It just seems too open to abuse: “but he said I could eat 'em!” Besides, I would say that someone who wants to be eaten to death has a profound mental disturbance. I think the nuthouse would be more appropriate than jail.
I’m all for euthanasia, but this is just too damn freaky.
Otto gets 15 skee-ball tickets for the [german hpmer] joke.
That’s the traditional German spelling of “Homer.”
Gotta go with the pile-on here: S is for “single.” In most newspapers that carry both straight and gay personals, there are sections for Men Seeking Women, Men Seeking Men, etc., and it’s unnecessary to specify one’s preference. One therefore sees SBM, DHF, WAF, etc.; rarely, one sees the likes of MWM. Bisexuals might throw in the whole word, or add it to the middle (e.g., SWBiM). The same code is used in internet ads, in my experience.
Roommate ads are often as Lissener describes (because roommate situations are NOT broken out by type, and sublettors are generally looking for single roommates or will specify a couple), but that does not appear to be the sort of ad that 'possum stalker is aping here.
In the Chicago Reader, and all the other Chicago papers whose personals I have read, S definitely stands for straight, not single.
SWM = straight white male
GBM = gay black male
etc.
If you’re placing an ad in the personals, the “single” is traditionally a given, unless indicated otherwise.
If S has come to mean ‘single’ more and more since that stupid movie, that just pisses me off even more. It was certainly unambiguously “straight” before that.
In any case, I acknowledge that there can be different “styles” from paper to paper, and therefore different assumptions by each paper’s readership as to the antecedant of S, but in all my years of reading personals ads, in the publications I read them in–intended for gay and straight audiences alike–the S was, unambiguously–at least until that stupid movie–for “straight.”
IANAL etc. In Wisconsin at any rate, “he said I could” is not a defense to a murder charge. The consent of the victim to participate in an activity which might forseeably lead to a death might be taken into consideration when the charges to be filed are considered and might be considered a mitigating circumstance (i.e. the victim consents to be a sparring partner then gets killed in the ring). “Cannibalism” is not a crime but “improper disposal of a corpse” is, and presumably the state would define eating the corpse as improper disposal.
I’ve got to back up the rest, lissener. In the personals I browse through here (for fun, dammit! Stop pointing.) S stands for ‘single’. D for divorced. Hell, there’s even the occasional ‘M’ for 'married. :eek:
I’ve never seen S stand for ‘straight’. The Washington City Paper (in the same genre as the Chicago Reader and also runs the SD) provides this chart
Bolding Mine.
You know, whenever I see a “DFW dopers” type thread in MPISMS, I always think, how many divorced female whites get together on this board?
a n y w a y . . .
Europeans call Americans barbaric for still having the death penalty, then this sicko smiles for the camera, whoops, got a testicle stuck in my teeth, and they’re only talking about locking him up for 5 years?
White meat and Dark meat? 
Widowed and Divorced, actually…
Thanks Dark
That was me, I worked with Bernd “eat me” Brandeis about ten years ago. We both worked for Siemens, and he came in to Florida occasionally to show us how to use some telephony equipment.
What came out this week that disturbs me a bit more is that the Juergan (the cannibal) stated that Bernd told him he had this fantasy since he was little boy. So when he was showing me and my co-workers how to use that protocol analyzer, he could have been looking at us and thinking how great it would be for one of us to eat his flesh. Urk.
FilmGeek provided the link to the thread I made.
Well apparently, since SWF was turned into a timidly titled movie, S has come to mean single to most people. Such was certainly not the case before that movie came out. I don’t know why but this just depresses me. Any, end of highjack.
The sickening thing about this post is that someone would actually need to have this explained.
Letting people “die with dignity” (a noble-sounding but vague phrase) is the “only rational choice?” How open-minded of you!
“We mock virtue and are astonished to discover monsters in our midst.”
– ** C.S. Lewis **
So you’re most assuredly sickened. Why don’t you come down from the Dogpatch Distillery and explain your revulsion. Why is it a crime to be willingly consumed?
…or are you going to continue your string of drive-by provocation?
For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are.
– C.S. Lewis (see, I can do it too!)
The story is trully yuck[sup]3[/sup], but it is wrong to base legality on the fact that something seems yucky to us or even to most sain people. Provided no-one is harmed against their will, but only harmed specifically at their reasonably sain request, it becomes less than murder. But that an offense of sorts happened seems likely, if someone does not have the right to choose the way their body is treated after their death, and if someone does not have the right to chose the time and method of their death.
Always remember, if you are invited to a dinner date by a German friend, make sure two places are set at the table.
Bipper, there were two places set at the table. The key is to make sure you’re not eating your own genitals.
We can’t just have folks eating each other willy-nilly. If a society is going to allow this kind of thing, make people fill out some type of form first. It’s the paperwork that makes us different from the apes.
So instead of expecting more from Society – that we overcome a basic trait of self-preservation that has been part of human life since Man was in the veldt – we should legislate? I’m surprised you would publicly advocate such a position, 'possum stalker.
Then again, you could be a Realist.
No, that’s emphatically not true. My entire life I’ve known “S” to stand for single. I was born in '75, and have read personal ads from well before that movie. It’s not the movie’s fault…Maybe in the reader it’s this way, but absolutely positively the Tribune and Sun-Times in the late 80s/early 90s ran “S” to stand for “single.”