Transport to central.

[reddragdiva]

• Don't read this if you're in the UK.

• IBM 1401 Mainframe, The Musical.

• World's best embarrassing small child story.

• Sexiest picture ever.

• Boycott the NSPCC.

i_beloved is in town! I will fill myself with drugs in order to meet up with her tomorrow evening.

I am at home on call. I have a cold. Freda and arkady returned with a cold from one of Arkady's other daughters, so I am now suffering the effects. This may bugger my weekend, which would suck. Blurgh.

Comments

[fluffymormegil.livejournal.com]

Mmm. Hot mathematicians :)

[xlerb.livejournal.com]

More like hot physicists, from the looks of it.

[wendolen.livejournal.com]

They're about two hops away from me, socially. Buncha Reedies (http://www.reed.edu). (First saw this picture as a friend's desktop image, and it was explained that it was a bunch of his friends.)

[zotz]

[The NSPCC's] underlying agenda is rather nasty; it sees parents in general and fathers in particular as the biggest danger to children.

Err . . . that's true, though, isn't it? And the main accusation is over something that happened 20 years ago (and affected a hell of a lot more bodies than the NSPCC, believe you me).

[alexmc.livejournal.com]

> Sexiest picture ever.

Wonderful.

[also-huey.livejournal.com]

I want to know what's written on the other side.

[xlerb.livejournal.com]

Sexiest picture ever.

I might dispute that; but I guess topless men with science equations written on them are a less valuable commodity.

It is in any case an awesome photo.

[redcountess]

I always had my suspicions about the NSPCC.

[thekumquat.livejournal.com]

I have no idea what the NSPCC does of any use. All I know is they have those scary TV ads which I doubt do much good, as most adults hitting kids are at their wits end rather than making any rational decision, and that when I was at primary school, aged 7, the NSPCC came in and told us lots of really nasty stories of child abuse that gave me nightmares for years. One of them still does, in fact.

[yellowrocket.livejournal.com]

"Freda and arkady returned with a cold from one of Arkady's other daughters"

Nope. No lurgy here, must be scabby London bugs! :-)

[i-beloved.livejournal.com]

WAHEY!!!

[ashbet]

That parenting one had me in fucking *stitches* :D :D :D

Feel better soon, sugar! *sends replacement immune system*

-- A <3

[lovelybug.livejournal.com]

Me too - hillarious! And the tales in the comments are fantastic too!

[unagothae.livejournal.com]

I need to add "I HAS A POCKET" to my icon.

And that is one HAWT photo!

[siani-hedgehog.livejournal.com]

i am totally with you on the subject of the NSPCC. as far as i can see, their deepest underlying purpose is to provide work for themselves. they don't actually DO anything for kids, just lobby and produce expensive TV ads promoting the idea that you should suspect daddy of hitting them, and mommy of giving them heroin. i'm not at all sure how any of this benefits anyone at all besides the NSPCC.

[deeply-spurious.livejournal.com]

The NSPCC is a well meaning organisation which has done some positive things, but I thoroughly object to its distinct tendency to jump on tabloid bandwagons, which usually involve some form of knee-jerk, witch-hunt as a response to something or other... I also HATE their horrendous TV advertisements with the close-up of the child crying.

[shesmymonkey.livejournal.com]

I don't like the adverts on telly from the NSPCC, specially bearing in mind that there are so many cases brought to our attention (so how many haven't been?) that suggest not enough is done. But there's also the parents who are blamed for things they haven't done. I worry unduly that someone one day might hear me say something when I'm frurated with my crying baby, and get her taken away from me because they think I'm a bad person. When out there there really are bad people.

Otherwise,

I have had many such moments, such as the time, and I won't name names here although he deserves it, one of my kids announced to my mother over the phone that "sometimes my penis gets really big! And it feels good!"

OMFGWTF OHNOES. Kids say the darnedest things!!!