I'M GLAD I CHECKED INTO THAT!
My sister is in town, and we were trying to get together to do something. As usual she has too much to do and too little time, so I was going to go with her to her dentist appointment down in Tijuana and maybe get some lunch and a margarita. Or two. Then I remembered something about new requirements for crossing the border, so I looked it up. Good thing. I don't have a passport OR a copy of my birth certificate. I could have stopped at the county recorder's office on the way, except that it's Veteran's Day and they're closed. Would not have been fun being stuck in Mexico.
Back in the old days (as in before 9/11) you would drive up to the border, the agent would stick his head in the car and make everyone say where they were born. If you had an accent you'd better have papers proving you could be here. One time back in the 70's some friends and I went down for a night of drinking. On the way back towards the border my friend's cute little Colombian boyfriend informed us that he didn't have his documentation permitting him to be in the U.S. with him. Uh, dude! Why didn't you mention this BEFORE we got to the wrong side of the border? The guy who drove was also a foreigner, here with a visa as a visiting professor. So, we pull up to the border with us all having visions of going to jail for smuggling this immigrant, the guard asked "Are you all Americans?" The driver replied "No, I am Italian", and pulled out his passport and visa. The guard checked his papers, never asked the rest of us anything, and off we went.
MORE MORON-SPEAK
Why do I keep watching Channel 10 news, since their mangling of the language seems to upset me so much? Because, they give me so much material. The latest from JQ: “It's going to be a little bit of a while.” And “moving into Saturday's forecast.”
This one from Good Morning America: “New ways to have your identity theft stolen.”
From something on TV about a fancy bakery: “Everything we made is of the highest ingredients.” How do you get your ingredients high? I've never seen flour smoking pot.
TO SNIP OR NOT TO SNIP
Last night's episode of Desperate Housewives had Bree and Orson disagreeing over whether or not to circumcise the baby they are passing off as their son. I agree with Bree. Uncircumcised penises are “unsightly”. Her word. I would have said “fugly.”
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it says a lot about someones personality when they are willing to unconsentually cut off over 20,000 nerve endings from another persons body because they didn't find it attractive.
grow the FUCK up.
Joel, Joel, Joel-I think you're being a little too sensitive. I'm not going to cut off any of your endings. I just don't want to LOOK at them. OK? Who needs to grow up here? The person who comes to another person's blog and uses foul language maybe?
this is NOT about my penis. this is about human rights.
you straight up said
"Desperate Housewives had Bree and Orson disagreeing over whether or not to circumcise the baby they are passing off as their son. I agree with Bree."
i interpreted you saying you found uncircumcised penises as being unsightly as being your justification for the procedure.
are you suggesting that you in fact DO NOT approve of circumcision?
It's extremely rude when quoting someone to put a period where there wasn't one in the original sentence. The proper way to do that (if you find that eliminating part of the quote suits your purposes, whether or not it changes the original intent) is to insert three dots. Like this...
Really, let it rest. I meant my comment to be humorous. Perhaps you didn't find it funny, and that's your prerogative. Although in my opinion it shows an extremely closed mind. If you find the practice of circumcision so offensive why don't you use your energy to get a law passed prohibiting it instead of harassing me? Oh wait. You can't do that! There's a religious concern here, isn't there? So, is this about "human rights" or the First Amendment? Perhaps you need to go study the Constitution, along with some remedial English lessons.
And, one more thing. This is either about your penis-if you're uncircumcised and you feel your appendage has been insulted, or about your resentment of your mother-if you are and you think she robbed you of some nerve endings. Either way, take your penis and your mommy issues somewhere else.
"I agree with Bree."
you did put a period after it.
i already stated this has nothing to do with my own penis. i think that in our modern age we KNOW better than parents used to. we have so much more information available to us, and its really immature to go ahead and do the procedure because of a silly reason like looks.
a foreskin has some of the most sensitive skin on the entire penis, so yes, a parent cutting it off their son for a silly reason IS a human rights issue.
the way his body, and his penis looks and functions for the REST of his life should be up to him.
you meant it to be humorous, but even though your intent was supposed to be funny, that doesn't make it okay.
anyways.. im sorry i came across like such an asshole, i just hope that you would do your research before agreeing to such a procedure on a child of your own.
Hold the phone! I'm going to agree with you about something! Yes, the decision about a man's penis should be up to him. However, I had a friend in college who had to get circumcised for a medical reason. It was a more serious procedure at that age, and the poor guy was told not to get an erection for two weeks. He was terrified of having a wet dream. There's arguments for both sides of the issue. I'm glad I don't have to make that decision for an offspring.
glad to hear it.
as for your friend, it was probably something that could have been avoided if he was a more hygienic person. there aren't too many times when a circumcision is ACTUALLY necessary.
its not exactly an easy and wonderful procedure with an infant either, considering its a wound that spends a large amount of time trying to heal in a poo-infested diaper. if you think poo is good for wounds, try taking a shit on your knee the next time you scrape it.
not to mention adhesions can form, and plenty of other terrible shit.
at least it was necessary for him to go through that trauma... unlike the non-medical reasons that babies get it for.
preventative care doesn't justify removing body parts. especially when its something like less that 2 percent of all men that will ever actually need to get circumcised in their life. (although i suppose those figures depend on who you ask)
truth is... i think it was you who summed it up best when you said
"Yes, the decision about a man's penis should be up to him."
amen to that.
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