Tough love is still a kind of love.
Or at least that's what my dad used to tell me when he whipped me until I bled.
( Lord Gnome, Sun 24 May 2009, 22:51, archived)

Yeah but he licked your gaping bloody wounds clean again afterwards.
So there was a kind of intimacy and caring about the whole thing.
( TFD is sporting this season's finest necropants, Sun 24 May 2009, 22:53, archived)

Did he balls as like
He poured a pound of Saxo on them so I'd also know what "rubbing salt in a wound" meant.
( Lord Gnome, Sun 24 May 2009, 22:55, archived)