'War Stories'
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.
Billytea, I've spent the whole thread trying to figure out the theme "The Wire" shares with Teletubbies...the best I can come up with is about Taking Stuff That Isn't Yours Can Be Bad. Am I close?
I was thinking more along the lines of the pervasiveness of media and surveillance, though I'd also take "Drugs will mess you up" as a possibility.
I already flew to Spokane and San Francisco with pneumonia, hey?
Surely you're not trying to use that as an argument for flying to Phoenix? Because it's pretty solidly an argument against. Also, don't put your plague-ridden self on the metal tube with the recycled air. It's not fun for anyone.
Thanks, sj.
stay home.
you do not want to end up in a hospital
yes, you can get worse if you don't take care of yourself
you're right, bt. they are watched. not having kids, I don't know the tubbyverse. But that is probably someone's thesis.
meara,
stay home this week. please!
Meara, you need rest!
Ladies and gentlemen, my little sister.
Oh, dear.
Somebody congratulate me that I didn't further interact with the anti-vax mother-of-an-autistic-son on a friend's Facebook page? Even though she pulled out the "I've researched the cause of autism for all 17 years my son's been around" card, and I could have riposted that while I certainly hadn't spent that much time, there are medical researchers whose job it is to, you know, actually do things like, oh, CRUNCH NUMBERS and DO BRAIN RESEARCH and stuff like that.
Big pharma pays their paycheques, Theo. Nobody pays her. She's only doing it for the good of the kids.
I'm also refraining from asking her why, if autism tends to run in families, that MMR vaccines should have anything to do with it. Or that the worldwide rise in autism rates only happened several decades after the MMR vaccine became a routine childhood immunization -- which you would suppose, it would have caused the rise immediately, and only in countries where the vaccine was given.
"I realize that you're far too emotionally invested in this to understand that you've reached an incorrect conclusion. However, your incorrect conclusion will result in the deaths of thousands of children and the infirm, so as much sympathy as I have with your dissonance, I have to keep telling you that you're incorrect, and dangerously so."
That's what I'd do, then make popcorn and watch the head explosion. But that is because I'm a dick. So I congratulate you on not being a dick.