Oh great. My boobs killed the thread.

With awe, babe. And great reverence.

Boobies!

Fabulously wonderful news, Sparky! Yay for world domination!

::gropes Suzi's boobies::

I skippety-skipped to say...

Yay for Babyfras! Congratulations SparkyFam.

The teenager upstairs was accidentally locked out of the house today. His solution to this problem? To kick down the fucking front door! WTF? What have I done to earn such bad neighbor karma?

I think that boy needs a bikini wax

With duct tape.

Administered by a large muscular former member of the East German women's weightlifting team.

I was thinking he needed a brazilian.

A thought on defining race and ethnicity. Fay's question was the second time it came up on the board, recently - Hil's about secular Jews was the first.

So I want to put it in context. Race and ethnicity are really artificial creations. They exist because because people believe in them. A race or an ethnic group exist for one (or both) of two reasons. The people who belong to the group consider the group as real and themselves as belonging it to it. Or other people define the group as real and certain people as defining it, and those others are in position where that belief makes it stick. For example think of race, tied to certain ethnic subgroups. Only, I would say a sub-part of the European continent that consists of most of Scandinavia along consists of an equally distinctive genetic subgroup as the race we call Black. Yet we don't have a Scandinavian race. (I guess we do have a Scandinavian ethnicity. Or do we?)Why? Because power relations and self-definition did not define ever lead to Scandinavians being treated as a race, or considering themselves one. Ethnicity is even more fuzzy, because you don't even need to pretend to tie it to genetics. (Religious ethnicities are prime examples, because whether a religion is also an ethnicity depends on historical accidents and really rbitrary self-definitions.) The fact that these are social creations does not make them unreal. The effects the creation of races and ethnicities are very real indeed. But the point is that the classification schemes and definitions are after the fact rationalizations. Race and ethnicity starts by someone saying "those people over there are a member of X", or a group of people saying "we are the X people", or most often both. Definitions and criterion for membership in X come later, and are often inconsistent, and usually subject to change.

I love the way buffistas think!

There are two locks on the front door. One of them there is no key to, so we keep it unlocked. It was locked somehow, but the front door key and the back door key are the same, so I have no idea why he didn't go in the back way, or call his grandmother (who lives across the street), or go hang out somewhere until his mother got home an hour later. Whose fucking first instinct is it to kick in the fucking door? t /rant

It sounds like a poker strategy.

Well, at least you'll have a pair. Do we count nipples separately? Two pair.