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Playboy Turns Down 'Real Housewife' Michaele Salahi Spread {PopEater}
Apr 19th 2011 4:32PM Playboy - the magazine for men with sagging nuts to ogle stuff they can't get anymore. At least not without paying for it.
Kara DioGuardi: I Was Date Raped by Well-Known Music Producer {PopEater}
Apr 19th 2011 4:20PM I want to know who this "hugely successful artist" is.
Do Moms Make Better Employees? I, a 'Childless Woman,' Think Not {Lemondrop}
Sep 10th 2010 2:48AM Mother Teresa - no kids - definitely not cold, calculating, sad or mad.
My sister - two kids, cold, calculating, sad and mad.
The London article is garbage.
Author Urges Parents To Quit Hovering {ParentDish}
Oct 3rd 2009 12:39PM True - but back in the day no one was promoting pedophilia (note all the "young model" websites on the net) and there weren't all these strange diseases (CFIDS, AIDS, Flesh eating bacteria).
I think children should be allowed to take risks - I grew up at a time when I was able to roam the area unsupervised, my parents were never home when I got back, the kids would organize and play baseball (unsupervised), no bike helmets, no seat belts, etc.
However, some boundaries have been broken or erased regarding sex. I would tend to worry more about pedophiles, though they did exist when I was growing up - but back then, it wasn't being promoted. Now it is (in subtle ways).
Moreover, the sexualization of childhood is pushed in the schools, along with PC thought control. Children now are WAY more sophisticated than I ever was about something that shouldn't concern them until they reach high school.
It may be true that a public school these days is not the greatest place to leave your children. Has anyone ever considered this as part of the problem?
Nick Cave Gets Seedy in 'The Death of Bunny Munro' {Spinner}
Sep 7th 2009 1:28AM More ramblings of a drunk. Like Norman Mailer wasn't enough.
Phil Spector Terrified of His Fellow Inmates {Spinner}
Aug 22nd 2009 2:35PM Not true - you don't have to be nuts to be an artist. This is a misconception.
Spector's problem like most of the nutcase inmates he is dealing with is addiction. Brain damage from addiction is what would make an inmate fight over something as trivial as a bag of soup. It would also explain Spector's "I am above the rules" stance that got him there in the first place.
Heathrow annoying, Americans rude according to some social network {Gadling}
Feb 23rd 2009 1:28PM Yes - everytime I've returned to the US, the welcoming party I get at immigration (and I'm a born citizen w/ American born parents) has been nothing short of cold and abrupt. I'm surprised we have so many illegals here in spite of that. Maybe they save it for the citizens.
Government lists of "do not travel to" places {Gadling}
Jan 18th 2008 9:53PM Frankly, I appreciate the state dept advisories - I lived overseas in Asia for 10 years and sometimes find these things rather entertaining as well as useful. For example, the one on Guyana talked about the "choke and grab" assaults by cab drivers coming from the airport, something Mr. "Blue Sky" Rick Steves would never tell you for fear of looking politically incorrect.
Some sushi has more calories than a Mars Bar {That's Fit}
Jan 5th 2008 4:16PM I forgot to mention - Japanese women tend to overuse water pills - the humidity in that country tends to have an effect on women in terms of water retention - it is not unusual for foreign women to gain 10-15 lbs w/o trying. The water pill thing got notorious because of the predominance of gout which accompanied it. Japanese women were also buying Comtrex (sp?) which is a type of French water that has a lot of dissolved minerals. I used to think it was for health reasons, but I found out that they were buying it as a diuretic/laxative (weight loss again)
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Some sushi has more calories than a Mars Bar {That's Fit}
Jan 5th 2008 3:47PM I lived in Japan for 8 years - sushi is not an everyday food there. The Japanese diet tends to be heavy on deep frying (croquettes, fried oysters, fried shrimp, chicken and pork "katsu") and also ramen as well as slightly healthier food like soba. Dishes like curry rice (a football sized plate of rice with curry sauce with little itty pieces of meat) are common. Also okonomiyaki (fried egg omlettes with odd fillings), omlettes filled with rice and topped with ketchup, pizza toast, hamburger steak, etc. which don't come to mind as typical Japanese foods.
The Japanese tend to be thin in spite of it all because they don't overload with sucrose and high fructose corn syrup - they do not have a sweet tooth. Asians in general find the sugar content of some of our foods repulsive. Cookies in Japan, as well as candy, tend to be way lower in sugar than ours.
However, the high amount of carbs does not bode well - Japanese tend to have poor bone structure and frail bones which is evidenced by the frequency of crooked legs, bowed legs, pigeon toes, knock knees and other phenomena (bad teeth, bird like overall bone structure) which are quite evident if you live there for any length of time. Koreans tend to eat way more protein in the form of beef (they're more turf, the Japanese surf) - which results in sturdier bones.
Healthwise, the Japanese as well as the Chinese have very high rates of stroke. We tend to get heart attacks, they get stroke. There is also a very high rate of stomach cancer in Japan and Korea, and this may be due to the addition of talc in the rice to keep it from sticking in storage.
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