Story Ideas

[minoanmiss]

MSN is bad for me. And yet.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/parenting/folks-are-spitting-out-their-family-secrets-that-aren-t-for-the-faint-hearted-and-here-are-37-of-them/ar-BB1lFDSr?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=678c2963baf7457daeb5e2ad387713a1&ei=4

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/40-lawyers-share-the-dumbest-thing-a-client-has-done-to-ruin-a-case/ar-BB1pzN5c?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=34dfe3e538f14bbd9a5db23f53555c3b&ei=35

Comments

[med_cat]

So crazy it's amusing :P

[conuly]

I believe you could post those same URLs a bit shorter by deleting everything from the ?ocid= onwards, though it'd probably be better for accessibility reasons (I think? I'm still not sure how screenreaders work) to use the a href tag.

[minoanmiss]

Last time I did that I messed them up -- I shall experiment

[hitchhiker]

some people's children!

[darkmarcy]

Oooh, drama popcorn listicles! Going to read all of these and say Yikes a lot :'D

Weird that people censor the word "drugs" in these, I wonder if these were collected via comment sections on social media or something?

Cackling at this one:

#21
I found one out myself. In My great great grandfather spent years in prison for volationing of the Comstock act. Anthony Comstock himself testified in 1904 at the trial that it was the largest collection of pornography he had ever seen.

Lol damn grandpa.

[bikergeek]

The Comstock Act is still on the books, although it's been unenforced for decades except for the portions of it dealing with CSAM. It has newfound relevance these days, because in addition to banning shipment of porn through the mails, it also bans the sending of information about contraception and abortion.

[amaebi]

About the family secrets:

Pastoring, I realized that all sorts of extremely dignified older people had quite rowdy early lives— something I’d never thought of one way or the other, before. And now I suppose I’m one of them.

(For me, they aren’t secrets. Sheeyun knows everything he’s ever asked about, and he’s asked a lot. Chun Woo knows everything he’s ever asked about, which isn’t much. Though he was blown away the night before last to learn about my economics publications. :D )

[cellio]

In the second link, I liked the one where the jury foreman asked "do we have to leave the room first or can we just give the verdict now?". :-)