I've had lots of Mormons try to convert me. First of all, I think nabbing a crip is like a six-point buck to them. Second, racial profiling, which is creepily accurate since there are Mormons in my family...but how do they know? Do you just go after every blonde that doesn't wear makeup that often, or... Kind of boggled by prostletizing Lutherans...the ones I know would take a casserole over more than The Word, but I know there are a number of different branches and stuff. For myself, it would be a hard thing to get "filled with the spirit" in, but I did it for a while to make my grandma happy and meet kids who didn't call me "spaz"
Fred: It's the pictures in my mind that are getting me. It's like being stuck in a really bad movie with those Clockwork Orange clampy things on my eyeballs. Wesley: Why imagine? Reality's disturbing enough.
'Shells'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
erikaj - Dec 14, 2010 4:57:30 am PST #10936 of 30001
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
erikaj - Dec 14, 2010 4:58:37 am PST #10937 of 30001
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
holy shit, ita, literal castration? What's wrong with people?
Amy - Dec 14, 2010 5:11:45 am PST #10938 of 30001
Because books.
It might be icky, it might make you defensive as a parent, but supporting castration? Seriously?
That's medieval, for real. Jesus.
We're still getting all kinds of junk mail for the last two people who lived here. I'm not sure how my delivery person would feel about a sign, either, though.
brenda m - Dec 14, 2010 5:14:04 am PST #10939 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
My mail carrier already has a grudge against me. I'm pretty sure I would either get extra junk or just stop getting mail at all.
§ ita § - Dec 14, 2010 5:16:26 am PST #10940 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What's wrong with people?
And everyone's calling the boyfriend sick and not the father.
I'm beginning to feel like the odd one out for not thinking the boyfriend is definitely sick. I don't know, I haven't met the 17 year old. It could be really disturbing, but maybe it isn't. And it could still be disturbing if she were 23. It depends on the 23.
sumi - Dec 14, 2010 5:17:13 am PST #10941 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
I have to say that no matter how much you dislike somebody - when is castration ever the answer?
tommyrot - Dec 14, 2010 5:19:32 am PST #10942 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
ION, I love this book cover:
She lusted in sin orgies and reefer brawls.
Cool! I mean, if you're gonna have an orgy, you might as well make it a sin orgy.
But who has the energy to brawl after "doing reefer"?
Jessica - Dec 14, 2010 5:20:35 am PST #10943 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I can't say I'd be thrilled at the idea of my child dating someone 10 years my senior, but the comments on that article were just creepy.
zuisa - Dec 14, 2010 5:22:51 am PST #10944 of 30001
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
I can understand why the father was upset about it, but yeah, castration is just never the answer.
Jars - Dec 14, 2010 5:27:36 am PST #10945 of 30001
That seems like the kind of case where the father acted because of how he thought the situation reflected on him. I'd probably be looking for an older father-figure type fella too if my actual father was that violent.
I had a dream I was being raped last night, so that was fun?
I woke up and both the cats were sleeping on me, so that probably set off my 'being held down' alarms.