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*sigh* I miss the "classic" sanitary napkins that were out there when I was a teen. Nice and thick. Of course, without the Internets I thought I was the only guy that liked wearing a belt and a napkin. Now I know better! Check out eBay. You can always find sanitary belts and pads to match. Ghu know, though, I wish I'd saved some of the Modess belted shields and sanitary panties I had back then. The shields have gone for around $70!

What's different now is better reporting of cause-of-death. Back in the day if a kid died in a crib, it was a terrible accident...but the cause of death, the crib, wasn't tallied in a central place. What has happened now is that cause-of-death stats are being kept at a much higher level of detail. Kids have been dying in cribs for a long time...it's only recently that a tally of that has come to public attention. Take the sleeping-on-the-stomach cause of death. "SIDS" has been around forever. Only in the last decade or so was it realized that too-soft beading and sleeping on the stomach was leading to a lot of those cases. Take out the soft bedding, flip the munchkin over, and the SIDS rate from that cause goes away. When it becomes obvious that a cause of death can be eliminated, it's both a moral and ethical responsibility to get rid of the cause. As to the discipline issue... that's a whole 'nother kettle of fish and has ZIP to do with issues such as the crib. It's not "sissisification" to prevent the death of a child, it's simply acting on the results of good, solid, statistical reporting of infant cause-of-death.

Since the pre-made's cost around $4 or more for 4 of 'em, just buy a bottom of glycerin for the same price, get a little bulb (like the one used to pull snot out of baby's noses), have the same enjoyment at a MUCH lower price. Just dilute the glycerin from the bottle with about 10% water to make it flow easier.

In the corner of my office behind a half wall while my office mate was on the phone and seated looking away from me. -or- Perhaps it was the time in high school I snuck into the girl's room and jerked off in one of the stalls.

Not really... the design of the crib is inherently flawed. The crappy hardware that the crib companies have shifted to has too much "play" and lets the drop-side get to a position where it can harm a baby. As in "harm" = "kill". As to "it's the people's fault who set it up": If you are providing a product that's going to be put together by The Unwashed Masses you damn well better test the assembly using that population. Consumer-assembled products need to be engineered so that it's impossible to screw up the assembly. Keyed pieces, alignment jigs, that sort of thing, can all be incorporated into a design to force proper construction. Ikea does a very good job of this. Their stuff is so fool-proof that the instructions are purely graphic. People are idiots. Companies that make products that they KNOW will be put together by idiots need to design them so the idiots can't screw it up. It makes me sad that I'm going to trash the crib my kids both used back in the 80's. It was a pretty expensive crib, and I was hoping my (someday) grandkids would use it. Knowing the dangers of even a well put-together drop-side crib (and I can guarantee you that I did a very good job putting that crib together!), i'm going to haul it to the dump in pieces.

Me too, me too! When I was Down South on my last trip I replenished my pantie drawer with a BUNCH of new ones.

Well, duh (as the Youth Of Today are wont to say), of course I got on the El with a dry diaper!

Wet&Messy? Or something like that. "Note Writer" = Archaic form of "Forum Poster". And... If you are wearing a wet diaper in a subway and someone can smell you, you should either see a doctor or stop eating asparagus!

Indeed! BTW... if you CAN see the bottom of the cup, it's not coffee.

HAH! Not you... I wasn't on the platform... I was on the corner down by the Sears Tower (and, yes, I know it has a new name and I Won't Use It!). And, no, my diapers really didn't swell up that much... and my "waddling" was more in my head than in my walk. Sheesh. I'm not our Late Lamented note-writer You-Know-Who that loved to Rub It In Your Face and Nose (sorta). Meet up with a kid young enough to be my daughter and talk about movies whilst wetting ourselves? Ummm, I don't think so either! OK. Back to work. Only a week's worth of Stupid Emails to filter out and a half-dozen real ones to actually respond to.

Between trains in Chicago (Amtrak layover) I engaged in my favorite past time in the city: riding one of the El lines to the end and back again (Hey...I'm a rail geek! What can I say?). Of course, on LONG rides I have to pee before I get back. No problems for this baby! Walking back to the station with a pretty soggy diaper I was waiting at the corner for the light to change and had to pee again. It was kind of neat standing in the middle of the crowd of people and feeling my diaper swell up with a LOT of pee. I tried not to waddle on the way back to the station.

Our next-door neighbor confided to my wife that she and her husband have been using a "We Vibe". It looks intriguing. We Vibe Web Site

45 quid, though... kinda pricey.

Looks like I had the "breathable" wrong. Thanks, Dougie... The leaking was because I probably hit capacity. Which, actually, was the object of the exercise. So, for me capacity is 1.2 quarts. Your mileage (quartiage?) may vary.

Yup... plastic pants would probably have protected me.

Heh... thought about that after I posted it. Too lazy to edit.

I figured out the liquid this way: I put a DRY diaper plus a plastic bag on a scale and zeroed out the scale...the tare weight. I put the WET diaper in its plastic bag and read the scale: 2.5 pounds. Thus, 2.5 pounds of liquid. 2.5 pounds = 1.14 kg Since we know that 1 ml of water weighs 1g we can then say: 1.14 kg of water is, by volume, 1.14 litres (this ignores the extra weight of dissolved solids in the pee) 1.14L = 1.2 quarts And, yes, a bag of potatoes sagging down there!

Well I was in a bit of a rush to get into something dry! But, in retrospect, I think it was I just exceeded the load capacity of the diaper and the pee wasn't being absorbed by the padding and just sort of flowed up and out. The "breathable" lining probably lets flow through slowly as contrasted to the full-flow liquid that escapes from a plastic lined diaper. Only a surmise, though...

Excellent post, Mr. Pins (and, kids, don't copy the whole frakking post when you comment!). Five under the speed limit? I've heard of doing that... have to try it sometime. /s/ Glycerine PS. Who still has his pony tail!

I got my large Ultra Plus diapers the other day and put them on at around 9AM yesterday. My they felt good! The tapes held VERY nicely; I liked the feel of the high back; the bulk between my legs was quite comforting. At noon, I walked / semi-waddled over to the co-op to pick up some cheese and an apple for lunch (Yay me... healthy!) and returned to work around a half hour later. Soaking diaper - dry outside the diaper. Just like it should be. At around 3:30 my wife called up and said she'd be over in a bit. I stood up to get something and HOLY GHU!!!! The front of my shorts was SOAKED and I was leaking all over the place. I hadn't even noticed the point where thing started leaking. Unlike my three-tab Depends that announce their leakage to me, the Ultra Plus kind of sneaked up on me. Maybe it's that cloth cover rather than the plastic? In any case, by the time I noticed the leaks I was SOAKED. I ran into the house and changed into some dry panties and jeans and plopped the diaper in a plastic bag. This morning I did a comparison weight between a dry Ultra and the wet one. Using my Handy Knowledge of Weights and Measures (Kids: learn those things in school! They WILL be handy some day!) I got the amount of liquid in the diaper as: 38 ounces = 2.4 pints = 1.2 quarts Great diapers... but watch out for hitting the max. You'll have soggy pants without even noticing it.

My size "large" Ultra Plus's were waiting for me when I got back from vacation....wearing them Right Now. Large fits perfectly even though the given size of "Medium" is what should fit me. They're nice and bulky between my legs and feel like they just suck up the pee as soon as it comes out. Let's see how they are doing at 3 pm.

My ex-wife let me nurse at her breast just once. I was in heaven. Her holding up her breast to me; squeezing it to start the milk flowing; the whole feel of her nipple in my mouth and the sweetness of the milk. *sigh* That was 20+ years ago and I still remember it well.

I became acquainted with the works of Tom Lehrer somewhere back in the early 60's when my Dad brought home Lehrer's self-published first album. He was THE cool guy to listen too amongst all the Bell Labs engineers. Geez... that means I probably had memorized all the words to the Masochism Tango by the time I was 13!

No need for it to go down. The image should be covered under the "fair use" doctrine of the copyright laws where you are, in a sense, reviewing the movie. If you wanted to be totally legal a

My goodness! The things that happen when you're on vacation!