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[Kitsune06]

gawd. Please. TE (esp. TD) attracts some very sweet studmuffins.

and btw, Trek... I've seen lots of ladies spit and adjust their crotch. well... *Lady* is a stretch. Women. (CWR, when you come back, you'll see the inside joke) Some women aren't pretty; but the word handsome just comes out. whew! Warm in here!

Knot- for your post, which you'll surely delete, you're thinking the wrong thing. No way I'd buy a tool to do manual labor.

I PM'd you, even though I probably shouldn't have.

[KnottedYet]

Knot- for your post, which you'll surely delete, you're thinking the wrong thing. No way I'd buy a tool to do manual labor.

That's a relief. I worried about you there for a minute. They are amusing, but 12 would be, um, excessive. And excessively expensive. (if you get the good ones)

And just to be contrary, I *won't* delete that post.

But I might delete this one.

[Trek420]

KnottedYet "Trek, honey, you will ALWAYS be cuter than ANY guy!"

awwww, just don't delete that, I'll frame it. But I'll take it personal that I'm not cuter than a panda.

G'night TE TD

[Kitsune06]

Whew! Gosh. I must be off to bed soon... it's pretty close to the end of my shift... 'night!

[KnottedYet]

Gotta get to sleep, too. G'night y'all.

*we now return you to your regularly scheduled Thread Drift*

[Lise]

Up, hungry, eating bagel and PB. Sweet kitty Isaac was sleeping, purring in my arms, when the thunder rumbled. He jolted, but stayed there in my arms, and calmed down with a few words. I love my baby kitties.

KN, I'll say only this: Good kissing comes in both genders. And I believe Kitsune was referring to euphemisms for water-retaining walls.

The Southern Gent. called right after my last post here, had a Starbucks suggestion for our first meeting, and the map up on his browser, in case I should be uncertain as to its location. Which was thoughful, IMO. So far, he laughs the best and most easily at my jokes. And the southern accent is charming. Meeting him after work for coffee...if it goes well, perhaps it will morph into dinner. I'll hope he knows how to have a conversation that is not about his (or my!) neuroses.

Going to eat my bagel, and hope to get back to sleep. Legs are pretty sore.

Sleep well, TD.

[crazycanuck]

OMG...i have so much of TD to catch up on.

Lise, yóu're cool & what a woman. 1/2 marathon..

Lise, is the gent's accent really strong & can you understand him??? Conspirathy theories as a first date topic sounds interesting..

My dad & gf are here and so far we've had some fun. Visited a few beaches on friday, watched the AFL grand final on sat AND the right team won, went to the Caversham wildlife park today and blobbed one day.

About the AFL grand final-The West Coast Eagles from WA & the Sydney Swans battled it out...Oh my was it exiting and this was my first time to watch a whole game. My dad & susan knew when to cheer and said they enjoyed it...

I'll post some pics from the wildlife park...Did you know a group of kangaroos is a called a mob?

Now kids...We're heading off later this week to go to Margaret River for wine, chocolate and cheese hunting. Would anyone like some wine chocolate. If you do, pm me and we can work something out. BTW..if you have a mobile/cell phone you can text me...(remember kids..safe texting.,..you don't want little texts arriving next year..)


Ciao for now kids

[margo49]

OMG...
Now kids...We're heading off later this week to go to Margaret River

Must be a very nice and pretty place with a name like that. Not surprising to find wines and chocs there too.

[Selkie]

Actually, Margo is one of my favorite names and is on my "potential names" for my future dogs. I also love the name "Veronica."

[Nanci]

I sent your DVD back today- Priority Mail, and sent you another one to watch. (Not IM)

I am totally traumatized by the people I encountered on my trip to south Georgia this weekend. I have never heard such horrifying racism in my life, just out in the open like it's not wrong. You guys wouldn't _believe_ the things I heard openly discussed.

[salsabike]

Ugh. My poor sister has been stuck living in small town Georgia for years. She has the heart and soul of your basic liberal humanist. For now, she deals with it by teaching the psychology of diversity at a university there. She uses movies (like House of Sand and Fog) and makes them talk about all that stuff. I am convinced she's making some difference, and also convinced she will only be able to stand it for so long and then will have to get herself somewhere else where it's not quite so socially acceptable to be a racist.

Best you can do is refresh your memory of your own friends and neighbors who aren't, just to remind yourself the whole world isn't like that. But you sure have my sympathy. That's really really hard to take.

[mimitabby]

I sent your DVD back today- Priority Mail, and sent you another one to watch. (Not IM)

I am totally traumatized by the people I encountered on my trip to south Georgia this weekend. I have never heard such horrifying racism in my life, just out in the open like it's not wrong. You guys wouldn't _believe_ the things I heard openly discussed.

Nanci
my husband spent much of 2004 and 2005 in Florida, Mississippi, Lousiana
and... another state because of hurricane damage.
He was not impressed with the racism either. At one point, he finally had to say to a guy, "you know, i'm not used to people talking that way, i find it pretty offensive" and it was hard for him to do that. He also found again and again
throughout the south, black businessmen having trouble getting contractors to fix their businesses, and being surprised when a white insurance adjuster actually could see that there was a problem.
It's very very ugly.
People say "Oh, the racism in the north is worse than that in the south, because it's secret" well, i'd rather not be called names in public..
then the whole servant thing! we'd go into restaurants where the wait staff was comprised of white kids and the bus "boys" were middle aged black people, nice, educated... and we knew they weren't getting 10 bucks an hour.. such disparity!

[DrBee]

Having lived in both the south and the north (like many of us), racism certainly is everywhere. The things I've heard people say and the behaviors I've seen here in MS blow me away on a regular basis. Sounds a lot like what Nanci experienced. It's sort of like I've time warped back into the 50's. It's frightening. In the south I've lived in LA, SC, and MS. The racism manifests differently in each place. Each time it horrifies me. That never seems to change.

[Bikingmomof3]

I am totally traumatized by the people I encountered on my trip to south Georgia this weekend. I have never heard such horrifying racism in my life, just out in the open like it's not wrong. You guys wouldn't _believe_ the things I heard openly discussed.

Nanci I am sorry. I have lived in MN, WI, WY, and now OH. Ohio was the first place I encountered racism, and I realize it is mild, compared to what I heard visiting Tennessee. I find it so dreadfully appalling and I am thankful I do not have to deal with it on a daily basis.

[Nanci]

What I heard, just offered up in normal conversation, is unspeakable. A man was pointed out to me, The Oldtimer. He was said to take care of security problems, "If you know what I mean." The person went on to illuminate us as to just what this meant, killing and disposing of the evidence, and claimed that it had been done five or six times that the person had heard of. The Oldtimer is apparently contracted by businesses. It's like the friend was bragging about him. (Did you ever see the movies House of 1000 Corpses, or Devil's Rejects? Know the character Captain Spaulding? I had jokingly pointed out The Oldtimer to BF earlier, saying Captain Spaulding was here. BF immediately knew who I meant. Geez. And then I hear that.)

Then, in a much lighter vein a person who was talking to us about having arrived on a motorcycle, not in a truck, proceeded to comment that there were a lot more blacks on MCs now, and he liked to run all of them off the road. Different person.

Then there was the well-dressed 50ish woman who was talking about all the "zebras" running all over her neighborhood, and she wished there was a way to get rid of them. This was actually the first offensive thing I heard. I'm like, zebras, I don't get it, but continued to listen in, and then it became apparent what she was talking about. It made me sick- but I had no idea what more was to come!

And anything black in color eg a cow, a coyote, etc was referred to casually as a n-word cow, whatever.