Y'all are making me hungry. I'm thinking Subway for a turkey wrap.
Wash: Mal, your dead army buddy's on the bridge! Zoe: He ain't dead. Wash: Oh.
'The Message'
Natter 34: Freak With No Name
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.
Daisy Jane - Apr 06, 2005 8:48:03 am PDT #3735 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Frankenbuddha - Apr 06, 2005 8:49:06 am PDT #3736 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
It's right up there with squirrels terrified into incontinence
Does that relate to the Peruvian Squirrel Pimps?
DavidS - Apr 06, 2005 8:51:03 am PDT #3737 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Does that relate to the Peruvian Squirrel Pimps?
It does. Those were related discussions.
Sue - Apr 06, 2005 8:52:35 am PDT #3738 of 10001
hip deep in pie
Everything comes back to the Peruvian Squirrel Pimps.
Or dogs in Elk.
tommyrot - Apr 06, 2005 8:56:12 am PDT #3739 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.
Has the research into farting herring been posted here? It's been honored at the 2005 Ig™ Nobel Tour of the UK, along with the gay duck necrophilia research.
beathen - Apr 06, 2005 8:58:26 am PDT #3740 of 10001
Sure I went over to the Dark Side, but just to pick up a few things.
I'm thinking Subway
That's what I had for lunch. I ate it outside, too. (Here in the land of "the winter" I was excited... Lunch! Outside! when it's warm!)
I really need to move somewhere where it's warm year round.
Connie Neil - Apr 06, 2005 9:05:04 am PDT #3741 of 10001
brillig
I don't know how many people remember Elizabeth Smart, the girl who was kidnapped from her home in 2002 and was found with two people nearly a year later. The woman involved has been repeatedly found mentally incompetent, and she refused drugs and treatment because she says she's not crazy, everyone else is evil. Prosecutors want to force the drugs on her so she'll become competent so they can try her.
This disturbs me. It smacks of "We'll drug you into the condition we want you in so we can do what we want to you." She says God gives her messages through movies and has told her to keep silent. Nobody claims the Prophet of the LDS Church is crazy, and he says he hears from God all the time.
Taking a girl from her home and turning her into a man's second "wife" is wrong. But drugging someone into conformity against their will also feels wrong. Why not just say, "OK, she's nuts, lock the door"?
Scrappy - Apr 06, 2005 9:09:33 am PDT #3742 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Connie, I think then the problem is that the defendant is then not participating in her own defense. if treatment made her more rational, she might make different choices as to what she wants to say--pleading differently, perhaps.
Aims - Apr 06, 2005 9:09:59 am PDT #3743 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I agree, Connie.
Betsy HP - Apr 06, 2005 9:11:31 am PDT #3744 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
I *think* (people can correct me on this) that the Supreme Court has ruled that it's not only okay to forcibly medicate people for their trial, it's okay to forcibly medicate people for their execution. (There was a case where a guy went psychotic after the sentencing.)