^I think Lily meant photo albums, not the profile picture. The privacy settings for each album can include or exclude certain friends. Hang in there Stoic. Get a small space-heater to keep warm in your room. If there's one thing I hate, it's trying to focus while feeling cold.

Hmmm, I was thinking you were talking about February 12th. Now that is a terrible terrible day. Sorry your day didn't work out so well. But really, your ex probably drives by your house 11 times every evening hoping you will see him with the new girl (that's why she wasn't smiling). Also, it's a good idea to snub the crush every now and then, gives them something to think about. And FINALLY you probably saved yourself from buying something on impulse, so your money will be waiting for you tomorrow for a more rewarding purchase. Counsellor Cara over and out.

If it's a clear night sky wherever you are (especially NA), take a look at the crescent moon. The two really bright "stars" are actually Venus and Jupiter. If you look closely at the moon, you should also be able to see the shadow of the whole moon. Pretty cool eh?

It's hard to believe Beyonce ever had any reason to feel this way, but what a great tune: If I Were A Boy

Right Val. Statham would make folding laundry look like an intense battle for life and limb. Well done on the big event! I don't know how you do it, I can't organize a night out with 3 girls...

Protocol, I think I would prefer the Echo to that Mercedes. At least finding the door handle wouldn't be an exciting mystery at 2 AM in the morning in an empty parking lot :confused:

^muqmad, muqmad. Sounds like one of those fancy foreen words. Don't you mean oodkac, you fifth columnist?

Hmmm, I never quite understood the idea of being proud to be from a certain place. It's not as if you CHOSE to be from Somalia after carefully considering China, Greenland and Chile. Or as if Somalia chose YOU out of many candidates and a lengthy application process. Patriotism is not rational, but I suppose it's natural. I think of nationality as an accident of birth. I'm not proud of my height, or that I like pineapples, or that my hair is brown. Yet I like my hair color, mostly because it's familiar. When I look in the mirror every morning, I expect to have brown hair. If I suddenly had blond hair or purple hair I would feel a little panicky. I like being around Somalis for the same sense of familiarity, but I don't assume my allegiance is limitless or unconditional. There are certain advantages to being from Somalia, and certain disadvantages. To admit that to yourself is not treasonous. To deny it, on the other hand, is just plain crazy. But instead of passively feeling pride or shame, why don't we all try to behave in a way that would make us proud? Achieve what you dream Somalis would be renown for, avoid what you wish Somalis wouldn't be infamous for.

^Waxaa geeya the young women their age won't give them the time of day, so they are desperate too. Birds of a feather SS, repeat after me: come to mama

^Expect private correspondence from me in 3...2...1...

^Please don't let it Che. I went to the theater just wanting to see SOMETHING because I had free movie tickets. When we showed up, the only thing that was going to be playing in the next half hour was Twilight. My friend called her roommate and asked her if it was good. The roommate said it was okay, but that the actors were eye candy I had never heard of it before, and I never saw the trailer, Isis. There were a couple of chubby teenage girls sitting in front of us who gave us dirty looks when we burst out laughing at the wrong parts though.

Hello trollers. I just found out the third movie in the The Transporter series is out this weekend. I need something to help me recover from last weekend's gag-inducing Twilight :mad:

Hello CL. I think you will appreciate this joke: ---- A husband and wife came for counseling after 20 years of marriage. When asked what the problem was, the wife went into a passionate, painful tirade listing every problem they had ever had in the 20 years they had been married. She went on and on and on: neglect, lack of intimacy, emptiness, loneliness, feeling unloved and unlovable, an entire laundry list of unmet needs she had endured over the course of their marriage. Finally, after allowing this to go on for a sufficient length of time, the therapist got up, walked around the desk and, after asking the wife to stand, embraced and kissed her passionately as her husband watched with a raised eyebrow. The woman shut up and quietly sat down as though in a daze. The therapist turned to the husband and said, "This is what your wife needs at least three times a week. Can you do this?" The husband thought for a moment and replied, "Well, I can drop her off here on Mondays and Wednesdays, but on Fridays, I fish."

Lily, I thought of that, but the problem is they are picking me up and dropping me off. LOL @ Ngonge. You make having kids sound so appealing

Men think that women think about what men think women think about Whew.

Stoic, the troll corner itself seems to be experiencing a bridging of East-West divide. Must be a transition period. Haday wada dididoonan. Today I'm supposed to have TG meal with friends, but I reached my socializing quota for the month. It's too late to call off but I want to cut it short. Any ideas? Food poisoning is out.

^Yeah! Hopefully with all the slackers away I can get some work done. You know, I finally understand Pucca's obsession with the Koreans. If a toothless 80 year old grandpa promised me hae mul pajun everyday I would be proposing already. I will name our first child Kimchi.

It could just be that stepmothers were more common than stepfathers. Women often died in childbirth, leaving their husbands with young children that need mothering. Some hapless woman marries Mr. Widower, but she would never be good enough for her stepchildren compared to their sainted late mother. Much resentment and demonization ensues. Think about it, if your mother scolds you, she's just looking out for you. If your stepmother scolds you she is about to feed you a poisonous apple, abandon you in the woods with only breadcrumbs to guide you home, or force you to slave away in the kitchen while she goes dancing at Prince Charming's little soiree. Not only were stepfathers comparatively rare, but they are also less likely to be involved in day-to-day child rearing. Most stories of stepfathers claim that they are either emotionally distant or sexually predatory.

Lily, it's sort of like a reverse troll of the Troll Corner :confused:

LOL @ Geel_Jire. Yes, it's definitely a bargaining chip, and I can see why the guys would be sore about losing it. But the way to understand it is this: a woman who demands a divorce because her husband wants to marry another woman is NOT denying him his rights. He is perfectly free to marry another woman, and to even have two wives at the same time. It's just that she does not want to be part of that arrangement. A man can retain the right to marry multiple wives, and a woman can opt out of a marriage for any number of reasons. The two are perfectly compatible, unlike our erstwhile couple

Geeljire, think of a standard car. There's space for the driver, and 4 seat belts. Legally the driver can have 4 passengers in his car, but he cannot force any one passenger to stay in the car. I'm pretty sure marriage, even polygamous marriage, is supposed to work on the same principle, with every participant being willing adults. So a man can shop around until he finds a woman who's okay with bed-hopping, but no particular woman is obligated to be one of his wives.

^He started it!

^ Not everyone still lives with their momma rudy.

LayZie, maybe it works differently in Canada, but in the States and much of Europe, "nationalist" IS a euphemism for "white supremacist". For example, the BNP is not opposed to ALL immigration, just to non-white immigration. They think non-whites are biologically and morally inferior to whites. It's one thing to play devil's advocate and another thing to try to brow-beat people into sympathizing with bigots. That said, I also think subjecting these people to harassment will be counter-productive and unlikely to change their minds about brown people.

^ Link And abstract of paper being cited. What I find interesting is that people don't even have to see the criminal in action (the classic idea of a 'bad influence'). Just seeing the graffiti or litter is enough to make one more likely to commit an unrelated crime. So I wonder at a lot of Somali parents, who are careful to vet their children's friends, but opt to live in less than desirable neighborhoods...