Tracy: 'When you can't run, you crawl... and when you can't crawl, when you can't do that--' Zoe: 'You find someone to carry you.'

'The Message'


Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam  

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.


Strega - Jan 30, 2009 7:02:25 am PST #4269 of 30000

some people really want a large family.

People want all kinds of things. When getting what they want will permanently affect the lives of at least 14 other human beings... I'm not sure their personal self-fulfillment should be the deciding factor.

And if it is, maybe my own self-fulfillment requires me to judge them as incredibly selfish.


Trudy Booth - Jan 30, 2009 7:05:34 am PST #4270 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

People want all kinds of things. When getting what they want will permanently affect the lives of at least 14 other human beings... I'm not sure their personal self-fulfillment should be the deciding factor.

In all likelyhood she wasn't TRYING to have octuplets. "People want large families" was in response to "why would you want more when you already have six?".

And while wanting seven children isn't as common as not long ago, its not some sort of insanity.


Trudy Booth - Jan 30, 2009 7:05:56 am PST #4271 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Jesse - Jan 30, 2009 7:09:09 am PST #4272 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

FTR, there is no waxing in my plans.

I think wanting seven children under 7 years old is a little nuts. And I'm looking at Brangelina when I say that, too.


msbelle - Jan 30, 2009 7:14:41 am PST #4273 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

as if there was any question that AJolie was batshit crazy.


Lee - Jan 30, 2009 7:16:33 am PST #4274 of 30000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

I'm in the McJudgey Judgeson corner on this one too. Common sense and personal responsibility are not always bad things.


§ ita § - Jan 30, 2009 7:19:08 am PST #4275 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Knowing that I'd never go to any lengths to have just one kid, there's no way I could wrap my brain around anything that would make multiple births likely after already having six. My, oh, my.

My ER doctor yesterday woke me up by petting my hand. Which seemed perfectly reasonable at the time but I'm realising that if any of the other doctors had done it I might have started screaming. I wonder how he figured he could get away with it.

Nadal picks his butt more in the black shorts. But at least it's not as disturbing as Roddick and his junk all the time.


Trudy Booth - Jan 30, 2009 7:21:01 am PST #4276 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

I'm in the McJudgey Judgeson corner on this one too. Common sense and personal responsibility are not always bad things.

Not to pick on Perkins in particular because this seems to be a common sentiment... but this is pretty much what many many many people have to say about gay couples having children, single parent adoptions, etc. I don't get to say "how people build their own families is their own business" unless I mean it all the time.

And, again, she in all likelyhood was not TRYING to have octuplets, not TRYING to have 14 children under seven.


shrift - Jan 30, 2009 7:22:34 am PST #4277 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

I can't e-file my taxes until the state of Illinois sends me a 1099-G.


Tom Scola - Jan 30, 2009 7:22:44 am PST #4278 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

ita, I won't tell you the results, but it ended up being the longest match in Australian Open history.