People are craxy-- like, are they against roads, and garbage pickup?
Nah, they are just against paying for them. See also: teachers, police, fire dept, medicine
Angel: I appreciate you guys looking out for Connor all summer. It's just—he's confused. He needs time. That's all. Fred: Right. Time, and some corporal punishment with a large heavy mallet. Not that I'm bitter.
'Just Rewards (2)'
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.
Burrell - Aug 09, 2011 3:34:10 pm PDT #19928 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Connie Neil - Aug 09, 2011 3:38:09 pm PDT #19929 of 30001
brillig
If you'll value it, you'll pay for it, to the degree that you value it. And private fire-protection brigades were put out of business because some of them would hold the owner of a burning house up for more money at the scene.
History, people, it's worth reading.
Calli - Aug 09, 2011 3:40:00 pm PDT #19930 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
People are craxy-- like, are they against roads, and garbage pickup?
I guess when the potholes get big enough they'll have a place to dump their garbage.
askye - Aug 09, 2011 3:44:59 pm PDT #19931 of 30001
Thrive to spite them
The attitude I for the drug testing is that (at least from what I can see) people are using my money to live off of and I don't want anyone using my hard earned money, especially lazy drug addicts. And all welfare recipients are lazy drug addicts.
There's also this idea going around that only people who pay income tax are actually paying taxes. Or rather it's people whinging "you know how many people don't pay any taxes AT ALL!!!" and then they trot out some statistic about federal income tax and EIC and stuff and completely miss all the other taxes that people pay.
§ ita § - Aug 09, 2011 3:51:55 pm PDT #19932 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Hey, what's edging? Is it different from orgasm denial?
Cass - Aug 09, 2011 3:54:29 pm PDT #19933 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Or, more directly, I get thousands of dollars off on my taxes because I pay a mortgage and I get a deduction for that.
Which, really, is a huge deduction. Mortgage credits, child care credits, Medicare, student loans... - these are ENTITLEMENT programs but they are the ones that people getting the benefit from them fail to recognize as such. Which infuriates me.
Also I went through every other thread before Natter and now I finally realize why ita !'s name changed.
Burrell - Aug 09, 2011 3:56:22 pm PDT #19934 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Hey, what's edging? Is it different from orgasm denial?
Don't ask me. I thought edging was a fancy border on something.
Amy - Aug 09, 2011 3:57:55 pm PDT #19935 of 30001
Because books.
I LOVE BURRELL.
I think edging is taking it closer each time, and then drawing back, to make the eventual release greater? So not really orgasm denial, since I would assume everyone's on board with prolonging?
billytea - Aug 09, 2011 3:58:04 pm PDT #19936 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
ey, what's edging? Is it different from orgasm denial?
According to Wikipedia (!), the difference is whether the practitioner eventually orgasms.
Burrell - Aug 09, 2011 4:01:53 pm PDT #19937 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I'm glad someone can appreciate my utter lack of hipness.