2,658 Forum Posts by "SkunkyFluffy"
At 4/9/10 02:43 PM, SolInvictus wrote: i'd be curious about medical conditions, if not foul play, considering the number of countries whose ages of consent are from 12 to 14 yet don't receive any criticism.
and it isn't like there is a lack of clearer examples of child abuse through forced marriage in countries such as Yemen.
Yeah, it's really unusual for anyone to die from injuries related to sex. Even very small children who are violently raped by adults usually do not die. I'm guessing there was either some kind of underlying problem that made her bleed and her husband didn't get her medical attention, or something like that.
At 4/8/10 11:38 PM, fli wrote: Is the dough suppose to be doughy?
You said crumbly... so like... in actual crumbles? My came out quite smooth.
Not at all. Weird that it would come out that way. Maybe cut back on the butter some, I've found it varies a surprising amount.
Malachy, I don't know much about that particular area, other than the National Zoo itself. A quick jog up the Red Line to Dupont Circle, though, will bring you into an area with TONS of good places to eat, neat book stores, interesting shops, a decent pool hall...and a very fancy Church of Scientology, oddly enough.
It's also the neighborhood in DC where you are most likely to see men holding hands.
At 4/8/10 08:28 PM, fli wrote: Everyone liked it... although, I think next time I will use something else than blueberries.
I usually do either mixed berries or just blackberries. Strawberries by themselves are pretty tasty as well.
At 4/7/10 07:13 PM, Elfer wrote: With regards to cobbler: What Skunky described is something I would know as a "crisp." To me, a "cobbler" is the same thing, but with a biscuit dough topping instead. Probably just a regional thing.
I think the place I found the original recipe this is based on called it a crisp as well. I've also heard similar things referred to as "berry crumble."
My mom has this absolutely fucking amazing cobbler recipe, and she keeps telling me what goes into it, but I never have the chance to write it down and it's not easy-to-remember ratios like the one I posted. It's got baking soda in it and the "dough" gets all puffy, and you just dump the fruit into it and it creates this cobbler pocket thingie. It's fantastic. Nothing sticks to the pan.
Also, if you have plain yogurt and honey, a 50/50 mixture of the two makes an absolutely amazing topping for pretty much any savory fruit concoction.
Awesome cobbler recipe...
Topping:
1 part flour
1 part rolled oats
1 part packed brown sugar
1 part melted butter
Dash salt
For three people I did 3/4 cup of each.
Filling:
2-3 parts fruit
A few tablespoons of white sugar to sprinkle
Oven at 350. Dump the fruit in the bottom of a loaf pan, or whatever you've got. Combine all the ingredients in the topping mixture and crumble it over the top. Slap it in the oven for 30 minutes.
Let cool 5-10 minutes, then enjoy your hot sweet delicious cobbler.
You're welcome :)
Making out is one thing, but going any further requires the removal of those costumes, and like I said, they're a huge pain in the ass to remove. The Catwoman costume is PVC-coated spandex, which doesn't stretch much. Even leather is easier to put on and take off.
Plus if you've been wearing it all day, you're usually fairly miserable. Doesn't exactly put you in the mood to do much.
The only costume I've ever gotten busy in was a $40 Little Red Riding Hood costume from Party City. ;)
At 4/3/10 09:57 AM, FUNKbrs wrote: Just because you're offended by the concept of furries doesn't mean it still wouldn't be totally hot to watch two chicks in Cat Woman and Psilock suits going at it.
The costumes are also insanely uncomfortable, difficult to remove, and hard to clean, so there's really more of a practical side to it.
My seed packets arrived yesterday. Unfortunately I caught the crud that my husband has been dealing with for the past week, so it doesn't bode too well for the weekend.
Even from death's door, though, I will plant those seeds this weekend. The weather is going to be beautiful.
No sex in costumes is the rule around here, so you can wipe that fantasy right out of your head. ;)
Nope, that is exactly what I meant.
I get hit on by hot femme girls when I have short hair and big butch diesel dykes when I have long hair.
Then again, I have been known to dive, so maybe they're not entirely wrong to hit on me...
At 3/30/10 01:49 PM, Elfer wrote: Shame they don't put your profile pic up no mo'.
Yeah, when I was UOTD they were still doing it, and I got a shitload of PMs from random guys going "Hurr hurr you're a chick, will you blow me?"
It wasn't even a sexy picture of me.
Oh, internet. Stay classy.
I have decided that I hate it when strangers put their face in my dog's face and make kissy noises at him. There are dogs that would rip your fucking face off if you did that - it's totally stupid to approach a strange dog that way. My dog is too nice to rip someone's face off. But it annoys me none the less.
So I have been teaching him that kissy noises means "Lick my face." I wasn't sure he was really getting it, but on Sunday we took him to a meeting of the rescue group and a lady was making kissy noises at him, and he gave her a big ole slurp.
It was awesome.
I love teaching my dog things like this. I'm such a bad person.
I just ordered $70 worth of flower seeds for my butterfly garden. I may be a teensy bit obsessed with my yard.
The 50% statistic is misleading. 50% of marriages end in divorce, yes. But that doesn't mean 50% of married couples divorce. Many of the divorcees who make up that statistic will be married and divorced multiple times, which artificially inflates the numbers. If you have been divorced before, you are significantly more likely to divorce again than someone who has never gotten divorced.
Just thought I would throw that out there. I think the 50% statistic is heavily abused. A fine example of twisting the facts to suit the message.
At 3/20/10 08:35 PM, SevenSeize wrote: I frickin love all the museums up there, but air and space is my favorite.
Have you been to the annex, or just the original one downtown?
Well, I suppose you could say I know a fair bit about the area, seeing as I've lived here since 2003 ;)
One key thing that I think a lot of people don't understand is that you really can't do more than 2-3 museums in a single day, even with the extended hours. Likewise you shouldn't try to do the monuments and more than one museum in a single day. But you can do the majority of the Mall over a three-day period if you show up when the museums open and plan carefully.
Oh, and Mal - the Natural History Museum just celebrated their 100th anniversary by opening the new Hall of Human Origins. It looks really cool. We're definitely going to try and get in to see it soon. I'm working over in McPherson Square, so the fellas might just come meet me after work. Extended hours start the 26th and go on pretty much throughout the summer.
If you're going to be up on the Hill to see the Capitol and the LOC you should stop off at the National Botanic Garden as well. You can get through it in 30-40 minutes if you don't linger, but I usually spend an hour in there. If you're going to be there in the early part of April they'll still have the big annual orchid exhibit (ends the 11th) but even if it's done there are still tons of orchids in the permanent collection. The chocolate exhibit runs until August.
Have a meal at Hawk and Dove while you're at it. It's where all the poor congressional interns go to drink. Awesome crab soup.
At 3/19/10 09:12 PM, Malachy wrote: I'm going to Washington, D.C. in April for a conference and I'm all excited for it. It's a geography conference and I'm a political science/history contract, but it looks like our whole trip will be paid for by the school, and I'm the only one interested in visiting the capital so I emailed my senator asking about tours for the supreme court, the capital, and the library of congress.
You don't need any kind of introduction from your senator to visit the LOC - it's open to the public, and if you want access to the reading rooms and the stacks you just have to go get an ID card. Takes about fifteen minutes. Most people just go to the Jefferson Building and look around the big fancy atrium area, then go up to the viewing platform over the main reading room.
Definitely try to get in to see the National Archives.
At 3/11/10 05:32 AM, fli wrote: Maybe flat beer would be okay.
I don't know about birds, but alcohol is extremely dangerous for small mammals. It's a system depressant, and it doesn't take very much at all for them to go into respiratory failure after ingesting it. The couple of laps of Goldschlager my rat had was enough to make him act crazy as hell, but even as much as a tablespoon would potentially be enough to kill him.
At 3/10/10 09:49 PM, Proteas wrote: Although I do find the idea of a drunk rat very amusing.
My stepson let van Buren drink some Goldschlager once. He mostly got super hyper and bitey and then curled up in his house and passed out.
Giving rats beer is bad for them in other ways than just the danger from the fizz. I was in no way looking for a "safe" way to give my rat beer - he stood up on his hind legs and knocked over a bottle and I had to snatch him up to keep him from drinking it.
At 3/10/10 09:16 PM, Proteas wrote: A belch is just the same kind of gas going up the digestive tract and out the mouth, instead of going down and out becoming a fart.
So if they can't belch, they might explode. :-D
This is why rat owners are advised never to let their pets get into anything carbonated - it can literally rupture their intestines.
Of course, rats love beer, and will do ANYTHING to get some, even though it could bust their guts open.
I don't know about farting, but I know rats can't belch.
Just be careful to move quickly. If you leave duct tape on fabric for more than a few moments it can leave gummy stuff behind.
At 3/9/10 09:00 PM, Malachy wrote: I took chemistry instead of physics, biology or ecology. They let us choose after a year of earth science and a year of physical science (which were honestly pretty much the same, but since one had a regents exam....)
Still, is it not completely ludicrous that flatulence might be caused by the "expansion" of certain foods in the body? The laws of thermodynamics and general properties of matter would not permit it, even if human biology somehow could.
At 3/9/10 07:22 PM, Jon-86 wrote: Doesn't some food expand more because of digestion and that's why you need to fart?
Flatulence is caused by bacteria in your intestines which produce gaseous waste while consuming substances your body can't digest.
Didn't anyone else here take basic high school biology?
I think it might actually be springtime soon...
At 3/5/10 03:31 AM, Korriken wrote: I don't see how that's even possible to not like Okra.
It's the texture more than anything.
That's french, there is a difference. both tend to have a foul body odor, love of cooking, and are decadent as hell, but that's where the similarities end.
As a Southern woman with no French influences, I say you're full of crap. Putting booze in things is far from a solely French ideal.
