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by deadly ernest

and thus they can be taken with anything they think is an improvement - that's a major reason behind such things as substance abuse, of all kinds.

by nexs

Is cryogenicly freeze themselves for a few thousand years, then come out and live accordingly....

maybe.. maybe not!
Fools.

by santeewelding

Like I said, it was a 17-year-old.

Like, that lab rats should not smoke.

Like, that forever psychology originates with so many college-age lab rats, extended to the rest of us, as in, "People..."

by nexs

Does this not make sense Santee?

If everyone else can understand this, then my reality isn't good enough and i'll go join the crowds of Avatar cultist and sacrifice myself to the greater blue-man good. (not really!)

by nicknielsen

including our offspring.

Santee, we all know the primary cause of cancer in laboratory rats is laboratory scientists. Why have none of us written the grant funding the meta-analysis to actually prove it?

(Hey, beats bovine flatulence! :D )

by santeewelding

If it be that.

Having been subjected to a lifetime of so-called "psychological" findings, then, finding that the findings were the result of experiental occasions with freshman college students -- bearing no relation whatsoever to me in my advanced age -- I have grown over my years, how shall we say, "dubious"?

Take it with a grain of salt -- including my obtuse reaction.

by santeewelding

Dispense with the hyphens.

"You have saved me..."

Makes the reader follow your every syllable.

Not that I would know.

by nexs

I'll stick to grammar.

Out of curiosity, what am I being Marked with?

by drowningnotwaving

Kids painting their faces like KISS didn't ruin the future of the planet, nor did teenagers getting depressed about Kurt Cobain's death.

Isn't it great, truly fantastic, that this is the worst they have to deal with???!!! Soon it will be the electricity bill.

Unless of course your question is actually taking the piss out of US for thinking you may be serious!!

by santeewelding

If you thought to have one.

My comments about "children" were only partial, in case you did not know. They do, although not completely, have something, though not everything, something to do with the rest of us.

You, for all your latter-day wisdom, do not.

by drowningnotwaving

A Therapist ?? Because I don't see an issue with young folk reacting emotionally to allegory in a movie ???

If that is the case, book me in. I'm sure a little digging will find lots of other excuses to be there anyway.

by boxfiddler

[i]this is the worst they have to deal with[/i], what the fluck are they gonna do when they find, as they age, that the 'real world' is not particularly friendly?

If this is all it takes to depress them, they're lost.

Further, as the media crawls all over this like flies on rotting meat, an industry will rise up around our poor, depressed idiots that can't face 'real' life. As opposed to those whose clinical depression is crippling. We'd rather dump them in the streets to ignore.

Face-painting and depression are not comparable.

by seanferd

of times I'd gone off to visit friends for a couple weeks, in interesting places, having no major responsibilities for that time. Vacation, as it were.

Comes time to go back home, and I feel... heartbroken. Not so much depressed, I suppose. Not just that I would miss friends again, but miss the new and interesting environment. I'm sure missing the near-total freedom fits in as well.

Ever been sad you finished a book?

by boxfiddler

It's how I know which books are worth reading again. I put them away for years, then pull them out again if something reminds me to. Years make the most amazing difference in books.

It's the whole 'depression' thing that bugs me, I 'spose. Depression cripples.

edit
No, it's not just that. It's the visual thing. I can read horror books without having nightmares. Watch the movie made from the book that I've already read, and I get nightmares. Weird.
But it makes me wonder about how visuals affect us, the power they hold in our lives. Avatar is, if hype is to be believed, a powerful visual input.

by .martin.

but a movie, non the less.

Don't see why people overreact to little things like this.

by drowningnotwaving

... but that would possibly imply a bolder approach on my first response that I didn't think or mean to be there. Ah well ...

by santeewelding

Go back to way back when.

We signed up here, you and I, about the same time.

Alternatively, you as far as I am concerned, came up with both sub-remarkable and near-remarkable. I think it was you who remarked about, "between the keys". That was pretty good. Gave me something to think about.

Anon, you gave me more to think about.

In particular your nomen, [b]canIberichnowplease?[/b], which has always annoyed the hell out of me. It has, to me, revealed your contemporaneous status.

Come up with something else -- something that stands.

by ron k.

After 'Jaws' came out I remember, badly, that some teenage girl was panic-stricken after watching it and she lived in Iowa. Sometimes people don't need much to push them over the edge when they're already leaning that way.

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