur.com/9kks0.jpg
And yep, that’s from the local authority’s official website!
o_Ô
Huh?
Took me a minute to get it, Audley.
Slow on the uptake.
Drs Bunsen and Eseleth:
My two *ahem* big cats furiously rubbed their faces all over my laptop, then hid in the bathroom. Pickles is nowhere to be found, but my guess (considering that she’s the smartest of the three) is that she’s hanging out in the air conditioning.
the black/brown and grey/tan are my favorites.
I know the kitties are fine. But still I think at times “Put them back down more carefully!” and other such protective crap. The kitties are fine and my brain is stupid.
The current I Get E-Mail thread has swung wildly between acts of extreme assholery and random weirdness.
Chimps on fire!
the grey kitty walked away. =(
@ drbunsen:
You, sir, win a googleplex of internetz ^__^
Get ready to piss, drbunsen.
Are those Naancats shitting red, white and blue?
Aaaannnnd caught up.
Thanks for the additional welcomes, everyone who posted after I left.
Reasonable Fellow came BACK?
*reads email thread*
Fuck. That is hate. Hugs for all the people xe deliberately hurt, that’s terrible shit.
Well, I can tell this is going to be one of those days when I drink way too much coffee and end up babbling incoherently.
I’m going to go sit in the sun and tweak a Gameboy tune for a while. That should clear my head of the horribleness I just read.
For everyone else,
Random!
One other thing. I just figured out that in the past 26 days, I have had 2 days off. And next week, I work six days. Which means that, come next Sunday (which is (or course) my Friday), I will have worked 30 out of 33 days.
And I was wondering why I am so tired. I think I figured it out.
Janine,
It’s probably for the best though, after all transphobic muppets rapidly lose their entertainment value. But pissing on a burning chimp is always good.
Louis
Janine:
The first bit necessitated the second bit, I think.
I know I needed some frivolous and bizarre humor to cleanse the palate after the ironically-named reasonable fellow was finished with his marathon troll fest.
As it is, I blame Louis for the random weirdness. It’s Louis’s fault. Really.
And I also just remembered that, on July 15th, I go back on the fire call out list which means that I could then work another 16 days without a day off. If that happens, I’d be up to 49 days of work with only 3 days off.
Wow.
chiptuneist:
Cool! That is awesome.
@ Ogvorbis:
Yes. They are trailing the France’s flag colors (red, white and blue). Note also the berets. And the baguette bread instead of a pop-tart…
I just have a hard time believing it, and I live in the goddam city.
(Or maybe it’s just someone who anticipated on the current debate on legalizing pot… Ahem.)
Last year, for winter solstice, Girl commissioned Wife to crochet a Naancat scarf for future Son in Law. Came out really well.
Very clever, Comedy Central, very clever.
You try to make me forget how annoying your ads are by focusing my attention on how much I want to smack the hon. Marco Rubio.
Things I have learned today: Gerbils find bowls of ice water endlessly fascinating.
A googolplex of internets? My, that’s rather a lot! I’ll have to store the spares on my yacht.
[A. R. walks into thread with a gigantic Foodsaver bag of frozen decaying porcupines, throws them on table.]
There. That’s seventeen decaying porcupines. Should last us a day or two.
…I wish to subscribe to the Gerbils with Ice Water newsletter.
A.R., those would last us about 5 minutes over in the I get Email thread.
Esteleth:
After my surgery last year, I dropped back down to 110 lbs and went from a 36C to a 38B. I’m back to 118 lbs now, but the 38B stayed. Bodies…
ObGrumble: It’s damn near impossible to find any bra in a 38B.
Audley:
*Imagines Syd & Chuck playing with ice* Hee. On the rodent discovery front, Havelock prefers a water ‘box’ to a rat box. One way to prevent rats from chewing in a certain spot is to put a bowl or dish of water down. (If persistent, make it half vinegar.) Well, I had a square baking dish of water in one spot in the bathroom. A while ago, I discovered someone was using it as a toilet. Turns out it’s Havelock – he perches on the edge and lets go. Heh.
[A. R. comes back from”I get e-mail” thread, comes back with a 1,000 yard stare.] Holy Jeebus on a stick that’s fucked up.
Is the 7th kitty ok? I haven’t seen them at all. Of course, I haven’t been watching long either. Just wondering if there’s something up that I missed out on. Is there a place where they do updates and info on this? I literally only have the streaming link.
The light grey one and the orange one that are always together (I think, unless I’m mixing up orange ones since there are four of them) are my very favorite.
Yeah, A.R, it suuuuure is. /passes the brewski
I haven’t noticed it on the other kitties but I’ve seen the grey one move its mouth a lot when sleeping. It’s adorable.
Those two kitties sleeping all squashed against the side of the box and each other are sooo cute.
Haha. The grey one is all “I’m gunna use you two as pillows”. XD
And now the grey kitten is gonna sleep on them. *squee*
(Is it obvious that I’ve never been allowed a pet and still can’t get one because I live with my parents?)
(Is it obvious that I’ve never been allowed a pet and still can’t get one because I live with my parents?)
No.
It just seems like you love kitties a lot. I haven’t been able to get a pet since moving here from MI in my teens. I want a pet again. =(
I hope things work out so you can get a pet.
borked the quote. my bad.
/sigh
O.o
Oh cats! Erm forget I said anything.
Louis
I actually sleep in that weird way of the lightly orange kitty sometimes when it’s hot. Hands above my head, head at an unhealthy looking angle.
The moment I’m in my own apartment I’m going to visit a shelter and try to get a kitten to pick me up for keeping. ;)
Too bad that I’m probably not going to move out any time soon.
Trigger warning: “She was executed for the crime of being raped” https://proxy.freethought.online/taslima/2012/07/08/she-was-executed-for-the-crime-of-being-raped/
HULK SMASH!!!!
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NB: Study shows loss of control leads to paranormal beliefs http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-loss-paranormal-beliefs.html
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Price to address rising carbon dioxide levels, save coral reefs is “one year of GDP growth” http://phys.org/news/2012-07-price-coral-reefs-year-gdp.html
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Hidden narratives of torture http://phys.org/news/2012-07-hidden-narratives-torture.html
“What interests Elliott is how self-professed ‘good’ states make use of ‘bad’ practices to serve their own ends and, moreover, what specific mechanisms are used to employ, justify, rationalise and evade detection.”
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3Qs: Celebrating America’s independence http://phys.org/news/2012-07-3qs-celebrating-america-independence.html
“First, July 4 is not Independence Day. Rather, it took place on July 2, 1776 when Congress approved the resolution offered by Richard Henry Lee of Virginia. On July 3, John Adams wrote the following to Abigail: “But the Day is past. The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America.”
Then on July 4, Congress approved a Declaration, originally drafted by Thomas Jefferson, explaining what had been done on July 2. Also, there was no grand signing ceremony.
The cream-coloured one just very deliberately adopted one of the gingers as a pillow, and now its head is bobbing up and down with every breath.
No, Louis, not like that.
Don’t think the ginger is going to take that lying down for very long, though.
I mentioned this livefeed to my sister (wondering why in the history of the caternet nothing like this has been there before), and she immediately suggested I help her get rid of some here kittens.
Unfortunately I already have 200% as many cats as I’m allowed. And that’s not counting the neighbour’s.
That’s the thing that makes me saddest about my cat, watching how other kittens sleep all in a heap and knowing she can’t. :( But there’s no way we could afford the bills that accompany two cats. Double everything is not a winning formula.
Opposablethumbs,
O.o
o.O
O.O
Q.Q
Louis
I’m a bit threadrupt at the moment, so I haven’t been keeping abreast of the various discussions, but it’s only fair to balance pasta boobs with, well, this:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/matthew-verso/382027749/
Can I just say, the mama cat is *gorgeous*. I’m not familiar with that variety of tabby (cream base with faintly orange stripes), and it’s very striking.
Aren’t all states self-professedly good?
Birger:
After putting up with assholes setting off fireworks all around me for the last 2.5 weeks and still going on, the only independence I give a shit about is to have their indepence to shoot off fireworks taken away.
birgerjohanssen (from one of your links @136):
Mental gymnastics leads to belief in psychic octopus. The lengths people will go to feel in control…(I wonder if there’s an image of a psychic octopus on the interwebz that PZ could use…)
Well, this TET is making me more and more anti-cat. And I have 5 of them.
Caine
I think this should make you anti-webcam rather than anti-cat ;)
Caine:
5 cats? Wow. Do you have a large home or do you find yourself stepping over cats and rats (for that matter, do you have the cats segregated from the rats?)
I thought the 4 I have were a lot (in addition to the cats, with the 3 dogs, there are more four legged denizens of the house than two legged)
My brother used to have two big white rats – the laboratory-looking kind (in fact they may even have come from the lab; I don’t know) that enjoyed hanging out with our cat. The cat would lie there and let the rats climb over him and never bat an eye, as far as I can remember.
I think Caine’s household must be pretty amazing!
I really don’t like discovering a cockroach in my coffee.
Especially after drinking 2/3 of the cup.
Cats have to be taught how to hunt and what to hunt.
Gah!
I think Rosie Redfield did a bang-up job on those Arsenic-nitwits, and now that I see photos of her, I think that she’s one awesome looking woman.
But I really shouldn’t comment on that, should I?
Fuck.
I KNOW THE FEELING.
Was the coffee crunchy?
Janine:
But once they’ve got the hang of hunting, they don’t need prompting to start bringing you samples (half-killed, if you’re unlucky)… ^^°
The calico’s claw got stuck on the green towel! D:
Irunedelse, that is the cat trying to teach you how to hunt.
@ Janine:
Oh, yes! And also to teach other cats to hunt. It was especially cute with my big ol’ neutered tom when he took to treating the younger kitty we adopted like a little brother, bringing him a few dead or half-dead lizards and stuff.
ALL HAIL THE HYPNOKITTIES
nutmeg #15 – love this post!
I know right?
Haven’t been able to turn it off. Though I know I should. I’ve almost cried several times over it.
Ogvorbis, yikes! That is a long time without a significant bit of time off. I hope you don’t get called out to another fire this time around.
SO I just took a quick peek around the new slimepit. There are multiple threads now, each filled with the usual slimepit hoggling over FtB.
A.R. is anyone liveblogging ‘s pitiful efforts in the “I get email” thread?
@Drbunsen
Even if they were from there I imagine not. They’re basically scoring ‘own goal’
If anyone wants to e-mail the relevant articles the troll has given their address.
drbunsen: I didn’t see anything, but I can take a look in a half hour or so. I can only expose myself to that place for so long without going HULK SMASH! on my computer.
Yay!
I have my schedule until Rhinebeck!
Now, someone please tell me why I’m actually checking on that instead of enjoying my holiday until around the 6th?
drbunsen:
Psst…
=^.^=
Audley @328:
Ah, so you like using the mortar and pestle?
:::attention Lounge guests, we are running a special at the bar. All you can drink Mojitos, made by Audley:::
(I do so hate making those drinks)
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Cipher #329:
That sounds like an amalgamation of The Hills Have Eyes, The Joker, and 28 Days Later.
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carlie @333:
Quite glad you enjoyed your trip.
That heat sounds almost overbearing. Was it mostly dry heat, or humid?
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aprilcomeshewill:
This quote is awesome!
^^^^^This.
(what’s next for anti choice activists? Forcing women to name their children within the first 8 weeks of pregnancy to humanize the fetus even more? One step closer to personhood!)
Which, in OppositeWorld, is flawless victory.
Kitties!!! I wonder what is so fascinating about the lower right just off screen? I keep wanting to scroll over, but fixed webcam.
Yeah, I got badly quote-mined for a *hate the apologist for Catholic child-rapists RAGE SMASH* post, but it was by the accommodationists during the Tom Johnson affair, not the slimepit. I believe the slimepit have referred to it occasionally since, but AFAIK I’m not on their target list.
irenedelse, that was interesting. BunsenCat was not fooled by the purring, whereas the mews of box o’kittens caught his attention immediately and riveted him to the screen. I wonder if the higher pitched mews were more accurately reproduced on these tiny laptop speakers.
Tony, there was an article in the Onion awhile back about women seeking abortions to first decorate a nursery.
That scene in The Millennium Trilogy is deliberately horrible, it aimed to be close to a horrible reality.
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The Brit horror film parody “Severance” is 1% parody and 99% horror, but I like the concept of the clueless boss that has the group sent to a “team building” excercise in the middle of nowhere, and gets the wrong address.
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“Shaun and the Dead” is much recommended. Apparently, being dead is not a cure to gaming addiction.
Transphobic shitface is too boring to keep me awake this late. Good night.
Alethea, my apologies for not spelling your moniker correctly earlier. I should have double checked before spelling it.
Jebus, our medical system is truly fucked up. I paid a honking big check the hospital for the Redhead’s initial care (it was supposedly all covered minus deductable). They just sent me a slightly less honking big check in refund. Comes in handy as it will cover most of the last stair lift for the house. The truly important one that will allow the Redhead to leave the house without 34′ of ramps, or being carried up/down steps.
*does a gentle dance from the deskchair avoid an earthquake being recorded*
Slowly. Painfully. It does sould like progress is being made.
Give my regards to the Redhead.
Thanks Janine. That particular misspelling does actually bother me because it’s not just a typo. Althea is a real but different name, without the classical river Lethe in it.
And on an earlier topic, there are of course non-horrible Australian films, though the humour doesn’t always travel well. Some lighter ones that I liked are: Muriel’s Wedding; The Castle; Priscilla, Queen of the Desert; The Rage in Placid Lake; The Dish; Bran Nue Day; He Died with a Felafel in his Hand; Ten Canoes.
Yay, Nerd! Glad the check came through already.
Thanks, Tony. :)
Well, part of the time was at the shore of an 8,000 acre lake, part near the Mississippi. “Dry” never entered the vocabulary.
NEW THREAD AT LAST!