Post by PinkSquirrel on Apr 8, 2014 22:46:48 GMT -5
The prop plane I've flown in has a parachute that can be released if you lose your engine so you can float to the ground. I have never felt safer. I would have just told myself larger prop planes have them too even though I have no idea if they do haha
I already said that I see the problems with it. Am I going to go to the alumni reunion and refuse to sing the songs? Probably not. It's not my hill to die on with them (I didn't necessarily mean with you all).
Wait, you're still going to continue to sing this shit? I can't.
As a women's rugby team, we sang that "yoho yoho" song. Except that the lyrics were changed to be from a women's perspective - like a woman wanting sex.
"he put his dick into my mouth, yoho, yoho"
"and then he came into my mouth, yoho, yoho"
"i said <spit your beer on everyone>"
get in get out quit fucking about yoho yoho yoho
ok, the yoho song i can maybe give a pass in the sex positive, celebrating being a slut.
but the S&M song. when you learned the lyrics, b/c you had to have read them a lot to later drunkenly scream them out, yes? you never once stopped and thought it was a fucked up thing to be singing about? not once?
Explain to me how this is sex positive? All of these are discribing things men are doing to women. Not one of them is talking about what the woman is doing sexually, just what she is allowing the man to do. ie "he put his dick into my mouth, yoho, yoho" is =/= "I put his dick in my mouth"
You really just don't get it, do you? Traditions are NEVER fucked up at all ... ever. newp
Listen I said I get it intellectually. I really do. It's not my hill to die on today. I am sure they could come up with less offensive songs. Maybe I'll suggest that to my team's alumni chapter.
No. You don't. If you did you would recognize the larger societal damage done and realize you are making the world a worse place for women. I'm also quite positive you could have sung dirty songs that didn't perpetuate rape culture and violence against women.
Yes they did actually. The words were exactly the same.
I knew if I posted that you would all disagree but I'm sticking with it. You can all flame to me high heaven, but women's rugby at my alma mater was an incredibly supportive environment and probably one of the most important things I have ever done. We sang those exact songs (well we didn't sing S&M man but we sang the other song - and yup dug him up after he was dead. There are accompanying hand gestures, too, to the song).
The men sang the same songs, too, and their team was like the most respectful of women out of any of the men's teams on campus. My H was on the men's team, I lived in the men's rugby house, some of those guys are still my best friends 10+ years later after graduation. It was just a drunk song that was tradition. You can feel free to not believe me and disagree with me as much as you want, but I can't get that upset about the songs.
You really just don't get it, do you? Traditions are NEVER fucked up at all ... ever. newp
When y'all hit VIB (ESF) be sure to add the VIB welcome kit to your cart (it's a 10% off coupon and free shipping on next order, and free makeover).
For the record, I haven't yet pulled the trigger....
You may want to get the kit in store. The ones online don't include a card. If you want the card so they can quickly scan it at the stores, then get the VIB kit in store.
Hey you! I went to the ocean. Yearly quota reached!
I'm sorry, it appears you weren't informed. Your quota has been raised this year based on last years numbers. You are now expected to splash in a body of water larger than a bath tub 5 times. 4 more to go!!!!!!! You're doing great!
Yes, I'm trying to get clarity on this powder business. Because I was doing everyday minerals for a while and it was always on my counters, no matter how hard I try. Will this happen with this color tattoo shit? Because I can't fathom anything worse than a powder that's advertised as having 24 hours of staying power.
If you hate the powdery eye shadows, but still like the colors, you can press them and make them solid. Depending on what you're pressing you either just need alcohol or you need some glycerine and alcohol. That's what I've been doing with my old Bare Minerals shadows because no, just no, with that powder all over the place nonsense
I don't really understand why politicians are making any sort of educational decisions. What makes them qualified to tell how to properly assess students?
In fairness, politicians do the same thing with medicine, science....well basically they are mostly unqualified to comment on anything they legislate.
I think this is why it's actually it can feel so amazing to watch Elizabeth Warren when she goes on a tear .... she actually knows what the fuck she's talking about when she's talking finances because, you know, that's what she was educated in. We are so unaccustomed to our politicians actually having a clue what they're talking about, that it stands out when someone does. They're legislating things they don't understand or even care to understand. I was reading this earlier about how 17 of the 22 involved in the committee that deals with climate change either don't believe it exists or don't believe humans have anything to do with it. So, yeah, they don't discriminate when it comes to things they legislate, but have no real knowledge of.
Post by PinkSquirrel on Mar 25, 2014 20:13:03 GMT -5
Mine hides them on the couch, behind pillows, in laundry piles, in bed. She also does this with hard treats. She'll eat soft treats right away, but hard ones get hidden.
I mean, given how 9/11 was coordinated have we ever learned whether there was a bunch of chatter that something of that magnitude was going to happen?
I believe there was actually quite a bit of chatter before 9/11. Didn't they close down a bunch of embassies for a bit this summer because they were hearing chatter similar to what they heard around 9/11?
Post by PinkSquirrel on Mar 20, 2014 12:58:50 GMT -5
I don't feel like this has been mentioned at all, but I was talking to a pilot I know and they've suggested that the cruising altitude of 29,500 feet could have been the pilots trying to alert anyone who may be able to still see their plane that there was a problem. I'm told that you only fly at -500ft when doing visual rules flying, which if you're following the rules you don't do that above around 18,000ft. The only other time you fly at the -500ft is if you're flying west. You don't ever fly east at 29,500ft. If someone had seen that they were flying at that height in the "wrong" direction it would have stood out like a sore thumb
I was that age when I first saw pot. I didn't try it till college, though. Access doesn't have to mean usage.
ITA, also, it's the same thing for alcohol. Kids are exposed to it, see it and I'm pretty sure the youngest kid to ever try alcohol is significantly younger than 8 or 9. When you compare it to alcohol, our one legal substance for impairment, it doesn't feel quite as bad to me especially because if you put pot and weed side by side alcohol seems significantly more dangerous
Post by PinkSquirrel on Mar 4, 2014 23:17:03 GMT -5
What about doggie daycare a day or two a week? If she's missing her friends it might help to give her more opportunities to play with other dogs. A dog park would also work, but it's a little cold in most of the US to be spending any real time there, but in the spring/summer it may be an option.
Her composition is gorgeous and the way she uses light is just amazing.
However, I would *love* to see what her images look like pre- and post-processing. I can't help but feel that there's a lot of Photoshop work happening.
That was my thought EXACTLY. Some of these feel pretty heavy handed with photoshop. There are so absolutely stunning pictures in there and her composition is fantastic, but the editing is really off putting for me.
Post by PinkSquirrel on Jan 15, 2014 21:12:23 GMT -5
My husband knows where ours is. We actually have got a few copies when we got married and he used to carry one around in his wallet because he took my name and no one ever believed him
It doesn't really matter how the clinic treats the buffer zone. What matters is that the government is allowing some speech there and prohibiting others based on content.
Honestly, buffer zones have been held up as constitutional before. Even if SCOTUS strikes down the entire law because of the exception (which they might not even have to do. I don't see why they can't just invalidate the exception) MA can repass a new buffer zone law without the offending clause a second and a half afterwards.
I understand that and I imagine a new, adjusted law could definitely pass here. Hell, we just got free abortions for anyone who applies for Mass Health/medicaid (they don't even need to qualify), so I feel like we can definitely get a tweaked version of the buffer zone passed
Post by PinkSquirrel on Jan 15, 2014 19:03:22 GMT -5
This may be helpful to get an idea of just how small the buffer zone is. It's not large at all.
PPLM specifically tells their clinic escorts they are not allowed to discuss anything about the healthcare of the person being escorted, so they treat the buffer zone as somewhere they can not be trying to convince anyone one way or another as well.
Let's also not forget the amount of clinic violence that goes on at clinics throughout the country. Women have a right to their privacy and to access medical care, if you want to yell you can do it from outside the buffer zone and easily be heard.
I have a lot of friends that work at the clinics in MA including PPLM, I sat in on a lot of the hearings years ago when they were planning the buffer zone. The atmosphere at the hearings was just a general attitude that the buffer zone was a no brainer. I really hope the SC upholds its.