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Reply to sexually ambiguous screen names in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Yeah, that happened to me. I posted a blog about hating stupid wedding stuff and just wanting to elope, and my good pal imajinit told me not to tell my fiancee because she might be mad and that brides can be that way. Little did he know... Anyway, I always thought "Angloesque" sounded fairly feminine. What man would use an -esque suffix unless he's gay? ! Oh, crap. Everyone's probably thinking I'm a GWM this whole time. Crap crap crap

Ow, my ego in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

We're poor. H hasn't been able to find a job yet and yet somehow the bills keep coming even though we're not doing anything except job hunting and eating. (Hmm. We should stop eating.) So today I bundled up my ego and took it with me to a temp agency. Ego came back bruised and bleeding. I put on my best clothes, walk into the air-conditioned “We’ve got your m

Reply to What is the US equivalent of Najaf? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Hollywood? Well, yes, we're all stars and beautiful and eat salads with the correct utensils. Personally, I don't think there is a US equivalent. I realized this morning that Najaf doesn't speak for all Iraqis--just the Shiites. The equivalent for Shiites in the US would be, what, Baptists? They're the biggest hard-liners I know. Maybe LDS (Mormons). Or Catholics, but that's mor

Reply to Oh My - A Gay US Govenor! in Misc JoeUser Forums

Yeah, look at Clinton. A real role model. When I hear the "it takes two to tango" argument I always say "and it only takes one to stop it." Not that either party is innocent, but I do think that people's heads are not screwed on straight 'cause all the screws are in use elsewhere, so to speak. Of course if men are really the worst offenders, then it logically follows that two men can hardly be faulted for having an affair because, a

Reply to Oh My - A Gay US Govenor! in Misc JoeUser Forums

What bugs me most isn't that he had a homosexual affair. It's that he had an affair in the first place. Do zippers not work? Aside: I wonder how they wallpapered a smile to his wife's face when she walked out there with him, holding his hand.

Reply to Sacrificing Animals For Education in Pets & Nature JoeUser Forums

Yeah, I wanted to make that joke, too, but I was afraid of coming across as a feminist, when in reality I'm a good little housefrau. -A.

What is the US equivalent of Najaf? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Currently there is a US-led offensive in the Iraqi town of Najaf--you have to deliberately ignore the news to not notice that. Najaf is probably what you'd call a mecca, a holy place, and it is home to the Iman Ali shrine and a vast cemetary, the Wadi-us-Salaam (ironically means "Valley of Peace"). And now there are US soldiers, tanks, and helicopters swarmin

Reply to Are You Ready For Some Football in Sports & Leisure JoeUser Forums

Aye, I love football. Thanks for the reminder that it's coming soon. But I wish they'd get rid of the visuals to the "Are you ready for some football" with Kidd Rock or Steven Tyler or whoever that is. So ugly. Blech. And it's always so funny to me when the camera shows John Madden and Al Michaels in the booth and they look so uncomfortable when they realize they're being watched. And I'm sorry, 'cause Madden's a great guy, but he says the dumbest stuf

Reply to The Republicans do some counter-"documentary" filmmaking in Politics JoeUser Forums

I'm third for the Kerry vs. Kerry video. That's a great idea. greywar, is there any chance you're swedish or norwegian? 'Cause my mom says she called me "uff-dah" when I was enwombed. Can't remember which part of Scandanavia that is--I'm part both, anyway. Cheers.

Reply to Rapist wins the lottery in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Ah. So 7 mil quid is more like $3.7 mil. Well then, I still don't care. Let the guy have his money. It's not up to the rest of us to make good people rich and bad people poor. Even if this is England, we're not Robin Hood. As for killing rapists, pleeeeease. Would you draw the line at statutory rapists, or would you kill an 18-year-old US boy who had sex with his 17-year-old GF? Also, the rape laws are crap in America. All a girl has to do to

Reply to Forum newbie abuse in Internet JoeUser Forums

Decision-making is a process. We don't all arrive at the same time. There's no reason for us to keep silent while formulating our opinions on a subject, because that's what dialogue does does: it shapes our character via our opinions. For ages, older people have had to put up with younger people stretching around in their world, trying to figure out why things are the way they are. I don't see why it should be any different on online forums: if you've

Reply to Rapist wins the lottery in Current Events JoeUser Forums

The victims are being encourged to sue by members of the legal profession. I personally hope that they do, and I hope that they win. They deserve the money more tha he does. Shocking! Lawyers telling people to sue? Remind me, what's 1/3 of $7mil (even after taxes)? As for "Is this fair?" I d

Reply to Sacrificing Animals For Education in Pets & Nature JoeUser Forums

BlueDev, I can't resist--is it all humans, or just Americans, that pigs are similar to? -A.

Reply to What's your favorite limerick? in Humor JoeUser Forums

Here's the one from Bridget Jones's Diary: There was a young lady from Ealing Who had a peculiar feeling She lay on her back And opened her crack And pissed all over the ceiling. And here's one I wrote for a class (sorry, it's not dirty, but I thought it was clever for rhyming french words): Piscator, Polly, and Dieudonne Got on a boat and headed to Calais They went to a pub, Sat down for some grub

Reply to Still unemployed. Have taken to going commando in Blogging JoeUser Forums

history person: The crappy slap in the face for me is that I've been the editorial intern who's had to wade through slush piles and I know, arrogantly or not, that my writing is better than 90% of what I saw back then. I've never had a hand-written rejection, so you're up on me there. I have, however, gotten a personal e-mail, or else someone sends out pretty damn convincing form e-mails. Keep writing. One of us'll get publi

Reply to What a wedding is. in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

I hear ya. I got married a few months ago and some of my blogs are dedicated to that idea. I take issue with brides who say, and I quote, "It's my day and I can do whatever I want." Apparently the months or years you're engaged entitle you to be a bitch, whether it's not inviting family, treating vendors like crap, or demanding that each bridesmaid throw you a shower. (Over on theknot.com, there were posts yesterday by brides who were

Still unemployed. Have taken to going commando in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Unemployment blog: Day 36. Have taken to wearing no underwear in hopes that will go through underwear more slowly, thereby saving self laundry $. Also is bloody hot here. Scarcely goes below 100 in daytime and below 70 at nighttime. . Magazines not buying my articles. "Ran that one two months ago" (No you didn't, liar; am not stupid, do in fact read magazin

Reply to What has higher education done for you? in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Lord Shitzu--Critical cognitive abilities having not developed at the age of 7, apparently I went to the School of Educational Fascism and didn't think to consult a dictionary. Speaking of education....

Reply to What has higher education done for you? in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Oh my god, Gerry, traveling is a huge point. I always thought that third world countries, for example, need missionaries and the Red Cross and the Mercy Corps, yadda yadda, to "advance." Then I worked as a student missionary (and I use the term loosely) in Fiji for a while. They didn't need us. They got along just fine and if anything, we were denigrating their way of life by introducing computers and other electronic equipment. The one good thing we d

Bush fires speechwriters who cause him to make "bushisms"... in Humor JoeUser Forums

Brother-in-law e-mailed me this one today. You gotta wonder if it’s the speechwriters or if, after all, it’s just Bush. "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we," Bush said. "They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=544&ncid=703&e=

Reply to Why aren't JU and Mozilla more compatible? in Technical Problems JoeUser Forums

Thanks, Bakerstreet.

Reply to What has higher education done for you? in Blogging JoeUser Forums

This got bumped down really quickly so I want to give it a second chance....that makes me sound needy. Hmm. I just may be.

Why aren't JU and Mozilla more compatible? in Technical Problems JoeUser Forums

I'm not super HTML savvy and I can't get links, images, or the quoting part of replies to work using Mozilla. Is it my version (Firefox, 0.9.3) or is Mozilla just not a preferred browser? Thanks. :) A.

What has higher education done for you? in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Prior to college I was a pretty good conservative/moderate Christian girl. Post-college I am an okay moderately liberal agnostic woman. All the education, from religion to philosophy to history to literature, has done one thing: Complicated the whole damn world. People on JU often like to point out (with some degree of arrogance, it seems), seeing things in

Reply to Pedestrians vs Cars in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Hi, sorry, I don't usually call people on misspellings, but this one was funny: paragraph two, "wreckless drivers" (should be reckless). I smiled. Anyway, in college, the main street in our small town was between the dorm and all the other campus buildings. We got to the point where cars wouldn't stop unless we were in the crosswalk. I guess everyone has to be in a hurry these days....