It's like, in the middle of all this, I'm paranoid that you'll think I don't like poetry.

Buffy ,'Empty Places'


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.


StuntHusband - Aug 12, 2009 10:46:26 am PDT #3466 of 30001
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark

Thanks for the Snopes link.

I am perfectly comfortable with my knowledge of computer security, after 15 years in the field. Explaining this to panicky relatives and friends who - sad to say - don't know a CD-ROM table from a cupholder (hand to God)...yeah.

Yay Snopes!


Steph L. - Aug 12, 2009 11:06:09 am PDT #3467 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

SH, seemingly there have also been rumors that under the new health plan the government will be able to take money directly out of your bank account. sigh.

You know how I foil their eeeevil plans? Being broker than broke.

TRY AND FIND MY MONEY, GOVERNMENT BITCHEZ!!! You can't, because there ain't none!!!


msbelle - Aug 12, 2009 11:12:15 am PDT #3468 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

HUNH - [link]


Cashmere - Aug 12, 2009 11:15:31 am PDT #3469 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.

I saw a clip of Kathy Lee Gifford claiming that doll gave her the willies because what was next? Dolls doing it? She basically equated breastfeeding with sex. She was appalled that girls who hadn't developed breasts were pretending to breastfeed. I don't know if she is sickened by wee girls feeding their dollies with bottles.


Trudy Booth - Aug 12, 2009 11:20:25 am PDT #3470 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

I'm appalled she never made her dolls 'do it'.


brenda m - Aug 12, 2009 11:29:43 am PDT #3471 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

My sister barely makes a living wage and she's had to take two weeks furlough this summer. It drives me crazy that they don't target those things a little more.

I sure as hell don't want to be furloughed but I could absorb it a lot better than people further down the scale can. Above 23k isn't exactly a progressive scale.


flea - Aug 12, 2009 11:32:58 am PDT #3472 of 30001
information libertarian

I know lots and lots of wee children - boys and girls - who "breastfeed" their dolls with their actual nipples. I have also seen a little boy "breastfeed" a toy truck. Kids with nursing younger siblings already do this kind of imitative play all the time.


Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 12, 2009 11:46:12 am PDT #3473 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

She basically equated breastfeeding with sex.

Well, one usually does have to have the latter to make the former necessary...


Jesse - Aug 12, 2009 11:55:40 am PDT #3474 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

We were talking about the breasfeeding doll at work yesterday, and I couldn't decide if I thought it was awesome or weird. Possibly both? I think any kind of active bodily functions are weird on a doll, but I think pro-breastfeeding propaganda is awesome.


Polter-Cow - Aug 12, 2009 12:06:18 pm PDT #3475 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

The Vegetarian Myth:

Soil, species, rivers. That’s the death in your food. Agriculture is carnivorous: what it eats is ecosystems, and it swallows them whole.