My parents planted trees for my sister and me, but I don't think placentas were involved. Just blue spruce. I don't hate the thought of burying a placenta--you can compost just about anything organic. But it seems like one more thing to keep track of for a new parent. What with feeding and diapering and juggling helpful (or "helpful") relatives, who wants to bother tracking down a shovel and a sapling?
Buffy: How was school today? Dawn: The usual. A big square building filled with boredom and despair.
Buffy: Just how I remember it.
'The Killer In Me'
Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Calli - Jul 22, 2010 10:02:11 am PDT #14026 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Lee - Jul 22, 2010 10:02:52 am PDT #14027 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Points at what Dana said
msbelle - Jul 22, 2010 10:03:59 am PDT #14028 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
laughing out loud at the lot of you!
I found the missing clothes. Whew!
Trudy Booth - Jul 22, 2010 10:05:41 am PDT #14029 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 don't get the skeeve, really. Why is a placenta nastier than any other piece of meat?
§ ita § - Jul 22, 2010 10:08:00 am PDT #14030 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Why is a placenta nastier than any other piece of meat?
Society already has relative skeeves set up for pieces of meat, and human meat? REALLY high on the skeeve meter, if you've noticed.
I am having Zankou's today. If I ever leave the office on time. Which is early.
Jesse - Jul 22, 2010 10:08:18 am PDT #14031 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I don't tend to eat any part of a human, and I'm not personally excited about eating any filter organ -- I haven't eaten liver, for example.
Sophia Brooks - Jul 22, 2010 10:08:34 am PDT #14032 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I really think I might have recoiled from a meat teddy bear as well.
Dana - Jul 22, 2010 10:09:47 am PDT #14033 of 30001
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Okay, people can stop saying meat too.
Trudy Booth - Jul 22, 2010 10:10:24 am PDT #14034 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
Society already has relative skeeves set up for pieces of meat, and human meat? REALLY high on the skeeve meter, if you've noticed.
Sure, meat from a dead human. But no humans died to make this meat. This is human-friendly meat.
And, since generally its the mother eating it herself, is it really canibalism? I mean, nail biting is nasty, but its not canibalism.
Calli - Jul 22, 2010 10:10:41 am PDT #14035 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I really think I might have recoiled from a meat teddy bear as well.
Okay, people can stop saying meat too.
I can't say a tofu teddy bear would be any more appealing to me.