An old complaint
 

You do not, of course, want to be outside in a tornado, though I have been outside watching tornados at a distance, and it's really pretty cool (especially if it doesn't quite touch down or is a waterspout).

I have also been outside in a couple of light hurricanes, and it can be fairly intense. I would not want to go outside in a real category 3 or higher storm, but I had a lot of fun getting blown with my neighbors at a hurricane block party not long after I got out of college. It was a blast.

An old complaint
 

At this point:

Generally when stop signs start flying off their posts, I'd get behind a solid wall. If you see livestock fly by, it's definitely time to get inside the house.

Last hurricane I went through, maybe Gloria, up in Boston, people were out with skate boards and bedsheets tied around their waists, inventing (perhaps) the sport of windboarding. I guess they needed something to do when the coast guard closed the beaches to surfing.

He should've done it before he coughed up 11 mil for the ring.

It's that bizarre egomaniacal immune-from-destruction Gary Hart compulsion: "Come on! See if you can get a photo of me while I put my hand on her ass!"

An old complaint
 

I imagine getting blown with one's neighbors' could be quite a blast...NTTAWWT.

An old complaint
 

Hanging with Schwartznegger again, I see.

An old complaint
 

Yes, but at what wind speeds do things start flying by? 80 mph? 120 mph? Higher? Lower?

An old complaint
 

I feel like this is a line stripped right from the flyer of a ΣAE party: "Hurricane Party: Come get blown at ΣAE Saturday! (cohosted by your friendly πBΦ girls)"

An old complaint
 

I suggest you use your common sense, not the wind speed recordings at the airport, to make your assessment. Or your pocket anemometer, which you, of all people, might actually have.

An old complaint
 

If windspeeds are predicted to be quite a bit below what could cause flyingbyness, I would go about my business and get worried if I started seeing stuff getting blown around or started feeling really blown around.

If windspeeds are predicted to be between X mph and Y mph, and X mph is sufficient to make biggish stuff airborne, I might not go outside.

But I'm sure the Darwinians among us are glad that you will stay outside until you actually see the stop sign coming at you. We can only hope for the future of the human race that it's moving fast and the edge hits you right in the throat.

Wind Speeds
 

http://www.marinewaypoints.com/marine/wind.shtml

Edited to add: usually 30 mph winds result in a "small dog warning": i.e.: smaller breeds of dog may be blown away.

An old complaint
 

Perhaps my memory fails me, but didn't we just have the sex toy discussion?

sf

An old complaint
 

Around here, they still just surf. There's usually a long line of cars heading towards the ocean when the hurricane warnings start.

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A New Record-Purity Test
 

The best part is that you felt compelled to point out that the dog was female. "Bestiality, no problem, but I draw the line at same-gender bestiality!"

Wind Speeds
 

Thank you! I would think that at 55 mph I might have some reservations about going outside. Or if winds were predicted to be at least 50 mph for some period of time.

But Burger, you stay outside and look for flying sharp objects. I think that in order to ensure that they are really dangerous (because if they hit ground before they get to you, it's not dangerous) you should look straight at them until either they have passed you, have bounced off you or have become embedded in you.

A New Record
 

Ha Ha on the footnote to IT, but more importantly,

What do you mean go without peanut butter?!? I never heard that -- many a nursing mother would starve w/o this ambrosia during the breastfeeding era!**




**I happened to hear through the grapevine of a college acquaintance, who was far and away the preppiest, most uptight (I realize those do not always go hand in hand) person I have ever met -- and I grew up in a fairly preppy enclave, and went to a school that was teeming with preppiness -- point being this person was the last person I would have expected to breastfeed her SIX YEAR OLD child!! (Egad...)

Wind Speeds
 

A propos of nothing, have any of the women on the FB tried the new birth-control pill that gives you your period four times a month?

A New Record
 

Some people go by the old adage, "If he can ask for it, he's too old for it."

YMMV
BTW
NTTAWWT
ETC.

Wind Speeds
 

I cannot believe you could be so insensitive as to make this kind of comment, not knowing whether I have had to have a hysterectomy and am now infertile and only wish I could have my period again because it would mean I'd have some chance of someday having a baby.

I will endeavor not to get caught up in your idiocy again. For the record I was genuinely curious about the wind speed thing and tried finding something on weather.com and failed. Your answers, while nonresponsive, were too stupid to pass by.

Edited to add a comma. Probably both omitted and then OCD-ly added due to excessive hormone levels. Or insufficient hormone levels. Whichever Burger feels is correct.

An old complaint
 

It seems like it has been a while. But even if we had it yesterday, it is never too soon to rehash a sex toy discussion. Anyone?

A New Record
 

I have one friend who intends to breast feed until her daughter is about 2 years old. I think she's out of her mind (child is now about 15 months and eating some solids), but I guess to each her own. My friend my alter her decision soon when the daughter has more teeth in.

C(when I have kids, they have a year max ... that's it)deuced

Wind Speeds
 

Equally a propos of nothing, I miss PLF.

Wind Speeds
 

I can't imagine that would be a popular birth control alternative! Hey! I have my period every single week! So I CAN'T get pregnant. Oh. And since I am PMSsing ALL the time, you aren't going to get any anyway!!

On the off chance that you are talking about Seasonale (4/year), I don't know anyone who would try it or wants to after reading that most women experience a lot of breakthrough bleeding and so it's even worse than normal, as it is unpredictable. I forget the percentage of women that wanted to stay on it after a year, but it was low enough that I wouldn't ever try it.

A New Record
 

Some pediatricians and books are now telling parents not to feed their kids peanut butter until they are 2 (whether directly feed them the stuff, or have the mom eat it and have some it vicariously reach the kid) in order to avoid allergies to nuts and nut oils.

I say b.s. I ate PB a lot, and have no allergies at all (well, except to mohair).

C(let the kids eat peanut butter off the floor, I say - build up their immunity)deuced

Wind Speeds
 

He was oh-so-subtly saying I'm a big PMSing bitch who is beating up on him not because he's a moron and I regularly beat up on morons, but instead because I am currently in a flawed state due to my hormones and, therefore, he was making perfect sense and I am irrational.
I've been doing just regular BCPs (uniphasic? or not tri-phasic) without taking the fake week and there is breakthrough bleeding. I have heard that usually if you try different types you can find one that works right for you and doesn't have the btb problem.

A New Record
 

Where do you meet these people, the psychiatric ward?

Wind Speeds
 

Ah yes. I skip a few weeks and such FB subtleties escape me.

BTW, that whole Darwin/stop-sign-head-cutting-off comment was pretty darn vicious. Brava!

An old complaint
 

Thurgreed will be happy to know that I do love air, especially when it is whizzing around in a storm.

I was living on the North Shore (Mass.) during the Perfect Storm. Took me hours to get home from Boston, but when I got there I promptly put on my foul weather gear, put a couple of beers in the pockets and headed out to see the sights. I wasn't the only one. Sure, it was not the safest thing to do. Power lines, trees, boats, anything could have come flying through the air at us, but nothing did.

During college a hurricane passed right over our campus (again in New England). Spent a fun filled day, drinking beer, trying to play frisbee (difficult to catch when it flies over the hill), drinking beer, sledding down the hills in the wet grass, getting high, drinking beer, etc. The eye passed directly overhead. For about 15 minutes if was 80 degrees, calm and sunny. Then the backside of the storm hit.

I usually venture out if I have the proper attire, there is daylight, or I can be fairly sure that their will be nobody on the roads. Also depends on where I am (city, woods, beach) and what time of year it is. 50 mph winds through trees in winter won't generate as much airborne debris as 50 mph winds through trees with their leaves still on them (like now). If the weather gurus report flying debris then I generally stay inside.

Anne
This winter in NE was a great one for wandering the city streets during blizzards.

Nuts
 

Apparently, peanut consumption of any kind during pregnancy or breast feeding correlates to severe peanut allergies. No peanut butter (or satay) for mom until weaning, and no peanut butter for Jr. until after the 3rd BD. If there is any history of dairy or other allergies in either family, they are supposed to avoid that, too. So nuts join alcohol, organ meants, raw vegetables and salads, cheese, caffinated drinks, shell fish and fin fish on the lists of things pregnant women aren't supposed to consume.

Of course, the way things are going, before long pregnant & nursing women will be permitted to eat nothing at all but a healthful, prescribed gruel. They're no longer human beings, you know they are vessels for the MIRACLE OF LIFE!!

Actually, in some good news, research appears to be showing that non-pasteurized cheeses are no more risky than pasteurized cheeses. Though whether that means the pregnancy Nazis will permit all cheese or ban pasteurized cheese, too, remains a mystery.

BR(whoops, I said Nazi, I loose)C

Wind Speeds
 

Thank you. It's what I do. Uh, I mean, it's all PMS and people I ridicule on here are just innocent victims of my raging hormones. Poor things. Maybe they can sue me for intentional infliction of emotional distress, or something.

How To Tell Office Morale Is Poor
 

So I mentioned in passing to a co-worker that I could not meet with her this afternoon b/c I have a meeting with GP in Charge of Things, and I got the pitying look I usually reserve for those wearing cheap shoes, coupled with a sympathetic arm pat.

I went on to say that meeting had to do with planning an upcoming event, and was told, "Whew. I thought maybe you were getting fired."

:wtf??:

How To Tell Office Morale Is Poor
 

Is there something you want to tell us about your place of employ?

JLo -- Piling on
 

I may have read this on here, so apologies if that is the case, but one astute observer noted that the automatic tuner should get a credit on her records.


(That's pretty low -- but, of course, I laughed.)

Nuts
 

The key is the family history bit. If you don't have a family history of food allergies, you can be a little more relaxed about some of this stuff.

As for breastfeeding, I nursed Magnus until 15 1/2 months and never had any feel-me-up embarrassing moments. At 12 months, he was only nursing morning, nap and evening and once or twice at night. We eliminated one at a time, and voila! he was weaned, relatively painlessly.

I do think that if I'd waited much longer, it would have been harder. And I never nursed exclusively for comfort ("oh, you fell down, here, this will make you feel better"--do not fall into this habit!!), so he wasn't expecting to nurse at any other than our regular times.

Oh, and Atticus, the weight loss thing doesn't work if (like me) you crave ice cream and other sources of butterfat 24/7. I lost fat while pregnant (craved fruits, veggies and lean meat, and lost my sweet tooth), but gained it all back while nursing. Dammit.

tm

A New Record
 

I read this to say "no allergies at all (well, except to my mother)"

and I thought I was the only one allergic to their own mother...

Bn'(my mother lists her hobbies as "yoga, shopping, fat-free eating")B

A New Record
 

I know about not feeding it directly to young children (same goes for honey), but had never heard about the mother not eating it. It may have some basis in scientific fact, but I would have thought I'd have heard that if it were so commonly known (because I am omniscient when it comes to these sorts of topics, as I think everyone on this board would mostly agree.)

A New Record
 

My sister had to stop using any and all dairy products while she was nursing her son, because he was breaking out in rashes and they realized this was the cause.

Missockgyny
 

Am I missing something, or is this a missocking?

College Advice (long question)
 

Apologies for bringing in boring family stuff. Feel free to skip to the next sex question.

I need your thoughts on how to advise the oldest Fugee niece on college strategies. She is a senior and has an "interesting" high school transcript.

It seems she has inherited her Aunt Fugee's tendency to procrastinate. Apparently during her sophomore year she failed 3 classes but got all As in the rest and thus had a GPA high enough to make National Honor Society. She also failed a class her junior year but that was an Incomplete that turned into a fail because she didn't turn in her final project that was most of the grade. Her teacher in that class is going to let her turn in the project and, because all her other work in that class was A or B, her grade for the class will be the grade she gets on the project, without any deduction for the lateness.

My SIL has no schooling beyond high school and my brother got his degree by going part-time so neither of them really "get" the importance of college. The Fugee niece wants to be a pediatrician so she'll need a decent pre-med program.

My brother thinks she should stay at home and go to the local community college for 2 years then transfer to a 4 year school. I think that particular community college would not prepare her for a 4 year college, much less give her a good start on a pre-med program. I've offered to let her live with me while she goes to school and there are a number of college options in the Twin Cities.

Now for the question, how can she explain to an admissions committee that she is a lot smarter than her GPA would indicate? High ACT or SAT scores would help but, speaking of procrastination, she hasn't taken them yet and hasn't cracked the prep books I gave her. Does it make sense for her to go to a junior college (one more academically challenging than their community college) for a year or two so she'll presumably have a better track record than she has right now?

Missockgyny
 

Name change. Debt paid off.