April 12- Video

[ritsu_kouyou]

I'm sure we all have a 'bucket' list of things we'd like to do sometime in our lives before we die. This place certainly gives us opportunities to cross items off it, such as getting to visit other continents.

On the other hand, it also presents us with things we'd never believed would ever happen to us - the whole manner of our arrival and subsequent submersion into this war aside.

[Akiha is back from her mission in Brazil and she's not terribly happy with how it went.]

For example, I can now claim that I have been eaten by a giant slug. Allow me to cross that off my list. I've always wanted to have to kill something while inside its stomach and then cut my way out. [/sarcasm]

That said, can anyone recommend a hair stylist here? I need to take a few inches off thanks to stomach acid. [Or whatever it was.]

Comments

[sermonize]

Trolls are much different, miss. Hence why I do not believe it would be very appropriate to use the word around the young ones.

[ it doesn't COMPLETELY bother him. he's an adult.

sort of. ]

Though that doesn't seem like a very precise analogy.

[ritsu_kouyou]

A bucket is a common item among humans and this is a human city. I'm sure I can go to the janitor's closet in any of the housing buildings and find several buckets. I have no intention of catering to the few rare beings over something as innocuous as a bucket without being given a good reason.

Finding a common cleaning item as 'inappropriate' for children to hear about isn't good enough.

[sermonize]

It's used as a means of reproduction on our planet.

[ well if you're going to insist... ]

Failure to comply by providing genetic material collected in a bucket is a death sentence.

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[ritsu_kouyou]

[Really... what kind of messed up...]

[ritsu_kouyou]

Be that as it may, such a thing is not an issue here and it you would all benefit with some adjustment to this world's standards.

[In other words, this isn't your planet; get over it.]

I also believe the term comes from the American saying kicking the bucket which is in reference to dying.

[sermonize]

I do not disagree with that.

However.... The term itself as well as the imagery that goes along with it would certainly bring terror and unease to the young ones here. One cannot simply remove generations of ingrained beliefs within a matter of mere months. To at least not be somewhat considerate of that fact is not being sympathetic in the least. Surely if the roles were reversed, you would not like being told that you are going to just have to get over random murders and brutal slayings, yes?

[ritsu_kouyou]

[Coincidentally, her whole existence has surrounded getting over those kind of things, but that's because she's half-demon.]

Regardless whether I liked it or not, I would understand such is not a threat here and try to move past it. Allow me to remind you that to humans, a bucket is a common cleaning item. The same argument can be reversed in that it's just as unreasonable to expect humans to suddenly start thinking of it as a tool of terror for a very rare alien race.

That being the case, I'm not so cruel as to go out of my way to force the imagery upon the others, yet I am not going to continually police my words one the vague possibility that a young troll will overhear me. To expect such is absurd.

[sermonize]

I did not say you have to. Public conversation is different than one on one.

[ which is actually what he had meant. ]

[ritsu_kouyou]

Then should I ever find myself in conversation with another troll, I will attempt to remember how offensive your kind finds that word.