I’ve only been here three days and it’s just a shooting, but give it time, okay. This place is fantastic. It’s like Gone With the Wind on Mescalin. I know you’re my agent. Listen to me, they walk imaginary pets here, Garland. On a fucking leash. Alright? And they’re all heavily armed and drunk. New York is boring!  

Yep, dc.

We know you grew up in a weird place! Wher­ever you were, you were guar­an­teed to make it weird.

I appreciate that.

And I was lucky enough to grow up with a dad who thought an
appro­pri­ate toy for his 3-​​year-​​old daugh­ter was a
calculator…which I admit fas­ci­nated me for hours at a time. Maybe I
wouldn’t have been thought of as so weird if I’d grown up where/​when
you did.

Your dad sounds great.

There were definite drawbacks to growing up where I did. People ask where I get my ideas for fiction. I give them Rod Serling’s explanation — I take real life and tone it down a little.

They’re selling them Taurus 732 semi’s with PINK FRAMES, down at the hardware store nowadays.http://www.budsgunshop.com/catalog/product_info.php/products_id/74631 

I wouldn’t be pissing off them women no more!!!!!

@DC

We know you grew up in a weird place! Wherever you were, you were guaranteed to make it weird.

And I was lucky enough to grow up with a dad who thought an appropriate toy for his 3-year-old daughter was a calculator…which I admit fascinated me for hours at a time. Maybe I wouldn’t have been thought of as so weird if I’d grown up where/when you did.

@mclever

It’s the sort of thing that dis­cour­ages girls from math and physics,
for exam­ple, because “every­one knows” that girls don’t do that.

I think I grew up in a weird place. In the grammar and high schools I went to, girls did better than boys in all academic subjects — English, history, math, science, you name it. The boys considered it unmasculine to be good at anything other than sports. Books were for girls, and there isn’t a single academic subject that doesn’t need books.

I didn’t find out until I got into college that girls weren’t supposed to be better at math and science than boys.

I grew up either in a weird place, or a weird time — or perhaps on another planet or a parallel reality. It is any wonder I write fantasy and science fiction?

ok, just checking.

It’s like mittens goes out of his wayyy to look more awkward, when all he has to do is be himself to look awkward lol. Clueless folk are jealous …

@mclever,
I didn’t take offense.

As for what was said, I think “goons” would be a rather peculiar malapropism for a southerner under the circumstances.   Of course, we hear and interpret what we understand through preconceptions we bring to the listening.

I wonder what a southern jury would hear.

Are there statutes on the books that would allow a city to for­bid him to do busi­ness in their juris­dic­tion if he loudly and firmly expressed that opin­ion in public?

I don’t think so. But, just as law enforcement agencies have a great deal of leeway in choosing which laws to enforce, on the grounds that there are too many violations to be able to cover them all, so, too, do (most) permitting departments have leeway on the prioritizations of permit applications. It’s the way that government agencies express their biases without violating the law.

And I don’t support that, either. I’m merely acknowledging that it happens in practice.

And now that I read further, I note that mclever expressed much the same sentiment, but better than I did.