and see, we don't do Santa or the Easter Bunny either.
Ben: I didn't ask for any of this. I just want to be normal. Gronx: I wanted to be an underwear model. We play the hand we're dealt.
'Touched'
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.
msbelle - May 28, 2008 11:34:04 am PDT #9449 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
sarameg - May 28, 2008 11:43:43 am PDT #9450 of 10001
Once when I was wee, I tried to eat half a bottle of childrens' vitamins because I scraped my knee. Because whenever else I was sick and hurt, I took medicine, right? (long history of ear infections, so antibiotics + childrens aspirin.)
Thankfully, they caught me before I'd made too much of a dent. And FREAKED OUT.
I'm not sure it parallels the placebo discussion exactly ( I was administering the placebo, not the parents) but ... I think it is possibly not so good an idea to encourage. Hey, the kid might notice when it doesn't fucking work!
aurelia - May 28, 2008 11:47:12 am PDT #9451 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I just watched that spire intro again. The sun seems to be setting awfully far north.
aurelia - May 28, 2008 11:50:25 am PDT #9452 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Aurelia, have you been in the alley behind the Ford Center for the Performing Arts (aka the Oriental)?
Yep. That's the direct path from the Goodman to the red line. That's also where crowds gather to greet the actors from Wicked after a show. The city really cleaned up that alley a couple of years ago. I see the Haunted Chicago bus tours there all the time.
I know that Oprah is convinced that her studio is haunted--it's the old Armory Building where the dead from both the Iroquois and the Eastland disasters were taken.
I'll have to ask the people I know at Harpo about that.
megan walker - May 28, 2008 11:51:04 am PDT #9453 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Actually, IIRC, placebos have a pretty good success rate. I swear I was just reading about this somewhere. And the author was basically saying that's how homeopathic remedies work.
msbelle - May 28, 2008 11:51:44 am PDT #9454 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
It is possible that I am way too excited about a possible source for like 80% off pokemon card packs.
msbelle - May 28, 2008 11:56:05 am PDT #9455 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I wouldn't be opposed to telling a kid, here have this, it will help. But I wouldn't tell them it was medicine. Like the ice, or a glass of water, or something to eat. A pill just is too much like medicine scam to me.
Typo Boy - May 28, 2008 11:56:14 am PDT #9456 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I am having such a huge craving for lemonade. Sadly I have lemonade, so it comes down to self-control.
Umm, and the reason you are exercising this self control is....?
shrift - May 28, 2008 12:06:17 pm PDT #9457 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Aurelia, have you been in the alley behind the Ford Center for the Performing Arts (aka the Oriental)?
I walk by it every day, and now it's going to be CREEPY. THANKS A BUNCH.
aurelia - May 28, 2008 12:12:23 pm PDT #9458 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Shrift, how could it be creepy since they they made it all pretty for the tourists?