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^^^ Hullo thinly veiled NSA funded grass roots project. :cool:

Judas Priest, I think I've come down with the JAJ virus regarding the excess emote usage this am. ;) Must. Stop. Now.
 
Laurel said:
http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/5227889669beddd11b91d363-800-/nelumbo_nucifera_fruit_-_botanic_garden_adelaide.jpg

Does the lotus fruit image above make your skin crawl?

Up to 16% of people (18% of females and 11% of males) become viscerally upset after looking at images of clustered holes, according to the first ever study on the condition known as trypophobia. These clusters of holes are common in nature, also including honeycombs and clusters of soap bubbles.

One sufferer reports: " can’t really face small, irregularly or asymmetrically placed holes, they make me like, throw up in my mouth, cry a little bit, and shake all over, deeply."

It turns out this strange revulsion could be rooted in biology, according to the study by researchers Geoff Cole and Arnold Wilkins, of the University of Essex, in the journal Psychological Science.

"There may be an ancient evolutionary part of the brain telling people that they are looking at a poisonous animal," Cole said in a press release. The disgust we feel is an evolutionary advantage, even if we don't know it consciously, because it sends people with trypophobia running as far as possible from the holey thing.​

- read the full article Science Explains Why This Image Disgusts Some People (from Business Insider)​
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Apparently even a picture like this:

https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT5VEWlnlFPAOQwz8Oqlp9Q8jF4ObdM8_V12tnKy4kEqQxd5rYy

is really disturbing to some people! (Apologies to eve if it icks her out.)
 
SkAoUt said:
^^^ Hullo thinly veiled NSA funded grass roots project. :cool:

Judas Priest, I think I've come down with the JAJ virus regarding the excess emote usage this am. ;) Must. Stop. Now.
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I should just rename that from : cool : to :jaj:
 
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If you want to find traditional American family values—a man and a woman officially married to one of their “own kind,” no plans for divorce, an older dad who is the breadwinner, a stay-at-home mom—the best place to look is … in immigrant families.

That’s one of several themes running through a new report, “Divergent Paths of American Families,” compiled by Zhenchao Qian, a sociologist at The Ohio State University. Qian began work on the US2010 research project looking to see if a “quieting” of change in family dynamics, first noticed in 1990s, had continued into the new century and through the turmoil of the Great Recession.

Depending on where you looked, family life in the U.S. had stabilized. And depending on where you looked, change was accelerating. The typical family had become, well, atypical.
- See more at: http://www.psmag.com/culture/traditional-american-family-outsourced-66192/#sthash.x07gS0J1.dpuf​
- read the full article The Traditional American Family Has Been Outsourced (from Pacific Standard)​
 
Hourlong Waits, the Wrong Cheese and a Quest for Pastrami

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In the capital of haute cuisine, fast food is getting complicated.

For starters, it's not always fast. At Le Camion Qui Fume, a food truck, the lunch crowd can wait up to an hour to get a made-to-order burger.

And in a city where chefs can easily find everything they need to make sophisticated sauces and posh pastries, getting the goods for some fast food isn't so easy.

Foreign fast-food outlets have mushroomed in Paris in the past two years, selling gourmet versions of burritos, burgers and brownies. They have become popular for their high standards of quality and authenticity. But that has led chefs and restaurant owners on an epicurean quest for the right potatoes for fries, beef for pastrami and peppers for salsa.

Last year, when Damon Biggins was preparing to open France's first Chipotle, an American chain serving Mexican fast food, he struggled to find green tomatillos, a staple of Mexican cooking. His French suppliers simply couldn't understand what he was talking about.​
- read the full article Fries Aside, Chefs in France Struggle With Fast Food (from The Wall Street Journal)​
 
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Someone set the "days since The New York Times ran a piece about hipsters" board back to zero. The Paper of Record offers an assessment of its favorite subject in the Sunday Review, and effectively declares the idea of hipsters to be dead. Or at least very hard to define.

The Times' infatuation with hipsters is long and well-documented. Every few months, the paper checks in with the flannel-clad denizens of the outer boroughs to make sure they're well fed and attended to. The last time a hipster-related Times story caused a stink was in May when the paper went on a tour through "Will.I.Amsburg," and proceeded to get the details wrong. We laughed at the hipsters, we laughed at the Times, and the Times laughed at itself.

But in Sunday's paper, in an opinion piece called "Caught in the Hipster Trap," the Times' Steven Kurutz realizes that hipsters are a difficult animal to identify these days, and it's becoming a bit of a problem. "As a 30-something skinnyish urban male there’s almost nothing I can wear that won’t make me look like a hipster," he writes. "Such is the pervasiveness of hipster culture that virtually every aspect of male fashion and grooming has been colonized."​
- read the full article The New York Times Measures the State of the Hipster (from The Atlantic Wire)​
 
Laurel said:
The Puchallas had rescued Quita from an orphanage in Liberia, brought her to America and then signed her over to a couple they barely knew. Days later, they had no idea what had become of her.

When she arrived in the United States, Quita says, she "was happy … coming to a nicer place, a safer place. It didn't turn out that way," she says today. "It turned into a nightmare."

The teenager had been tossed into America's underground market for adopted children, a loose Internet network where desperate parents seek new homes for kids they regret adopting. Like Quita, now 21, these children are often the casualties of international adoptions gone sour.

Through Yahoo and Facebook groups, parents and others advertise the unwanted children and then pass them to strangers with little or no government scrutiny, sometimes illegally, a Reuters investigation has found. It is a largely lawless marketplace. Often, the children are treated as chattel, and the needs of parents are put ahead of the welfare of the orphans they brought to America.

The practice is called "private re-homing," a term typically used by owners seeking new homes for their pets. Based on solicitations posted on one of eight similar online bulletin boards, the parallels are striking.​
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This sounds familiar.
 
http://i.imgur.com/Sez5aoI.jpg

Some totally sane dude knew this crazy girl. She was crazy because she drunk texted people, I guess? She drunk texted, periodically.

- He invited her out to watch sports and bought her 4 or 5 beers

- He had her back to his apartment and let her blow him.

- They woke up after a nap and “Crazy D asked if I wanted her to blow me again. It felt like an odd move — too much, too soon and slightly desperate. Who blows someone twice on the first date, I thought. It seemed surreal.” Dude! Blowing you twice. That crazy bitch.
[...]
Nothing about this girl really strikes me as “crazy,” because none of this is “crazy.” It sounds like D really wants a boyfriend and is lonely and possibly drinks too much. A sense of loneliness and insecurity is not crazy. It’s not even remotely uncommon. I’d go so far as to say it’s part of being a person, and not a god or a monster (Sir Francis Bacon will back me up on this).

You know, it’s funny, generally when men refer to their exes as “crazy” what I keep hearing is “she had emotions, and I did not like that.”

I think maybe there is some confusion on what crazy is.

Dudes of the world – if you do not return your girlfriend’s calls for a week, and she shows up at your door yelling, she is not crazy. She is angry at you. There’s a difference. “Crazy’ would be if you did not return her calls for a week and she decided she was a lighthouse.

That’s not to say that women don’t refer to ex-boyfriends as crazy as well, but when women say that, the subtext is generally “he beat up a cop. He’s in jail now.” Ashley just referred to Ted Nugent as “crazy” and I snapped, “what do you mean by that?” and she replied “he just threatened to kill Obama. The secret service is following up.”

What men mean when they talk about their “crazy” ex-girlfriend is often that she was someone who cried a lot, or texted too often, or had an eating disorder, or wanted too much/too little sex, or generally felt anything beyond the realm of emotionally undemanding agreement. That does not make these women crazy. That makes those women human beings, who have flaws, and emotional weak spots. However, deciding that any behavior that he does not like must be insane – well, that does make a man a jerk.​
- read the full article Lady, You Really Aren't "Crazy" (from The Gloss)​
 
Laurel said:
How so?
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I spent last week reading the in depth story Reuters did. This was in the first story. The whole thing made me so upset, I had to read in small segments.

I tweeted about it, cause it upset me.

Did you read the whole series?
 
lovetoread said:
I spent last week reading the in depth story Reuters did. This was in the first story. The whole thing made me so upset, I had to read in small segments.

I tweeted about it, cause it upset me.

Did you read the whole series?
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Yeah, I did. It really pissed me off. :(
 
http://www.firsthandhistory.net/public_resources/425_feature_1334097774.jpg

When you ask him about sports, he’ll raise his blue eyes to mine and press his lips together. I’ll nod to assure him it’s safe, he’s okay, this isn’t the school lunch table where the kids can taunt.

“I dance,” he’ll say. “Ballet. This year I’m doing hip hop and tap and jazz, too, but ballet is my favorite.”

Try as you might, progressive thinker that you are, modern and open-minded for all the decades you carry, your eyebrows will move up a quarter of an inch.

“Oh!” You’ll tilt your head and hopefully you’ll smile. For a heartbeat you’ll spin through a lexicon of words and phrases, seeking the correct positive acknowledgment.

And I’ll hold my breath as your eyes meet mine over his shaggy blonde head of hair, a wordless prayer as we wait for the moment of reaction. What does one say to a seven year old boy who is built for carrying a football but wears ballet shoes?​
- read the full article What I Won’t Tell You About My Ballet Dancing Son (from A Deeper Story)​
 
lovetoread said:
I spent last week reading the in depth story Reuters did. This was in the first story. The whole thing made me so upset, I had to read in small segments.

I tweeted about it, cause it upset me.

Did you read the whole series?
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they don't press abandonment charges against adoptive parents, because they are afraid it will discourage other prospective adoptive parents from taking in older children. better to get them off the rolls than ensure they are not abused. not my problem anymore!
 
neci said:
they don't press abandonment charges against adoptive parents, because they are afraid it will discourage other prospective adoptive parents from taking in older children. better to get them off the rolls than ensure they are not abused. not my problem anymore!
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They advertise these kids like they were pups.

It's sickening.
 
lovetoread said:
They advertise these kids like they were pups.

It's sickening.
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My favorite quote from the series:

Stephen Pennypacker, a child welfare official in Florida, says adoptive parents aren't consumers and their troubled children can't be treated like faulty products.

"Children don't come with a warranty," says Pennypacker, who wrote a 2011 memo warning state authorities to be on the lookout for Internet child swaps. "When you adopt a child, that's your child. You have the same responsibility to raise that child as I had to raise my biological children, regardless of what their problems are."- [link]
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Laurel said:
http://i.imgur.com/Sez5aoI.jpg

Some totally sane dude knew this crazy girl. She was crazy because she drunk texted people, I guess? She drunk texted, periodically.

- He invited her out to watch sports and bought her 4 or 5 beers

- He had her back to his apartment and let her blow him.

- They woke up after a nap and “Crazy D asked if I wanted her to blow me again. It felt like an odd move — too much, too soon and slightly desperate. Who blows someone twice on the first date, I thought. It seemed surreal.” Dude! Blowing you twice. That crazy bitch.
[...]
Nothing about this girl really strikes me as “crazy,” because none of this is “crazy.” It sounds like D really wants a boyfriend and is lonely and possibly drinks too much. A sense of loneliness and insecurity is not crazy. It’s not even remotely uncommon. I’d go so far as to say it’s part of being a person, and not a god or a monster (Sir Francis Bacon will back me up on this).

You know, it’s funny, generally when men refer to their exes as “crazy” what I keep hearing is “she had emotions, and I did not like that.”

I think maybe there is some confusion on what crazy is.

Dudes of the world – if you do not return your girlfriend’s calls for a week, and she shows up at your door yelling, she is not crazy. She is angry at you. There’s a difference. “Crazy’ would be if you did not return her calls for a week and she decided she was a lighthouse.

That’s not to say that women don’t refer to ex-boyfriends as crazy as well, but when women say that, the subtext is generally “he beat up a cop. He’s in jail now.” Ashley just referred to Ted Nugent as “crazy” and I snapped, “what do you mean by that?” and she replied “he just threatened to kill Obama. The secret service is following up.”

What men mean when they talk about their “crazy” ex-girlfriend is often that she was someone who cried a lot, or texted too often, or had an eating disorder, or wanted too much/too little sex, or generally felt anything beyond the realm of emotionally undemanding agreement. That does not make these women crazy. That makes those women human beings, who have flaws, and emotional weak spots. However, deciding that any behavior that he does not like must be insane – well, that does make a man a jerk.​
- read the full article Lady, You Really Aren't "Crazy" (from The Gloss)​
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:D :D

Truth.
 
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