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trying hard to be a better person
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Brisbane, Australia
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Doctor Wtf
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Badelaide, Baustralia
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The bandolier is cool, I think that should be more common - we as a culture ought to de-mystify menstruation. Being jokingly open about carrying tampons is a start.
But I am rather disturbed by the ... device ... he is holding.
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Doctor Wtf
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Badelaide, Baustralia
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I actually came here to post, I like lychees. Partly, they are healthy and yummy, but also, I am amused by the confusion caused at the supermarket checkout ... "umm, what are these?"
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Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl. |
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#3544 |
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Arlington, VA
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I'll have to try them.
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#3545 |
To shreds, you say?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet!
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It's less amusing when asked the same question about broccoli, which has happened to me. (also with other somewhat common vegetables) Granted she was a young cashier in training, but still.
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#3546 |
polaroid of perfection
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: West Yorkshire
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In our "big four" supermarkets they come pre-packed. So they have a barcode and there are no probs.
On the market you ask for them by name so again, no probs. I do love me some lychees. Hate the air-miles. So I buy them by the box, figuring it's beetter that way. Lychees are my second favourite fruit. After cherries. But I try to hold off til they are in season. Apart from anything else it does make them more special. Who knows, perhaps Penny (my tree) might gift me one of two this year.
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Arlington, VA
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My son's new Boy Scout troop got a tour of the county jail. We convoyed over there, and I was expecting a hassle finding parking in this urban area, but was surprised when a scout in the lead car jumped out as we entered a parking garage that was unknown to me, and swiped the same transponder key as each car entered. I asked the other dad who had the key, and it turns out the troop leader is also a county judge. So we got an amazing tour of the jail, going basically everywhere. I was quite impressed. I don't ever want to go to jail, but if I ever do, I want to go there. Quiet and clean. Well run.
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#3548 |
polaroid of perfection
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: West Yorkshire
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Sounds good, V.
We had a trip round the Police Station when we were Brownies (equiv Girl Scouts I think.) Including the cells. Scary. Blimey I'm cold today. Like really, seriously, bone-deep cold. I hate. Coupla pics that don't fit anywhere else. My gorge cat ring. My nasty iron burn. Yes I am a clumsy mare. Glad I did the ironing though - burn is worth the points. I have long elegant fingers, but ugly hands.
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#3549 |
Goon Squad Leader
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Seattle
Posts: 27,063
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I've been mistaken for glatt. this makes me flattered and happy today.
were your boys scared straight or did they just oooohhh at the spectacle?
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Arlington, VA
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Didn't see much of a reaction from the boys. The dads, myself included, were very interested in how the whole system worked. I was talking at length with the guy who ran the place.
My son was acting out A LOT for the rest of the day when we got home, so I wonder if it had scared him and he was looking for parental attention. There was one point that we were standing in the central area of a cell block, and inmates in their cells were looking quietly at us out the windows in their doors. I ignored them and forgot they were there, but I think the boys kept looking at them looking at us. The thing that impressed me the most about the jail was how quiet and clean the place was, and how in control the guards were. Not in a tough guy bravado sort of way, but just simple matter of fact control. I felt perfectly safe. It's a sleek new modern place (almost 20 years old though.) The booking area was more like a doctor's waiting room or airport lounge than what I would think of as a jail. There were little rooms off to the sides where they could chain up an unruly person, but the rest of the booking area just looked like the most boring waiting room you have ever seen. They said that the new jail has much better behaved inmates than the old jail did because the new jail feels more human. No bars anywhere. Heavy steel doors with bullet proof glass, but no bars. |
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Person who doesn't update the user title
Join Date: Mar 2011
Posts: 13,002
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Does anyone think NK is gonna nuke us?
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#3552 |
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Arlington, VA
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Well Dennis Rodman says that they said they don't want war, so I think we're safe.
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Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 3,774
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Thank heaven for Dennis Rodman, yessiree. Where would we be without his diplomatic chops and incisive analysis?
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Person who doesn't update the user title
Join Date: Mar 2011
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I'm frightened and cold.
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#3555 |
Back in 10
Join Date: Aug 2008
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I came here post I found my Mexican Fire opal earring I lost about a year ago. I rarely wear jewelry it might end up inside a cow this time of year.. but I found this in some stored clothes that I decided were going to GW.
Dennis Rodman is on my CDP list.
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