They should really just change it to something unquestionably gender-neutral that can't possibly be taken the wrong way. Something like "go bananas."

So bananas are gender-neutral now? Heaven forbid if you don't have a banana, surely you did something wrong and god took it away from you because you didn't deserve it. Isn't it nice, that this tropical fruit gets to be so privileged within the masculine hegemony. That it... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by halonine at 10:45 AM on April 29, 2008

I can come! Woot!

But now I want hamburgers :( I know what I'm getting for lunch.
posted to MetaTalk by halonine at 7:33 AM on February 6, 2008

This is where my magic happens at home. By which I mean my SO's home. :)
posted to MetaTalk by halonine at 1:09 PM on January 17, 2008

Aww, I'm in town and I have missed this. Hope the pictures are up soon!
posted to MetaTalk by halonine at 10:32 PM on August 23, 2007

I will go if I can, although I'll be sticking to the bunny slopes.
posted to MetaTalk by halonine at 7:42 PM on December 30, 2006

Sorry we missed you, Baby_Balrog. Next time!
posted to MetaTalk by halonine at 5:23 PM on December 13, 2006

You have the best smile, EJ. No hiding! Need moar smiles!
posted to MetaTalk by halonine at 10:32 AM on December 11, 2006

Happy Birthday Jessamyn!
posted to MetaTalk by halonine at 2:10 PM on September 5, 2006

Yay!
posted to MetaTalk by halonine at 12:58 PM on August 9, 2006

Back in my day, I had to type in all my sign-in information backwards on a Dvorak keyboard and then I couldn't even see the front page in blue, I had to read it in Lynx so my boss would think I was working. The table layout was hell and I liked it.

Just kidding. *wave cane*
posted to MetaTalk by halonine at 4:33 PM on July 14, 2006

Re: Harry and David, they messed up a Christmas order I made once. I ordered a month before and it arrived two days after Christmas. I haven't ordered from them again.
posted to MetaTalk by halonine at 4:13 PM on July 14, 2006

Was it Ashleigh Brilliant?
posted to MetaTalk by halonine at 8:03 PM on April 29, 2006

Aw mrs. pants :( You'll be missed.
posted to MetaTalk by halonine at 7:19 PM on April 9, 2006

Ethereal Bligh, your comment is very good. It's a very good point. However, regarding this:
This is obvious by how most people view the whole mail-order Russian bride thing. But there, where we assume the woman is an autonomous agent making rational choices, then the disapproval of this becomes an insult to her autonomy and is quite paternalistic.
I don't work in human rights, but a lot of evidence has been presented that mail-order brides don't know... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by halonine at 5:17 PM on March 7, 2006

I'm so sorry to hear this, spinifex23. Your poor kitty. It's been a bad month for cats. I lost a family cat of nearly a decade, and I know two other people lost theirs. May they and the other departed cats of this thread all be playing in a giant catnip patch in the sky!
posted to MetaTalk by halonine at 12:45 AM on July 10, 2005

Other modern genocides are the one committed by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and the one known as the Great Leap Forward by the Communist Party in China. There is a bit of a point about the Shoah. I know survivors or people who escaped from both of those Asian genocides, and it is unfortunate that the only genocide a lot of people know about is the Holocaust.

There were also Stalin's pogroms and the Armenian genocide...
posted to MetaTalk by halonine at 2:35 PM on March 19, 2005

Hmm, sorry, I should have said, "the one committed as part of the Great Leap Forward."
posted to MetaTalk by halonine at 2:36 PM on March 19, 2005