Ok, a more serious UO. The DV superbowl commercial is very powerful, but I kind of wish it weren't airing. I wonder if it will make it harder for victims to make that kind of fake call, because abusers will be more skeptical of any calls they make. Calling 911 and ordering a pizza is brilliant - I just wish it was a well-kept secret strategy.
This is as far as I got in the thread, but my mind went here too.
Why can't your period just show up and say, "hey, I'm here, just wanted to let you know you're not pregnant. I'll just disappear until next month, about this same time!"
And then just fuck off with all this cramps, misery, and other related bullshit.
I've been spotting for 3 days. Stop fucking around, period!
I'm in the same boat and I can tell you, without a shadow of a doubt, that I am not pregnant.
If I'm being honest, I hate most potty training terms. Poo, pee pee, unders, all of it. It drives me nuts. It all sounds ridiculous.
My UO was going to be that I hate unders!! I've never heard that used in conversation until this board. Unders?? Wtf.
I never used it before. Then J started calling them that and I went with it. I thought it was funny at first and now it just comes out without thinking.
Post by thedahliharpa on Jan 29, 2015 11:08:55 GMT -5
Poo is the result of pooping or taking a poop. Poop can also be an acceptable term for the result of going poop. Poo is not an action word. However, one may need to go poo, I guess. In other words, don't say pooing.
If we're speaking about terms we don't like, I don't like "like a champ". I really don't like "nursing like a champ". I don't know why.
"Liquid gold" in reference to breastmilk. Don't feed your kid molten metal.
I was actually coming in here to post this exact thing. Even when people say that, isn't it just supposed to be referring to the colostrum? Not every fricking drop of milk.
I guess my UO is that I don't mind any of the bathroom/potty terms when talking to a toddler. I do teach him the correct anatomy words, but peepee, poo, potty etc are parts of our vocabulary. I do expect adults to use the 'grown up' words however. Although, I don't generally announce to other adults when I need to use the restroom or what is going on in there.
I love getting money back from taxes. I KNOW it's like hey you just gave the government an interest free loan but I DON'T CARE!!!! It will always seem like "FREE MONEY!!!" To me
Ok, a more serious UO. The DV superbowl commercial is very powerful, but I kind of wish it weren't airing. I wonder if it will make it harder for victims to make that kind of fake call, because abusers will be more skeptical of any calls they make. Calling 911 and ordering a pizza is brilliant - I just wish it was a well-kept secret strategy.
Fuck has been said a lot in this thread. Which is good because I recently worried that I curse too much around here. I'm feeling much more comfortable here.
To clarify, I know that the SB ad is meant to raise awareness among everyone, it's not meant to inform victims of a particular strategy. I just worry that the concrete result is that it removes one potential strategy. I wonder if the same big-picture effect could have been had without the small-picture consequence.
I hate cute terms for anything: little girls room or potty, unders, pee per etc... It actually used to annoy me a lot even as a kid. I think my mom always just used real terms so I hated it if a preschool teacher would tell me to go potty. I felt it was condescending. Lol I was a sophisticated 3 yr old.
I'm on my way to a job interview and the asshole decided to cancel my pick up after I waited 10 minutes for him and charge me $5. No cabs and the next uber available is in 12 minutes. Too long! So now I'm on the fucking subway and will have to run through the fuxkibg snow to be there 5 minutes early.
Fuck you Juno blizzard and asshole uber driver Richard!!!!
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