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It must be the teats...

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February 16, 2012

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Americans Give Record-High Ratings to Several U.S. Allies

Iran has the lowest favorable rating; China's declines

by Lydia Saad

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PRINCETON, NJ -- Americans are feeling more favorably toward several of the United States' major allies in 2012 than they have in the past. This year's ratings for Canada (96%), Australia (93%), Germany (86%), Japan (83%), and India (75%) are all record highs for those countries in Gallup trends that stretch back at least a decade. Additionally, the survey finds Great Britain (90%), France (75%), and Israel (71%) rated near their all-time highs.

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I of course knew it all along. You only love us for our water, lumber and oil, and use us because we are right next door and convenient and vulnerable. But you will find, as many a Calais boy who married a St Stephen girl has said, "those gorgeous knockers cost you a lot in the end, in good hard US cash."

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It must be the teats...

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February 16, 2012

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Americans Give Record-High Ratings to Several U.S. Allies

Iran has the lowest favorable rating; China's declines

by Lydia Saad

Page: 12

PRINCETON, NJ -- Americans are feeling more favorably toward several of the United States' major allies in 2012 than they have in the past. This year's ratings for Canada (96%), Australia (93%), Germany (86%), Japan (83%), and India (75%) are all record highs for those countries in Gallup trends that stretch back at least a decade. Additionally, the survey finds Great Britain (90%), France (75%), and Israel (71%) rated near their all-time highs.

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Hey, where did you get that photo of Cousin Eugene ? (He has changed and grown a lot since he got out of jail) Those were private party family photos!

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Carol:

Ending the gun registry in Canada?

Conservatives and enthusiasts cheer the end of the long-gun registry

Postmedia News Feb 15, 2012 – 1:08 PM ET

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The historic vote to dismantle the long-gun registry will take place Wednesday evening.

More on the end of Canada’s long-gun registry:

Critics rage as Conservatives celebrate gun registry’s death with a cocktail party

Matt Gurney: Oh, sure, cancel the gun registry. But how dare you celebrate!

By Jeff Davis

OTTAWA — The Conservative government says its MPs will celebrate after a historic vote to end the long-gun registry Wednesday evening, despite vehement opposition to the move in Quebec and much of urban Canada.

Public Safety Minister Vic Toews told reporters Wednesday, hours before the vote, that the government’s actions are long overdue.

“It does nothing to help put an end to gun crimes, nor has it saved one Canadian life,” he said.<p class="npBlock npRuleMedium npRelated">

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“It criminalizes hard-working and law-abiding citizens such as farmers and sport shooters, and it has been a billion-dollar boondoggle left to us by the previous Liberal government.”

Quebec MP Maxime Bernier said MPs and gun-rights advocates will celebrate together Parliament Hill after Wednesday evening’s vote.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/02/15/conservatives-and-enthusiasts-cheer-the-end-of-the-long-gun-registry/

Chris Selley’s Full Pundit: Vic Toews to libertarians: Go to hell

Chris Selley Feb 14, 2012 – 11:03 AM ET

About the government…

The National Post‘s editorialists do not understand how a government that considers the long-gun registry (and, we’d add, the mandatory long-form census) an unconscionable invasion of Canadians’ privacy and a waste of their money can possibly get behind legislation that would “give the government unprecedented access to Canadians’ online activities, by allowing police to collect the personal information of Internet users … without having to go through the cumbersome process of obtaining a warrant beforehand.” We share this frustration. But Public Safety Minister Vic Toews made it quite clear what he thinks of such complaints yesterday, when he said Canadians “can either stand with us or with the child pornographers.” In other words: “Attention, libertarian wing of the Conservative Party of Canada. We think you are immoral, and no longer desire your votes.”

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Adam, critics rage, and as I have experienced, innocent unarmed debaters have been shot.

Back on point, "teasing the ones they truly adore: " is a line from macGiillivrays's Song of the Mira, Anne Murray sang it best I think, as she knew it best. The adolescent teasing, from love or resentment or outright irrational hatred. Anne probabty learned to handle it early.

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Why, do women have different teats in Canada? Remember, I am an ass man so what do I know about teats?

lol. This did make me think, though, about the obsession young women appear to have about their own breasts now, which really was not there when I was young. Really. My friends and I would talk, of course, and some were big and some small, and each thought being the other was better, or at least more comfortable. One of our friends, a real beauty, had a reduction later because her breasts were just too heavy for her frame and caused actual pain.

Unless Ellen or Angela notice this thread, or (shudder) Janet, I guess only the men can give insight (intellectual insight, Adam! not up-skirt), but really, maybe I never met real Alpha males or whatever in my single days, but the attitude of the guys who got to see our breasts were, they were breasts, and therefore beautiful. Now there seems to be a scale, bigger is better, look at that poor Triple-D girl. Do men really want breasts to be that big?

For me, there is definitely something symbolic about large breasts, as if the woman adorning them was underscoring her feminine sexuality and sensuality by her physical appearance. I think perhaps that becomes uniquely powerful in our post-Victorian culture, which seems to have left many women in a sexual strait jacket. However, I think this symbolic visual aspect is mainly a factor with respect to women in the media and in various forms of entertainment. I am quite certain it is drastically less important in a sexual partner. Men are biologically programmed to respond to visual stimuli, and certain aspects of a woman’s appearance on TV or in movies or magazines are bound to have a “huge” impact. We project certain psychological qualities onto the sexual images we see. In the context of an actual relationship, though, beauty is much more important than size. (We also project certain positive, life-affirming qualities onto physical beauty, of course.)

Needless to say, I was joking when I suggested in my earlier comment that large breasts are all that matter. In point of fact, nothing could be further from the truth. The appeal of large breasts is totally dependent on the woman’s other physical features. They look absolutely incredible on a tall, slender woman like Angelina Jolie. They are ‘udderly’ boring and uninteresting on a woman who is significantly overweight. They simply look maternal, which does absolutely nothing for me from a sexual standpoint. In fact, they are often quite unappealing both sexually and aesthetically.

That, in essence, is my philosophical position on big gazongas.

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I think perhaps that becomes uniquely powerful in our post-Victorian culture, which seems to have left many women in a sexual strait jacket.

This observation is profoundly true, I think. Just one aspect, off the top of my head, the idea of virginity, something yesterday to be guarded and protected, now to be "lost" or given up as soon as possible, when the social context that gave it value is long gone. This way of discussing the natural entry into sexual life has always driven me crazy, anyway. What was there to lose or give up,your past self is not going to go anywhere, and finding new physical and emotional pleasures is what growing up is about. Sorry, I'm ranting, but it puzzles me that young girls seem to categorize and devalue their own precious lives and selves sometimes, because of what some guy told them.

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I think perhaps that becomes uniquely powerful in our post-Victorian culture, which seems to have left many women in a sexual strait jacket.

This observation is profoundly true, I think. Just one aspect, off the top of my head, the idea of virginity, something yesterday to be guarded and protected, now to be "lost" or given up as soon as possible, when the social context that gave it value is long gone. This way of discussing the natural entry into sexual life has always driven me crazy, anyway. What was there to lose or give up,your past self is not going to go anywhere, and finding new physical and emotional pleasures is what growing up is about. Sorry, I'm ranting, but it puzzles me that young girls seem to categorize and devalue their own precious lives and selves sometimes, because of what some guy told them.

Daunce--OMG. It would be a drastic understatement for me to simply say that I agree with every word of your post. You have no idea how strongly I feel about this whole issue. I even wrote a novel about it.

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I think perhaps that becomes uniquely powerful in our post-Victorian culture, which seems to have left many women in a sexual strait jacket.

This observation is profoundly true, I think. Just one aspect, off the top of my head, the idea of virginity, something yesterday to be guarded and protected, now to be "lost" or given up as soon as possible, when the social context that gave it value is long gone. This way of discussing the natural entry into sexual life has always driven me crazy, anyway. What was there to lose or give up,your past self is not going to go anywhere, and finding new physical and emotional pleasures is what growing up is about. Sorry, I'm ranting, but it puzzles me that young girls seem to categorize and devalue their own precious lives and selves sometimes, because of what some guy told them.

Daunce--OMG. It would be a drastic understatement for me to simply say that I agree with every word of your post. You have no idea how strongly I feel about this whole issue. I even wrote a novel about it.

Dennis, I did not know about your novel, but the "First Time" issue is indeed so powerful and emotive. I am not an Objectivist as you know, but it is so totally about volition and readiness, about conscious choice and the expectation of new joy in the journey of human life.

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Well, there is a song...

There's a better one. "This Girl is a Woman Now" , a soaring celebration of the wondrous introduction to love, - I think this was around the same time the Stones put out "Under My Thumb" and the trendy you-such-a-ho-and-you love it music thing started. Both genres are hugely sexy of course, but Mick I gotta tell you, Gary Puckett never made your money or had your career, but he could sing better than you.

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"First cut" is a great song, and ole stingy not-a-real-Scotsman Rod did a beautiful understated cover. But listen to the lyrics, "I will embark on a relationship with you, but I can never love you as much as I loved my first love, maybe you can help me get over her>" Puh-leeze.

The first cut is the only cut, and the scar is the proudest adornment you can ever wear.

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I don't know anything about Gary Puckett. or if he wrote his own songs. But I like to think that he was the boy who led his girl so tenderly into love, on that sweet and velvet night. And I hope she did not become that woman with the different look, and cheating on her mind.

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I don't know anything about Gary Puckett. or if he wrote his own songs. But I like to think that he was the boy who led his girl so tenderly into love, on that sweet and velvet night. And I hope she did not become that woman with the different look, and cheating on her mind.

Fair enough. That would screw up the romanticism if it ended that way.

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I don't know anything about Gary Puckett. or if he wrote his own songs. But I like to think that he was the boy who led his girl so tenderly into love, on that sweet and velvet night. And I hope she did not become that woman with the different look, and cheating on her mind.

Fair enough. That would screw up the romanticism if it ended that way.

True. But if it didn;t end that way, we wouldn't have "Woman, woman", another great song.

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Really, really great. Just listened again and it gave me beautiful chills. "Our hearts told us we were right". O yes indeed.

Not a quibble, but this does not sound the version I remember..the piano intro, for instance, and the orchestration seems skimpy compared , and he doesn't seem to give it full voice. But maybe that's just hindsight making everything perfect. Is it possible that this is not the original recording that made the top 20?

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Is it possible that this is not the original recording that made the top 20?

Definitely possible, I did not have time to check it.

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Folks:

It is much more than standing up at attention to Hard science...it is much more than that...it is hard wired in the jeans genes:

That was totally HI-larious and absolutely true. I especially liked the great tribute from that obviously well-brought-up young man to his mother for giving him those 18 months of very sustenance. Obviously this video was shot in Canada.

I really enjoyed how this guy got to straight to the (Evolutionary) root of the issue. Simply irrefutable!. :smile:

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lol. This did make me think, though, about the obsession young women appear to have about their own breasts now, which really was not there when I was young. Really. My friends and I would talk, of course, and some were big and some small, and each thought being the other was better, or at least more comfortable. One of our friends, a real beauty, had a reduction later because her breasts were just too heavy for her frame and caused actual pain.

In that beehive of a nuns' school where I had my 'formative years', breasts were of course an issue too, but not in excess.

Although I do recall a scene where some girls used measuring tape as a taylor would, and then 'compared notes", breast size was not really considered as of prime importance by us.

In the late 1960s/early 1970s, 'busty' stars like of the 1950s like e. g. Jane Russell were regarded as somewhat outdated, as a new era had emerged: Swinging London and all that, with stick-thin supermodel Twiggy as the icon.

Unless Ellen or Angela notice this thread, or (shudder) Janet, I guess only the men can give insight (intellectual insight, Adam! not up-skirt), but really, maybe I never met real Alpha males or whatever in my single days, but the attitude of the guys who got to see our breasts were, they were breasts, and therefore beautiful. Now there seems to be a scale, bigger is better, look at that poor Triple-D girl. Do men really want breasts to be that big?

I ask myself how silicon Triple Ds can sleep at night lying on their belly. How can they get their head on the pillow with these balloons?

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Ladies:

I am not enamored of big/large breasts.

I prefer smaller breasts as I have found them to be more responsive. Maybe less self-consciousness? Shorter nerve paths?

Adam

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Ladies:

I am not enamored of big/large breasts.

I prefer smaller breasts as I have found them to be more responsive. Maybe less self-consciousness? Shorter nerve paths?

Adam

I am guessing you are a fan of the classic Spinal Tap hit "Big Bottom"? I would assume "Sex Farm Woman" would

not accord to the Constitution.

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