You'll fight, and you'll shag, and you'll hate each other till it makes you quiver, but you'll never be friends.

Spike ,'Sleeper'


Natter 53: We could just avoid making tortured puns  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


meara - Jul 25, 2007 7:27:36 pm PDT #241 of 10001

But if a guy took a look at me today and complimented me on my shoes (black mary janes with red chinese dragons) I'd do him there and then.

ita, if a man complimented the shoes while you were wearing the corset, he's probably gay.


Emily - Jul 25, 2007 7:32:56 pm PDT #242 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

And more evidence of the importance of proofreading:

Profitability experts say wireless and banking companies routinely discover that 100% or more of their profits are attributable to just 30% of their customers.

Or more!


Glamcookie - Jul 25, 2007 7:43:59 pm PDT #243 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

I don't even know where to begin with this question. My friend told me that if you are converting to Judaism, and you are already circumcised you still need to provide a drop of blood from that area. Do you really have to get naked to convert?


Allyson - Jul 25, 2007 7:47:43 pm PDT #244 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

Do you really have to get naked to convert?

There's a mikvah, but maybe you can go in your skivvies, I don't remember.


Glamcookie - Jul 25, 2007 7:49:01 pm PDT #245 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

I'm fascinated. Tell me more!!


Trudy Booth - Jul 25, 2007 7:54:12 pm PDT #246 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

I think mikvahs are naked things.

Well, after women's periods they are.


Bobbi - Jul 25, 2007 7:55:03 pm PDT #247 of 10001
Dog is my co-pilot.

Conversion requirements vary by denomination. The mikveh is required for Orthodox and Conservative conversions. It may be optional for Reform and/or Reconstructionist conversions. And yes, if you go in the mikveh, it's a clothing-free environment. But it's private.


Allyson - Jul 25, 2007 7:56:19 pm PDT #248 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

It's a ritual bath. As Trudy says, it's used after women's periods, but they're also used as a ritual cleansing. If someone is going to convert, they need to have a mikvah, a bar/bat mitzvah, and I forget what else.

ETA: I was so young when my mother converted (and took us with her), I only vaguely remember the mikvah, and the naming ceremony.


Glamcookie - Jul 25, 2007 7:57:48 pm PDT #249 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

So no drop of blood from the genital region is required by men?


Allyson - Jul 25, 2007 7:58:46 pm PDT #250 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

I think that's one of those weird things that I don't think really happens, like fucking through a hole in a sheet.