“I think it’s lucky that Alex and I are both Beaters. We’ll probably have to spend the entire evening defending you three beautiful women. ^ Or, you know, beating off.
Yes, I'm sure we all remember how Harry first travelled to Hogwarts in the chapter entitled "The Journey from Platform Eight and Three Quarters". ^ Yes, aided by the bossy Milly Weasley and her three daughters.
I say trying, because I tend to assume that magical contraception is failsafe because there's no reason why it shouldn't be. ^ Doesn't contraception not exist in the Neilverse?
I don't think anyone says "roll in the hay" unironically or "go bowling" at all. ^ I lived with a girlfriend with whom I went bowling. There was nothing inherently sexy about it.
I'd not got up to the part where Neil tells us that magical contraception is indeed failsafe and freely available when I reviewed this chapter. Why, then, are all three pregnancies that feature in the plot up to and including the middle of Too Exposed unplanned? (Answer: because he doesn't think through the implications of what he writes.)
ETA: and I've seriously never heard "go bowling" as a sexual euphemism. Not least because, while bowling in the literal sense is still quite a popular activity over here (even Dumbledore likes it!) it's not as prominent in popular culture as it seems to be in the US.
Ah, I see. The pregnancy twist really doesn't make very much sense, because Neil is an idiot.
...um... well, I'm not much into pop culture, but bowling doesn't seem to be that much in it either, if that makes sense. I don't know. I've heard "walk in the park", but that was done deliberately.
There's a bit in Teachers (classic UK comedy drama about, well, guess) where they manage to turn "going to Tesco" into a sexual euphemism. I just so happen to be rewatching it and thought of this thread as soon as that came up.
To be fair, I can see how some people can see shopping as a sexual experience... Oh, that actually reminds me of this one time when my friend Dragon and I were at the mall and I went into an adult novelty store to replace something, and he came in and commented, "Awkward", and I decided it would be fun to embarrass him by asking if he'd rather I use him, and then turning to the salesperson and demanding a toy that won't short out after four months because "my friend here refuses to help me out".
...I guess it works better with an adult novelty store than a grocery store, though.
^ Or, you know, beating off.
Yes, I'm sure we all remember how Harry first travelled to Hogwarts in the chapter entitled "The Journey from Platform Eight and Three Quarters".
^ Yes, aided by the bossy Milly Weasley and her three daughters.
I say trying, because I tend to assume that magical contraception is failsafe because there's no reason why it shouldn't be.
^ Doesn't contraception not exist in the Neilverse?
I don't think anyone says "roll in the hay" unironically or "go bowling" at all.
^ I lived with a girlfriend with whom I went bowling. There was nothing inherently sexy about it.
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ETA: and I've seriously never heard "go bowling" as a sexual euphemism. Not least because, while bowling in the literal sense is still quite a popular activity over here (even Dumbledore likes it!) it's not as prominent in popular culture as it seems to be in the US.
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...um... well, I'm not much into pop culture, but bowling doesn't seem to be that much in it either, if that makes sense. I don't know. I've heard "walk in the park", but that was done deliberately.
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...I guess it works better with an adult novelty store than a grocery store, though.
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