Thanks, sj. That makes sense.
Don't belong. Dangerous, like you. Can't be controlled. Can't be trusted. Everyone could just go on without me and not have to worry. People could be what they wanted to be. Could be with the people they wanted. Live simple. No secrets.
River ,'Objects In Space'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
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.
SuziQ - Jun 07, 2011 3:41:33 pm PDT #11840 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
§ ita § - Jun 07, 2011 3:42:06 pm PDT #11841 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
They should make a law making it illegal for kids to be around me. It would just save time. I could make dispensations, but normally, ILLEGAL. I could give out badges to allowed kids. FBi. Federal Bureau of ita.
Man, today was much stuff. Got lots of phone stuff done, important stuff, requirements gathered and documented and conveyed, so that's good. I'd probably still be working, but they took my laptop for upgrade to W7.
My boss has been correcting my pronunciation of a name, so I went to her because I just couldn't get it right, and I thought if I heard it from her lips it would sink it--but she says it like I'd been saying it. He's wrong. What do I do? She says to leave it be, but I don't want to. I will be awkward, trying to mispronounce right. But he's made such a big thing over how he's right and I'm wrong, and now! Oops.
Someone else on a call pronounced my name exactly right. Said she'd "been told". Apparently her boss had conveyed the crisp "t" to her during the meeting preparations. Hee.
Why is Skeet Ulrich in last night's episode of L&O:LA? Didn't he die? TiVo says it's new.
§ ita § - Jun 07, 2011 3:43:37 pm PDT #11842 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
But it's hard not to feel that way
Does it help to consider the other half a million places where it's perfectly normal for you to stare at strangers' children? It's only one thing.
Pix - Jun 07, 2011 3:48:31 pm PDT #11843 of 30001
The status is NOT quo.
Fwiw, I wasn't trying to be provocative. It was honestly just my immediate emotional response to hearing about the incident.
Jesse - Jun 07, 2011 3:52:33 pm PDT #11844 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Personally, I have mixed feelings. Of course kids are actually mostly at risk from people they know, but on the flip side, I haven't seen that kind of rule anywhere that wasn't a specific area just with playground equipment, so.
DavidS - Jun 07, 2011 3:53:32 pm PDT #11845 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Awww, Pix. Feel free to spend as much time with my kids as you ever want. Go ahead and borrow them while you're at it. They'd only benefit from your presence.
Pix - Jun 07, 2011 3:55:18 pm PDT #11846 of 30001
The status is NOT quo.
I fully admit that a week of dealing with my personal Tino has made me more sensitive to everything. Let's just pretend I didn't say anything. Move along people, nothing to see here...
Scrappy - Jun 07, 2011 3:56:58 pm PDT #11847 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I always thought that rule was less for sex offenders than for teenagers. I have seen much older kids take over playground spaces and make it uncomfortable for little kids to be there. And the response was always something like "Fuck you, we have a perfect right to hang out here." Well, now they don't. And I say this as a teenager who loved hanging out in playgrounds.
A bunch of hulking 17-year-olds whose aim is to intimidate can be a real playground buzzkill.
sumi - Jun 07, 2011 3:58:26 pm PDT #11848 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
ita, they're playing episodes that were pulled before the reboot - and this is despite the fact that they said they weren't going to do that.
flea - Jun 07, 2011 3:59:37 pm PDT #11849 of 30001
information libertarian
There's a new park with a playground in a sort of marginal neighborhood in my city, and the only people I have ever seen there are several middle aged men (50s-60s) in a group. I don't know if they are homeless or from the neighborhood, or if they are responsible for the empty bottles around the park. But it doesn't inspire me to take my kids down there, I tell you.