Sometimes a man comes back to a post he's written for a QOTW to see how many replies it's got.
You know, to massage his ego and give him a feeling of personal worth.
But then he sees a reply count in the forties and thinks: Oh. A flame war.

I only know as much of the story as I knew when I was eighteen,
but perhaps a few clarifications might soothe the fire a bit.

1: The folks the chap in question stayed with while we were cleaning were not only members of my mother's church but also his next-door-neighbours. I suspect they were the people who got him to the doctor's. So he wasn't shipped off the conversion facility to be re-educated, if that's what you're worried about.

2: As this took place in her free time, I believe my mum was acting in her capacity as private citizen, performing an act of charity (with incidental filial slave-labour). All that's happened here is that the cleaning company social services would have hired didn't have as much to do, and the chap at the centre of this sorry tale didn't have to wait for them in squalor. Also, the state saved a few bob in overtime. I got yer big society right here, baby.

3: My mum could beat up your mum. FACT.

4: I don't know anything about proper social services decorum. But I do know my mum, and know that whatever needed to be done will have been done. In triplicate. And checked twice. She's that kind of woman.*

5: My mum could beat you up. Also FACT.

6: The porn is the point. Seriously, people. It's all about the pr0n.

*Needless to say, I'm a bit of a disappointment.
(universalpsykopath loves what you've done with your hair., Fri 3 Feb 2012, 10:35, 3 replies)

(fx of waxing mustache)
There are are people in the world who are so afraid of life that they'd prefer a rigid straightjacket of unbreakable rules to govern every action. Harshly enforced with no reference to circumstance or compassion.

Then there are people in the world who's opinions matter.

The two are rarely in the same group.

Have a click.

I also know for 100% of fact that this _is_ what Jesus would have done. I asked.
( DukeEuphoria Comes highly reccomended, Fri 3 Feb 2012, 12:11, closed)

hehe
As to 1: fair enough, there were two references to religion that I read too much into. I think this is because I expect random charity from the religious more than the irreligious, but it seems that the majority of people here think this was a net positive thing. On balance, I think it's more about a problem with disability benefits in general, so I humbly withdraw my anti-religious sentiments from this post.

2, 3, and 5: Not going to budge on these, I disagree.

4: This makes me happy.

6: That bit was a nice, albeit maybe creepy, gesture!
( Ungersven would support SpankyHanky's patreon, Fri 3 Feb 2012, 12:36, closed)

Don't worry about it
Most of us get it, and it's a bloody good story.

Ignore the ranters, they're just doing what they do.
(username failed moderation, Fri 3 Feb 2012, 13:37, closed)