Jayne (Husband): Oh, I think you might wanna reconsider that last part. See, I married me a powerful ugly creature. Mal (Wife): How can you say that? How can you shame me in front of new people? Jayne (Husband): If I could make you purtier, I would. Mal (Wife): You are not the man I met a year ago.

'Our Mrs. Reynolds'


Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam  

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.


Strega - Jan 08, 2009 11:01:21 am PST #151 of 30000

I think if you want Obama to look like Obama you probably need an artist who can make people look like human beings. Unless Spider-Man is now set in an AU where people's jaws are attached differently and we have double-joined wrists.


tommyrot - Jan 08, 2009 11:03:11 am PST #152 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Is it just me, or is this funny and cool? Whopper Sacrifice, Burger King's Facebook Promotion: Delete 10 Friends For Free Whopper

Burger King has created an application for Facebook that allows users to delete 10 friends in exchange for a free Whopper.

Taking Klondike's "What would you do for a Klondike Bar?" motif to the next level, Burger King invites Facebook users to sacrifice 10 of their friends on the social networking site for a coupon for a free sandwich:

"What would you do for a free WHOPPPER? Now is the time to put your fair-weather web friendships to the test. Install WHOPPER Sacrifice on your Facebook profile, and we'll reward you with a free flame-broiled WHOPPER when you sacrifice 10 of your friends."


Jesse - Jan 08, 2009 11:07:19 am PST #153 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Third, strict curfew laws prohibiting teenagers from going out unaccompanied after dark, well to not get too draconian we can just make it teenage girls.

Actually, I'm pretty sure more teen pregnancies happen between 3 and 6 pm....


Gudanov - Jan 08, 2009 11:08:31 am PST #154 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping

Actually, I'm pretty sure more teen pregnancies happen between 3 and 6 pm....

Curfews can be adjusted.


javachik - Jan 08, 2009 11:13:23 am PST #155 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

As a teen, I went to a coed Christian evangelical camp for one week. During that week, three of my friends became pregnant at 15. One had an abortion and two married the guys right away and had their babies. Surprisingly, the one I am still in contact with is still happily married to the same person!

But my point is that you can preach all you want, but hormones are hormones. And it sure seems that abstinence education ends up actually pushing kids to try sex (possibly because it's so exotic and "dangerous") and get pregnant than does teaching about contraception and demystifying the whole thing.


Laura - Jan 08, 2009 11:18:37 am PST #156 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

Huh, I told both my teenage boys not to have sex until they were married or 35, whichever came first. They agreed. They said they wouldn't do drugs either. I gave them a pass on rock and roll.


javachik - Jan 08, 2009 11:21:43 am PST #157 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

Also: I couldn't stand that co-ed camp and managed to get sent home early because I walked out of the chapel when the (woman) speaker told us that girls shouldn't grow up and be doctors, we should grow up and marry doctors and make babies for them. Yeah.

I happily attended and worked at an all-girls Christian camp throughout my childhood and teenagehood. It was so much easier to have fun without hormones and boys getting in the way. ;)


tommyrot - Jan 08, 2009 11:22:34 am PST #158 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

And it sure seems that abstinence education ends up actually pushing kids to try sex (possibly because it's so exotic and "dangerous") and get pregnant than does teaching about contraception and demystifying the whole thing.

I've heard that teenage kids who've had abstinence education tend to have sex at about the same rate as kids who did not, but they do tend to use contraception at a much lower rate. Maybe that's due to them being taught that "abstinence is the only real contraception" or maybe it's because they'd feel less guilty having sex in a moment of passion than they would actually planning ahead and getting contraception.

But one funny thing about kids who take "virginity pledges" - years later, the overwhelming majority of these kids deny ever having made such a pledge.


Kristen - Jan 08, 2009 11:23:03 am PST #159 of 30000

I gave them a pass on rock and roll.

Not to get all finger-pointy but God gave rock and roll to everyone.


javachik - Jan 08, 2009 11:23:52 am PST #160 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

maybe it's because they'd feel less guilty having sex in a moment of passion than they would actually planning ahead and getting contraception.

BINGO