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Sunday, July 12th, 2009
lonita
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2:13a
Falsies
So, the fact that the customer left her false teeth in the cab is by no means the oddest thing we've ever heard.
What I would love to know is why she (by her own admission) left them on the floor of the cab where, presumably, her dog had also been sitting.
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(comment on this) Saturday, July 11th, 2009
jito
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9:34p
Apologies to all the Science FOO people, but I'm fading and can't join for dinner... crashing and going to bed after long CC board meeting.
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sioneva
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5:42p
Ooh, the modhat!
I got modwhacked over in ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) attachedparents.
I posted in reply to one of the comments that someone supporting me had (kindly) written in the long post that I'd written up my thoughts on the matter here in my own journal. I got the following message, in reply to that comment:
"We do not find it acceptable that you posted a public entry to your personal journal to rant about other members in this community especially about this post. This is your first warning and please be respectful to the members here.
From the user info:
No matter how heated a discussion may get, you need to remember that the people behind the screen names are just that, people, with thoughts and feelings, and they don't deserve to be abused for what they write. No being a jerk for jerk's sake. And absolutely no bringing in people to side with you because you don't like the way a conversation is going. Please be respectful to other people's opinions and do not start calling other people names. Keep in mind if you ask for advice, you may get advice that differs from what you want to hear. If you don't like the advice or opinions, ignore it."
This comment was made, not in response to my journal post, but to the comment I made in the attachedparents post, where it could be read by everyone in that community. I skimmed over the relevant thread in AP and did not find a single instance in which the mods reprimanded the REAL culprits in that thread, the REAL individuals who seemed to have forgotten that "the people behind the screen names are just that, people, with thoughts and feelings..." I'm sorry if I missed it. No doubt it was great.
The user most at fault, let's not forget, essentially called every adopted child who was ever fed formula, and every child who was ever fed formula ever, for whatever reason (medically necessary or not), a drain on society. Need I re-quote her comment? Breastfed babies are "healthier, smarter people who cost society less and are able to help society more."
Unless it was done privately (in which case, why reprimand ME publicly), why is it acceptable for someone to condemn every child in this country, and in this world, who's received formula, but not okay for me to condemn that opinion IN MY PERSONAL JOURNAL instead of causing additional drama within the community itself by demanding studies that PROVE that every formula-fed infant in this world is going to be less healthy and less able to help society? Is that saying that someone whose IQ is ten points less (even if there were absolutely conclusive proof that the effects of breastfeeding on the IQ were statistically significant into adulthood) is less valuable to society? Is that saying that someone who is not in perfect health is less helpful to society than someone who is more healthy?
At what point does that become, in effect, hate speech against anyone with a slightly lower IQ than YOUR child's, or anyone who has a chronic health condition? Such a statement is hateful.
I specifically posted here to keep the community trouble-free, because I have appreciated my participation in it. I expressly did not post the exact community name, although some of my friends are in it and knew exactly which post I meant. I did not post any usernames publicly because I did not (and DO NOT) want them trolled.
I suggested that a distasteful name (even to me) might be even slightly applicable to someone who could say something like that. Mercyrain went further than that. She said that my child was going to be less successful in life because, after he'd been exclusively breastfed for 7 months of his life (with no other sustenance passing his innocent lips), a bottle of formula once a week when he had already established solid food was going to make him less healthy and less intelligent. Furthermore, she didn't just say it about MY child, she said it about every child that has had or will ever have formula, regardless of the way they are parented in any other respect.
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) luvkitten, I posted it publicly because the person who was defending me is not currently friended on my journal and I intended her to read it. I also absolutely intended Mercyrain (that word "mercy," I do not think it means what she thinks it means) to read it if she so desired and again, if she so desired, call me out on MY journal rather than causing any more stress and hassle to the OP of that post or to the community. She is most certainly NOT friended on this journal.
I'll save you the trouble of banning me. I already left your community, unfortunate though I think it is to have someone who is absolutely a practicing attachment parenter, but who is rather more relaxed and accepting about it than others, leave it to the more rigid mothers so common to public AP forums. It is no surprise that this is the case, as clearly more welcoming mothers are chased away by the asses (yes, there I AM name-calling) who claim to embrace respect, kindness, and even mercy, while spewing vitriol at those who cannot live up to their impossibly high standards.
Shame on you and the other mods. Shame on Mercyrain (whose name I'm still not putting into complete username form, because I don't want her trolled). It's despicable for mods to warn me for not really doing anything at all (except for keeping drama out of a community itself and not even posting it in a snark community, where it richly deserved to be) and not to warn her just as publicly for such a cruel, meanspirited, and ultimately completely incorrect comment.
And yes, I'm keeping this public.
Mercyrain isn't a boob nazi. I never intended to use that term about her (I said she'd SLIGHTLY changed my mind about the term being distasteful, not that she had). She's just a boob.
ETA: Oh, oh, and the BEST BIT?
Not one mod commented on that whole, nasty thread until I e-mailed them about her most recent comments and said that I thought they were rude and unacceptable to the tone of the community.
Posting hateful, exclusionary comments in a public community about formula fed babies is okay. Saying that it's not okay in my own journal, away from the primary controversy while maintaining the anonymity of the offending parties so that they don't get trolled and the drama stays out of the community and in my journal is, apparently, not okay.
current mood: fed up
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roshi
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9:33a
Yay. I've come down with something. D was sick at the start of last week and I was fine, but this morning I woke up all sinus-clogged and gland-swollen. Bleh. I wanted some time off but this isn't what I had in mind.
Started designing a "ranch" style house last night. It's sort of the same layout but just turned sideways and is only 2 rooms wide across the narrowest part of the house. If that makes sense. It's probably more practical as far as the size and orientation of the block and location of the road/driveway is concerned, but I'll have to work on it some more, I think, before I'm convinced.
I got some leftover chili out for dinner so I don't have to cook, but I'll have to send D down the street to get a few things for poorly little me. At least I have nice new pyjamas to loaf around in.
current mood:  sick
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(1 comment | comment on this) Saturday, July 11th, 2009
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lonita
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7:08a
Raison d'etre
In the grand scheme of evolutionary and genetic things, one might assume that nothing exists without some kind of existing, or previously existing, condition that would necessitate it - body hair to shield delicate skin, molars to tear meat (which in our wisdom we now have removed), et cetera.
Cockroaches, for example, as gross as we find them, serve the purpose of eating molds and the eggs of more dangerous filthy insect bastards.
The other night, as I was once again passing under the rail bridge by my work, the fumey atmosphere made me wonder what evolutionary purpose was served by the existance of the skunk.
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baxil
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3:04a
Meme llama approves
Tonight's piece of weekend frivolity: kinkyturtle gave me a W, so here's 10 things I like that start with W, plus a brief explanation for each one. If you respond to this message, I will give you a letter to do this -- in your own LJ, not in the comment section.
Meme mutation bonus: You are encouraged (but not required) to give your explanations in some form of constrained writing -- haiku; rhyming couplets; no words of two syllables; no use of the letter "e"; the first letter of each sentence has to spell MARBLECAKE; or just make some interesting rule up.
Writing -- What can I say? Language is exciting. Stories are powerful. I am a mere servant to my muse. I'm going to assume that by now you've all seen my fiction LJ and I have no need to plug it.
Worldbuilding -- I've been building up an urban-fantasy alternate Earth, piece by piece, for about ten years now. Above and beyond the dozens of short stories and multiple novels set there, I'm still slowly working on the setting's wiki and getting an overview of the whole thing in place. Why, did I just slip another W word in there? Yes, yes I did.
Wings -- I get vertigo on bridges and at the top of cliffs and buildings. It's not because I hate heights, it's because I'm at the mercy of gravity. My reflexive urge for flight doesn't mesh well with the knowledge that should I find myself in midair I'm only going to go in one direction.
Wolpertingers -- The Wolpertinger (Crisensus bavaricus) is a fictional animal said to inhabit the alpine forests of Bavaria in Germany. A horned rabbit similar to the American "jackalope", it is often also depicted with wings and fangs. Stuffed Wolpertingers, composed of parts of actual stuffed animals, are often displayed in inns or sold to aJ@K#$%RfgAFK#%n
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-- We interrupt this post to bring you breaking news: The world's most irregularly updated webcomic has just updated. Confirmation has been obtained. We repeat: MAAD HAS UPDATED.
Authorities are urging the public to remain calm.
This brings "My Afternoon: A Dramatization"s mean lifetime frequency to 0.0025 updates/day (MTBU = 484 days). Experts at the Center for Male Bovine Excretory Statistics believe that this may signal a resurgence in MAAD activity, but caution that it is still too early to draw conclusions.
current mood:  silly
current music: Janis Joplin, "Me And Bobby McGee"
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(10 comments | comment on this) Friday, July 10th, 2009
targaff
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11:52p
GAH!
Playing 3-handed (effectively heads up, since one was a sitter) in a 45 SNG, hit AA and get called. With a 5-2 off. And the bastard makes a straight.
current mood:  cranky
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(comment on this) Saturday, July 11th, 2009
sydneysiders
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4:24p
Room for rent ($150.00 p/w)
Punk metal thrash kind of person wanted as housemate in share house.
Enormous room, unfurnished. Great location, inner-city,
near shops, transport, Broadway, UTS/USYD uni, venues and hotels.
Share house with two people. Suitable for
a Single musical computer/geek creative kind of person.
Share expenses, cleaning, food etc. We have a Garage available too.
Previous applicants welcome to re-submit.
Leave your details for quick reply, thanks.
x-posted.
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tatterdemalion
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4:16p
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I am having a bad case of envy, the people next door have had a delivery of wood and they've been chopping and stacking all day. I can't even afford to have the heater on for more than a few hours every night, and even then thats stretching it.
current mood:  envious
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razorgirl_au
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3:45p
Taking Eyes Seriously
Two days ago I went to bed because my eyes were stinging. Last night my left eye was OK, but the whites of my right eye has gone red.
Today I called around to find a medical centre that was open, and was a little concerned when the Doctor saw my eye and excused himself to talk to a colleague about my condition, before making several phonecalls to eye specialist after eye specialist to get them to see me ASAP because, "it can't wait until Monday".
It didn't fill me with confidence and I'm trying really hard not to freak out.
The Doctor put drops in my eye and used a UV light to look in both my eyes: Look right, look left, look up... Suddenly my vision was filled with a yellow glow.
Part of my brain is freaking out, "how the hell am I going to have enough time to get everything packed if I'm having to spend several hours in a hospital. And what if I have to undergo surgery? I'm not going to be in any state to do packing if they have to operate..."
And then another part of my is freaking out with, "to hell with packing! Am I going to be able to see!!!!"
And then I breathe, and listen to Triple J's Hottest 100 of All Time, and take comfort in knowing that my appointment to go to the Emergency Eye Clinic is 11am tomorrow morning, not today. If it way THAT serious, he would have insisted on getting me in today. Right?
I have a wad of padding over my eye and eyes drops to use every hour.
If anyone can spare some hours to come and keep me company and to help me pack, that'd be tops.
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current mood:  scared
current music: #63: Thunderstruck, ACDC
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