I like money better than people. People can so rarely be exchanged for goods and/or services!
Willow ,'Showtime'
Natter 62: The 62nd Natter
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.
tommyrot - Nov 21, 2008 8:16:06 am PST #2710 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
tommyrot - Nov 21, 2008 8:18:43 am PST #2711 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Michael Jackson hasn't been in the news for a while....
Michael Jackson 'becomes a Muslim and changes name to Mikaeel'
Nicole - Nov 21, 2008 8:29:57 am PST #2712 of 10002
I'm getting the pig!
Hold up! Michael Jackson is 50?!? Crap. That's really shocking to me for some reason. Holy cow.
I was spanked as a child. I can't say that it taught me to hit, but I can see the connection. And I'm sure that some children would make that connection at a young age, I just know that I didn't.
flea - Nov 21, 2008 8:47:31 am PST #2713 of 10002
information libertarian
I was spanked as a child and it taught me that bigger people can do what they want to you, but that doesn't make them right. Think in terms of correcting my behavior it was a wash, too - I got more stubborn and rebellious.
That said, I have smacked Casper on the butt in anger. Not calculatedly, though. Is that better, or worse?
Nicole - Nov 21, 2008 8:49:25 am PST #2714 of 10002
I'm getting the pig!
it taught me that bigger people can do what they want to you, but that doesn't make them right.
I got that from the phrase, "because I said so" and "because I'm the mom, that's why." Heh.
Jesse - Nov 21, 2008 8:52:15 am PST #2715 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Hold up! Michael Jackson is 50?!? Crap. That's really shocking to me for some reason. Holy cow.
Prince, Madonna, Michael Jackson -- all the same age, which wasn't so surprising 20 years ago, but 50 looks pretty different on each one of them now...
Frankenbuddha - Nov 21, 2008 8:55:10 am PST #2716 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Puppy bumper cars!!!
Scrappy - Nov 21, 2008 8:56:51 am PST #2717 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Spanking was still "okay" in the early 60s when I was a kid. My mom was not the tough one in the family. My dad did spank us (although not very painfully--it always seemed as if it was for show) as children. He also clouted us on the back of the head a few times, which was painful. I will say that the clouts were always after we did something REALLY bad, so they weren't surprises.
When we grew up he apologized to each of us and I know he deeply regretted it. He was beaten a lot as a kid and although he was a million times better parent than his parents, I know he wished he had never lost his temper with us. Because it happened so infrequently, it never made any of us afraid of him or of authority.
My brothers have never hit spanked any of their kids.
Daisy Jane - Nov 21, 2008 9:05:36 am PST #2718 of 10002
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
My mom did slap me across the face once. I won't say I deserved it, but it was provoked. I had quite the mouth on me at 17 and no hesitation at all about saying something both cruel and smartmouthed.
§ ita § - Nov 21, 2008 9:21:53 am PST #2719 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I was spanked and it was effective, and I think I would spank children of mine--just not in anger.