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Dragon Goldmaple
I am a woman of ideas that lead to action. Then five minutes later, inaction, and a nap.
OH also I got my hold lifted so I am officially registered for 5 classes! Sadly it does not look like the Illustrative Techniques class is going to make it. :( But whatever.
There are some people on the internet that you just can't argue with. Anti-choice people are among them. It doesn't matter what you say, they will respond with something that is usually unrelated and/or nonsensical until you get bored and quit. This is how they win every conversation. And then they all get in a big smug circle and jerk each other
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off as congratulations for another job well done.
- Dragon Goldmaple
Yep! I just saw that whole "conversation."
- Katy S
Jerking off would be looked down upon by the religious fundamentalists, since they would explain every last ounce of seed should go to making babies.
- Phil G
It would also be kind of gay I guess! No homos!
- Dragon Goldmaple
They all get in a big circle just like in Rome.
- Christopher Harley
DO ANYBODY NO WHAT HAPPENED IN ROME????
- Dragon Goldmaple
I feel your pain. That thread was almost painful at times to read.
- Helen Sventitsky
One thing I also hate is when people use their infertility to somehow make the case that abortions should be illegal because maybe these young knocked up ladies won't be able to have babies later, so let's make them have it now. I pretty much think that at least half of the women that are "pro-life" need serious therapy to figure out why they are so crazy.
- Dragon Goldmaple
I like that abortions should be illegal because I adopt - oh wait, I only adopt healthy white babies.
- Baroness Von Cut-A-Bitch
Look, I'm just saying that black people are horrible and stupid and like to have abortions, and if abortions are free, then they are going to have a lot of them, and then there won't be any more black people. And then what am I going to do with all my white robes?
- Dragon Goldmaple
Don't worry, there's always the yellow and brown people after that. =p
- ronin
I'm having one *right now*!!! *twitters about it*
- Baroness Von Cut-A-Bitch
Both sides of this debate are stupid and don't want a solution because they like fighting with each other. There is a simple solution to both side's problems, but neither side will abandon the hill they're currently dying on to tackle it. If half the money/energy/intelligence spent on both sides were to simply eliminate the real issue, the true enemy to both sides, neither side would...
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- Matthew DeVries
*SIGH* That wouldn't help. Don't you know that poor women have more babies to get more welfare? GEEZ.
- Trish R
Also the thing that is ridiculous is that most of the anti-abortion people are also anti-sex education. Well maybe there wouldn't be so many abortions if there was more education?
- Dragon Goldmaple
Read your comment, MDV, but I think I missed the punch line (FF keeps closing the more link)
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
NO! NO! NO! If you talk to kids about sex, THEY MIGHT HAVE IT!
- Trish R
Wow. God frowns on this type of conversation. Didn't you know that? At least that's what this chick in front of the abortion clinic told my girlfriend.
- Steven Summers
Rahsheen - Both sides abhor the fact that an unwanted pregnancy has occurred. If they'd take their guns off each other, and attack the problem on that front, neither side would have anything to fight about. The energy/resources expended on both sides could have fixed this problem 2 generations ago. People are dying at a pointless line in the sand.
- Matthew DeVries
Funny how it's the pearl-clutchers who cry "what about the babbies who are begging to not be killed?" that are usually the same people who don't give a tinker's damn about the children in Iraq or Afghanistan (or anywhere else, really) who have bombs (paid for w/their tax money) rain down on them while they cry and beg to not be killed. To them life has no more value, once it's outside of the womb.
- vicster
Why should I give a shit about children in Iraq or Afghanistan? I'm only worried if my old lady is knocked up. I don't want some little bastard running around.
- Steven Summers
Matthew, good point. However, the anti-choice crowd also tends to be the crowd that doesn't want to fund public programs to aid young mothers and give them possible outs besides having an abortion. They are also the ones that tend to not want to teach safe sex (insofar as kids WILL have sex before adults think they're ready, we should at least prepare them for it). Anyway, I'm done with my generalizations for the day.
- Chieze Okoye
@MDV, the anti-choicers are anti-choicers because they also want to prevent women from accessing birth control. It's about controlling women's behavior, not about preventing unwanted pregnancies.
- vicster
The anti-choicers? When did this become the acceptable term? I thought it was pro-lifer?
- Steven Summers
Steven, a lot of people don't believe that pro-life is the correct term for people who care very little about the life of a woman.
- Trish R
I think anti-choice is an accurate description. I'd say on a personal level I'm pro-life, but I'm also pro-choice. The two can co-exist just fine.
- Jill is sugar free
I keep seeing "Dragon Goldmaple" and getting confused by wtf that is. </threadjack>
- Baroness Von Cut-A-Bitch
A lot of "pro-lifers" also support the death penaty, imperial wars, etc. That's why "anti-choice" or "anti-abortion" is a more accurate description.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
In what sense would a person who is in favor of the death penalty, illegal war, murder of abortion doctors, etc. be considered "pro-life"?
- Bren, Photophobe
from iPhone
Bren, exactly.
- Trish R
I was only asking because I hadn't seen anti-choice used before. Trish, your explanation makes a lot of sense. Thank you.
- Steven Summers
To clarify why I refer to them as anti-choice, they not only are anti-abortion, but they are against access to birth control and sex education.
- vicster
We had sex ed in my senior year of high school. But by the time I graduated high school, I was only one of two girls from my graduating class of jr high who didn't already have a baby. Sex ed for me was 1 class where they put a condom on a banana. I don't even think kids get this much any more. I think sex ed needs to start at least in jr high and be intensive and annual. And kids need...
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- Dragon Goldmaple
They only teach abstinence here and told my son's class that you can't go to college if you have sex before you're married (because getting pregnant ends your life, apparently). My soap box is about 100 feet high on the sex ed issue.
- Trish R
Trish, jesus. I wish there was some way to teach these people that this DOESN'T WORK because apparently statistics don't help.
- Dragon Goldmaple
Argh! The online Illustrator class finally had a couple of openings, but I couldn't sign up because they still haven't released the hold on my account. :( Now the spaces are full. I guess I am going to do the Tuesday class instead. If they ever fix my hold!
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That's rude! What is the 'hold' all about?
- Phil G
I will have 1 too many hours because all of the computer classes are 4 hours each.
- Dragon Goldmaple
Ohhh. THAT hold. Blaah.
- Phil G
The adviser emailed me that she think she can remove the hold on her end so I can register just waiting to hear back.
- Dragon Goldmaple
Do anybody no why I cried when the dog barely escapes the fireball in ID4??
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You don't even know. Er, no.
- Derrick
Then Phil made me re-watch the scene because he wasn't paying attention!
- Dragon Goldmaple
ROFL.
- Derrick
Girl, I keep telling you you need to beat him.
- Baroness Von Cut-A-Bitch
He LIVES. How is that a bad thing?
- Phil G
HE DON'T UNDERSTAND YOU, GIRL!!! HE AIN'T SYMPATHETIC TO YOUR EMOTIONAL NEEDS!!!
- Baroness Von Cut-A-Bitch
If you do not see why this is the most emotional moment ever in American cinema you are a robot, sir!
- Dragon Goldmaple
I cried when Goose died in Top Gun, does that count?
- Phil G
ROBOT
- Dragon Goldmaple
I'm completely ignernt about movies apparently. I thought, dog? Fireball? In InDesign? That must be some Easter egg, and clearly I have not begun to find it.
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
from iPhone
lol I mentioned earlier I was watching Independence Day, when the movie came out it was referred to as ID4! :)
- Dragon Goldmaple
Because the dog was the smartest character in the movie?
- Steven Perez
Steven - Watching ID4 again, I realize how it is a colossal, 2-hour collection of stereotypes, cliches, and plot holes.. and yet, it's fun to watch! America! Fuck Yeah! It's really pretty amazing if you think about it, people should have walked out at countless points (the scene with the *authentic morse code keys* comes to mind) but yet we are enthralled until the very end.
- Phil G
And now we own it, so can expect to watch it every weekend from now until Blu-Ray goes the way of VHS.
- Dragon Goldmaple
Also has anyone heard of wisdom teeth being used as "spare teeth" like if you still have your wisdom teeth and you lose a tooth, they implant a wisdom tooth to replace it? Like are wisdom teeth just in incubation?? Do you ever talk to people and just think they are lunatics?
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Heh. That wouldn't work because once you pull a tooth and kill the blood supply, it's dead. You can't later implant it and expect it to live. THAT'S CRAZY TALK. Edit: Oh wait, by "still have your wisdom teeth", I thought you meant like, saved in the glovebox of your car or something after they were removed.
- Rochelle
Someone we know had 2 sets of wisdom teeth and he had to have them removed, but he was upset that he was losing his "spare set" of teeth.
- Dragon Goldmaple
Gross. Even if you did lose a regular tooth and wanted your wisdom tooth transplanted into the space, I don't think it would work because wisdom teeth are BIG and I doubt the hole left from the regular tooth would be big enough to accommodate a wisdom tooth. Also, I'm not sure if they can reconnect nerve/blood supply and veins from one site to another site like that.
- Rochelle
I know, right?? Like would you replace a front tooth with a wisdom tooth, how would that even work? Oh noes my extra set of teeth I miss them :( What an idiot.
- Dragon Goldmaple
Maybe it works on the astral plane.
- joey
I can't believe I didn't even consider that.
- Dragon Goldmaple
I had mine pulled so the NSA can't track my movements. I would consider implanting them into someone else to further confuse the black helicopters.
- Steve is older than ever
You could *possibly*, through orthodontics, pull the tooth into the position of the 2nd molar, but I don't think there's much else you could do along the lines of using your wisdom teeth as "spare teeth". O.o
- The Bohemian Penguin
I know, like THAT IS NOT A THING. PEOPLE DO NOT KEEP THEIR WISDOM TEETH SO THAT THEY HAVE REPLACEMENTS. NO!
- Dragon Goldmaple
Well, there was that recent case where they implanted a tooth into a woman's eye socket so she could see again. http://abcnews.go.com/m...
- Victor Ganata
No, they just took mine away from me. :-(
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Maybe he is planning on going blind in 7 eyes.. I had not considered that either. :)
- Dragon Goldmaple
I kept mine for a while, in a box, because it felt really weird to throw away my own teeth. But then it started to feel weird to keep my own teeth in a box.
- Sarah is Novembery
lol Sarah
- Dragon Goldmaple
@victor - crazy and amazing
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
from iPhone
Sarah, my mom has all of my baby teeth and I have all of my adult teeth. :)
- Rochelle
Now I'm imagining someone with wisdom teeth where their incisors should be.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
I think my mom still has some of my baby teeth, too. They sell little kits now where you can display your kid's teeth as they lose them. I assisted on an extraction recently and the patient kept the tooth and joked about hanging it from a necklace.
- The Bohemian Penguin
Maybe she was a fan of Julie Doucet. Her comic features a necklace of teeth...
- Spidra Webster
i think they were our ancestors spare teeth. By the time your old molars were decayed and had fallen out your wisdom teeth came in (usually at 18+ years) to replace them.
- deliacious
Interestingly enough, there are people who don't develop all (or any) of their wisdom teeth. Yay, evolution!
- The Bohemian Penguin
Hm. I don't think lacking wisdom teeth would give a person a reproductive advantage.
- Steve is older than ever
Heh, fair enough. Yay, mutation, though!
- Victor Ganata
It might not give them a reproductive advantage, but it would give them a dental bill advantage.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Well they broke my wisdom teeth into tiny shards to extract them from my head, so that would TOTALLY not work.
- Sumotuwe
Wait, I just remembered super-glue. So ... maybe there is hope for me yet.
- Sumotuwe
I still have my wisdom teeth.... I should probably have them removed... but I am scared of the dentist/oral surgeon... I almost got it done once and they're all impacted... They told me there was a chance that if I have them removed they could sever the nerve that controls my jaw and then I would be slack-jawed. It was a possibility and that scares me.
- Her Lindsay-ness
After a blackout, woke up in a bathtub of ice one morning and all my wisdom teeth were gone. There was a note: "Yep, it's how we monetize. —Sn0pes.com"
- Micah Wittman
We did some more furniture shopping, but it was disappointing. We really got spoiled by all the super cool furniture at the crate and the barrel. And that barn full of Pottery Place.
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What's this whole internet thing I've been hearing about on twitter? Is it a real thing? Heaven's to Betsy!
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This weekend I learned how to set up paragraph and character styles in InDesign. It is basically like CSS font styles for web design.
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bye old bed, hello new awesome bed! on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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OMG, PHIL'S LEGS. (And Shelby.)
- Derrick
lol that picture looks weird it makes him look like he is all torso!
- Dragon Goldmaple
Shelby LOVES this bed. She keeps leaving the room, then coming back in and taking a running leap to get on it. It's about twice as high as our old one. She also keeps biting it! Rude.
- Dragon Goldmaple
We went to Sofa Mart yesterday, because it was next door to the Denver Mattress. They had a couple of cute couches we liked that were pretty cheap (under $1k) but we checked out the clearance section and changed our mind. Hint to Sofa Mart, maybe you shouldn't have such a huge display of how crappy your furniture is open to the public.
They had 2 of the couches we liked back there - one had a caved in seat, and the other one had a 1.5' diameter area on the cushion where the brown leather coating had peeled off. Gross.
- Dragon Goldmaple
And sooo many broken couches. Really terrible. We are trying to find a compromise between a nice/expensive couch and a cheap couch we won't worry about a dog getting on.
- Dragon Goldmaple
You can always get something that is well-constructed and then put a washable slip cover on it.
- Katy S
also, untrasuede is a pet owner's dream
- deliacious
We might actually go buy a bed depending on if Phil has to work today!!!
Phil G liked this
Phil never buys me anything anymore.
- Baroness Von Cut-A-Bitch
I know, he's kind of a jerk!
- Dragon Goldmaple
Wedding Vase Personalized with Bride and Groom's by MaidOfClay - http://www.etsy.com/view_li...
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I think this would also be a cute anniversary gift
- Dragon Goldmaple
I don't know how anyone in town could ever buy anything electronic without calling Phil and going over the specs of every possible choices. I mean, who would just go to a store and buy something, or do research on their own? That's crazy talk.
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What kind of telephone should I get? What kind of tv stand should I buy? What kind of computer should I get, ignoring that I am a PC gamer, programmer and work for a major computer manufacturer? What kind of refrigerator should I get? What kind of sound card should I buy? What kind of receiver should I get? What kind of camera do I want? wtf dude make a decision!
- Dragon Goldmaple
Our bed delivery is delayed now until after noon :[ still excited!
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*puts on PJ's*
- Derrick
*takes off PJs*
- Rochelle
w00t
- Bren, Photophobe
Bren, I think you would sell more mattresses if you and your staff all wore PJs.
- Rochelle
we do from time to time :)
- Bren, Photophobe
I hate when people on etsy talk about someone "stealing" their ideas, when their ideas are played out rip offs of trends - it the chandelier trend. Or they assemble jewelry, well that's fine but a lot of people get supplies from the same places.
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OMG I was going to post this same thing but you stole my idea!!!!!
- Rochelle
lol sorry I was just reading yet another "stealing my ideas" post on etsy.
- Dragon Goldmaple
No, I think you just stole my post idea. :(((((((((
- Rochelle
No let me get super defensive and explain how I was originally inspired by something unrelated and I didn't even know you would ever have done a post similar.
- Dragon Goldmaple
tee hee
- Bren, Photophobe
I think you're just all riled up because your bed is delayed.
- Rochelle
I'm riled!
- Dragon Goldmaple
Our new mattress is being delivered this morning! In a few hours! XXXCITING
Phil G, Harold and John (a.k.a. dendroica) liked this
Ready to test drive it? O_o
- Derrick
Is that an offer??
- Dragon Goldmaple
I guess not. :(
- Dragon Goldmaple
Pics or it didn't happen.
- Rochelle
It didn't happen!!
- Dragon Goldmaple
:((((((((((
- Rochelle
We currently have a thermal foam bed, so the new one promises to be much bouncier!
- Phil G
More bounce to the ounce.
- Derrick
GROSS
- Dragon Goldmaple
SHU TUP, YOU LOVE IT.
- Derrick
Taupey Grey Upcycled Hobo Purse by refreshaccessories on Etsy - http://www.etsy.com/view_li...
Button-Tufted Upholstered Headboard | west elm - http://www.westelm.com/product...
Phil G liked this
What a look for an incredible price! Mod and very uniquely designed for a youthful urban appeal. The Gemini brings a new look to contemporary furniture. - http://www.furniturerow.com/group_d...
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This was a bed we liked.
- Dragon Goldmaple
That looks like my bedroom furniture.
- Anika
Is your headboard in 2 pieces? I have seen this so many places but now I am trying to find some to compare and I can't find it anywhere.
- Dragon Goldmaple
I don't know what you mean? Mine is from Ikea: http://www.ikea.com/us... Comparing the two, I like my bed better.
- Anika
My new name is Dragon Goldmaple. I am a 700 billion year old 39 tailed kitsune vampire shapeshifter goddess trapped in the body of my human host. Also, I am married to Sepiroth on the astral plane.
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Your last sentence has me rolling with laughter. I was already on the floor, so it's okay.
- joey
Does that mean you can't fool around any more?
- Glen Campbell
joey do you have room in your sister wife to join Sephiroth and I on the astral plane??
- Dragon Goldmaple
How could I refuse an offer like that? I'm currently single on the astral plane.
- joey
It's Sephiroth, and he's *mine*!
- Phil G
WRONG I am married to him I think I know how to spell his name
- Dragon Goldmaple
Warning: Here be dragons.
- Micah Wittman
The French Bedroom Company :: Beds & Mattresses - Beds - Versailles Upholstered Bed - http://www.frenchbedroomcompany.co.uk/product...
The Bohemian Penguin liked this
I'm kind of in love with this.
- Dragon Goldmaple
Is twitter just importing everything at once? Because I'm about to block twitter.
Phil G, Alex Scoble and Louis Gray liked this
Hmm, probably a big catch-up, FF's been behind for a few days.
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
Durango Firm Mattress Set Queen MS-DMDUNFMQ - http://denvermattress36.reachl...
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Did I mention we bought a mattress???
- Dragon Goldmaple
from Bookmarklet
NO CAN YOU PLEASE TELL ME ABOUT THIS
- Akiva Moskovitz
WE BOUGHT A MATTRESS!!!!!!!!!!
- Dragon Goldmaple
model number is kinda funny.
- mjc
It's awesome, we are going from one of the memory foam ones to this one, I can't wait!!!! Also from cal king to regular king
- Dragon Goldmaple
and it is all being delivered tomorrow!!
- Dragon Goldmaple
Jealous. I want a queen bed!
- Rochelle
This queen has a queen sized bed.
- Derrick
I bought some sheets already from overstock.com but we also went to Target and got some sheets and we bought a bed frame and Phil also got a new pillow! We were like the easiest customers because we had pretty much already decided to get a bed we were just trying to pick out which one.
- Dragon Goldmaple
I don't know how couples survive on < Queen.
- Micah Wittman
We have a full when we visit my MIL and it is impossible. But we are both huge fat people and a fat dog.
- Dragon Goldmaple
Micah, it sucks especially plus a baby and two cats.
- Rochelle
Rochelle, you really must get The Napping House if you don't already have it on your children's bookshelf. http://www.amazon.com/Napping... (words only as a preview, but without the illustrations justice is not done at all: http://www.docstoc.com/docs... )
- Micah Wittman
Cute cover! I put it on Audrey's Amazon wish list. :)
- Rochelle
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