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    Internet Makes British Mums Act Like Big Babies
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    Image of bananaprincess bananaprincess
    12/29/08

    In reply to Internet Makes British Mums Act Like Big Babies
    I have been reading Jezzie for ages and I never noticed the stars before. What a turn off.
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    Image of bananaprincess bananaprincess
    12/29/08

    In reply to Internet Makes British Mums Act Like Big Babies
    Um children do sleep you know, and it's illegal to just leave them there by themselves to do it.
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    Image of Mafalda para Presidente Mafalda para Presidente
    12/29/08

    In reply to Internet Makes British Mums Act Like Big Babies
    I'm thinking of forming a super special secret Club for the Specialest Special Ever Mexican Jezebels.


    You have to know the answer to the secret question to be a part of it. By the way, we wear chanclas and sombreros on Thursdays.

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    Image of almiepie almiepie
    12/29/08

    @Mafalda para Presidente: Do I get a star/points if I've ducked several chanclasos?
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    Image of Mafalda para Presidente Mafalda para Presidente
    12/29/08

    @almiepie: Of course. My mamá would be proud of you.
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    Image of Ailatan Ailatan
    12/29/08

    @Mafalda para Presidente: Can I join? I'm neither Mexican nor wear sombreros, but I'm an Argie and I love Mafalda, so that's close enough, right?
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    Image of Mafalda para Presidente Mafalda para Presidente
    12/30/08

    @Ailatan: Honorary Mexicans are welcome, too.
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    Image of Witchtit: Your low productivity advisor Witchtit: Your low productivity advisor
    12/29/08

    In reply to Internet Makes British Mums Act Like Big Babies
    This is why I avoid other mothers like the pest. It can be all too reminicent of Junior High School circa 1984 (shudder).
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    Image of Aesop's Foibles. YES. Aesop's Foibles. YES.
    12/29/08

    In reply to Internet Makes British Mums Act Like Big Babies
    I would just like to mention something. I was so excited when I got my first follower here that I told mr. terrible. He had absolutely no idea what I was talking about. Now he thinks Jezebel is a cult.
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    Image of TexasCrude TexasCrude
    12/29/08

    @terribletwenties aka Aesop's Foibles: We are a cult. And when the ladymags take over, we're going to a secluded building in West Texas, wear black sweatsuits, Nike sneakers, and lay in cots, covered with black blankets where we'll commit group suicide.


    When they discover our bodies, they'll discover that a few of us removed our vaginas.

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    Image of NefariousNewt NefariousNewt
    12/29/08

    @terribletwenties aka Aesop's Foibles: An unbeliever! He must be silenced!
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    Image of sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit) sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit)
    12/29/08

    @terribletwenties aka Aesop's Foibles: My mother thinks Jezebel is some nefarious cabal. I swear to God, yesterday she yelled at me for being slow to get ready to go to the movies and said (in an accusatory tone), "What took you so long? Were you on Jezebel again?"
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    Image of Aesop's Foibles. YES. Aesop's Foibles. YES.
    12/29/08

    @TexasCrude: Also that some of the most senior members of the Jezecult kept their vaginas, but had teeth surgically implanted in them.
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    Image of NefariousNewt NefariousNewt
    12/29/08

    @sarah.of.a.lesser.god (and the ovumlord of the rings): Did someone say "nefarious?"
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    Image of Red-headed bookworm Red-headed bookworm
    12/29/08

    @terribletwenties aka Aesop's Foibles: Hehe, I did that too. I bring up stuff that gets posted here and comments by people when I am talking to my boyfriend. He's mostly cool with it, though. He used be big into chat rooms so, he had his own followers. Yay, geek couples.
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    Image of Speeble Speeble
    12/29/08

    @terribletwenties aka Aesop's Foibles: Is this before or after the daily ritual abortions?
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    Image of Stabby McStabberson Stabby McStabberson
    12/29/08

    @terribletwenties aka Aesop's Foibles: i had an orgasm when i got my star.
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    Image of Aesop's Foibles. YES. Aesop's Foibles. YES.
    12/29/08

    @sarah.of.a.lesser.god (and the ovumlord of the rings): Hah! I know that tone well. Several times a day, he'll ask me," Are you on that website again?" With the most suspicious look on his face.
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    Image of Aesop's Foibles. YES. Aesop's Foibles. YES.
    12/29/08

    @Speeble: After. The D&Cs are performed promptly at 6am. Please be advised we observe a first-come, first-serve rule. And the early birds get foetus cookies after.
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    Image of sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit) sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit)
    12/29/08

    @NefariousNewt: Thank heavens mother.of.a.lesser.god doesn't know of your existence!
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    Image of Mafalda para Presidente Mafalda para Presidente
    12/29/08

    In reply to Internet Makes British Mums Act Like Big Babies
    Well, what can I say, some people peak during high school.
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    Image of Jeenzy Jeenzy
    12/29/08

    @Mafalda para Presidente: I know a girl who was the ultimate cool girl in high school. And she barely made friends in college because she was always talking to her wonderful high school friends all the time. Then she graduated and is now seriously dating someone she knew in high school.


    So yeah, some people do peak during high school.

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    Image of Speeble Speeble
    12/29/08

    @Jeenzy: Maybe we know the same girl. Upon moving into the dorm freshman year some girl remarked "I hope I'm as popular here as I was in high school!" Headdesk.
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    Image of Mafalda para Presidente Mafalda para Presidente
    12/29/08

    @Speeble: Yikes. I definitely wasn't that annoying at 18. When I moved into my dorm the only thing I said was "I hope the bathrooms are clean!"
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    Image of Aesop's Foibles. YES. Aesop's Foibles. YES.
    12/29/08

    In reply to Internet Makes British Mums Act Like Big Babies
    Oh, great. Now I'll be having flashbacks of private school for the rest of the day. When I was in sixth grade, a popular bish from the eighth grade said to me,
    "Are those your shoes, or did someone throw up on your feet?" Im not kidding. That's what she said. It was Catholic school, fer chrissake.


    I'm going to sit with the losers.

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    Image of Jeenzy Jeenzy
    12/29/08

    @terribletwenties aka Aesop's Foibles:

    Well, PSH obviously she was behind the times, because barfy shoes were totes the THING to have. (I had them too!)


    But in third grade I was told that I smelled like soap, and I started crying. Mostly because I didn't understand when that became an insult.


    I thought all that was supposed to stop after high school!

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    Image of Samanthrax Samanthrax
    12/29/08

    @terribletwenties aka Aesop's Foibles: When I moved from NY to Ohio (culture shock) and I wore my best Limited Two blazer (teal) that matched my plaid Limited Two stirrup pants, Adam Bernens said to me: "What with the business suit, ugly?" It was grade 6 and I never fully recovered.
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    Image of Aesop's Foibles. YES. Aesop's Foibles. YES.
    12/29/08

    @Jeenzy: In retrospect, you're right, because I know that if those same barfshoes were still available today, hipsters would be lining up to buy them. Oh and I also had this badass Esprit coat that reminded my nerdy little self of something a Russian princess would wear. It was really long and had all these different colored and patterned sections on it and it had a shearling lining. I begged my mam for it and it was expensive. Well, shortly after I got it, we were all coming in from afternoon recess and this boy from my class was behind me in line. He poked me in the back really hard with a sharp pencil and whispered "your coat is so stupid." This was maybe fifth grade, again at Catholic school. Cripes.
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    Image of Aesop's Foibles. YES. Aesop's Foibles. YES.
    12/29/08

    @Samanthrax: Dude! Limited Too was like the highest echelon of fashion back then! We couldn't really afford that sort of thing, but I got this awesome getup from there one time for a school function that didn't require us to wear our uniforms. It was a corduroy button-up shirt with matching jeans. Both were teal. I felt like a million bucks that day.
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    Image of Stabby McStabberson Stabby McStabberson
    12/29/08

    In reply to Internet Makes British Mums Act Like Big Babies
    FUCK YOU old farts, get out of the way! we are coming in and taking over, bitchez!


    like that?

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    Image of Khrushchev Khrushchev
    12/29/08

    In reply to Internet Makes British Mums Act Like Big Babies
    I think what Jessica is trying to say here is:


    I, Khrushchev, am the Chosen One. JOIN ME.

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    Image of PilgrimSoul PilgrimSoul
    12/29/08

    @Khrushchev: In a second, you fucking dyke.
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    Image of tscheese tscheese
    12/29/08

    @Khrushchev: I, Tscheese, am the Cheezin' one. JOIN ME INSTEAD.
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    Image of Jessi Ramsey Jessi Ramsey
    12/29/08

    In reply to Internet Makes British Mums Act Like Big Babies
    This reminds me of that game that you would play in school where a group of people would be a "family". It would be all, "Oh Matt is my brother and Natalie is mom and Jeff and Sam are going to get married at the local pizza place" and those who weren't in the "family" would feel left out...


    Just my middle school experience? Okay.

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    Image of hydrogen_jukebox hydrogen_jukebox
    12/29/08

    @Jessi Ramsey:In my humble experience, it was better to be left out than ask to play and have them say, "Oh you? You can be the dog."


    (I couldn't have been the cousin? Or Crazy Aunt Hilda?)

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    Image of Jessi Ramsey Jessi Ramsey
    12/29/08

    @hydrogen_jukebox: Yes! I was always the cat. But fuck that noise, I went to play jump rope by myself.
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    Image of Diziet_Sma Diziet_Sma
    12/29/08

    In reply to Internet Makes British Mums Act Like Big Babies
    Vinegar tits! Prisoner Cell Bock H lives!
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    Image of Tara Incognita Tara Incognita
    12/29/08

    In reply to Internet Makes British Mums Act Like Big Babies
    This reminds me of a joke about the British that I just heard:


    If there are three Brits in a room, they will immediately create a rule which will prevent the inclusion of a fourth.


    But this is true for all of humanity, really, in my mind.

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    Image of coodlebump coodlebump
    12/29/08

    In reply to Internet Makes British Mums Act Like Big Babies
    How did this become a news story? Will the Daily Mail start picking story ideas from Fandom Wank next?
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    Image of Plum-Pie Plum-Pie
    12/29/08

    @coodlebump: The Mail is not interested in news - it is interested in making peopl e feel bad!
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    Image of morninggloria morninggloria
    12/29/08

    In reply to Internet Makes British Mums Act Like Big Babies
    I'm glad my high school self didn't know that high school actually IS forever.
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    Image of Red-headed bookworm Red-headed bookworm
    12/29/08

    @morninggloria: Yeah, me neither. *sigh* That kind of stuff makes me not want to have kids. High School sucked. My consolation? The girl that picked on me the most couldn't come to our 10-year reunion because she was under house-arrest. She also got arrested a few months ago. Ha! Some people may still act like they are in high school but I'm happy and feel great about myself now so they can all just suck it.
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    Image of leesie leesie
    12/29/08

    In reply to Internet Makes British Mums Act Like Big Babies
    I've been on all types of message boards where this has happened; it's not just restricted to mothers.


    Meh--over time you get to know some posters better than others and you want a private area to discuss stuff in-depth. I don't understand the hurt feelings but then again moms groups are always well-known for drama, I've found. It's why I've eventually left every one I attempted to join.

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    Image of PilgrimSoul PilgrimSoul
    12/29/08

    @leesie: (it's happened on this one.)
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