Never mind. I'm just going to go wash my eyeballs for a while--and use a little brain bleach.

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Walnut-sized brains perform better when caffeinated.

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My wife had Li'l Sphere drug-free. She says that it was not painful.

Your Labor May Vary.

My friend who was totally planning on drug-free wound up with a full epidural when she hit 3cm (after being in labor for almost a day) because the pain was too much for her to handle.

For myself, I suspect I could have handled things despite the pain (I was induced) had the pain not settled in my hips, making all those lovely positions I'd practiced really not help a bit. As it was, I managed with just the walking epidural, but man, I think I now know what being drawn and quartered must feel like.

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A woman tried to tell me that being kicked in the groin wouldn't be that bad, because she'd had her pelvis opened when she gave birth.

I've never given birth, and even though it varies as reported above, I'm assuming that it doesn't render you impervious to lesser pain.

Because, really, if it did, I'd have considered it more seriously.

Wait, no, I wouldn't. Because that would be wrong. Having kids so they can be part of my army for the revolution is okay, but having them to make me better at revolution would be wrong, right?

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It's a better reason to have a baby than some I've seen.

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but having them to make me better at revolution would be wrong, right?

According to Kantian ethics it's wrong to use a person as the means to an end.

Nietzschean ethics, however...

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Plus -- and I've noticed this most from the Red side, but I won't argue whether my vision is accurate or skewed -- an unwillingness to see the other side as anything resembling human.

I see a bunch of it from the Blue side. But maybe because Blue is the bigger color here.

now to go read what is makeing people say ewww

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eww maybe i shouldn't have

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Unseemly interest by fathers in their daughters' "purity" has always struck me as having icky incestuous undertones. I mean, I get that most parents would prefer their kids to wait til they're married or at least mature and responsible enough to handle sex. But some of these guys seem very unhealthily obssessed with their protective duties, and I end up getting a vibe of "If I'm not allowed to, then no one is" from them.

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If a woman has junk in her trunk and muscular thighs, that'll change.

You mean like me?

Well I was thinking of me (although my thighs are less muscular than once upon a time, but never small...)

I don't think I've seen (or retained) enough of the right shots of pictures of you to be sure, but if I had to bet, I'd say you have muscular legs because of your athletic disciplines over the years. It seems to me you've talked about your family's general build, but I can't remember if you were talking about booty scarcity or abundance.

I just know looking at clothes on a mannequin is never going to help me know if they'll fall right on me.

Unseemly interest by fathers in their daughters' "purity" has always struck me as having icky incestuous undertones. I mean, I get that most parents would prefer their kids to wait til they're married or at least mature and responsible enough to handle sex. But some of these guys seem very unhealthily obssessed with their protective duties, and I end up getting a vibe of "If I'm not allowed to, then no one is" from them.

Yeah. I don't know about all that stuff. It seems to me in a family where the father is that involved as to go to something like that in the first place, he's probably already fulfilling his duties, and I would have found celebrating my purity embarrassing, particularly when I was pure.

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