Kaylee: So how many fell madly in love with you and wanted to take you away from all this? Inara: Just the one. I think I'm slipping.

'Serenity'


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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.


msbelle - Mar 14, 2005 12:24:09 pm PST #7173 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

how does the goat consent, you crazy people.

also I can be emotionally scarred by something I consent to - emotional scarring can just mean that I made a dumbass decision, doesn't mean it was immoral.

- yes, I know we are being silly, but I'm just going with the examples.


§ ita § - Mar 14, 2005 12:24:10 pm PST #7174 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

If the goat is emotionally scarred, then something immoral happened.

What about physical scarring? Or, say, death, and being in my tummy?


Almare - Mar 14, 2005 12:24:30 pm PST #7175 of 10002
"My drink preference does not indicate my sexual preference. "

You know, if you are able to, stick the kid in a private school. Believe it or not, one out of two Christian schools are uncorruptable. I know, this disturbs me too, but it's a safe enviroment.

Also, on the smart kids do not suffer in mediocre schools, they do. Your kids can have brain rebellions. It's when the certain work ( -cough- Math -cough- )feels beneath them and they subconciously start avoiding it, not doing it. They force themselves to stop learning.

And it fucking sucks. The "gifted" classes at one of the high schools I tutor at is filled with kids failing one or more classes. Not because they aren't able to learn it, but because they are choosing not to because the work is 'stupid.'

Of course, that gets the kids into easier classes, and it makes them act out more.

When child prodigies turn into teenagers, the result is frightening. Brilliant people who know every possible way of destroying you, can and will have the abition to do ist, will smile sweetly and know their low-budget school would never do a thing to such a high testing child, and feels no qualms about anything.

It sounds like frightened gibberish from here, but you've never seen a nine year old girl pick up a desk, throw it into the wall 90 feet away and yell, "Mrs. Eichner, you're a retard! What the fuck is this? WHat the fuck do trolls have to do with History?!"

By the way, what do trolls have to do with history?


msbelle - Mar 14, 2005 12:25:07 pm PST #7176 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

OH! ita - saw a special on how goat raising is becoming a cottage industry for family farmers because of the increase in immigrants that like goat in the US.


Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 14, 2005 12:26:26 pm PST #7177 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

I wish education were easily separated from all the other administrative functions of state and city government. I mean, despite having no children I'd rather see budgets scrimped on roads, police, etc. than schools. But all too often voting for a property or sales tax hike is justified by school budget shortfalls and then years later opening a new sports arena is given precedence for the public funds generated because some official can get better kickbacks from construction companies and NBA owners than the American Federation of Teachers.

Bitter over personal experience? What makes you ask?


msbelle - Mar 14, 2005 12:26:58 pm PST #7178 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Believe it or not, one out of two Christian schools are uncorruptable.

I don't understand this. what do you mean?


§ ita § - Mar 14, 2005 12:27:31 pm PST #7179 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

saw a special on how goat raising is becoming a cottage industry for family farmers because of the increase in immigrants that like goat in the US.

Woohoo! I'm cutting edge!!!! I'm at the vanguard of a change in the culinary landscape! I'm king of the world!


msbelle - Mar 14, 2005 12:28:30 pm PST #7180 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I should never tell you anything.


Nutty - Mar 14, 2005 12:29:24 pm PST #7181 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

For instance, would you sleep with somebody else's husband if you were sure the wife wouldn't find out? That's a decision that is purely a moral decision, not a pragmatic one.

Being sure the wife wouln't find out does not render the sleepage consequence-free. Actually, I probably would not sleep with said guy because his cheating on his wife indicates I probably can't trust him any more than she can.

How are ethics and morals related? Or are they? Or are they synonyms?


§ ita § - Mar 14, 2005 12:29:34 pm PST #7182 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I should never tell you anything.

My happiness upsets you.

So that's how it is.

Unrelatedly, what's the plural of OS? OSs or OSes?