You know, I just... I woke up, and I looked in the mirror, and I thought, hey, what's with all the sin? I need to change. I'm... I'm dirty. I'm, I'm bad with the... sex and the envy and that, that loud music us kids listen to nowadays.

Buffy ,'Lessons'


Natter 33 1/3  

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.


Frankenbuddha - Feb 25, 2005 9:45:32 am PST #1243 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Everyone leaves the appendix alone, though. I guess they deem it so completely useless as to be pitiful.

No, they leave it alone because they know it can cap all their asses if they piss it off too much.

And now the image of internal organs having asses is simultaneously grossing me out and amusing the hell out of me.


-t - Feb 25, 2005 9:49:01 am PST #1244 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Spleen~ma to your friend, Frankenbuddha. Or Spleenless~ma, whatever's appropriate.


§ ita § - Feb 25, 2005 9:50:36 am PST #1245 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

But how did he not give her the semen, ita?

He challenges that she deceptively collected it. That doesn't sound like giving, but I wasn't there.


Jesse - Feb 25, 2005 10:06:08 am PST #1246 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

This just makes me wonder that I've never heard of this kind of story -- I wouldn't have really thought it was even possible to collect any useful amount of semen out of a condom after the fact. But then, I guess the notable part is the part where she's looking for child support. Usually, if you're going to want help with the kid, you're going to want the guy to know he's involved with making it, wouldn't you?

Edit: What I mean is, the semen-out-of-the-condom trick seems like a decent plan for women who are planning to be single mothers, but don't want to buy sperm.


-t - Feb 25, 2005 10:09:32 am PST #1247 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

You'd have to use condoms without spermicide.

Whichever of these two is lying is pretty imaginitively bad, I'd have to say.


Jesse - Feb 25, 2005 10:13:13 am PST #1248 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

::takes notes, revises plan::


§ ita § - Feb 25, 2005 10:16:01 am PST #1249 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I think it's something that is supposed to happen to pro ball players and the like. But I think the assumption is that there was actual mutual groininess going on -- it's still hella shady, but at least it's a potentially procreative process.

Two of my co-workers are huge Chappelle fans, I just discovered. I'm thinking it's really irritating to be subjected to "And then Wayne Brady said!" sort of conversations in the vicinity.

Which just means we won't do it again. Damned fun to participate in. Oddly, one of them apologised to me when I said I knew him. Kinda weird.


Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 25, 2005 10:17:37 am PST #1250 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

It just seems highly weird to me that she'd go through this cloak-and-dagger stuff to conceive by the guy, and then angrily hit him with a child support lawsuit when she herself is a doctor and presumably not hurting for cash. I think it's more likely that he's lying about the circumstances of conception, although I suppose there's enough looniness out there to explain the opposite take on events.


Topic!Cindy - Feb 25, 2005 10:22:08 am PST #1251 of 10002
What is even happening?

This just makes me wonder that I've never heard of this kind of story -- I wouldn't have really thought it was even possible to collect any useful amount of semen out of a condom after the fact. But then, I guess the notable part is the part where she's looking for child support. Usually, if you're going to want help with the kid, you're going to want the guy to know he's involved with making it, wouldn't you?
Are we assuming the condom, or was that in one of the reports?

He challenges that she deceptively collected it. That doesn't sound like giving, but I wasn't there.

She didn't dig for it.


Nutty - Feb 25, 2005 10:24:11 am PST #1252 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

I mean, data-miners and expose reporters do it already, so I know that pawing through the trash for stuff you might want is not illegal. And if you do something with the stuff you want, and there are consequences...?

I don't see how this analogy fits the situation.

I mean, what would a judge do about someone who conceived as a result of pawing through a man's trash for kleenex? It's perfectly legal to paw through a man's trash; she's not committing any crimes. But, I'd like to establish a precedent whereby male excreta may be considered a dead ball beyond a certain point.

E.g., right now, you have to get a court-order to extract semen from a man after his death, right? And not just any shmuck off the street can file for that court-order, either. I'd sort of like to find out how that all plays out while the guy is still alive.