Seasons

This is a forum or general chit-chat, small talk, a "hey, how ya doing?" and such. Or hell, get crazy deep on something. Whatever you like.

Posts 5,536 - 5,547 of 6,170

16 years ago #5536
I meant that I would never quit my job over lowering the flag, but that's not actually what I said. So anyway. Principles can go by the wayside when logistics intervene. Now that makes me feel like a bad person.

Probably because I admit to chastity. I am a freak. I know, because when (and I am 42 years old now) I go to the er and they want to take an x-ray, they ask what birth control am I on and I say, none, I don't need any, they always do a pregnancy test. I am much more averse to doctors than I am to bot holidays. I'm just cranky.

16 years ago #5537
The Clerk wrote:

...they ask what birth control am I on and I say, none, I don't need any, they always do a pregnancy test.

That's terrible!

What does "TMI" mean?

I don't think there's anything wrong with celibacy.

16 years ago #5538
Clerk, there is nothing freaky about your choices. People have a right to not do as much as to do. I admire you for making choices most people around you may not make.

If it makes you feel better, in other times an unmarried woman would be expected to be celibate, and those who chose otherwise would be considered social outcasts. Now it seems what was once so strictly denied is shoved down our throats. You have every right to not have sex, and it's nobody's business but yours. There is nothing freaky but the situation where people judge you for such a normal and personal decision.

If your local ER does routine pregnancy tests without your consent even when you tell them you are not sexually active, I would think they are courting a lawsuit. No doubt they missed a pregnancy at one point and were sued for that, making them overcompensate (why can't administrators get the idea of case by case judgment instead of one set of rules for everyone even though everyone is not the same?). Unless you are mentally questionable (and who isn't?) I think they should take your word on it, and maybe make you sign a paper that you have no risk of pregnancy.

I don't use the pill either as my hormones are wacky enough on their own and condoms can help prevent STDs. If some doctor started doing pregnancy tests without my consent because I don't follow what they think women should all do, everyone in that ER would get an earful at the least. Expectations are strange things, no? I hope this doesn't insult you, but try getting some religious symbol (cross, star, pentagram--whatever) because for some reason people will allow you to choose more freedom not to have sex or to have less sex if you invoke a god or two. Anyhow, you are not a freak--some people are just idiots.

16 years ago #5539
Irina: TMI = Too Much Information

16 years ago #5540
Bev, thanks. I had a really nasty doctor interaction yesterday, which probably explains my rant on a bot forum.

16 years ago #5541
Cerk, Wait, we need a reason to rant now? (Yeah, you can tell I've been bored the last few days and here a lot more than I should be too).

16 years ago #5542
What if the baby is possessed by demons and will rain down the fires of hell upon you. That's not possession, that is what babies do. It's grandparents revenge.
disapprove of every war since the invention of bombs and artillery
NO DUH! Life would be much better if young men could stop killing young men, and old men try to die in glory by destroying cities.
averse to doctors. some need mental health evaluations, if you ask me.
what about poverty and pollution
YEP! EVIL.
CelibacyCelibacy is much better than a lousy relationship.

16 years ago #5543
Nah, Bev, you keep the masses entertained. I might get out of this chair if you didn't keep it up.

16 years ago #5544
Prob123 (message 5542):

Well, you are indeed consistent, and, IMHO, correct.

16 years ago #5545
Irina, now you are the peace maker and I am blatantly looking for debates. I didn't mean to troll. Sometimes I am just in a mood and this is one of the few forums that doesn't answer an argument with "STFU!" or the like. (That's a generalization about other Internet sites but I am convinced my generalizations are warranted at some level all the same). I think I and scaring the new people though. I will try to back off the attack mode and update the silly bots.

LoL @ Prob123. So are babies born evil then? Or is the evil only their parents' karma?

16 years ago #5546
YES, we are born evil, and it is fully refined in the two year old. We spend the rest of our lives trying to do the right thing but still succumb to the seductive call of a hot fudge sundae.

16 years ago #5547
I was going to answer the call of Cthulhu, but the machine picked it up, and evil never leaves a number where it can be reached. Honestly, I respect evil, Prob, especially the pure ego evil of a toddler. It's the luke-warm "I'm not really evil" evil or the "lesser of two evils" evil that I object to . Nothing worse than evil that does not know it's place. Once evil admits it's evil, I can accept it and move on to the cake.


Posts 5,536 - 5,547 of 6,170

» More new posts: Doghead's Cosmic Bar