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Comment on Let’s talk thrifty by Kyso Kisaen

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:45:31 +0000

Depends on the veggies. I have a pretty good co-op within walking distance, and the eggs are so local they’re actually laid near where I’m living now.

maru and batsu, as far as I know, are not in common English usage. We need to change that.

Comment on Let’s talk thrifty by Quin

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:53:27 +0000

Gyah. I just saw how deftly I have managed to fulfill a popular liberal stereotype. “Why cut coupons, when you can order a weekly organic food package?” Sorry about that. I think my current monetary circumstances might just be a WEE bit too cush. But– how out of touch am I? Does 15 bucks a week for eggs and veggies sound expensive?

Comment on Checking in. by Quin

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:15:05 +0000

“Share with us your twatdom” is a phrase I’m pretty sure I can’t get away with, so I won’t try.

Yeah, that’s the worst thing about traveling, that you can never express your experiences in any meaningful way to people afterward. Even photos don’t help– sometimes people pretend they want to see your photos, but they hardly ever mean it.

Comment on Let’s talk thrifty by Quin

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:07:24 +0000

I’m not exactly Mr. Thrifty, but… I recently read some rhapsodic waxing about ceiling fans saving energy costs, if you don’t have any in your new place already. Also– I don’t really know what the price for this kind of service is in America right now, but I get a package of locally grown organic veggies and eggs sent to my place once a week. It’s quite inexpensive if you don’t specify what particular veggies you want– I just have a general order for 1500 yen worth of veggies to come every week, whatever’s in season. I’m definitely saving money on the deal. Since I hardly go to the grocery store any more– nearly everything I need comes in the weekly box– I’m no longer so susceptible to seeing something on the store shelf and impulsively deciding “yeah, I probably need that too, actually”.

Have “maru” and “batsu” entered common English usage? I had no idea.

Comment on Let’s talk thrifty by Erin

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:17:56 +0000

I definitely enjoy the 3M window film’s ability to prevent injury from glass fragments due to terrorism.

Cut out the cable, wrap your water heater (but have the landlord do it if it’s gas or oil-fired), clip coupons but don’t use them until the grocery store puts the stuff on sale, try growing some of your food. Borax is a good toilet bowl cleaner, though it’s curvy-neckless.

Comment on Checking in. by Thene

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 05:07:34 +0000

Share with us your twatdom! I miss me some Western Europe Pls to tell all.

Comment on Turns out, marrying just anybody is no longer a workable long-term solution. by Courtney

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:20:08 +0000

I must say… I really don’t think this is a gender-specific thing. I am the child of two married parents, and my mother is the one who decides what we eat and when, what we do, who we talk to, when someone gets special treatment (like foot rubs), where we go and when, etc.

Feminism so often points toward the evils of men, but it doesn’t always have to be that way and I don’t see this as an ‘oppressed women’ issue. All people in a coupled relationship should have enough respect for their other half to be considerate and understanding, and if it takes a little extra effort, so be it.

Comment on “Ilk!” by The Cynic Sage

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:24:55 +0000

“Blowzy”?

I don’t know what that means, but it sounds hot.

Comment on I never thought I’d say this. by anna

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:25:43 +0000

Maybe you could vote Cynthia McKinney (Green Party.)

Comment on I never thought I’d say this. by Quin

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:59:46 +0000

Yo, John, I have the strong suspicion you’re just going around pasting the same essay in comment sections all over the place, but I DO feel that this is a subject people should be talking about more, so… Please feel free to stop by in a more personal way next time.

We all agree that slavering in this country was wrong; as was the decimation of the Native American populations. We all agree that the Holocaust and several other other acts of genocide in the twentieth century were wrong. So when will we finally admit that American military intervention in the Middle East is also wrong?

Plenty of us already do, baby, trust me. We’re just not the ones steering the boat. We’re not even allowed near the wheel.

By the way, it’s worth noting that none of the specific atrocities you mention– not slavery, not the decimation of Native Americans, not the atom bombs dropped on Japan, not even the Holocaust– were widely considered atrocities by their perpetrators at the actual time they were occurring. It was only after the fact that some people gained some perspective (though even now, they each have their own vocal apologists, defenders, or denialists). Historically, any given group of people seems to be incapable of recognizing their own evil as they do it. So why should we, today, expect to be any different? That’s just egoism.

Hey Lisa, sorry I’ve been steadily pushing your thread further and further OT. I gotta stop commenting so much and just write some damn posts of my own already. I guess I just feel more comfortable tossing in cheap shots from the peanut gallery.