Allergies
 

Isn't it nice how this problem has developed just in time to assuage womens' guilt about sending their kids to day care? It's practically a necessity. Happily, this is also an argument for having more than one household pet during a child's early years. Yay dogs!

Edited to add, and on the other hand, the research cited by NotFromHere is now available to make women who've had c-sections feel bad. WTG science!

Allergies
 

It is amazing... Of our two, the oldest Little Finger had milk and egg allergies until he was 2. We kept him away from the stuff as much as possible, and by then he had outgrown them. Now he's fine.

Our youngest, on the other hand, is currently allergic to just about everything. The current list is milk, eggs, wheat and peanuts. Peanuts is the most potentially severe, but we don't know how bad it is because we only found out about that one through an allergist. Because of this we keep epinephrine (sp?) handy just in case. Odds are he'll outgrow the first three, but you never outgrow peanut allergies.

Don't feel bad for him, he's really a happy little kid, and while I think a lot of the stuff he has to eat is horrible, he doesn't know any better so it's fine to him.

Makes the grocery shopping interesting. Really have to read labels and learn your chemicals. On the bright side, all the health food aisle products in the cart balances my junk food well...

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Yeah. Me.

Allergies
 

Yay puppies!

Twat wit
 

Well I didn't start out to be a Thrasher tribute sock. But the opportunity presented itself and I thought I would ride that bandwagon until ncs rained on my party. So I guess I'll just have to be the one people talk about behind my back (and to my face) because I'm not funny enough.

With your tutelage, I'm sure that I can improve. Perhaps someday I'll be an RP tribute sock.

Allergies
 

Gotta tell you -- given the origin of your moniker, the usual subject matter of the FB, and the fact that the board has stimulated the puerile dirty side of my mind, the fact that you refer to your kids as the little fingers is really, really funny. I like the irreverence of it.

Twat wit
 

Look, Thrasher wannabe, hope all you want, there's only one of us.

I've got flip flops I know how to use them. Stay off my turf and go buy yourself a joke book.

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Ick. Forget I said anything.

I feel really sorry for you. All that crying and stuff.
I hear large quantities of alcohol really help. I'm always ready to help out in that regard if need be.

Twat wit
 

Are you trying to pick a fight?
Because at least I have a semi-creative avatar. You stupid tiger copying farce.

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Oh don't worry about it. Fortunately it has gotten to be less of a problem as I got older. It isn't so bad now. When I was young though it was horrific.

The alcohol seems to work well for the people around me who seem to be much more upset about it than I. I wonder sometimes if it is that it isn't as bad, or I am used to it or what. Probably both.

Allergies
 

Hey, at least you can tell your friends that it is all because you keep your house too clean! Better than the kid having squalor-induced ailments. I really wonder how any kid makes it through adolescence without eating tons of pb&j sandwiches. He'll never win at Big Brother, that's for sure!

RPed to fix spelling and to note for RP that she has both a tribute sock AND an OCD disorder named after her. Greedy much?

Twat wit
 

What, me, no, I'm not picking a fight. I'm just misunderstood....
and increasingly degenerate.

Twat wit
 

Well if I've done anything at all, at least we've stopped all of that talk about all that hideous squirting nonsense of earlier today.
That was just making me sick to my stomach.

Twat wit
 

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Originally posted by Anttwat
Perhaps someday I'll be an RP tribute sock.
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In all likelihood you are both my socks, so knock off the bickering and amuse me.

Speaking of amusal, I am woefully not caught up on the comings and goings here, npi. Have I missed anything or just the usual sex, lies and breasticle pics?

Penske (a penske tribute sock) Account

Free Porn and Vibrators! (got your attention?)
 

For those feeling peurile and dirty, I found out last week that my favorite online source of DVD porn, Adult DVD Empire (which I have recommended here before but for which, sadly, I am not a compensated endorser) is giving away free DVD's and vibrators with orders through the month of September... Some restrictions apply, but now's the time to stock up!

FWIW, my recent order arrived and while I got a couple of movies and a free DVD, Mrs. Hand received free in the order some foot- long behemoth called "The Earthquake"... And to think it would have been the perfect thing to give away to some lucky lady of the FB, sort of a "travelling trophy", if you will, for something.

Come to think of it, she hasn't called me much at work the past few days. I think I've been replaced. Sigh.

Allergies
 

They won't buy it. They've seen our house. And it's that way mostly because of the aforementioned kids...

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Yes. All of that moaning and crying can be very upsetting to the rest of us and I find that large quantities of alcohol can make ME feel better when someone else is in pain.
You wouldn't want to upset other people now would you?

Twat wit
 

I hate your avatar, no offense. Evenodds, for extra credit, please explain to the class what an "Aunt Bee" is.

Twat wit
 

1. stop calling me a sock
2. You told me last night that you had stopped socking

Twat wit
 

Come on. It's cute and wrong on so many levels if you think about it. Think about it.
It took me all night to come up with that one.

Allergies
 

However iatrogenic C-sections may be, most American doctors perform them out of (excessive?) fear of risk, not because the mother desperately wanted one. They instead convince the mother, correctly or not, that unusual delivery risks weigh in favor of C-section. Only an incredibly neurotic mother would "feel bad" for "choosing" a C-section over a vaginal delivery. She can always convince herself that the baby would have died or been injured during a vaginal delivery. Doubt about the origin of allergies is a small price to pay for this.

One final pro-nursing point, because I can't let anything go: The Little Mean One was a relatively late breastfeeder, and em's got amazing food curiosity because, unlike mass-produced formula, human breast milk has flavor undertones of what the mother has consumed. The other day em asked for some chana masala from mom's plate. Suck on that, Enfamil!

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Lord no. As we all know, I live my life in such as way as to avoid upsetting everyone.

Twat wit
 

I DID NOT SOCK WITH THAT MAN!

... metrosexual, whatever...

A New Record
 

Originally posted by Anne Elk

Not in my case

Twat wit
 

I'll say anything if the wine is flowing and the mood is right.

Allergies
 

Ah, thanks for the heads up that it was semi-annual breast feeding post day. My .02 which I have probably posted on the previous 46 breastfeeding threads is that I'm pro-breastfeeding and pro-relatively late breastfeeding.

One of my daughters had a genetic thing where if she had not been breastfed as an infant she would have in all likelihood died in the first couple of weeks of infancy. But we did not know that until a year or so later when she was initially diagnosed. She ended up on the juice until 22 mos. for reasons related to the genetic thing, although the last 6 months or so was just twice a day, morning and bedtime.[

Twat wit
 

You seem familar.....do I know you?

Allergies
 

Iatrogenetic. Nice word. I had to look it up and I'm stillnot sure what it means.

How does one learn a word like that? In what context is one introduced to that word (besides, say, the FB for example?)

Twat wit
 

In your dreams...

Allergies
 

American Iatrogentic Association

It is a word popular with pedants everywhere, especially pedants who have been the subject of medical experiments.

Twat wit
 

How dare he compare the 2 of us as if we were the same person.
What the hell? You're not just going to sit there and take that are you?

Allergies
 

{Ducking head in shame.} Debate camp.

An old complaint
 

I'm sad that John "Pops" Hope isn't going to be around for this hurricane. He was one of the greats when it came to the hurricane game.

http://www.hurricanes.net/content/hd...0200_hope4.jpg

From the June 2002 obit:

"John Raymond Hope, one of the country's leading hurricane forecasters, died today of complications related to heart surgery. He was 83 years old.

For nearly 20 years, The Weather Channel viewers turned to Hope for information and guidance when tropical weather threatened their homes. He joined The Weather Channel in 1982 as the Tropical Coordinator and an On-Camera Meteorologist, becoming a key source of information for U.S. coastal residents during hurricane seasons.

He was cited as the "voice of reason" when broadcasting on The Weather Channel, and weather experts often acknowledged Hope as "the man America watches" when hurricanes approached the United States."

We miss ya Pops. Hope there's lots of big weather events up in heaven.

Allergies
 

STOP IT! STOP IT! STOP IT! When are you going to stop blaming me for "the genetic thing?!?"
How was I to know that the ecstacy would have that affect? The ped told me to stop drinking and to cut down on the blow and cigs, but he said nothing about the x. Seriously. For the last time stop with the blame and the snide comments to strangers about how it's ALL MY FAULT.

Twat wit
 

Yes, well, it does sound as if we've each had some experience with him. Tell me, was he as .... um, inadequate with you as with me? And, I mean, metrosexuality is one thing, but that dress "he" wears is, well, just not really very appealing. And the lipstick! That shade of purple just demonstrated trashy taste all around.

Twat wit
 

I'm sorry, this was supposed to be a PM. Please ignore.

Allergies
 

That reminds me, one time at debate camp.....

Confidential to Theres and Thats
 

Well yes actually, just between you and me, if it weren't for the ecstasy and the hallucinations, I wouldn't have seen "it" at all...

Confidential to Theres and Thats
 

Yes, and I had to fake the heavy breathing, forget about the rest of it. He's a portly fellow, isn't he?

Twat wit
 

You know I know you. This is like a my favorite old tyme game show, What's My Greed?