Lauren O

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• Commented on Remixing the default Twitter avatar
  A tiny little Wolverine embryo! How adorable!...
• Commented on Arnold Schwarzenegger's coded F-bomb in veto
  Things like this have prompted me to immigrate to a different state. I was born and raised in California, and it's my favorite place in the world, but with asshole politicians who feel the need to pull stunts like this...
• Commented on Indian farmer's daughter is most bad-ass woman in the world
  I would like to introduce this woman to one Roman Polanski....
• Commented on Thoughts for Polanski apologists, by another woman raped at 13.
  At least some of the time, e.g. victim gets too drunk to say no, doesn't say no at all, doesn't resist a bit, doesn't scream for help, clams up and stays silent after, the victim is kind of at fault...
• Commented on Thoughts for Polanski apologists, by another woman raped at 13.
  And also, no, Mr. Polanski, not everyone wants to fuck young girls. And those of us who had had the misfortune to meet men like you when we were young girls do not appreciate the sentiment....
• Commented on Thoughts for Polanski apologists, by another woman raped at 13.
  With our justice system the way it is, Polanski should be charged, but by doing so, we're unjust to Geimer. With all due respect to Geimer, I am a bit more concerned about all the 13-year-old girls who came after...
• Commented on Lawyers for TV überdouche Glenn Beck go after satirical website, saying the url itself is defamatory
  The actual content of the site is very obviously satirical, and the point is a good one (though I agree with Anonymous @47 that it seems to unintentionally reveal the satirist's flippancy about raping and murdering young girls - I...
• Commented on Interview with author of Introvert Power
  Sometimes you NEED to talk some shit out before it's constructive to meet up and talk face to face. Does that make sense? Oh yeah, totally. I mean, as I said, I'm actually comfortable with face-to-face interaction (one-on-one, at least)....
• Commented on Interview with author of Introvert Power
  Wingo - exactly! Face-to-face is fine because you can read body language and facial expressions and everything. Online is fine because there's NO physicality and everyone knows it, plus you get time to think about stuff and edit your words...
• Commented on Interview with author of Introvert Power
  And to this day I get flack for it from people I know all the time. "You're just hanging out by yourself? What's your problem? Come to the (insert social event here) with us, weirdo! It's the weekend!" Or, "Why...
• Commented on Interview with author of Introvert Power
  Very good point Zikzak. I'm more introverted at parties, but am extroverted in front of friends. You may be more comfortable talking and joking with your friends, but then you probably need to go home and have some alone time...
• Commented on Girls Gone Wild scumbag pretends to have brain damage in court
  Any man who tells you otherwise is lying. I know I am only a lowly woman and that therefore my worth is mainly determined by how willing I am to show men my breasts while I'm still young and nubile,...
• Commented on Village of Twins
  Dunno if you can tell from the small version of the photo used here, but when I saw this on Yahoo news yesterday, it was very clearly Photoshopped. A kid, and the mirror image of the same kid. If there...
• Commented on People Like Angry Car Faces. I Don't.
  the Porsche 911, mostly just looks like a determined frog. I've always thought it looks like a beetle, but yours is funnier....
• Commented on UFO Expo promises "compelling theories and evidence," also "Crab Cakes and Sliced Fruit Tray."
  WHY DID I JUST MOVE AWAY FROM SANTA CLARA CRAP CRAP CRAP...
• Commented on The sad fate of Superman co-creator Joe Shuster
  I like how the presentation pities Shuster for having to resort to a fetish comic instead of the work he wanted to be doing, but simultaneously uses that fetish art to titillate the audience....
• Commented on Amsterdam: O'Reilly Factor vs. reality
  Wow, listen to the disdain in their voices when they say, "teaching their children to have safe sex" and "social tolerance." Yes, clearly any problems with Amsterdam stem from that most evil of all philosophies, social tolerance....
• Commented on How a one-hour meeting can ruin a maker's day
  This was very true for me when I was in school (just graduated in June). I couldn't work on a paper if I knew I had to go to class or an appointment or whatever within the next two hours....
• Commented on Firefighter allegedly shoots cyclist in head to teach him not to ride on a busy street
  You know, I don't have a teaching degree or anything, but I feel like killing someone is not the best way to help them learn something. Learning in humans usually involves a brain, which I've heard doesn't work as well...
• Commented on 1950s Beauty Pageant Judging Guidelines
  Dear everyone specifying which of the (nearly identical) charted body types they'd prefer, Way to miss the point. No love, Lauren O...
• Commented on Bletchley Park codebreakers recognized by British government
  Turing received no official recognition for his work in his lifetime, true, but everyone remotely associated with computer science knows him and reveres him. Fat lot of good that does him....
• Commented on Lawyer asks judge to force rival to wear nicer shoes
  My Dad is a lawyer and I remember him doing this all the time. He would play the dumb country bumkin. I know he was anything but however, he is very smart and astute. What does it say about us...
• Commented on Pneumatic alarm-clock that wakes you by bouncing the bed up and down
  I'll make the same comment I made on StumbleUpon, which is that I'm not surprised that this bed is only a twin. This dude is never getting laid....
• Commented on Creepy vintage print ads
  It's not vintage, but I did spot this supremely creepy package in an Austin supermarket the other day....
• Commented on Corrupted files for sale to students to buy extra time
  Having just graduated from college a couple weeks ago, I'd say that the most common way that I had to turn in papers was to submit both an email copy AND a hard copy. There were a handful of professors...
• Commented on Life with a 100 lb rodent that sounds like a Geiger counter when it's happy
  I hope there are other people here young enough to remember the episode of The Wild Thornberries where it was revealed mid-meal that they were eating capybara burgers. "It's a large, amphibious rat!" In completely unrelated news, I am moving...
• Commented on Girl who claimed her face was tattooed while sleeping comes clean
  Oh good, I'm glad we got the truth on this one. I was very curious because I found both possibilities so implausible. Who would fall asleep while getting tattooed? But then again, who would want 56 stars on their face?...
• Commented on Ultra-right wing potato sandwich launches in India
  Get a life,it's only a delicious munchie it has no connection with the great unwashed in Mumbai. It does if my buying the sandwich gives funds directly to an ultra-right-wing party. And didn't your mother ever teach you how ironic...
• Commented on Ultra-right wing potato sandwich launches in India
  A quandary: As a meat-hater and potato/starch/carb-lover, I really want to eat this sandwich really bad. On the other hand, I'm not really down with supporting anything right-wing in any way. The quandary will probably be solved by the fact...
• Commented on Shockingly violent coffee commercials starring Muppets
  It wasn't the violence itself that I found "shocking," but the tactic of threatening the viewer. "Drink our coffee or we will physically hurt you!" is a bit surprising, to me at least. I have seen many ads growing up...