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Jack_Burton
12/17/09

In reply to Lingerie Football Fumbles • Sarah Palin's Favorability Is Rising
There's another honor-killing that occurred right here in the ol' USA that will be going to trial soon - the accused has been captured and is being held on $5 million cash bail: [www.azcentral.com]

[abcnews.go.com]
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lalaland13
12/17/09

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I haven't watched The Sing Off partly because I'm just not that interested, and partly because I got enough a capella singing growing up in Church of Christ. I would have watched it and wondered when they were gonna pass out communion, because it has to be every week, dontchyaknow.

So the "more men" thing cracks me up, for some reason. Probably because COC isn't known as being woman-friendly (no, women cannot get up and talk about how proud they are that their daughter is graduating, but they can you know, write a letter for a man to read).
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Ultraprison!
12/17/09

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I didn't realize pouring beer on someone qualified as domestic battery? I read the article expecting to find out something worse had happened afterward, like she lit it on fire or something... but nothing. Strange.
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BytheSea
12/17/09

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It is not a given fact that male circumscision reduces the spread of HIV, and not in first world countries. That data applies to specific populations and cultures, not everywhere and not all the time. And it is not the case that HIV prevention always trumps *removing a living, usable organ* from a person's body.

"All three studies found that non-circumcised males contract HIV infection more quickly than circumcised males.11-13 This may be because the circumcised males required a period of abstinence after their circumcision. All three studies were terminated early, before the incidence of infection in circumcised males caught up with the incidence of infection in the non-circumcised males. If the studies had continued for their scheduled time, it is probable that there would have been little difference between the circumcised group and the non-circumcised group. Mills & Siegfried point out that early termination of such studies cause the benefits to be exaggerated"
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CollegeCamel
12/17/09

@BytheSea: Seriously, every time I read this statistic, I think to myself, "wanna know what prevents the spread of HIV even more than circumcision? Using a condom. Or not having HIV." I add that last part because I've heard a lot of people use this statistic as a way to condemn uncircumcised men, who, they seem to forget, cannot transmit HIV if they don't have it, regardless of the state of their foreskin.
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shorty63136
12/17/09

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I do not understand how the ladies in the Lingerie Football League can even do this wearing what they wear. I did a rugby photo shoot last week wearing a cocktail dress (it was for a teammate for school) and dear God if I wasn't pulling and tugging things out of cracks and crevices.

These ladies are not properly protected to be playing football. They have on helmets and shoulder pads to help with the upper body contact from standing tackles but I can see where other injuries would easily come into play without the same kind of protection the NFL players are afforded. I watched the video on the league site and these ladies are full-force, all-out tackling. It's football, so they're gonna tackle like that but I can't help but feel bad for them. Hell, at least in rugby I know how to tackle because I don't have any protection at all.

Pay up, league officials!
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thePrototype
12/17/09

@shorty63136: I can't watch the video right now (I don't think my boss would appreciate it), but are the women doing shoulder tackles, or wrap tackles. As you pointed out rugby players don't wear any pads and suffer fewer injuries than football because they tackle differently.
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shorty63136
12/17/09

@thePrototype: I'm seeing a lot of upright wrap tackles and some where there is zero attempt to wrap at all - just using their body as a block to stop them or hurling their body at them to send them out of bounds. I saw a couple of hip/waist tackles but they are NOT falling correctly at all - flipping over each other very haphazardly and whatnot with no regard to where their head is landing.

Man, there might be more visible blood in rugby but football...those pads should not give license to do that kind of stuff, IMO.
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thePrototype
12/17/09

@shorty63136: I agree 100%, but one thing to note is that I am sure these women don't weigh much over 120lbs.. if that, and don't have that much kinetic energy going into their hits.
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shorty63136
12/17/09

@thePrototype: You'd be surprised. I've got a 110, 115-lb girl on my rugby team and she is a beast! If they've got the speed behind them and they're hurling themselves at you, it can hurt. I'm pretty sure that hard plastic doesn't feel too pleasant either.
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cate3710
12/17/09

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"The lawsuit also reveals that the players were asked not to wear bras or underwear, in order to better promote "accidental nudity.""

Based on that picture, I assumed that was ALL they wore.
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Scout
12/17/09

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If I had to guess WHY there are no all-girl a capella groups left in the competition would be because they don't have the same range as the boys. I mean it is much easier to find a falsetto boy than a bass girl.

The all girl Noteworthy was just not good. period. The Maxx Factor's were good, in a traditional way, but I think their choice of material simply didn't speak to the audience.

My money is on Nota only because I find the Beelzebubs from Tufts really annoying in that Frat Boy sort of way.

Sing-Off is the first and only competition show I've ever watched and I like it - to hear people actually singing and it sounding 1) amazing and 2) as though there were actual instruments is pretty cool.
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bananaballs
12/17/09

@Scout: I HATE the Beezlebubs (and my best friend for making me watch). They're goofy and sound bad and fratty to boot. Team Nota. They're hot and the most talented, by far.
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la.donna.pietra
12/17/09

@Scout: And now you've made me miss the Mint Juleps all the more.
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Experiment626
12/17/09

@Scout: Nota was really impressive, but aside from them and the Beelzebubs, the other teams never really impressed me. I've heard some amazing all-female acappella groups - BU Terpischore, Wellesley Widows that could give these guys a run for their money, but alas, they're not on the show.
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Scout
12/17/09

@bananaballs: ...such as the Beelzebubs accidentally burning down their founder's house in Somerville, Mass.

Frat Boys !!!

[www.dailyemerald.com]
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Scout
12/17/09

@la.donna.pietra: WOW! I love them! thanks for sharing.
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Scout
12/17/09

@Experiment626: I wonder what the criteria was for choosing the initial list of groups? hmmmmm

I rather like that Ben Folds is a judge, too.
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Mary McCarthyite
12/17/09

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OK, how do people not know that they are pregnant!? This terrifies me.
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sassyredhead
12/17/09

@Mary McCarthyite: I can't believe there's a whole tv show based on not knowing your pregnant and then giving birth. How can this many women not know?
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amazoncowgirl
12/17/09

@Mary McCarthyite: A close family friend had been on the pill for seventeen years after her second child was born. She had a variety of health problems and so, when she started putting on weight, she attributed it to the various medications she was on. Since she had her period like clockwork it never dawned on her she might be pregnant.

It wasn't until she went to the doctor when she thought she had been suffering from the flu for a longer period than normal that she discovered she was eight months pregnant.
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cate3710
12/17/09

@Mary McCarthyite: Weightlifters have so little body fat that she may have been accustomed to missing periods for long stretches of time, so that may play a part in this particular case.
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Mary McCarthyite
12/17/09

@sassyredhead: I mentioned this to my gynecologist at my last visit (and felt like a dope afterward, because she had never heard of the show). I was like, "I get my period every month but what if I really am pregnant?" She looked at me like I was crazy.
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cate3710
12/17/09

@amazoncowgirl: Whoa whoa wait. How can one be pregnant and still have your period? This is something I have not heard.
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Mary McCarthyite
12/17/09

@cate3710: This makes sense, but then how could she not notice a baby bump?!
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Mary McCarthyite
12/17/09

@amazoncowgirl: THIS: how do women get their periods while pregnant? This is the baffling and scary thing.
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cantankasaurus rex
12/17/09

@Mary McCarthyite: i didn't know until i was 5.5 months! deprovera (aka the shot) makes most women not get their period, and so you don't realize anything's wrong until all of a sudden you find yourself halfway through a pregnancy! also happened to my cousin. don't use depo ladies!
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cate3710
12/17/09

@Mary McCarthyite: Er... Maybe her extreme ab muscles kept the uterus from expanding as much? I honestly don't know.
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la.donna.pietra
12/17/09

@cate3710: Technically, it's breakthrough bleeding mistaken for a period. It happens scarily often, especially on certain varieties of the pill.
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Bitingpika
12/17/09

@Mary McCarthyite: I can't even imagine how women in this situation feel. "You're okay, you're just going to have a child. IN SIX WEEKS!" Shudder.
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QoB
12/17/09

@Mary McCarthyite: previous history of irregular periods or amenorrhea due to exercise+/contraceptive use; anterior placenta; being overweight so the bump isn't noticeable; growth-restricted fetus... I'm sure the list goes on...
scary eh...?
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Mary McCarthyite
12/17/09

@Bitingpika: Seriously. This is the stuff of a nightmare.
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la.donna.pietra
12/17/09

@Mary McCarthyite: My co-worker had bladder surgery, and the idiot surgeon left little bits of plastic tubing in her abdomen. They punctured her bladder, uterus, intestines, and a couple of membranes. This resulted in major nausea and bleeding out of every end. She had another surgery to correct the first one, and discovered afterwards that she felt kinda... pregnant. Turns out she was 5 1/2 months along. She'd been 12 weeks pregnant during the second surgery and hadn't known it, with all the bleeding and throwing up.

Her daughter turned out fine, thank goodness.
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Mary McCarthyite
12/17/09

@la.donna.pietra: This is even more baffling because the doctors performed surgery! HOW COULD THEY NOT NOTICE? Gah!
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amazoncowgirl
12/17/09

@Mary McCarthyite: Well, I think in my friends case it had more to do with the fact that she was on the pill. I think they're called withdrawel bleeds rather than periods, per se.
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amazoncowgirl
12/17/09

@cate3710: I think with the pill it's considered a withdrawal bleed rather than a period. But she was still getting them. For the whole eight months.
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la.donna.pietra
12/17/09

@Mary McCarthyite: Even better: the surgeon wanted to perform a hysterectomy, because she "already had a kid; wasn't she done?" Yeah. When she was 12 weeks along with her daughter.

The best part? She's a lawyer.
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AnnoyingFemaleLeadVoiceover
12/01/08

In reply to Anne Frank Was A Bossy BFF • Honor Killings Rise In Southern Iraqi City
MML I just read the news and it makes me sadder than reading the tags for this post.
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DangerMouse
12/01/08

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"A new study claims that eating extra amounts of choline, a chemical found in eggs, while pregnant can lead to an increased risk of developing breast cancer in offspring."

Trade-off: better memory performance. What to do? To choline or not to choline??

I am such a nerd.
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Brigit
12/01/08

@ejc.wants.pie.now: To choline or not to choline, what is the pathway?
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I, Zombie Normal
12/01/08

In reply to Anne Frank Was A Bossy BFF • Honor Killings Rise In Southern Iraqi City
Okay, washing my hands before judgment results in less strict rulings, and washing my hands after judgment seals my fate and makes me Judas. Man, no wonder I've had so much trouble. Plus, I have a bit of an OCD, so washing my hands six times before making a decision = mellow yellow submarine. I win!
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Brigit
12/01/08

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*sigh* Haiti- my sister half-island. Every time I think about you I want to roll into a ball and cry.
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BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit)
12/01/08

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A new study claims that individuals who wash their hands before making judgments tend to make less strict rulings.

Further, it stated that folks who scratched their ass before deciding what to eat for lunch tended to choose bologna over salads.
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robot ninja spy
12/01/08

@BrutallyHonestBabes: I totally read that in Carl's* voice.

*as in Aqua Teen Hunger Force Carl.
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BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit)
12/01/08

@r.n. spy: *snort!* Everything should be read in his voice.
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ronaldpagan
12/01/08

In reply to Anne Frank Was A Bossy BFF • Honor Killings Rise In Southern Iraqi City
That Haiti story where the 14-year-old girl accidentally killed her rapist with a pair of scissors and got two years in adult prison is a huge fucking downer.
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sybann
12/01/08

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I have sympathy for the Texan - who among us hasn't wanted to run someone off the road for driving while an asshole? Of course, we didn't actually do it and blame God.
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badmutha
12/01/08

@sybann: I am a Texan, and I would not blame God, I would blame Rick Perry, our govenor. And no one would convict me, either.
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Crabby Cakes
12/01/08

@sybann: I saw someone make a 3 point turn in the middle of PCH yesterday after driving ~25-30MPH for 11 miles and passing untold numbers of turn-offs and parking lots. Just popped a 3-pointer RIGHT IN FRONT OF US. There was a part of me that wished they had continued backing off the cliff.
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Alexis
12/01/08

@Crabby Cakes wants some Dance Biscuits.:

I always wondered how more people didn't die on that road everyday.
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