Hec, how about now?
Fuck, this is bad. Not quite the end of the day Monday and I'm already just a hair away from homicidal workplace road rage. I'd like a do-over on the last dozen years of career choices, please.
Bunch of wanna blessed-bes. Nowadays every girl with a henna tattoo and a spice rack thinks she's a sister to the dark ones.
Willow ,'Bring On The Night'
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.
JZ - Feb 28, 2005 2:49:01 pm PST #2726 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Lysana - Feb 28, 2005 2:49:45 pm PST #2727 of 10002
Hellbound Equal-Opportunity Nookie Hog
Heh. My family must not know they're white.
Neither does mine. But I think being part-Irish at least used to be an excuse.
§ ita § - Feb 28, 2005 2:50:28 pm PST #2728 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I know plenty of white people who are exactly sure that's what is wrong with these kids today--nobody's spanking them.
I'm quite specifically not saying anything about them. Merely, and without implication in other arenas, that you're unlikely to hear black women complaining about corporally punishing kids. The two sets are unrelated.
Manolo says, I am the Prince. You must bow in the presence of my funkaliciousness.
Lysana - Feb 28, 2005 2:50:43 pm PST #2729 of 10002
Hellbound Equal-Opportunity Nookie Hog
All "Walk and chew gum? What about KICK YOUR ASS and chew gum?"
Of course, the real time to worry is when she runs out.
§ ita § - Feb 28, 2005 2:51:43 pm PST #2730 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Of course, the real time to worry is when she runs out.
"That was my Nicorette, bitch. Now I'm really going to have to hurt you."
JZ - Feb 28, 2005 2:53:20 pm PST #2731 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
The Motorcycle Diaries songwriter genuflecting before Prince was just about my very favorite moment of the entire evening. I made Hec rewind the TiVo five or six times for that one.
Kat - Feb 28, 2005 2:55:16 pm PST #2732 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Merely, and without implication in other arenas, that it's unlikely to hear black women complaining about corporally punishing kids. The two sets are unrelated.
Yes. This. It's not about who is complaining that there isn't enough corporal punishment.
ita, read this today and laughed because I thought of you:
Katchoo says the way to a man's heart is through the 4th and 5th ribs.
Topic!Cindy - Feb 28, 2005 2:55:52 pm PST #2733 of 10002
What is even happening?
I'm quite specifically not saying anything about them. Merely, and without implication in other arenas, that you're unlikely to hear black women complaining about corporally punishing kids. The two sets are unrelated.Yes, I read that as implicit from your original exchange with Kat. But it tickled me personally, because I remember the delight in my mother's face, when she related the story (and I remember years of spankings and stories about my Nana spanking her kids, etc., etc., etc.). Along with not generally hearing black women complaining about corporeal punishment, I am unlikely to hear people in my family ever complaining about it. I wasn't trying to make a thing, and didn't think you were, either. I was just tickled by it.
DavidS - Feb 28, 2005 2:55:53 pm PST #2734 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Linda Obst at Slate posits this theory:
Hilary, who has become an "Oscar actress," a new category: someone who specializes in snagging Oscar-type roles and killing in them. If you get beat up beyond recognition and require more than six hours of make-up between setups, this is an automatic advantage.
'Cuz I was thinking how weird it is that Hilary has two Oscars and between them, Kate Winslet, Debra Winger and Annette Bening have zero. Ditto with Jodie Foster, who I like okay, but never considered one of the best actresses on the planet.
Allyson - Feb 28, 2005 2:58:43 pm PST #2735 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
I'm trying to ID a bird I saw at lunch. It looks very much in body shape and flight like a carolina chickadee, but it was the most beautiful, delicate shade of light green with black and white wings and tail. Just lovely. And very friendly. Came and stood by me, looking at me while I was looking at her/him. The subtle green made me think it was a female, but maybe the females are more of a subtle green.