The best part was that right after my mugging, I was telling my roommate about it and how weird it was to call 911, and he gave me that line. It was a very-much-needed laugh.

You just don't expect that from otherwise right-thinking people. They'd never tell a racist joke, they'd never use a racist term, but they didn't even think on that one.

I did have one or two people ask what color he was, yeah, but "black guy" came out a lot more. Sigh.

So...it basically sounds to me like you're happy for women to be equal as long as "equal" means you get to be an asshole but women still keep their mouths shut and spend all of their time worrying about how you might see them or take them or view them ("not cocky?" "not teases?" Seriously?). So they can be…

Yep, me too.

When my husband and I were mugged fifteen years or so ago now (when he was just my new boyfriend), the first reaction we got from every single person we told was:

They were speaking some language, I think it was...Aaaaaaasian!

Yeah, you know, my daughters are really close and are constantly cuddling and stuff, and it's adorable, but they're six and ten. I really think that by the time they hit their late teens the cuddling-in-underwear phase should be over.

*nods* I really see absolutely no point.

This is something very much on my mind these days; I turned 38 a couple of weeks ago and for the last year or so have been really, really thinking I want another baby (which would be #3; we have two girls, just-turned-10 and 6 at the moment).

I know you said you're happy to let nature run its course on its own, but I really recommend the book TAKING CHARGE OF YOUR FERTILITY by Dr. Toni Weschler. [www.amazon.com]

Ah...all across America there is the smell of burning dinners...

I can't believe they're remaking that movie!

Lol, exactly. It annoys the hell out of me to see bad grammar and spelling, it really does (my personal bugbears are "eggcorns," which are misspelled/misused/incorrect idioms, like "for all intensive purposes" instead of the correct "for all intents and purposes," or "take a different tact," instead of "tack," that…

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Yes. "Reinventing yourself" doesn't really mean "steal someone else's identity." I do like her dress, though, surprisingly, though I think the hair and sunglasses don't suit it.

It's an issue for me, too. The BE Ivory wasn't pale enough, most aren't. Right now I'm using Dior foundation, which is really much more than I want to spend but at least it actually *is* pale enough, and so doesn't make me look yellowy or whatever.

I generally used the big one; I did notice better coverage with the small one but when I then used the big one to blend or whatever the coverage kinda disappeared.

Lol, I like them, too, but I've only got a couple. Mostly I just tend to be kind of ruddy-complected, and pinkish around the chin, so when I saw the ads where they make scars and port wine stains invisible I figured I'd give it a try.

See, I think I must have done something wrong, because I was using it for a while and never got that flawless look the women in their infomercials got. You could still see freckles or unevenness or whatever. So I switched back to a liquid foundation.