I know I'm a bad poet, but I'm a good man. All I ask is that... is that you try to see me—

William ,'Conversations with Dead People'


Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Steph L. - Mar 09, 2011 3:54:19 am PST #27125 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

We had a recent conversation about rape victims getting blamed. Check out the quotes. But only if you want to get REALLY pissed off.

Oh, Jesus. Five paragraphs in and I'm done:

“It’s just destroyed our community,” said Sheila Harrison, 48, a hospital worker who says she knows several of the defendants. “These boys have to live with this the rest of their lives.”

The girls who were raped, however...don't?

This is when I prefer news about The Bieber's haircut.


Cashmere - Mar 09, 2011 3:57:10 am PST #27126 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.

Makes me want to fly down there and personally start slapping the shit out of that whole community.

Time for happy thoughts. Looks like we're getting another dog. A friend found her--abandoned! She's a mini-pin mix.


sarameg - Mar 09, 2011 4:01:29 am PST #27127 of 30001

Hahah! Cash, you have an invisible Home For Wayward Dogs sign hanging over your house! (And honestly, I'm one to talk.)

She's cute.


Sparky1 - Mar 09, 2011 4:02:01 am PST #27128 of 30001
Librarian Warlord

Cashmere, I will pay for your ticket to Texas. And for a ticket out of there for the 11 year old they are victim blaming. Hulk, smash, etc.

Cute doggie! Floppy ears!

My DH called this morning. He took our dog to the park, and she did her usual thing and headed straight for a mud puddle. When he brought her home he told me she walked straight into the bathroom and put her paws up on the tub in anticipation of the bath she knew she'd be getting.


Jesse - Mar 09, 2011 4:11:45 am PST #27129 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

This is when I prefer news about The Bieber's haircut.

This. I'm sorry, but I just can't.


WindSparrow - Mar 09, 2011 4:35:41 am PST #27130 of 30001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.

This is not on.

As someone who let that kind of pattern go on for far too long, I strongly urge you to talk to a doctor about this if you can't turn it around on your own in a matter of a couple weeks, since it has been going on long enough that you have noticed there is a pattern.


NoiseDesign - Mar 09, 2011 4:46:10 am PST #27131 of 30001
Our wings are not tired

PLEURISY FTW!

Ah, I'm a member of that club, I have the t-shirt around here somewhere.


§ ita § - Mar 09, 2011 4:46:47 am PST #27132 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

That pattern is my sleep life, and I would like to medicate it away, thanks. Because obviously I have given up on an actual cure for my sleep shit. God, last night was awful.


§ ita § - Mar 09, 2011 4:52:27 am PST #27133 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Perfectly reasonable behaviour.


Amy - Mar 09, 2011 5:07:35 am PST #27134 of 30001
Because books.

Makes me want to fly down there and personally start slapping the shit out of that whole community.

Understatement.

she walked straight into the bathroom and put her paws up on the tub in anticipation of the bath she knew she'd be getting.

Aw. Good Sass!

Perfectly reasonable behaviour.

That was excellent. Heh.