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randomsome1 (randomsome1) wrote,
@ 2008-04-05 23:51:00

Entry tags:

livejournal, wank

Lying to small children, strange sleeping habits, and mirroring wankers
We have ridiculously adorable seal puppets at work.

We also have crying small children.

So when a small child started crying today, I whipped out a seal puppet . . . and proceeded to spend the next ten minutes lying to and playing with a four year old who sincerely believed the seal was real.

This is not the first child I've misled in this manor. It will undoubtedly not be the last.

I think I feel a little bad. ~~But he stopped crying?~~

(YTD: Four children have believed the seal was real, and most parents initially think I'm walking around with a small dog in my arms.)

~~

I'm sleeping enough to dream again. Now only if my dreams weren't so severely OMGWTF ones. ~~Though keeping the plot ideas for some sounds worthwhile.~~

~~

It seems the US government's been taking lessons from Livejournal's SUP.

US-funded health search engine blocks the search term "abortion"

A few days later, the official ~~backpedaling~~ apology and fix: "I will also launch an inquiry to determine why this change occurred. The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of knowledge and not its restriction."

Versus . . .

The list of interests Lj has censored--including but not limited to porn, depression, yaoi, faeries, and bisexuality.

A few days later, the official ~~backpedaling~~ apology and fix: "(I)t was a mistake and not meant to convey any company opinion."

Ohh, Lj and Bush administration. Plz bring the funny instead.

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	holetoledo 2008-04-06 09:40 pm UTC (link)
	It's ok, my half-brother thinks that the animatronic T-Rex at the Toys "R" Us in Times Square is real. :P Innocence is a funny thing. (Reply to this)

	iponly 2008-04-06 10:57 pm UTC (link)
	seal puppets... so... cute... But at least there was backpedaling on both occasions. Successful protests give me a warm fuzzy sense of impending doom. (Reply to this)

	wingedrivers 2008-04-07 11:44 pm UTC (link)
	...I don't quite know why, but the thought of you playing with a little four-year-old is absolutely fucking adorable. (I initially typed 'adorkable' without thinking. DX ) And... WHAT. Censoring faeries? Depression? Bisexual? O_o; WOW. Just... WOW. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	randomsome1 2008-04-07 11:48 pm UTC (link)
	The mother thought it was fucking hilarious. After a while I was just trying to get away before the gig upset itself and he tried to get me to put his new buddy down to play. And yeah, Lj just continues to be full of win. :P (Reply to this) (Parent)

shikomekidomi
2008-04-10 03:45 pm UTC (link)

Playing with small children? Cute and a chance to warp their minds... For the better! I believe in corrupting people to improve them after all. Which is why I would have picked a monster toy, but you work with what you have.
You shouldn't feel too bad as it cheered the kid up and didn't seem to cause lasting harm, it's not like you told him the the seal was dying or something. Hell I still talk to inanimate objects sometimes.

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	randomsome1 2008-04-10 11:25 pm UTC (link)
	I could've broken out the three-headed dragon puppet, but that one's not quite as convincing. And inanimate objects can sometimes provide better interaction than humans, so you do what you've got to. :P (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	shikomekidomi 2008-04-11 12:58 am UTC (link)
	Three headed dragon? King Gidhora? Look, just because I often forget to draw clear lines between objects and people doesn't mean I have to talk to the former. It's more like sometimes I have to talk and whatever's convenient is convenient. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	randomsome1 2008-04-11 02:52 am UTC (link)
	Three headed dragon like . . . um, blue. No idea. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	shikomekidomi 2008-04-11 06:03 am UTC (link)
	Nah, Gidorah's gold. (Reply to this) (Parent)