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    Wedding bands

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    Seems to me that all the men I see are wearing bands..believe me I LOOK!!!

    Almost all of my friends are guys and only one of them wears a wedding band - he's also the only married one.

     

    They're out there. :p

    Wedding bands

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    I was married for 5 years and wore my set 24/7 until I lost weight. They couldn't size the set any smaller and it spun around my finger and drove me insane. I think I went maybe a year total, when you add up all the months throughout the marriage, without wearing my ring. When it fit, it was on my finger at all times. Dxh wore his about the first 6 months. He 'hates rings', and didn't really wear it again after that.

    Howdy all.

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    YES! we'd say "excuse me...would you make me a pannini?"

     

    'Excuse me, would you please make me a pannini? While you're up, can you grab another bottle of wine?' -- in my best EC snob voice. ^_^

    Does anybdoy else use pandora or other "radio" stations

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    aint it just too cool? as pops would say, "who knew" guess we are oblivious to all the new tech crap but wish i could do this in the truck..just punch in Janis Joplin for a while and switch to Dexter Freebish in about ten mins..ha. Neato!!! (yes, i said, neato...we already discussed im getting old)

     

    ...if you get a crackberry (again...Blackberry. The phone. :p ) and get a nifty cable that hooks it up to your radio, you can listen to Pandora on your radio.

     

    The BF and I listened to it all the way to Blue Ridge and back last weekend. Type in Ray LaMontagne. You'll love it - it's my favorite 'station'.

    Does anybdoy else use pandora or other "radio" stations

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    Pandora addict over here - been using it for a loooong time at home, at work since I started there, and the BF has it on his crackberry (his phone :p ).

     

    You can do songs too, not just artists. So if I'm in the mood just for a certain type of love song, or 'i hate people' songs, I type in one of my favorites and it starts playing things similar.

    Plant lovers step in please step in

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    :lol: :lol: :lol:

     

    Me and your mom would get along great :lol:

     

     

    She finally, after me complaining about it so much, told me to take it with me. :blush: I used it to keep HR's stuffed animals in and forgot to take it when I moved out. Problem is that the wagon and HR won't fit in the back seat at the same time, so I keep forgetting to grab it. :ph34r:

    White African-American sues Medical school

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    The term "African American" may be intended by different people to mean different things, but the words themselves sound like an American-born person or citizen who has some African heritage to claim. Because it is so nebulous and so prone to multiple interpretations, though, it is an unwieldy term and one that I think does more harm than good.

     

    I remember reading about a young South African who became an American citizen and then applied for a scholarship designated for "African Americans." It is impossible to think of a person whose personal circumstances could be more perfectly described by that phrase, but because of the low levels of melanin in his skin, he was deemed ineligible to apply for the scholarship. I guarantee you that he had more claim to that designation than any number of other applicants who not only had never set foot in Africa, but whose parents had also never been near the continent.

     

    It is that kind of nonsense that reminds me how fragile our culture is... and how we have (perhaps permanently) damaged our melting pot. After the integration of the 60s and 70s, one would think we would not sanction the segregationist tendencies in our various cultures today. Not only do we see a tendency for new arrivals to the country (particularly illegals) to retain their allegiance and even the flag of their former home... our own native born population, after suffering through the movement to rid ourselves of "separate but equal," seems intent on reviving it and even revving it up several notches. I heard a story this past week about a family who refuses to buy anything unless the store is black-owned. How this differs from the racism Dr. King and so many others fought against I cannot fathom. If someone refuses to buy goods unless the seller is of a particular race... really? That's the culture we want to build? As Disney's Aladdin might sing, "It's a FUBU world -- a segregated point of view. I'll force you to confirm your epiderm, before I spend my FUBU bucks with you."

     

    Our melting pot has become an unattended and rotting salad bar. "American culture" has to mean something if we are to have a national identity, and right now... well... it means a lot less than it once did. That is a path away from the American exceptionalism that defined the 20th century... and it is apparently the direction that our current leaders wish us to take. Heaven help us.

     

    Thus endeth the sermon.

    ^_^

     

    I should have taken you into class for show and tell. :wub:

    White African-American sues Medical school

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    I have wondered this myself about the white skinned people from Africa.

     

    We just had two classes on this in Sociology. ^_^ According to my professor, who is just one person with one opinion, race and ethnicity have very little do to with each other. Race is physical attributes, like the color of your skin, while ethnicity is cultural. She described her race as black, because she was, indeed, back...but her 'ethnicity' was Panamanian-American, because she was raised and born in Panama but is a legal American now.

    We had a very white girl in the class that claimed her race as black - one of her parents was black. However, she claimed her ethnicity as French-American because she was raised in France and then came to America.

     

    It was an interesting class. I was one of the few simple white/American folks. ^_^

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