Also, you can tell it's not gonna have a happy ending when the main guy's all bumpy.

Tara ,'First Date'


Natter 46: The FIGHTIN' 46  

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.


Connie Neil - Sep 15, 2006 9:42:44 am PDT #8309 of 10001
brillig

Southern-style baked chicken ... spinach with a little ham hock, baked sweet potato fries, yummy cornbread, salad and fruit. And for dessert, we had red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting.

I thought the Big Dog wasn't supposed to be eathing that kind of stuff anymore--and I thought that before I read the confirmation of Bill.

God, I miss Bill. Nobody has a homespun, affectionate nickname for Dubya.

Hell, I miss Dubya's Dad, and that's a sad, sad thing.


Maria - Sep 15, 2006 9:43:47 am PDT #8310 of 10001
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift

Do you thnk it's that, or is this just a way to try to highlight the harm the law would do while taking (for the moment) the issue of sexuality out of it?

Kaine is personally opposed to gay marriage. Barring any evidence to the contrary, I have to let that inform my view of his motivation.

the people who are all worked up about Teh Gays and Their Crusade Against Good Chiristian Folk don't really give a damn what happens to cohabitators either.

Probably, but cohabitators aren't going to cause the end of the world. Gays are the new apocalypse.


sarameg - Sep 15, 2006 9:43:58 am PDT #8311 of 10001

As if the fact that the spinach I was planning on having for dinner might try to kill me gruesomely weren't enough , must it now have a nonswedish sex life? !

I think I may be ordering pizza.


brenda m - Sep 15, 2006 9:44:00 am PDT #8312 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Honestly, I won't be sorry to see the Chicken Girl go, which I assume will happen pretty soon. Because a, stupid stupid stupid and b, she reminds me of someone annoying from last season.

Despite the way it split down male/female lines, I did appreciate hearing the women on the black team discussing getting rid of the blowhard because they id'ed him as a factor in how they can't seem to work together, not just a numbers thing. I also think investing a lot of time in pegging your alliances at this point is probably a waste.

Or at least I hope so, because boring.


brenda m - Sep 15, 2006 9:45:40 am PDT #8313 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

I thought the Big Dog wasn't supposed to be eathing that kind of stuff anymore--and I thought that before I read the confirmation of Bill.

Dunno, lot of baked stuff there, salad, fruit. That sounds like Good-for-you Southern to me.


Aims - Sep 15, 2006 9:46:17 am PDT #8314 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.

Plus, I think he alienated them when he grabbed other guy and made the decision to send whosits to Exile Island without asking the women.


Kathy A - Sep 15, 2006 9:46:39 am PDT #8315 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Molly Ivins' tribute to Ann Richards.

Bullock, "And this is Charles Miles, the head of my personnel department." Miles, who is black, stuck out his hand, and the judge got an expression on his face as though he had just stepped into a fresh cowpie. He reached out and touched Charlie's palm with one finger, while turning eagerly to the pretty, blonde, blue-eyed Ann Richards. "And who is this lovely lady?"

Ann beamed and replied, "I am Mrs. Miles."


Jessica - Sep 15, 2006 9:47:01 am PDT #8316 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Did they know before then that they were going to be divided by ethnic groups?

It looked like they did, yes -- it began with them jumping off the boat and onto their rafts, so Jeff must have already divided them up.


megan walker - Sep 15, 2006 9:52:19 am PDT #8317 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

It looked like they did, yes -- it began with them jumping off the boat and onto their rafts, so Jeff must have already divided them up.
Yes, but I don't think they knew going in. It seemed like some of them just figured it out when they were divided up.


JZ - Sep 15, 2006 9:57:21 am PDT #8318 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

If it's not weird to either partner, but just part of the ordinary repertoire, it loses the "kink" designation. If it's a special "I can only do this on Tuesdays/I have to do this when the moon is full/I have to do it this way because I saw a red car today" type of practice, where the practice becomes an expression of an unresolved emotional issue, it becomes kink.

Damn, I have a feeling that Hec has probably taken off to go write and won't be around to clarify, and I feel extremely peculiar about trying to clarify any of this myself since it's really a completely foreign language and alien culture to me, but... I think it's more complex than that. The handful of people I know who self-identify as kinky/fetishistic, even when they're in happy, committed relationships with people who share their kinks and for whom the kinky stuff is an unremarkable happy norm, still self-identify as kinky and describe the sex they have as normal-for-them-but-still-firmly-outside-most-people's-norm. Within the context of a committed relationship there's not much in the way of unresolved issues going on, it's playful and joyful for them, but they don't have much interest in calling it normal.

At least, that's my very weak and flawed interpretation of what I've gotten from my confused understanding of my sample size of three couples.