'Potential'
Is it better the second time around? Or the third? Or tenth? This is the place to come when you have a burning desire to talk about an old episode that was just re-run.
I'm giggling now at the idea of people trying to enlist in the armed forces and being turned down for being "suicidal," given that they're choosing to enter into a situation that could lead to their death.
"Sorry, son, we have to turn you down for your mental illness."
"Whaaaat?"
"You know you could be killed in combat, right?"
"Well, yes, but it's worth it to me."
"Sorry, son, that's a suicidal mindset, and we can't have that in the troops."
"But..."
"Sorry, son. Try the Coast Guard."
I think for armed services it is "suicide missions", not the act of serving.
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane, he had to fly them. If he flew them, he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to, he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.
"That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed.
"It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.
*Hearts* Ginger.
I guess the difference in definition comes from taking something in everyday pop culture and trying to fit it into academic technical terminology.
This, totally. Academic jargon != What Words Mean In The Real World.
(See also, Theory of Evolution)
It seems like there should be a different word for something that's more like self-manslaughter, rather than self-murder, which is what we think of as suicide.
Don't know what that word would be, but it'd be a reasonable word to have. I mean we refer to people behaving as though they have a death-wish, taking "unreasonable" risks.
GRIS! How was NoCA? How's married life?
GRIS! How was NoCA? How's married life?
NoCa was amazing. Married life is, thus far, awesome. Though so far remarkably similar to shacking-up life. That should change once we move out of NYC next year though (we're thinking Nashville and a house).
Woo! I can recommend Nashville! Though, uh, it's not entirely certain that we'll still be here in a year. But not unlikely, either.
i'll be here! Kate, it's really a shame that we still haven't managed to meet up.