Dipshit Idiot Helps Ruin My Streak!
While Toney was cooking dinner on Friday, she asked if I could go to the store and pick up some bread. Not a problem, I told her, ’cause I was planning to go for Boddington’s anyway.
The younger Secret said he wanted to ride along, undoubtedly betting he’d be able to score a Kit Kat at checkout, and we took off with a Cinderella CD blaring from the speakers. …That’s right, Cinderella.
And while approaching a small shopping center on the right, I noticed some doucheketeer nosing his way into traffic. “Stop right there, asslips!” I shouted, and it appeared the guy did as he was told. It looked like he’d seen us coming, and was now waiting for our car to pass.
However, that wasn’t an accurate reading of the situation. Oh no. When we were only about twenty yards from the idiot, he pulled out, right in front of us. He’d been sitting there for a long time, and waited until a vehicle was UPON HIM before making his move.
And that’s when my almost fourteen year streak came to an abrupt end. I slammed on the brakes, carefully swerved, and yelled, “What the fuck?!”
I’d never said that word in front of the kids, not once. Oh, I say plenty, but there’s a line I won’t cross. And that line begins at fuck.
Of course, neither of our boys are delicate flowers. They listen to lots of questionable music, and live on a steady diet of Family Guy and South Park. Plus, you know, both are in middle school. But I felt kinda bad about it, anyway. What am I, Sunshine now? What’s next, a lifetime ban from the Old Country Buffet?
But the boy just chuckled, shrugged, and said, “I don’t care” when I apologized. And then I bought him one of the big Kit Kats at the grocery store.
If you have kids, is there a line you won’t cross with your language? Or do you just let it all hang out? Tell us about it, won’t you?
And since I posted half an update on Sunday, and got a late start with this one… let’s consider it the second half. How’s that for justifying a weak-ass effort?
In yesterday’s comments you guys started telling us what you ate for breakfast that day, for reasons unknown, so let’s just make it official. If you’ve got nothing on the subject above, or even if you do, why not tell us what you had for breakfast this morning? Simple and easy.
For the record, I had nothing but coffee, like on most days. I almost never eat breakfast, unless Toney makes it on weekends. I’ve never been able to eat right out of bed… I have to eeeeease into the day. Usually I just start with lunch. Or, I’ll have a handful of cookies with my Eight O’Clock coffee.
What about you? Tell us all about it.
And have a great day, folks.
I’ll see ya tomorrow.
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Droppin’ a Deuce!!!!!
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Bronxe!
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Bronze! Stupid!
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Shiver!
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Silver! No, that’s not right. Fuck the olympics.
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coffee.
Unless it’s Sunday. Then Eggs Benedict and a few screwdrivers.
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This morning at 7:00am, my time, I had a square of lasagna and a slice of garlic bread.
There is no line I don’t cross with my kids, I may live to regret that, but they’re still young. So whatever comes out of my mouth comes out. One thing that I DO NOT do is nakedness. They’ll never see my exposed penis or my naked feet. That’s the rule. As it is I have 2 girls and I don’t want them seeing my schlong. Is that so wrong? I think not.
We’re having a boy in Feb. I don’t plan on exposing my peen to him or letting him see my nekid feet. My wife, on the other hand, she’s a fucking exhibitionist. God Almighty woman, cover that shit up. Nice tits, by the way. Wooooo!
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I had a can of smoked oysters with mustard and a boiled deer heart for breakfast this morning. Keeps me virile.
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Most mornings it’s only coffee for me. Funny thing, when I’m traveling on business, I like to have me some fried eggs (over-medium, thank you) and toast. I guess coffee in the hotel room just isn’t the same.
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As usual, for breakfast, two cupsocoffee and three smokes.
I try not to say those words in front of my kids. It seems pointless to expose them to it, as they are probably hearing most of them on TV anyway. I said them fluently with the first set of kids and it seemed to do a little damage.
I also try not to express my disdain for people who come to this country illegally and suck up jobs and healthcare, but my son figured out that travesty already on his own. You can’t shield them from everything.
On IPOD right now- “Rock and Roll Ni**er” (That’s right…..Nipper) – Patti Smith
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Two of the Aldi’s version of Fiber One granola bars and a no-carb Monster energy drink.
Yup, Regular AND perky is my goal.
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Coffee, coffee, coffee, oatmeal, coffee, coffee. In that order. I don’t know how you people survive without breakfast… you end up eating SO much more at lunch and dinner! I am breakfast’s #1 advocate… eat your oatmeal!
Our household is expletive-free… to the extreme. My kids (who are still little), don’t even know that there are words worse than “stupid” and “shut up” yet. I know, I know, the day will come. But for now, we are super goody-goody.
I sound like a big nerd, with all the oatmeal and clean-mouth talk, don’t I?
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I eat a banana for breakfast almost every day. Gosh I’m an interesting guy and stuff.
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Started with a pot of tea — a fairly expensive loose-leaf from Kenya, purchased from http://www.uptontea.com. Gave up my beloved coffee about five years ago because my doctor told me I needed to cut down on caffeine because of my blood pressure. Have since found that tea can be just as (or at least “almost as”) enjoyable as coffee, if one avoids the grocery-store teabags and seeks out qualify loose-leaf (but it takes a lot of searching, ’cause even some loose-leafs can be bitter and unenjoyable).
When I felt sufficiently awake from my pot o’ tea, I had a banana slathered with all-natural peanut butter (Crazy Richard’s Chunky, I believe), and a side of cubed honeydew melon (wasn’t quite ripe enough to bring out the “honey” side of the melon); and finished up with a small bowl of Grape Nuts with soy milk (unfortunately I let the Nuts sit a little too long in the soy milk, so they were a little too mushy for me. I don’t like my Grape Nuts crunchy, but I don’t like ‘em to go too far into the mushiness stage either. There’s a very short window of perfection when Grape Nuts are softened up a bit but still have a remnant of crunch to them. But let them sit just a minute too long, and they lose their charm).
Yes, I am making a conscious effort to eat healthy, because I am too fat and have reached the age where “too fat” doesn’t just look bad, it also might cause ya to croak. Swami doesn’t wanna croak just yet, thank you.
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Because, as everyone knows, “asslips” is sooooooo much classier than “fuck.”
We have one kid who I swear is Amish, and she becomes visibly troubled when you curse around her, so I try to keep it to a minimum, but I refuse a complete ban. My father swore like a bee-stung longshoreman, but I can’t remember him dropping f-bombs until my teen years. Maybe I just brought out the best in him.
Breakfast one day of the weekend- usually Sunday, so through the week it’s just coffee. On the other hand, I like my lunch early, say 10:30 or so. Maybe I’m on full time brunch mode.
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Healthy people on here!! Congrats. I usually have to ease into my day, I start with coffee..within an hour or two I eat usually eggs, or oatmeal. nothing fancy. My hubby likes to make breakfast..he still tries to offer me food off the griddle after I have just stumbled into the kitchen..nast.
My kids hear all swear words and other usage, sometimes even directed at them. I am a fan of big words won’t hurt you, just don’t repeat to your teacher. :;0
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Coffe with half and half and either cracked wheat toast or the organic version of Cheerios (I thing they’re made by Barbara’s) with whole milk. And a banana. I haven’t eaten an entire banana for 20 years. I have to share with the bird and the dog, so I really don’t count the two bites I actually get to eat.
Motorhead tonight. Won’t be hearing well tomorrow.
Happy Monday, Surfers!
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Thick coffee and gruel — plain oatmeal without any of the fancy do-dads like nuts and berries or cinnamon and sugar. I’m feeling an ascetic phase coming on. I’ve already begun cleaning out superfluous crap from my life. Anyone need an interior 6-panel door, primed, not painted, not prebored? Anyone? Anyone?
Since I don’t have children and won’t contribute to the delinquency of other people’s minors, the question for me is, “What won’t you say in front of your mother?” The line for me and mom was “fuck”, but then I worked at an investment bank and that changed PDQ. “Fuck” became standard issue so the line is now somewhere around “cocksucker” and “motherfucker.” The upside: I have desensitized my mother so that she no longer flinches, sighs, or clucks her tongue when she hears four-letter words of any kind.
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I just knew the streak that was broken was the crapping at work streak. So I’m disappointed.
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Good Afternoon Surf Reporters……
Coffee (cuppla too tree cups) and several Winstons(Winston tastes good like a cigarette should!).
On rare occasion I’m up early enough with the wife, I’ll have what she’s having, commonly eggs, some type of pork product and whole wheat bread.
If I’m playing golf with an early morning tee time, we often meet for breakfast beforehand. I’ll have a couple of eggs and some toast, but I’m usually the guy out in the parking lot smoking Winstons.
As far as crossing the line w/ the younglings, at least with curse words, at this point anything goes. 16 year old has heard it all and the oldest, almost 21, is a Corporal in the USMC, I’m positive there is nothing I can say now that would shock, offend or otherwise corrupt delicate sensibilities.
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I stay up too late at night to the next day I’m usually closer to lunch than breakfast. Today I had chili from a lameass chili cook-off at work this weekend. It was ok but I could do better. I’m a big fan of breakfast for dinner and dinner for breakfast. I’m more likely to eat chicken and noodles for breakfast and eggs & toast w/ turkey bacon for dinner.
There is a lady at work who is trying to reform her sailor-swearing ways. She doesn’t have kids so I have no idea why. Her new favorite swear word replacement is “cracker crumbs”. WTF!! As if she wasn’t a big enough geek with her Amish boy haircut, she now goes around muttering cracker crumbs all day.
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~ RNK
Cracker Crumbs! That’s right up there with Jeezum Crow and Dagnabbit
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And although we’re talking about breakfast, and not lunch or dinner, I thought this New York Times article about where hamburger comes from might be of interest:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/04/health/04meat.html?_r=2&th&emc=th
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Two boiled egss, 1 slice of wheat toast with butter and jelly a bowl of cantaloupe and 6 oz. of orange juice. This is pretty much the norm. A great breakfast for under 300 calories!
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I thought you made a shit at work when I saw the title!
My mother claims I talk like a longshoreman. I took it as a fucking compliment. My son knows that if Dad says it, he must not. He translates even, say for example shit into poop if I tell to pick that shit up.
I don’t have much, other than I want to join the Breakfast Club. Today, I ate a highbrow Top Ramen called “Pho ga,” by a company from Thailand actually called Mama food.
I blogged on my site about the Bengals. Last year it was so randomly unpredictable how they would implode to get that awesome 0-8 record. This year they are 3-1. I might need to find a new team.
Greg
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Since Wally and I have no booger eaters of our own, it is a moot point. I do let them fly around the Furbabies. What are they going to do, repeat them?
I do try very hard not to cuss around the nieces and nephews. But they hear it all from their fathers. They will all hear it somewhere!
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A very very fresh asiago bagel, toasted, with sun dried tomato cream cheese spread. You have to pick the crusty melted cheese out of the hole and eat it first…mmm
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My onliest child is about to turn 25 (and still lives at home) and we talk like we want to around him now as does he around us. I dropped the F-bomb on him the first time when he was about 17 at 3:00 a.m. in the morning when I finally got him to answer his cellphone after calling it 38 times. I believe the exact sentence was “WHERE the FUCK are YOU????” Needless to say it might have been said with a little more drama than probably was absolutely necessary. Been said many, many times since then unfortunately. That boy.
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JCIII, sounds like you are on the same breakfast diet as me.
Ginger, that reminded me that my 5 year old daughter came home from kindergarten and told me she knows two bad words that begin with “s”. So my mind immediately wondered who said “shit” or “sex” in front of a five year old. She then told me (whispering) “stupid and shut up” So fucking innocent!
On IPOD right now- “Hey Little World”- The Hives
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I don’t have kids, but just for kicks, I try to get “creative” with my cursing. I’ve taken to saying “Son of a Beehive” for reasons unknown, but I should curb my language. Sometimes I even embarrass myself.
Breakfast: spoon sized shredded wheat and raspberries with milk.
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You people are way to healthy for me.
I’m happy most days with a Dr. Pepper, if I’m feeling slow I’ll have a Mt. Dew. Today I added a bag of Funyons. Yes, I said Dr. Pepper and funyons for breakfast then 3 hours of physical therapy for the new knee.
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Rasin bran crunch with fresh strawberries and 1%milk and a glass of OJ with pulp… That is after my vitamins. PB&J with Cape Cod chips for lunch with chocolate milk. Yum…
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one ciggy on the way to work, two cups of coffee, a hard bolied egg at 9am then two more cups of coffee with a couple more cigs mixed in. But the time is near to kick the cigs to the curb. (AGAIN)!
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My breakfast consisted of coffee and a couple sausage and cheese kolaches. I decided to live it up before my doctor mandated diet begins tomorrow. Evidently, even though I’m not overweight, I’m borderline diabetic. So, for the next 40 days I’m supposed to eat nothing but lettuce and grilled chicken or some such craziness.
Once my bloodwork comes back clear in 40 days it’s back to booze, fried food, and cheese on everything please.
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Breakfast consists of a Star Bucks Grande Espresso Macchiato and watermelon or cantelope.
Now playing on the iPhone – “Get It Up” – Chickenfoot
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Fukkin got David Bowie stuck in my head, thanks to the jacknut that started putting down the major tom lyrics yesterday!
Brynhildr-Plain oatmeal is the only way to go, I like mine the stickier the better, if I can form it into one big lump chances are it is perfect!
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If I ever would eat breakfast (which I don’t) I would like to think I would take Jason’s example and eat Filet Mignon and Lasagna. That’d be the way to go.
And I don’t see the big deal in cussing around kids. You’re the adult (we think) and if they aren’t gonna hear it from you, then they’ll hear it from Samuel L. Jackson at some point in their little lives.
There is a little boy we know (friend’s kid) who hears daddy yell obscenities too much at football games. So, at a recent BBQ we were all at, his old grandma included, the kidlet was attempting to hit a Tennis Ball with a badminton racquet and failing every time kept saying, ‘Shit!’, or ‘Fuck’. He’s 3. We all caught on and proceeded to laugh our collective asses off and grandma kept trying to tell herself that he was saying other words, like ‘Shoot’ and ‘Freak!’. Delusion is never a nice thing…
Finally his mother came over, took him aside and said, ‘Remember that daddy can say those words, but you cannot. Not until you’re 21.’ Heh.
Now Playing on iPhone: ‘Moby Dick’ by Led Zeppelin
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A biscuit with mustard…mmm-hmm
Ya shouldn’t talk like that in front of him, he’s just a boy…mmm-hmm.
Actually it’s tea for breakfast during the week and usually eggs-n-fried dead pig parts on the weekend.
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I will not verbally cuss around my mom or any woman for that fact. That’s one line I don’t cross. But boy has my patience been tested in the past.
Now playing on the iPhone – “Future In The Past” – Chickenfoot
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Breakfast today: a toasted bagel with cream cheese, and a can of regular Coke. None of that diet crap for me. I don’t drink coffee, so the soda provides just enough caffeine to get me going in the morning.
Since I don’t have any kids, I never have to worry about my language. Which is good, because I swear like a f’in sailor most of the time. Even my husband is sometimes offended.
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Oatmeal? Are yall shittin me? It’s like baby food or POW food. Why would you eat that on your own, without being forced? God.
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Restrain my language in front of my son? Heavens no! Der Boy is treated to a profanity filled tirade at least once every day, sometimes more. He hears fuck come out of my mouth probably more than any other word and he also knows that it better not come out of his until he has a job and is self supporting. It’s these arbitrary double standards the fuel the normal parent-child dynamic and constantly reminds kids that they are NOT in charge.
I skip breakfast most weekdays (unless I’m on vacation).
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WB in OH,
I’m the jacknut in question. Love you though.
“Ground control to Major Tom……………”
May God’s love be with you.
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One thing while we’re talking about not offending parents (vs the other way around) – I won’t give my wife an open mouthed kiss in front of her parents. But she still tries. “Are you kidding me? What are we, fucking porn stars?” Just feels weird to me.
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Water, Coffee, Oatmeal (cold, w/milk) and a blueberry muffin (homemade, no junk in it). Every morning.
Since I have no kids, I’ll just put it up from a not-a-kid-perspective anylonger, everybody swore around me growing up. Kids where discouraged from swearing, and to use it only if the situation warranted. No baseless swearing ever permitted. Fuck was also one of those, reserved for special occasion swear words. Worked well. Swearing is like a second language to me, and just part of the vocabulary.
I always have to laugh at the puritans. Why? Its only as bad as you yourself make it out to be. Relax. Swearing is theraputic. I’m on an automotive forum, that for some reason has become “family friendly”… WTF? Now we can’t say shit piss fuck cunt anylonger? Wottarip. Its a damn online garage for crying out loud. Things need descriptive nouns…
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Women hate being called “cunts” I’ve noticed. Must have something to do with the women’s lib thing.
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Jason-I still love you also, another couple of days and I’m sure some other crap will be stuck in my head, and yes on oatmeal it will keep your bowels clicking along like a fine swiss watch.
P.S. I don’t mean love in like in a gay way just in like the christian sense of love your fellow man kinda thing unless of course that was gay then not in that way either, oh forget it, just don’t expect to play grabass with me anytime soon!
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Coffee and cigs for breakfast. Lots of each.
As Mr. Zappa said, ‘Tobacco is my favorite vegetable.’
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I try to be VERY careful about my language around the Boss o’ Me and the Angels but…someone ( a jacknut? , no, jillnut) cut me off on the freeway one day and I called her the C-word. I immediately realized my mistake when I felt the BoM hit me with her LASERVISION. I apologized profusely and we’ve never spoken of it again.
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WB — since you like balled-up oatmeal, you might like Kashi Oatmeal Dark Chocolate cookies. Go Fiber! *click, click, click*
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T. Farty McAppleass – That’s a ship that had a lot of wind but never sailed. Know what I mean…
Now playing on the iPhone – “Oh Yeah” – Chickenfoot
Alright , I got Chickenfoot on heavy rotation.
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breakfast today was a diet mt dew and a Jimmy Dean sausage egg & cheese croissant.
I’ve noticed I’ve been letting a few salty words slip in front of my boy more and more lately. Nothing major yet. For example, “Shi…” slipped out Saturday when I was trying to make him understand that the recycling bin always had nasty shit inside and he had to clean it out after dumping. It’s just a matter of time before the damn breaks.
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Breakfast: strong, STRONG coffee with lots of brown sugar and half and half from Caribou Coffee, like most weekdays. The wife and I sit and check email and plan the day before heading to work. It’s nice.
Swearing: We try to control it around the house but it doesn’t always work with 3 boys (13, 4 and 1) who are always uptasumthin.
My wife speaks English as a second language and recently picked up on “sucks” as a verb, but always saying it slightly off-kilter like “this is some sucks”. And this past week she got hold of “what the fuck?” but it comes out “”what fuck is this?” (Russians are not good with the definite article). It’s hard not to laugh out loud, but because these phrases emerge when she is pissed about something, laughter is not the response she’s expecting and it usually leads to further trouble. So I am in suppressed laughter mode a lot of the time.
And, surf reporters, it is heart-warming to see so many of you embracing the oatmeal. “Porridge” as it is known to the Scots, is the true breakfast of champions. Girls in Scotland refer to buff men as “the ones who eat their porridge”. Hoot mon!
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Malcolm – Had enough of it as a kid. It’s like eating gooey maggots. I rarely even eat grits which is the custom here in the South and only if they are cover with shrimp.
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~ Malcolm
Got yourself hooked up with one of them Russian brides, eh?
Nice
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Usually it’s a bowl of raisin bran or cheerios and a banana. Today though, I grabbed a couple of pieces of left over sausage and Mushroom pizza and took a couple of swigs of cherry pepsi straight from the 2 liter….I feel so ashamed, this has been a cleansing confession. I am officially down 13 lbs since September.
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How about Cream of Wheat? Anyone want to get on the CoW train with me? Just the plain stuff with a dash of salt. Gotta eat it kind of fast because it turns into kindergarten paste when it cools but I love the stuff.
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Cream of Wheat? I can get behind that, baby. Maybe lay a slice of bacon across the top? But you’re right, you better not fuck around with it, lest it be like baby mush.
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Still can’t get it out of my head. Sorry. This pretty girl needs some help drawing on her eyebrows. Agreed?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlJ2qsvNQAA&feature=related
I like her though.
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If you follow ‘Shitmydadsays’, you’d know that cussing around your kids is appropriate. Granted, this ‘kid’ is 29, but he was smart enough to advertise his dad’s cussing!
“Does anyone your age know how to comb their fucking hair? It looks like two squirrels crawled on their head and started fucking.”
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Don’t care for cereal, nope. Breakfast is either a) coffee and cigarettes, or b) an Egg-a-Muffin in the car if I’m going to a job site, in which case I skip lunch. I do love the Benedicts, but I hardly ever have them since it’s too much trouble to make at home.
Dang, Swami, that burger article was nasty. I seldom use ground beef, and when I do I grind it myself. That was one more justification.
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RNK: Can’t stomach Cream of Wheat (I like it, but it doesn’t like me) so I just go with its red-headed stepchild, Cream of Rice.
As for my breakfast this morning I had Special K, mango juice, a banana, green tea, my daily vitamin, and a probiotic pill.
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Jason – Those eyebrows are something else. Her voice didn’t even register. Doesn’t that poor girl have friends to tell her such things?!
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RNK,
I love Cream of Wheat. Growing up my mom insisted I eat a “hot” breakfast daily, even in the summer. CoW was always my first choice. Ever tried Red River Cereal? It’s good too.
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RNK – I LOVE CoW, too, but it is just too high in calories, low in the good stuff.
AWG – EXACTLY. My daughter came home and said someone said the “s” word at school and I was shocked (I think this was in kindergarten). Yeah, it turned out to be “stupid.”
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Hot cereal fans may all ready know about this but yum stuff for sure. Bob’s Red Mill… http://www.bobsredmill.com/cereals/ Should be in your stores…just thought I’d pass it along. I like the 7-grain, cracked wheat or whatever. Banana, strawberrys, blueberrys or just plain, (with butter).
I was probably 19 when Dad effed big time. First time I heard him say it. All the other general cuss words on a daily basis. This time it was over a spare tire he kept trying to throw into the trunk of Mom’s car, pissed as usual about something. The thing kept fyling back out. It took him three tries and I kept laughing my ass off. What a great father and son moment.
Jeff…I’m pretty sure I started the breakfast thing yesterday…”for unknown reasons”. I was at my desk here doing whatever and I was first to post and realized I was on about my third cupa coffee and eating pretzles and it was my ‘breakfast’. So I said that.
Today?…just coffee.
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Usually just coffee. I am also of the ilk where I have to wake up fully before the tummy does. But, by 10 I am starving for lunch. If I had my way I would have a bloody mary for breakfast every morning. Then maybe I would be in a better mood and my job wouldn’t suck so hard!
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Breakfast every day consists of coffee…(lots of it) and two pieces of wheat toast with a hunk of cheese.
I do cuss in front of them….sometimes…when my medication isn’t working or I’m slightly intoxicated.
I normally don’t take the lord’s name in vain and say other things like “Jeezum Crow dumb ass, what the hell were you thinking? Did you shit your brain out of your ass this morning?”…you know…stuff like that. Totally appropriate for my kids. Remember, my 12 year old son asked for a vagina cake for his 13th birthday. He learned about it AT HIS MIDDLE SCHOOL! A little cussing certainly won’t shock any of my kids, I’m sure.
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Jason, I’m with you on the Cream of Wheat. That was like getting steak when I was growing up. Some cream, butter and honey and were fat like a Cheshire cat.
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Jason, what’s so bad about feet?
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3 chocolate filled and 2 vanilla filled Jolly Pirate donuts and a glass of milk.
I’m lucky I don’t weigh 300 lbs.
There was a one lane tunnel we had to drive through to go to the pool when I was a teenager. You had to honk your horn all the way through to let people know you were coming through. I was taking my 7 year old brother to the pool and we met someone halfway into the tunnel and I let out a hearty “fuck you, asshole” to the other driver. I find out later it was the mother of his best friend.
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Ed – Please no mention of feet, that’s a sore spot with me about now.
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@ JCIII:
Not a mail order bride, we met professionally (my work takes me to Siberia a lot).
Whenever we meet new people, though, the looks come and we just patiently explain that, no, in fact, we did not meet on the internet.
Most MOBs come from the Ukraine and Moscow, and they are often a bit less intelligent and more “consumer-oriented”, if you know what I mean.
Siberian girls tend to be culturally sophisticated, well educated, and strong-willed. Mine is no exception.
And the accent? Makes foreplay easy…
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Breakfast – Tomato slices with lite mayo on a whole wheat hamburger bun for breakfast this morning. Can’t remember if I had diet ginger ale or a cuppa tea to go with.
It’s interesting that so many people have the same thing everyday. I just go with my mood. Also I am not really organized enough with the grocery shopping to make sure that I always have the same breakfast foods available.
Swearing – No kids and the dogs don’t care, nor does the cat. I do have a friend who gets furious over the C word, so I try to stifle that one around her. Additionally, I try to not swear around the neighbor kids. I did teach the 6 year old next door what I believed to be a funny saying. He is no longer allowed unsupervised time with me.
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For Breakfast? Macaroni and cheese pancakes and fresh ground coffee. But that was an exception to the rule. I just wanted to try Mac ‘nd cheese pancakes. Not bad… Usually it’s just coffee for me. When I have to rise early and get going, it’s almost always a bowl of Cheerios with fruit. But usually, I like slide into the new day and start with lunch.
I’ve always tried not to use cuss words, especially cuss words that are specifically meant to be hurtful, like the “c” word. However, I do believe in using the right word for the occasion and will use a cuss word when needed, but never in front of children.
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And for a late night snack, I would like to thank the inventor of wine. Was it Jesus? No he just refilled the jugs. Damn I wish I had some company!
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Breakfast during the week? 3 cups of Maxwell House Breakfast Blend coffee, with two toasted Walmart-brand English mufflers with lots of Land-O-Lakes Sweet Cream Salted Butter. This week, add some Giant-Eagle low sodium Tomato juice. Num-num! Then, directly to the porcelan throne before showering. On weekends, all that, with some kind of eggs involved: poached, fried, or scrambled, makes no difference. That’s breakfast AND lunch. I used to go to a bar on Saturday morning that had a Bloody Mary Breakfast special: all the Bloody Mary’s you could drink and all the breakfast you could eat, for $5.00, from 11:00am to 1:00pm. It eventually got ugly, and I would leave at 3 or 4 in the afternoon, totally shitfaced, so I had to stop it. I was afraid of the DUI thing. Don’t do bars anymore. At all.
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I won’t cuss around my seven year old. But I will power fart.
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Right now I’m enjoying drinkfast. That’s a semi-tepid beer @ 2 in the morning, followed by some ungodly concoction that I’ll be firing up on the stove.
That will be followed up in a few hours by a cuppa too tree cups of Maxwell House’s finest, a tasty Winston and a rip roaring beer shit courtesy of the last 12 hours’ activity.
What this Tuesday has in store for all of us…
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@Jason Fine remarks.
I try to limit my remarks to one comment per post, but I’m still stuck on the breakfast club.
I too love the Waffle House. I absolutely drink their coffee. Has Jeff ever shared why he so disparages their fine brew?
Jeff gets all proud about his exclusive membership at Sam’s Club. I however am on the elite Waffle House mailing list. On this list they proudly proclaim:
“Waffle House coffee is 100% Arabica, made with only the finest beans from Central and South America.”
What has your band of spies, confidential informers and assassins told you that I do not know?
Greg
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Surf Reporters-I have a question for you while we await the update. Flu shot? Yes or no. I’ve never got one but with all the fear over the H1N1 this year everytime I pass the sign up sheet here at work I can’t help but wonder if might be a good idea this year. I hate needles and I have not had the flu in years and years so I’ve just always skipped it. Any opinions?
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WB in OH – I am not one who typically gets the flu and have never had a flu shot, but I am thinking of getting the H1N1 only because it is a new flu virus, and it is my understanding that this will be the worst season for it due to it being new. Next year, after we have had a year to collectively build some resistance to it, it is not supposed to be so bad.
Also, hot tea and wheat toast with marmalade for breakfast.
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My family and I have not gotten a flu shot for two years. We never got the flu. I saw where something like 70 percent of the country does not intend on getting the swine flu shot either, for fear that it has not been tested properly, as the government says it has. So, were not getting that either. Although it is hard to believe the government would lie to us.
On IPOD right now- “John Barleycorn Must Die”- Traffic
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Oh yeah, ….. four cups of coffee and only two cigarettes for breakfast. I wasn’t very hungry today.
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Jason-maybe this will get Major Tom out of your head. This one usually gets stuck in my head for a while.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQpvbTHkJXg
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Breakfest today- Two cups o coffee, 3 Kools, and a supreme crossiant from Jack in the Box. That’s right, I do it healthy…
@ Flu shot?? My wife is debating that also. She is a teacher and is always covered with germs from the lil bastards. She has never had a flu shot but is considering it this year. As for me, I’m in the military so I get friggin every shot known to man, and probably some that aren’t!
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Re: the H1N1 flu shot – For what it’s worth, none of the nurses or docs in the ER where I work plan on getting the shot. Many will get the regular flu shot but not the H1N1. I don’t intend on getting either shot.
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Flu shot:
As all doctors will tell you (they know because they are around sick people all the time), washing your hands after ANY contact with communal objects (door handles, kitchen utensils, towels, etc.) is the best way to prevent catching germs. Those alcohol-based hand gels are great – keep one at work and one at home and use them religiously, and you will be fine without a shot.
I’ve never had a flu shot, ever, and neither have my wife and kids. I’ve had the flu 3 times in my entire life, the wife once, and that was when we all got it together as a family over Christmas of 2006.
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As I understand it there’s 2 different shots, one for the pig flu and one for the regular flu. I’m thinking about getting it this year because I’m around so many people all the time.
I use the hand gel all the time. I even rub some on my face and snort a little of it whenever anyone has been within 10 feet of me. Most people are filthy mother fuckers.
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No way on the flu shot here, although they are starting to hit that “bad mommy” nerve with how the media is hammering us with it.
I am not usually one for conspiracy theories, but I think there is definitely something sinister going on with flu shots…
And I agree with AWG, it would be unfathomable that our transparent government could ever be less than completely forthcoming with us…
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T. Farty McAppleass said: “Women hate being called “cunts” I’ve noticed. Must have something to do with the women’s lib thing.”
Mr. McAppleass, you are so right. Women even consider “bitch” to be a highly offensive word, and I’m always amused when one woman wants to call another woman “bitch” behind her back, but will only say “the b-word” because “bitch” is just too offensive to be uttered. “Cunt,” on the other hand (in the minds of women) is the atomic bomb word-to-end-all-other-words that I’ve never heard a woman ever use.
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And I posted the above before I got to MI2Tall’s tale of the wife hitting him with “LASERVISION” for having called an unknown driver a “cunt.” Excellent evidence of the atomic nature of that word, among the female variety.
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Try saying “cunt” without making an ugly face. It’s impossible.
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There was a group of women who tried to “take back” the word cunt – holding a literary or some other kind of academic exercise called “Cuntfest” a few years back. @ Univ. of Virginia, I think? Too lazy to look it up.
In Australia “cunt” is sometimes used affectionately between younger women, as a greeting. Probably the same way some folks use the “N” word between each other.
Of course, in the midst of intimacy, “cunt” can get fired off by either partner, and that ought to be understood to not have repercussions.
What a fun set of topics: breakfast, flu shots, and cussing.
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I am going to use the “s” word and tell you guys that you need to shut up with that word now. Thanks!
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I remember hearing about that “blank”fest Malcolm. There was also some thing where they got a bunch of girls together and taught them how to “fist”. That’s where one girl makes a fist and jams it in another girls vagina. I hope my little girls never get taught to “fist”. Jesus Christ.
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Though I have uttered the c-word a handful of times in my life, it is the final frontier for me, to be used when no other word fits. My brother once called my sister the c-word during a particularly heinous argument, and I think she was apoplectic for a good 10 minutes. Needless to say, he won by TKO.
Eons ago, in my youth, I dated an Englishman who used the word in various parts of speech, but NEVER used it to refer to women or their genitalia. (He was a bit crass but I suppose he had standards.) Instead, he used it as a term of endearment with his friends. Strangers (only men) who were jackasses were also the c-word. C*nt-faced meant drunk and c*nt-struck was pussywhipped. The man desensitized me to the word somewhat because until I met him, it had never, EVER crossed my lips.
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I consider myself fast and loose with the cursing, but I have never employed the c-word. I wonder why that word is so verboten?
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100th!
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I just got the flu for the first time in my life last week. Thought I was severely hungover (due to the sole debauchery I produced the prior evening) but after 48 hours of shivers, vomiting and other nasty things I knew I had something else. It was awful, but I lost 9 pounds, so I’d do it again, anyday.
I don’t plan on getting the shot. I hate needles. Instead I do what Malcolm suggested and use the Hand Sanitizers on an all-the-time basis. Frankly if I get sick I don’t really mind, since I will do anything for time off work. Even get pig diseases.
Now Playing on iPhone: ‘Big Fatty Online’ Podcast (Episode 434).
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Gretchen-From the Online Etymology Dictionary
“female intercrural foramen,” or, as some 18c. writers refer to it, “the monosyllable,” M.E. cunte “female genitalia,” akin to O.N. kunta, from P.Gmc. *kunton, of uncertain origin. Some suggest a link with L. cuneus “wedge,” others to PIE base *geu- “hollow place,” still others to PIE *gwen-, root of queen and Gk. gyne “woman.” The form is similar to L. cunnus “female pudenda,” which is likewise of disputed origin, perhaps lit. “gash, slit,” from PIE *sker- “to cut,” or lit. “sheath,” from PIE *kut-no-, from base *(s)keu- “to conceal, hide.” First known reference in Eng. is said to be c.1230 Oxford or London street name Gropecuntlane, presumably a haunt of prostitutes. Avoided in public speech since 15c.; considered obscene since 17c. Du. cognate de kont means “a bottom, an arse.” Du. also has attractive poetic slang ways of expressing this part, such as liefdesgrot, lit. “cave of love,” and vleesroos “rose of flesh.” Alternative form cunny is attested from c.1720 but is certainly much earlier and forced a change in the pronunciation of coney (q.v.), but it was good for a pun while coney was still the common word for “rabbit”: “A pox upon your Christian cockatrices! They cry, like poulterers’ wives, ‘No money, no coney.’ ” [Massinger, 1622]
It would appear to have been considered vulgar for quite sometime
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…and that my friends is why I remain a Gentleman, single yes, but I am still a Gentleman. I will not lower my standards to commonality. Not to say I haven’t been down that road. I learned from my mistakes and how speak. Damn, I’m still learning, now who the fuck took off with my iPhone. Look you fuck’n cunt bastard, you come in here and drink up my gawd dam scotch, use my mother fuckin phone and now you want me to to take your piss tailed sorry ass half way accorss gawd fuck eygpt. Eh, excuse me. I have a little ass kicking to do… Ok, I’m good for another ten or twenty years of not cussing.
I am a leaf on the wind, watch me soar…and then I am gone.
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I have used the C-word in traffic and on the street, but never to either of my wives. Something about getting stabbed in the head with a pair of scissors in my sleep seems to deter me from that verbal abuse. Yeah…., either one of them had or have that in them.
On IPOD right now- “Rules and Regulations” – Public Image, Ltd.
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Thanks WB. All curse words are vulgar to some extant, but the c-word is considered especially insulting. I’m curious as to why it holds so much weight when compared to “bitch” or “skank”.
By the way, “No money, no coney” belongs on a t-shirt.
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I’ve never had a problem with swearing in front of my kid. I swear like a sailor and he was always really good about it.
The one thing I never let my kid see until he was old enough to understand was see me drunk. I think the first time he ever saw me like that he was in his early teens.
I know this is Tuesday, but my weekday breakfast consists of Grape Nuts and a yogurt. I don’t usually eat breakfast on weekends, although I should.
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Gretchen – I could care less if someone called me the c-word. I don’t find that offensive in the least. I don’t even find it offensive to be called a “bitch.”
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gretchen — I thought the exact same thing about the t-shirt!
I find the c-word most offensive when I utter it myself, probably because I know the recipient will likely be outraged. On the flip side, I recall being called the c-word, and I responded by snorting loudly because I couldn’t contain my laughter. Just pissed the woman off even more and I thought she might even pull out a gun. It all depends on the context. If someone else utters it in anger, I think laughter. If uttered in the bedroom during dirty talk, no laughter. Please, go right ahead.
Bitch is such a mild word that I don’t even notice it anymore.
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Can’t, won’t, never have used the ‘C’ word. Honest! I may have thought “uberbitch” on occasion, but usually just try and shake my head at weirdness and walk away. Never called a lady, girl/ gal, or even a not so a lady, a ‘name’. I’ll call a guy a prick in a heartbeat. I guess I profile. That word was only used by my wife years ago. And it was most likely directed at a guy.
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DTO – Same here, several words I have and will verbalize. That being word one I won’t. Don’t know why, even having been a sailor, I can write it but I can’t say it. Writing is different because I am not projecting it to a certain indivual and I am doing it in jest. I may have thunk it a time or two but it never reached my lips.
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Malcolm,
A few years ago while I was still in grad school there was a “V-Day” campaign at my university as part of a production of the Vagina Monologues. They distributed badges and stickers all over school featuring various slogans with the theme of “taking back the word”. So, for two months I walked around with a “I heart Cunt” badge on my backpack. When students complained I just pointed out that it was all in support of V-Day.
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After reading the title, I thought Jeff dropped a deuce at work. Phew.
Still my hero
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Tyrsoine…all this talk makes me very uncomfortable and I’m probably one of the most fucked-out wackos you could ever meet. I’m an extremely “who gives a fuck” liberal guy. I know we all like to think we’re weirder than the next guy…but since Hunter S. Thompson shot himself and the had himself shot out of cannon…well fuck…I moved move up a notch (albeit way down the pole). Just shaking my head…..and just sayin’.
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Hate to keep going here but…I’ d bet that backpack badge was one hell of a ‘chick magnet’. Sorry…just seems outa line to me.
I’ll be up on the third floor watching the Tigers and the Twins have at it for the playoffs. Should be a great game! Game starts at 5:07 EST. (TBS). I’m going for a beer run.
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DTO — we all have our different pain thresholds, some of which can be very surprising and ironic. You are a “fucked-out wacko” yet are bothered by a particular word. I’m not bothered much by that same word, but I get my panties in a bunch about poor grammar and spelling (and, ahem, the use of Left Coast). Someone may judge me by the four-letter words that fly out of my mouth and think of me as trash. Fair enough. I can take it. And yet, I may think the very same thing of that person for not being able to use his/her native language properly.
It seems that any topic, aside from politics and religion, is fair game here and eventually, all of us will find something that we’re uncomfortable with. It keeps things interesting and another update is just around the corner. Right, Jeff?
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Quarter to four and there’s no update. I see the half-assery has shifted gears into no-assery. At this rate, I’ll have to start thinking about asking for a refund of the subscription price.
@DTO- I heard they were going to install an alcohol interlock on Miguel Cabrera’s bat. It’s a sad, sad day when baseball players start apologizing for drinking. Mickey Mantle is turning over in his grave . . . oh wait, bad example.
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DTO,
It was in fact a female friend who picked it up for me, and she chose that one in particular even though there were other less offensive options (like “I heart Vaginas”).
The undergrads never complained about it and it got lots of laughs. Faculty were the ones all butthurt over it.
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Byrnhildr…I do not know the proper way to say “fucked-out wacko”, so I went with that. And it was a way to show nothing really bothers me word-wise. I just feel that word is an insult to girls and I could never say it. Anyone can say, use, write, CUNT all they want so long it follows the rules of proper grammer. There…I concide the use of the word CUNT. Go for it! I’ve grown a little today I guess.
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DTO, you’ve made me so proud.
(And btw fucked-out wacko is very descriptive. I used the quotation marks only because those were your words, not mine.)
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Cunt is a funny word. I like it. Litteraly and figuratively. =-)
I worked with a lady who said saying cunt was vulgar… (I use it as another one of my adjectives…) Anyway, one day being extremely pissed off with some dumb cunt I let loose with a flurry of cursing that ended off with calling the dummy a stupid cunt… Miss -Thats-Vulgar, turned to me, and quite nicely said, “Yeah, she was one hell of a stupid fucking cunt… Hope the bitch never shows up here again” I laughed.
Seems ‘cunt’ is okay to use around the women folk as long as it is directed at another woman who has somehow dissed the woman you are near when you let loose.
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Count me as another person who likes vagina. I’d actually like to take this opportunity to officially announce that I am in fact in favor of the vagina. If I ever run for office, it will be on a pro-vagina platform.
I might just have myself some vagina for breakfast tomorrow morning.
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You got my vote man! Up the vagina!
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YEEE HAAAAW-Jeff left the gate open again!!
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Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped. – Sam Levenson
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I forgot to attach theme music to my previous, sorry.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c2OM7HEfrs
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I want to present this hypothetical problem that’s been plaguing the shit out of a guy I know. It goes like this:
I have a good friend that was dating this chick. He met her at a bar in town he likes to go to all the time. They seemed to hit it off and started chatting with each other. Things seemed to go great with them and they exchanged phone numbers and started talking on the phone all ungodly hours of the night.
My friend gets a new responsibility on his job and he gets a little big headed and starts to freak out about some shit that going on in his life. It was something about an ex girlfriend that started fucking with him about some BS. He never mentions anything more than that.
He finally gets that shit quelled but the other chick thinks he flipped out about her. Now, they aren’t talking like they use to, shit gets all strained and the next thing I know, they break up. Now he’s all in a tiff about going back to his old bar because he doesn’t want to run into that same chick. It’s not that he hates her or anything like that, he just doesn’t want her to think he is stalking her or that he wants to rekindle any thing they may have had before.
So, what should the poor guy do? Go find another bar in town? Stop drinking out? Try to make things up with the chick and save his poor sanity? Personally, I feel sorry for the poor guy, he’s really a nice guy to know. By the way, it is not me.
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Don’t know…I think he’s a cunt for acting all this dramatic.
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Get a box of Kleenex, a bottle of Jergens and take a couple of months off the dating/bar scene, let things settle down a bit!
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Wow, I didn’t realize “men” agonize over stuff like that – he sounds like a girl. Sorry! As a girl myself, my suggestion would be to continue doing things as he always has… and when he runs into chick #2, be nice and move on. She’ll probably stalk him for a while, but it’ll (hopefully) be harmless!
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Is he pouting or does he just need to grow a pair? Why run away with his tail between his legs? Never give up on a favorite watering hole because of an ex. Never. He needs to stand his ground. No need for him to talk to her if she’s there. A courtesy nod, perhaps, as he’s walking to the other side of the bar far away from where she’s sitting. Exes can co-exist in the same bar if they’re both adults.
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Sum Ran Dom Dewd – Sucks to be your friend dude. I’d suggest a new bar if you deal with it.
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WB in OH, I’m never sure about the flu shot. Some years I get the shot, some years I don’t. Once in a while I get a flu, usually not. There doesn’t seem to be any correlation whatsoever.
WTB, it’s a new flu virus *every* year. This year, they are making two vaccines.
Jason “Most people are filthy mother fuckers.” – got that right. There was a Far Side cartoon showing a guy walking out of a restroom, and there’s an alarm bell and a flashing sign that reads DIDN’T WASH HANDS. Those need to exist in real life.
Regarding the “c-word”, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gropecunt_Lane
AWG, PiL is an outstanding choice. I think I need to put on ‘Flowers of Romance’. Better yet, digitize it.
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Report from the third floor…DET 3, MIN 1.
I am on a total Roy Obrison jag. Toatally.
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Chill, I prefer PiL to the Sex Pistols stuff. I’m sure Lydonstifled the marketing part of that plan, but they could be much bigger than they ever thought, had they been marketed a little better. Good shit…always.
Well, I could have written SOMETHING that nobody would read while I was still at work. thank God for that flu shot question earlier.
On home stereo right now- Fucking “All Around the Kitchen” by Dan Zanes and Friends. (Dan was cool when he was in Del Fuegos)..
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I have no children, so I can let fly with my foul-mouthed tendencies whenever I feel like it. When the niece was little, I toned it down around her, but as soon as I heard about the “cussing club” in her third grade class, it was Katie bar the barn door. I’m pretty sure she was 15 when I let fly with the first F-bomb in front of her.
Breakfast consists of ice cold Coca-Cola and something sweet. If nothing sweet is readily available (because, again, no kids = I’m not making shit for breakfast), two slices of plain white bread so I can take the pills that keep me from throttling strangers.
On flu shot, my sis is an RN and she’s not a big fan at all. They see people turn up with several neurological reactions to flu shots, none of which she wants to chance experiencing as a single mom. One is Bell’s Palsy; the other is Guillain-Barre Syndrome. The first makes one side of your face muscles go all droopy. The second starts off as a tingly feeling and can end in temporary total paralysis. Both are lightening-strike rare reactions, but she’s a single mom with an incredible immune system. She takes her chances and using good handwashing and hygiene practices, and so far I have too.
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Sum Ran Dom Dewd – I also suggest your friend visit the Beav, she is wise in the ways of the ninja and will school him through those agonizing parts. http://tinyurl.com/y9jom5g
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I don’t recall ever censoring my language in the presence of my three sons. I should have, but I didn’t. I lost my middle son, but my two sons who are still with me never even say “shit” in front of me. They are 32 and 21 years old. I don’t know how that happened, but it did. My middle son was more like me, I guess. He gave George Carlin’s seven words a run for the money.
I’ll be 54 years old Saturday and I’ve never had a flu shot and never had the flu. Never. So far.
Sum Ran Dom Dewd. You are on the wrong website.
I never eat breakfast. I’m with the coffee and cigarette crowd.
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@ Melissa. If the cursing badminton kid had been a Blaxican hybrid, I would swear it was mine! I cuss like a soldier, thanx Army, and I don’t care who’s listening. Consequently he now cusses like a lil soldier and I get shit from his mom everytime!! For breakfast I had tacos de Guatemala.
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Sum Ran Dom Dewd,
Tell your friend to go back to the bar and quit being such a fucking pussy.
Do: Say “Hi” and otherwise ignore her, sit far away, have a few drinks, mind your own business.
Don’t: Stare at her, get pissed when she talks to other guys, sit near her, talk about her, get drunk if you can’t hold your liquor, act like a douche, bait her in any way.
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I come into contact with a variety of people just off the boat from the UK, some of them toss the C- bomb around like it’s not going to get a reaction, but then they’re surprised that “Bloody” as an adjective isn’t seen as particularly rude… I guess cussing has it’s own dialects as well. F..ing doss c… Brits.
Sorry Limey, nothing bloody personal…
What we really need to hear, is what the Aussies think is rude…
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@ Chill – flu refers to illnesses caused by a number of different influenza viruses. There are three types of influenza viruses: A, B and C. Human influenza A and B viruses cause seasonal epidemics of disease almost every winter in the United States.
Most people have natural immunity, and a seasonal flu vaccine is available. In a typical year, approximately 5 to 20 percent of the population gets the seasonal flu.
Influenza A viruses are divided into subtypes based on two proteins on the surface of the virus: the hemagglutinin (H) and the neuraminidase (N). There are 16 different hemagglutinin subtypes and 9 different neuraminidase subtypes. Influenza A viruses can be further broken down into different strains. Current subtypes of influenza A viruses found in people are influenza A (H1N1) and influenza A (H3N2) viruses. Earlier this year, a new influenza A (H1N1) virus emerged. This virus is very different from regular human influenza A (H1N1) viruses.
Regular influenza A (H1N1), A (H3N2), and influenza B viruses are included in each year’s seasonal influenza vaccine. The seasonal flu vaccine can protect against flu viruses that are the same or related to the viruses in the vaccine. The seasonal flu vaccine will not protect against the 2009 H1N1 virus. This year there is also a 2009 H1N1 vaccine.
This year, the H1N1 (Swine) flu virus may cause a more dangerous flu season with more people getting sick, being hospitalized and dying than during a regular flu season. H1N1 (Swine Flu) is a new virus first seen in the United States. It is contagious and spreads from person to person. Like seasonal flu, illness in people with H1N1 can vary from mild to severe.
Flu viruses are constantly changing. A global flu pandemic (worldwide outbreak) can happen if three conditions are met:
o A new subtype of type A virus is introduced into the human population.
o The virus causes serious illness in humans.
o The virus can spread easily from person-to-person in a sustained manner.
The H1N1 (Swine) Flu met all three conditions and has caused a worldwide outbreak. In late spring, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that H1N1 (Swine) flu is a pandemic. (Sources HHS, CDC, WHO and flu(dot)gov)
So, yes, Chill, I understand that there are 2 vaccines. I apologize if my comment wasn’t clear when I said I don’t usually get a flu vaccine, but I may get the H1N1 vaccine. Clearly I should have added that I will most likely not get the seasonal flu vaccine again this year.
Further, I stand by my statement that this virus is new. I would consider the viruses covered by the seasonal vaccine to be, perhaps, evolving but not new. Unfortunately, all of this vaccine talk may be moot for me as I woke up this morning with that feeling that I may be coming down with something. Ugh.
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Wow WTB thats more detailed than the report I did on influenza back in 7th or 8th grade. Hopefully some of the research you did for this has caused you to just assimilate temporary flu like symptoms.
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WB in OH- Ha ha! You are probably right. I practice healthcare law and read a lot of medical records. I end most days suffering from a new disease.
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Flu shot. Never.
The drug companies use toxins as preservatives including thimerisol (mercury derivative), formaldehyde (embalming fluid), and ethylene glycol (anti-freeze), among other poisonous shit.
The additives are especially dangerous for young children.
The mercury derivative will build up over time, your body does not have the ability to flush it out, and it will deposit in your central nervous system, particularly the brain.
Very small amounts of ethylene glycol will ruin your kidneys.
I read a study a few years ago that stated that a person who takes ten flu shots in their lifetime increases their chances of Alzheimer’s by 2000%.
No thanks, I burn enough brain cells with alcohol.
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Flu shot opinion..never get the seasonal flu shot, as I have had that sickness before. Concerned with pig one, as I have younuns with Asthma. But…also have a paralyzed brother who contracted guillan barre syndrome after all the “shots”(flu included) from the army.
So..probably not. Medical issues and all..I figure if we all get it we will have lifelong immunity and tada!! all good to go!!
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young ones!! spell check!!
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Flu shot, not anymore. I did it several years ago and it made me sick as a dog for three weeks. Since then, I vowed not to do that again. I was so sick, even my bones hurt. Besides, I drink enough alcohol to kill anything that would attempt to attack my body.
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I stopped by my friends place last night to tell him to man up and don’t give her the satisfaction. He answers the door and then steps outside. That sly dog had the chick on his sofa. He asked me what I wanted. I chuckled and said it looks like the problem is solved. He looks at me like what the hell do you mean and goes back in. Sometimes, he can be such a jizz. Guess he had a plan after all. Thanks for the advice.
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Ms. White-Trash Barbie:
Apparently the 2009 H1N1 is not entirely new to the human population, as folks over the age of 65 seem to be showing some natural immunity to it. This is why the the five priority groups (as identified in the ACIP guidelines) that should be targeted to receive the vaccine initially are:
- Pregnant women
- Persons who live with or provide care for infants less than 6 months old
- Health care and emergency medical services personnel
- Persons aged 6 months to 24 years
- Persons aged 25 to 64 years who have medical conditions that put them at higher risk for
influenza-related complications.
Note that elderly folks (over the age of 64) are not mentioned here, whereas they are usually prioritized for sesonal flu shots.
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I thought people 65 and older are the target group for the death panels anyway?….OK look…that was just a joke and not a swipe at any political mind set, so that wasn’t a ploitical post…mmmmK? Just a joke folks!
Yeah…you know…I’ll be on the third floorl watching the Rockies and the Philies in a bit.
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DTO –
I just visited http://www.usajobs.gov and typed in ‘death panel’ as keywords, and a total of 17 job openings were returned by the system. So the government has already started the hiring process to fill these important death panel positions. You may need to pass a civil service exam, but this represents an excellent career opportunity. Apply today!
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I wanna be the guy that works the guillotine out behind the hospital. I bet the pay is good. Plus you probably get to wear a cool robe.
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Read the new “further evidence” which has an article written in 1968 about how life will be in 2008. Funny shit. Usually, a new “further evidence” indicates an update coming, except for yesterday.
On IPOD right now- “Possum Kingdom”- Toadies
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Jeff – Is there any update in our future?
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I have a friend that came down with Guillian Barre Syndrome,. It is something I want nothing to do with. If a flu shot can lead to this, don’t do it! You can become so messed up you need to be on a ventilator. this happened to some people who got the swine flu shot in the 70′s
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