Interesting! Now that I think of it, it is also true of nails and skin, huh.
And spleens!
You know, it's funny. We went to war never looking to come back, but it's the real world I couldn't survive.
Tracy ,'The Message'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
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 - Sep 27, 2013 4:57:13 am PDT #6849 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Jesse - Sep 27, 2013 4:58:10 am PDT #6850 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Spleens are gross on the inside, too, sorry!
Amy - Sep 27, 2013 5:02:00 am PDT #6851 of 30000
Because books.
A stray eyelash isn't bad. Nail cuttings, on the other hand, are the skeeviest things ever.
Prescription~ma, ita.
§ ita § - Sep 27, 2013 5:03:30 am PDT #6852 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My skin on the floor isn't any grosser than any other skin on the floor or any other organic detritus--does it bother you more? Does a lopped off ponytail bother you?
When you pull hair out of a drain, it's dirty. If you pulled thread out of that drain, would it be any less nasty with the same gunk on it?
Jesse - Sep 27, 2013 5:13:20 am PDT #6853 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I don't mean in the pipes, I mean sitting on top of the drain barrier thing in the tub. It's just been rinsed clean with the rest of me/my hair.
Does a lopped off ponytail bother you?
Somehow that feels different and I don't know why!
My skin on the floor isn't any grosser than any other skin on the floor or any other organic detritus--does it bother you more?
But really, your skin is less gross than an onion skin?
billytea - Sep 27, 2013 5:23:07 am PDT #6854 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Spleens are gross on the inside, too, sorry!
That's why I make it a point never to open a spleen.
aurelia - Sep 27, 2013 5:29:56 am PDT #6855 of 30000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Jesse, that is why Donnie Pfaster is the creepiest character on the X-files.
§ ita § - Sep 27, 2013 5:30:08 am PDT #6856 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
But really, your skin is less gross than an onion skin?
As long as it's not associated with pain getting there it's about the same as a chicken skin (which I consider a bit grosser than an onion skin--but they're the same category). There's nothing special about it having come from me, or a person I know, or a person. It's not a limb, it doesn't represent a deficit a pain, or anything. So, fine.
Jesse - Sep 27, 2013 5:33:34 am PDT #6857 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Jesse, that is why Donnie Pfaster is the creepiest character on the X-files.
Maybe not the creepiest, but yes.
Amy - Sep 27, 2013 5:35:15 am PDT #6858 of 30000
Because books.
Oh, come on, the family in Home were the creepiest X-Files characters ever!