Stephanie @ #109 - I really appreciated your input, and I suspect I'm not at all alone in this.
Meg Thorton @ #111 Hear, hear. Especially your last paragraphs on what to tell those not suffering from depression.
Also, in general, very happy about the "depression is hell" subthread - including the considerations that intersect with a drugs prescription data base.
Crazy(and continuing to enjoy visiting here)Soph
(Somewhat off-topic, for which I apologize)
Suzanne Moses @ 4, I've seen a post over at Obsidian Wings, titled Shooters, where the author describes his attempts to deal with a long-distance friend, who appeared to be spiraling toward creating his own violent event with a gun. The story poses more questions than answers, but since I'd been wondering similar things without being to articulate them, I found the post worth reading.
Crazy(and also - back to the topic - Creeped Out, Officially)Soph
Okay, I've been encouraged off-list to share the anecdote I'd originally just e-mailed to Todd Larason @ #99. I still feel like apologizing for its tangental quality, though.
Todd wrote (among other things) - Their third proposal is an initiative to end out-of-wedlock births, by making giving birth the legal equivalent of a marriage ceremony. I haven't seen that one yet so I'm not sure how they'll deal with births where one of the parents is single and the other is already married.
I know of a story from the Netherlands that could supply a (partial) answer to that - someone I know, whose father had been married previously, during the Second World War.
That first marriage had broken down at a time when divorces were not being granted (there's a story involved of the Dutch resistance blowing up the central population registers, in order to keep the info out of the hands of the occupying Nazis, but I can't source that story properly). The wife embarked on an extramarital relationship, got pregnant, and delivered a baby girl. But because the marriage was still in place, the girl was legally considered as the legitimate issue of that first marriage.
Which got very sticky for that little girl, when the school authorities learned of this situation a few years later: up until then, she'd been called by her mother's maiden name, but then the school authorities took her out of class, and told her they were changing all the records so that she would henceforth be using the name of her legal father. (You can imagine what the schoolyard interactions were like, after that. Even though she was born "legally" into a documented marriage, contemporary usage meant if she had a different name from her mother's, she was a bastard.)
A couple decades down the road, it also got a wee bit sticky for my informant, when his dad died. They'd done a relative search (just to be sure; there was no inheritance but who wants to have to prove such a thing several decades later?), which turned up this woman - legitimate half-sister in name, but not a drop of commonly shared blood.
In a nutshell, great mess-potential abounds.
Crazy(the woman herself? Turned out to be extremely reasonable, as reaction to her chaotic childhood...)Soph
Todd Larason @ #99
I've emailed a comment re one of those proposals offlist.
Crazy(and afraid her anecdote was just too long and too off-topic)Soph
Following on James D. Macdonald @ #646
Guerilla marketing only works if no one knows it's guerilla marketing.
And, especially after I've watched the behavior of those particular marketers here on ML, the word "kitten" as a form of address is now forever marked as "possibly tainted." Thank you, everyone. Very helpful in the thickets of cross-claims and counter-attacks. I'll put my money on ML and the denizens here every time.
Crazy(and reminding herself once again, Google is a good reason for minding my p's and q's!)Soph
Lavender ice cream - I'm having to remind myself, "De gustibus non disputandem est" (or "non est disputandem"? an old friend always used to say it the first way, but Google's given me the second).
I've actually made lavender ice cream, and, being pre-disposed to liking it, I did. Though I could empathize with one of the /g/u/i/n/e/a /p/i/g/s guests who remarked on the "perfume" rather than flavor. It probably helps to have a really rich ice cream, and pair it off with a taste like chocolate.
Crazy(back to lurking the eruidite conversations)Soph
*looks up from note-taking*
"Degenerated?"
*looks crestfallen*
*winks and looks mischeivous*
Crazy(and going back to the note-taking)Soph
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