Posts by Lucy Stewart
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Lucy, I think you'd have liked my midwife. She told me that if parents told her they wanted their infant son circumcised, she gave them the scalpel and told them to do it their own fucking selves.
I'm a little bit in love.
To put this in context, a guy I knew had to have a medical circumcision as a sexually-active adult and was quite vehement about the disadvantages thereof, including to his sex life. Ever since then I've been just furious that we as a society accept the genital mutilation of babies - as long as they're boys - without question. Sure, they might not know the difference - but there IS a difference.
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And she wanted to know what, if anything, she should do differently. I'm thinking that pleasure is far more likely to be a consideration than aesthetics.
Definitely. There is also, in my experience, NOTHING more discomforting to watch than a demonstration of how stretchy the foreskin really is.
I dont think there's much "prefering" going on by owners? Considering the vast majority are performed on owners too young to choose...
I guess it's a combination of a) I find the fact that the owners aren't given the choice really fucking disturbing and b) since the vast majority of circumcised men *aren't* given a choice, it seems unfair to then pass judgement on it.
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circumcised / natural
I feel very strongly that my preferences in this area are beside the fucking point, as it were, compared to the preferences of the owner. Preferably the *adult* owner.
(Anecdotal discussion, however, suggests that women prefer whatever they've had more experience with.)
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@OhDear: Sounds reasonable, but doesn't explain why I am being charged ridiculously more for the exact same book in New Zealand than in the States. Same edition, same publisher, same author...twice the price in New Zealand. For example, at standard shipping rates, the latest Terry Pratchett book is US$16.99 on Amazon (ignoring the sale they're having right now.) Shipping would be US$9.98. Given current exchange rates, that is still significantly cheaper than the prices Whitcoulls gives me. Admittedly they have three, which is confusing; but Terry Pratchett hardbacks are usually $50-60 in the shop, and even if you take their lowest price ordering from Amazon is still cheaper if you assume Amazon's current sale price.
In short: it is cheaper to pay at least two thirds and up to more than 100% of the book's price in shipping and get it from America than it is to buy it in a New Zealand store. For the same book. With no caveats about a "small market" - Pratchett is an easy bestseller.
Please don't tell me that's not a wee bit screwed up.
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But then your data would keep changing.
Exactly. You can't make those sort of comparisons based on subjective data procured by estimate while you're distracted. That would be unfair. And, worse, inaccurate.
I'm sure Lucy will critique my methodology and unscientific sample, but I've found no correlation between penis size and being a skilled, attentive shagger.
Anecdotes are very well, but I'd prefer some sort of graph.
(Just in case: tongue firmly in cheek here, guys.)
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or insisting that students salute the flag like Merv Wellington did.
I don't think we even had a flag at my primary school (or my college, come to that.) Except that time we did the Olympics and had to be different countries and made our own flags and I got stuck with Eritrea. But I presume Merv Wellington was in favour of saluting the New Zealand flag in particular, rather than just whatever you happened to have around.
I'm not sure that they don't work for above average students. But they're not the ones who need help from the government.
They're also the ones who generally don't need standardised tests to show that they're doing well, rendering the whole exercise moot.
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However. I have never in my life had a conversation with a female friend in which we compared the sizes of various men's genitalia.
I've always wondered how we were supposed to be doing that. Do they think we keep tape measures stashed away for opportune moments?
(The scientist in me is busy going "And you'd need to take several measurements to account for different levels of blood flow. And possibly construct some sort of comparison chart for girth v. length. And possibly try and compare subjective to objective observations." The scientist in me is occasionally a little mad.)
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As you say, great infrastructure, and their relative underdog position here means they generally deliver better than Sphincterlogo.
I always liked Keith Ng's coinages regarding our major telecoms players - Telescum and Testicular.
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Yes, got my monthly phone/internet bill yesterday. Despite assuring me last month that there'd be no moving fee for those forced from their home by the Christchurch earthquake, I've been hit with a $60 charge. After 3+ years of regularly paying my bills, that really sucks.
Might be worth calling and escalating (or even making a media fuss). Taking Advantage Of Innocent Earthquake Victims is pretty bad publicity for any company, and it's not like telecomms companies usually need any more bad publicity.
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I would never, never, never call someone those names. I have never hated a woman enough to use those words on them. I have, however, called myself a slut. Proudly, really.
One thing I have noticed here, largely due to the whole California governer race dust-up, is that "whore" can be used as a very specific gendered insult for women with no actual reference to sexual promiscuity - i.e., when Jerry Brown's aide called Meg Whitman a whore, he didn't seem to be implying anything about her actual sex life, whereas in New Zealand usage it seemed to be restricted to an actual accusation of sluttitude, if it was used at all - if someone wanted to say that, they'd generally just say slut.
I find that deeply disturbing, the use of "whore" as a general gendered insult, and I'm not sure why.