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I wouldn't actually turn someone down if race was any concern. I'd be more concerned that people won't believe me if I pointed out that any geneticist (not a eugenicist) will tell you that it's actually best to procreate with someone whose genes have as much variation from yourself as possible (provided those variations are not in the form of hereditary disorders). It has something to do with the offspring having a greater resistance to diseases. That's also why most people have an aversion to inbreeding; the less variation between the parents, the weaker the immunity, plus the greater risk of birth defects.

 
An (obviously) NSFW work version - without the blur - is availablehere.

Holy crap, how'd you find my baby picture?!

AnotherFairportfan wrote:

So, what? They're making a James Bond movie prequal?

Imagine when that kid is, say, sixteen or so, and some of his friends find this...

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Okay - this is from a political article, the politics of which are irrelevant to this post, which is why i am not providing the title of the article nor its URL.

(If you want to read it, i am sure you can find it online.)

But this - the opening two grafs of the column - is completely non-political and rather funny:
 

I am not normal.

This, I learned from a news story 35 years ago. The details have faded with the passage of time, but the gist of it remains clear. Some expert had crunched a bunch of numbers in search of the “average” human, the planetary norm, and found that she was an 8-year-old Japanese girl, living in Tokyo. I don't fit that profile; I'm willing to bet you don't, either. So as a matter of statistical fact, I'm not “normal” and neither are you.

jwhouk wrote:See, I'd have assumed Capsaicin, because of the burning (and its use in OC spray).

Trust me, if you ever experience it, you'll know the difference. I'm half Korean, and being pepper sprayed is like eating death sauce at FreeBirds(the actual dialogue I hint at refers to breath spray)...delightfully spicy.
Being given a slightly more detailed than a civvies tour at Camp LeJeune many years ago(and being embarrassed into admitting that asthma was the reason I was not allowed to join the Marine Corps.), I was allowed to experience the joy of CS gas(yeah I asked for it, and my overly sensitive nose picked up on it after walking by the room). Just talking about it gets me all choked up... Let's just say my asthma didn't bother me that day...not to mention flu bugs...
I was learning new tricks just by watching some of the finest men and women in America train to protect our lovely corner of the world, and just by observing.
This being after 9/11, I couldn't carry my personal bodyguard(Boker-matic slidelock knife) around, they gave me a cute souvenir...a special defense spray that had not only pepper, but CS gas and a dye marker, which was new at the time, a couple of refills for the holster, and a note from Gunney to hand to security to allow those items to return home with me. Never really use them, as usually Mama Bear rage and adrenaline take over first, but they are fun mementos of a great Holiday(yeah, I know...who takes a Holiday to visit a military base on invite? Me, that's who!)

Two Princesses and a Prince





(Whiteboard painting by the girls)

Alkarii wrote:I think one of my favorite stories was when his unit was on FTX and he taped a couple of smoke grenades to a couple of CS grenades and dropped it off in the middle of the OPFOR camp. They got a little bit... shall I say, unhappy with him, because they then had to wear their gas masks all night.

EDIT: for those who don't know, CS gas is tear gas, and it's kind of thin compared to the smoke from a smoke grenade. The smoke hides the CS gas, so when they thought it was one thing, they didn't put on the masks. Nasty prank.

You can also ruin the day of annoying tank crews by dropping a CS grenade down the barrel of their main gun just before they open the breech.

Alkarii wrote:She seems nice enough, but here's what I'm worried about: I'm white, she's black. I wouldn't be surprised if some folks would have problem with me being white.

The only time I've seen that sort of thing be a problem was when a guy I knew was dating a black girl. . .and his uncle was one of the highest ranking members of the KKK. That made for a bit of family awkwardness, apparently, but he still managed okay.

I've dated girls of about every colour that humans can be found in, and never had the slightest bit of problem in even the most backwards or rednecky parts of the world. Date who you will, and worry about any of that sort of problem only when and if it shows up.

DinkyInky wrote:This being after 9/11, I couldn't carry my personal bodyguard(Boker-matic slidelock knife) around, they gave me a cute souvenir...a special defense spray that had not only pepper, but CS gas and a dye marker, which was new at the time, a couple of refills for the holster, and a note from Gunney to hand to security to allow those items to return home with me. Never really use them, as usually Mama Bear rage and adrenaline take over first, but they are fun mementos of a great Holiday(yeah, I know...who takes a Holiday to visit a military base on invite? Me, that's who!)

In Europe they have these chocolate eggs with a plastic capsule inside, which contains a small toy. The chocolate is of indifferent quality and the toys are very hit-or-miss, but I used to have great fun taking the little capsules and making them into conveniently portable mini-grenades that were a combination of burning itchy spray, dye, and stink bomb. I have some doubts about the legality of such things, though, especially these days.

Those chocolate eggs, if my 'net surfing is correct, are not allowed to be imported into the US.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

I'm tempted to bring up the Xenophilia vs Xenophobe issue, but what I really want to say is this-

Find out what kind of Human Being she is, the rest will take care of itself...

jwhouk wrote:Those chocolate eggs, if my 'net surfing is correct, are not allowed to be imported into the US.

You can't import potentially explosive eggs. You can't wear your broadswords in public. You can't wrestle wild bears. You can't set fire to houses that clash with the local aesthetics. Bah, Americans are no fun at all.

Yeah. In this city, you're not allow to walk a cow down Main Street on a Monday, either.

Alkarii wrote:Last night, my mom said she was trying to hook me up with a woman she works with who is about my age. For the sake of brevity, I will refer to her as V.

Thing is, I can't really take care of myself right now, and V has two young children, who's father is never around, and while claiming he was faithful, fathered a child with someone else, and that child was born within a couple weeks of one he had with V. Now, I'm worried he might try to cause some trouble, but then again, I do know how to be a bit crazy (apparently, the left-handed gene is connected to the psychosis gene).

She seems nice enough, but here's what I'm worried about: I'm white, she's black. I wouldn't be surprised if some folks would have problem with me being white.

And then there's the fact that I haven't been in a relationship in eight and a half years. I didn't know what I was doing then, and haven't learned much since.

Dude, go for it. The race issue is less important than 1) her kids; if you get along well with them, you're golden. 2) the deadbeat dad, whom you say you can handle. And 3) being single for so long. I've been single that long & I'm probably more insecure about it than you, so maybe my advice isn't worth much, but still: GO FOR IT. Don't make me send Shia LaBeouf after you.

Catawampus wrote:

jwhouk wrote:Those chocolate eggs, if my 'net surfing is correct, are not allowed to be imported into the US.

You can't import potentially explosive eggs. You can't wear your broadswords in public. You can't wrestle wild bears. You can't set fire to houses that clash with the local aesthetics. Bah, Americans are no fun at all.

... you can't wrestle wild bears?!? (...uh oh...) ah... what is the fine or sentence for that...? I'm still adjusting to 'civilains cannot own C-4 without special federal permits that state the intended use or need thereof'... and 'just because it's cool stuff' is insufficiant reason...

Sgt. Howard wrote:... you can't wrestle wild bears?!? (...uh oh...) ah... what is the fine or sentence for that...?

Nadette and Berdine staring at you with hurt, soulful expressions for hours on end?

I'm still adjusting to 'civilains cannot own C-4 without special federal permits that state the intended use or need thereof'... and 'just because it's cool stuff' is insufficiant reason...

Tell 'em that you critically need C4 to keep your RuBisCO from oxidising rather than carboxylating. You can refer them to your local botanists for confirmation.

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America's Pastime; BASEBALL...

Catawampus wrote:

Sgt. Howard wrote:... you can't wrestle wild bears?!? (...uh oh...) ah... what is the fine or sentence for that...?

Nadette and Berdine staring at you with hurt, soulful expressions for hours on end?

I'm still adjusting to 'civilains cannot own C-4 without special federal permits that state the intended use or need thereof'... and 'just because it's cool stuff' is insufficiant reason...

Tell 'em that you critically need C4 to keep your RuBisCO from oxidising rather than carboxylating. You can refer them to your local botanists for confirmation.

WILD bears, not ursamorphs!! Cripes, if they wanna wrestle apes and monkeys, ain't no sweat off my nose....
keep my... RuBisCO from... oxidizing rather than ... huh? This has something to do with a plant? I thought RuBisCO made crackers...

jwhouk wrote:Those chocolate eggs, if my 'net surfing is correct, are not allowed to be imported into the US.

The Wonder Ball? I remember seeing those in high school before they were banned.

MerchManDan wrote:Don't make me send Shia LaBeouf after you.

I half expected him to warn the audience about ending up in a van down by the river.

shadowinthelight wrote:

jwhouk wrote:Those chocolate eggs, if my 'net surfing is correct, are not allowed to be imported into the US.

The Wonder Ball? I remember seeing those in high school before they were banned.

Or, the Kinder Surprise.

The way Wiki describes the construction of the older two-part Kinder plastic egg with the latch-together construction, it sounds irresistable to amateur pyrotechnology experiments. The article says that the plastic egg was later changed to a hinged one-piece style; these would probably not have made as "useful" a grenade shell.