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AllieCaulfield
09/22/09

In reply to Terrence Howard's PSA For Bathroom Etiquette
Well, I agree w/ him on the baby wipes subject. My mother taught me about baby wipes when I was growing up & I'm surprised when other people don't keep them in the bathroom. Would you wipe a baby's bum w/ dry toilet paper or a wet wipe? It ain't astrophysics, folks.

Back to Terrence Howard: I sensed that he was an odd duck ever since Hustle & Flow & Crash. Anyone else recall Terrence going on countless chat shows w/ countless stories about his family being victims of racism? It was so bizarre.
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spekkle
09/22/09

@AllieCaulfield: re: baby's bum w/ dry toilet paper or a wet wipe.

I don't poo in my pants and sit in it.
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AllieCaulfield
09/22/09

@spekkle:
We're all thrilled for you, but there are many people who don't practice good hygiene & I usually get stuck w/ them on an elevator.
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LolaQuinn is full of beans
09/22/09

In reply to Terrence Howard's PSA For Bathroom Etiquette
Hmmm. Anyone see that episode of Obsessed where the woman was afraid of having bowel movements, so she used a toothbrush to scrub her asshole clean, but she did it until she bled and twice she had to get two blood transfusions because of it?

Just sayin', TERRENCE HOWARD.
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sassyredhead
09/22/09

@LolaQuinn is full of beans: This is the episode that sucked me in, led me to Hoarders and has made my Monday nights fascinating.
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Mary McCarthyite
09/22/09

In reply to Terrence Howard's PSA For Bathroom Etiquette
If that's a joke, then surely this is, too:
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Mary McCarthyite
09/22/09

@Mary McCarthyite: And this:
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boobookitt
09/22/09

@Mary McCarthyite: What? All my eggs have a jaunty cap and a smile!
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hydrogen_jukebox
09/22/09

@Mary McCarthyite: Haha!

1. what does heartbeat have to do with facial expression?

2. Any "information" written in Comic Sans is immediately unreliable.
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boobookitt
09/22/09

@hydrogen_jukebox: also - babies don't really'smile' until they're about 2 months old so why would a fetus smile?

Why am I trying to make sense of this?
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Mary McCarthyite
09/22/09

@hydrogen_jukebox: Yeah: the word "Comic" says it all.
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EndangeredRed
09/22/09

@Mary McCarthyite: This billboard faces the waiting room window of the Planned Parenthood I go to.
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Mary McCarthyite
09/22/09

@EndangeredRed: Coincidence? I think not.
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EndangeredRed
09/22/09

@Mary McCarthyite: Not remotely. It's just so manipulative and mean, I hate it. I actually know one of the people on the board of the local Pregnancy Center, and he was very proud of their genius plan to put that billboard there.
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boxspelunker
09/22/09

@Mary McCarthyite: This reminds me of my favorite abortion joke ever:

My sister and I were driving down the highway and we passed a sign that said, "Abortion! It's a Black and White Issue!"

...but the photo was in grayscale.

AHAHAHAHA.
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Everything MidnightBikeRide does is a balloon.
09/22/09

@Mary McCarthyite: There used to be a billboard near my house that was just a white background with the word "FETUS" in 10-foot bold black type. I cracked up every time I drove past. That one must have been a parody.
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hydrogen_jukebox
09/22/09

In reply to Terrence Howard's PSA For Bathroom Etiquette
This has to be a joke. It's just too ironic.

(Because who in their right mind would use six different unreadable fonts and flopped default gradients?)
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Ailatan
09/22/09

@hydrogen_jukebox: and the colours! who chose those colours? it looks so 80's tv guide.
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hfree
09/22/09

@hydrogen_jukebox: And a photo that looks like it was taken on a cameraphone at a courthouse.
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Mary McCarthyite
09/22/09

@All: all of these elements combine to create AWESOME.
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Jack_Burton
09/22/09

@hydrogen_jukebox: =cough= Microsoft Publisher =cough=
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stealthird
03/18/09

In reply to PSAs: Protect Girls From Everything
Actually, the people behind the texting one have several others and they have videos for both boys and girls. Observe: [www.thatsnotcool.com]
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Megan Ellen Morrice
03/18/09

In reply to PSAs: Protect Girls From Everything
My favorite PSA was one from about 5 years ago that had the message that smoking marijuana makes you pregnant. The girl came home to her parents and took a pregnancy test and they spoke about if she was not high it wouldn't have happened. It was around the same time most of the PSAs were targeting marijuana (including the marijuana makes you run over small children on their bikes when you go through the drive through, remember that one?) A girl in one of my classes in college told me that the people who made the PSAs make them deliberately ridiculous to plant the seed of the ridiculousness in general of our current drug policy, but I have nothing to back that up with. It does make me sick the way they completely abuse statistics. Around that same time, there was another pot PSA that referenced a study of car accidents...but left out the fact that an overwhelming majority of those drivers were drunk!! So, just remember ladies...it is smoking the chronic that will make you bang like 40 dudes without a rubber, not binge drinking. In fact, marijuana is probably illegal because of its much more devastating effects than that of binge drinking.
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happymisanthrope
03/18/09

@Megan Ellen Morrice: When I took drivers' ed, we had to watch a animated documentary that was clearly made in the 70's about the dangers of being high and driving.

It was awesome. Especially since it just looked as if it were drawn by stoners.
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RobertaFisk
03/18/09

In reply to PSAs: Protect Girls From Everything
Ok, I know it's too late for anyone to see this, but I had to write it anyway. The exaggerating on these PSAs pisses me off because it's alienating girls from otherwise useful messages. If I was 15 again, and saw a PSA that said smoking pot was going to make me go so crazy that I would take naked photos of myself and then not remember, I would never take a PSA seriously again. Which is a shame, because some of these messages, like "know when your boyfriend is being controlling" or "don't go into strange men's houses when you're a teenage girl" are valid and important. Rant over.
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SugarSugar
03/17/09

In reply to PSAs: Protect Girls From Everything
Did anyone watch "Girls Beware?" The stranger guy at 3:40 is seriously giving me the creeps.
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CordeliaShirley
03/17/09

In reply to PSAs: Protect Girls From Everything
can I just add:
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resonanteye
03/17/09

In reply to PSAs: Protect Girls From Everything
I think she slipped on the grease in order to get out of marrying that guy. But that's just one cynic's opinion.
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Mafalda para Presidente
03/17/09

In reply to PSAs: Protect Girls From Everything
Mexico used to show these old PSAs on TV about a kid who was playing near the stove where the mom had left a pan with the handle sticking out. In all of them, boiling soup or oil would fall on the child, and although they didn't show the actual accident, it was implied that that poor child got severely burned.

Thinking about them still makes me CRINGE at the thought of a burning toddler and I never leave the handles sticking out ever since.

So...I guess they worked.
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NatelysWhoresKidSister
03/17/09

In reply to PSAs: Protect Girls From Everything
I actually have no problem at all with these PSAs. (Except maybe Norma Neufner, Policewoman, but my issue there is the gender-specific title.)

They address real issues. Important ones.
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SugarSugar
03/17/09

@NatelysWhoresKidSister: It's really too bad that we've let that go. I would love to be SugarSugar, Sports Administration Lady.
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MarissaExplainsItAll
03/17/09

In reply to PSAs: Protect Girls From Everything
The first one has always offended me. It's like tons of WASPs who have never met any Latinas decide that we must always speak spanglish (I usually speak one or the other), are slutty (I'm not down for random hook ups), and/or druggies (which I wouldn't be if pot was legalized). Seriously, if America wants to be the best society, maybe they should stop putting so many ethnic stereotypes out there and instead focus on people like Hilda Solis, our Secretary of Labor, or Vicky Ruiz, one of the most influential female historians in our nation. /end rant
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PrettyPrettyPrincess
03/17/09

In reply to PSAs: Protect Girls From Everything
I'm not supporting the PSAs - they are often misguided, oversimplified, and all kinds of wrong - but for all y'all who keep saying pot never made you want to take your clothes off: seriously? Every time I smoked I was CLIMBING THE WALLS HORNY. I don't know how or if I EVER kept my clothes on while smoking. I may not have had the energy to go out and find someone to do something about it, but I sure was frisky and naked. I mean, I was like the girl in the exorcist. Fuck me! Fuck me!

OH MY GOD YOU GUYS MAYBE THE PSA PEOPLE KNOW ME?!?!!? Now I'm scared.
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The Queen of No
03/17/09

In reply to PSAs: Protect Girls From Everything
I know this is besides the point, but some of those PSA are a little too effective. I found myself getting really upset watching the cyber-bullying one. I am so glad I just missed the whole social networking thing in high school, because I would have probably killed myself; girls were mean enough in person, just as mean as in that PSA.
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