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    Image of Kilotwat Kilotwat
    11/16/09

    In reply to Even Wild Horses Need Their Girlfriends • Fire Turns Irwin Land Into An "Animal Graveyard"
    A quibble with the above write-up

    For the first time in decades, the U.S. skating team has no clear-cut Olympic medal contender.

    While that is painfully true in the ladies skating, there are other disciplines in figure skating, too. The US currently boasts the reigning world champion in men's figure skating (Evan Lysacek) and the reigning silver medalists in ice dancing (Belbin and Agosto). They've been performing well this season, too: all three just won Skate America in their respective fields. We'll see Ol' Glory hoisted over that icy podium yet. #horses
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    Image of Kilotwat Kilotwat
    11/16/09

    In reply to Even Wild Horses Need Their Girlfriends • Fire Turns Irwin Land Into An "Animal Graveyard"

    There's Kim Yu Na of South Korea, the woman who's a good bet to win the Olympic gold. She's skating to a medley of James Bond music for her short program. #horses
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    Image of La Chica Lucy La Chica Lucy
    11/16/09

    In reply to Even Wild Horses Need Their Girlfriends • Fire Turns Irwin Land Into An "Animal Graveyard"
    I was hoping Jezebel would post that coat hanger link! #horses
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    Image of J.D.Regent J.D.Regent
    11/16/09

    In reply to Even Wild Horses Need Their Girlfriends • Fire Turns Irwin Land Into An "Animal Graveyard"
    am I reading that British sex ed article wrong? It seems like it says their approaches DID work? #horses
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    Image of Kivrin Kivrin
    11/16/09

    @J.D.Regent: That article appears to be saying two different things. I am totally confused. #horses
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    Image of labratintraining labratintraining
    11/16/09

    In reply to Even Wild Horses Need Their Girlfriends • Fire Turns Irwin Land Into An "Animal Graveyard"
    I wonder if all the male horses stand on the perimeter and complain to each other about how the female horses walk away with a sneer when they go up behind them and start grinding awkwardly. And then stare down the girl horses while trying to figure out why they can't get a date. #horses
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    Image of J.D.Regent J.D.Regent
    11/16/09

    In reply to Even Wild Horses Need Their Girlfriends • Fire Turns Irwin Land Into An "Animal Graveyard"
    wait, you can look up UNPROVEN ALLEGATIONS against people? that can't be right. #horses
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    Image of Zombies make the heart grow fonder Zombies make the heart grow fonder
    11/16/09

    @J.D.Regent: Yeah, that was my exact reaction... #horses
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    Image of formergr formergr
    11/16/09

    @J.D.Regent: Yeah, that sounds a little too like that website Don'tDateHimGirl.com, or whatever it is... #horses
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    Image of Elaken Elaken
    11/16/09

    @J.D.Regent: I don't have qualms with it because they are talking about serial abusers and men with allegations from several different women. It isn't as if a guy gets accused once and than put on the list. #horses
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    Image of rhymenoceros rhymenoceros
    11/16/09

    In reply to Even Wild Horses Need Their Girlfriends • Fire Turns Irwin Land Into An "Animal Graveyard"
    Rachael Flatt should definitely make the women's figure skating team. She was the only woman to skate a flawless program at Skate America, and even beat out Kim Yu-Na, who is the tops in the world. Honestly, the Olympic gold is Yu-Na's to lose, so whoever the U.S. sends they'll have to pull out something miraculous to get the gold. #horses
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    Image of Kilotwat Kilotwat
    11/16/09

    @rhymenoceros: She had a higher score in the long program than Kim Yu Na, but Yu Na still won by over 13 points (thanks to a huge lead in the short program), just to be clear.

    And Yu Na is not the only major contender for gold, even if she's a pretty good bet. There's also Miki Ando (Japan), Joannie Rochette (Canada) and Mao Asada (Japan), all of whom regularly top the scoreboard with huge scores beyond what Rachael usually gets. They'd all need to have a meltdown for Rachael to have a chance. Rachael's main weakness is her terrible component scores. She lacks the flair, flow and flexibility of most top skaters. That's just not something that can be fixed in a hurry. #horses
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    11/16/09

    @Kilotwat: I realize that Kim Yu-Na won the event, which is why I specified the long program versus overall.

    And despite how excellent the ladies that you named are, Kim Yu-Na still holds the record in short, free, and combined scores. She's also won her Grand Prix competitions by double digits.

    I also realize that Rachael has some big flaws...which is why I said she would have to pull off something miraculous to win the gold. Or medal, probably. #horses
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    Image of yvanehtnioj yvanehtnioj
    11/16/09

    In reply to Even Wild Horses Need Their Girlfriends • Fire Turns Irwin Land Into An "Animal Graveyard"
    That Gaddafi snippet is comedy gold. I'm not even going to follow the link, because nuance might kill my buzz. #horses
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    Image of kimbert kimbert
    09/10/09

    In reply to Reality Check
    Babies ARE gross. They are only cute fresh from a bath and asleep.
    They should make an ad that shows a mom fishing a turd out of the bathwater with one hand and trying to support a fish-slippery baby with the other.

    Oh, and make the "mom" model not shower three days before the shoot.
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    Image of brinkswomanship brinkswomanship
    09/10/09

    In reply to Reality Check
    If I just saw this panel of the ad at a bus stop, I would think it was about diapers, laxatives or Axe cologne. Possibly all three.
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    Image of MissFiFi MissFiFi
    09/10/09

    In reply to Reality Check
    how about they show a screaming, vomiting child with a fever? that's a nice reality check
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    Image of BiteMeMitchell! BiteMeMitchell!
    09/10/09

    In reply to Reality Check
    I don't know why they don't just round them up in a classroom and show them a video of a woman actually giving birth. They did this at my school, and it worked an absolute treat. Not a single girl in my year had a kid before her mid-20s, in spite of the fact that we lived in an area which at that time had one of the highest rates of teenage pregnancy in Western Europe. (As an aside, that video is also one of the many reasons that I'm now childfree-by-choice and will be for the rest of my life.)
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    inabook promoted this comment Edited by BiteMeMitchell! at 09/10/09 10:20 AM BiteMeMitchell! was starred BiteMeMitchell! was unstarred
    Image of inabook inabook
    09/10/09

    @BiteMeMitchell!: We saw one of those videos. We also had two girls pregnant at graduation, and plenty of others to get knocked up in the next few years.

    if people don't know how to use birth control, and are morally opposed to abortions, even knowing giving birth can be unpleasant won't help.
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    Image of BiteMeMitchell! BiteMeMitchell!
    09/10/09

    @inabook: Oh definitely, sure, but I can't help but hope that it might make most people a bit more careful about contraception!
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    Image of WaltzingMatilda WaltzingMatilda
    09/10/09

    @BiteMeMitchell!: There was an America's Funniest Home Videos entry (I think) filming girls watching a birth video. Had to be the funniest thing I have ever seen. I would venture to guess that none of those girls has quite recovered.
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    Image of purpleshoes reminds everyone to take typing breaks and stretch, ow purpleshoes reminds everyone to take typing breaks and stretch, ow
    09/10/09

    @WaltzingMatilda: ... I don't necessarily understand how it's a good thing to terrorize people with normal biological functions, even intense and dangerous ones?
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    Image of WaltzingMatilda WaltzingMatilda
    09/10/09

    @purpleshoes reminds everyone to take typing breaks and stretch, ow: No. It's reality. The birth process is the end result of pregnancy. I noticed that you posted earlier about teens not necessarily thinking that babies poop. You are right - I think you probably grew up in a family/home full of youngsters. (I, myself, helped raise my little sister) Some women have NO idea what is coming to them at the end of the rainbow.

    Terrorism, it is not. Education, it is. The side effect - their reactions were funny. I would never think that the Miracle of Life = terrorism.
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    Image of geeky_reader geeky_reader
    09/10/09

    In reply to Reality Check
    To really scare off any potential teen mamas, they should show real post-baby photos of stomachs. It's still something many people aren't aware of until they've had kids themselves.
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    Image of greengrey greengrey
    09/10/09

    @geeky_reader: They have websites that do that (though I don't think they're there to serve as a cautionary tale).
    But an appeal to vanity might help.
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    Image of Sorcha Sorcha
    09/10/09

    @geeky_reader: They should show what pregnancy does to breast too. They don't always just grow bigger. Sometimes they sag. A lot.

    I was watching 16 and Pregnant the other day and this teenage girl was talking to her doctor telling her that she didn't want to breastfeed because she thought it would make her breast sag. The doctor told her that breastfeeding doesn't do that, pregnancy does. But of course she's 16 and pregnant, so the fact she didn't truly realize the effect of what a pregnancy (not the breastfeeding and all the other stuff that comes after) has on a body doesn't surprise me much.
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    Maritsa promoted this comment Edited by Sorcha at 09/10/09 11:06 AM Sorcha was starred Sorcha was unstarred
    Image of Maritsa Maritsa
    09/10/09

    @Sorcha: You'd be surprised how many grown-ass women don't know that. It was shocking to me to find out so many moms on the pregnancy board I frequented were unaware of this - and how many claimed it was their reason for not wanting to BF. Ship's already sailed!
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    Image of Sorcha Sorcha
    09/10/09

    @Maritsa: That makes me sad.
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    Image of geeky_reader geeky_reader
    09/10/09

    @Sorcha: Very good point. As I like to say, pop one out the chute, and your girls are gonna droop.

    I often mourn the loss of my perkies but my kids were so worth it.
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    Image of Ruby_de_la_Booby Ruby_de_la_Booby
    09/10/09

    In reply to Reality Check
    I don't often quote Tori Spelling, but she calls her daughter's blowouts "poop up the puss." Seeing that should freak out a 15 year old. I'm 35, and it works on me.
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    Image of fluxus flucker fluxus flucker
    09/10/09

    @Ruby_de_la_Booby: I will never forget the horror of changing a baby girl's poopy diaper for the first, and only, time.
    People always think boys are more difficult to clean than girl. That is soooo untrue.
    If I Never have to change a baby girl's poopy diaper again, it will be far too soon.

    "Poop up the puss" - can you really say that on TV?! Poor kid!
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    Image of Maritsa Maritsa
    09/10/09

    @fluxus flucker: Boys are SO easy to clean! A little more difficult if they're uncircumcised (my son is), but still, I'd take that over cleaning my niece's poopy diapers any day.
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    Image of fluxus flucker fluxus flucker
    09/10/09

    In reply to Reality Check
    The idea of a public scratch and sniff poster is beyond disgusting.

    If they really want to gross out teens with info about the hardships of parenthood, they need to print pics of moms & dads with vomit in their hair.
    Its shocking how much puke can come out of a baby and how often the puke lands on mom or dad's head. Ugh!
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