Kaymyth

Heh. It can be useful, but it's hardly the end-all, be-all. Supernatural exaggerates its usefulness. Supernatural also exaggerates ghosts. That sounds like a terrible plan. This...is more true than you realize. I've been known to walk into wildly haunted places and have them go completely silent the moment I stepped over the threshold.

Well, blame labor laws. You can't get a baby on set to film until they're at least three months old. That's why "newborn" babies on TV and movies always look terrifyingly huge.

I would just like to say right now that I am insanely jealous of every last one of you that gets to do this together. ...that is all.

Some of them may actually be doing it on pure reflex. Certain things get so ingrained into one's social patter that they just pop out of your mouth whether they're appropriate or not.

I have anti-Apple powers. If I so much as touch an Apple device (I don't mean push a button, I mean just touch the thing's case), within 15 minutes it will display a behavioral error that the owner has never seen before. I also am capable of deghosting houses. Unlike the other power, this requires conscious effort. One of these things is more useful than the other.

It probably depends on which Kindle you have. I'd never go for a graphic novel on my Paperwhite, but then I buy all my Cosmere books as real books anyway. No idea what it'd look like on a Fire.

Humanity in general is stuck in a developmental phase where our sociological and technological progress has far outpaced our evolution. We have cars and planes and trains. We have the internet. We have nuclear weapons. We have a vast global economy and the ability to connect with people on the other side of the world. In the meantime, our brains are still wired for Stone Age tribal social systems. We're built for an Us vs Them situation where the Us consists of our family tribe, and Them is everyone else. There are a limited number of people our brains can track in the Us bin, so there wind up being quite a few Thems. Religion is a really easy way to separate the Us versus the Them, and it's been used to that effect over and over and over again. Religion isn't the problem. Our inability to acknowledge and find solutions to our instinctive need to gather our family groups and hoard our resources together because you never know when the next famine is coming in a hunter-gatherer society IS. We can't even get people to agree that the basics of science exist, let alone how to apply that science to our sociological development. And it keeps feeding into itself because a bunch of people have gathered together as another Us has decided that science is a threat to their beliefs and must be condemned. This is a big storming problem.

I think it's at least in a reasonable sphere of accuracy, but transliterations are very subjective beasts.

There exists a Word of Brandon where someone asked him if Scadrial had waffles. His answer was yes. Now you get to imagine Steris eating waffles for breakfast. You're welcome.

Take joy in the knowledge that every time to express your happiness at living in New Orleans, they experience a pang of despair.

When it comes to Twi's parents, I'd say they're just chomping at the bit waiting for her to have "problems" so they can start lecturing her on how they knew New Orleans would turn out wrong and clearly she must move back yadda yadda blah blah feed the brain weasels wow shut up you arrogant twits. ...I don't like Twi's parents.

Eh. Six of one, half a dozen of the other...

There...there are no words for this level of amazingness.

It won't be catastrophic, I don't think, but there definitely will be economic repercussions from this. This will ripple into the US economy, but how much exactly isn't known yet.

"Handegg" = the best name for Murrican football ever.

Yeah, but dealing with the sexism tends to make one a lot more sensitive/aware of condescension in its other forms. And rather less inclined to tolerate such shenanigans.

@Chaos - Yeah, I'm at a loss. Doesn't matter what The Only Joe pops into his signature, you're the actual expert here.

I think there's also a big male/female divide going on here. Many women have this experience with people acting condescending to us just because we lack a Y chromosome. When you deal with this over the course of a lifetime, it turns into a natural rage trigger.

While I get your reasoning there, it's still not respectful. It's condescending, dismissive, and rude. It basically says, "You're wrong, but you're too young and naive to be worth any effort."

I'm pretty sure that Mestiv is right - this is a browser setting, not a site setting, and is likely to be completely different from your Word settings, too.

On the old site, you had to log in with your original username, no matter what you might have changed it to since. On the new site, you log in using your CURRENT screen name. Doesn't matter what your original name was, the site is now smart enough to ID you by your current name.

Unfortunately, you know that there are Americans reading that who really ARE that dumb.

I've found that threats work well.

I'd make the front piece an overlay - have the garment fasten up the front somehow, and then use frog clasps to attach the overlay front over that fastening. Me, too. I'm scandalous. I've thought about what might happen if Eva became a worldhopper. She'd take one look at Rosharan clothes and decide that everyone on the planet was completely insane. Then she'd take a safeglove and wear it, but only after cutting out the fingertips, because you cannot play the gorram fiddle with your fingers in a glove.

I couldn't stand to wait three more weeks...I had the money in my account with plenty to spare. So I went ahead and did it. MY CAR IS PAID OFF YOU GUYS!