My mother grounded me, but it's kinda hard to enforce if you're never home.
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
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.
Daisy Jane - Nov 21, 2008 10:17:09 am PST #2731 of 10002
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Kathy A - Nov 21, 2008 10:20:22 am PST #2732 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Mom only tried to ground us once (for lying to her about going to church while she was out of town for work, not because we had a party that weekend--she didn't find out about that until a few years ago), and my sister ended up going out with her friends that night anyway, so it wasn't all that successful.
tommyrot - Nov 21, 2008 10:22:14 am PST #2733 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.
what originally prompted me to ask about legality was, what if someone was spanking their kid in public? Of course, if it's not illegal here, would anyone make a big deal of it?
sumi - Nov 21, 2008 10:22:20 am PST #2734 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
Did you know that today is Magritte's birthday?
Daisy Jane - Nov 21, 2008 10:30:54 am PST #2735 of 10002
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Did you know that today is Magritte's birthday?
This is not Magritte's birthday.
Jesse - Nov 21, 2008 10:36:32 am PST #2736 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Of course, my best friend in high school had a curfew and was frequently grounded and I think my folks figured her being punished punished me also.
That was my problem my senior year in high school! Although my best friend didn't get grounded, but she did always have a ridiculous curfew.
Speaking of whom, I haven't seen her in years, but I just got a random postcard from her, and now I feel like I should call over Thanksgiving. But I don't really want to. And I'm sure if I don't reach out to her, she won't call me either, since by virtue of the postcard, it is now "my turn." @@
sarameg - Nov 21, 2008 10:39:50 am PST #2737 of 10002
I am leaving at 5. I am leaving at 5. I am leaving at 5.
Scrappy - Nov 21, 2008 10:41:47 am PST #2738 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Ha, I am leaving at 4:30! Pbbbbbht. Of course, I got here at 7:45, so the gloating is unwarranted.
However, right after work I am going to Target to buy Skull pajamas!!!!!!!!!!!
flea - Nov 21, 2008 10:43:18 am PST #2739 of 10002
information libertarian
Obama as Geeky Chuck Norris (via, of all people, Ta-Nehisi Coates): [link]
sarameg - Nov 21, 2008 10:45:16 am PST #2740 of 10002
I have to keep saying it because we are trying to bring things back online and it isn't going well. And the person we need most to speak to is unreachable. And their backup quit 2 weeks ago.