I HATE NEEDLEPOINT!

Let's bring back dressing up.

AGREED. Also, what's with the misleading comparisons? Walking in on your 4 year old daughter being physically hurt is way different than tracking down a pimp for two weeks plotting his demise. Why are these stories being offered up as equivalents?

EXACTLY! I thought the whole point of these competitions was to celebrate people that are by definition not statistically normal... otherwise why would we watch? I don't think people want to see my rather unfortunate heritable knee condition sort of jog down the track.

HAHA, she's CRYING ABOUT IT.

But boys are taught how to survive the invasion? What, boys are the ones doing the strategic planning to survive a long-haul invasion? Please.

Coming from the other side of this experience I can really see how damaging this would be. The advantage of looking young (and therefore cute and innocent) is everybody at least sort of initially likes you. The disadvantage is they don't take you seriously.

None of those articles talk about Big Oil at all.