From main site OT: Christmas at Hogwarts

[Nora Renka]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "davewitley" 
<dfrankiswork at n...> wrote:

> That religion, politics, and sex are not discussed at parties is 
> surely merely a quirk of the late 20th and early 21st Century west, 
> and our descendants will doubtless laugh at us for being so 
> repressed.

Eh, sometimes it's a general rule for a damn good reason.  There was 
a departmental party at one professor's house where they made the 
mistake of letting *abortion* come up, with some very opinionated 
people, and the party ended up with people on opposite sides of the 
house and not talking.  Sure, the hostess could make jokes about that 
at the party the next year (having a singular inability to be 
tactful, which you just kinda have to know about and shrug off)--but 
no one repeated the mistake.

I've seen people get more exercised over sonata-deformational theory 
than they ever get over politics, though.

-Nora is procrastinating...with style!