NotNoNever

I've been motivated to look him up. Underwhelmed. Severely. Complete Hollydude. In fact, I wouldn't bother peeing on him, because, as a clone or an android, I'd expect to be able to get another quite easily. Just another styled child.

Nothing wrong with that. The only real improvements needed are the ones that will make you happy. I think it's very good, very evocative due to its eschewing of literality. That said, I'm a wee bit confused by your description of the inspiring event as an 'incident', but I suspect that's to do with trying to find an appropriate word. But it does seem to place the reader in a slightly wrong place before reading, so it could affect their understanding. For the intro perhaps you could replace incident with event, or; even better: 'something that happened'. But the piece itself is pretty good imo

I'm beginning to see the indulgence of some rather bizarre fantasies surfacing here!

I kind of asked the question earlier, but now I see I have absolutely no need of the answer! Musical tweeners and pop culture? Blech Anyway, my logicality is wondering why he can't just get his s Zac out and pee on the sting himself? Or is there some reason why the filmmakers need to have a girl do it to a guy, like, um, sensationalism?

I wonder who's gonna be sued for that one? The water sprites, maybe?

<sighs>

That's the problem with systems and regulations amd management of risk and hazard ... the great (British) public will ALWAYS fund a way ti break them. Give a child an unbreakable toy ... he'll have it bits inside an hour. This stuff just is not legislable for. That's why we have personal responsibility. That's why this guy was there ... he was celebrating one of the milestones of adulthood. At 16 he can make babies and be responsible for them, their health, and their safety.. But he needs his hand held on a party bus?

Lol What does one have to do to get one's own emoticon on GA? As for Zac Effron, I'd need to fall over him first, and even then I wouldn't know it was him.

hh5, there is only one word available to counter your arguments, since you seem unwilling to accept personal responsibility for a person going through the world: bollocks. Hold the driver responsible because some idiot endangers his own life? bollocks Expect the driver to sort out a situation by taking his eye of his main task and causing the other passengers to be exposed to greater risk. bollocks. Have every human being commanded to move through the world in pairs so they always have a chaperone to ward off stupidity. bollocks. You seem to want to apply the tenets of a ridiculous legal system to natural justice. Natural justice would suggest that it would not be appropriate for the driver's head to fall off when the kid's head went through the hatch. Natural justice would suggest that it was the kid's head got knocked off. And, oddly, that's what happened. I don't know what constitutes an adult in your part of the world, but in mine it's sixteen years old. So, only one SG needed. I'd suggest you look at the age of criminal responsibility in the Sayreville area. That should indicate if a person is considered responsible for their actions at an early age or not. Sixteen is perfectly sufficient to be able to make judgements about opening a hatch and sticking your head through. Atom Egoyan made a film called the Sweet Hereafter about who is responsible for accidents. The lawyer's pitch (they don't have opinions, btw, they only have a mouth to rent separate from any level of good sense) was that there are no accidents in life, somebody is always responsible by virtue of an act or ommission. A nut is not tightened here, a tree is not cut there, a path is not wide enough somewher. Bollocks stuff like that. I'd advise you to watch it. Egoyan is an extremely good filmmaker. The point is this: The guy was responsible for his own actions. Neither the guard nor the driver shoved his head through the hatch, the guy did. Life taught the person responsible the lesson to be learned, not the driver, not the guard, not the guy who designed the hatch, not the guy who thought up hatches in the first place, not the designer or builder of the bridge who was obviously responsible by not building it high enough to avoid the daily, nay hourly, risk that some idiot in a double height bus would stick his head through a hatch he shouldn't have been, not the guy who mixed the cement, not the guy who laid the asphalt an inch too thick therefore raising the bus up, not the weatherman who forecast the sun coming up in the morning, not the parents who concieved the 16yo, not the grandparents who concieved the children who grew into adults and conceived the child who grew into the guy, not the guy who dug out the iron ore thousands of miles away to be smelted for the steel to build the bus, not the guy who elected the Pope who failed to commune with god to ascertain if such a risk was likely at x o'clock of x day of x month of x year. No. The guy who was a stupid little idiot, like many of us have been, but wasn't lucky enough on this occasion to have got away with it. Now for heaven's sakes, please stop trying to hold the world and everything in it responsible for the individual actions of the world and everything in it, except for when it has a good outcome and the world and everything in it can bugger off and the individual can take the spoils. The guy shoved his head through the hatch. He's dead. That's called cause and effect. End of.

I can't see why the driver can possibly be held responsible. What if he'd taken his attention off the dangerous part, i.e. driving the big heavy moving thing, and crashed and killed several of them? How much bitching would there have been then? People have to take responsibility for themselves to some extent. Chaperone's are all fine and well, but at some point parents have to let their kids go - do you imagine for one second young bobby wanted his daddy along making him look like a dork in front of his mates? The inevitable consequence of letting them have some freedom is that some of them will do something stupid. And, as already said, it's amazingly easy, but most of us manage it. Don't go blaming the driver for the stupidity of an out of control teenager. Nature didn't, and nature didn't punish him either. Nature punished the kid. It was the kid stuck his head above the parapet. It's his parents I feel sorry for.

Mark's one of the good guys, btw. Even if he does write poetry!

There are some. I think Nephylim would be the most prominent. There are differences, as you say. I've just finished reading Lean On Me by ghostofoldtrafford. Now, I don't know if he's British, or not, but he sure has some slippages into British English, despite the fact that he writes a story in American scenery / idiom. Read anything by Johnathon Colurfield and you should be pretty impressed, actually.

There's only one of Ashi, so multitasking will not be required. Just get on and multiple slut as one together

Well, that's what they call evolution.

Shovel. Can't remember the exact circumstances, but I do remember it having something to do with having lost the house shovel in the grass and me trying to find it. My cousin still calls me shovels, which comes from the chant taunt 'the shovel's in the grass'. I had another which was 'ghost', but I have no idea where that came from!

<lowers head and shakes it in despondent disbelief> <can't understand why got Zombie so wrong> <wonders what it takes to make Louis Harris and Zombie to lose their taste and dignity> <wonders why W_L has to pick this to veg out to when he's not in lucid and free-thining mode> On the other hand <has seen the trailers and thinks some of those dudes are shaaaaagalicious, baby> <makes appointment at doctors> <asks for out of hours appointment to preserve anonymity> <begins farewell note to world for abject failure to be right on> <rollseyes> <respells>

WHAT IN THE NAME OF ALL THAT'S HOLY ARE YOU DOING TELLING US ABOUT SUCH ON OLD STORY THAT IS NOT FINISHED? Boy am I pissed

It's the bigger picture for me, too. It's just ridiculous what women are pressured into for the sake of men. I can understand Cia's point that women might want for this product, alongside the male pressure, but, you know, people should just learn to work well with what they've got. My dick is bog standard average length, a bit thick, but not so much. But hey, I can do awesome stuff with it, and I don't need a pill or an implant or a ring or a surgical stretch, or an enhancement. I just took some time to find out what works, and enjoyed the ri... well, you know what I mean. Heaven's sakes, what's next? Do couples go for genital surgery to make sure his fits hers in perfect all points touching symmetry? Do us bum boys need to get a bumpy addition which will rub the nub with a stub? A straight mate once showed me his dick cos he had a little mole that he said drove women wild cos it tickled more. Do guys need to start getting a second length outcrop to rub the girly lump? God almighty, quit messing around. If the other half ain't happy with what's there, tell them to get with their hand or get lost. Next thing we know there's gonna be shiny studs for vagin ... oh, no, wait a mo, they've got vajazzles already. Way to go! Make the intimate bits tacky too. Guys will crack their teeth on those things. I feel a rant coming on!

Well, dude, if you want to refer to your thingumyjig by the name of 'temptation', that's just fine. But only you can answer the question!

Well, I suppose it's part of getting older, but the following has just amazed me. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-19353039 It has also disgusted me. Not for the usual gay ickieness about lady bits. I used to partake, in a previous life. No, but because it seems there is a whole lot of stupidity going on with this, and it's probably got a lot more to do with some idiotic notion of being in tip top condition for that most important of things, the heterosexual male who thinks he owns and shapes the whole world. Why doesn't someone just tell these women that if it ain't touching the sides, it's probably his deficiency, not theirs. And tell them to tell the patriarchy to take a long walk off a short boardwalk. Spreading gold dust on the affected part is more about making him think he's a stud stallion, than making her think she's in top hymen breaking condition. Us gay boys have the opposite problem: we have to take time to make places wider, less tight, not so painful, and not likely to bleed. So girls, next time a guy says he wants to dip his wick in a nice tight virginal pussy, tell him he is welcome. But not before you've done him with an unlubed strapon and a single, hilting penetration. That'll change his tune. From sweet nothings in your ear to window shattering screams citywide. ============================================================= On the other hand; was quite amused at the phrase: to close a gap in the market. That just must have been the journalist or publicist having a laugh. Grrrrrrr, just noticed the title typo

Just going for my razor. The writing is good, if a tad fussy, perhaps. But the tale is like the nightmare none of us wants to happen, and you get that across well. If anything, I think I'd have preferred some slight indication of feeling unwell before the midpoint, as the heart attack / strok came out of nowhere a bit.

I like the idea, but it's a bit haphazard. However, there is something compelling about the young man on the pavement being abused by people for what he was doing when he was already dead. There's an awful lot of meaning in that imagery. The duplicitous bastard of a salesman was suitably hateworthy, but I'm afraid I didn't buy the closing speech. It seemed to miss its own point, somehow, and its accusation was too condemning and not loving enough. Still, a lot of good in it. I coudn't help but think of 'under-developed' communities having their land stolen from them for hydro dams.

Ehm, a) Prince Harry exposed himself; b ) the UK doesn't sue ppl for such things, that's left to individuals; c) while I don't agree with the selling or publishing of these pictures, cos they're really not that interesting (although I acknowledge (and sympathise with ) the puppy panting on your part ), nobody forced him to take his clothes off in a public place, so he bears a massive part in the responsibility, and; d) as any good publicist will tell you, ignoring it will make it go away a whole lot faster than suing for it.

It's hardly fluff, it matters to you. Not sure if they can get depression as we know it, but they can certainly be lonely, and they can be bored too. You could get him a playmate, but that's an awful lotta work. Do you walk him in a park? Is there a time when he might meet lots of other puppies (beyond yourself, of course ) Also, dogs get on a lot better with cats than most people think, and they're a lot less work. So that might be a solution. Just don't get a boy cat

Was reading this. Got to the end of the first sentence. Thought to myself - I'll Like this, I think. Then there was that second line