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Just say it. Jesus. Did we move for nothing?

Cunt. Pussy. Stink-ditch.

Just fucking say it.

I love that word.

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Honey, is that you?

Ahem. Because that huge Pioneer amplifer (with a seperate receiver, natch) and the JVC turntable with the missing stylus cost us a lot of our youthful hours washing dishes at the Podunkville Country Club and Snack Emporium.

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I knew Mr. Kiss was the one for me when he used this word while playing dirty scrabble. This was the same game where we had to call friends to determine the proper spelling of "queaf", which was of the utmost importance because the Q was on triple word score.

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Must be a guy thing. And the male equivalent would be what? Seeping, drippy, whoops.

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I wasn't afraid of saying it. I just wanted people to say the two words together to themselves w/out me numbing it down first.

Cunt

Pussy

Snatch!

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[QUOTE]Originally posted by robustpuppy

So bitch is not such an insult anymore. And it can be applied to men, too. [QUOTE]

I'll go along with that. For instance, I think Atticus is a bitch for bringing this whole thread up.

What's wrong with being old? Personally, I like it. Young punks give you their seat on the bus, you can drink real martinis and not appear pompous. Nobody assumes your abusing your xanax if you take a lot of naps.....


What was the question?

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"Bitch" is always sexist and I hardly ever use it. Used against a man, it's a negative implication that the guy is like a woman--horrors! Used against a woman, it's almost always a punishment for someone who steps out of her proper place.

"C--t" is even worse and I never, ever, ever use it except about...well, she knows who she is.

My college roommate had a habit of yelling "TWAT!" at the top of her lungs. This was disconcerting to those who thought that (1) it was unnecessary at a women's college to announce that you had one or (2) that it was an insult directed at someone specific or (3) that it was a request for some action from anyone in hearing distance.

"Asshole" I always thought of as gender-neutral. Right now though I prefer "skank."

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OK, I understand that part. But when you go out and buy a brand new surround sound system with what seems like 23 speakers in the living room, why do we need all of those old huge components that we are NOT EVEN USING?

And the old car stereo, why do we need that? If you can get rid of an entire car, I don't understand why we need to keep the stereo.

And the cassette recorders? Who saves those?

Oh and don't forget the EIGHT TRACK TAPES!

Oh, and the speaker wire, don't even get me going on that. We must have three thousand yards of speaker wire. In shoe boxes.

AM(sob)M

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Because you might need them someday.

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Tumescent;

Engorged;

Rigid.


Nothing wrong with moist. Dunkin' Hines doesn't advertise their dry cakes, do they?

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God, you do go on. What are you trying to say? That pre-1960 women married earlier and now there are a bunch of 38 year old single females that were somehow short-changed by the sexual revolution? If so, short-changed how? Because they're not married? Why is that bad?

If that's not your point, what is? And please, 25 words or less, man.

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Guys like you are the reason I've been married, like, ten times.

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Jeez, you must be old.

If you're not, try to leave some men for the hags.

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Perhaps, like me, he's just a bit sad about Patrick Roy possibly having played his last game.

Patty, we hardly knew ye. Snif.

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She left, like nine, for chrissakes. The bitch only slightly used 'em. ;)

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Yeah, we're pretty damned irresistable. But, you need to realize that you can't marry all of us.

Circumcision
 

Since we're discussing moistness (a word I truly hate because of the mouthfeel in saying it), here's good news about circumcision:

Circumcision Does Not Dull Sensitivity: Study

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Circumcised men appear to have the same degree of penis sensitivity as men who are uncircumcised, a new study suggests -- in a finding that will probably just add fuel to the fire of a controversial subject debated for years.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...sensitivity_dc

Now, I have never seen an uncircumcised man. Is it common?

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OK, I'll make an exception just for you.:smack:

AM(what's so bad about serial monogamy?)M

Circumcision
 

I think we have had this discussion before. It is fairly common in Canada from what I can gather. Now I have never seen an uncircumcised American. that could be a whole new ball game.

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We now judge women over 40 on the same criteria that were traditionally applied only in their 20s. Women are becoming increasingly complicit in this.

Rehab news
 

Jack Osborne's gone for help:

http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/04/2...hab/index.html

Alcohol I can see, but over marijuana?

I'm hoping this means he'll never be seen again on TV. If there was ever a case of "would never, ever, ever be remotely famous or ever, ever, ever get to have sex without having to pay a huge amount of money for it if it weren't for his dad being famous" that boy is it.

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If this one doesn't take, I'd think it might be time to cut bait.

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I was hoping for haiku.

Circumcision
 

Having done the research when various kids were born, I'll chime in. Throughout most of the world, circumcision (male) is rare. In the US, however, it was The Way for many years (due to some studies that showed a lessening of some infections, and also because it cut down on young-male masturbation), and at one point over 75% of male infants were trimmed. In the last twenty years, it is fading, (the infection studies turned out to be flawed, plus the feared infections are now easily treated and much rarer, plus they figured out that hardly anyone ever really went blind) and the current stats (as of a few years ago) show that about 40% of new boys get it done here.

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His point, though, was that, years ago, you would have hoped for haiku much earlier in life.

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Yes, that would have been nice. Or at least a rhyming couplet in iambic pentameter.

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OK, here's my rant. Marriage, assuming it's like a contract, ought not to be like a fee simple absolute proposition. If we look at it as more of a leasehold interest, everybody would have more incentive to be nice.

Think of the possibilities. You'd know the term would expire and would be up for renewal or renegotiation. Spouses wouldn't get fat.

Yeah, sure, we'd have some tricky assignment and subletting issues, but the use provisions would be hilarious.

And multiple leaseholds would be allowed in, say, Utah.

AM(sick of paying spousal support)M

That's twice you've used this. Shall we add it to your list?

TM

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So, having established your interest, all that's left to discuss is price?

That sounds familiar . . .

You keep harping on my list and I'm sick of it. You just don't like it because it implies that you and Paigow have similar qualities. Go back to combing the Findlaw annals for all of your song parodies.

Pookie.

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Is it just because I live in NYC where everything costs too much or is this no longer such an attractive bet? Krispy Kreme's dollar to donut ratio is like 1:1 (includes transaction costs :wink: ).

TM

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In short, yes. It's because you live in NYC.

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The Earl of Soxford might say:

What about women?
In yore: power in some spheres.
Now: "free" to fuck? Hah!

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Here's a good gender-neutral insult for you. It's more in the "stupid" category than the "jerk" category like we've been discussing, but it's good in a sofa king we todd did way.

My husband was reading The Bell Curve and around that time had a conversaton with a very stupid person. In tellling me about it, he said the guy was way far down the left tail of the bell curve. So now whenever we encounter someone incredibly stupid, we call them "left tail." The beauty of it is that we can even say it to their faces and they're too left tail to get it.

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Bullshit. "Bitch" is the female equivalent of "asshole." Everyone who has said they call women "assholes" here today is most likely full of shit. Some words fit better with men. Some with women. While I'm not denying that "bitch" is certainly female specific and asshole could be (in theory) used on women, they both mean the same thing for different genders in most cases.

When I call a piece of shit female partner a "bitch" under my breath as I walk away, it is no different than when I label a piece of shit male partner, "asshole." I think most people use those words this way.

If you really feel the need to be careful about being sexist, just use "dumbass" or "piece of shit." Those work wonderfully on men and women.

Thurgreed("bitchy," on the other hand, is almost always sexist)Marshall

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I hate to say it, but this is somewhat akin to the two nerdy guys in the matching Star Trek shirts giggling about how the big tough guy in front of them probably doesn't even know that Eskupoplians NEVER shake right hands without snorting, and so he just looks STOOPID.

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Okay, about this Bell chick. We've established she's got a nice ass. But is she all tail? What about her tits? And is she young and pretty or an old hag with a butter face?

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Nicely done.

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Well, he is a geek, but not a Star Trek geek. More of a Stanford geek.

Anyway, just watch the evening news or Cops or Jerry Springer and you'll see that there are a lot of people who are very left tail and that it's the best way to describe them.

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Sheesh! The double standards up with which I must put. Fine:

Alas! Tho never better have they fair'd
Now like the nymphets spinsters are compar'd.