No. Men are not boring. This article (what I read of it) is both appalling and boring, which is not a common combination.
posted to MetaFilter by rainbaby at 8:14 AM on June 19, 2008

whir, that's the mevleviye type of Sufi - That's what I thought of too, and the Carribean Voudoun type religions. American Indian trance dancing. Seeking trance states through worship is - or was - pretty universal.

Thanks for the original links, PA.
posted to MetaFilter by rainbaby at 1:41 PM on May 19, 2008

You might want to cite your source, ericb? It has quotes around it and thanks for the links, but am I missing a credit somewhere?
posted to MetaFilter by rainbaby at 3:15 PM on March 11, 2008

My footnote went to here? I did check it.
posted to MetaFilter by rainbaby at 3:24 PM on March 11, 2008

Ah. Thanks.
posted to MetaFilter by rainbaby at 3:32 PM on March 11, 2008

Love the Gnarls, and so glad that this follow up sounds great. I was afraid they'd be a one shot deal, given the structure of the group.

I did have the compression issues, but, yeah, I guess it should have been Harding Tested.

loiseau - Good post, very informative.
posted to MetaFilter by rainbaby at 7:19 AM on March 9, 2008

Wow, absalom, that's something. My state and I went Obama, but Clinton has more pledged superdelegates. Must motivate.
posted to MetaFilter by rainbaby at 4:14 PM on February 18, 2008

rainbaby, there is no such thing as a pledged superdelegate.

empath, I get that, but on absalom's link it assumes their intentions, if stated.
posted to MetaFilter by rainbaby at 5:38 PM on February 18, 2008

MetaTalk seems to have dismissed this, but I can't remember reading an FFP with so many venomous comments. Yes, some comments are questioning or insightful, but wow. As FunkyHelix said, too much noise. So much noise. Just take a number on the sliding scale and lay off everybody else.

Categories do not define people. All X people don't behave in Y way.
posted to MetaFilter by rainbaby at 6:37 PM on January 17, 2008

oxford blue, of course I do. Just as I accept people's experience of gay-dar, I also accept bi-dar. If that's how you intended the use of the nebulous term heuristics in this context. If I misunderstand you, please clarify and I'll be happy to answer.
posted to MetaFilter by rainbaby at 7:04 PM on January 17, 2008

Wow, ericost, that Debby Harry link is the best. I'm spooked, because I have a friend who looks now very much like Debby did then. I hadn't noticed.

Enjoying all the links. I watched it and then made fun of it while I still watched it.
posted to MetaFilter by rainbaby at 11:14 AM on January 12, 2008

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posted to MetaFilter by rainbaby at 6:41 AM on December 27, 2007

When my two pieces of nieces were little and I was a young teenager in the eighties, they were over old disney - I was crying at Bambi and they were laughing at me - but The Wizzard of Oz tore their shit appropriately up. I hate to think of kids today finding it a silly old movie. It's a classic quest journey. With music! And Judy Garland! And and and. . .wow.
posted to MetaFilter by rainbaby at 8:02 AM on November 15, 2007

tommasz, I went to school before the self-esteem movement, and I often feel this way. I just had a birthday and I feel guilty when someobody gives me a gift or wants to celebrate, because I didn't DO anything. Every time my boss asks to speak with me I assume I'm to be fired. I always assumed it was a raised Catholic thing. I don't feel any better about myself, but I guess I can stop blaming the Catholics now.
posted to MetaFilter by rainbaby at 12:34 PM on November 5, 2007

I agree that the opposite of sweet is unsweet. My standard restaurant lunch drink order of "Unsweet Tea" gets strange looks outside of my regular stomping grounds.
posted to MetaFilter by rainbaby at 3:07 AM on June 9, 2007

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posted to MetaFilter by rainbaby at 11:06 PM on May 27, 2007

Match Game was the shizit. Brett, Betty, Richard, Gene, Charles, and sometimes Fanny.
posted to MetaFilter by rainbaby at 11:40 PM on May 27, 2007

Back to the days of midwifery? I had never heard of menstrual extraction. I can picture myself as a crone performing these services in the darker times.
posted to MetaFilter by rainbaby at 11:59 AM on July 14, 2006

In any case, the idea of teaching people to perform a medical procedure on themselves is a little ridiculous. You can always go to another state and get one legally.

One of the links says it is impossible to perform on your own self, and as mentioned, if you don't have the funds to get to another state, or even to a remaining clinic in your state, you can't "always go to another state and get one legally."

Menstrual extraction isn't... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by rainbaby at 12:05 PM on July 14, 2006

Well, yeah, it is, Mikey-San, but I was fascinated by the do-it-yourself movement information in the original post. Things deteriorated quickly, but I appreciate those links, serazin.
posted to MetaFilter by rainbaby at 12:46 PM on July 14, 2006

It's a terrible idea, needs more cowbell. The fact that activists are putting the information out there signals their deep concern, and gives me the heebie jeebies. Some elements of the Pro-Choice community are beginning to think that they will fail in the courts and legislatures, or, maybe more accurately, are beginning to say so publicly. This seems like a Plan B (pun intended).
posted to MetaFilter by rainbaby at 1:08 PM on July 14, 2006

chunking express, thank you. Things like this are why I keep lurking.
posted to MetaFilter by rainbaby at 10:44 AM on July 11, 2006

I've seen Screamin' Jay and Diamanda Galas. Love them both. Friends beg to differ. . .and yeah, half the audience left the Galas show where I was, too.
posted to MetaFilter by rainbaby at 5:34 AM on July 7, 2006

Holy smokes. My first reaction was total Nanny State outrage. Then I read further and was reminded that US infant mortality is a huge problem (which I knew) and that 85% of women will give birth (which I didn't). Doctors starting conversations isn't a bad idea, but five years from now if I can't get served in a bar without proof of protection along with an ID, that's a problem, to put it mildly.
posted to MetaFilter by rainbaby at 9:34 AM on May 19, 2006

It's not bad, MrMoonPie, but as a 15%-er who won't give birth, it's IS a little creepy, especially given the political climate, vanishing abortion providers, and controversy over Plan B. It makes me afraid for little girls who maybe won't have as much - here comes the word - choice as I did. It just hit me in the gut at first. As it stands now. . .it does make sense now that I understand it better.
posted to MetaFilter by rainbaby at 9:49 AM on May 19, 2006

Now they are recommendations, keswick, which is why I'm ok with it. But as mabelcoley said, what if a doctor won't prescribe a medication for a woman of childbearing age because they assume she will change her mind, or because of their political/religious beliefs? Or the pharmacist? It just feels like another little step down the road to the past. It's not. But it feels like it, and that's scary.
posted to MetaFilter by rainbaby at 9:57 AM on May 19, 2006

The implication is also that unplanned pregnancies should not be terminated. Or am I reading into it too much?

Yes, I know that unplanned pregnancies often result in loved and wanted babies. That's great.

What if a woman thinks it through and concludes - gee, I messed up, I've been smoking and drinking or more, I didn't plan on this, this baby's health could be compromised, I want to terminate. Then she can't afford the two 300 mile round... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by rainbaby at 10:29 AM on May 19, 2006

OmieWise, I can see the sense and good in this, I really can. Still, just read goals 1 & 2 that you quoted above, and leave out 3 & 4. Does it ring a little different? I have to wonder why the points were ordered in such a way. Also please remember that your friends opinions about abortion may differ from public to private, and from hypothetical to actual experience. They also do not universally apply to all other pro-choice women in their mid-thirties.
posted to MetaFilter by rainbaby at 11:17 AM on May 19, 2006

They talk about an advertising campaign for this initiative.

That "each woman, man and couple should be encouraged to have a reproductive life plan." That health professionals should address with me the "social, psychological, and spiritual (emphasis mine) components of pregnancy."

I dare anyone to stage a "preconception intervention" on me. You'll have to wrench my vices from my cold barren womb.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by rainbaby at 11:58 AM on May 19, 2006

Clearly, Geoge W. Bush the CDC doesn't care about black people lesbians.

Because lesbians never want children and all hetero women do.
posted to MetaFilter by rainbaby at 12:20 PM on May 19, 2006

So then what do you say, docpops? Do you find these CDC guidelines helpful or potentially helpful?
posted to MetaFilter by rainbaby at 12:59 PM on May 19, 2006

I wear glasses and all mine were glasses wearing and. . . male (I'm not). But I really kinda DO look like Danny Elfman, circa 2000. Wierd Fun.
posted to MetaFilter by rainbaby at 11:48 AM on May 17, 2006

Etheral Bligh is correct about a culture based on language. The debate between ASL purists and cued speech proponents is surely a huge issue at Galludet, as mentioned, a college campus with an aware, active and politically motivated student body.

There ARE both deaf purists and deaf fetishists who maintain that it is a preferable or equal but different state to being hearing.

The strong history of the deaf in the performing arts, exemplified... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by rainbaby at 12:13 PM on May 9, 2006

I think of protests as a kind of violence.

This is a pretty stupid thing to say.

Optimus Chyme, have you ever been to a large protest? They can feel like a type of violence. Sublimated. Outside the norm. They can quickly turn dangerous.

I am in no way anti-protest, but I think it's a valid opinion.
posted to MetaFilter by rainbaby at 10:48 AM on May 4, 2006

To repeat myself, I am not saying we shouldn't protest. We should. It is an outside the norm action in terms of everyday behavior, and that can lead to violence. It's a form of sublimated violence.
posted to MetaFilter by rainbaby at 11:02 AM on May 4, 2006

digaman, that's why I used the word "can" in my first response. They "can" be violent. I am familiar with the theory of non-violence.
posted to MetaFilter by rainbaby at 11:15 AM on May 4, 2006

so many people have put their bodies where their theories are


. . .accepting the fact that they may have violence perpetrated upon them?

Protest is preferable to riot/war on a personal level and as an instrument of change. To assume that a protest is all peace love and Gandhi is misguided. I thought ewkpates had an interesting point.
posted to MetaFilter by rainbaby at 11:34 AM on May 4, 2006

digaman, I'm a lefty. I've protested (as I said). I admit this is why I feel at home reading metafilter. But I try to listen, and today I gained an insight, a new way of thinking about an issue. Thanks to you I understand the rage those on the other side here at metafilter experience, and why they sometimes lash out. The one thing I do appreciate is that Kent State spurred a serious new discussion here today, despite an undignified lighthearted start to the whole thing. I'm out.
posted to MetaFilter by rainbaby at 12:23 PM on May 4, 2006

Don't forget tobacco and horses, stbalbach.
posted to MetaFilter by rainbaby at 11:09 AM on February 21, 2006

"Hey Jude" - Beatles. Bet there are a buncha us.
posted to MetaFilter by rainbaby at 12:28 PM on February 20, 2006

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posted to MetaFilter by rainbaby at 7:05 AM on January 31, 2006

Complex and engrossing. Pulitzer contention? Go St. Pete Times. Thank you for the link.
posted to MetaFilter by rainbaby at 11:05 AM on December 28, 2005

Scientists and God. Give the scientific believers more credit than not being able to escape a heard mentality.

I'm an atheist. But I just AM. Maybe I lack the God Gene. It's like a reverse faith. So what? Well it's getting weirder. My environment has gotten more Christian; I feel less able to express my thoughts. That's just anecdotal, but that's what I took away from the original links. Jeepers, I really AM that outside of the mainstream. I didn't used to... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by rainbaby at 11:28 AM on December 20, 2005

I am not advocating or defending this practice by any means, but, similar to this phenomenon, it is also about a sense of community, not just sex.
posted to MetaFilter by rainbaby at 11:17 AM on December 19, 2005

Thank you matteo. I appreciate how Heaney takes his inspirations from different points in time/space and makes something new. So many works become lost and stale without new translations. Love the picture in the first link, too. The man is a treasure.
posted to MetaFilter by rainbaby at 12:02 PM on November 4, 2005

I don't believe in an afterlife either, for all the wise reasons stated above. So, wise people, can anyone direct me to something that tackles the dilemma of how or why to live a moral life when one doesn't believe in God or an afterlife?
posted to MetaFilter by rainbaby at 8:10 AM on October 13, 2005

I am a D'Arby apologist. I don't think this will hurt my cause, though, because kids today don't remember him anyway. Some of Symphony or Damn holds up, I'm telling you.
posted to MetaFilter by rainbaby at 6:23 AM on August 19, 2005

I'm right down the road. The husband actually went to try and get one at the appointed time, but called me with a man-on-the-scene report and he sounded like the Hindenberg guy - "Oh the humanity" - he turned around, and came back. A few things: One, it would have been safer to let people camp out for spaces in line. Two, there was a lot of profit motive, not computer-user motive involved. Three, the county limited the sale to residents after receiving inquiries from all over the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by rainbaby at 12:08 PM on August 16, 2005

The county explained the pricing as similar to a surplus sale of four year old as-is vehicles.

First, students were given the option to buy them. Then, lower schools took what they could use. The remainder, they figured, should be sold to county residents who paid county taxes, instead of listing them on E-bay.

Oops.
posted to MetaFilter by rainbaby at 12:23 PM on August 16, 2005

The deal these guys got wasn't even all that good, and I suppose most people thought they'd just flip 'em on ebay for a couple hundred dollars. If people were out there giving away $300 cash to the first 1k who showed people, you can bet there'd be a lot of people out there.

delmoi - yes, that's it exactly.
posted to MetaFilter by rainbaby at 12:59 PM on August 16, 2005