Don’t knock it, many guys like a nice pale ass.
Well I personally think, for her age, Katie has a pretty nice ass.
But I agree with what Xtisme said in this thread about not wanting to see JLo’s colonoscopy.
Reminds me of this exchange from Black Books:
Actually, in her case, it really wasn’t. She was under 50 and asymptomatic with no family history of colon cancer, so a colonoscopy was not indicated for her. She was probably more likely to be harmed by a complication from the procedure than she was to be helped by getting it early. Indications are there for a reason.
I don’t know if she made this clear at the time, but I’m sure there were plenty of 38-year-old soccer moms in similarly low-risk categories who were confused when the doctor recommended that they not get a screening colonoscopy.
(With no family history, you should have a screening colonoscopy at age 50. If you do have a first-degree relative, the usual recs are to get one at age 50 or ten years before your relative was diagnosed, whichever is earlier. Some suggest starting as early as 40 with a positive family history, but I havent seen the data to back that up.)
She does have a nice ass, though.
If i’m not mistaken, her late husband died of this cancer, and that was the reason for her seeming paranoia about it.
Yeah, but she’s had a couple of boyfriends since then, so she’s forgotten all about her husband’s colon cancer. It appears that her main concern these days is practicing her “serious interview” facial expressions and making her legs as shiny as possible.
I hate her. I’d rather be restrained as in “A Clockwork Orange” and forced to watch Julie Chen.
And Matt Lauer? You’ll forever be a VH1 VJ, asswipe.
Don’t forget the knee-high leather boots she’s so fond of wearing.
True–that’s what led to the whole thing. But his cancer doesn’t constitute her family history. I don’t know what his story was re: family history, but colon cancer in that age group is so ridiculously rare that you can’t screen for it without killing more people (via colonoscopy complications, etc.) than you save.
IMO, monitoring what your children watch on t.v. and what sites they visit on the internet is a basic parental responsibility. I see nothing wrong with Couric informing parents that the standards have changed since we were kids so that they can create guidelines for their kids.
Gosh, how could anyone possibly grow up to be well adjusted without being over-exposed to pop culture?
So Couric advising parents that PG guidelines have loosened makes her an uptight idiot who tries to control every aspect of her daughters’ lives? My, what a broad brush you’re painting with today. When did she piss in your Cheerios? And how could you possibly pass judgment on Katie Couric’s maternal skills when you’ve never met her children?
Only kids who are given free reign to watch movies that depict sex and violence know how to do laundry? HUH?
So you’re saying that it’s better for kids to get drunk and fuck around at home…so that they don’t get drunk and fuck around during college?
This is one of the most ridiculous rants I’ve ever read. Please, go back to watching t.v.
Well… yeah. That was my mom’s policy: if you’re going to party, do it someplace safe, rather than underneath an overpass or something. It’s called harm reduction, and it works (much better than abstinence-only, by the way).
The point is, Couric isn’t appealing to parents’ intelligence. She’s appealing to their hysteria, paranoia and fear. It’s not a choice between raising a Bubble Boy or having your son turn tricks for smack, but that’s what she would have us believe, to serve her own agenda.
The ratings system itself has changed since they were kids, and has remained pretty standard, AFAIK. Plus they have those handy posters in every movie theatre (you know, the ones with the kids, adults, and random animals) that show what is allowed in each rating class.
What exactly do you think is her agenda? Censorship? Because it sounds to me like she’s not trying to tell you what your kids should watch, but rather informing parents that PG-13 can mean this, this, or this so they can make an informed choice.
In other words, it’s like reporting that a Tall Mocha Grande has 600 calories and 35 grams of fat. It’s not doing a disservice to report the truth, nor is it an advocation for dropping it from your diet. It’s just telling folks that don’t know any better that, hey, in case you didn’t know…
Problem is, even with “partying” at home, if you get caught serving alcohol to minors, you can be arrested. And it doesn’t always work-my aunt and uncle always let their kids drink as teens figuring at least they were at home-and all three of them are now the booze it up, party party type! Not alcoholics, but they definitely don’t have a responsible attitude when it comes to drinking.
Except that the “truth” is couched in sensationalistic language, spurious arguments and the ever-popular scaaary synth riffs that tell you - “Oh no! Timmy and Susie are going to have SEX and DIE because we put condom machines in public high school washrooms!”
Couric’s agenda is to please her bosses. And their agenda is to feed American’s paranoia, because it makes them money.
Maybe I’m just alone here but in my HS yes, kids did have sex. But in all honesty my class wasn’t a large one (around 195 students) and I can say with 95% certainty or so that at least 60-70% of the student body graduated as virgins.
And I knew every guy very well, if one of them got laid, trust me it went around. Things just didn’t get hidden at that school. And talking about “achievements” was something virtually everyone did.
So I’m wondering, did anyone else in here find that sex in HS wasn’t the overwhelming norm? I mean, sure it was a big chunk but certainly not the majority in my HS.
Also I remember reading a study awhile ago that the average age Americans lose their virginity has been increasing steadily (and my generation was when the age was one of the lowest in the last 40 years) and is like 17.5 or something now. For a lot of kids that’s out of HS.
Different strokes for different folks I guess.
My parents did the same thing and my brother and I rarely drink now and we absolutely, positvely, never get behind the wheel of a car when we do.
Most of my friends who drove drunk as teenagers (and got dui’s. and died. etc.) did it to avoid admitting to their parents that they had been drinking. My parents weren’t going to have us lying to them and they sure as shit weren’t going to have us flying around town in death machines like drunken Mr. Toads just because we were ashamed that we had a few beers and couldn’t tell them.
Well, I don’t know how your parents went about it-it wasn’t just them letting the kids drink, but they let them get tanked. I was pretty shocked at my cousin’s graduation party when he had a bunch of friends come over from his high school, some of them that my aunt and uncle had never even MET, and Auntie was there passing these kids the Iron City. That’s a GREAT way to get yourself in trouble with the law.
I dunno, my parents were the kind that would’ve been horrified if I or one of my friends had been drinking, so at my graduation party, I managed to keep filling up Pepsi cans with beer for my friends or filling up a glass with beer from the keg and saying it was for one of my parents’ friends so that I and my friends could get away with it - but really it was either for me or one of my friends.
Had they been a bit more open, they would’ve been able to see what alcohol was going to who, and then been able to cut off the under age people at an appropriate time - instead of me getting my friends completely hammered through ‘soda’ that wasn’t really soda.
Very true. I’m not saying that letting your kid have a beer every now and then is wrong-I’m saying actually encouraging your kids to get completely shitfaced all the time is irresponsible.
And when it comes to their friends, it’s a bad idea because of the legal issues involved. Suppose that kid’s parents are really anal and find out said kid’s been drinking? They could actually file charges, I believe.
The most sensible answer in the whole thread.
To say high school sex and pregnancy is some widespread epidemic is to be completely paranoid about it.
Sure teens are going to have sex, but only an idiot actually believes all the stories about teen sex parties and jelly bracelets and bathroom blowjobs. Rumors spread and mutate so fast that I’m a little surprised no one remembers the story of the Seventh Grade Bathroom Orgy* anymore.
- You don’t want to know.