Bon voyage sarameg!!
This here's a recipe for unpleasantness.
Mal ,'Objects In Space'
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.
hippocampus - Nov 03, 2012 2:26:07 am PDT #28343 of 30001
not your mom's socks.
flea - Nov 03, 2012 2:56:15 am PDT #28344 of 30001
information libertarian
Folks, Casper is asking to watch Buffy. What say you about appropriateness for a 9 year old 4th grader? She doesn't see a lot of mature movies, though has seen stuff like Harry Potter movies and Ghostbusters. How old were Betsy's kids during the original airing, when we had the weekly Canadian Violence Ratings?
billytea - Nov 03, 2012 5:07:44 am PDT #28345 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
This article: [link] contains easily the best argument I've heard so far in favour of voting for Romney. A Romney Presidency would increase the likelihood that the GOP will lose House seats in 2014. Change we can believe in!
Jesse - Nov 03, 2012 5:09:44 am PDT #28346 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
OHHHHH! The guy in that diabetes product ad is saying "vial and syringe," not "violent syringe"!!
I've already learned something today, so that's enough, right?
-t - Nov 03, 2012 5:19:07 am PDT #28347 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh! I always heard violent, too, and never questioned it. Yeah, your work is done.
Burrell - Nov 03, 2012 5:44:31 am PDT #28348 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Folks, Casper is asking to watch Buffy. What say you about appropriateness for a 9 year old 4th grader?
I think these kinds of decisions are very dependent on the kid and their media viewing habits. My 9 yo? No, many of the episodes she'd be too scared to enjoy and that would make me sad. But I'm pretty sure her friend Sophie (same age) would watch it happily and not be too scared, and even for Franny I could see having her watch a few episodes that aren't quite so scary or emotionally intense.
flea - Nov 03, 2012 5:48:39 am PDT #28349 of 30001
information libertarian
I think I'm more concerned about the teenage angst parts than scary. She could probably handle MOTW episodes, but the Angel arc seems more for 12-up, I think. I think she is kind of sheltered compared to some of her peers (who happily tell me they went to see Hunger Games last summer.)
Burrell - Nov 03, 2012 5:57:42 am PDT #28350 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
That's what I meant about emotional intensity, flea. I'd pick and choose episodes if it were me.
Amy - Nov 03, 2012 5:58:10 am PDT #28351 of 30001
Because books.
That's what I was going to say, flea. The scary parts probably won't be too scary, but when you get to the Angel/Buffy stuff, that metaphor is going to be tricky to explain well to a nine-year-old.
I've let Sara watch some, but just hand-picked episodes, like Hush or Fear, Itself, with me.
Strix - Nov 03, 2012 6:08:36 am PDT #28352 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
What they said: I think most of Season 1 would be OK, but much of S2-7 is gonna depend on the individual kid. Me, I was reading really adult material and would have be fine at 9, but I was a mutant.
Hello, good morning, have a fun trip, sarameg!
And Liese, I think that's an awesome thing to do. Appropriate and shameful it got buried and almost no press.