The weird thing about severe burns is that it kills all the nerve cells, so the victims often feel no pain (after the initial burning). I read a book about the crash of a commuter plane - some of the survivors were all rational and pain-free, yet they knew that they were going to die as a result of their burns because their burns were too severe.
Jayne: What're you gonna tell the others? Mal: About what? Jayne: About why I'm dead. Mal: Hadn't thought about it. Jayne: Make something up. Don't tell 'em what I did.
'Ariel'
The Minearverse 3: The Network Is a Harsh Mistress
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
tommyrot - Jun 16, 2005 12:32:45 pm PDT #9299 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Sean K - Jun 16, 2005 12:51:44 pm PDT #9300 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I think there was an ER episode about that at one point, where a firefighter had sustained burns bad enough that he was not going to survive them, but he was almost pain-free, and able to converse with the ER staff the whole time.
Also SLUT!
Kevin - Jun 16, 2005 12:52:49 pm PDT #9301 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Just watched the episode (thank you, BitTorrent people). Lots of subtext. Like very much.
Emily - Jun 16, 2005 12:53:20 pm PDT #9302 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Jen, whose gore threshold is so low friends preview movies for her to see if they're J-rated, has no problems at all with Discovery Health-type shows and is well on her way to being a nurse. Gore squick is so subjective!
Aims - Jun 16, 2005 1:10:52 pm PDT #9303 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Had a totaly beamfaced, chuckle moment during the ep last night - I live on Moorpark!
Allyson - Jun 16, 2005 1:10:56 pm PDT #9304 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I was strolling through TWoP and saw this: RE: the S&M vibe. Tim is either into it or really wants to be.
I laughed and laughed.
I thought to post: Tim's so rich if he really wanted to be into S&M, he'd buy you and beat you.
But then I'd get banned and Strega would never let me live it down.
Kevin - Jun 16, 2005 1:24:13 pm PDT #9305 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
This (below) was posted on TI.org's forums by "Bones", and I'm going to reproduce it here as it pretty much says what I want to say. Without requiring me to think.
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I think I'm beginning to get why some people don't get this show. If you're viewing it purely on it's surface qualities, you're just not going to get it. That's not what it's really about. It's about the stuff beneath the surface. The mysteries their trying to solve aren't so much the crime of the week as the larger mysteries of their own characters, and their place in the cosmic plan.
People who don't get that, never will get this show. I'm not dissing them for this. I don't get American Idol. The larger audience apparently does. I never will get American Idol. I don't watch it. My advice to people who don't get that there's more happening here than some repetitive crime show is, don't watch it. It's not for you. . . . .
Allyson - Jun 16, 2005 1:36:46 pm PDT #9306 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
The mysteries their trying to solve aren't so much the crime of the week as the larger mysteries of their own characters, and their place in the cosmic plan.
There's a cosmic plan?
Atropa - Jun 16, 2005 1:40:13 pm PDT #9307 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
There's a cosmic plan?
Yes, and it can be yours for the low price of $19.95 a month!(Cosmic Plan contract lasts from signing until end of the world. Side effects may include paranoia, bouts of existential dread, and zombies. Results not typical.)
Daisy Jane - Jun 16, 2005 1:41:36 pm PDT #9308 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Tim is either into it or really wants to be.
Now, why would that be. Because the episode was about it? Was it handled in a way that made it seem so?
Let's say I write a story or article about cheating on one's spouse, and played out according to the needs of the story or facts, I don't make any "cheating bad!" moralizations. Does that mean I want to cheat on my husband? Or does the fact that I wrote the thing at all mean that?