@blackbirdfly: I dated a gal whose mother introduced her to her lover at the age of 4 and said, "If you ever tell your father you'll be a worthless tattletale and we will both disown you forever."

How do they put such horses down in the middle of a race track? Injection?

@angryblackgurl: One leg you can recover from, maybe. Two legs and the horse will basically never walk again, let alone run.

I think if an animal is raised in such a manner that it only receives positive praise for behaving in a manner destructive to its health and wellbeing, that the animal is going to do exactly that.

@mrsnigeltufnel: It strikes me as the best path is that where you remove the mystery and allure of doing something "bad" without encouraging the behavior.

@shewar: A lame reason for someone leaving is interpreted by me as, "I'm screwed up and cannot really communicate why I manage to destroy good things in my life."

@hamburgerhotdog: Heh...

@misssgolightly: That really kind of not goes the wrong way. Having dated someone whose talk about the birds and the bees w/ their mother consisted of, "So I know you're already having sex, but have you figured anal out yet?" (I'm being literal here.)

Hrm, my uncle once fessed up to he and a buddy playing around with early homemade pipe bombs as kids. Including one where a said (cardboard tube) pipe bomb found its way into the basement of a nun convent with a lit fuse.

"Is that like the sun out there, because, if it is I don't think I can go through with this. I've heard of guys like me bursting into flames upon reaching the big blue room with the angry orange orb on the ceiling."

@asketchymess: Some of us don't tan, we lobster.

@ultravylet: In the gym. Worshipping themselves in the mirror.

@BAngieB: Great... Thanks! Now I have the theme song from Kuffs stuck in my head...

@hollywoodenflames: You mean the part where you start acting like a freak, because you're waiting for the other shoe to drop, when really you're just creating a self-fulfilling prophecy of sorts?

I wonder how much of this goes back to ye olden days where you were considered lower class for having darker skin, because it was a sign that you worked outside and likely were of lower economic stature.

@Trashtastic is battening down the hatches: Uhm, you're talking about the guy who when cops were called to his place during a domestic disturbance he grabbed for the cop's gun...

@luxylux: As I told my father's friend last year about this time. "It's much easier for me to go out and get laid than it is to find someone worth having a relationship with."

@westward ho: I don't. We're just south of Minnesota where the mosquito is the state bird. So... I hate being eaten alive.

@JustZoot: Working in a city with a large number of bicyclists, I can say this. The number of bad drivers is equal per capita to the number of bad bicyclists.

@redheadedstepchild: Yes, and the common theme to all of the other relationships of people you've dated who have failed have the common theme of them.