Gunn ,'Underneath'
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.
Silly Jilli -- parents can't be expected to know what their kids are doing! That's why it's Corporate America's job to protect the little darlings.
ConcernedMother informed me that she was going to have me fired. I laughed at her, then went and put "Beers, Steers, and Queers" by the Revolting Cocks into the store stereo.
When her son came back in (by himself) a week or so later, I told him he needed to work on his hiding-things-from-mom skills. Then I sold him a Ministry CD.
I remember playing Tetris and SimCity on my roommate's computer in college. It was fun enough, but I'd rather spend my time on the computer reading fanfic.
I played the non-porny version of GTA with my nephew when he was about 16, in a room with his mom and dad. The violence seemed so over the top--it was like a Tarantino movie. The nephew had a good grasp on reality vs. what you can get away with in a video game, so I didn't particularly worry about him playing it, although his concurrent dislike of Harry Potter on religious grounds made me go, "Bwhuh?" He's since changed on the latter. He also claims that one of the GTA soundtracks got him into 80s metal, so we now can talk bands.
Which is probably a long-winded way of saying that my GTA experience has been largely tangental, and neutral-to-positive.
I am apparently missing the "Oooh, this is fun!" gene for them.
Me too. The extent to which I played video games was the text Hitchhiker's and I got bored with that fairly quickly.
Heh. It was one of the great joys of selling movie tickets to turn away under 17 kids from R rated movies. You gotta take your fun where you find it.
Heh. It was one of the great joys of selling movie tickets to turn away under 17 kids from R rated movies. You gotta take your fun where you find it.
I remember being 13 or 14, I guess, and trying to decide if we should try to get kiddie prices or into an R movie. Why it never occured to us to sneak in is beyond me.
Yesterday the Bane of My Existence came up with a new crackpot thing she wanted me to do, and after much forwarding of emails I finally got hold of somebody at corporate to tell them about the new crackpot thing. One of our account execs paused mid-conversation to say, "You know, I don't think that's legal." To which I responded joyfully, "I know! This is what I'm telling you!"
La la la. Out of my hands. La la la.
Oh, Maria, I could just kiss you and kiss you and kiss you.
I won't say no to that at ALL. Everyone else may commence with the being jealous now.
That being said, you may have to hit another key in conjuction with the "Fn" key. It's different for each maker, though. On mine it's the "F11" key, but on yours it could be something else.
I hope this works for you.
Hec, Ms. Pac Man is cool simply because she wears PINK! That's all she needs to eclipse her less colorful counterpart.
Anne - I have not. But now I suspect I want to.
Hec, look here.
Loving the story of Jilli in the record store.
My parents' view of sex'n'violence was not very consistent. I was not allowed to watch "Three's Company" due to the bawdy humor, but going to see "Life of Brian?" Fine and dandy with them. Ditto with Mel Brooks.
(In retrospect, I think the 3C ban was due to the overweening badness of the show, and not due to the content.)
I won't say no to that at ALL. Everyone else may commence with the being jealous now.
No. We're just all going to kiss you, too.
My parents' view of sex'n'violence was not very consistent. I was not allowed to watch "Three's Company" due to the bawdy humor, but going to see "Life of Brian?" Fine and dandy with them. Ditto with Mel Brooks.
I couldn't watch/see any of those. I also couldn't watch Love Boat and Fantasy Island. Shows that were on when I was up were seldom, if ever, violent, so it wasn't an issue. I wouldn't have liked them if they were, so it wasn't even a potential issue.
See? No. Fun.