Buffy ,'Beneath You'
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.
I sat next to QPB and got a mini-recap of the Lost shindig.
Ya know, he waved at me, and I had no idea who he was until much later. I must have met him at the W&H party. But I don't remember much from there...
I think it sounds like a children's book.
I think she should start a company. Big Public Things, by Allyson.
Not an Onion headline: Some see Virgin Mary in underpass stain.
That's it. I'ma paint one on my butt and charge people $15 to see it.
We had terrible political arguments in my family during the Reagan years. It's left me pretty uncomfortable with even very civil political discussion, I'm always secretly afraid that someone is going to get thrown out of the house.
Aimee, you got change for a $20?
t gives brenda a fiver
drops trou
I think you might be able to skip the painting part of that plan, Aimee.
I read that as underpants.
I'd say 90% of my extended family (at least this portion of them) are all conservative Southern Baptist Republicans.
I feel your pain, askye. Probably 95% of my entire family (immediate and extended) fit that description. I just don't talk politics with them at all.
I've been rather successful at politely saying that I find what is being said offensive and I have to leave.
I think that's fair. The real question is, Why don't these people regret driving you out of the house every five minutes? The whole point of family get-togethers is, like, to be together with family, right?
I've had some extensive late-night politican discussions in family, but most of the time the argument is intended as the classical definition of argument: the putting across an idea to an audience, with the intention of persuading. And I have been known to enforce violently the rule that being obnoxious (or ad-hominem, or circular, or other forms fo rhetorical failure) does not count as "the intention of persuading."
Most of the time, family conversations at big events like Thanksgiving are long, involved digressions that slip easily from Dickens to Jung to the history of the Tennessee Valley Authority (that last thanks to Mr. Flea). They are more like performance and verbal play than they are all-out war.