Allyson - that is totally awesome!
Can't even shout, Can't even cry. The Gentlemen are coming by. Looking in windows, knocking on doors. They need to take seven, and they might take yours. Can't call to mom, can't say a word. You're gonna die screaming but you won't be heard.
Dream Girl ,'Bring On The Night'
Natter 58: Let's call Venezuela!
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.
sumi - May 28, 2008 11:19:49 am PDT #9438 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Jesse - May 28, 2008 11:20:53 am PDT #9439 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I fixed the link for yours, Jesse.
Yeah, no.
I would totally take a placebo for myself!
msbelle - May 28, 2008 11:22:41 am PDT #9440 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
yeah, I wouldn't give the placebo. I am trying to teach mac that sometimes things just hurt. Closest I get is offering ice up for almost everything. My guess, that woman will make a mint though.
Kat - May 28, 2008 11:24:48 am PDT #9441 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
how is giving a sugar pill actually different than some of the homeopathic remedies (like teething tablets)?
msbelle - May 28, 2008 11:26:54 am PDT #9442 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
dunno, maybe not different at all.
§ ita § - May 28, 2008 11:28:11 am PDT #9443 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
This week's Secret Lives of Women is about stalking--both stalking and being stalked. Seriously chilling stuff.
Random stats: 1 million women in the US are stalked a year. 1 in 4 female stalkers stalk someone they've been intimate with. 1 in three celebrity stalkers are female.
I think I'd give a kid a placebo. Under specific and limited circumstances. I totally recommend giving me a cplacebo, as long as they are only used when they work.
I am having such a huge craving for lemonade. Sadly I have lemonade, so it comes down to self-control.
lisah - May 28, 2008 11:28:18 am PDT #9444 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
yeah, I wouldn't give the placebo. I am tryin got teach mac that sometimes things just hurt.
Yes! That's the thing that bugs me most about it. Pain has a purpose! And learning to rely on drugs to fix everything can't be good. There was a commentary on NPR yesterday by a family physician about the placebo thing. He was very anti.
Nutty - May 28, 2008 11:30:50 am PDT #9445 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
If I'd had placebo pills available when I was a child, I probably wouldn't have faked being sick so much just to get a spoonful of Dimetapp.
I was ridiculously addicted to the flavor of Dimetapp. I don't know why. Yes, the obsession is now past.
I'm not sure, though, that you need a brand-name pill; all you really need is some of those custom-M&Ms with no Ms on them, and all you have to do is convince the kid that "strengthening medicine" (what we really called them in my family) is not a joke but the real straight-up truth.
msbelle - May 28, 2008 11:32:55 am PDT #9446 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
mac is much more risk adverse than most of his friends - Terrified of falling down and scrapes. Only recently is he learning that he will survive the bruises and cuts. He had a faceplant on the padded playground surface after his hand slipped on the monkey bars and damn it looked scary and his lip bled, but only for like 1 min.
tommyrot - May 28, 2008 11:33:17 am PDT #9447 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.
If you regularly give a child placebos, at some point the child will learn the truth. I wonder if this disappointment would be like losing faith in Santa and the Easter Bunny....
Maybe they should all be tied together, and children should be told their placebos have been blessed by Santa and the Easter Bunny.
Of course, with young kids it's mama's kiss that's a placebo ("Kiss it and make it better").