I've been saying "Dude, I'm fucking 40" to myself an awful lot. Not that I am 40. I'm just warming up. I don't care how old you are, there's gotta be a point where I'm no longer "a little girl." I'm pretty sure by 38 I should have reached it.
Everybody plays each other. That's all anybody ever does. We play parts.
Saffron ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 52: Playing with a full deck?
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.
§ ita § - Jul 02, 2007 9:30:06 am PDT #5925 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jessica - Jul 02, 2007 9:30:31 am PDT #5926 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Under-30 here, and uh, those other Young People are crazy. Unless being a mom somehow disqualifies me to be officially under 30, which I'm afraid it might, at least among my goolie-waxing peers.
Steph L. - Jul 02, 2007 9:32:25 am PDT #5927 of 10001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Jess, clearly you demonstrate that the consequences of NOT waxing your goolie leads to babies.
What? It makes as much sense as any of the other goolie-waxing arguments!
Strix - Jul 02, 2007 9:33:11 am PDT #5928 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Oh, my. Thje Great Goolie Wars of Ought Seven.
I can't really have an opinion, because I am very non-hairy. AFAIK, none of my girlfriends have had a Brazilian, but it's the midwest, yo. Bikini line waxes, sure, but no full monty.
I do remember one friend who by freshman year of high school had pubes like a freakin' Yeti (seriously, hairway down the inside of her thighs, and her mom let her start getting professional waxes at 14, just for maintenence.)
You know what skeeves me way more than the Goolie Wars? Thongs for pre-teens.
Trudy Booth - Jul 02, 2007 9:34:08 am PDT #5929 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
It's just a trend.
That's what I keep telling myself.
It's a trend from porn and soon they'll tire of it.
Steph L. - Jul 02, 2007 9:34:40 am PDT #5930 of 10001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
ita, my co-workers and I just had a quick discussion on teratomas, and concluded that "teratoma" should be sung to the tune of "Oklahoma!"
We also learned that if you image-google "tumor with teeth," the results are just as disturbing as image-googling "teratoma," but there are fewer images of babies when using the first phrase.
flea - Jul 02, 2007 9:34:43 am PDT #5931 of 10001
information libertarian
Oh, no, Jessica, you're supposed to be specially waxed before giving birth, you know.
Also, your husband is not supposed to be there in the labor room, in case he never wants to have sex with you again. (There was an article about this in the New York Times, I shit you not.)
Pix - Jul 02, 2007 9:35:33 am PDT #5932 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
And yet, I wax from time to time. Does this make me a hypocrite? I didn't get my first wax until my mid-20s.
§ ita § - Jul 02, 2007 9:36:31 am PDT #5933 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Thongs for pre-teens.
I know they are sexy, but I just think of them as a way to avoid VPL. So I'm always startled when people think they're inappropriate for kids.
I never cared about VPL, and I guess it's a more 'adult' concern.
I wish it weren't, though. We go to such lengths (in theory) to pretend we're not wearing undies.
eta: Steph, yeah, that was a particularly distressing slant to the results of my image search.
Steph L. - Jul 02, 2007 9:37:31 am PDT #5934 of 10001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
And yet, I wax from time to time. Does this make me a hypocrite?
It only makes you a hypocrite if you did it in spite of a horrible infection that resulted from a previous wax.
Actually, that wouldn't make you a hypocrite, just crazy.
Otherwise, no, it doesn't make you a hypocrite. Just well-groomed.