River: You're not right, Early. You're not righteous. You've got issues. Early: No. Oh, yes, I could have that. You might have me figured out, then. Good job. I'm not 100%.

'Objects In Space'


Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet  

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 - Mar 20, 2013 6:48:04 pm PDT #15486 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.

Men love oral sex, especially when it’s uninhibited and spontaneous. Unzip his pants while he’s driving and make that trip to church a little more exciting.

One time I drove into the church carpark, listening to Meatloaf's "Bat Out Of Hell II - Back Into Hell." As the parking attendant came over, I went for the volume control and managed to knock it the wrong way. The guy got an earful of "GODDAMMIT DADDY! You know I love you. But you've got a HELLUVA LOT TO LEARN about ROCK AND ROLL!!"

I'm now thinking I got off lightly.


Trudy Booth - Mar 20, 2013 6:55:05 pm PDT #15487 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

To know all is not to understand all, generally, but my feelings about the man accused of using a racial slur and slapping a crying baby on his flight to Atlanta are conflicted now that I know he was on his way to turn off life support for his only child.

I was not prepared for that story to get even sadder.


Dana - Mar 20, 2013 6:58:28 pm PDT #15488 of 30001
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

My in-laws are coming to visit in a couple of weeks to help me pack. So....yeah. We'll see how that goes.


Vortex - Mar 20, 2013 6:59:21 pm PDT #15489 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

I do not understand road head. I mean, if you're doing it right, he's going to be a little wrapped up to keep the car on the road. Not to mention that if he hits anything, it's going to be your head smacking the steering column.


le nubian - Mar 20, 2013 7:01:57 pm PDT #15490 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Ginger,

I know plenty of grieving people who would not call babies a racial slur and slap them though. Clearly he was having a hard time, but couldn't he just ask the flight attendant to move him?


Consuela - Mar 20, 2013 7:09:12 pm PDT #15491 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

yeah. We'll see how that goes.

Oh, dear.


Ginger - Mar 20, 2013 7:16:36 pm PDT #15492 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

I don't condone what he did, but I also know what it's like to be on my last nerve. The parents of the unhurt toddler want the maximum penalty for a man who has lost his son and his job.


§ ita § - Mar 20, 2013 7:21:04 pm PDT #15493 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

He lost his job over this, right? I don't know, I've never been a mother, but if you slap my toddler and you do hurt them, then I get to hit back, right? If it's not hurt, then maybe we can resolve it ia court of law. Slapping crying kids is a gesture of anger, not discipline, and it's a stranger, and...nah, I'd be pissed.


le nubian - Mar 20, 2013 7:25:17 pm PDT #15494 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

I thought he actually hurt the kid though, Ginger. I don't know I think i would feel sympathy, but oh well - you hit my kid.


meara - Mar 20, 2013 7:28:52 pm PDT #15495 of 30001

Wow, a year in prison and a $100k fine? I'm sure he won't get that, but that's more time than the Steubenville rapists. Eesh.

That said, I can much more easily forgive slapping the baby than the racial slur. There's no call for either, but one is "I'm at the end of my rope and behaving in a way I shouldn't" and one is "when I'm at the end of my rope I'm behaving in a way I shouldn't AND I'm a jackass!"