Timelies all!
I'm sorry for your loss askye.
My heart expands / 'tis grown a bulge in't / inspired by / your beauty effulgent.
William ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 59: Dominate Your Face!
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.
Sheryl - Jun 02, 2008 12:20:33 pm PDT #497 of 10003
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
§ ita § - Jun 02, 2008 12:21:31 pm PDT #498 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
but do you really think it's the reason behind all of it?
What other sorts of reasons do you suggest?
God information collecting and organisation for re-presenting purposes is twisting my brain in an not-leaving-the-building-for-lunch sort of a way. I hope I at least manage a late afternoon stroll for a...well, I don't know where to get decent hot chocolate. Something.
Cashmere - Jun 02, 2008 12:37:50 pm PDT #499 of 10003
Now tagless for your comfort.
Roto Rooter gave me another $5 off this time. Which is nice. He pulled a sock and two toothbrushes out of the kids' toilet.
Maria - Jun 02, 2008 12:45:01 pm PDT #500 of 10003
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
He pulled a sock and two toothbrushes out of the kids' toilet.
Cash, I think your kids are bent on world domination one toilet at a time.
I admire you so damned much.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 02, 2008 12:47:29 pm PDT #501 of 10003
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Yes, I think I'd have long since resorted to yelling "That's it! I'm putting a lock on the toilet and you're wearing diapers until you can drive!"
Theodosia - Jun 02, 2008 12:54:39 pm PDT #502 of 10003
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I heard the news about Bo Diddley -- he was younger than my Mom is! That's just wrong, because he should have got to go on much longer than he did. SIGH
Burrell - Jun 02, 2008 12:58:10 pm PDT #503 of 10003
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
What other sorts of reasons do you suggest?
behavioral, chemical loop that reinforces itself
I've met some people who didn't articulate their compulsive behavior in terms of some neurosis or anxiety that needed to be staved off, it was just stated as fact. And sometimes in kids I see compulsive repetition which seems to me more connected to pattern recognition than anything else.
Laura - Jun 02, 2008 1:22:29 pm PDT #504 of 10003
Our wings are not tired.
Cash, I think your kids are bent on world domination one toilet at a time.
My son flushed a plastic cup that he found in the doctor's office bathroom. Took out the toilet until the plumber could come fix it. Wrecking them at home wasn't quite enough fun. It was a while before he was allowed to go to the bathroom by himself again.
hippocampus - Jun 02, 2008 1:28:13 pm PDT #505 of 10003
not your mom's socks.
Ha! F2F in PA.
::raises head from pile of paper to say...::
WHEN??!!!
Cashmere - buy the auger. Guaranteed that they'll stop flushing things.
§ ita § - Jun 02, 2008 1:34:31 pm PDT #506 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I've met some people who didn't articulate their compulsive behavior in terms of some neurosis or anxiety that needed to be staved off, it was just stated as fact
I guess what I don't get here is when they know they're done. Alleviation of a neurosis seems a simple enough mechanism. In the scenarios you describe is it just a simple knowledge that tapping that twenty times makes things right again? What does "not right" consist of, then?