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Le Coucher d'Yvette
07/23/09

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eh. maybe if it was a veyron. lambos are so - flappy paddle gear box.
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Deartháir II
07/23/09

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Somebody's been watching Transporter 2.

I have this problem all the time. People see a white guy in a German sports car, weaving through traffic and yelling at the other drivers for their inability to follow the rules of the road, and automatically assume that I must be an asshole.

In this case, they're probably right.
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leavethegun-takethecannoli
07/23/09

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Wow. Who knew talking to birds paid so much. It's nice to see that Brian Fellows bought himself a beautiful Lamborghini. I do hope he learns to drive it as just sitting in it will eventually become real boring.
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Maymar
07/23/09

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Could be worse, he could be mistaken for Nick Hogan. Fare-magnet yellow is better than, well, the other one.
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Sputnik_Sweetheart
07/23/09

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This reminds me of something I read a little while ago. An article mentioned a black business man who had parked by a ritzy hotel, and a white woman actually opened the door and tried to get in because she thought he was her chauffeur.
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Ash Clutchem, Pokey Master
07/23/09

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I didn't realize Tracy Morgan had any other vehicles besides his tired race stuff. Well, the Lambo is tired and can be raced, but that's just lame punnery.
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johnnyichiban
07/23/09

@Ash78: No, no. Yours is just a lame comment.
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Deartháir II
07/23/09

@johnnyichiban: That was childish and uncalled for. Go to your room and wait for your father to get home.
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leavethegun-takethecannoli
07/23/09

@johnnyichiban: That's rude.
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smalleyxb122
07/23/09

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Yeah, I never noticed just how much a Gallardo looks like a Crown Vic. Honest mistake.
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CurtCole
07/23/09

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This is why I stopped driving my white van with tented windows.
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Deartháir II
07/23/09

@CurtCole: ...slowly.

...past elementary schools.

...with the Ice Cream Van music playing.
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Miscellanea
07/23/09

@DEAЯTHÁIЯ:
...with "Free Candy" written on the sides.
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acarr260
07/23/09

@Miscellanea's brakes are squealing: I can't resist...
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Rooo sez BISH PLZ
07/23/09

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Pshht. We've moved up to Harvard-prof-in-his-own-residence...... profiling.

This is so last season.
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Sister Toldja
06/30/09

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"You're least likely to be married by 35 if you're a woman of color."

Le sigh. I know this statistic well, but it still shoots me like an arrow EVERY.TIME.
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willwriteforfood
06/30/09

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OK, so I'm 39 and Asian and unmarried. Can I tell my mom I'm not stubborn, I'm just a victim of the odds? Perhaps that would give her more to chew on than fussing at me over my spinsterhood.
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Sister Toldja
06/30/09

@willwriteforfood: I think it's just Black and Latina women bringing down the statistic for all of us. On behalf of our shiftless, hesitant to marry us men who have caused this statistic, I apologize.
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missbananafish
06/30/09

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So since I'm the whitest woman on the planet (without being an albino), and I'm 35, so that means that I'm going to get married any day now, right? Even though I haven't dated in quite some time? Woo-hoo!
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Laulau
06/30/09

@missbananafish: Ah, but you've passed the magical happy year of 28, so while you may get married, you'll never be as hot or happy as you were then.
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badmutha
06/30/09

@missbananafish: Pick out your dress, the odds are in your favor!
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badmutha
06/30/09

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ZOMG. Megan, you are going to have to beat me in finding that idiot doctor who said the stress and pregnancy = emotional problems. How would that even possibly be related? My bullshit-ometer just almost broke from the sheer and complete bullshit of that bullshit statement.
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LBB
06/30/09

@badmutha: I'll go one better. My dad heard and now spouts as though it is gospel truth some bullshit study that said that stress during pregnancy causes the resulting baby to be gay. No, really. I have NO BLEEPING CLUE WHERE HE HEARD THIS but I've heard him repeat it before and it's all I can do to keep my head from asploding.
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Lymed
06/30/09

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And what percentage of women are divorced by age 40?
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sportz.star
06/30/09

@Lymed: My guess -- some large percent of those women who got married under the age of 24.
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LaComtesse
06/30/09

@Lymed: I would imagine something like 24%. If 86% of women are married by 40 and 50% of marriages end in divorce... right? Math was never my strong suit.

@sportz.star: And if you got married AT 24?! WHERE DO I FIT INTO THIS EQUATION!!?!?!?!?!1!!11!!!
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rocknrollunicorn
06/30/09

@LaComtesse: I don't think you can figure it out from those statistics because from what I hear, second and third, etc., marriages have a higher divorce rate, but that of course contributes to the OVERALL divorce rate.

So bottom line, 50% of people who get married do not necessarily experience divorce. Some of those are people experiencing divorce more than once.
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Penny
06/30/09

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The marriage thing is something that bothers me a LOT more than it should. I never really cared about getting married, but now I feel like there's some kind of clock ticking (I turn 30 in the fall, dating someone for 3+ years). Ditto with babies. I don't even want to THINK about babies but I seem to always hear "well, having babies after the age of 33 increases the risk of XYZ" and I get nervous. It stresses me out far more than I am comfortable with. And makes me kind of bummed about having lady parts.
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LadyFabulous
06/30/09

@Penny: I'm with you. I'm months (weeks, minutes, seconds!!!) away from 29, and I'm the eldest person in my family who's never been married. As much as I KNOW it's not a big deal, there is still the teenie inside monster telling me different.
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DaisyGamble
06/30/09

@Penny: lots of women feel that way. i have 2 friends who have never been married and insist i am the lucky one, because i was married. When i argue, YES, but i am now divorced, the response is just 'well at LEAST you were married.' It is very strange how this infects our brains.
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emilyanne
06/30/09

@Penny: I had my first child at 34 and am pregnant with the second at 36. Both were completely straightforward pregnancies - and so were the pregnancies of my friends, most of whom were 32 or over when they had their first child. All pregnancies carry some stress and it's really, really not worth getting wound up about particularly not the whole 'xyz' thing because honestly a lot of guff is talked on this subject. I'm not denying that there are risks but there are always risks whatever age you get pregnant at and it's frustrating the amount of crap thrown at older mothers. And seriously the clock isn't ticking either, I never thought about marriage, I met my husband when I was 33 and realised that he was someone I would actually marry so I did but trust me the world doesn't end when you turn 30.
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Penny
06/30/09

@DaisyGamble: Well, the babies thing is a way bigger deal for me. I don't care about getting married, although my boyfriend does. But at least he doesn't care if a baby comes before marriage. We're already living in sin, so who gives a shit?
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Penny
06/30/09

@emilyanne: I am actually looking forward to turning 30, and should clarify that it's not my own ambivalence that's worrying, but all of the outside pressure, you know?

I agree that "older" mothers get slammed with negative messages, and it also irritates me that they are called OLDER mothers. 33 and 36 is not old! I know it's in reference to the spectrum along childbearing, but still.

I'm sensitive.
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emilyanne
06/30/09

@Penny: ha no it's ridiculous. I certainly don't feel old. Tired and bored of being pregnant certainly but not old.
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tallgirl-in-heels
06/30/09

@emilyanne: This old, currently babyless lady thanks you for these words of reassurance. I swear, in the last couple of days I've read too many articles wherein 35 is some sort of cut-off age. Thereafter, life apparently plummets over the edge of a cliff. Normally I don't feel my age, but lately I've been bummed out a little about it. It's good to hear your rational, no drama voice through the din.
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PreposterousHypothesis
06/30/09

@Penny: OK, as my disclaimer, I am not a crazy stalker. But Jez is weird and these things happen...

I had a dream over the weekend that I looked at your Web site; I don't know if it was a blog or Facebook or some kind of site. You had just had a baby. It was unclear if you were married or not but I think it was your current boyfriend who was the father. You were deliriously, insanely happy, and completely content. (Note that the only thing I know about your boyfriend is that you have one and you live together.)

I'm sorry if this is weirding you out at all; I was a bit weirded out myself, and even more so when I saw this post. Maybe this is some cosmic message that you shouldn't worry about it?
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emilyanne
06/30/09

@tallgirl-in-heels: thanks - it drives me insane the amount of crazy and then your life ends at 35. The other bizarre thing is that suddenly 35 is old, i never thought of it as old, it's crazy. In my world everyone should just have fun and live their lives and people should stop trying to condemn those of us over 35 to the dustbin of life. My 30s have been excellent, vastly better than my 20s (although admittedly I can't remember swathes of my 20s).
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Penny
06/30/09

@PreposterousHypothesis: How funny! It's always interesting to hear about Jezebel dreams.

Also, if I get knocked up this month, I'm blaming you.
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