Coincidentally, was just reading this thing on Margaret Thatcher and the misapplication of death etiquette, which argues that not speaking ill of the dead is a fine rule when it comes to, say, not mouthing off to the friends and family of a private citizen -- but it's not relevant to criticizing the public works of public figures, and enforcing it is an active part of building up hagiography around the powerful.
You'd never make it. I'd rip your spine out before you got half a step. Those little legs wouldn't be much good without one of those.
Glory ,'The Killer In Me'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
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.
amych - Apr 08, 2013 7:59:04 am PDT #17691 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Trudy Booth - Apr 08, 2013 7:59:47 am PDT #17692 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I always took not speaking ill of the dead as showing kindness to the mourners.
Liese S. - Apr 08, 2013 8:05:41 am PDT #17693 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Work got called off due to wind. Wind day!
Only we drove most of the way there first, and the drive was twice as bad on the way home. [link]
-t - Apr 08, 2013 8:06:18 am PDT #17694 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Not speaking ill of the dead has always seemed like one of those rules you only invoke when you are about to violate it - "not to speak ill of the dead, but...". But maybe that is from reading murder mysteries and not real life.
Liese S. - Apr 08, 2013 8:06:34 am PDT #17695 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
And the wind map is going crazy today too.
Jesse - Apr 08, 2013 8:22:10 am PDT #17696 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Hey, did any of you guys watch that show Makers on PBS? I thought it was like profiles of accomplished women, but it turns out to be a history of the (second wave) feminist movement. Huh! I watched the first hour over lunch and am now riled up.
§ ita § - Apr 08, 2013 8:26:52 am PDT #17697 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Do you ever have a near-aching compulsion to wash your face (this must be the wind's fault too)? I do, and I'm at work, with no face washy stuff, so I'm going to make a pharmacy run for cleanser and lotion I will rarely use...but it's driving me nuts not to.
Strix - Apr 08, 2013 8:31:33 am PDT #17698 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Not my face per se, but I HAVE started stripping in the hallway of my old apartments to get sweaty clothes OFF NOW and get into the shower ASAP.
Consuela - Apr 08, 2013 8:37:40 am PDT #17699 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
did any of you guys watch that show Makers on PBS
No, I missed it when it was on. I'll have to try to catch it on the PBS website.
Amy - Apr 08, 2013 8:40:21 am PDT #17700 of 30001
Because books.
Aw, Annette Funicello also died.