A friend of mine works for a social service agency that recently started a residential program for refugee kids. They expected it would be mostly Mexican and other Latin American boys who made it across the border, but have been shocked at the fact that it's actually Eastern European girls who were brought over to be prostitutes. Little girls, like 10, 11 years old. It's horrifying.
Angel: Will you just shut up for once?! Illyria: What? Angel: My God, the speechifying. Has it ever occurred to you that now might not be the best time for when-we-were-muck stories?
'Time Bomb'
What Happens in Natter 35 Stays in Natter 35
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.
Jesse - May 12, 2005 7:36:44 am PDT #3592 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Allyson - May 12, 2005 7:46:38 am PDT #3593 of 10001
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
Gah, Jesse. I wish i hadn't read that. Bless your friend. I would go mad with rage in five minutes if I had to work for such an agency.
Jesse - May 12, 2005 7:49:28 am PDT #3594 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, it's really really bad.
Sue - May 12, 2005 7:49:56 am PDT #3595 of 10001
hip deep in pie
There was an interview with OB on ET or AH where he was talking about how they were trying to pass the goat off as lamb, but he figured it was goat because there were all kinds of goats running around but no sheep.
Frankenbuddha - May 12, 2005 7:51:54 am PDT #3596 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
OB on ET or AH
Was Orlando on Emma Thompson or Allyson Hannigan, because they aren't usually easily confused.
runs away
§ ita § - May 12, 2005 7:53:44 am PDT #3597 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
they were trying to pass the goat off as lamb, but he figured it was goat because there were all kinds of goats running around but no sheep.
He's such a bright boy.
I'm trying to mostly ignore the slavery talk, because it sets me off very badly (I have a slavery phobia). But I do recall that a recent Prime Suspect and one or two other British cop shows of the same period featured European refugee slavery as a premise.
sumi - May 12, 2005 7:54:54 am PDT #3598 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Yes, I think that Red Cap had an episode about it.
Gudanov - May 12, 2005 7:54:57 am PDT #3599 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
Was Orlando on Emma Thompson or Allyson Hannigan
Didn't Allyson Hannigan slaughter all the goats? Wait, no, that was her character.
Betsy HP - May 12, 2005 7:55:22 am PDT #3600 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
That was a Bambi.
sumi - May 12, 2005 7:56:25 am PDT #3601 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Bambi slaughtered all the goats?