Am I the only one who really and truly wants a break from bickering about ridiculous things like health care and gay marriage? And I say ridiculous because it really doesn't matter what anyone says, I don't understand why someone would be against either. Why, why, why? I feel like I'm at wits end as far as arguing/having a conversation about it. I'm ready to say to people who are anti-health care reform, "You're selfish. End of story." And to people who are anti-gay marriage, "Get over yourself." Seriously, I'm past the point of eloquence. :(
@Laulau: I'm sure it cuts down on stress though! I've tried to do the same... but you can only avoid your siblings so much. :)
I'm just mentally exhausted from it. A week of vacation from work AND the internet might be just the thing I need. The weekend can't get here soon enough!
ok, so the Australian study regarding HPV and breast cancer really upsets me. the past 3 generations of woman on my mother's side have had breast cancer, and she just tested positive for the "breast cancer gene" BRAC. which means I am more than likely to test positive. AND i've had HPV since college. guess i'll go ahead and plan for a masectomy. not sure who I direct this to but, MOTHERFUCKERS!
I can barely keep my nails long enough to open things wrapped in plastic... they always get brittle at some point and/or I get frustrated with them and chop them all off. I cannot imagine 30 years and nearly 3 feet.
@LaComtesse: I don't like purple underpants, so no one should be able to wear them. I'm sorry, that's just what my religion teaches me, and I have no agency or ability to questions its teachings.
@Dodgergirl: Well I am sorry but if it is that important to you then just shell out the money to see the games yourself! You're taking away the meaning for those who DID pay to go see the game as it happens! Your TV is stealing the meaning from millions of Americans. And you call yourself a Dodgers' fan...
@Maritsa: It's Adam and EVE not Adam and PURPLE UNDERWEAR! And John the Baptist wore animal fur underwear. And King David didn't even WEAR underwear as he pranced drunkenly through the streets of Jerusalem before the Ark of the Covenant. So, clearly, the Bible shows us that purple underwear is NOT okay by God.
@LaComtesse: I don't like mustard. When people around me eat mustard, I am FORCED to taste mustard, too, and it ruins the sanctity of my hot dog. BAN MUSTARD!
@Zombie Ms. Skittles: An excellent point. Televised games destroy the sanctity of baseball. Baseball is between a man and his overpriced Yankees ticket.
@Dodgergirl: Good point. Besides, everyone knows yellow is the Devil's color.
@BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit): see, I don't know if that's the kind of legislation that I'm talking about... that law would just make everyone's lives better, even the aforementioned Fox and Friends/Prejean/Megan Fox, etc. Their lives would be improved if they just... went away... somewhere.
This is hilarious! Also, when they have those Hindu fests in honor of monkeys. You know the ones where they give them offerings of food? Those cheeky little monkeys love eating the junk food more than anything.
So don't blame the cop in this case. Primates love crappy food as much as us humans.
On a zoo trip when I was young, a rhesus monkey, I think, once put his hands through his chain fence, yanked my shirt to bring me over to him and promptly stole my bucket of popcorn and ate it in my face, throwing some at me and other people around me.
I used to live on the other side of Como Lake from the zoo. In ye olden days (early 90's) our parents used to hold us up and the giraffees would lick you and you could feed them.
Fun fact, It's one of the last free zoos in the country.
Not so fun fact, one of the polar bears has PTSD from watching idiot kids kill the other bear he lived with. They lured him to the side of the enclosure with meat and then threw rocks on him until he died. And since then the other polar bear just has a routine he does over and over and over it's really sad. They're habitat now and they're not entirely sure how he's gonna take it. Next on Sick, Sad, World indeed.
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Tangential but related story: When I was about four, my favorite thing in the entire world was to go to the Fresno Zoo with my mom and feed peanuts to the elephants. The zoo vendors sold big bags of peanuts in the shell. One of my earliest, clearest memories is hearing my mom's voice saying, "Do you want to give it one?" and a big trunk with those two little fingery things on the end coming down to take the peanut out of my hand. Sheer bliss for a four-year-old.
All this was ruined when my mom hired a babysitter for the afternoon. The babysitter asked if there was anything I liked to do, and my mom said, "Oh! You could take her to the zoo, and feed the elephants peanuts!" The babysitter said, "Huh. Don't they have a sign up saying 'DON'T FEED ELEPHANTS'?"
My mom was quite certain that they didn't--and after all, they sold big bags of peanuts right there!--but she checked the next time we went. Turned out the elephants had figured out that if they planted their butts right in front of the sign, they'd get peanuts. My mom, trying to set a good example for yours truly, did not feed any more peanuts to the elephants.
That very flavor of PT shown above burned the shit out of my finger when I was in Mexico in high school. Watch yourself around that molten frosting. Hurt like a bitch.
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Who has ideas? What should we ruin for someone? What group should we target? The possibilities are endless…
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@Dodgergirl: Good point. Besides, everyone knows yellow is the Devil's color.
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So don't blame the cop in this case. Primates love crappy food as much as us humans.
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On a zoo trip when I was young, a rhesus monkey, I think, once put his hands through his chain fence, yanked my shirt to bring me over to him and promptly stole my bucket of popcorn and ate it in my face, throwing some at me and other people around me.
Fucking rhesus.
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Fun fact, It's one of the last free zoos in the country.
Not so fun fact, one of the polar bears has PTSD from watching idiot kids kill the other bear he lived with. They lured him to the side of the enclosure with meat and then threw rocks on him until he died. And since then the other polar bear just has a routine he does over and over and over it's really sad. They're habitat now and they're not entirely sure how he's gonna take it. Next on Sick, Sad, World indeed.
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Now, I don't like them. I also don't like pie.....UNLESS it's that chocolate mousse pie from Baker's Square. That stuff is gooood.
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ALL OF YOU!!!
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While I must disagree with you on pie, I will agree that Pop-Tarts are gross. They are Satans rectangles.
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All this was ruined when my mom hired a babysitter for the afternoon. The babysitter asked if there was anything I liked to do, and my mom said, "Oh! You could take her to the zoo, and feed the elephants peanuts!" The babysitter said, "Huh. Don't they have a sign up saying 'DON'T FEED ELEPHANTS'?"
My mom was quite certain that they didn't--and after all, they sold big bags of peanuts right there!--but she checked the next time we went. Turned out the elephants had figured out that if they planted their butts right in front of the sign, they'd get peanuts. My mom, trying to set a good example for yours truly, did not feed any more peanuts to the elephants.
I was terribly disappointed.
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I love gorillas. I spent two hours enjoying the Congo Gorilla Forest at the Bronx Zoo on my last birthday. And then I got a temporary gorilla tattoo!
I'm 35!
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That very flavor of PT shown above burned the shit out of my finger when I was in Mexico in high school. Watch yourself around that molten frosting. Hurt like a bitch.
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What. PopTarts are goooood.
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