I will pay someone to come and do my job for me for a week. Room, board, money, whatever, just give me a week I don't have to deal with this.
This money, it is too much. You should have some small refund.
Niska ,'War Stories'
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.
Zenkitty - Mar 20, 2013 8:29:09 pm PDT #15507 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Consuela - Mar 20, 2013 8:35:20 pm PDT #15508 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
omg I bought the shoes. Partly because, well. Just because.
Retail therapy appears to be what I need: at least it's better than drinking.
P.M. Marc - Mar 20, 2013 9:32:27 pm PDT #15509 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I think if you slap a tiny kid that's not your own when under stress, I don't give a fuck if it's your last nerve that's been worked, and I don't want to think about the other shit you've pulled when stress has triggered you.
billytea - Mar 20, 2013 9:46:09 pm PDT #15510 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.
No direct comment on this case, but I'm going to put in a plug for the Australian novel "The Slap": [link] From the cover blurb: "At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own." The novel follows the repurcussions through eight chapters, each devoted to one of the people at the barbecue. It's also been turned into a miniseries: [link]
le nubian - Mar 20, 2013 10:31:32 pm PDT #15511 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I could not get through the miniseries. I saw the first episode, and then I had to bail.
Theodosia - Mar 21, 2013 3:13:37 am PDT #15512 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Some penalty is justified for the baby-slapper -- he's out of control. Even if it's just a suspended sentence with mandatory anger/grief counseling.
Hil R. - Mar 21, 2013 3:18:36 am PDT #15513 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
No direct comment on this case, but I'm going to put in a plug for the Australian novel "The Slap": [link]. From the cover blurb: "At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own."
That happened in one of the early episodes of Mad Men. They were having a party, and one of the guests slapped one of the Draper kids (I think because he was running in the house and crashed into someone, or something) and everyone treats it as if that's perfectly acceptable.
-t - Mar 21, 2013 4:15:12 am PDT #15514 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I feel like I've been seeing a lot of pink in general this season, just like in Penneys and Forever 21, women's dept's wherever. I don't know of a specific place to look.
Those shoes are purty, Consuela, good for you for getting them.
Amy - Mar 21, 2013 4:38:23 am PDT #15515 of 30001
Because books.
The thing about the baby-slapping is hard, because honestly my reaction would have been to just slap him back, in a "Dude, what the fuck is wrong with you, don't touch my kid" way. Which is probably all the retaliation I would have needed to -- a year in jail and losing his job is a little out of proportion to the actual incident.
The racist stuff is just gross, though.
Jessica - Mar 21, 2013 5:23:27 am PDT #15516 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I can much more easily forgive slapping the baby than the racial slur.
Wait, seriously? Physical assault is more foregiveable than verbal?
A woman at the Y once smacked Dylan's hand because (in her opinion) he was pushing the elevator button too many times. I smacked her hand back and shouted at her and she ran away. Unfortunately she was wearing a big hat and dark glasses, so I couldn't give the membership office a decent description to have her kicked out.