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	platedlizard 2009-01-06 03:38 am UTC (link)
	Even Evil Has Standards. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	cygnia 2009-01-06 03:44 am UTC (link)
	Believe me, I was tempted to post that TV Tropes link with this...:) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	fools_game 2009-01-06 05:30 am UTC (link)
	GODDAMNIT where did the last three hours go? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	icedark_elf 2009-01-06 08:55 am UTC (link)
	joins you Bwah? Time...gone.... Oh, my own personal timewarping machine? Why don't you ever give me time instead of taking it? (Reply to this)(Parent)

	platedlizard 2009-01-06 09:20 am UTC (link)
	The same place mine went here apparently. [warning: timesink] (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	eleutheria 2009-01-06 02:15 pm UTC (link)
	I think most of those are about as real as most of the roflpwnt stories in Childfree. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bienegold 2009-01-06 03:22 pm UTC (link)
	I think a lot of them are wish-fulfillment. Most of them I can see customers saying, but some of the responses are shit that would totally get you fired. (Reply to this)(Parent)

also_not_a_pipe
2009-01-06 09:36 pm UTC (link)

That's what annoys me about that site. At least in the LJ customers_suck community people get slapped down for making shit up or not behaving well themselves in their story. There the only repercussions for people's shenanigans is someone not clicking on the thumbs-up button. The site designers need to add a "think this is bullshit" button or something like that to the stories.

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	adevyish 2009-01-07 04:41 am UTC (link)
	Especially the Sparta stories >> (Reply to this)(Parent)

	re_weird 2009-01-06 05:37 pm UTC (link)
	You just took away about 5 hours of my life. sob (Reply to this)(Parent)

	iwanttobeasleep 2009-01-06 03:47 am UTC (link)
	It's not "Having Sex" goddamnit. It's rape. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	firebad 2009-01-06 04:40 pm UTC (link)
	This. Thank you. I called and bawled out a newspaper a few weeks ago after they ran a story about a guy who "had sex" with his disabled mother. He was on trial for rape, and they still referred to it, multiple times, as "sex". Goddammit, indeed. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	A Suggestion notbulgarian 2009-01-06 05:12 pm UTC (link)
	Not that I don't agree with your anger, but if it was before the verdict, could there have been some sort of press law thingy where they couldn't say it was rape for fear of judicial wrath? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: A Suggestion iwanttobeasleep 2009-01-06 07:49 pm UTC (link)
	Then it's "alleged rape" or "is on trial for rape." Sex and rape are totally different things, and should never be used interchangeably. Doing so is just as bad as calling him a rapist before he is found guilty. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: A Suggestion felinephoenix 2009-01-06 08:53 pm UTC (link)
	No, the phrase that should be used in that situation is "alleged rape". (As it should be with any crime before there's a verdict, oh god I can still hear my journalism professor saying it over and over again...) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: A Suggestion notbulgarian 2009-01-06 10:16 pm UTC (link)
	Suspected it might be, but I only know the UK law in those instances (throw allegedly round like confetti) and I wondered if the law was more severe in the US. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: A Suggestion firebad 2009-01-07 03:50 am UTC (link)
	I'm in Australia, and have no idea what the laws are. My specific problem with the paper was that there were dozens of ways for them to communicate what happened without using a word in which the context is consensual sex. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	come_love_sleep 2009-01-06 08:20 am UTC (link)
	People ask me sometimes. They say "Why the hell would you move out here, when it's always warm in Arizona? When there's no wintertime out there? Why come to a place like this?" And I shrug. "Yeah, I kinda miss the winters, but..." (Reply to this)(Thread)

	imp 2009-01-06 09:13 am UTC (link)
	Is child rape is now a "Southwestern U.S. thing"? That's definitely news to me. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	come_love_sleep 2009-01-06 09:18 am UTC (link)
	:( Wildly prevalent in my hometown, I'm afraid.Out of--count'em--the eight girls I was close to, growing up, exactly one was not molested or raped by the time we made high school. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	imp 2009-01-06 09:36 am UTC (link)
	That's awful. I don't think that's actually an Arizona thing though. I checked online statistics, and it was the more populous states that had higher numbers, not a regional correlation. Most of the top ten states were actually in the midwest or south. Maybe that's just 'cause I live here though. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	come_love_sleep 2009-01-06 09:55 am UTC (link)
	Oh, I'm sure. There must be nice places to live in AZ--I was just never blessed to witness one. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	imp 2009-01-06 09:58 am UTC (link)
	...Uh. Alrighty then. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	radiotrash 2009-01-06 07:45 pm UTC (link)
	Well personally I'm having a grand ol' time in Tempe. I must be dodging all these rapists that are apparantly prevalent around here. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	imp 2009-01-06 09:08 pm UTC (link)
	I'm in Tucson, and despite our supposed infestation of rapists and all other things unfortunate, I've been getting along quite nicely as well. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	kylenne 2009-01-06 11:48 pm UTC (link)
	I liked Tuscon, though it was way too mellow for me. Nice artsy town. Kinda sad I never made it to the big gem and mineral show, though. Eegee's is one of the few food places I miss from AZ, despite the propensity for their ranch packets to explode all over my lap and my roommate's car. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	kylenne 2009-01-06 11:53 pm UTC (link)
	IMO, Tempe is the only livable place in the Phoenix metro area. I loved it there and refused to move anywhere else, despite the siren call of cheaper rents elsewhere. I miss Mill Avenue. I was so sad when my favorite awesome used book/antique store there closed down. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	kylenne 2009-01-06 11:36 pm UTC (link)
	Ha ha. I totally came in here to say, "Stay classy, Phoenix". -kyl, still glad she GTFO (Reply to this)(Parent)

	imp 2009-01-06 10:21 am UTC (link)
	Just as a disclaimer: Arizona is not actually a magical rape land, or even an area that has particularly high sexual assault statistics. Pedophiles exist all over the country. (Reply to this)

	deviantdesade 2009-01-06 03:09 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, there a billions of pros and cons when it comes to prostitution (legalized, mind you)... So I won't get into that. But I can't help the initial reaction of 'yay pimp! you may be a horrible bastard, but at least YOU know child rape is wrong' (Reply to this)(Thread)

	damien 2009-01-06 07:43 pm UTC (link)
	That's pretty much how my reaction went as well. "THANK GODS FOR THAT PIMP ...Oh, that sounds so horribly wrong." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	kylenne 2009-01-07 04:51 am UTC (link)
	All I could think of was the Player Haters from Chappelle's Show just rolling on this perv. It made me smile, I admit. (Reply to this)(Parent)

kylenne
2009-01-06 11:45 pm UTC (link)

To folks upset about AZ comments: I don't think anyone's really trying to rag on your state, cause there's crazies and pedos everywhere and we're all living in glass houses. Heck, as much jive as I talk sometimes I loved living in AZ, it's a beautiful state with a lot of great people and some of my best friends in the world live there. It's just that two years of living in the Valley convinced me that there's something about that area that turns out flavors of crazy (specifically pedo crazy) I'd never seen before or since, and made me long for the axe-wielding subway crazies back home in NY.

In fairness, I also feel this way about the BWI corridor in Maryland and pretty much the entire Pacific NW excepting Seattle and Portland. I'm sure plenty of people feel that way about my hometown, and most times you'll find me agreeing. No judgment.

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	snarkhunter 2009-01-07 04:08 am UTC (link)
	I live in central PA (aka central Pennsyltucky--see how I insult multiple groups at once there?) and grew up in the PNW. And do you know what I find soothing about PA and the Northwest? Crazed rednecks everywhere, with two urban centers that are, on average, slightly less crazed and dramatically more yuppie. And damn it, I say that with LOVE. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

kylenne
2009-01-07 04:49 am UTC (link)

Isn't there something, like almost comforting about your hometown crazies?

A couple of months after I moved to Arizona was the summer that NYC went extra crazy to the point where it was making the local news in Phoenix. Like there really was an axe-wielding maniac on the subway, and a doctor that blew up his whole apartment building in the process of trying to kill himself, and those are just the two things I remember. While my housemates watched the news with D: faces all I could do was shed a tear and think no one makes crazies like we do in NY. Represent!

(And yes I'm talking about this and resorting to gallows humor because my brain can't handle the horror of the actual story here. *10*, WHAT THE HELL.)

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	frequentmouse 2009-01-07 07:47 am UTC (link)
	Unfortunately, the crazy rednecks are being pushed out by nice religious people from the midwest. Ugh. (Speaking as a fifth-geeration crazy redneck). (Reply to this)(Parent)

	adevyish 2009-01-07 04:44 am UTC (link)
	Every single time Bountiful, BC comes up in the news I just D: (Reply to this)(Parent)

	yoritomo_reiko 2009-01-07 07:56 am UTC (link)
	I'm originally from Las Vegas, NV. We didn't have a lot of homegrown crazies. What we had was everybody else's crazies moving there! We used to watch America's Most Wanted in our house sometimes and take bets on which of them would be arrested in Las Vegas. There was a disturbingly high percentage. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	kylenne 2009-01-07 11:17 am UTC (link)
	My aunt moved out to Vegas about 12 years ago, and we regularly trade stories about Phoenix vs. Vegas bus crazies. She wins every time, too. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	lysana 2009-01-08 01:23 am UTC (link)
	Oh, geez. My sister's ex-husband, who bailed from CA when he was caught molesting his daughter, was arrested in Vegas. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	vorpal_blade 2009-01-08 03:04 pm UTC (link)
	The pimp had a point. And if your standards are lower than a pimp's? Then you have problems, my friend. (Reply to this)