Miscellany

[loneraven]

It's really nice to be home. I didn't have the quietest of weekends, really; I was at Amicus training again on Saturday, and that was kind of sort of exhausting. Practical, not theory, so lots of running around with my hands in my pockets trying to make myself as good an investigator as possible, i.e., not very good. The funny thing is, I find, is

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[biascut]

Yes yes yes to your brief unrelated rant! Someone elsewhere on my f'list just posted the following from the Daily Mail comments:

Its very natural to have a family (the most natural thing in the world except plants)

which leads me to want to construct a huge diagram ranking everything in the world in order of naturalness, with plants at the top and Wham bars at the bottom.

[marymac]

You can add the lecture apparently happening tomorrow in cognition and Culture, Why do intelligent people do unnatural things? to the list.

I am not going to go and heckle. I am not.

[biascut]

I really really think you should!

(Have I ever told you that it freaks me out whenever I see your name, because mary mac is actually my name? I am m@rykm@c everywhere but livejournal, and every time I see your name I have a moment where I think I've secretly created a livejournal account and am using it without telling myself!)

[marymac]

But, my supervisor would look very disappointed if I did. And then we'd get The Talk about us all being One Big Happy Department now again.

No, but its awesome! Mostly I end up being something else because someone else got in there first. I have no idea how I managed it on LJ.

Using an account without telling yourself would also be kind of cool, but I think mostly worrisome...

[forthwritten]

I think I'd want to dispute that. There is no way that rainbow drops and popping candy are more natural than Wham bars.

But yes. Lots of things, like arsenic and septicaemia and infant mortality are natural, but I don't think anyone would say that makes them desirable.

[not_vacillating]

This. I have on occassion been tempted to leave post-it notes in the sort of health food store which advertises everything as Natural and Wonderful reading, "Deadly nightshade is natural, but would you eat it?"

[loneraven]

Dude! Blue WKD is more unnatural than Wham bars!

[biascut]

But it's so stretchy! My scale of natural is more freaked out by weird textures than weird colours!

[forthwritten]

I propose mixing blue WKD, Wham bars and popping candy into a gloriously wrong mixture. Then drinking/eating it. Who's with me?

[marymac]

Um. Does watching in horror count as 'with you'?

[biascut]

Your reverse psychology is working to convince me that natural things ARE better!

[loneraven]

Or that talking to Kat is bad for your physical and mental health...