Not for nothing, but among the students who may be in attendance may be victims. Has this person considered that?
Almost certainly not, right? This is the kind of idea that makes national news headlines, it's so poorly conceived.
Dawn: I think a date should be in a real fancy restaurant, then champagne at a night club with a floor show, then ballroom dancing. Joyce: Unfortunately, we're not dating in a movie from the thirties.
'Get It Done'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
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.
bon bon - Aug 30, 2012 3:02:05 pm PDT #20300 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Juliebird - Aug 30, 2012 3:03:00 pm PDT #20301 of 30001
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
My drama teacher in HS liked to tell stories about his drama teacher, who would slap and berate the drama students, all in the name of drama or something, making them cry and piss themselves and go into panic attacks, because he was trying to glean a "true performance" out of them. To seek some inner depths or darkness or whatever. That's when I decided to stick to lighting and sound.
Cass - Aug 30, 2012 3:06:34 pm PDT #20302 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Has everyone lost their everloving minds??
For the most part? Yeah, I think so.
Even with someone who usually gets bored and doesn't follow through, I'd escalate this one. Because, um, we don't invite pedophiles to schools to interact with children. Unless we want really awful publicity and huge (justifiable) lawsuits and going to a really extra-special hell if one is a hell believer.
Jesse - Aug 30, 2012 3:18:57 pm PDT #20303 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
To be fair, they are college students, right? BUT STILL.
JZ - Aug 30, 2012 4:00:06 pm PDT #20304 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I agree with everyone else - it's not just a bad idea, it's an actively malignant idea. Firing, lawsuits, hideous headlines. And, yes, there's absolutely certain to be a survivor (at the very least, family member of a survivor) involved in the production. Escalate that shit right up, because that really really needs to never happen. Preferably via a wayback machine that causes him to never have thought of it in the first place, but just stopping him cold and scaring him badly enough that he never thinks of it again without full-body shudders will also do.
Also, yes, everyone has lost their ever-lovin' minds.
Not unrelatedly, anyone who hasn't already done so should run over to the Atlantic website and read Ta-Nehisi Coates's brilliant "Fear of a Black President," but under no circumstances should anyone ever read the comments (he vigorously banhammers his own blog but doesn't have that privilege for the online versions of actual print articles).
Sophia Brooks - Aug 30, 2012 4:17:50 pm PDT #20305 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Well, I am already the family member of a survivor, so I could possibly bring that up. O
flea - Aug 30, 2012 4:20:46 pm PDT #20306 of 30001
information libertarian
I can't get to Facebook, and I'm wondering if Mittens has said something so incredible it's caused Facebook to spontaneously combust.
In New Elementary School news, the mother of one of the kids in Dillo's class was a local TV anchor for 15 years (left 2 years ago to do media at the Art Museum.) She's no Michael Stipe, but hey, this is Cincinnati.
brenda m - Aug 30, 2012 4:23:23 pm PDT #20307 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
I can't get to Facebook, and I'm wondering if Mittens has said something so incredible it's caused Facebook to spontaneously combust.
Our Fox affiliate is carrying the Bears game instead of the con, which kind of cracks me up.
ETA and FB isn't coming up for me either.
Calli - Aug 30, 2012 4:27:47 pm PDT #20308 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Facebook came up for me just now. But it took a while.
Jesse - Aug 30, 2012 4:32:34 pm PDT #20309 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
In New Elementary School news, the mother of one of the kids in Dillo's class was a local TV anchor for 15 years
My friend's stepson's mother is a local TV anchor. She does (or did?) mornings on NBC, which put a little damper on my friend's watching of the Today Show....