The Off Topic Topic

[derspiess]

I don't get the concern over that.  My three year old has little to no concept of gender - I couldn't convince him that although he, his little brother, and daddy all had 'peepees', that mommy did not.

He's danced around and said he was a princess, and said that he has a baby in his tummy like mommy does.  But he also routinely pretends to be various farm animals, a dinosaur, Batman, and Bob the Builder.  Actually when he plays 'Bob the Builder' he is either Bob or Bob's helper Wendy - and whichever character he is, I am the other one.

Whatever floats your boat.  I was just trying to be a good uncle as I saw fit.

[Ideologue]

My 3 year old nephew got into the girl Halloween costumes we brought down to Argentina last year.  I intervened, but not before my wife & her sisters took a bunch of pictures.  It was funny at first, but Ziggy's already different enough.

I don't get the concern over that.  My three year old has little to no concept of gender - I couldn't convince him that although he, his little brother, and daddy all had 'peepees', that mommy did not.

Wikipedia?

[garbon]

I don't get the concern over that.  My three year old has little to no concept of gender - I couldn't convince him that although he, his little brother, and daddy all had 'peepees', that mommy did not.

He's danced around and said he was a princess, and said that he has a baby in his tummy like mommy does.  But he also routinely pretends to be various farm animals, a dinosaur, Batman, and Bob the Builder.  Actually when he plays 'Bob the Builder' he is either Bob or Bob's helper Wendy - and whichever character he is, I am the other one.

Whatever floats your boat.  I was just trying to be a good uncle as I saw fit.

Yeah, conformity at all costs!

[The Brain]

He's danced around and said he was a princess, and said that he has a baby in his tummy like mommy does.  But he also routinely pretends to be various farm animals, a dinosaur, Batman, and Bob the Builder. 

My other self!

[Malthus]

I'm reading a police report and I see someone described as a "soul lease holder".

Some new form of Santeria? 

[Ideologue]

Oh, man, fucking Santeria.  YES YOU CAN OUTLAW ANIMAL SACRIFICE.

[Jacob]

Important scientific discovery about beer!

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/feb/10/scientists-suggest-beer-after-workout/

[derspiess]

Yeah, conformity at all costs!

The boy lacks positive male influence in his life.  Now granted, he lives in a village full of freaks, but I was trying to impart some normalcy upon him.

[The Brain]

Real normalcy cannot be imparted. It must be taken.

[derspiess]

Important scientific discovery about beer!

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/feb/10/scientists-suggest-beer-after-workout/

Surprised your keyboard didn't give you an electric shock when you visited that site!

edit: Anyway, as much as I love beer, I have to say it's the last thing I want right after I go out running, mow the lawn, or whatever.  Beer dehydrates me, to the point where I sometimes need to drink water in between beers.  My cousin always drank beer while playing softball or pickup basketball & I hear people talk about their favorite "lawnmower beer", but ick, no thanks.

Having said that, most beers I drink are 6-9%ABV.

[Malthus]

Oh, man, fucking Santeria.  YES YOU CAN OUTLAW ANIMAL SACRIFICE.

We had a store selling religious junk to Santeria types near where I had my apartment, when we were renting. My heavily Catholic mother-in-law walked by it ... I was hard put to it to stop her from torching the place to the ground. 

She had no idea what Santeria was, but the statues and stuff she found deeply shocking - like the all-Black virgin Mary statue with no hands standing over a goat skull with incense sticks in its eyesockets. 

[derspiess]

She had no idea what Santeria was, but the statues and stuff she found deeply shocking - like the all-Black virgin Mary statue with no hands standing over a goat skull with incense sticks in its eyesockets. 

I'm not Catholic & found the Santeria stuff to be particularly creepy.

[fhdz]

She had no idea what Santeria was, but the statues and stuff she found deeply shocking - like the all-Black virgin Mary statue with no hands standing over a goat skull with incense sticks in its eyesockets.

[Jacob]

Dude sets fire to nuclear sub to get out of work; causes ~$400M damage and gets 17 years.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/07/us/navy-submarine-lost/index.html

[Liep]

There'll be a cabinet reshuffle tomorrow. The grossly incompetent Annette Vilhelmsen is swapped out for the rocker loving, but more suiting, Henrik Sass. Hopefully Holger K., the most boring man in Danish politics, will also move out.