one of the many local liquor stores (this is Forest Park I'm talking here!).
Oh, heavens, yes. Liquor store, bar, cemetary. Liquor store, bar, cemetary. Rinse and repeat.
Angel: If I'm not back in a couple of hours— Gunn: You're dead, we're screwed, end of the world.
'Underneath'
Natter 32 Flavors and Then Some
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
ChiKat - Jan 26, 2005 1:28:30 pm PST #1035 of 10002
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
brenda m - Jan 26, 2005 1:30:41 pm PST #1036 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I gave a guy a cup of coffee when coming out of a McDonalds once - came with the value meal, and I had better stuff at the office. He seemed glad enough of it.
I never give them cash because I suspect that they'll use it at one of the many local liquor stores (this is Forest Park I'm talking here!).
Eh, that doesn't really bother me. I spend plenty of money on liquor and frankly, I probably need it less. Actually, after spending 48 hours on the street as part of an outreach thingy when I lived in Atlanta, I know I need it less.
Joking aside, I find I have some fairly strong feelings about this issue.
My decision to give or not give at a particualar time is, I think, based more on what's going on with me internally than with the person's actual needs, which I can't ever know. So why should I get worked up about what it gets used for in the end? I'm not comfortable using a dollar to make moral judgements.
Now, if I were prepared to give someone the kind of money, assistance, resources, whatever to really make a difference in someone's life, then yeah, a little planning at least would be in order. But all the dollar I give to a homeless person will do, all it can do, is make their day a little better. So who am I to say how they should go about it?
[Kathy, you know none of this is directed at you, right? Just something I've been thinking about.]
Allyson - Jan 26, 2005 1:31:46 pm PST #1037 of 10002
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
Gah. The 5 is closed for rush hour tonight. I have to find a route home that bypasses that. With the rain and confusion, there's no way this won't be a total mess.
brenda m - Jan 26, 2005 1:33:11 pm PST #1038 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Luck to you Allyson. I'm getting out of here myself.
Gus - Jan 26, 2005 1:36:48 pm PST #1039 of 10002
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Sure. Don't log into Buffistas for more than eight hours. Find out that tommyrot is worried about going to jail.
Why?
t fires up Threadsuck like a mad thing
aurelia - Jan 26, 2005 1:41:30 pm PST #1040 of 10002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Gus! Welcome back, you.
§ ita § - Jan 26, 2005 1:42:47 pm PST #1041 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Apparently he was caught squatting in some guy's house, or something.
amych - Jan 26, 2005 1:43:21 pm PST #1042 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Don't log into Buffistas for more than eight hours
Herein, very clearly, lies your error.
DavidS - Jan 26, 2005 1:50:25 pm PST #1043 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Sure. Don't log into Buffistas for more than eight hours. Find out that tommyrot is worried about going to jail.
Also, I think the link to the picture of JZ in her corset has expired.
Gus - Jan 26, 2005 1:52:54 pm PST #1044 of 10002
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
You guys are mean.
Except for the Golden One, of course, who has a Mean named for her.
So, I guess that makes amych the mean one. Except we know better.
Bag it.
What is going on with tommyrot?