MoonCat's Magnificently Mythopoeic Random Banter #154

[rayne_dragon]

So, anyone remember this conversation?

Because... well...

*snipped awesomeness*

That's cool... but shouldn't the stick figures be a policeman, a native american, a cowboy, a biker, a construction worker, and a soldier?

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... You must be my good-for-nothing dad's good twin who was separated from him at birth, because I have never met anyone else that punny.

[Heliomance]

People like you and I, we come from a punning clan.

[AtlanteanTroll]

Apparently not. And you're lucky.

Health aint fun. We watch the nastiest movies. And of course later we have to watch the woman giving birth. Last year the Health teacher got in trouble for playing the birth in reverse.

[Zaydos]

I never even had a health class and I've seen a woman give birth before.

I should be a better big brother to that rascal.

[AsteriskAmp]

I know how to perform a C-Section but I have never seen a birth, I blame the lack of nerve of my Health Education teachers and the squickiness of actually googling something like that.

[rayne_dragon]

I know how to perform a C-Section but I have never seen a birth, I blame the lack of nerve of my Health Education teachers and the squickiness of actually googling something like that.

It is not that squicky, actually. At least not that I have ever seen and relative to medical procedures. Honestly it surprises me that your health education teachers have not shown you the standard woman giving birth clip... I had to try desperately to avoid it in high school (only to go into a medical field later and end up seeing it voluntarily).

[Zaydos]

I watched the clip when I was 6.

Apparently you have to if you're going to be in the room when the baby is delivered (at least if you're a little kid). I don't think my older brother (12) had to, but he watched it.

I don't remember it very well at all, but I don't remember it being squicky in the least, but I didn't have the best view (the birth center staff were in front of me for the most part). I mostly remember waiting outside the room with my grandparents till they said everyone could come in a few minutes before my little brother was actually born and seeing him when he was.

[HalfTangible]

I watched the clip when I was 6.

Apparently you have to if you're going to be in the room when the baby is delivered (at least if you're a little kid). I don't think my older brother (12) had to, but he watched it.

I don't remember it very well at all, but I don't remember it being squicky in the least, but I didn't have the best view (the birth center staff were in front of me for the most part). I mostly remember waiting outside the room with my grandparents till they said everyone could come in a few minutes before my little brother was actually born and seeing him when he was.

All i remember is my mother screaming.

[Zaydos]

All i remember is my mother screaming.

I'm the 3rd child in my family, and my little brother was the easiest birth of us all so I don't remember many screams.

[dish]

I've never seen a live birth. But husband watched me giving birth to our daughter. He says it wasn't squicky, but there was more blood than he was expecting.

The midwife told me not to scream, but to hold my breath while pushing. Apparently that works better.

[MoonCat]

My mom gave birth to my older brother over three days. He was partially suffocated by the time he got his first breath, and bright blue from it. I was so easy.

[Zaydos]

My mom gave birth to my older brother over three days. He was partially suffocated by the time he got his first breath, and bright blue from it. I was so easy.

Poor woman. 3 days of labor... I can't (and refuse to) imagine that.

[absolmorph]

I was so easy.

I don't want to take this in context, because out of context is so much funnier.

[VeisuItaTyhjyys]

Hahaha, dissing terry.

It's pretty late, but that deserves applause.

[AtlanteanTroll]

I should be a better big brother to that rascal.

What rascal?

Anyway, I know I'll be avoiding watching that video. You all lie about it not being squick.

[AsteriskAmp]

What rascal?

Anyway, I know I'll be avoiding watching that video. You all lie about it not being squick.

I think the squick is related to the fact that you know you will be watching a totally random woman give birth to a random unknown child, while many people see the birth of their siblings or offspring which is a big moment that offsets the squickiness of what is actually happening.


ION: I've just had one of the most physically tiring experiences of my life by filling buckets with water and emptying them someplace else.

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The pool tank flooded and began leaking into the motor room, both of which are bellow ground level and each has a hatch giving access to them. Being the only male on my household for the time being I had to descend to a room smaller than me but big enough to make sitting unconfortable, it was flooded to waist level, I had to stand on the only parts of piping which were steel and empty the room, crouching.

Than I had to clean the remaining water with a towel. The problem came when I had to exit, as there were no stairs but the room was deep enough to make climbing basically impossible, I had to perform a series of stunt I hadn't done since I was 7 and was in PE and then I had failled horribly.

Than I enjoyed a glass of milk and currently am trying to fall asleep, it's now 8:56 a.m.

Edit: Pictures of the room after the previous flooding, when we needed evidence to tell the pool cleaner something was wrong with the system, it was the mildest of them all before the bigger ones started comming.

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[AtlanteanTroll]

I think the squick is related to the fact that you know you will be watching a totally random woman give birth to a random unknown child, while many people see the birth of their siblings or offspring which is a big moment that offsets the squickiness of what is actually happening.

Ah. Well, I'm an only child, so I wouldn't know. And yuck, offspring. Who needs there own when their are so many w/o a home. Hmmmmm?

[CrimsonAngel]

What are my parents going to do about me being grumpy a few days ago? Wake me up at 7:50 in the morning so that I can watch them give blood and sit motionless for an hour or two while mom's car is in the other room being checked out.

Mom says if i'm grumpy at all today i'm going to have to spend even more time with them. Does she remember having homework at school?

[Thufir]

That's cool... but shouldn't the stick figures be a policeman, a native american, a cowboy, a biker, a construction worker, and a soldier?

No. Because I was drawing me and Curly doing the YMCA dance. Me and Curly are not the Village People.
No way am I drawing the Village People...

[Moonshadow]

Sigh. I is all lonely, with no one around to talk to I'm tired of being rejected and sad as a consequence

[Ranger Mattos]

Health aint fun. We watch the nastiest movies. And of course later we have to watch the woman giving birth. Last year the Health teacher got in trouble for playing the birth in reverse.

Sounds... fun. [/sarcasm]

But I already knew that. It was described to me in great detail by one of my classmates who had Health this year.

[Form]

Sigh. I is all lonely, with no one around to talk to I'm tired of being rejected and sad as a consequence

I know the feeling all too well. *Hugs* and hang in there.

[rayne_dragon]

What are my parents going to do about me being grumpy a few days ago? Wake me up at 7:50 in the morning so that I can watch them give blood and sit motionless for an hour or two while mom's car is in the other room being checked out.

Mom says if i'm grumpy at all today i'm going to have to spend even more time with them. Does she remember having homework at school?

I think this is the most sadistic thing I've ever heard. Your parents do realize that this is counterintuitive and probably counterproductive to boot, right?

No. Because I was drawing me and Curly doing the YMCA dance. Me and Curly are not the Village People.
No way am I drawing the Village People...

I was missing the context of the original conversation... and also ignoring the existance of such context to try to make a joke.

It's still awesome

[Haruki-kun]

Sigh. I is all lonely, with no one around to talk to I'm tired of being rejected and sad as a consequence

Yeah, me too. I wish I had someone to be with tonight... but it looks like I'll be playing PS3 and stuff.

[Rawhide]

Has everybody seen the current headline in the Vampire Chronicles newspaper?

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Edward Cullen and six other family members died this morning in the early hours when they believed they would "Sparkle in the sunlight."

[AsteriskAmp]

Has everybody seen the current headline in the Vampire Chronicles newspaper?

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Edward Cullen and six other family members died this morning in the early hours when they believed they would "Sparkle in the sunlight."

Link please, or at least which comic is the latest.

[Rawhide]

Link please, or at least which comic is the latest.

Eh? What? Comic?

[AsteriskAmp]

Eh? What? Comic?

Sorry, confused Vampire Chronicles with Vampire Chronicles Comic, which also has newspapers.

[Rawhide]

Sorry, confused Vampire Chronicles with Vampire Chronicles Comic, which also has newspapers.

It's a joke. The name of the newspaper is based on the tendency of certain newspapers to call themselves the [xyz] chronicle(s), with an added nod to the series of books by Anne Rice.

[AsteriskAmp]

It's a joke. The name of the newspaper is based on the tendency of certain newspapers to call themselves the [xyz] chronicle(s), with an added nod to the series of books by Anne Rice.

If it helps at all now that the joke has been explained, I find any and all Twilight characters related death to be amusing, with or without context.

Found the bit about thinking they would sparkle particularly funny.