#1 2008-09-16 18:14:35
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#2 2008-09-16 19:51:41
Politics. Boo. Hiss.
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#3 2008-09-16 20:04:54
choad wrote:
Politics. Boo. Hiss.
That ain't politics. That's weirdness and the cruelty of a famous person reduced to idiocy for attention.
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#4 2008-09-16 20:13:22
orangeplus wrote:
choad wrote:
Politics. Boo. Hiss.
That ain't politics. That's weirdness and the cruelty of a famous person reduced to idiocy for attention.
Yeah, it was kinda cool to vote for him as a kid, but now it's just sad.
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#5 2008-09-16 20:31:54
Even the parrot knows he’s crackers.
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#6 2008-09-16 20:59:26
Don't trivialize the man. He's changed the course of History. Why, without him we would have had "President Gore".
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#7 2008-09-16 21:20:29
Yes, don't trivialize him. Loathe him.
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#8 2008-09-16 21:44:33
choad wrote:
Politics. Boo. Hiss.
Oh, hey, someone else who's sick of it.
Ok, I declare abortion thread.
Who here has paid for or had one or more abortions?
I once escorted a friend of mine (yes, I am in the "friend zone" with her, or I was until she got fat and then I stopped giving a damn) to the "Women's Clinic," and it was not as interesting an experience as I'd like.
In the lobby was a bunch of women and a number of very unhappy looking men. I have never seen such dour men. There was also a TV playing Shrek 2 (for the kids, of which there were 4 or so). I hadn't seen Shrek 2 before, since the first one I thought was only mediocre, so I alternated between watching it and watching mid-20s latino men shift uncomfortably in their seats (strangely, I was the only non-latino man there, even though it was a very white part of town).
Of course, since I was the only man there who wasn't somehow involved in the making of a baby, I was all giggles and grins. I kept winking at this one sad-looking dude in a ballcap and a kinda patchy mustache in the corner, but I digress.
There were no protesters, despite being in Atlanta, GA. I was VERY disappointed. I'd bought a collapsible steel baton just for the occasion (a purchase, I grant you, that I had been wanting to make for quite a long time), and it remained sadly in its sheath. WEEPS.
Anyway, she went back to see the doc and they told her not to come back 'til she was 6 weeks along, because apparently if you kill them before six weeks you have to throw them back or it's not sporting or something. I dunno. I don't remember my point any more.
Abortions!
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#9 2008-09-16 23:12:03
This has actually already been discussed on some old thread...a news story from the UK about some idiot twat who'd had nine abortions and thought people should pity her instead of breaking down her door and stapling her shut. (Or maybe forcing her to eat her weight in birth control pills.)
Not to be all sour on ya; but for women those are usually extremely painful memories, for various reasons. You're not liable to get many takers.
However, I'd be interested to hear any stories the guys would be willing to tell. I don't know much about the guys' point of view--so how's it feel to father an abortion?
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#10 2008-09-16 23:35:18
I’m not the father of an abortion, but I did take a friend to a clinic when I was in high school. About a year ago, I was doing research using the town’s newspaper site and came across an article about the girl. She never married, and she went from being a very sweet and pretty teenager to a fat ugly angry nasty fundamentalist activist. Among other things, she pickets the clinic that helped her, takes part in anti-gay activities, and she pressures the school board to teach Creationism. I was interested in her when we were kids, now I wouldn’t want to be her friend if I were to move back to that town in Florida. I don’t know why, but I suspect her father was the one who knocked her up, which may explain why her personality is so foul now.
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#11 2008-09-16 23:45:53
Paid for one that wasn't mine (favor for a friend), took another to the doc back in the 80's, me and the other friend who went spent the time humming the tune to "Bodies" by PiL in the lobby, and last year, at the age of 36 managed to knock up my bipolar girlfriend who found out she was carrying an OrangeMinus the week after we broke up. Difficulty factor: I had a vasectomy when I was 25. I saw a doc a few months back who confirmed, it had healed and I'll have to have it redone.
My hatred for this world is genuine, I assure you.
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#12 2008-09-16 23:54:58
orangeplus wrote:
...me and the other friend who went spent the time humming the tune to "Bodies" by PiL in the lobby...
"Bodies" is by the Sex Pistols, not PiL. Trust me.
I saw a doc a few months back who confirmed, it had healed and I'll have to have it redone.
Holy fuck--did the doctor mention how rare it is for that to happen?
My hatred for this world is genuine, I assure you.
You have my sympathies, Regeneration Boy.
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#13 2008-09-17 02:47:10
George Orr wrote:
Not to be all sour on ya; but for women those are usually extremely painful memories, for various reasons.
Nonetheless, such sites are produced as this. This is but one of many anti-abortion, pro-life, and same-sex marriage domains promoted in my local market. Where do I live? Where McCain is from, of course. They have no compunction about advertising in 60-second spots that abortion is a destructive force that leaves a woman ruined for life. Nice, right?
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#14 2008-09-17 03:13:58
I was a volunteer at a clinic in Vermont years ago, escorting women from their cars to the door of the clinic and back again. It was being picketed by a bunch of anti-abortion fundies bused in from out of state. Hardly fathering a child, I realize, but it was an interesting experience. On another note, when I was a teenager in Fayetteville, Ark., my best friend bought a couple of bags of hamburgers and drinks for a group of pro-choice activists who were counter-picketing the anti-choice fundies outside the only women's clinic in the city. The looks he got from the fundies, he said, were priceless.
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#15 2008-09-17 08:22:45
George Orr wrote:
I'd be interested to hear any stories the guys would be willing to tell. I don't know much about the guys' point of view--so how's it feel to father an abortion?
One saved my girlfriend's life. She had an IUD (Dalkon Shield, I believe), she got pregnant anyway, started bleeding profusely. The painful memory was that she nearly died, and the ectopic (ovarian) pregnancy and lost pregnancies that occurred thereafter. There was a large class action lawsuit resulting in a $2.5B trust. We were living in Central America at the time and were not advised of the case and so she got nothing.
That's may be why I find myself strolling down High-Street.
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#16 2008-09-17 09:21:04
George Orr wrote:
orangeplus wrote:
...me and the other friend who went spent the time humming the tune to "Bodies" by PiL in the lobby...
"Bodies" is by the Sex Pistols, not PiL. Trust me.
I saw a doc a few months back who confirmed, it had healed and I'll have to have it redone.
Holy fuck--did the doctor mention how rare it is for that to happen?
My hatred for this world is genuine, I assure you.
You have my sympathies, Regeneration Boy.
I meant "The Body", which is the PiL version of the same sentiment. My bad.
and yes, the doc went on for some time about how rare it was. fucker.
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