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hell, i'm pretty embarrassed about the things i have yet to say.

huh.  odd.
in the dream, are you emotionally attached to him, or is it a no-strings fling?

Sounds better than what people shoot here now, which is:
- Wild animals for meat

is there not enough game to accommodate hunting, or is it just considered to be in poor taste over there?

Yeah, no, that doesn't work. We've torn out the entire front lawn and covered it with shade cloth and two inches of bark and it still thrives. Anytime we have to pull up the cloth to relay/replace it, we have to pull out a disgusting network of ghostly pale roots. It also survives boiling water. The leaves don't, of course, but it's back in full strength in a week or two.


Nigel, this is Bermudagrass.

heh.  figures.
you get a little shade that you want and the shit dies, but if you blot out the sun it just laughs at you.
i think the lesson here is that grass yards, in general, are a cruel joke that we play on ourselves.
but it's okay, because we'll all end up in tucson where there's no grass, i guess...

Just discovered that if my county was an independent country, it would have the second or third highest gun ownership per capita in the world, roughly equivalent (54 per 100 inhabitants, but the number of unlicensed weapons could make it higher) to Yemen and behind only the US.

SHOOT THE GRASS!

I support both this idea, and your new avatar.

Sometimes that's all you can do, LMNO. I'm glad hear the conversation, fraught or not, helped. 

Bermuda grass is an evil, ugly alien life form. You have to get all of the rhizomes, down to the last section, or it will invade and strangle everything in a given area.

at least it can be passed of as intentionally planted.
dallisgrass is the devil of grasses afaict.

It seems to be the grass of choice out here. Which makes sense, since it's nearly impossible to kill and the Fresno sun is murderous. We've tried everything, and the only way is to yank it out the hard way. I should dig a trench between my garden and the lawn, such as it is, to prevent it from invading.

Grass.

Yeah, well, we're not quite a desert out here. Although I'm not sure that the grinding Sun of Tucson would kill it. We've tried to kill it before by not watering. Alas.

you know what kills it?  shade. 
i don't know if it's SOP where you are, but here, when they plant a suburb, they make sure the land is flat and treeless, then sprinkle house seeds on the ground, and then put Bermuda sod around them.  then, in order to say that the lots have trees, they plop some quick growing saplings on each yard, and the grass looks fine. then after a decade or so, the trees are big enough to provide shade, and the bermuda flees the shadow of it in terror, clinging doggedly to the sunny spots in the yard. then the homeowner either figures out that he has to have more than one type of grass, or goes mad trying to make it grow where it doesn't want to.

Bermuda grass is an evil, ugly alien life form. You have to get all of the rhizomes, down to the last section, or it will invade and strangle everything in a given area.

at least it can be passed of as intentionally planted.
dallisgrass is the devil of grasses afaict.

huh...
no sensation other than the sound? (which i'm sure resonated in your skull quite nicely)

weird.

got it.  and agreed.
hm... the term seems to me to be a defense, to imply "what i said could be interpreted as a challenge, but i don't intend to argue about it"
which perfectly fits the context you lay out.
hadn't really thought about it until this point.

those, at least, roll off the tongue better, even though they are both portmantarded.

Roger, i thought you were opposed to 'just saying'?

From TSG

wait... so is it all current accounts that will be converted to time savings accounts? (CDs here in the states, i had to look that up)
and they are mandatory to renew as such upon maturity? just this once, or from now on?
wtf.  that's crazy.

http://reason.com/blog/2013/02/25/law-enforcement-targets-inc-discontinues

That is very likely my least favorite portmanteau ever.   

yeah.
that's the sense that i get.
i'm really glad they've changed and would only tell us that we should get behind the next war if it were actually a good and necessary one.