skivveez

@skivveez (38)

United States • Age 40

Joined myLot 17 years ago

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This makes me so mad!!!

indywahm @indywahm (808) • United States 8 Feb 07

I do laundry for us every single day!! I am doing 1 to 2 loads a day for the 5 of us. Well my kids still complain in the morning getting ready for school that they have nothing clean to wear and that "Mom, never does laundry!"...

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skivveez Wow. I would never even think of just yelling at my mom to get me a drink. By the time I was 13, my parents (jokingly) told me that part of the reason they had me was so they wouldn't have to handle all the chores by themselves. Good luck with handling...

8 Feb 07

Is yawning contagious?

g_aileen09 @g_aileen09 (1354) • Philippines 5 Feb 07

Have you experienced yawning too when you see somebody yawn? Is yawning contagious?

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skivveez Good callout. I love the show mythbusters, but they will sometimes declare a myth busted way too prematurely. Especially myth's like "is it possible to do ....", the result will sometimes be, well we couldn't do it, so it must not be possible. Still, the...

8 Feb 07

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racism in academia?

skivveez @skivveez (38) • United States 8 Feb 07

Kind of a long story, but this is interesting. I'm a student at MIT, and right now there is a junior professor who is on a hunger strike, to protest what he sees as personal and institutional racism in the school. He has been...

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skivveez Thanks for the response, this is exactly how I feel about it. On one side, there is the truth that it is just very hard to get tenure here, and many prospects, both white and minority, are denied tenure; even if there was racism involved, there's still a good...

8 Feb 07

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Does it bother you that God is called 'HE'?

astromama @astromama (1221) • United States 8 Feb 07

I hope this isn't opening up a big ugly can of worms, but i have to be honest here... one of the things that has turned me off about certain religions is that they pray to a gender-specific God. I myself am into equal rights,...

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skivveez I guess that while it doesn't make sense to me to assign god a physical gender, there are many qualities that are traditionally associated with masculinity or femininity, i.e. aggression, empathy, etc. I guess historically, in a hostile world, there are...

8 Feb 07

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"Flood" - Undertow

verticle_ascent @verticle_ascent (19) • United States 6 Feb 07

Can I make a suggestion? If any of you haven't listened to "Flood" off of the Undertow album in a while or haven't even heard it at all, I am recommending that everyone really listen to the song. REALLY listen to it, let it...

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skivveez You make a good point, I had never really thought of the musical structure as also related to the metaphor of the flood. I may have to listen to this intro again with this idea in mind before I give a final verdict on how I feel about the intro. I'm a...

7 Feb 07