YAY Chikat--Very cool
My love for me now / Ain't hard to explain / The Hero of Canton / The man they call...ME.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
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.
Lee - Jun 01, 2012 10:31:42 am PDT #7859 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Dana - Jun 01, 2012 10:41:24 am PDT #7860 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Oh, my god, woman on What Not to Wear rerun, stop crying about your hair.
Frankenbuddha - Jun 01, 2012 10:43:19 am PDT #7861 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Was the king, Edward II of England?
That's what I thought.
smonster - Jun 01, 2012 10:54:07 am PDT #7862 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Congrats, ChiKat!!
I really like this dress, but would want it in cotton. [link] and would not pay over $100 for it.
Oooh, purty.
Ginger - Jun 01, 2012 10:56:24 am PDT #7863 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Yes, it was Edward II who had "a kind of horn or funnel ... thrust into his fundament through which a red-hot spit was run up his bowels."
Yay, ChiKat!
tommyrot - Jun 01, 2012 11:03:22 am PDT #7864 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Yes, it was Edward II who had "a kind of horn or funnel ... thrust into his fundament through which a red-hot spit was run up his bowels."
Yay, ChiKat!
The juxtaposition of these two sentences amuses me.
bon bon - Jun 01, 2012 11:04:48 am PDT #7865 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Hey guys, cooking advice needed: I'm having people over for dinner tonight, and making roasted potatoes. How far in advance can I dice the potatoes before roasting?
ETA: found my answer, and forgot I knew this at TGiving.
Burrell - Jun 01, 2012 11:05:37 am PDT #7866 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Congratulations ChiKat! Super coolio!
Jesse - Jun 01, 2012 11:13:25 am PDT #7867 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
The answer is not that far, unless you want to soak them in ice water, which washes off some of the starch, right?
tommyrot - Jun 01, 2012 11:26:33 am PDT #7868 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Politics - Garance Franke-Ruta - Americans Have No Idea How Few Gay People There Are - The Atlantic
One in ten. It's the name of the group that puts on the Reel Affirmations gay and lesbian film festival in Washington, D.C., each year. It's the percent popularized by the Kinsey Report as the size of the gay male population. And it's among the most common figures pointed to in popular culture as an estimate of how many people are gay or lesbian.
But what percentage of the population is actually gay or lesbian? With the debate over same-sex marriage again an emerging fault line in American political life, the answer comes as a surprise: A lower number than you might think -- and a much, much, much lower one than most Americans believe.
In surveys conducted in 2002 and 2011, pollsters at Gallup found that members of the American public massively overestimated how many people are gay or lesbian. In 2002, a quarter of those surveyed guessed upwards of a quarter of Americans were gay or lesbian (or "homosexual," the third option given). By 2011, that misperception had only grown, with more than a third of those surveyed now guessing that more than 25 percent of Americans are gay or lesbian. Women and young adults were most likely to provide high estimates, approximating that 30 percent of the population is gay. Overall, "U.S. adults, on average, estimate that 25 percent of Americans are gay or lesbian," Gallup found. Only 4 percent of all those surveyed in 2011 and about 8 percent of those surveyed in 2002 correctly guessed that fewer than 5 percent of Americans identify as gay or lesbian.
How could you think that 25% of Americans are gay?
Maybe it's small-town conservatives who think that big cities are full of liberal decadence?