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SCORE! Now I shall run round the field with my shirt over my head.
Well, it all depends on whether you are playing for Arsenal, or Bristol City.
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Let me toss this lit cigarette into the mix:
Palin could easily deal to these scurrilous rumours by releasing the birth certificate and possibly a photo or video segment of the birth (since I'm sure even in ye olde Alaska they're up with the new technology) BUT chooses not to because it suits her to let the fire build because it will all blowback on the Left when she finally does (deal to the rumours).
And yes, it seems ludicrous that a Political figure should have to go to such lengths ('here's my birthing video') but that sadly is the world we live in. The floodgates were opened by those ludicrous impeachment hearings the Right sicced on Clinton all those years ago.
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Is the most interesting thing about Palin that she doesn't really like Republicans very much?
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she'll deliver at ten, or even ten and a half months, and nobody will find that odd
Um, but 40 weeks does = 10 months, and "about five months" is not a particularly precise number. I'll happily wait for Palin's medical records to clear everything up. And then I'll look forward to her statement about the unwiseness of flying while in pre-term labour.
Meanwhile, there are plenty of other things to talk about. Carry on.
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Um, but 40 weeks does = 10 months.
Sure. That's why November and December consist of six weeks each.
This thread is becoming Orwellian.
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Not Orwellian, just Gregorian vs Lunar. 10 lunar months. 9 calendar months + a week. Whatever, it's fungible enough for the purposes of the conspiracy theory.
Which I would like to see derailed asap by a detailed (and easily supplied) rebuttal from Palin and co. In the meantime, I remain curious. As our Dear Leader so eloquently put it, "Fool me once, uh [shrug] shame on you... uh... Fool me ...You can't get fooled again."
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Not Orwellian, just Gregorian vs Lunar. 10 lunar months. 9 calendar months + a week. Whatever, it's fungible enough for the purposes of the conspiracy theory.</quote>
You are fucking kidding me, right? You must be.
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Sigh. No, I'm not kidding, I wouldn't kid about anything as serious as calendars and their quirks. Srsly.
Look at any pregnancy book: the "first month" is sometimes defined as 4, sometimes six weeks. And every "month" thereafter is 4 weeks long. The "fifth month of pregnancy" is not necessarily the same as "five months pregnant," and nor does either of those necessarily mean "five months by the calendar."
I'm not an idiot. It's jargon.
And it is for this (very confusing) reason that pregnancies are conventionally delineated in weeks. Anything else makes conspiracy theorists get all excited about things that are unlikely but just plausible enough to get them hot under the collar. That's all. No need for the strong language - I'm a delicate creature.
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Giovanni needs a hug.
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No need for the strong language - I'm a delicate creature.
Not delicate enough not to lend rope to a whacky, anti-woman, disgusting piece of slander involving a teen, and to keep coming back for more after it's been disproven fifteen times in the space of twenty-four hours (what happened to yesterday's photo, btw, the one taken -according to Russell - in 2003, except it wasn't?), disputing what 'five months' means even though by any metric and pregnant-woman-speak variation it can't mean anything less than young Bristol giving birth, ovulating, bonking and getting pregnant in the space of one week.
Your suggestion that Palin should come to you with her medical records takes the cake. Why in the world would she do that? Why lend credibility to such a repulsive and completely unsubstantiated rumour? People didn't use to have to defend themselves against that sort of thing, not from our side at least. There was a threshold of whatchamacallit... decency, that made us not go there.
And besides, what good would it do? Good ol' Jolisa would quickly come to the conclusion that these records are not worth the paper they are written on, just like the opinion of her doctor on the risks she took flying home to have her baby are not worth the breath they were spoken with. And why not? Compared to the suggestion that they might be measuring Bristol's pregnancy according to the lunar calendar, this would be a fairly reasonable argument.
As NASA well knows, there's nothing harder than proving we went to the moon. And so it goes. Except I'm a lot less concerned about the hurt feelings of Armstrong et al. than I am about a young woman and frankly her mother too, who doesn't deserve any of this, not matter how much I might despise her personal politics.
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Giovanni needs a hug.
I do so need a hug.
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Look at any pregnancy book: the "first month" is sometimes defined as 4, sometimes six weeks. And every "month" thereafter is 4 weeks long.
kinda like how we measure horses in 'hands' right?
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kinda like how we measure horses in 'hands' right?
Horses and Bristols, they're both measured in Hands.
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Not delicate enough not to lend rope to a whacky, anti-woman, disgusting piece of slander involving a teen, and to keep coming back for more after it's been disproven fifteen times in the space of twenty-four hours (what happened to yesterday's photo, btw, the one taken -according to Russell - in 2003, except it wasn't?)
I think everyone's long decided that rumour had no basis in fact. You can let it go now Giovanni. I saw no slander on this site, just questions, many of which seem to have now been answered.
disputing what 'five months' means even though by any metric and pregnant-woman-speak variation
I'm 48 years old. And even though I'll be 49 in two weeks time, I'm in my 48th year & have been since last September.
At least that's what I think Jolissa is getting at.
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I do so need a hug.
:) You deserve one.
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Actually, my dear, [whispers] you're already in your 49th year and you'll be in your 50th year in a couple of weeks. But looking good!
Yes, that's more or less what I'm getting at. Thank you.
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Actually, my dear, [whispers] you're already in your 49th year and you'll be in your 50th year in a couple of weeks.
Aww... kick an old man when he's down whydontcha.
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Horses and Bristols, they're both measured in Hands.
High five!
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That tricky year zero. ALways gets me. ALthough I personally celebrated the turn of the millennium at the end of 2001 & I was wondering where the fireworks were.
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High five!
Nathan is my favourite.
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I like the one with the pigtails who broke his heart.
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I think everyone's long decided that rumour had no basis in fact. You can let it go now Giovanni.
Jolisa obviously hasn't, seeing as she keeps banging on about it. And I would let it go if I could, except I appear powerless to stop myself.
I'm 48 years old. And even though I'll be 49 in two weeks time, I'm in my 48th year & have been since last September.
They stated that Bristol is five months pregnant, not that she's in her fifth month of pregnancy.
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Because pregnant women always know exactly how pregnant they are?
I'm not "banging on about it," I'm trying to puzzle out the basis for the enthusiastic embrace of it. It's meta.
And I don't strictly speaking need a hug, but I would like one. A group one? Then we could "let go" and attend to the more important topics. Like bristols and hands and Andrew's birthday party.
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Aww... kick an old man when he's down whydontcha.
Sorry, shouldn't have done that, even with slippers on. Very august occasion though, for a calendrical pedant (I was celebrating with you in 2001). Many happy returns.
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WH,
I think I agree with Stephen, Giovanni and Don. Palin seems to have weaknesses as a VP, but this doesn't sound very post partisan or conjure much in the way of hopes and dreams.
I am up to page 15 of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Zen Living, and this is not very eightfold path.
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