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dirtybee
11/03/09

In reply to "That's What Sets Me Apart, Boxing With The Lads" • Town Outlaws Owning More Than 3 Cats
As a concrete researcher, I must say that one of my very very pet peeves is when the term concrete and cement are used intermittently. THEY ARE NOT THE SAME THING!! #boxing
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JRae
11/03/09

@dirtybee: So what's the difference? You can't exclaim something like that and then not follow-up with the education! ;) #boxing
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Vulcan Has No Moon
11/03/09

@JRae: Cement is a binding agent. Concrete is a mixture of water, cement, fine aggregate (sand), and coarse aggregate (gravel), with admixture. Cement is an ingredient of concrete. Like eggs are to cake. #boxing
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dirtybee
11/04/09

@Vulcan Has No Moon: Thank you :-)

In short, cement is the powder that you add to your water and aggregates to create a hardened product that is concrete.

So let's hope that you are driving on a concrete pavement and not a cement one, because if that would be the case - you'd be driving on a nice grey powder. #boxing
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dirtybee
11/04/09

@JRae: Sorry I need to un-hide all the comments so I didn't see yours :( #boxing
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Gretchen is a new kitten mom!
11/03/09

In reply to "That's What Sets Me Apart, Boxing With The Lads" • Town Outlaws Owning More Than 3 Cats
Dear Mary Ellen,

If you want to keep 15 cats and live in a town, keep them indoors and off your neighbor's property. As long as you scoop the litterboxes daily all should be fine and no one will ever know how many cats you really have in there.

And yes, I speak from experience. No further details will be disclosed.

Gretchen #boxing
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RisaPlata
11/03/09

In reply to "That's What Sets Me Apart, Boxing With The Lads" • Town Outlaws Owning More Than 3 Cats
So in the interest of making abortion harder to access ([jezebel.com]), some people are holding up legislation that could prevent the actual deaths of actual infants? Because what, if it's not a choice, it's okay? GUESS WHAT? THIS IS A CHOICE. THIS IS A CHOICE YOU ARE MAKING TO MAKE IT HARDER FOR LOW-INCOME WOMEN TO HAVE PRENATAL CARE.

I would like to go home now. #boxing
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MissConductPDX
11/03/09

In reply to "That's What Sets Me Apart, Boxing With The Lads" • Town Outlaws Owning More Than 3 Cats
Doesn't take much to make me happy when I'm away from home. Curling irons, yoga mats, and issues of "Glamour" comes close.

That hotel in Vancouver really needs to add complimentary yogurt to really rock my world. #boxing
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sassyredhead
11/03/09

@MissConductPDX: Only if the yogurt has pro-biotics! #boxing
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rah29
11/03/09

In reply to "That's What Sets Me Apart, Boxing With The Lads" • Town Outlaws Owning More Than 3 Cats
It always cracks me up how Ireland does well at boxing in the olympics. We can't play most sports, we can't manage our economy, but we sure as hell can drink and fight. Well done us.

Oh, and we can play a hell of a rugby match too... though I probably shouldn't tempt fate a week and a half before the first autumn international.
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Scout
11/03/09

@rah29: don't forget your quick-wit, charm and musical abilities - I LOVE the feckin' oirish! ; ) #boxing
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onthecornerofparkerandwoolf
11/03/09

@rah29: also: hurling. that game terrifies me. #boxing
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rah29
11/03/09

@onthecornerofparkerandwoolf: Hurling and its female equivalent, camogie, are insane. They essentially just involve running around a pitch beating the shit out of people with sticks. But we probably oughtn't take too much national pride in being good at a game that we invented and only we play (on the other hand we don't call the All-Ireland final a 'World Series', tee hee).
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onthecornerofparkerandwoolf
11/03/09

@rah29: i know-- i lived in ireland for a while, and there was a hurling pitch not to far from my apartment. i love watching it on tv, but i hated having to walk past practice to get to the store. #boxing
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Triana Orpheus
11/03/09

In reply to "That's What Sets Me Apart, Boxing With The Lads" • Town Outlaws Owning More Than 3 Cats
Her father said "you could write 10 pages" about what he had to do to get her into the Irish Amateur Boxing Association.

I'm from Texas and we're prone to exaggeration down here and I had to chuckle at this bit because I know I would have said "You could write a freaking novel..." I love that her dad was so precise in his measurement of how many pages could be written. #boxing
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whats_in_a_name
11/03/09

@Triana Orpheus: Since i'm in the mood to split hairs, he just said that he could write 10 pages, not that he could only write 10 pages, for all we know he was refering to the 10 pages of introduction to the 2 volume complete works. #boxing
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TheBeamishSnark
11/03/09

In reply to "That's What Sets Me Apart, Boxing With The Lads" • Town Outlaws Owning More Than 3 Cats
Dear pro-lifers.
Would you like to save the babies? Then please redirect all funds spent on harassing women/spreading misinformation/threatening abortion providers to prenatal care.
K?
Much Love.
Snark. #boxing
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JerseyGrrrl
11/03/09

In reply to "That's What Sets Me Apart, Boxing With The Lads" • Town Outlaws Owning More Than 3 Cats
So Katie Taylor** can fight with the men. She can sit in the same room of the pub as the men. But, oh Ireland, won't you give her her reproductive freedom too?

**I love learning about badass women. It's almost a fixture here on Jez: Meet the fierce lady you weren't aware of a moment ago! #boxing
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sassyredhead
11/03/09

@JerseyGrrrl: I just finished the article and I want to be as bad-ass as Katie Taylor! Go Katie! #boxing
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Scout
11/03/09

@sassyredhead: yeah, I'm oft a bad-ass vicariously, through Jezebel.

sidenote: seriously! I was just in Dublin and wft! with abortion being illegal. crazytown. #boxing
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ides
11/03/09

In reply to "That's What Sets Me Apart, Boxing With The Lads" • Town Outlaws Owning More Than 3 Cats
I love that those women have to hold signs proclaiming they stole from a child on her birthday. They should have to do that every year on her birthday. Stealing from kids...nice. #boxing
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shoroko
11/03/09

@ides: I have to admit, I feel like if I saw something like that, I would think it was some weird in-joke.

But that's probably from spending too much time in New York. #boxing
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JerkoftheMonth
11/03/09

In reply to Teens Sue Over Fallout From Sexy Pics • Harvard To Offer Class On The Wire
Haha, it does not really surprise me that Germans don't like 30 Rock. Having seen some weird (really really weird!) shit on their television, it seems like their comedy is when they really let loose from their rather reserved demeanor (think slapstick, but... weirder). The understated and ironic humour of 30 Rock isn't manic enough, I don't think. #teens
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bookling
11/02/09

In reply to Teens Sue Over Fallout From Sexy Pics • Harvard To Offer Class On The Wire
Ugh, that first story reminds me of when I was in high school and during Christmas break a bunch of my friends decided to have a huge party with 20+ people in a motel room, complete with alcohol and pot. They all got busted and arrested, but when we got back from break, the school had gotten wind of the incident and suspended all the kids involved and expelled a few. They were all stupid and deserved getting caught by the cops, but the school intervening was bullshit, and the kids whose parents could afford to lawyer up got off significantly easier. #teens
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cirocco
11/02/09

In reply to Teens Sue Over Fallout From Sexy Pics • Harvard To Offer Class On The Wire
But Kelly Brownell from Yale University says, "by their logic, you can spray vitamins on a pile of leaves, and it will boost immunity."

I like how Brownell makes it sound as though no one in their right mind would ever eat a pile of leaves! "Leaves! That's not food! ...Wait, what? Sal... ad? Salad? Never heard of it. You mean like an egg-salad sandwich? That's not a pile of leaves, that's diced egg and mayo and bread. Get out of here with your crazy talk. Jeez louise. 'Salad.'" #teens
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saralegal21
11/02/09

In reply to Teens Sue Over Fallout From Sexy Pics • Harvard To Offer Class On The Wire
Dear Harvard: If you want to learn about the plight of urban life, maybe you should roll down here to Baltimore and see it in person instead of watching TV in a classroom. It's a pretty accurate show, but nothing on TV compares to seeing it live. #teens
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JerkoftheMonth
11/03/09

@saralegal21: Yeah, but also, analysing televisions shows helps not to understand the experience of urban life, but to understand better how it is represented, and this (The Wire) representation may be more accurate and complex than traditional urban settings on television and in film. #teens
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saralegal21
11/03/09

@JerkoftheMonth: It is a fairly accurate representation, to the point where I had to spread my Wire viewing out well past the run on HBO because it is hard to see something every day at work and then roll home and watch it on your television. But without having a basis of comparison, how does one know how accurate it really is? I'm guessing that most of the people who take this class aren't anyone who have experienced that kind of urban setting up close. But they will smugly think they understand the plight of inner city dwellers because they watched a TV show and took an Ivy League class about it. #teens
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mbot says Spock yeah!
11/02/09

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The Wire is a totally legit subject for a seminar-long course. And the more people who see the show-- especially young people with all the advantages of Harvard at their disposal-- the better our country will be. #teens
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sandie75
11/02/09

In reply to Teens Sue Over Fallout From Sexy Pics • Harvard To Offer Class On The Wire
I think the school is completely within their rights to enforce their "code of conduct" policy. These are not regular students, in which case this public school would not have anything to say about their conduct. When sign up for sports or band or whatever you agree to be a representative of your school and there is always a "code a conduct" policy. They and their parents signed this and should have expected this consequence.

That said, I think that barring the girls from sports, an activity which could do a lot to correct the obvious self-esteem issue they have, is non-productive. But I understand the school offered a plan by which they could continue in their sports if they would agree to 3 counseling sessions and apologize to the athletic board for breaking the conduct code. The girls and/or their parents refused and that's the part I really don't understand.

If I found my daughter did something like this, I would have her in counseling so fast her head would spin, and I would absolutely be trying to work with the positive authority figures in her life, like her teachers and coaches, to minimize both her embarassment and increase her self-esteem. The last thing I would do is allow her to be removed from a positive healthy activity and file a law suit that not only brings unnecessary attention to these inappropriate pictures, but also tries to argue that a 15 year old girl making quasi-porn with her friends is harmless 'self-expression'. #teens
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