I'm eleven hundred and twenty years old! Just gimme a friggin' beer!

Anya ,'Storyteller'


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.


Tom Scola - Dec 11, 2009 10:37:30 am PST #24405 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Is is wrong that I always want Bowie to dress up as the Goblin King to sing that?

Is there anything you wouldn't want him to dress up as the Goblin King to do?


Jesse - Dec 11, 2009 10:39:16 am PST #24406 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I'm not even sure I see it as a realistic eventual threat - with 19 kids at home, who has time to go out and vote anyway?

Oh, I'm sure Jim Bob could make time. I mean, Michelle's home with the kids, and she won't be voting anyway, right?


JZ - Dec 11, 2009 10:39:43 am PST #24407 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

they're apparently part of Quiverfull,

Huh. Wikipedia said the Duggars have explicitly disavowed any connection to Quiverfull; their impression of Quiverfull is that it's all about endless childbearing as a grim duty and an obligation, whereas they themselves are choosing to do it for pleasure. Still wildly excessive, but a slightly different flavor.


tommyrot - Dec 11, 2009 10:39:51 am PST #24408 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Is there anything you wouldn't want him to dress up as the Goblin King to do?

Like, say, renew a drivers license at the DMV?


tommyrot - Dec 11, 2009 10:40:55 am PST #24409 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I have a Quiverfull... in my pants!

OK, that was a dumb joke, but maybe someone will laugh anyway....


bon bon - Dec 11, 2009 10:41:35 am PST #24410 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

I don't have any comment on Jesse's whackadoo plan but I did want to link to this article about what a huge difference T makes to athletic performance: [link]

I haven't paid enough attention to what the Duggars actually say to know if this applies to them, but I don't mind people believing things I don't, as long as they can leave me alone to go another way. Aside from the "demographic superiority" bit, because I guess eventually they would take over the world, but I don't see that as an imminent threat.

I don't so much care about the existence of the movement, either, I just think the show is misleading. They have an extreme lifestyle, no doubt. But it's not because they just love children and happiness and puppies, you know? It's because they are warriors seeking to outnumber people of other beliefs. And the show doesn't ever address that. The commercials are nauseatingly cutesy.


Jessica - Dec 11, 2009 10:42:06 am PST #24411 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Like, say, renew a drivers license at the DMV?

In this modern age of camera phones everywhere, I can't see a downside.


Trudy Booth - Dec 11, 2009 10:45:41 am PST #24412 of 30001
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

Is is wrong that I always want Bowie to dress up as the Goblin King to sing that?

Obviously not.

I don't so much care about the existence of the movement, either, I just think the show is misleading. They have an extreme lifestyle, no doubt. But it's not because they just love children and happiness and puppies, you know? It's because they are warriors seeking to outnumber people of other beliefs. And the show doesn't ever address that. The commercials are nauseatingly cutesy.

Where are you getting the warrior thing?


Strix - Dec 11, 2009 10:46:05 am PST #24413 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Is there anything you wouldn't want him to dress up as the Goblin King to do?

Er...no?

Y'all are gonna make me look up stuff on the Duggars, right?


Jesse - Dec 11, 2009 10:47:39 am PST #24414 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

whackadoo

Hmph.