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Re: Emotional OE & "innocuous" triggers HowlerKarma #166626 09/05/13 02:05 PM
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Ametrine Member Joined: May 2011 Posts: 741	Originally Posted by HowlerKarma Bacon is a gateway meat. A "throw-down" is called for here! Wink to you, HK... Making Bacon Last edited by Ametrine; 09/05/13 02:11 PM. Reason: teasing HK

Re: Emotional OE & "innocuous" triggers aquinas #166630 09/05/13 02:19 PM
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MumOfThree Member M Joined: Apr 2011 Posts: 1,694 Australia	I can read most things to my kids without my own tears, "Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge" not so much.

Re: Emotional OE & "innocuous" triggers aquinas #166631 09/05/13 02:21 PM
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KnittingMama Member K Joined: Apr 2012 Posts: 267 California	There was one year, when I was 5 I think, when I wasn't allowed to watch most of the Christmas specials because in previous years I would burst into tears and become hysterical. I was also removed from many movies as a small child (Star Wars was fine, Fantasia and Bambi were not). I've mostly outgrown it. But I am pretty selective about what I watch. The movie Up makes me bawl. So does Toy Story 3. Knowing the ends (and the entire plot) of those stories doesn't make it any easier for me to get through it. No advice here, but lots of sympathy.

Re: Emotional OE & "innocuous" triggers madeinuk #166636 09/05/13 02:43 PM
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Ametrine Member Joined: May 2011 Posts: 741	Thumbs up! See my teasing Howler Karma video. (Love HK, btw.)

Re: Emotional OE & "innocuous" triggers ultramarina #166638 09/05/13 02:45 PM
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Ametrine Member Joined: May 2011 Posts: 741	Originally Posted by ultramarina My evil older brothers upon discovering we were having pork chops for dinner after we had just watched Charlotte's Web: "Look! It's Wilbur!" (cue me running sobbing from the room) So sorry, ultramarina... Brothers can be cruel.

Re: Emotional OE & "innocuous" triggers aquinas #166639 09/05/13 03:17 PM
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HowlerKarma Member Joined: Feb 2011 Posts: 5,181	Oh, I was permanently scarred by having pigs as a child. What my parents were thinking by having me there when the farm-kill people came out to-- er-- uhh, make sausage-- I can't fathom, knowing how sensitive and empathetic toward animals I am and was even then. I was seven, and I have never forgotten the screaming of the pigs at the intrusion by someone unfamiliar. It was awful. It is a terrible thing that pigs are so tasty. <-- yes, this is me, being paradoxical and idiosyncratic in my worldview-- don't judge me. But as someone else noted above-- it was really CHARLOTTE that was the problem for me personally in CW. I also sobbed with Little Women... and DOBBY in HP7... ohhhhmyyyygoshhhhh. I cried for Snape, too. And I was a good deal older than 7. Schr�dinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.

Re: Emotional OE & "innocuous" triggers HowlerKarma #166640 09/05/13 03:28 PM
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OP aquinas Member A Joined: Nov 2012 Posts: 2,513	HK, is this about the right tone re: the deliciousness of pigs? Homer eats Pinchy Last edited by aquinas; 09/05/13 03:30 PM. What is to give light must endure burning.

Re: Emotional OE & "innocuous" triggers aquinas #166641 09/05/13 03:29 PM
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OP aquinas Member A Joined: Nov 2012 Posts: 2,513	Thanks again everyone! What is to give light must endure burning.

Re: Emotional OE & "innocuous" triggers HowlerKarma #166644 09/05/13 04:06 PM
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Ametrine Member Joined: May 2011 Posts: 741	Originally Posted by HowlerKarma Oh, I was permanently scarred by having pigs as a child. What my parents were thinking by having me there when the farm-kill people came out to-- er-- uhh, make sausage-- I can't fathom, knowing how sensitive and empathetic toward animals I am and was even then. I was seven, and I have never forgotten the screaming of the pigs at the intrusion by someone unfamiliar. It was awful. It is a terrible thing that pigs are so tasty. <-- yes, this is me, being paradoxical and idiosyncratic in my worldview-- don't judge me. I'm sorry, HK. I had no idea you had grown up on a farm with pigs...I was just poking fun at you. Dang it, I'm sorry, HK. Our son doesn't see our cattle being taken for slaughter. He couldn't handle that. A couple of days ago, we had a steer "processed" on our property. DS only knew we were having a cow made into meat. I NEVER would have allowed him to see this done at his age. Anyway...I hope you didn't take my "funning" seriously.

Re: Emotional OE & "innocuous" triggers aquinas #166645 09/05/13 04:32 PM
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HowlerKarma Member Joined: Feb 2011 Posts: 5,181	Originally Posted by aquinas HK, is this about the right tone re: the deliciousness of pigs? Homer eats Pinchy Precisely. My parents kept me in the house... but... I could still HEAR my adorable piggy... I'm over it. Kinda. Hobby farm, actually-- it was the northwest, and the early 70's, so... yeah, kind of the modern homesteader thing. Schr�dinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.

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