OL Tuesday

juliebug1997 · November 2010

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/local-wedding-boards_texas-dallas-ft-worth_ol-tuesday-58?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Local Wedding BoardsForum:102Discussion:c84739c1-070c-460d-ae29-4cc9ff45dfffPost:f626878a-a89b-4724-a32d-876b2348d992">Re: OL Tuesday</a>:
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: OL Tuesday : Really? That surprises you? I'm just glad they didn't follow through! Also, is that your district? Because it is totally mine.
Posted by mrsamandamiller[/QUOTE]

No, I'm in one that's pretty similar to PISD (that makes me laugh!). I guess I'm surprised that they were going to let one parent dictate their textbook choices. It's not like the nude statues were having sexy time or anything.

btweety04 · November 2010

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/local-wedding-boards_texas-dallas-ft-worth_ol-tuesday-58?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Local%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:102Discussion:c84739c1-070c-460d-ae29-4cc9ff45dfffPost:aecd8cdd-3897-4b47-8af2-d086ea05c772">Re: OL Tuesday</a>:
[QUOTE]Dear Brittany ( btweety04), Thank you so much for my ornaments. The polar bears are awesome as well as the card and thanks so much for the bonus fuschia and green ornament. That was so sweet. Siavash and I loved them. Kathy Dear Secret Knottie who is receiving ornaments from me, I mailed them yesterday, and you should be getting them today or tomorrow. Hope you like them. :) Me
Posted by SoonToBeMrsHoz[/QUOTE]
Kathy,

Yay! so glad you liked them! ;)

Me-

FebDallasBride · November 2010

[QUOTE]In Response to Re: OL Tuesday : Oh good! I'm not supposed to know her. I felt a little bad when she posted that she's back and catching up because I didn't recognize her. Now I don't feel bad.
Posted by shortgirltx[/QUOTE]

LOL no, that's all "she's" posted about. I laughed yesterday when I got home and saw a new post by her, and then saw that Brianna had posted a response (before I looked at it I thought Brianna was gonna rip her a new one publicly.)

FebDallasBride · November 2010

Dear Julie & Amanda,

What book are they trying to ban?

A very curious Wendi

bsn1752 · November 2010

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/local-wedding-boards_texas-dallas-ft-worth_ol-tuesday-58?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Local Wedding BoardsForum:102Discussion:c84739c1-070c-460d-ae29-4cc9ff45dfffPost:645643c9-357c-4706-b188-c93175483046">Re: OL Tuesday</a>:
[QUOTE]LOL no, that's all "she's" posted about. I laughed yesterday when I got home and saw a new post by her, and then saw that Brianna had posted a response (before I looked at it I thought Brianna was gonna rip her a new one publicly.)
Posted by FebDallasBride[/QUOTE]

I wanted to... but I just sent a stern PM. :)

September196 · November 2010

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/local-wedding-boards_texas-dallas-ft-worth_ol-tuesday-58?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Local Wedding BoardsForum:102Discussion:c84739c1-070c-460d-ae29-4cc9ff45dfffPost:645643c9-357c-4706-b188-c93175483046">Re: OL Tuesday</a>:
[QUOTE](before I looked at it I thought Brianna was gonna rip her a new one publicly.)
Posted by FebDallasBride[/QUOTE]

Me too! I was kind of hoping to see some fireworks.

bsn1752 · November 2010

February & September (lol!) -

Whoever "she" is... "she's" clearly not reading anything else... which makes it even more fishy... I keep waiting for "her" to chime in and start defending.

- Me

September196 · November 2010

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/local-wedding-boards_texas-dallas-ft-worth_ol-tuesday-58?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Local Wedding BoardsForum:102Discussion:c84739c1-070c-460d-ae29-4cc9ff45dfffPost:5e658df0-b3cf-42b6-be39-a3db1642939c">Re: OL Tuesday</a>:
[QUOTE]February & September (lol!) Posted by bsn1752[/QUOTE]

LOL

[QUOTE]Whoever "she" is... "she's" clearly not reading anything else... which makes it even more fishy... I keep waiting for "her" to chime in and start defending. - Me
Posted by bsn1752[/QUOTE]

Dear Original Brianna,
I vote we refer to "her" as Eli. Since Tiffany named her the elephant in the room, I think it's fitting.

-Crystal

FebDallasBride · November 2010

[QUOTE]It was a textbook for the Humanities classes. Humanities is the gifted class for the 9-10 grade campuses, mind you. <a href="http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/Plano-ISD-scraps-plans-to-ban-textbook-containing-ancient-nude-statues-108236644.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/Plano-ISD-scraps-plans-to-ban-textbook-containing-ancient-nude-statues-108236644.html</a>
Posted by mrsamandamiller[/QUOTE]

Wow.

I just can't....

NathanandJordan · November 2010

Dear Secret Knottie-
I mailed your ornament yesterday! It will be there in a few days s ince its coming from the LBK. I really hope you like them!
-anxious knottie who wants you to like your ornaments

Dear FI
Can we just pick a photographer already? I'm tired of looking!
-Bride who could start her own photog business with the amount of websites she's seen

TexanTreasure08 · November 2010

Dear DWTS viewers:

Please send Bristol home today. I like her, but it's a little painful to watch her dance. How did she make it this far?

-Me, a Jennifer Grey fan

shortgirltx · November 2010

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/local-wedding-boards_texas-dallas-ft-worth_ol-tuesday-58?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Local%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:102Discussion:c84739c1-070c-460d-ae29-4cc9ff45dfffPost:1da963fc-2f1c-4424-b105-c9c62872eb19">Re: OL Tuesday</a>:
[QUOTE]since he thought I was giving my students live HIV.
Posted by mrsamandamiller[/QUOTE]

Say what?

TexanTreasure08 · November 2010

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/local-wedding-boards_texas-dallas-ft-worth_ol-tuesday-58?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Local%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:102Discussion:c84739c1-070c-460d-ae29-4cc9ff45dfffPost:8bfffe93-fd9f-4190-9868-ff50016565c2">Re: OL Tuesday</a>:
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: OL Tuesday : Say what?
Posted by shortgirltx[/QUOTE]

<div>ditto!</div>

knottie2733fe6844e988e4 · November 2010

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/local-wedding-boards_texas-dallas-ft-worth_ol-tuesday-58?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Local%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:102Discussion:c84739c1-070c-460d-ae29-4cc9ff45dfffPost:8bfffe93-fd9f-4190-9868-ff50016565c2">Re: OL Tuesday</a>:
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: OL Tuesday : Say what?
Posted by shortgirltx[/QUOTE]
This!

FebDallasBride · November 2010

[QUOTE]Dear DWTS viewers: Please send Bristol home today. I like her, but it's a little painful to watch her dance. How did she make it this far? -Me, a Jennifer Grey fan
Posted by TexanTreasure08[/QUOTE]

I love Jennifer too! And that cute Disney kid that's dancing with Lacey.

Bristol... UGH. How did she make it this far?

bsn1752 · November 2010

Dear Self -

Yes, there is a 40-something year old man singing "Strawberry Wine" very passionately behind you at work. PLEASE don't bust out laughing.

- Self, that's trying to contain laughter.

sparklingdiamond · November 2010

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/local-wedding-boards_texas-dallas-ft-worth_ol-tuesday-58?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Local Wedding BoardsForum:102Discussion:c84739c1-070c-460d-ae29-4cc9ff45dfffPost:e37c3097-5a5b-4831-86f4-8fc016a8089c">Re: OL Tuesday</a>:
[QUOTE]Hahaha. We talk about HIV during our microorganism/immunology lesson, and I had a conference with a parent (on an unrelated subject, he was just looking for ways to get me in trouble). He brought in a print-out from my website that was the link to and description of the "HIV Permission Letter," which is basically an "opt-out" letter if parents don't want their kid learning about HIV from me. So in this conference, he waves it in my face and asks me why I'm letting his son handle live HIV. Yay parents.
Posted by mrsamandamiller[/QUOTE]

Wow thats crazy!

brooke.anne · November 2010

Dear my secret knottie person,

Your ornament(s) will be in the mail in about 30 minutes or whenever I decide to get off my lazy arse to get to the post office. I'm hungry so it will probably be soon. Anyways, sorry they are late. Just know that I looked at a BILLION places to find the perfect ornament that I had in my head. I didn't find it. So you have a couple random ones. I still hope that you like them.

From, Your secret knottie person

Dear feet,

You are KILLING me. OWWWIE.

From, Your owner

Dear Boss,

Pull the freakin stick out. kthnx.

From, ME.

nickandmerritt · November 2010

Dear people who don't understand why some people get upset about body scanners,

I see your points--some compromises have to be made in order to keep air travel safe. People who oppose body scanners have all different reasons for opposing them, but here are a few things to consider.

For sexual trauma survivors, the process of going through body scanners can be incredibly traumatizing and/or retraumatizing. It's probably true that for most people with PTSD the body scanners would be less traumatic than a pat down, but both can feel violative and the body scanners increase the likelihood that survivors are going to have to undergo one or the other.

One thing with the pat downs though is that you have more control over the situation in some ways because you know who is doing the pat down, you can typically be assured that you're being screened by someone of the same gender, and no one is creating a potentially permanent image of what you look like under your clothes. For many people having someone behind a screen looking under your clothes without knowing or having control over who is doing the viewing can feel extremely violating. For people who have been victimized through child pornography or who have been stalked or videotaped without their consent, I can see how having someone create an image of your body like that could be extremely upsetting. There is also a lot of potential for misuse of the images given that there are creeps everywhere, and creeps tend to seek out jobs that give them access to people's bodies and/or images of people's bodies.

It's also worth keeping in mind that body scanners impact different people differently. Body scanners put people who are transgender in danger of having their trans status outted. Being outted as trans is incredibly dangerous given the amount of abuse and violence trans people are subjected to just for being trans, both by random strangers, people they know, and authorities including security officers and TSA agents. Typically, trans people already have an incredibly difficult time traveling because there are a lot of bureaucratic hurdles and obstacles to getting the gender on all of one's identifications to match up.

There are also issues that arise with body scanners for people with disabillities as certain disabilities which would otherwise be invisible can be exposed when one goes through a body scanner. Some people view this as a violation of medical privacy.

Again, I realize that there is no way to keep airports and flights safe without making some compromises. And I get that people can choose other ways to travel, but given how many factors limit one's choices about travel, I'm not sure how useful it is to say that flying is a choice. I think it's important to remember that there are some groups of people who have less choices about how they travel, who are more heavily scrutinized by airport security, and who have less options when it comes to travel. So while it's great that going through a body scanner has a minimal impact on you and that you don't mind, there is a lot of privilege behind the ability to make that statement and behind the ability to make choices about how you travel.

--person who begrudgingly goes through body scanners in order to travel for work

brooke.anne · November 2010

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/local-wedding-boards_texas-dallas-ft-worth_ol-tuesday-58?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Local%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:102Discussion:c84739c1-070c-460d-ae29-4cc9ff45dfffPost:c7d3c968-d34d-465c-9779-86516f885685">Re: OL Tuesday</a>:
[QUOTE]Dear people who don't understand why some people get upset about body scanners, I see your points--some compromises have to be made in order to keep air travel safe. People who oppose body scanners have all different reasons for opposing them, but here are a few things to consider. For sexual trauma survivors, the process of going through body scanners can be incredibly traumatizing and/or retraumatizing. It's probably true that for most people with PTSD the body scanners would be less traumatic than a pat down, but both can feel violative and the body scanners increase the likelihood that survivors are going to have to undergo one or the other. One thing with the pat downs though is that you have more control over the situation in some ways because you know who is doing the pat down, you can typically be assured that you're being screened by someone of the same gender, and no one is creating a potentially permanent image of what you look like under your clothes. For many people having someone behind a screen looking under your clothes without knowing or having control over who is doing the viewing can feel extremely violating. For people who have been victimized through child pornography or who have been stalked or videotaped without their consent, I can see how having someone create an image of your body like that could be extremely upsetting. There is also a lot of potential for misuse of the images given that there are creeps everywhere, and creeps tend to seek out jobs that give them access to people's bodies and/or images of people's bodies. It's also worth keeping in mind that body scanners impact different people differently. Body scanners put people who are transgender in danger of having their trans status outted. Being outted as trans is incredibly dangerous given the amount of abuse and violence trans people are subjected to just for being trans, both by random strangers, people they know, and authorities including security officers and TSA agents. Typically, trans people already have an incredibly difficult time traveling because there are a lot of bureaucratic hurdles and obstacles to getting the gender on all of one's identifications to match up. There are also issues that arise with body scanners for people with disabillities as certain disabilities which would otherwise be invisible can be exposed when one goes through a body scanner. Some people view this as a violation of medical privacy. Again, I realize that there is no way to keep airports and flights safe without making some compromises. And I get that people can choose other ways to travel, but given how many factors limit one's choices about travel, I'm not sure how useful it is to say that flying is a choice. I think it's important to remember that there are some groups of people who have less choices about how they travel, who are more heavily scrutinized by airport security, and who have less options when it comes to travel. So while it's great that going through a body scanner has a minimal impact on you and that you don't mind, there is a lot of privilege behind the ability to make that statement and behind the ability to make choices about how you travel. --person who begrudgingly goes through body scanners in order to travel for work
Posted by nickandmerritt[/QUOTE]

<div>Holy moses of information. Now tell me, how do you REALLY feel?!?</div><div>
</div><div>I kid, I kid. Those are all very good points.</div><div>
</div><div>I am sorta neutral about them. I understand the need for them and think they can be very positive, if used correctly. And that is where it gets sticky. </div><div>
</div><div>I don't think if you are against them you should have to find an alternate means of transportation. I think that is a bit extreme. You should just go into it knowing what to expect. </div><div>
</div><div>Yeah, so that's my pretty much worthless 2 cents... </div>

shortgirltx · November 2010

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/local-wedding-boards_texas-dallas-ft-worth_ol-tuesday-58?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Local%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:102Discussion:c84739c1-070c-460d-ae29-4cc9ff45dfffPost:c7d3c968-d34d-465c-9779-86516f885685">Re: OL Tuesday</a>:
[QUOTE] and no one is creating a potentially permanent image of what you look like under your clothes.
Posted by nickandmerritt[/QUOTE]

This is one reason why my DH is so annoyed at the screening process and would much prefer the pat down. He also said last night that when we have kids, the screening process would be a determining factor when flying.

Tiffany618 · November 2010

nickandmerritt -

Your points are certainly valid and not ones that I hadn't considered in forming my opinion, but going through a scanner (or having a pat down) is a mandatory safety procedure regardless of how anyone feels about it.

Plus, I've seen the scans and not only are there no names associated with them, but the individual is not identifable from the scan even if someone somehow snapped a copy of it.

I'm in favor of safety...and a scan is the least intrusive way to ensure it.

nickandmerritt · November 2010

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/local-wedding-boards_texas-dallas-ft-worth_ol-tuesday-58?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Local%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:102Discussion:c84739c1-070c-460d-ae29-4cc9ff45dfffPost:7ed982ab-36f4-4232-afc8-9e6aa34bd17a">Re: OL Tuesday</a>:
[QUOTE]nickandmerritt - Your points are certainly valid and not ones that I hadn't considered in forming my opinion, but going through a scanner (or having a pat down) is a mandatory safety procedure regardless of how anyone feels about it. Plus, I've seen the scans and not only are there no names associated with them, but the individual is not identifable from the scan even if someone somehow snapped a copy of it. I'm in favor of safety...and a scan is the least intrusive way to ensure it.
Posted by Tiffany618[/QUOTE]

Yeah I respect your position, it's pretty much no win. I just think it's important to keep in mind that a lot of security measures, body scanners included, protect people at the cost of endangering and increasing surveillance of already marginalized groups. So in general these kinds of measures end up primarily protecting white, cisgender, able-bodied men more than anyone else.

ETA: And that's the last I'll say about it, I don't want to hijack OL!

Tiffany618 · November 2010

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/local-wedding-boards_texas-dallas-ft-worth_ol-tuesday-58?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Local Wedding BoardsForum:102Discussion:c84739c1-070c-460d-ae29-4cc9ff45dfffPost:f184e63f-3194-4678-b4fc-7278da6ff0fb">Re: OL Tuesday</a>:
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: OL Tuesday : I just think it's important to keep in mind that a lot of security measures, body scanners included, protect people at the cost of endangering and increasing surveillance of already marginalized groups. So in general these kinds of measures end up primarily protecting white, cisgender, able-bodied men more than anyone else. Posted by nickandmerritt[/QUOTE]

I won't drag on either..but yes, that part is unfortunate. I'd like to think they select people at complete random, but I'm sure that is not the case.

That though... is a whole different can of worms.

meghanttu08 · November 2010

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/local-wedding-boards_texas-dallas-ft-worth_ol-tuesday-58?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Local Wedding BoardsForum:102Discussion:c84739c1-070c-460d-ae29-4cc9ff45dfffPost:e059168f-6d15-4281-ab61-18f7b9787c4e">Re: OL Tuesday</a>:
[QUOTE]Dear DWTS viewers: Please send Bristol home today. I like her, but it's a little painful to watch her dance. How did she make it this far? -Me, a Jennifer Grey fan
Posted by TexanTreasure08[/QUOTE]

AMEN!!!!! Go Jen!!! :)

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