Comments on: So it’s like this http://www.mythago.com/blog/2009/09/14/so-its-like-this/ (A figment of everyone's imagination gets back into the blogging thing) Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:30:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Roy Kay http://www.mythago.com/blog/2009/09/14/so-its-like-this/comment-page-1/#comment-135931 Roy Kay Sat, 03 Oct 2009 15:31:54 +0000 http://www.mythago.com/blog/?p=217#comment-135931 Ehhhhhh "[commonly accepted safety requirement]" is so broad, that it hard to say. Two hand controls on machinery are one thing. Criminalizing parents for not having booster seats, not so. The latter is: 1) A really cool way to force people to buy from a commercial constituency of "Highway Safety" apparatchiks, but a cover for their cover-up of the risks of airbags for certain weights of people. Ehhhhhh “[commonly accepted safety requirement]” is so broad, that it hard to say. Two hand controls on machinery are one thing. Criminalizing parents for not having booster seats, not so. The latter is: 1) A really cool way to force people to buy from a commercial constituency of “Highway Safety” apparatchiks, but a cover for their cover-up of the risks of airbags for certain weights of people.

]]> By: Punning Pundit http://www.mythago.com/blog/2009/09/14/so-its-like-this/comment-page-1/#comment-135919 Punning Pundit Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:55:34 +0000 http://www.mythago.com/blog/?p=217#comment-135919 Randy: All the ones who didn't die of/get brain damage from whatever it was that their generation didn't need... turned out fine. Randy:
All the ones who didn’t die of/get brain damage from whatever it was that their generation didn’t need… turned out fine.

]]> By: Randy http://www.mythago.com/blog/2009/09/14/so-its-like-this/comment-page-1/#comment-135916 Randy Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:28:52 +0000 http://www.mythago.com/blog/?p=217#comment-135916 > Pretty much any sentence ending in “….and WE all turned out fine.” But we/they didn't. We just managed to cope, and decided call it fine. ;) > Pretty much any sentence ending in “….and WE all turned out fine.”

But we/they didn’t. We just managed to cope, and decided call it fine. ;)

]]> By: Punning Pundit http://www.mythago.com/blog/2009/09/14/so-its-like-this/comment-page-1/#comment-135914 Punning Pundit Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:42:29 +0000 http://www.mythago.com/blog/?p=217#comment-135914 Agreed. With one caveat: I will say thing to my friends like "You're so wrong in your opinion that, while [ice cream flavor preference] is usually a matter of subjectivity, you're _objectively_ wrong. This is, of course, meant as a joke... Agreed. With one caveat:
I will say thing to my friends like “You’re so wrong in your opinion that, while [ice cream flavor preference] is usually a matter of subjectivity, you’re _objectively_ wrong. This is, of course, meant as a joke…

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