Well, it's just good to know that when the chips are down and things look grim you'll feed off the girl who loves you to save your own ass!

Xander ,'Chosen'


Natter 43: I Love My Dead Gay Whale Crosspost.  

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.


§ ita § - Mar 10, 2006 6:42:01 am PST #3201 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

there's some men's civil group that is trying to use Roe v. Wade as basis for equal choices to men; i.e., they can choose whether to support a baby his pregnant partner decides to keep.

Male activists want say in child support.

In a perfect world, there are no unwanted pregnancies. In an imperfect world, watch your reproductive schtuff. If you're slinging semen, step up if it actually hits something.


Nora Deirdre - Mar 10, 2006 6:44:06 am PST #3202 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

thanks for the link ita. I read it in the paper yesterday, and was to lazy, er, shaking with righteous indignation, to google.


Sean K - Mar 10, 2006 6:44:13 am PST #3203 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

If you're slinging semen, step up if it actually hits something.

I love this, ita.


Allyson - Mar 10, 2006 6:44:47 am PST #3204 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

If you're slinging semen, step up if it actually hits something.

Hm. I've been in the market for a new tag.


Trudy Booth - Mar 10, 2006 6:48:21 am PST #3205 of 10001
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

Don't get me wrong; I looooove pockets in skirts. Just not formal dresses/skirts. Because....they're *formal.*

that's what decolatage is for, isn't it?

Things are much more complex than that, Gud. Most of the science funding my group gets is from the military. The military funds some great science.

And lots of highways too. It would be nice to fund those directly but we can always seem to justify it in the name of national security. If we could fund education adequately in the name of national security that would be keen -- but we're too busy being anti-science (stem-cell research, global warming, sex education, alternate fuels, evolution, AND NOW FUCKING VACCINES ) and then whining "why are we falling behiiiiiiind" to even attempt that shit. Agh. t /rantypants

Of course, we can afford to fund studies that prove conclusively that spring break leads to drunken hook-ups...


Nutty - Mar 10, 2006 6:50:24 am PST #3206 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

Doesn't it depend on what the bullets are being shot into? And for what reason?

Well, I understand that bananas don't fly 1 kilometer with any kind of accuracy (although it would be awesome if they did!), but, a banana-sized bullet is kind of the textbook definition of overkill, don't you think?

Unless there is such a thing as brachiosaur hunting, that I don't know about.


§ ita § - Mar 10, 2006 6:52:34 am PST #3207 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

a banana-sized bullet is kind of the textbook definition of overkill, don't you think?

Well, not if you're not killing things.


Allyson - Mar 10, 2006 6:53:36 am PST #3208 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

It would be nice to fund those directly but we can always seem to justify it in the name of national security.

Agreed. But that's not how it is. It's something we have to work toward, and right now, in a country where ID is being debated, I'll take the funding hidden under cover of night until senses are come to.

My country is messy. It's like a sea of diarrhea coating everything, and it's going to take a long time to air it all out. Decades, maybe, before the pendulum swings back.


tommyrot - Mar 10, 2006 6:55:13 am PST #3209 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.

Heh, don't you think I should have the right to defend my home and family from attackers? Shouldn't I be able to use whatever weaponry I need to protect the lives of my loved ones, including heavy machine-guns, flamethrowers and nuclear weapons?


Allyson - Mar 10, 2006 6:56:19 am PST #3210 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

Heh, don't you think I should have the right to defend my home and family from attackers?

We've solved this by owning rottweillers.