Played with Kaylee. Sun came out, and I walked on my feet and heard with my ears. I ate the bits, the bits stayed down, and I work. I function like I'm a girl. I hate it because I know it'll go away. The sun goes dark and chaos has come again. Bits. Fluids. What am I?!

River ,'War Stories'


Natter 64: Yes, we still need you  

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.


-t - Dec 11, 2009 10:09:48 am PST #24389 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Guano was an important fertilizer. I don't remember where the crazy comes in.


Jesse - Dec 11, 2009 10:11:16 am PST #24390 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Not if you've divided them by size. He's the biggest guy in his races.

But that works in my head -- there's not some larger set of people who would be faster than him. Edit: I mean set of larger people.


Connie Neil - Dec 11, 2009 10:11:29 am PST #24391 of 30001
brillig

There was a House that involved a young female model who turned out to be XY. It got all tangled up in either her father, her manager, or her father/manager sleeping with her, and while she was barely of age--making it skeevy, but not illegal--he couldn't cope with the fact that he'd been taking advantage of a "boy" rather than a "girl." Typical twisted House stuff.


erikaj - Dec 11, 2009 10:13:35 am PST #24392 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!

He was a father/manager like Joe Simpson, Connie. The real question is, whose birthday did I dump from my brain to make room for that?


bon bon - Dec 11, 2009 10:18:49 am PST #24393 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

This. I may not agree with their lifestyle choices, but they seem happy with their life and don't seem to be judgey of people who don't choose that kind of life.

I'm not sure that's entirely right, since they're apparently part of Quiverfull, where women should be submissive, contraception is like abortion and having lots of children is a tool to obtain demographic superiority. [link]


Jessica - Dec 11, 2009 10:19:56 am PST #24394 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Have you seen today's xkcd Jess? It made me think of you.

Natural parenting? Yes, it's brilliant.


§ ita § - Dec 11, 2009 10:20:21 am PST #24395 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

there's not some larger set of people who would be faster than him

But he's the guy with the size advantage over everyone else. It's not fair for them to have to run against him, if size is the discriminator.

I wonder about genetics in other sports. Cheryl Miller was a better b-ball player than her brother, I swear, and he had a good NBA career.


bon bon - Dec 11, 2009 10:23:04 am PST #24396 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

But he's the guy with the size advantage over everyone else.

Bolt's size shouldn't be an advantage, since he's an unusually tall sprinter. He's an exception to the rule that more compact men are better sprinters -- the rule has something to do with leg turnover.

eta: [link]


§ ita § - Dec 11, 2009 10:23:34 am PST #24397 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Dear lord. They're playing/singing carols in the nearest conference room. And unless they switch to Latin or Band Aid they're unlikely to hit anything I like. I don't hate Feliz Navidad, but they're butchering that. I guess it's best they don't sing anything I'm fond of.

I'm too old school about Christmas songs. They need to have Jesus in them, or, apparently, starving Ethiopians. Latin is a bonus.


§ ita § - Dec 11, 2009 10:24:51 am PST #24398 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Bolt's size shouldn't be an advantage

But Jesse's carving the groups up by size as if that was the edge. If it's not an edge, then why divide along those lines? If it's an edge, it's either theoretically unfair to the taller or the shorter guys if you have a wide height spread because of outliers.