MsEmmy Member

Ridiculous. People have got themselves all worked up because of a tenuous association between leads/ leashes and dogs, and are prepared to put their kids at risk rather than look different. Are you going to take your kid's car seat away now? Is that dehumanising too? What about safety gates on stairs? That makes your kid…

Nope. I think it is boring to most people. They can't even be arsed to read when I post really important political stuff or make my very best witty observations, so they sure as hell don't want to read that I did a workout. Also, I just started New Rules of Weightlifting and can't even imagine the looks of confusion/…

Yes, I shouldn't judge a whole nation, you are right. :flowerforyou: But our perspective in the UK (and I've lived in the US for a while as well) is that Americans (in general) make issues out of things that aren't issues. Considering one of the arguments is that harnesses are 'dehumanizing' I I hear of far more US…

QFT! Thank-you, voice of reason!

I'm stepping out of this, glad once again that I don't live in the United States.

Seriously? It's 'dehumanizing'? See previous posts about putting safety first, and having disabled children.

I think that's rather like saying we won't learn to drive safely if we always have a seatbelt on. Or you equally apply that argument to holding their hand - how will they learn if you hold onto them? Yet they still learn how to be safe. You would still be explaining how to cross roads/ not to go off with strangers etc. You…

Well expressed and not offensive, but I still don't understand why people are 'totally against them'. What is there to be totally against? Some kids don't like holding hands or just can't (I have one with Asperger's who hates being touched.)

Excellent post :flowerforyou:

And also, did you ever figure that the parent you are judging might have a child with autism? Or have lost a child in tragic circumstances? I don't understand why this has got me so riled, but it really has!

I can't even believe this is an issue. If you have a bolter, or are in a busy place/ near a road then it makes sense. What are the arguments against it? Do people think it's 'cheating' or somehow demeaning for the child? 'Um sorry you got run over, kid, people were too concerned about your rights to freedom or that the…

It has cheese curds in as well. I think that's the bit that turns people's stomachs!

I'm in the UK and when I was younger we used to love it when my Aunt from the US brought 'American candy' over as we had nothing like it over here - all the different flavours of bubble gum for a start! Now we can pretty much get most American candy over here. Things I think are particularly American? Sweet potato! It's…

Not to hijack the thread (much) but when I studied in Albany NY, I had a friend from Scotland and many American students were amazed how well she spoke English....I think they thought all Scottish people spoke Gaelic as their first language? Or just hadn't thought about it at all. They also had never heard of Wales and…

Nope, many more innocent people would have been killed in the crossfire. And then the EDL would have come down with more guns and started shooting all the black and asian people they could see. Way to start a war.

No really, it wouldn't. We don't want our children murdering each other with the toys that Mommy thought would be a good idea, and we don't want mass school/ hospital/ university shootings.

If you are referring to that so called 'speech' that is doing the rounds on facebook, it is completely fabricated. Google it. That speech does the rounds all the time (whenever the right wingers want to have a go at immigrants) with different names and different countries. It's rubbish.

WOW! Just WOW! Your before pics look like me now, and I just started lifting. If I look a quarter as good as you in a year I will be very, very happy :happy: Well done. You are amazing :smokin:

Most of the Ghost fragrances (my favourite is the Deep Night one, in the purple moon bottle) and Armani She.

Amazing progress! You look fantastic! Big cheer for you all the way from England :happy:

QFT! I couldn't believe the difference this made to me when I started 30DS again :)

I'm from north west England and over here accents change considerably between different towns. I live about ten miles east of Liverpool. Liverpool people think I sound like a 'woolly' (slang for northern but not Liverpool/scouse!) and yet people from ten miles further east think I sound scouse.:laugh: Having said that, all…

Nope. I have no clue who any of them are and would still pick #1 (or Alcide if he made an appearance!) Being a famous movie star matters nada. Lots of women are turned off by the self obssession and attention from other women that those bigger guys attract. I just assume (perhaps wrongly) that they would have a massive ego…

I just started it today and am going to be doing it at home - all I have at the moment is a set of 15kg dumbells, a mat and a ball! Hoping to get a bench off ebay, and I've ordered a barbell with another 30kg of weights which I figure should keep me going for a while. Was looking at steps but I don't think they are high…

That's great! I hadn't thought of rolling along it! Thanks for the link :flowerforyou:

The first one is preferable. The others just look a bit self-obsessed, which is the problem I have with a lot of the big muscled types. It's more to do with what it says about their personality than how they look. The only time big muscles have ever done it for me was when I watched True Blood and Alcide took his top off.…

If women need strange men howling at them from the street to find their strength then we need to educate women more. And I never said I was the voice for all women, I was merely empathising with the OP. And I didn't bring up entitlement, I brought up manners.

I'm glad someone has asked this! I'm just starting NR today but still have about 40 lbs to lose. I don't want glorious abs hiding under rolls of fat! I keep reading that you can't lose weight when building muscle? Maybe I'm just reading the wrong threads? I'm in this for the long haul but also have a mini deadline in July…

I am actually APPALLED at the number of people who think this situation is funny, or that a woman is asking for catcalls because she wears a close fitting top while running or because her boobs might bounce a bit, or that it is a compliment. It is not a compliment. Most of the time they are deliberately trying to make you…

Gorgeous! We adopted the fawn dog in my ticker after she was found abandoned on a busy road. Well, we were just fostering her for a week originally but three years later she's still here!