There are no absolutes. No right and wrong. Haven't you learned anything working for the Powers? There are only choices.

Jasmine ,'Power Play'


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.


Laga - Feb 09, 2009 6:29:12 pm PST #5847 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

I got stung so much as a kid I lost count. I know the first time was a bee and it was between my toes. Last stinging incident involved sitting on a bunch of justifiably angry red ants and was probably ten years ago.(knock wood)


beth b - Feb 09, 2009 6:32:01 pm PST #5848 of 30000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

I was stung at least once a summer for much of my child hood. I don't remember when it stopped.


§ ita § - Feb 09, 2009 6:38:54 pm PST #5849 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I've been stung an undetermined number of times, plus bitten by ants and spiders. I just saw a show (1000 Ways To Die--TiVo grabbed for me, it wasn't my idea) that cited the mosquito as the most deadly insect, killing 2 million a year, but that's totally cheating, since I bet few people die from the bite itself, but rather the transmitted disease. Not to mention how many millions get bitten every year and don't die--I'd rather gamble on a mosquito bite than a black widow, which only kills 2 people in the US a year.


Liese S. - Feb 09, 2009 6:39:16 pm PST #5850 of 30000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Thanks for the link, Hec. I feel somehow about it, as we say out here. I think it's hard to capture what's going on.


msbelle - Feb 09, 2009 6:46:14 pm PST #5851 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I'm pretty sure I've mentioned here before that I had over 20 yellowjackets stings from one incident - it did very little to me. But, I've been stung 5 times by scorpions and each of those got progressively worse.


DavidS - Feb 09, 2009 6:55:33 pm PST #5852 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Not to mention how many millions get bitten every year and don't die

Billions get bitten, no? I'd guess billions.

Thanks for the link, Hec. I feel somehow about it, as we say out here. I think it's hard to capture what's going on.

Put it into words you lazy git! "Somehow" subtracts knowing from the situation. Everybody feels something. Don't you know the construction about opinions and assholes? Do you want to capture it anyhow? Or release it? No words is a bad solution. (Sorry, I feel strongly on this.)

Here are my small words: It made me sad and a little teary, and also I felt proud of her. So few options. Small steps. Maybe her coach knows her better than she knows herself. I hope so.

Just little words.


Alibelle - Feb 09, 2009 7:04:57 pm PST #5853 of 30000
Apart from sports, "my secret favorite thing on earth is ketchup. I will put ketchup on anything. But it has to be Heinz." - my husband, Michael Vartan

I was nine, and on the playground in NY, when I met someone who was stung by her very first mosquito. She was completely freaking out and losing it (for no real reason other than it's unpleasant), and I couldn't stop staring at her, just befuddled. Since I came from Miami, the land of at least five bites a day, usually hundreds a week if you were my brother, I honestly couldn't fathom why she was making such a huge deal about it. And I even had an uncle die from encephalitis. And when I tried to calm her down, and explain that mosquito bites are no big deal at all, just X it and put some alcohol on it when you go home, she (and the other girls nearby) yelled at me and said I was totally mean and I could not really understand how awful this was for her.

And I was kind of stumped. Because I truly didn't understand why it was so very awful.


msbelle - Feb 09, 2009 7:16:49 pm PST #5854 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

because they were overdramatic 9 year old NY girls.


Burrell - Feb 09, 2009 7:23:36 pm PST #5855 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

ouchy, msbelle!

I have always felt like a bee wimp, but now with the rose garden we have bees and wasps buzzing around all summer. I think I mentioned the wasp nest on our back porch last summer.


Alibelle - Feb 09, 2009 7:28:17 pm PST #5856 of 30000
Apart from sports, "my secret favorite thing on earth is ketchup. I will put ketchup on anything. But it has to be Heinz." - my husband, Michael Vartan

because they were overdramatic 9 year old NY girls.

From Long Island, no less! Yeah, I eventually learned that lesson, but the memory is still so clear because I was so very baffled by her. And her friends.