One of the things I heard most often after giving birth, while still in the hospital, was "what are you going to do for birth control"?
A very effective answer is, "remain a lesbian." It tends to make people shut up.
I could squeeze you until you popped like warm champagne, and you'd beg me to hurt you just a little bit more.
Fuffy ,'Storyteller'
Natter 61*
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.
Kat - Oct 08, 2008 10:12:50 am PDT #3391 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
bon bon - Oct 08, 2008 10:12:58 am PDT #3392 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Is anyone having trouble with bloglines?
amych - Oct 08, 2008 10:14:33 am PDT #3393 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I'm just saying that I don't see this truly changing any real bigot's beliefs or prejudices.
As I said, it's not an end, it's a place to start. But fuckos like that definitely don't stop being racist when they get to maintain their world just the way they like it -- sometimes when they're in a situation where they have to deal, they do change. And much more often, their kids do. I'm not pretending that everything in our society is all better, but I do think that day-to-day, practical exposure -- the red wire or the blue wire -- makes people who aren't likely to change their minds do so, at least sometimes.
And while I'd really rather the fuckos woke up nicer tomorrow, I'd still prefer a world where they think evil things inside and don't get to act on them than one where they're free to do evil openly.
tommyrot - Oct 08, 2008 10:16:01 am PDT #3394 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.
Damn. Bloglines has been fucked all day, so I just discovered that today is the 2nd Annual (Unofficial) International Cephalopod Appreciation and Awareness Day, 10/8/2008
I'd have squid for dinner in celebration, but I had squid for dinner yesterday....
Typo Boy - Oct 08, 2008 10:19:50 am PDT #3395 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.
On the mental state thing:
McCain just replaced "My fellow citizens" in a speech with "My Fellow Prisoners".
JZ - Oct 08, 2008 10:20:40 am PDT #3396 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.
Now I'm filled with a craving to be aware and appreciative of a nice platter of cephalopod, lightly fried with aioli dipping sauce. I can't tell you how much I'd appreciate that cephalopod.
Jesse - Oct 08, 2008 10:21:38 am PDT #3397 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ooh, I would appreciate such a cephalopod as well!
What I do not appreciate is being at work today, apparently.
Connie Neil - Oct 08, 2008 10:22:36 am PDT #3398 of 10001
brillig
My license plate frame is for Miskatonic University, Home of the Fighting Cephalopods.
Go 'Pods!
msbelle - Oct 08, 2008 10:24:34 am PDT #3399 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I am Jesse.
I do appreciate the free Chai a co-worker just gave me.
2 more invoices and I am done with one big task for the day. Not so excited about jumping into another big task at 3:30 though.
Anyone know what I should get my Dad for Christmas?
Kathy A - Oct 08, 2008 10:26:46 am PDT #3400 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I'm getting my dad a bottle of his favorite after-dinner apertif, B&B. Another thing I've gotten for him in the past is a gift certificate to his favorite woodworker's shop, so he could buy wood for his various projects.
Does your dad have a favorite hobby or drink?