Connie, I grew up in Tennessee, about 75 miles east of Nashville. Not too far from the Appa-LAY-chins!
Buffy: How bored were you last year? Giles: I watched 'Passions' with Spike. Let us never speak of it.
'Beneath You'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
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.
Zenkitty - Aug 02, 2011 6:04:02 pm PDT #19040 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
§ ita § - Aug 02, 2011 6:04:25 pm PDT #19041 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
OMG, semi-randomly--salesperson, DO NOT CALL ME YOUR QUEEN. Seriously. You are making no sales that way. You are creeptastic and I'm walking away.
Ginger - Aug 02, 2011 6:26:41 pm PDT #19042 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
We had sweat bees in Illinois. Tiny bees with sharp stings.
§ ita § - Aug 02, 2011 6:30:39 pm PDT #19043 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Because of a case on a show I'm watching right now, I googled to see the number of missing children in the US. 2000 children go missing every day. 2000. And multiple news outlets were making a fuss about Celina Cass. That's so disgusting. I mean, I want everything done to find her, but over the week they were yelling about her, 13,999 other kids also went missing, and the national news outlets didn't give a flying fuck. Interestingly, of the 800,000 that go missing every year:
115 children were the victims of “stereotypical” kidnapping. These crimes involve someone the child does not know, or knows only slightly, who holds the child overnight, transports the child 50 miles or more, kills the child, demands ransom, or intends to keep the child permanently.
115.
And an irritating thing on this show, they gave a blanket pass to women involved in couple kidnappings. Only men are that evil. Women are just broken.
Amy - Aug 02, 2011 6:37:57 pm PDT #19044 of 30001
Because books.
I mean, I want everything done to find her
I'm pretty sure she was found dead, sadly.
§ ita § - Aug 02, 2011 6:48:35 pm PDT #19045 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Was she the body I was seeing stories of? I only followed the story in snippets when I was buying bagels.
Amy - Aug 02, 2011 6:51:14 pm PDT #19046 of 30001
Because books.
I saw something about a body found in a river with her name associated, yeah.
I wonder if only local news carries some of the other missing kid stories *because* they're more often [assumed to be, I should have said] disputes, or are taken by someone they know, that kind of thing.
The way the national news will focus on just one case, every once in a while, and really splash it all over, is infuriating, though.
msbelle - Aug 02, 2011 6:54:04 pm PDT #19047 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Twitchy. Abductions freak me the fuck out.
I culled 2 bags of clothes today. Whee
bon bon - Aug 02, 2011 7:07:38 pm PDT #19048 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I was actually going to say about your stats, ita, but you said it for me -- 90% of those 2000 cases aren't kidnappings, they're runaways or family abductions, for the most part. There are not that many kids who are not otherwise at-risk who are murdered/kidnapped by strangers. Yeah, it's obnoxious that the news focuses on white kids, but it's a relatively rare thing for crime to happen to someone in a low-risk environment, and that's news. Man bites dog, and all that.
§ ita § - Aug 02, 2011 7:14:00 pm PDT #19049 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
But the press didn't say "Kidnapped child". The press said "missing child". There are tons and tons of those. I can see 115 stereotypical kidnapping making metro news, the odd one going national. But from what I could see, they just plain couldn't find her, and she was one of the 2000.