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I'm a bad judge since I don't know objectively how attractive I really am. I will say, however, that I don't like baby-ish prints and colours, but I DO like prints and colours just like I would on boxers or briefs because plain white is just "boring". I'm not big on green, but that's my colour preference. So, to answer the question, I think I look better in something that's not baby-ish but that's because I FEEL better in something not baby-ish. But most importantly I FEEL best in something that doesn't leak and need to be changed every few minutes or every time I have a coughing fit!

A sex-neutral name I've heard in the American South that I fell in love with: Billy Jo Jim Bob For a girl first! Then I met a man with the same name. Wilhelmina Josephine Jamie Roberta (for the woman) William Josef James Robert (for the man) One of the reasons the American South is like no place else!

Well, I've scored an interview at a world-wide recognised NGO. It's strange that out of all the resumes I sent out, only an NGO has wanted to interview me so far, and seems genuinely glad to give me the opportunity. It is a really good organization, so here's hoping for the best! Wish me luck! Even if you don't like me, throw a poor dog a bone so I can make enough money to pay my internet bill and see you criticize me on-line My interview is TUESDAY (I 22211 sounded like a lucky day... or a zip code somewhere in VA). Good luck to everyone else out there and thanks for your support and listening to my rants. It really has helped, and I hope it has given you at least some 2nd rate entertainment. In a strange twist of irony, my former employer took over the old HQ building of the NGO for which I am interviewing and I was part of the transition team when custody of the building was handed over.

When in the US my school lunch was as follows: cold soggy "shoe string french fried" potatos dripping with LARD grease bread with cheese and tomato sauce (they tried to pass it off as pizza, it was government surplus food) Molk (what we called the powdered reconst milk they served us) Moose Juice (mysterious fruity flavoured drink that was 8% juice 92%???) Everyone gets ONLY ONE packet of "catsup" (there was an old lady who hadn't gotten laid since Sputnik with an attitude to prove it who enforced this) EVERY DAY! They were supposed to have different foods, but I always had the last lunch section and this is all that was left. So for the better part of 2 school years, this was it! We had to pay (I think) $2.25 for this CRAP when a McD's was ACROSS THE STREET teasing us with 79 cent burgers. If we left campus we risked arrest and of course there was ALWAYS a cop during lunch time at the crosswalks anywhere near the McD's. Not to mention the cops hung out there all day.

Having worked in the medical world I can speak of what was practice where I worked. Catheters were most commonly used in patients that had to be restrained in combination with diaper or collection vessel depending on the level of violence/compliance of the patient. Even the most tranquil patients were usually cathed if they came in via ambulance in case if things got hairy later. I can understand why since I saw some change in an instant. But the short answer I have is that cathing was more common with a LONG tube and bedside bag so that the nurse assistants wouldn't be too afraid to empty. In some extreme cases, the beds would be fully enclosed (screened in) with bag access outside just in case someone got loose. Scary stuff!

I wouldn't want to see a lot of guys running around in just their BVDs! I wouldn't want to see a lot of women running around in just their undies, for example someone's gran! Remember the law of unintended consequences. You can wear anything you want under the social norms so long as your discrete. Muslim girl who was a co-worker of mine used to LOVE to wear skimpy leather/goth/BDSM type clothes... but she was covered from head to toe in her black abaya/chador so no one ever suspected or knew. She asked me what I THOUGHT she wore under her robes and I said that I never thought about it, just assumed it was what everyone else was wearing. I thought she was pulling my leg until she gave me a peek in her shopping bag after a lunch outing. To this day she could have been yanking me in an elaborate prank, since the only thing I ever saw were her hazel eyes and part of her T zone, but the point is, unless you look for something, it's not really there.

Some that didn't make the list that I've used in the past: -Twang rubber bands on orthodontic braces. -If you're really good with your tongue, learn to use aforementioned rubber bands as a missile weapon! -Saying: "Por favor manténganse alejado de las puertas." to the passengers in any vehicle in a non-Spanish speaking country. This must be done with a strong American accent. (Yes, I did work at Disney World a long time ago.) -Use/Create meaningless euphemisms. (for example: "There's the wrong colour vinyl on the roof of THAT car, if you know what I mean!" or "The lights aren't EXACTLY ON when his submarine 'opens the hatch', if you know what I mean!") -Cutting your voice in and out while continuing to move your lips around people who use hearing aids -Give a person an empty gift box as a present. Tell them you're giving them the gift of disappointment. -Whenever you go to the store, compute your tab ahead of time so you get $6.66 back in change... EXACTLY. Go to the same cashier every day. -Call Walmart. Only say the word "buttplugs" in a quick manner. (remember in most of North America *67 disables caller ID on the other end for free!) -Go to McDonalds. Order a cheeseburger without cheese. When they give you just a hamburger complain saying you wanted the wrapper that said cheeseburger and a hamburger not the cheeseburger! -Go to any fast food joint (I prefered KFC/Taco Bell) and demand your order UNCOOKED. -When around other, publicly proclaim small appliances condemned to death row for no reason. -Start calling everyone Phil. Extend to EVERYTHING (Ben & Jerry's is now Phil & Phil's). I stopped most if not all a long time ago, but reminds me of some puerile fun!

The entire department got boned the same way I did pretty much. They managed to do some legal wrangling to get us cut as a financial hardship on the company which gave them a lot of extra leeway in what they could do. The lawyers are excellent scumbags at what they do, that's for sure! I'm too busy looking for a new job to look back now. I had a feeling my VERY modest raise one month ago had a catch. That was one of the things they used to justify the excessive expense! Everyone in the department got a mysterious raise (about 1.25%) and all of the sudden... As for returning my stuff they are allowed under the law to inspect it and return it within a "reasonable" amount of time to account for inspection. The state seem to think that "not more than 90 BUSINESS days" is reasonable (about 18 calendar weeks). Their "generous" severance offer is one week of paid COBRA benefits per year worked plus they would add a $20 supplement for the shipping of my belongings. I have to sign away any right to sue in return. So still totally the suck but better than nothing at all...

Severance means little to nothing in a right to work state. They are sending a severance payment along with my belongings. If those don't show then we have a problem. There's a severance agreement if I want the package (6 weeks pay w/o benefits FWIW). I was told I could hire an "approved courier" to pack and retrieve my belongings but it would be on my dime and it would still be several weeks. If they UPS them to me, at least I get a free box even if I have to pay shipping. Their rationale is that they need to inspect everything to make sure I'm not stealing company property or have hidden intellectual property in anything. I don't know what all this paranoia is over. Gosh you'd think I was robbing banks in my off time. I just think it's really trashy the way they did it. NGO/not-for-profits try to pass themselves of as something better but from what everyone else has told me this is even worse than the corporate world in terms of layoffs. At least in commercial there are usually rumblings of layoffs and they don't turn overtly hostile on you (threaten to have you arrested for trespassing!) in just 15 minutes.

OK time for one of those "Too soon?" jokes? How did Michael Jackson pick his nose in the winter? ....................... Out of a catalogue! Too soon?

I've been working for the same firm just shy of 12 years. Things are going fine financially with the firm and they decide from higher up that they need to cut costs. End result, I end up being laid off with NO WARNING! I literally got called into the directors office got told to turn in my badge and keys and had security escort me out of the building. I was told my personal effects would be shipped to me within 8-10 weeks at my expense. I can't believe it! At 0930 I'm reading my e-mail and calling a customer on how I was going to take care of her before the end of the day and at 0945 I'm literally told by the security guard that if I leave the sidewalk I could be charged with trespassing! They said at least half a dozen times there was nothing wrong I had done and that I wasn't being fired for performance reasons, but the decision was finial and my job no longer existed. I just think after 12 years of loyalty they could have done me better than that... at least classier. I got screwed out of my accumulated vacation (320 hours!), I had over 800 hours of unused sick time and nothing to show for it. A hand full of unlucky bastards in our department are "interim" for one month while they train their replacements who already work in another division and are now going to do the job of two people. I was expecting more out of the NGO/not-for-profit world but they are just as bad as any corporation. Thanks for hearing my rant... would like to hear your horror stories about being laid off.

It's the dry air this time of year. Sometimes when I sneeze it's like an explosion in a ground beef factory. Little to be done than be prepared. Sometimes I think I might need a diaper for my nose

I'm not ashamed but I'm not saying I have pride either. To loosely quote a Biblical source, "Pride cometh before the fall." An axiom I believe more true than not, so I be not ashamed, but I keep myself from being "proud" of most things and humbled by many.

I have a couple of brands which work well for me. I'll stick with what works. I'll give something new a try if it has good specifications, design, price, etc., but I don't want to rock the boat if I have something that works. I do hate it when the companies change stuff just for the sake of changing stuff. I still haven't found the perfect diaper, but as a philosopher said, "Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien." The perfect is the enemy of the good.

So, there's a metric ass-load of smart phones out there and as part advice and part curiosity, I'd like to poll the audience to see what everyone else uses. There are a lot of choices but there are so many smart phones out there. Some are kind of redundant, but some of the older machines are different to the newer ones that it makes a good bit of difference as to what they do. Select as many as you need since many of us have more than one, but if you could please limit the poll to your CURRENTLY subscribed phones.

A condition known as pica. It's rather common and seen in about 8% of the industrialised population. That's why so many product are "non-toxic" today.

Sony DVD Burner Newegg.com 5/2004 CTX 17" Trinitron Buy.com 11/1999 Maalix & Rolaids et als. drugstore.com 2/2005 As for travel sites, I've been booking online since 1995 on sites too numerous to mention. I first booked a flight to OGG on United via the American Express online travel engine.

The way government does things this has been screwed up. The Net Neutrality law has produced a edict that is anything but... The way to have done it right would to have been to introduce a SIMPLE bill stating ALL PACKETS ARE CREATED EQUAL. And that transport of these packets is blind. The only throttling you get is what you expect based on your service agreement (you pay for X mbps, you get up to >= X mbps for any/all content)... none of this these can be faster these can be slower/blocked because they take too much bandwidth. But it has turned into a cluster frack by a bunch of government bureaucrats who would have problems making a bootable flash drive if their life depended upon it! But hey, introducing a law to give government LESS power has never been government's strong suit.

My dream RC car would be the one I saw on Mythbusters while in Germany a while back. They had rigged a GM "New Look" model transit bus to a steering wheel mounted in the back of a ute of some kind. They seemed to be having a lot of trouble with the rig, but I'd love to get the radio bugs worked out and have a bus that would be half bus half Predator drone. The ultimate RC car! I guess that's what they mean when they say go big or go home.

Not being a member of the "Mile High" club and not knowing the authoritative rules, I have some questions for the peanut gallery. A friend of mine contends he is a member under the following scenario: He was on a XATL flight from St. John's, NS to London, UK as a young(er) teenage lad. Now during the flight he did what teen-aged lads do and wanked off once claiming that was good enough for 1/2 of the mile high club. A couple of hours later, he was still bored and wanked off again contending this was also good enough for 1/2 of the mile high club. So since two halves make a whole (no pun intended, REALLY!), that means, according to him, he's in the Mile High Club... saying there's nothing in the "rule book" against it. I say my friend is more Captain Pugwash than Dan Dare. What say you all? Edit: No slight meant to our Canadian friends. Fat Finger Freddy here struck three keys and they came out as "S". St. John's is of course in NF.

And Starbucks, don't forget Starbucks...

I just wanted to tell him, "Good luck, we're all counting on you."

I've found that an Abri-Let Maxi as a booster between the gathers is the perfect for the M/L 27"-56" size and almost completely eliminates the clumping problem, at least for me.

I could more than live with Molicare, but they are not my favourite. I just can't use the 'cloth' backed ones because they snag on seemingly EVERYTHING... except the tapes on the diaper! I can never seem to get the tab on the 'cloth' backed to stick. The 'sliding' properties of the plastic and the way the tape glue holds to the plastic is just so much better.

In response: 1. It depends on what you're buying them for 2. Food aggression in dogs is bad (and dangerous!). But otherwise it's just plain rude to bug the poor animal while it's eating. You wouldn't want it done to you? 3. Meh. What's in a name? 4. I'm more into the non-traditional festivus. I like the pole made from wood. 5. Corporations are like dinosaurs. The bigger they get, the smaller their brain seems to be in proportion to their body. Pp started out with some neat libertarian (not the political party but the adjective) ideas, but then got bought by e-8@y. Then... 6. So is Oprah. 7. Dostoyevsky FTW if you're looking for the philosophical meaning(s). If he doesn't make you go insane first. Supposedly he makes more sense in the original Russian because of the cultural context for all the agrarian references. If you're looking for a sci-fi "chewing gum" story SW:ANH is really hard to beat... my favourite of the series story-wise is ESB, but the ending sucks.