Oh, I wish those council guys would let me have an hour alone in the room with her, if I was larger and had grenades.

Willow ,'Storyteller'


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Connie Neil - Mar 18, 2005 9:05:21 am PST #7617 of 10001
brillig

Is "prayerfully" even a fucking word

To some people it's the philosophy on which they base their every waking hour. "Well, we got lost, then we prayed about it, and God helped us find the freeway."

Actual quote.


erikaj - Mar 18, 2005 9:06:07 am PST #7618 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

The heir to the Jacuzzi family hit on me pretty hard once. I thought it was a job interview.


Daisy Jane - Mar 18, 2005 9:06:28 am PST #7619 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

Is "prayerfully" even a fucking word?

I can't figure out how to make it one. It's being used as an adverb, but I can only make it mean- in a way that suggests prayer- which doesn't work in the context.


Pix - Mar 18, 2005 9:06:52 am PST #7620 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

Nora, I'm sorry your day (and boss) is treating you so badly.


Lyra Jane - Mar 18, 2005 9:08:04 am PST #7621 of 10001
Up with the sun

I feel equally horrible about the idea of her starving to death

What's upsetting about that to me is, clearly, there are kinder ways for her life to end, probably many of which are easily available in her nursing home. If the courts and her husband have decided she would not want to live in this state, why slow starvation instead of a relatively quick overdose of painkillers? We treat convicted murderers better.

(I understand that, in the eyes of the law, there's a difference between removing life support and actively killing someone, but the life support removal seems crueler in this case.)


erikaj - Mar 18, 2005 9:09:07 am PST #7622 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

I think I know what they're going for, a sort of reverent, no-party-hats,optimism and peace but those people? Scare me. And they make me want to heave.


Connie Neil - Mar 18, 2005 9:10:07 am PST #7623 of 10001
brillig

why slow starvation instead of a relatively quick overdose of painkillers

Because that removes the option of a miracle.


tommyrot - Mar 18, 2005 9:11:34 am PST #7624 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.

I think people are prayerfully waiting for a miracle - for God to replace the fluid with brain.


Steph L. - Mar 18, 2005 9:13:35 am PST #7625 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Is "prayerfully" even a fucking word?

I can't figure out how to make it one. It's being used as an adverb, but I can only make it mean- in a way that suggests prayer- which doesn't work in the context.

It's an adverb that means "in a prayerful manner." So the manner in which the family was excited was in a prayerful manner, one assumes.

And before anyone asks, yes, there are prayers of excitement, or prayers said during something exciting.

[I don't agree with Schiavo's parents and I damn well don't agree with the people who insist on dragging God into everything. My point, such as it is, is only that of a pedantic grammarian who used to belong to a church that prayed their asses off any chance they got.]


sj - Mar 18, 2005 9:14:24 am PST #7626 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

I really don't like feeding tubes as a rule. My grandmother suffered for years with ALS unable talk or move any part of her body other than her eyes. The disease would have killed her years earlier if wasn't for the feeding tube.