Yes, but everyone stabbing themselves in the ear doesn't seem terribly effective, militarily.
If you can get your enemies to stab themselves in the ear and avoid it yourself, you win. Right?
Harken: You fought with Captain Reynolds in the war? Zoe: Fought with a lot of people in the war. Harken: And your husband? Zoe: Fight with him sometimes, too.
'Bushwhacked'
Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
-t - Sep 15, 2014 6:41:45 am PDT #6197 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
dcp - Sep 15, 2014 7:11:42 am PDT #6198 of 30000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Better or worse than bagpipes?
Connie Neil - Sep 15, 2014 7:20:59 am PDT #6199 of 30000
brillig
Why do you think they invented bagpipes? And with babies, you have sonic grenades you can fling at the enemy if you need to.
Steph L. - Sep 15, 2014 7:28:36 am PDT #6200 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
And with babies, you have sonic grenades you can fling at the enemy if you need to.
I've said something very similar in the past. Which is why it's a good thing I never had offspring.
Unrelatedly, I am continually amazed at how one of my smarter FB friends has bought into the anti-vax movement. (He and his wife are the primary caregivers for their nephew, who is on the autism spectrum, so I'm sure they've done lots of research with the intention to do what's best for him. But that's led them down a rabbit hole of anti-vaxxers, and they totally buy into it, and it blows my mind every time he posts articles about vaccines and autism. I just roll my eyes, hide the post, and keep going, but it really does boggle my mind. I want to yell "You're smarter than this! Correlation is not causation! What is wrong with you?")
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 15, 2014 7:29:06 am PDT #6201 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
If the opposing forces are riding oversized cats they'll be in big trouble. Mine freak out whenever neighbor toddler starts wailing.
(By the way, if the kid's big enough to walk up and down stairs, shouldn't she be talking more than screaming and crying? I know temper tantrums are a thing until at least 3 or so, but I'd expect more downtime between emotional meltdowns based on my little cousins.)
Connie Neil - Sep 15, 2014 7:33:41 am PDT #6202 of 30000
brillig
I see kids old enough to be in school--I think--in the supermarket have screaming tantrums. I just want to go up to them and say "Aren't you too old for this?" Then again, they're competing with their screaming younger siblings for Mom's indifferent attention.
Rick - Sep 15, 2014 8:48:38 am PDT #6203 of 30000
tommyrot - Sep 15, 2014 8:55:19 am PDT #6204 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Heh.
It reminds me that the guy who invented the Flying Spaghetti Monster noticed there's a negative correlation between the number of pirates and global warming.
§ ita § - Sep 15, 2014 9:14:09 am PDT #6205 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Can someone talk down to me and explain why IO9 is so sure everyone's had this hallucination: [link] If I have, I've certainly forgotten (I've had a few, and wonder if tinnitus counts, but never reached for the phone when it wasn't ringing...)
Burrell - Sep 15, 2014 9:31:23 am PDT #6206 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
IME tantrums can continue into the school age years, but parental tolerance usually peters out around preschool.