virgigirlie

No, you just like titties. Don't worry, it's O.K., you don't need an excuse. Breast size does not show good genes, as you say. It shows big breasts, which you think are fun. And it's not innate in men (or any animal) to want his offspring to have big knockers. Plus just because the girl you breed with has big boobs doesn't mean your daughter will, and it wouldn't help her in life, especially back in caveman days, anyway. Boobs are not a survival characteristic. Yes, most men like boobs, big ones. But that has nothing to do with an innate sense of good genes or fertility or health. It's because they're pretty and mesmerizing. (And aren't men mostly attracted to round things: boobs, balls (for sports), butts, pizza, kegs?) And what other reason could women possibly have for getting implants other than that they want bigger breasts? They certainly aren't getting them to have smaller breasts. You yourself mention women getting implants to feel better about themselves or to improve their (self?) image. This is why most women get implants (we like boobies, too!!). Only idiots get any plastic surgery to make someone else happy. "If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning." ~Catherine Aird

First, I think you mean bigger breasts (unless you like lopsided ta-tas ). Second, breast size has nothing to do with fertility or the ability to reproduce or how hearty a woman is or her ability to breast feed or how she'll carry a baby. Y'all just like titties! "If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning." ~Catherine Aird

To be perfectly honest, I don't know. I started thinking about doing it well before I knew how much I'd get paid or even that I'd get paid. Of course, the money was awesome (it funded my first summer of skydiving). I think that once I realized everything that was involved (including missing a little work for some doctor visits and to go out of state to have the eggs removed), money became a small factor. This is probably especially true because I didn't have any sort of personal commitment to the couple that I was donating to. I was given a ton of information about them but never met them. I would've done it for a lot less money than I got. Edited to add: I still think calling it donating is just a nicety. People donate blood and bone marrow, we sell our eggs and sperm and plasma. While the motivation should be the same, the real truth is that it's not donating if you get paid. "If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning." ~Catherine Aird

I don't ever want kids but at the time was perfectly capable of having them. No part of being a parent appeals to me. I always found it sort of cosmically unfair that people exist who want nothing more than to have a child but can't and there I was just wasting eggs. This was sort of driven home (but not what made me decide to donate) when a friend (not who I donated to) was in a car accident when she was 9 months pregnant. She lost the baby and her uterus. I never understood why people who couldn't get pregnant didn't just adopt, but I guess adoption can sometimes take longer and cost more than finding a donor. "If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning." ~Catherine Aird

I've "donated" my eggs. And "donors" get paid rather well. It's only called donating because it's a prettier word than "selling." The same way people talk about donating plasma when they're really selling it. Although there was a lot more than money involved in my decision to donate, I agree that people would probably have a harder time finding donors if no money were exchanged. But maybe that's preferable for some because the people most likely to donate then are close to the person who needs the eggs. Maybe that'd be awkward at first, but at least you'd really know the donor. The reason donors get paid is twofold: 1). Obviously, monetary compensation attracts people to be donors in the first place. 2). Donors go through a lot. Lots of medical/mental screening, doctor visits, hormones, injections, ultrasounds, contracts, maybe meeting the parents of your eggs, idiots around you questioning whether or not you know what's best for yourself, potential side effects from hormones, no drinking while on hormones, no sex for a short time after donating, etc. "If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning." ~Catherine Aird

Me too! "If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning." ~Catherine Aird

"A Maxwell man was sentenced to 10 days in jail and three years probation Wednesday for lopping off his dog's ears with a pair of household scissors. . . . 'We should take care of our animals the same way we take care of our children,' [Judge] Tiernan said. 'We have the same responsibility.'" Fuck that judge. He can talk all he wants, but anybody who cut their kid's ears off with scissors wouldn't get 10 days in jail and get to keep the kid. Not that the fullest extent of the law is anywhere near as severe as it should be for this shit, but the guy still should have been punished as harshly as is legal and that dog should've gotten help. "If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning." ~Catherine Aird

That's totally awesome! I don't know how much experience you have with red, but I've always found that it fades to pink much faster than you'd expect. The right kind of dye fades to bright pink, though, so at least there's a chance it won't be dull and blah. Also, if you're interested for next time, stripes kick ass in a mohawk. Just use foil to separate the chunks so the edges don't bleed together. "If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning." ~Catherine Aird

My boyfriend and I went to the R.R.H.O.F. on Sunday (were gonna go Saturday, but got tickets to the last 3 NCAA games here in MI). Totally walked right past Lars near the Jim Morrison display. He was getting a tour with his kid and a couple other people. I was shocked they didn't do that when the place was empty (before/after hours) just for privacy, although no one bothered them anyway. "If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning." ~Catherine Aird

I write and edit product descriptions (yes, like Elaine) for my company's print catalogs and Web sites that sell our products (Amazon, Overstock, Sears, tons of others). I'm also back in school getting my teaching certificate. In December of 2010 I'll be licensed to frustrate all of your children to tears with (I mean teach them to love ) English and environmental science! "If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning." ~Catherine Aird

I'm more about suits than uniforms (or uniforms that look like suits). For a while, I worked in an office where the men wore suits all the time - it sort of lost some of its appeal. But now that I don't work there it's all good. My boyfriend often wears a shirt and tie (and pants) to work. I try to make him late every time. Thank God I have extra time after he leaves... "If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning." ~Catherine Aird

Because the season's about to start (in the cold-ass midwest, anyway) and some of us have only recently gotten glasses and are just learning how to function with glasses and skydiving and still trying to look sort of cool (and some of us don't have vision insurance), I thought this would be helpful: www.zennioptical.com I don't know how to make it clicky . "If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning." ~Catherine Aird

Old people like company. So turn your ipod off, pack tomorrow, grab a beer, and listen to some geezers talk about squares jumping rounds. One of 'em might give you a shiny quarter. "If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning." ~Catherine Aird

I use stevia all the time. I think it's a bit sweeter than sugar. My local chain store carries it now in the natural foods (alternative/organic) area. It's great for diabetics. Agave nectar is good, too. It's becoming easier to find, but it's a liquid and is more expensive. If you just want to try the stevia, I recommend buying a small box of packets (cup of coffee sized portions). It's cheap, so if you don't like it there's not too much loss. I use Stevia In The Raw. steviaextractintheraw.com "If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning." ~Catherine Aird

Is he being encouraged to lie and say that he's living in campus housing when he's not? I never lived in dorms, it was all apartments for me in college, but damn near every friend I made at school lived in a dorm at some point. They check those things. There's an R.A. People know if a room's been sitting empty. The school's for sure going to find out he's not living on campus. Why does he have to lie about his living situation? Does UT require freshmen to live on campus? Won't that scholarship cover a couple of semesters of housing? Plus, if he tells the school he's living on campus they're gonna charge him for it. Or is the plan to lie and say he's living off campus to get more federal aid while he's really pseudo living at home? Does your ex realize that she's going to be missing out on rent money and still having to pay taxes and other general bills? And if he gets extra federal aid in the form of loans, he has to pay those back. Which is better than a scholarship that doesn't need to be repaid with interest...? Maybe I don't really understand the plan. I see no moral or fiscal upside. "If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning." ~Catherine Aird

"Payment" is by far not the only thing wrong with that. I wonder how much the copy editor got paid. Or the writer for that matter. Though I can image being a little lost for grammar while writing a story about a person who broke her all important face bone. "...breaking many bones including her face, leg, and pelvis." "If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning." ~Catherine Aird

Yeah!! Thank you all for your help! Homework done! Your rewards are attached below. My boyfriend is eternally grateful. Edited to add: NSFW "If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning." ~Catherine Aird

My boyfriend (the English & history teacher) is taking online classes and has to take a statistics class. He's never had any of this before and the last time I had it was 10 or 11 years ago. I've helped him with what I can, but there's stuff I can't touch. Does anybody know anything about chi-squares? I'd never heard of them until he got this assignment and neither of us understand how to do the assignment. Using the attached data, he has to do this assignment: Assume this is a sample of students and that students receive an A grade if their score is 90 or above. Calculate a chi-square test to determine whether girls achieve more A grades than boys in math. Calculate a chi-square test to determine whether girls achieve more A grades than boys in reading. Can someone tell me how to do this??? Please??? You may even get a special reward! "If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning." ~Catherine Aird

There's one just like this (probably this one) hanging on a wall near the front desk on the show The Office. "If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning." ~Catherine Aird

"One out of every 1,000 skydivers will die while jumping." is not the same as "One out of every 1,000 USPA registered skydivers will die while jumping." It's a statistic that scares people and doesn't tell them how many people die while skydiving because of their own actions or inactions. People who don't know anything about the sport (most people) will assume that 'chutes didn't open and people bounced. It's the same as using a statistic about race car drivers or dirt bikers to scare people who don't know any better. It's misleading and irresponsible. "If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning." ~Catherine Aird

I don't know if Jesse Jackson was crying because he was happy or jealous. I started tearing up a little bit out of joy. "If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning." ~Catherine Aird

http://www.redtube.com Also NSFW. "If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning." ~Catherine Aird

Potato cheddar! Mmmmm... "If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning." ~Catherine Aird

Most of my fast food regret is directly related to my inability to make myself stop eating well after I'm full. But there's this one soup at Zoup! that makes me sick every time I eat it. I've had it many times, it's not a fluke, the one kind of soup makes me sick. But it tastes so good. Guess what I get every time it's available... "If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning." ~Catherine Aird

My boyfriend and I have bought each of the first three seasons as they've been released. It's amazing how fast you can get through an entire season of SNL. I can't wait for the next installment. (Christmas?) One of my favorites is Buck Henry finishing a show with a Band-Aid because Belushi actually hit him with the sword during a Samurai sketch. Milk man, candy gram, land shark... "If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning." ~Catherine Aird