Big stop just to renew your license to companion. Can I use companion as a verb?
Wash ,'Ariel'
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.
Kathy A - Jun 24, 2010 8:44:55 am PDT #8746 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Amy - Jun 24, 2010 8:46:12 am PDT #8747 of 30001
Because books.
Lee - Jun 24, 2010 8:55:50 am PDT #8748 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Somewhere, Perkins just shuddered and doesn't know why.
I do now!
Why would you do that to vodka of all things?
If we were playing things that shouldn't taste like meat, booze would be on the list.
Daisy Jane - Jun 24, 2010 8:57:46 am PDT #8749 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Ugh. So people are freaking out about a school in Mass giving out condoms to students 1-12 grades. (Giving out is also kind of a misnomer. They will give them to you, but you have to talk to a nurse or counselor). Anyway, I can see where it's a bit extreme. I can also see that kids are getting pregnant as early as 9.
A friend's response to all this? "They" (I'm guessing the government. Though which government she doesn't specify), should tax parents for the pregnant kid and their baby because apparently only then will they care about what their kids are doing.
I know there are shitty parents in the world who probably truly don't give a rats ass what their kids do, but the majority even of those whose kids get into one kind of trouble or another are probably working as hard as they can to provide for and raise their children. And in this economy when people are working multiple jobs and some families put up with horrid commutes so they can live somewhere safe (if they get that) and affordable. Day care can be prohibitively expensive, and your solution is to tax these people?
Gah!
§ ita § - Jun 24, 2010 8:57:58 am PDT #8750 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Everything should taste like meat, if only once. And if only once, that meat should be bacon.
amych - Jun 24, 2010 9:03:00 am PDT #8751 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Sigh. Things is locked down here, thanks to a bunch of dumbasses who decided the looniversity was a fun place to run to after playing cops and robbers somewhere off campus. Not that I wanted to go outside anyway, with it being 100 deg.
Amy - Jun 24, 2010 9:04:59 am PDT #8752 of 30001
Because books.
I'm eating a BLT right now AIFG.
flea - Jun 24, 2010 9:06:01 am PDT #8753 of 30001
information libertarian
The town in question in MA is Provincetown. It's a tourist town on the Cape, big arts and gay community. Not exactly Smallville.
ETA: the public school population, K-12, is 200.
Jessica - Jun 24, 2010 9:08:46 am PDT #8754 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
ETA: the public school population, K-12, is 200
And I'm assuming only one nurse's office. So regardless of the age range of students actually using the condoms, it's "free condoms for grades K-12."
flea - Jun 24, 2010 9:10:36 am PDT #8755 of 30001
information libertarian
Actually they have 2 schools - K-6 and 7-12. And sixth graders, sadly, are in the possibly-needing-condoms population.