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theysaidwhat
12/30/08

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I guess I'm the only one to go read the Columbia story. Then I got sucked into watching a National Geographic special about the disaster on YouTube.

Intriguing, disturbing and maddening. Questions were raised about whether the foam had made a hole in the wing the day after the launch, but no one would listen to the engineers. I suppose that's one more mismanaged clusterfuck we can thank George W for as we show him the door.
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Stabby McStabberson
12/31/08

@theysaidwhat: no i read it too.

it's quite gruesome what happened to the crew. first the pressure got them because they weren't suited up for loss of pressure -- some weren't wearing helmets or had the visor locked, and one not wearing gloves. after they were passed out from loss of pressure, the seat restraints on their upper bodies failed so they were basically torn apart as the cabin exploded, which is the official cause of death. and they knew there was a major problem for 4o seconds, so there's no consolation that it was quick and they didn't have time to panic.

ugh i'm going to have nightmares now.
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Gretchen is a new kitten mom!
12/30/08

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I can't say that woman grew a lot of armpit hair.

I went though my 'hippie' phase when I was in college and didn't shave for 2 years. I have to say now, looking back, that I got more action then than any other time in my life. But then again, I didn't wear purple satin evening wear with my pit hair. Hippie-chic makes much more fashion sense.
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Stabby McStabberson
12/30/08

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i know a guy with a sexual fetish for body hair, including pit hair. the more the better. i forward him those pictures of hairy-pitted celebrities. see there really is a lid for every pot!
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Hana Maru
12/30/08

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I love the armpit lady's punk rock name: Zoe Overthrow!
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Ragus
12/30/08

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Lady Overthrow's issues with her body hair are just that, her own glaring insecurities. I love my hairy armpits and can't understand other people's shame over what their bodies are really like and the efforts they go to pretend otherwise.

Who wants to be with a man so sensitive he turns away with disgust at the sight of a little body hair? Fart and he'll faint.
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pontelo
12/30/08

@laurafin: I once had a friend tell me he couldn't be aroused by a gf if he went into the bathroom after her and could smell her poo.

I don't understand how guys get to this mental place where they want hairless girlfiends whose shit doesn't stink. I think they probably have some kind of robot fetish.
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ellaesther
12/30/08

@pontelo: This just sounds to me like my earlier rant re: an inability to deal with actual, living-breathing, adult women.

Also, can you imagine being married to/having children with one of these men? The pregnant body is not a dignified thing, my friend. Powerful, beautiful, etc - yes. But not dignified.
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theysaidwhat
12/30/08

@laurafin: Or God forbid you have a period! You'd need to call 911 to revive him!
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queenieinmanhattan
12/30/08

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What I find strangest about the pits piece is that she doesn't ever seen to where shirts with sleeves to the office. This strikes me as unprofessional. I'm a freak, I know.
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pontelo
12/30/08

@queenieinmanhattan: What I find strange is that she needed an extra 20 minutes in the shower to wash her pit hair! How is that possible?

Lady, you're lovely! How could you be so undermined by a little fuzz!

Whenever I hear people hate on their bodies, I just want to sweep them up into my arms and cuddle them.
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Hana Maru
12/30/08

@pontelo: Lather, rinse, repeat?
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ellaesther
12/30/08

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A) If that's "pit hair," I rather suspect that the woman in question and the men who avoid her (btw: what is wrong with people?) would run from me in a state of extreme fright.

B) I can't help but tie this is with the couple of recent posts that touch on Western society's discomfort with breasts-as-feeding-mechanisms.

Both of these things -- hairy pits and lactation -- are secondary sexual characteristics. Moreover, I have every reason to suspect that Ms. Hairy Pits would have gotten similar responses to Hairy Legs -- also a secondary sexual characteristic. Bottom line, Western society is still uncomfortable with grown women who look like grown women/grown women who have had, or can have, sex.

ARGH! I hate having these thoughts rattling around in my head all the time! Why the fuck can't people just be fucking reasonable?!
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I, Zombie Normal
12/30/08

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On the topic of the reward for finding Caylee's body-- I read that those rewards are only given if you call the crime stoppers' number before the police! How effed up is that? If you call 911 first, you are ineligible. Nice loophole, as it is seemingly ingrained in us to call the police first. Unless we're rich celebrities, then we call our lawyers and agents first. Such as.
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Pocahaunted
12/30/08

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I grow my armpit hair periodically out of laziness, and a lot of guys I encounter think it's a turn on. Unfortunately I live in Brooklyn where any alternative/edgy/bizarre aesthetic quirk is considered the height of sexiness.
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I'm Chuck Bass
12/30/08

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Former Iowa Hawkeyes football coach Hayden Fry figured out the pink room thing years ago. Go Hawks!
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Scout
12/30/08

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those percentages of the population who have the most hair (and it helps if your skin is oily) will ward off disease which may increase chances of survival through the next plague (that and acting as Semmelweis told us and bing a misanthrope).

Also, pink is a homicidal color! what kind of punk research did they do on this one? EVERYONE knows that BLUE is the most calming of colors. Hey ! British Professors.....UR DOIN IT WRONG
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Scout
12/30/08

@Scout: ...and for the record, I'm aware of prior experiments regarding pink but i think the psychology will be different with regard to violent offenders as they are the fringe society and don't follow our rules of application.

Perhaps a neutral wall with a lovely trim? :)
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ceejeemcbeegee is not here
12/30/08

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While I'm pleased to hear that there are fewer of us overweight/obese, I fear it's due to societal pressures to be model thin, not because we've suddenly become healthier.
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ellaesther
12/30/08

@ceejeemcbeegee: Sadly, you should read the article: It's not about women weighing less, it's about low- and middle-income black women shrinking in *height*...!

Wow. How fucked up is that, in the richest nation in the world?
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ceejeemcbeegee is not here
12/31/08

@ellaesther: What?!?!
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Rubleaux
12/30/08

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How in the heck does deodorant get to the skin if 2 pom poms are blocking it? I can't imagine a woman wearing a sleeveless top or dress and raising her arms to reveal pom poms with deodorant attached. That's not at all a good look.
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Pocahaunted
12/30/08

@Rubleaux: I use mitchum (yay for aluminum induced dementia!) roll on, and don't shave my pits and there is no noticeable difference.

I thought deodorant companies figured out how to kill white marks ages ago?
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Aesop's Foibles. YES.
12/30/08

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So when I eat cereal/boxed mac&cheese/frozen waffles/tacos for dinner I'm being stylish? Sa-weet! Actually I'll be having one of those items for dinner tonight since I spent what little dough I'd had on Christmas presents.

OMG I AM THE HAUTE COUTURE OF THE KITCHEN.
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Eeva
12/30/08

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I love that photograph.

It's late, that's as constructive as I get after the watershed.
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