You know what I don’t like? When I’m in the theatre, and an actor is on stage, and is delivering a line slowly, for dramatic effect, and delaying the last words of their spoken line… and an audience member guesses the last words of the line and whispers it to their neighbour before the actor has a chance to finish the line. Is there a way to punish such annoying audience members?
In my perfect world, each theater seat would have a small touchscreen. You could single out a seat and push “shock” on the screen. One or two people doing this would have no effect, but if a significant number of people pushed “shock”, the offender would get one or two seconds of voltage.
I prefer a tube method. Same set-up, but if a fair number of people in the theater push the button, you descend rapidly in a tube and are dropped outside in the parking lot. If we can cover them with Nickelodeon Goo on the way out, that’d be even better.
Nah, let’s cover 'em with homeopathic butt lube, instead. (Scroll up/back a page if you’re all 
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That was beautifully written, LavenderBlue. Congratulations on raising such a fine addition to our planet.
In case you weren’t aware of it, this is Homeopathy Awareness Week (at least in the U.K.), so please try to spend an infinitesimally tiny amount of your time laughing uproariously.
Thank you.
This makes me want a non-homeopathic cure for nausea.
That doesn’t even make good nonsense.
Sounds like their parents made poor decisions and they learned the wrong lessons from it.
Depends where you are in the bubble cycle and how much you really understand about the mortgage.
If you buy a $500K house that was really more than you could afford, but the slick banker talked you into an ARM, then two years later the bubble burst and the house is now worth $200K while the interest rate gets jacked up, then you may have been better off renting.
Now, rationally, that doesn’t mean renting is better than buying in a sane way, but I can understand where the emotion might come from.
Just when you thought it was possible for anti-vaxers to be too stupid to communicate in complete sentences, someone takes another flying leap.
And when the hospital staff were doing their best to save the child, she complained about (and probably protested against but no one wanted to say that) what they were doing. Her dislike for modern medicine and belief in homeopathy was *literally *worth more to her than the life of her child.
I was referring to the segment I had bolded. Her ‘research’ led her to believe that vaccines can cause shaken baby syndrome.
Very glad I just took some painkillers for my sore foot. This should also help the pain in my head from trying to comprehend the “reasoning” here.
Truck broke down, dammit. In my driveway, at least, but still. I know what it is (starter) and if my dad was still around, it would be fixed in a jiffy. Alas, instead I had to pay for a tow and lord only knows how much the shop will charge me to get her running again.
Them’s some right powerful vaccines.
That makes perfect sense to me. Vaccines are a lower dosage, less harmful, version of whatever they’re vaccinating against. So, it’s ‘like for like’, administering a very small dose of something to cure the original ailment. In other words, vaccines are homeopathy.
Now as we all know, homeopathy requires succussion (ie smacking the solution around a bit) to work properly. I would assume* that with vaccines, you have to do the succussion after the vaccine has been administered - in other words, to get vaccines to work properly you have to smack the baby around a bit. In certain circumstances, that breaks the baby**.
That’s how vaccines work, right?
Right? 
- I may not know much about vaccines.
** Or babies.
I honestly have no doubt that your reasoning is just as sound as her train of thought on the matter.
Sounds legit.
My only rant for today is that it’s Friday and my (very dull) workday isn’t over yet.
Had one hell of a lightning strike near my house last night…lost my corded phone (with answering machine) and some component of my satellite system. At least the receivers seen to be fine; I can still watch my recorded shows. But I’m sick of stuff breaking (or getting broken) around here.