but I doubt there's just one "southern experience"
For whatever it's worth, I can assure you that my own Southern experience has fuckall to do with bullshit GWTW chivalry myths or any of the rest of what comes with that version.
Lorne: You know what they say about people who need people. Connor: They're the luckiest people in the world. Lorne: You been sneaking peeks at my Streisand collection again, Kiddo? Connor: Just kinda popped out.
'Time Bomb'
Spike's Bitches 47: Someone Dangerous Could Get In
[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.
amych - Jan 14, 2013 6:37:51 am PST #24912 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
P.M. Marc - Jan 14, 2013 6:40:11 am PST #24913 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Figure out the firmness you like. IKEA skews, IME, to the harder. And my Dad bought the one IKEA mattress I had so it was super firm and I loathed it. Which sucks given I slept on it for about 15 years. But they might have other options and the guy that would probably happily sleep on a slab of wood just chose something he liked. Or you might like Crazy Firm.
They've got some nice ones, but you need to stick to the foam ones. We've got a foam one, with a memory foam top, and it's lovely. Not as cloud-soft, though, as the one Lilly has in her bed.
Their natural latex ones are to die for.
erikaj - Jan 14, 2013 6:44:26 am PST #24914 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
I think she thinks it's a theme park. With chicken. (Even though I have done my share of...Dixie-bashing(?) in the past, somehow I don't know how much less insulting that is.) Living in post-1070 Arizona, and making friends with people around the country has taught me some lessons about regional generalizations...they serve a purpose, but you don't want to get too attached to them.
Cass - Jan 14, 2013 6:45:57 am PST #24915 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Being at yoga is probably warmer than home and doesn't have no water from frozen pipes.
Tom Scola - Jan 14, 2013 6:48:43 am PST #24916 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
After the Crimson Tide’s big win over Notre Dame on January 7th, a Web site called Real Southern Men explained the significance in terms of regional defiance: “Football matters here, because it is symbolic of the fight we all fight. Winning matters here, because it is symbolic of the victories we all seek. Trophies matter here, because they are symbolic of the respect we deserve but so rarely receive.” That defiance is a sure sign, like Governor Rick Perry’s loose talk of Texas seceding, that Southernization has run its course.
erikaj - Jan 14, 2013 6:51:07 am PST #24917 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
FTR, I'd go to a chicken-based theme park. I just wouldn't think it was a cultural exchange, I hope. One time I floated peanuts in my coke, after a discussion here...I don't quite grok. Maybe I did it wrong.
Steph L. - Jan 14, 2013 6:52:08 am PST #24918 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I'd go to a chicken-based theme park.
I totally would!
Toddson - Jan 14, 2013 7:22:26 am PST #24919 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
For those of you with dryer issues - I drape my clothes over a rack (or my ironing board) in front of a fan. Speeds up the drying time and, in my overheated apartment, keeps the temperature bearable.
Toddson - Jan 14, 2013 7:49:59 am PST #24920 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
well, it seems we aren't getting a Death Star. humph
Burrell - Jan 14, 2013 8:14:26 am PST #24921 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Isaac has an Ikea mattress and it's quite good. It's firm but not hard, plus I put the feather mattress on it and now his bed is downright comfy. Cody likes it better than the one on our bed, which was a helluva lot more money. The Ikea mattress is oddly small however, as in smaller than a regular single.