F is for Freakjob, part II

[jmtorres]

Remember when I said we're like that in person, too?

This is a rough transcription, since it's from an in-person convo, not an AIM convo.

niqaeli: Okay, come here, there's something disturbing I have to show you.
jmtorres: Uh-huh. Are we talking urethra porn or balloons?
niqaeli: *starts cracking up*
jmtorres: Isn't it disturbing that we have reference points?
niqaeli: Isn't it disturbing that we have to ask? But no, closer to balloons. http://www.send2press.com/newswire/2006-03-0322-003.shtml
jmtorres: ...
niqaeli: Now let me show you the one with the better pictures!
jmtorres: ...
niqaeli: I'm sad that they don't have the posterior view.
davetheinverted: I've shown that to about five people and the reaction has been "... uh... wha... ..." It usually takes about twenty seconds for coherence to return. It's pretty impressive. It's rare that something gets that kind of consistent wtf.
jmtorres: I, you know, really the biggest question for me is, did Britney Spears agree to this? Encourage this?
davetheinverted: Well, she's a public figure, and it's art. What can she do?
jmtorres: No, I know but... as pro-life propaganda... wtf?
[a bit more on the idea of Britney Spears having to make the TERRIBLY DIFFICULT decision of whether to keep the child, and how rich she is]
niqaeli: I just feel sorry for the kid.
jmtorres: Yeah, someday that kid is gonna have to say, "Yeah, that's a statue of me coming out of my mother's vagina."
niqaeli: Oh, not just that. Just being the child of Britney Spears... I really do wish they had the posterior view on here, I'm CURIOUS.
jmtorres: Yeah, it's not like it's REAL porn. It's a statue!
niqaeli: Yeah, I'm not gonna get turned on by *Britney Spear's* vagina with a head coming out...
jmtorres: WINKING.
[Cue about a minute and a half of hysterical laughter]
niqaeli: Oh, god. My abs hate me. Do you know what a work-out hard laughter is?
jmtorres: I am controlling my heaving bosoms, largely with my left hand. I have to edit my post.
niqaeli: No, do a new one. You can traumatize more people that way--they'll be more likely to see a new one.

Et voila. *bows*

Comments

[thornsilver]

I think I'll add my WTF?!? to the WTF's alredy collected.

O_o

[jmtorres.livejournal.com]

Winnage.

[kinksville]

Thank you for allowing me to traumatize my friends. I must spread the WTF!?!?!age.

[jmtorres.livejournal.com]

Whoohoo, trauma!

[sennen-cuff.livejournal.com]

*has totally had a WTF?!?! moment*

*has totally died laughing*

*wishes she had people she could have this kind of conversation with, without getting smacked for it*

[jmtorres.livejournal.com]

Pretty much, I found people who would put up with my crazy online, and then figured out which of them lived near enough to me to be in their hair in person. I totally lucked out with niqaeli. She rocks.

[sennen-cuff.livejournal.com]

You were very lucky, Jul. I have maybe two people I can successfully annoy without too much worry of being thrown out of their house. And I've known them for several years.

[jmtorres.livejournal.com]

Heh. Have you branched out to statewide searches? I actually lived about two hours away from niqaeli when we figured we were in striking distance.

Also, age thing. It gets somewhat less scarydangerous to glomp people in person when you're older. (But you should still take precautions like meeting them in public with friends with you, which I totally did with niqaeli. We're reminiscing about that long-ago IHOP meeting now.)

[sennen-cuff.livejournal.com]

Not yet. There's the 'rent issue; My parents are probably one of the most provective couple in Maryland. ^^ They had my teachers over for dinner to make sure I was getting "the right kind of education"

[jmtorres.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that is an issue. Cling to the internets for another couple of years. *hugs*

[sennen-cuff.livejournal.com]

*hugs back* Yeah, I think I will. *stands up* Alright, I’m off to bed. ‘Night!

[jmtorres.livejournal.com]

Night!

[cimadness.livejournal.com]

WTF is up with using "pro-life" not only as a noun (rather than as an adjective), but as a proper noun?

[jmtorres.livejournal.com]

As a descriptor for a political stance? Maybe?

[cimadness.livejournal.com]

Right, but it's still an adjectival descriptor. To me at least, saying "she's the perfect symbol for Pro-Life" is like saying "she's the perfect symbol for Socialist": The meaning comes through, but it's ungrammatical. Also, of course, I disliked the fact that that article seemed to be using "pro-life" in a manner indistinguishable from "the [views of] the NRLC."

[jmtorres.livejournal.com]

Yes, the term has been politicized to mean something very specific.

[cimadness.livejournal.com]

But that's just the thing: It's not. Specific, I mean. I see the term "pro-life," to continue my analogy from above, as similar to "socialist": It does have a real meaning, such that one can genuinely say "x is pro-life/socialist, but y is not," but at the same time it covers enough philosophical ground that pretty much any time someone says "such and such is an ideal symbol for the pro-life/socialist movement*," one has to say: "Ok, what faction is that person from, and consequently what exactly do they mean when they talk about the movement."

*While I dislike it, I do understand the desire to use "pro-life" as a noun: Unless one does so, there is no noun that directly corresponds, and consequently one cannot make the same sort of distinction as one can make between "socialism" and "the socialist movement."

[jmtorres.livejournal.com]

I suspect the use as a noun stems from the fact that "life" itself is a noun.

[kanzenhanzai.livejournal.com]

Ummmmmm . . . I have to go show that to everyone I know now o.O

[jmtorres.livejournal.com]

Bwee.

[mercuriosity.livejournal.com]

WHAT. THE. FUCK.

I have no words (except for the three above, repeated loudly, and at length).

*traumatized for life*

[jmtorres.livejournal.com]

davetheinverted has a special disturbing, distubinger, disturbingest entry! Check it out for more trauma.

[mercuriosity.livejournal.com]

Yay! Permanent mental scarring is just what my day was missing!

[jmtorres.livejournal.com]

Hee.