In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_freestyle-friday-festival-version-of-fff?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding BoardsForum:9Discussion:bc5b621f-c741-4461-a3e9-344d2395c373Post:988d62d0-d4d4-4031-b4df-9f3b3305a15e">Re: Freestyle Friday Festival (my version of FFF)</a>: [QUOTE]But you can have the special surprise anyways... It's fab, right? Yeah. I totes knew it. Posted by alixzafiris[/QUOTE]
I'll second (or third?) the meh-ness on Bumped. It was an interesting premise, but I'd have liked a little more backstory. And the first couple of pages totally threw me off.
In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_freestyle-friday-festival-version-of-fff?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:bc5b621f-c741-4461-a3e9-344d2395c373Post:76c4fb66-3241-4a6b-999d-22e574327fcd">Re: Freestyle Friday Festival (my version of FFF)</a>: [QUOTE]In Response to Re: Freestyle Friday Festival (my version of FFF) : THAT is infuriating. Oh, everyone is asking me to expand on my original thought. I'm going to chime in about burritos and colored contacts in the SAME THREAD and pretend nothing happened. She turns it into kicking a puppy, and I can't help myself but to kick the fuccking puppy right in it's face. <strong> You get up and fight like a man, puppy.</strong> Posted by The Mel and Todd Show[/QUOTE] DED. I want you to come live at my house and entertain me all day.
In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_freestyle-friday-festival-version-of-fff?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:bc5b621f-c741-4461-a3e9-344d2395c373Post:e9be381e-449d-4731-acf5-160f47732476">Re: Freestyle Friday Festival (my version of FFF)</a>: [QUOTE]Now I'm mad that I apologized to SW for being rude on her one vent last week. Because she hasn't apologized for any of the stupid stuff she said, especially to Ciara. Birdie - are you sad you've done all this planning and your wedding won't happen because of tomorrow? I'm kinda sad. I feel like I'm too close to the wedding for the rapture to happen. Posted by Habs2Hart[/QUOTE]
<div>Yeah, that's why I really didn't care when everyone said we jumped down her throats. I've felt this way about SW for a while, and haven't hidden it. Yes maybe in that specific thread she didn't deserve, but in general she does. </div>
Oh and I just finished Bumped on the train this morning and felt a little blue-balled. The author's notes say she's working on a sequel so I guess that makes it a little better.
mica, I think you should still read it. It's not BAD and it's pretty easy to read and has some interesting concepts. I think just reading it after some of the other books I"ve read lately, it makes me feel like something is missing.
I'm sorry it took so long for that evil poster to be banned yesterday. I'm sorry for anyone who felt attacked for those statements against anxiety and depression, and I'll say that yesterday's UO was another example that I'm not sure that we really should be so free to have any opinion we like. There are cases where an opinion is JUST WRONG. (Sorry, I do like you, shannyn, and am not attacking you specifically.)
Nerdy example: I was listening to journalists discuss the fairness of reporting on NPR. They talked about wanting to get both sides of any story, but that in certain cases, it was fine to just report on one side, because that side was clearly right. For example: child molestation. If NPR or the BBC do a report on it, do they need to get a representative from NAMBLA to defend men who love boys? No, because an adult having sex with a child is wrong.
In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_freestyle-friday-festival-version-of-fff?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding BoardsForum:9Discussion:bc5b621f-c741-4461-a3e9-344d2395c373Post:a13f4454-5a35-444a-ae93-013dee20cc7a">Re: Freestyle Friday Festival (my version of FFF)</a>: [QUOTE]In Response to Re: Freestyle Friday Festival (my version of FFF) : Yeah, that's why I really didn't care when everyone said we jumped down her throats. I've felt this way about SW for a while, and haven't hidden it. Yes maybe in that specific thread she didn't deserve, but in general she does. Posted by dnbeach12[/QUOTE]
See. I disagree. She deserved it. She may have backpedaled and changed her story and reworded her intial post better as she went, but that's what she does. And I fail to see how others can be "wrong" for reacting to what she's said, rather than what she later claims she meant to say.
In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_freestyle-friday-festival-version-of-fff?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:bc5b621f-c741-4461-a3e9-344d2395c373Post:4a46053b-9d29-4400-ac60-9c4d7bea32b9">Re: Freestyle Friday Festival (my version of FFF)</a>: [QUOTE]I do have one question. How long DO women bleed after child birth? Posted by Birdie1483[/QUOTE]
I thought that! But then I wasn't sure I really wanted to know the answer. If she says six weeks I may have a coronary. And then start saving up for a surrogate.
The future speak, made up words in Bumped were SO annoying but I found the concept fascinating and I started really getting into the story when Johndoe entersssssssss.
It was the other night in one of the evening threads. I made a comment of my hand hurting from squeezing the bottle and she gave me another bottle option. Its one that I can't control the flow on by squeezing the drop in bag and she kept pressing it.
I missed SW's student bodyguard comment as well as the feeding advice. I guess I am not surprised though as she has said some pretty crappy things in the past.
In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_freestyle-friday-festival-version-of-fff?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:bc5b621f-c741-4461-a3e9-344d2395c373Post:4a46053b-9d29-4400-ac60-9c4d7bea32b9">Re: Freestyle Friday Festival (my version of FFF)</a>: [QUOTE]I do have one question. How long DO women bleed after child birth? Posted by Birdie1483[/QUOTE]
It depends on the person, really. I've heard 6 weeks is around average. Don't quote me on it, though.
In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_freestyle-friday-festival-version-of-fff?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding BoardsForum:9Discussion:bc5b621f-c741-4461-a3e9-344d2395c373Post:4a46053b-9d29-4400-ac60-9c4d7bea32b9">Re: Freestyle Friday Festival (my version of FFF)</a>: [QUOTE]I do have one question. How long DO women bleed after child birth? Posted by Birdie1483[/QUOTE]
I believe the standard is considered to be about 6 weeks. Some go more, some go less, some are worse than others. But yea. 6ish weeks.
In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_freestyle-friday-festival-version-of-fff?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:bc5b621f-c741-4461-a3e9-344d2395c373Post:ffaf6ee3-7f6e-46f2-840b-0e9838679812">Re: Freestyle Friday Festival (my version of FFF)</a>: [QUOTE]Nerdy example: I was listening to journalists discuss the fairness of reporting on NPR. They talked about wanting to get both sides of any story, but that in certain cases, it was fine to just report on one side, because that side was clearly right. For example: child molestation. If NPR or the BBC do a report on it, do they need to get a representative from NAMBLA to defend men who love boys? No, because an adult having sex with a child is wrong. Posted by mica178[/QUOTE]
I don't know why, but I think you'd like The Bang Bang Club (book). It's about four photojournalists in SA at the end of apartheid and about how involved they should get. Like, is their responsibility simply to snap photos, or attempt to help after getting their shots?
Not because of the board itself, but because of what they called it. "Childfree" is a term and a community specifically about NOT wanting children, ever. I've participated in many childfree communities and there is a lot of diversity, but one thing in common: they would like to be taken seriously, have their lifestyle treated as a legitimate choice, and not be questioned ("you'll change your mind" etc.). This sort of misuse of the term only serves to go against these wishes and creates confusion.
It's like when somebody says "I used to be childfree..." no. You were never childfree if you proceeded to have kids. Childfree is a permanent state of being and is generally a positive one (except for the way we are treated by others). People who wish to have children but cannot, for some reason, are childless. I really don't appreciate these people co-opting our community's term like that. It's kind of offensive.
(Before someone quotes the dictionary to me, the dictionary is behind the times. I could go into that phenomenon a little more but I gotta get some work done.)
Re: Freestyle Friday Festival (my version of FFF)
[QUOTE]But you can have the special surprise anyways... It's fab, right? Yeah. I totes knew it.
Posted by alixzafiris[/QUOTE]
yay!
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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Freestyle Friday Festival (my version of FFF) : THAT is infuriating. Oh, everyone is asking me to expand on my original thought. I'm going to chime in about burritos and colored contacts in the SAME THREAD and pretend nothing happened. She turns it into kicking a puppy, and I can't help myself but to kick the fuccking puppy right in it's face. <strong> You get up and fight like a man, puppy.</strong>
Posted by The Mel and Todd Show[/QUOTE]
DED. I want you to come live at my house and entertain me all day.
Whatever you hatters be hattin. -Tay Prince
Books read in 2012: 21/50
Missy, you're right. My issues also probably don't help with the hurt feelers either. I obsess way too much about some stuff.
I did just read Revelation. Yup, finished the Bible, cover to cover. The timing is perfect for my rapture tomorrow.
Well, I just solved my Bumped issue. If I'm raptured tomorrow, I won't have to read it. :P
[QUOTE]Now I'm mad that I apologized to SW for being rude on her one vent last week. Because she hasn't apologized for any of the stupid stuff she said, especially to Ciara. Birdie - are you sad you've done all this planning and your wedding won't happen because of tomorrow? I'm kinda sad. I feel like I'm too close to the wedding for the rapture to happen.
Posted by Habs2Hart[/QUOTE]
<div>Yeah, that's why I really didn't care when everyone said we jumped down her throats. I've felt this way about SW for a while, and haven't hidden it. Yes maybe in that specific thread she didn't deserve, but in general she does. </div>
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BFP 8/01/12, EDD 04/10/12, mm/c @ 6wks, discovered at 8wks, D&C 9/05/12
Where's Mixtape been? I miss her and her awesome siggies.
Miss Mrs.
Nerdy example: I was listening to journalists discuss the fairness of reporting on NPR. They talked about wanting to get both sides of any story, but that in certain cases, it was fine to just report on one side, because that side was clearly right. For example: child molestation. If NPR or the BBC do a report on it, do they need to get a representative from NAMBLA to defend men who love boys? No, because an adult having sex with a child is wrong.
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Freestyle Friday Festival (my version of FFF) : Yeah, that's why I really didn't care when everyone said we jumped down her throats. I've felt this way about SW for a while, and haven't hidden it. Yes maybe in that specific thread she didn't deserve, but in general she does.
Posted by dnbeach12[/QUOTE]
See. I disagree. She deserved it. She may have backpedaled and changed her story and reworded her intial post better as she went, but that's what she does. And I fail to see how others can be "wrong" for reacting to what she's said, rather than what she later claims she meant to say.
Bloggy Mel.
[QUOTE]I do have one question. How long DO women bleed after child birth?
Posted by Birdie1483[/QUOTE]
I thought that! But then I wasn't sure I really wanted to know the answer. If she says six weeks I may have a coronary. And then start saving up for a surrogate.
Fatty girl blog
[QUOTE]I do have one question. How long DO women bleed after child birth?
Posted by Birdie1483[/QUOTE]
It depends on the person, really. I've heard 6 weeks is around average. Don't quote me on it, though.
[QUOTE]I do have one question. How long DO women bleed after child birth?
Posted by Birdie1483[/QUOTE]
I believe the standard is considered to be about 6 weeks. Some go more, some go less, some are worse than others. But yea. 6ish weeks.
Bloggy Mel.
[QUOTE]Nerdy example: I was listening to journalists discuss the fairness of reporting on NPR. They talked about wanting to get both sides of any story, but that in certain cases, it was fine to just report on one side, because that side was clearly right. For example: child molestation. If NPR or the BBC do a report on it, do they need to get a representative from NAMBLA to defend men who love boys? No, because an adult having sex with a child is wrong.
Posted by mica178[/QUOTE]
I don't know why, but I think you'd like The Bang Bang Club (book). It's about four photojournalists in SA at the end of apartheid and about how involved they should get. Like, is their responsibility simply to snap photos, or attempt to help after getting their shots?
/random tangent
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Not because of the board itself, but because of what they called it. "Childfree" is a term and a community specifically about NOT wanting children, ever. I've participated in many childfree communities and there is a lot of diversity, but one thing in common: they would like to be taken seriously, have their lifestyle treated as a legitimate choice, and not be questioned ("you'll change your mind" etc.). This sort of misuse of the term only serves to go against these wishes and creates confusion.
It's like when somebody says "I used to be childfree..." no. You were never childfree if you proceeded to have kids. Childfree is a permanent state of being and is generally a positive one (except for the way we are treated by others). People who wish to have children but cannot, for some reason, are childless. I really don't appreciate these people co-opting our community's term like that. It's kind of offensive.
(Before someone quotes the dictionary to me, the dictionary is behind the times. I could go into that phenomenon a little more but I gotta get some work done.)