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.
Fred: Oh my God! Angel, you're…cute! Angel: Fred, don't! Fred: Oh, but the little hands! And the hair! Angel: Hey! You're fired.
'Smile Time'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
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.
Theodosia - Nov 06, 2011 11:38:24 am PST #5031 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Allyson - Nov 06, 2011 11:41:22 am PST #5032 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
"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.
§ ita § - Nov 06, 2011 11:53:46 am PST #5033 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I wish I were more of a dick, and I wish I were less of a dick.
askye - Nov 06, 2011 12:13:29 pm PST #5034 of 30001
Thrive to spite them
Theo there will always be some weird end around that has nothing to do with logic that people will bring up. I read something like - parents who got the MMR vaccine can pass autism on to their children because the MMR vaccine changes (things, cells, something I don't know some kind of handwavium) that shows up in the children. And/or it's dormant until the children receive the MMR vaccine which then triggers autism in the child.
Strix - Nov 06, 2011 12:29:35 pm PST #5035 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I wish I were more of a dick, and I wish I were less of a dick.
If I didn't love my tagline so much, this would totally be my new one.
Allyson - Nov 06, 2011 12:40:43 pm PST #5036 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
If there's such a thing as karma, I'm at a severe deficit due to much dickishness.
brenda m - Nov 06, 2011 12:54:18 pm PST #5037 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
You're still ahead of the anti-vaxxers.
Liese S. - Nov 06, 2011 1:02:47 pm PST #5038 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
OMG THIS APPLE BUTTER NEEDS TO BE DONE NOW NOMNOMNOM.
Burrell - Nov 06, 2011 1:26:11 pm PST #5039 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Yipes meara, take care of yourself! No go to Pheonix!
"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."
I love Allyson! Uh, I'd say she's my kind of a dick except I don't think this is a dickish thing to say. It might, however, lead to a dickish reaction in someone else.
Anne W. - Nov 06, 2011 1:32:56 pm PST #5040 of 30001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
except I don't think this is a dickish thing to say.
Neither do I. It might be unpleasant to hear, but it's polite, it's fair, and it's true.