Posted on 08/29/2007 1:25:00 PM PDT by wilco200
Reminds me of that old joke:Gary Hart is living proof you CAN f-— your brains out.
Barry White's Hokey Pokey.
... And that's what it's all about, baby.
It never horrified me but it would disgust me and I would be angry to have to explain it to my children in this situation. So is it the use of the word “Horrified” or the reaction at all? Because it definitely merited a reaction.
Something about this story stinks to me. Why wasn’t the girl charged? I call bs, political correctness. I want to see photographs of the girl.
That movie was called "Carrie"
Carrie: Hold me, Momma. Please hold me.
Margaret: I should have killed myself when he put it in me. After that first time, before we were married, Ralph promised never again. He promised. And I believed him. But sin never dies. Sin never dies. At first it was all right. We lived sinlessly. We slept in the same bed, but we never did it. And then, that night, I saw him looking down at me that way. We got down on our knees to pray for strength. I smelled the whiskey on his breath. And he took me. He took me. With the smell of filthy roadhouse whiskey on his breath. And I liked it. I liked it! With all that dirty touching, and his hands on me all over me! I should have given you to God when you were born ? but I was weak and backsliding and ? Now, the devil has come home. Oh. We?ll pray.
I assume they were having a ball till they were interrupted.
The prim and proper ladies in the swimming pool today are all clucking away. I told them the couple was in our recreation building, so what's wrong with recreating.....or procreating?
I thought the good cluckers would drive me out of the pool.
Leni
If you ever read Stephen King’s, “On Writing,” he discusses where he got the inspiration for that story.
You and my wife, no imagination!
Mr. Toad ended up in hell. ;-)
-PJ
I think I’d have just turned the kids around and said that was not appropriate behavior in public. Still, you gotta fire the guy. Don’t think they should have charged him with a crime though. But that is my libertarian streak showing through.
I beg to differ. Recently there was a case in Chicago where a principal and a teacher (at least one of whom was married to someone else) had a liason in a storage room in the school during school hours. The kids had no idea that it had happened and no possible way to witness the act. But it got picked up on a security camera.
The camera tape got published on the Internet. The next school board meeting was invaded by a number of the local soccer moms who literally screamed at the school board about the danger these two had put their children in. They demanded and got the two fired. They also got their teaching credentials cancelled so that they could never work in a school again. I don't know if any of them used the word "horrified", but it seemed to fit their reactions in part at least.
Which furthers my point about selective outrage and the drama queen nature of our society. Should the two teachers have been fired? IMHO, yeah. I just wonder what the sex ed curriculum looks like in that school district and how much more or less explicit it is than a grainy surveillance CCTV...and how many of the moms have been "horrified," to the extent of going to the school board about it.
A good example is a "horriying" car crash. You weren't scared to your wits, and driving erratic because of the sight you have seen, but you might be sick and nausiated.
Agreed that it’s a matter of semantics. While I regard what the amusement park *riders* were doing as offensive, the way the story was worded made the woman’s reaction sound like the kind of selective outrage applied by someone used to claiming victim status...I would like to think that, in the same circumstances, I would have (as previously stated) contacted the appropriate authorities, used the incident as an object lesson for my children regarding morality and responsible citizenship and NEVER have discussed my feelings or mere observations with any person in the media.
a work visa to operate a tilt-a-whirl doesn’t seem to be in the spirit of the immigration laws. my guess is that his visa was long expired. the reporter just didn’t mention that part of it.
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