Atherton: Half the men in this room wish you were on their arm, tonight. Inara: Only half. I must be losing my indefinable allure.

'Shindig'


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.


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.


Jessica - Jul 22, 2010 10:10:41 am PDT #14036 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Why is a placenta nastier than any other piece of meat?

It's not meat, for one. It's mostly blood vessels and connective tissue - the stuff you'd carve off of any halfway decent steak and maybe give to your dog if you didn't want to throw it out.

[Seriously, giving birth is exhausting. After it's over, you crave comfort food. Not variety meat.]


§ ita § - Jul 22, 2010 10:10:44 am PDT #14037 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

How about moist meat? I bet placentas are really moist.


Dana - Jul 22, 2010 10:12:34 am PDT #14038 of 30001
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

STOP SAYING MOIST


Strix - Jul 22, 2010 10:12:35 am PDT #14039 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Eating parts of oneself, I think is it for me.

I have no probs with organ meat, but I won't eat brain, tongue or balls either. Tried 'em, don't like 'em.

I wouldn't eat an animal placenta, either, so eating human placenta is out. It doesn't look like it would taste good, aside from the ZOMG IT OOZED OUT OF MY VAG squick.


§ ita § - Jul 22, 2010 10:12:56 am PDT #14040 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Sure, meat from a dead human.

You make that distinction. I don't think all humans do. Not Jesse, for sure. And not me. If I cut your leg off and don't kill you, is it seriously less nasty than taking it off your dead body?

And why wouldn't eating yourself be cannibalism? You're redefining the word. Eating yourself is merely self-cannibalism, a refinement.


Strix - Jul 22, 2010 10:13:58 am PDT #14041 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Even with the AC blasting, housecleaning is HOT HOT GROSS today.


Jessica - Jul 22, 2010 10:14:50 am PDT #14042 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

How about moist meat? I bet placentas are really moist.

Oooooh, you're mean.

I really don't want to have to explain to my co-workers why I'm laughing so hard. Quick, someone give me a double-rainbow video to blame this on.


Hil R. - Jul 22, 2010 10:15:28 am PDT #14043 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

To totally change the topic: has anyone else been watching "Huge"? I'm finding I like it a lot more than I expected to.