Well, good thing your dad is a good man.
Spike: Taking up smoking, are you? Harmony: I am a villain, Spike. Hello!
Spike/Harm ,'Help'
Natter 40: The Nice One
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.
Kat - Nov 22, 2005 4:32:22 am PST #6234 of 10006
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
§ ita § - Nov 22, 2005 4:39:35 am PST #6235 of 10006
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
good thing your dad is a good man.
True 'nuff. But I'm supposed to be crazy and lack a sense of self-preservation. I'd never do all that. It's textbook get yourself robbed/assaulted setup.
Cass - Nov 22, 2005 4:41:05 am PST #6236 of 10006
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
This is God. Click on the link below to find out if you make it into heaven.Does it prove the existance of god if you click the link and your computer is saved? Or show that there's not so much intelligence as might be needed in the design?
Kat - Nov 22, 2005 4:41:46 am PST #6237 of 10006
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
It is! And it isn't. I think most people tend to be good and a "crime epidemic" of people who are carjacking nice airport-driving people is less an epidemic and the epidemic of fear caused by those stories.
§ ita § - Nov 22, 2005 4:47:40 am PST #6238 of 10006
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Would you have stopped, lent a strange man your cellphone, gotten out of the car to talk to him, and then invited him into your car and driven him around? Would you have yelled at me if I'd done it.
Tangential factors include a) he's black, and b) it was raining. Which don't add directly to the risk factors, but I think make it less likely that the good samaritanness would happen.
I mean, I've gotten into strangers' cars a time or two, but I knew I was treading dangerously.
Calli - Nov 22, 2005 4:56:39 am PST #6239 of 10006
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I have stopped and lent strange men my cell phone when I saw them broken down on the freeway. For whatever it's worth, they were black and it wasn't raining.
I wouldn't have offered them (or any other stranger) rides, though.
Kat - Nov 22, 2005 4:56:56 am PST #6240 of 10006
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
sure. I'd stop and let someone use my phone. If I noticed, which I'm not especially good at doing.
I've stopped to help people and their car stuff. Changed someone's tire once. Not that I'm a good samaritan, but I hate when I'm at the side of the road and no one stops for me.
Steph L. - Nov 22, 2005 4:57:08 am PST #6241 of 10006
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Steph, that dress did make me think of you.
Because I'm sassy! And fancy!
Trudy Booth - Nov 22, 2005 5:01:57 am PST #6242 of 10006
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I once changed a woman's tire in the middle of the night in the middle of nowhere. My Mom FREAKED.
"But, Mom, she was all alone!"
"YOU were all alone"
Silly argument -- I knew how to change a tire.
Um, the dog just started chewing on the wall. Should I be concerned? Is she not getting her RDA of plaster?
Mine has recently started licking the sheets. What is that about?
§ ita § - Nov 22, 2005 5:02:26 am PST #6243 of 10006
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Steph, you're a bundle of sass.
As a pedestrian, I might lend my phone. As a driver, there'd have to be an obvious predicament. Like with neon signs.
I'm so naive -- I never imagined Chris Tucker was the bigger name of the two:
Chris Tucker, Jackie Chan and director Brett Ratner have signed up to make a third Rush Hour movie. After years of negotiations and speculation the trio will team up again for Rush Hour 3, with a fourth film still to be determined. As part of the deal, funnyman Tucker will earn $20 million for signing up and a further 20 per cent of the gross. Chan will pick up $15 million and 15 percent of the gross. Rush Hour 2 was a global smash hit, raking in over $320 million. Shooting on the third film will begin next summer. It's expected to hit cinemas in the summer of 2007.
Of course, Jackie's probably already richer than God, but still.
I think it was GQ magazine I was reading (that ranked Maddox Jolie as one of the powers of 2005) that also ranked "the black leading man" as a power player, noting that there were now multiple viable black leading men, that they'd "arrived."
All I could think was -- DUDE. THEY'RE SHARING A SPOT ON YOUR LIST. Most white guys didn't have to share. Hell, a little Cambodian boy gets his own spot. That's so not arriving.
Mine has recently started licking the sheets. What is that about?
Time to do laundry?