Spike's Bitches 46: Don't I get a cookie?
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
I totally don't understand the land lease thing. That would freak me out, the uncertainty of what would happen at the end of the lease (even if the likelihood was that I wouldn't be there then).
At first I was like, oh whatever, it's just another bill. But the more I think about it, the less it makes sense to pay huge amounts for a place. If you don't own the land, you own nothing. So I was thinking, what if I go for a 15 year mortgage instead, but then *I* wouldn't be able to sell the place. No clue what the terms of the land lease is. Either way, it's pissing me off. There was a cluster of places in that area that are in my low price range. And seeing them all on Redfin gave me hope that the market had dropped enough, that I could afford something. But my hope is like a balloon with the valve being released. Blargh.
In the U.S. one common case where we do the land lease is trailers. People who live in trailers (AKA mobile homes, AKA caravans for you English speakers) own the trailer, but lease the land. And yeah get screwed for it too a lot.
In terms of better looking people being elected President - the fact is that it's rarely Fugly McIckyface from party A running against a George Clooney lookalike from party B. It's usually two relatively attractive people running against each other. The ugly candidates get weeded out in the primaries.
I unashamedly pulled the girl card today when I walked in my bathroom and saw a million feathers resulting from my dear cat bringing home a present. Told them straight up that there was no way I was disposing of dead animal when I live with 3 full grown men.
DH is close to John Boehner level of boy crying. Sappy commercials, news stories, etc. The kids mock him about it constantly. He also loves foo foo drinks like a strawberry daiquiri with lots of whipped topping or oreo cookie drinks. We had a waiter at Bru's Room recently tell him he loved those drinks too but often felt embarrassed to order them.
Both sexes have odd standards thrust upon them, but we don't as individuals have to accept it. There are lots of girly girl things I adore, but I still worked in an industry that was overwhelmingly male when I started.
Would I cry if I thought it would get me out of a $200 speeding ticket? You betcha.
I have never had to flash anything, consider myself only moderately good-looking (better when I was younger and still wore contacts) and I've always gotten my tickets knocked down to a lower speed/lower points/smaller fine level. Whether or not that was due to being a female or just the fact I always was extremely polite to the police man, never argued, apologized profusely, I don't know. Just grateful in the long run, I guess.
I have reached the end!!!
...but I'm out of spoons again. Damn.
Big congrats to Shir!!
I have at various points agreed with many things many of you have said WRT the pretty thing. Yes, it exists, yes it sucks, yes I use it sometimes (more vivaciousness, really), and sometimes it makes me feel a little dirty and I hate that less attractive people get ignored or overlooked, etc.
I do revel in making a fairly drastic day-to-night transformation when volunteering in NOLA, and have had people not recognize me all made up. Because no, I have no interest in looking cute on a jobsite. Frenchman St? Hell yes. I'm holding out for someone who finds me hot both ways (besides B).
Right. It's 9:12 and I had a two hour nap today, but I'm going to bed.
But that study ONLY used looks as a criteria for voting. People are evaluating more than that. Quasimodo would get my vote if he were running against George Clooney if he was on record as pro-choice, pro-single payer, pro-union and living wage.
But that assumes all voters are thinking. I'm not so sure about that.
The infamous (famous?) Nixon-Kennedy debate that was televised goes a long way to prove that pretty really affects peoples' reactions. Apparently, the consensus among people who listened to the debate on the radio was that Nixon cleaned up the floor with Kennedy, but the people who watched it on TV said that Kennedy was the clear winner.
And that, I think, has eventually led to (as Jess said), the less-conventionally-attractive candidates being winnowed out in primaries until you're voting for Attractive Candidate A versus Attractive Candidate B.
I longed to be a boy for most of my life, not for any of the socio-political reasons, but because when i was 5 Jeremy Hilliard peed on my brand new white sandals. In retaliation, i tried to pee on HIS shoes, and ended only ruining my own shoes further. It was terrifically unfair. Then later in childhood, every time i went camping i wished i could pee without pulling down my pants (cold!) or wiping (awkward!). Practicality. Female urethras are inconvenient.
Peeing standing up for women.
I love that those instructions include "untangle your labia". Zeus, how long are they supposed to be?
I longed to be a boy for most of my life, not for any of the socio-political reasons, but because when i was 5 Jeremy Hilliard peed on my brand new white sandals. In retaliation, i tried to pee on HIS shoes, and ended only ruining my own shoes further. It was terrifically unfair.
That's hilarious!
Would I cry if I thought it would get me out of a $200 speeding ticket? You betcha.
I wouldn't, but that's mainly because it would never occur to me to try it, or that it might work. I did get out of a pretty major clusterfuck of tickets once, when I was pulled over for expired tags, discovered that my license and something else were also expired, and then the cop accused me of not wearing a seat belt (which I had been; I took it off when I pulled over so I could get my papers out of the glovebox.) I burst into hysterical tears and he got a look of helpless terror on his face and literally took a step back. He let me off of all of it and only had the car impounded, once I promised to take care of all of it that very same day. Which I did. It had been a really rough few months. So I guess I got off because of being a girl.
