It’s not only men, but it is mostly men, and has been for a long, long time.
I read yesterday that women weren’t allowed to compete in marathon events in the Olympics until 1982. The Catholic church still doesn’t allow female ministers, and is one of the oldest bastions of misogyny around. The Muslim faith isn’t all misogyny, but it has more than its fair share of it. I’m sick of all that kind of bullshit, too. I even hate the phrase “giving women their rights,” like half the human race has any right to “give” any basic human rights to the other half. And as a Canadian woman, I have it better than damned near every other woman on the planet!
Hell, I live in Ireland. Where half the government is throwing screaming shrieking foaming tantrums over a bill that would allow abortion if continuing the pregnancy would kill the woman.
Because the bitch had sex, so obviously she deserves to die.
The case where the doctors refused to intervene during the lady’s miscarriage was absolutely sickening. I could easily see something like that happening in the U.S. in the next few years.
Oh, gadzooks! A high school acquaintance, and friend of several of my friends, has co-written a woo book about autism and the usual silliness that has attached itself to the subject (which I will not link to, because this board’s mission is to fight ignorance, not to promote it. Suffice it to say that Jenny McCarthy has endorsed the book.) So every now and again, I am the lucky recipient of a private message on Facebook, encouraging me to quit “abusing” my children by way of vaccines and other science-y stuff (generally triggered by a mutual friend commenting on some innocuous “time to take the baby to the pediatrician” post of mine.) Honestly, I feel bad for this woman’s kid, but mainly because he’s being raised by a moron!
Be passive-aggressive, and “like” the book LavenderBlue and I wrote
Those of us in the vaccine advocacy movement are used to these private messages, but we tend to get the “you’re all a bunch of useless cunts go DIAF I’m coming to your work to kill you” stuff.
I just tried to kill a fairly large spider. it ESCAPED to somewhere to grow into an even bigger spider, to re-emerge later and scare me even further a few months down the road
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Yeah. Sometimes I’ll find a web containing a big mother spider and lots of little spiderlings. I feel kinda bad killing really little house spiders since they’re not as scary, but then I remind myself that if I don’t kill them, they’ll escape and turn into bigger spiders.
It is amazingly difficult to find a piece of carry-on luggage that is within the airline’s dimensions anymore. I need a new one, though, if I ever want to go visit my folks, as the last piece I have is rather broken.
Carry-on size dimensions on the airline I’m pretty much stuck with using max out at 22x14x9, including wheels. Even when I find one that will (I think) fit including the wheels, the other dimensions are almost always too big.
So far the only one I’ve found that’s within all the limits is a Victorinox that costs about $350, if I want the 4 wheels with swivels which will make life easier in an airplane aisle, or a 2-wheeled one for $330. <sigh> I don’t really travel that often, so spending that much is aggravating. I don’t want to check the luggage, either; too many horror stories about that. Maybe I should visit a few stores with tape measure in hand.
Come to think of it, 5 flights without paying a baggage fee would just about equal the cost of the suitcase. May be worth it after all.
“Obama cancels 4th of July for the Military while spending $100 million on a vacation to Africa”.
Stupid motherfuckers who propagate this crap. Look, I don’t care who is President, this just isn’t true.
First, Obama didn’t cancel their 4th of July celebrations. The Military chose to cancel them due to cuts caused by Sequestration. Blame your idiot Congressman. At no point did Obama personally issue any orders to cancel any 4th of July celebrations.
Second, Obama isn’t on ‘vacation’. It is a Diplomatic trip to several African nations. Yeah, it may well cost that much money (and it may not). Not like those nations can afford to handle the expenses and provide all the necessary security.
I swear, this one person is working my last nerve with this sort of stupid. I will admit that at this point, I’m just looking for an excuse to cut her loose from any association.
Lemme just say, as a knocked-up lady, that I will only be making choices for one other person and that’s the one that’s hitching a ride at the moment. As such, they will be having all the vaccines.
I keep the spiders. I don’t want to deal with what they’re keeping out. Same reason I keep house centipedes around–they eat ants and I **HATE **ants. Those are impossible to get rid of once they get in.
I’m getting tired of this torrential rain. I’m trying to break out of this depressive cycle, but all the gray cloudiness is making me crawl even further into my hole instead of poking my head out of it like I’ve been wanting to do.
Dear fuckwits we bought our house from SEVEN years ago,
You really should accept the fact that you no longer own this house. I don’t want your new cell phones delivered here, and you really don’t need to pay our sewer bill, we’ve had that on auto-pay for YEARS. We don’t need the junk mail and pre-approved credit card offers for your apparently no longer existent “property management” company clogging up the mailbox either; I am neither your secretary nor your mommy. Grow up and pay attention!
Morons. They sent THREE checks (including one for 58 cents!) on three different days, to pay a $17.00 bill. :rolleyes: With the wrong account number on all of them. :smack:
I really wish I didn’t have to keep reminding my dad that the correct way to eat food with a fork is to pick up the food with the fork, not to put the food on the fork with your fingers. :mad:
Yes, Excederin Migraine does help take the edge off, I can at least turn my head and open my eyes. Only problem is I can’t take it at night, the caffeine keeps me awake even more so than the migraine does.
I’m feeling much better now, and I really appreciate your concern. I might have some good news on the insurance front, my boss told me today he was going to ask his boss to get me brought in as a regular full-time employee. (I’m a temp right now) Grandboss likes me, and I already know most of the job I’d be doing, so I’m hoping for the best.
That being said, and since this is the Pit, I’m really starting to hate fireworks. Last night my inbred redneck neighbors were blowing stuff up until 2am. The state law allows for fireworks until 11pm, but good luck getting anyone to enforce it. The cops won’t come out unless something catches on fire. :mad:
I’m a little late with this, but best wishes, flatlined!!
