Yeah, I could do that, but I'm paralyzed with not caring very much.

Spike ,'Showtime'


Natter Five-O: Book 'Em, Danno.  

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JZ - Mar 20, 2007 6:51:27 am PDT #7963 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.

And I can't believe that the guy had a SECOND dose. How fucked up is that?

I'm so boggled by that that I hardly have room left to be boggled, and irrevocably skeeved, at the fact that at the time he was working for the school district (not directly working with kids, but still -- FUCKED UP).


§ ita § - Mar 20, 2007 7:13:17 am PDT #7964 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

He didn't just have a second dose--it was a whole new drug. Just monumentally wrong.

Crazy science - drugs to erase traumatic memories

But they already do that! Well, to some degree. I have a cousin who was given a memory killer before they set her arm. They needed her to feel the pain for the procedure so they could be sure they got it right. They just fixed it so she wouldn't remember it. Then her mother told her about it later and she totally freaked out worse than she would have, probably, had she retained her memory.


Cashmere - Mar 20, 2007 7:17:05 am PDT #7965 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.

Besides the guy being a scumbag rapist, I wonder why someone would do that to a date that is going well? Why not try to have sex with your dates the old fashioned way? With consent?

My misanthropy continues to grow.


Nora Deirdre - Mar 20, 2007 7:18:47 am PDT #7966 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

I was wondering about that too...but rape is less about sex than power. He didn't want to have consensual sex with her at all.


DavidS - Mar 20, 2007 7:19:01 am PDT #7967 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

My misanthropy continues to grow.

The story had the opposite effect on me. I guess I presume there are a fair number of scumbags out there, so I was all "Yay! Look at the good in humanity and the helping and the saving and the glayvin!"


Cashmere - Mar 20, 2007 7:23:13 am PDT #7968 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.

I guess I presume there are a fair number of scumbags out there, so I was all "Yay! Look at the good in humanity and the helping and the saving and the glayvin!"

Look at you--glass half-full guy! The good news is that with the waitress and bartender, the heroes outnumber the scumbags so that's a net gain for humanity.

I should be more upbeat about it.


§ ita § - Mar 20, 2007 7:24:19 am PDT #7969 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I guess I presume there are a fair number of scumbags out there, so I was all "Yay! Look at the good in humanity and the helping and the saving and the glayvin!"

The idea that people might have seen a drug being slipped into someone's drink and not done something sickens me deeply and in a different way from the crime itself. I like the smoothness of what they did in the article but my lack of hatred for the whole species is a tenuous one and could slip at any moment. They bought a few more days.


Cashmere - Mar 20, 2007 7:26:05 am PDT #7970 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.

Man, I can't spell for shit today.

The idea that people might have seen a drug being slipped into someone's drink and not done something sickens me deeply and in a different way from the crime itself.

That's an aspect I hadn't even considered.


juliana - Mar 20, 2007 7:29:42 am PDT #7971 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

I like the smoothness of what they did in the article

They did handle it extremely well. I fear my action would have been to take a baseball bat upside his head immediately.


Frankenbuddha - Mar 20, 2007 7:30:48 am PDT #7972 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

The idea that people might have seen a drug being slipped into someone's drink and not done something sickens me deeply and in a different way from the crime itself.

Wrod.