Without spoiling, consequences of the previous season of The Flash have allowed for alterations of this season's present, and it's having a ripple effect across all of the shows. The Legends are in a different time, but since they're in a TARDIS timeship, they can basically be wherever/whenever the writers need them to be.
@Monogram You forgot to add, "If you're Jewish, you're fucked."
A friend of mine said last night, now we can either be sunshine patriots or winter soldiers.
I'm gonna get my Bucky on.
I saw it on Thursday night, walked out emotionally compromised, and waffle between wanting to see it again and not being sure I can emotionally handle it.
Honestly? I haven't been this wrecked since Wash took it in the chest. Ironic, considering.
I walk for 20 minutes a day now, thanks to my dog. Sometimes, if the weather's nice and I'm feeling energetic we'll go a longer walk. I've also pretty much completely given up soda.
I don't know that it's having any effect on my weight, but I generally feel better.
I'm also three months away from completing payments owed on a major debt which will free up my finances considerably.
MUSH/RL friend of mine was given a gift of Uncle Joe's Mint Balls by our pal in from the UK. Unfortunately he forgot them at our mutual friends' house. We work in the same place, so I just got to walk over to his desk over on his side of the building and announce, "Hey man, you forgot your balls at S&K's place. If you want your balls, you're going to have to talk to N. So just remember to go get your balls, okay?"
As expected, the co-workers around him started cracking up.
@Arkandel said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
I actually loathe this quote. For a long time I couldn't put my finger on why, but I think perhaps it has a lot to do with being as equally judgmental in its own way. The problem is neither the choice to be a generalist nor the choice to adhere to one specific course, but the judgment that either choice is less than optimal or somehow beneath the other. Fuck unnecessary binaries.
Jobs:
Retail - toys, clothing.
Service - cocktail waitress, banquet server
Call Center Sales Rep
Call Center Customer Service Rep
Call Center Retention Agent
Renaissance Fair performer
Unfortunate soul who must pass out flyers in the street
Lots and lots and lots of administrative jobs
Hey, @PuppyBreath? It's okay. We live in a society where there's this expectation that we have a GOAL and a PASSION for a thing that we do, but the truth is, not everyone is built like that. I'm in my 40's and have never had a "career goal" or any clear idea of any practical occupation that I could connect to as a passion.
I managed to track down my greyhound's breeder in Ireland, and chat with her about how well he's doing. It was really nice to be able to thank her for him, and the health and happiness he's brought into my life.
Edit/Update: She is sharing pictures with me of him before he was flown out from Ireland to Canada where he was originally purchased. It's really incredible!
The first thing the boy Garion remembered was the kitchen at Faldor’s farm. And then the murders began.
By day, the Nicollet Mall winds through Minneapolis like a paved canal. And then the murders began.
So I was reading how in an interview Kevin "Fucktard" Sorbo insisted that the Jews are responsible for the death of Jesus and even though collectively people have long since been "no, Romans, ok" about it, if people are gonna blame Jewish people for it, and without his death they wouldn't have their religion, I now kind of want to write a parody:
"It's okay, It's okay, you're welcome!/You always say that it was the Jews/What can we say except you're welcome!/He dies for all your sins, what good news!"
Apparently it's okay now to fetishize Judaism.
I mean, sure - you want to get together on Friday night, enjoy some challah, sip a little wine? Be my guest. But performing the blessings and comparing the whole shebang to yoga? Fuck you. No, really. My faith is not for your commercialization.
Yeah, I'm not going to put myself in a position where I have no income and can't take care of myself or my dog. But I am going to bust out the old resume.
Had a meeting with the department head, who said I interviewed wonderfully and all my answers to questions were terrific, but the person they chose had a little closer of an association with the position. He also conceded the point that given my own niche position with the company doesn't really lend itself to much in the way of connection to the other departments and understands I don't want to be stuck in a hole and not able to stretch.
So I'm a few degrees less pissed (but still pissed), and I'm still going to shop the resume out, but I'm far less inclined to burn bridges in an epic fashion.
On an entirely different note: If one more person smugly insists that Rock wouldn't hurt their cat, I'm going to consider them duly warned and deserving of what they'd get.
I have a greyhound. They tend to have prey drives of varying degrees because they were bred as hunters for small, fuzzy things. When greyhounds are adopted out, they are tested for their tolerance of cats and small dogs. Rock has mixed results with dogs, and considers cats to be prey.
Whenever I warn someone of Rock's prey drive because he's going to be in the vicinity of their small creature, I frequently get a very dismissive, "Oh, my pet can handle themselves." It makes me want to shake them and point out it's not a dick waving contest, I genuinely don't want him to decide that the animal in his vicinity needs to go in his mouth.
Rock is an emotional support companion. I have the documentation from my doctor. This is NOT the same as a service dog.
That being said, when people ask if he's a service dog, I tell them he's an emotional support companion. Most of the time they don't question me further, but if they press, I'm generally decent about stepping out if there's a problem. Amongst places I won't take my dog: salons, restaurants, etc.
Except for that one bitch who basically told me to never take my dog anywhere because she had allergies.
ABC's new version of Dirty Dancing was a complete piece of unnecessary eat my shit pie, but I'm also doubly irritated that they white-washed the Housemans and the Kellermans into painfully WASP-y versions of themselves.
Does anyone else find it interesting that the MRA's screaming about other people being snowflakes who need a safe space are suddenly crying and winging that they can't into ladies only charity viewings of Wonder Woman?
I mean, this part makes me laugh, but the whole thing makes me angry.
Boy howdy.
Your analogy doesn't work.
The bakery didn't have a posted sign stating "We do not offer service to same sex couples."
However, the women only night was advertised as EXACTLY that. So if a man looks at the advertisement and decides that he's going to purchase a ticket, it isn't because he somehow accidentally missed the memo, it's because he willfully chose to purchase a ticket to a women only event to make a statement.
Also, to clarify:
Jason is Nazi.
Susan is a bigot.
Put a pin in that;
For obvious reasons, I take the term "Nazi" very seriously and I don't apply it casually. Whenever I see or hear people saying that Nazis/White Supremacists have the right to be heard, the reaction is visceral for me, and for a lot of Jewish people. "Nazi" isn't just a catch-all term for someone who's a dick to us, or men prancing around in fancy jackboots. It doesn't even represent a vague idea of genocide. It represents a very real and pervasive piece of history involving entire branches of family trees (and entire family trees) being wiped out, it involves ancestral memory of cattle cars and tattoos, wire fences and ghettos.
And in all serious, if you think I'm being melodramatic? Maybe I am, but I stand by every word I say.
I am going to see Wonder Woman tonight, and I am beside myself. This is one of those movies you wait for your entire life to see hitting the big screen. The trailers alone almost brought me to tears. For a lot of women of my generation, Wonder Woman was our very first example of a woman who served a purpose that was something other than domestic.
I am literally having trouble finding words.