he can marry a car
― iatee, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 15:11 (twelve years ago) link
the dating scene in china is pretty brutal fyi
― dayo, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 15:12 (twelve years ago) link
there was an article in the...nyt I think? about how girls in beijing wouldn't marry anyone who didn't own property
― iatee, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 15:13 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/15/world/asia/15bachelors.html
― iatee, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
yah p much
― dayo, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
don't you get points for being american??
― iatee, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 15:15 (twelve years ago) link
kind of but I'm not a banker or businessman or anybody w a 'future' so it's a wash
― dayo, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
:(
oh yeah imna msg you on fb for something unrelated
― iatee, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 15:22 (twelve years ago) link
haha ok cool
actually the dating scene in hk is heaps better than the mainland but uh theirs all sorts of weird dynamics
― dayo, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
I feel like such a jerk, being in an area with all these dateable women and just kind of chilling in my own house.
Life's hard, here in 'merica
― mh, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 15:27 (twelve years ago) link
ya but do you have respect and a son?
― iatee, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
I think they're thinking the son comes after I find a woman, unless I need to find an extra somewhere.
― mh, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 16:12 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.infrastructurist.com/2011/05/11/new-reports-higher-gas-prices-mean-safer-roads/
― iatee, Thursday, 12 May 2011 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
that is a dusty lego car
― ban drake (the rapper) (max), Thursday, 12 May 2011 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
even lego cars can't afford gas :(
― iatee, Thursday, 12 May 2011 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
they can't be as icky as this
http://www.altuseguide.com/home/street-pole-dancing.html
― goole, Thursday, 19 May 2011 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
when people jam together, swapping 'moves'
Would honestly love to hang out with any suburbanite ever than someone who uses the phrases "jam together" and "swapping 'moves'" in reference to dancing on a light pole.
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 19 May 2011 17:45 (twelve years ago) link
you guys just don't get 'art'
― iatee, Thursday, 19 May 2011 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
this strangely vehement person votes for "icky"
http://riverdaughter.wordpress.com/2011/06/12/sunday-suburban-soccer-mom-values/
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 13 June 2011 15:11 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe my fault for only scanning that, but I got confused when it took a swerve into ranting about politics.
― the fey bloggers are onto the zagat tweets (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 13 June 2011 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
The "soccer moms make their daughters bring their little brothers over to a playmate" diatribe sounded like the "every neighborhood had a kid with a purple shirt, know what I'm talking about?" Cosby spoof.
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 13 June 2011 15:16 (twelve years ago) link
"Don't you hate it when soccer moms leave their sunglasses on your patio and call you later while you're watching 'The Dog Whisperer' to see if you found them? I hate that!"
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 13 June 2011 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
Why would you have a soccer mom over at your house unless you were a soccer mom? Honestly I don't want this crap around my children.
― Deremiah Was a Bullfrog (u s steel), Monday, 13 June 2011 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
Some of them are into LaCrosse.
the city?
stopped here tbh.
― goole, Monday, 13 June 2011 15:30 (twelve years ago) link
where is Momus now
― coffeetripperspillerslyricmakeruppers (Latham Green), Monday, 13 June 2011 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
he settled down in a big house in new jersey
― iatee, Monday, 13 June 2011 15:33 (twelve years ago) link
he coaches his son's soccer team, the pirates
he got pissed and left ILXOR forever - like Pluto to the underworld
― coffeetripperspillerslyricmakeruppers (Latham Green), Monday, 13 June 2011 15:35 (twelve years ago) link
Wow that article is stupid
― just malorted a little bit in my mouth (jjjusten), Monday, 13 June 2011 15:35 (twelve years ago) link
i love suburbanites who think if they don't socialize with the neighbors they despise that they're going to wind up in the townhouse development version of shirley jackson's "the lottery."
― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Monday, 13 June 2011 15:38 (twelve years ago) link
Instead of stones, they used tennis balls...
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 13 June 2011 15:41 (twelve years ago) link
try living in the suburbs and NOT having kids. people look at you the same way they probably looked at train-hopping hobos who rolled into town turning the depression.
― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Monday, 13 June 2011 15:43 (twelve years ago) link
^^^ this!
i was like the weird cast off of my community because i was not married with children or a dog. after my bf moved in things changed a bit. but we're still not 'one of them'. it's strange.
― tehresa, Monday, 13 June 2011 15:54 (twelve years ago) link
there are only 3 other condos in our section of the building but i know nothing about any of my neighbors and they act all weird when you say hello in the hallway.
― tehresa, Monday, 13 June 2011 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
don't ever try to read a book in a park or unless you want a policeman to come over and tell you take your bindle and that there's "work in the next county but not here."
― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Monday, 13 June 2011 15:59 (twelve years ago) link
xp This is R1verd@ught3r the PUM@S founder, right? The woman who was kicked off of Daily K0s for making racial slurs?
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Monday, 13 June 2011 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
she's definitely a giant PUMA, didn't know she was the original.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 13 June 2011 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
okay, that first paragraph made me lol a lot because my wife REALLY wants a Lexus SUV and I really have no idea why
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Monday, 13 June 2011 16:13 (twelve years ago) link
also this woman is insane
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Monday, 13 June 2011 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
And their children must stay protected from the elements. They must all get buses to school. Some crazy driver might mow them all down if they had to walk on the sidewalks of the neighborhood they chose for its quiet, privacy and safety. You never know and wouldn’t it be better to be safe than sorry? You’d kill yourself if something ever happened to them. Like rain. Yes, rain happens. That’s why we must have a bus to take the kids from one school to the adjacent school in the afternoons where there is more space in the annex. Oh, sure, there is a 500 ft walkway between the schools that is not anywhere near the street and skims the playgrounds between the two schools. But if it rains, they might get wet while they are walking, in a group, with their teachers. It isn’t safe and the threat of unpredictable atmospheric conditions is too risky. We need a bus. Nevermind that school budgets are finite and we might have to cut the late bus for kids in extracurricular activities who have irresponsible, uncaring mothers who work and can’t pick them up but send them home to a dark, unsafe house after school. Safety comes first.
this really is the only point where she approaches making sense
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Monday, 13 June 2011 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
The PUMA PAC is registered as a non-affiliated political action committee (PAC) with the Federal Election Commission and organized as a 527 Organization with the IRS in June, 2008. PUMA's founders state that the group originated out of online comments of a group of Clinton supporters on a pro-Clinton blog, The Confluence, which was created by New Jersey biochemist and former John Edwards supporter Riverdaughter, who had been recently banned from a pro-Obama liberal blog.
― buzza, Monday, 13 June 2011 16:16 (twelve years ago) link
the takeaway here is to never have children.
― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Monday, 13 June 2011 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
omg the transition to ranting about Weiner is the worst thing I've seen outside of an expository writing paper I wrote 20 years ago
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Monday, 13 June 2011 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
What suburban kid rides the bus? I always picture a morning convoy of 50 Lexus SUVs parked outside Payne Stewart Elementary.
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 13 June 2011 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
i sympathize with this person but she needs to spend WAY less time worrying about what other people do with their children
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Monday, 13 June 2011 16:19 (twelve years ago) link
it seems like she is worrying about how other people's overprotectiveness is impacting her children
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Monday, 13 June 2011 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
make soem fuckin biscuits bitch
― coffeetripperspillerslyricmakeruppers (Latham Green), Monday, 13 June 2011 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
talking shit about other parents is the easiest thing in the world to do once you become a parent yourself but it is fruitless and probably actively harmful 99% of the time. not only do you wind yourself up into an unattractively self-righteous frenzy you lay the foundations for massive karmic payback at some point down the line.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Monday, 13 June 2011 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
I guess it depends on the suburb you live in wrt kids. To be honest a lot of pedophiles get off on poor kids because they think they can get away with it.
People care about kids until the neighbor's kid or the kid at school gets harassed or molested. Then the victim's family has to relocate because of stigma and shame and gossip.
Pleasant Plains, it is true, there is also a stigma about riding the bus in some suburbs. And what's in your lunch.
― Deremiah Was a Bullfrog (u s steel), Monday, 13 June 2011 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
My wife is, jokingly (I assume), hinting that I should not encourage our future child to be interested in soccer, lest she be forced to become a soccer mom.
― the fey bloggers are onto the zagat tweets (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 13 June 2011 16:23 (twelve years ago) link