^Swimming?

The school must have dropped Basic Intro to Common Sense from the curriculum. What happened to taking the SATs together or going to the same colleges or other normal teen girl pacts?

Che, I haven't the faintest to be honest. The candidates for liis: Italian (what does it mean then?) Somali (verb, to milk) English (list) I hope it's either English or Italian to fit my fancy

If "liis" is English, "isqor" is Somali, and "bilaa" is Arabic, that would make this the most concisely multilingual proverb ever :cool:

^Oh man, I shouldn't have watched that while eating. I had a professor who did almost exactly the same thing. "Mumble mumble mumble HEMOGLOBIN mumble mumble snicker mumble CATEGORICALLY mumble mumble mumble snort STEARIC HINDRANCE". Right down to the conspiratorial leaning forward when he's properly enunciating. Is it a regional thing?

^It should be simple enough to test. Give the researchers brain scans of men who identify as straight or gay and have them figure out which is which. I believe the difference is biological, but probably not genetic.

That's good Paragon. I had the opposite experience back when Benazir Bhutto was assassinated. No unpleasant dreams I could remember, but felt unaccountably sad the whole next day. Cadaan, just had a nap and you won't believe what happened at the PTA meeting I dreamed about. The kids are really gonna be unhappy come lunchtime!

^Apparently she's made a vow not to give you a chance until you're pulling a 6-figure salary, because of a run-in with another Faarax who got his macawis in a twist over her paycheck. These stories are so ridiculous.

The funny thing is I heard this on the alarm radio this morning, and was thinking I'd dreamed the whole thing.

He's actually her long lost brother!

Apparently the first time the plane flew over, the tribesmen were just staring up at it, no weapons and no body paint. This is the return trip, by which time they were ready for war. There's a tribe off Papua New Guinea that kills anyone who comes on to their island. Even fishermen from neighboring islands who accidentally land there.

It's hard to get work done when your email is down. 1. Let me quickly check email and then I'll get to work. 2. Email server down. 3. Wait 2 minutes, then go to step 1 Argh...

Isn't "utterly terrified" a bit strong? Attack by zombies: utterly terrifying. Relationship problems: vexing.

^Nah, the mouse is supposed to say something witty. Abtigiis is great for building up expectation but often doesn't deliver. Now Ngonge, don't disappoint.

^Well done. Today I saw a condor. Pretty amazing, but no one will believe me

LOL @ Al-qaeda grad school. Let's hope his advisor didn't approve the thesis with a big check mark! I'm pretty sure just about any simple figure you can draw can be traced back to some ancient god or another. Do you know the structure of the DNA double helix hearkens back to the caduceus of Hermes, the Greek god of something or other? Inside nearly every cell of your body!

Weak.

Serenity's probably searching the SOL rules page to see what she won. Ngonge, I think a Splenda rather than sugar, hmmm? CL, naw I don't trespass on another woman's kill. Enjoy your day guys. Unlike you lot I can't pretend to be working while at the computer this early in the morning.

LOL. Nice work Ibti. That was a good poker face there. Ngonge, should I fetch you a cuppa? I promise, no cyanide, I'm all out.

I think you trolls should see who can do the first post on page 500. It would be quite an accomplishment.

Ngonge, do you have anything vitriolic to get off your chest? You can take it back afterwards or pretend you didn't mean it Tell us what you really think of your colleagues, or that new shirt you got as a gift.

Well put, Ibti. LOL @ "arch-feminist". Abtigiis, perhaps I would pay attention to what you say if 1) it was insightful in anyway, and 2) you didn't keep editing your posts. It's kind of hard to respond to hastily written and re-written nonsense. What are you afraid of? If this is a topic for adults, I think the boys should recuse themselves.

Paragon, your about-face is heartening to say the least, going from lauding African women for rejecting 'emancipation' and embracing traditionally submissive gender roles to claiming to be interested in the viewpoints of female politicians, business women and academics, hardly what comes to mind when one thinks of "allocated gender roles". I can only assume your initial forays were a haphazard attempt at humor So do you want to edit your original blanket dismissal of feminism as a passing phase to add the qualifier that it is a particular strain of second-wave feminism in a particular field of academic research that you have trouble with? I do not know what your beef is with Anne Tickner. Maybe because I'm neither a gender studies major nor an IR scholar, your sudden jump to this topic leaves me baffled. I read "You just don't understand", a real struggle to be honest (brought back unpleasant memories of proofreading my sister's women's studies papers). The article's contents are not nearly so abrasive as the title suggests, give it a read. Tickner seems to be arguing that dismissing a feminist angle on the study of international relations is incorrect. If you can concede that environmentalism (seemingly a gender-neutral area) has been enriched by eco-feminism, then why would international relations, essentially a study of power, be any different? It takes even the most cursory glance at colonialism to immediately suggest enough PhD theses on power, gender, and the relationship between the colonizer and the colonized to fill a library. Tickner neatly sums it up thus: Feminist scholars claim that gender differences permeate all facets of public and private life, a socially constructed divide which they take to be problematic in itself; IR scholars, however, may believe that gender is about interpersonal relations between women and men, but not about international politics If this is "feminization of the variables of reality", then so is eco-feminism. At any rate, you would have a hard time convincing anyone that "international relations" has some reality distinct from human definitions, and traditionally human definitions have been male definitions. If a little injection of considered feminist opinion makes you wary, you should explain why. It's not as if international relations is chemistry or mathematics, and you don't see feminists trying to 'feminize' the atomic number of magnesium or whether 2+2=5 is correct. What gives? Anyway, I too find the traditionally feminist concerns of promoting human rights, alleviating poverty, and fighting injustice more compelling than the academic slugfests you humanities people engage in. Let's agree that at least SOME feminism isn't the passing fancy of bitter women and I'll go back to baiting Abtigiis

Paragon, your hopes regarding feminism speak volumes about you, but have little bearing on reality or the merits of feminism. If you are unaware of any discussions in Africa about women's rights, perhaps this is because no woman wants to have such a discussion with someone who feels that a struggle for human rights, justice or parity is a "passing phase".

Yeah, spring ends June 20th or 21st.