Respect
 

Well, at least you've figured out that my ideal time to live in this country would be the 1920s. Scott Fitzgerald had some fun.

And I've significantly decreased my meat consumption so I've become less farty.

Respect
 

I'm sure your new cabbage n' beans diet has no farty side effects. Might want to check with Sequels on that one.

Yeah, you'd've been hanging out with F. Scott if you were living in the 20s. I see you more in some little farming town that is so conservative, it is STILL dry.

And you are sitting in a rocking chair on a porch, farting and lamenting how much better things were in the olden days.

Respect
 

Welcome to the Dark Side.

Courtney Love death watch
 

Doughnuts and Dr. Feelgood. Elvis took more pills than William Rehnquist and Rush Limbaugh combined. But he did have a shiny gold-colored DEA badge from his pal Dick Nixon.

Respect
 

Have you been out with non-drinkers who griped about your drinking at dinner? (Unless of course you expect them to pay for the booze by splitting the bill evenly; that is fair cause for griping.) I've never experienced that.

The only vegetarian who's ever berated me for eating meat was Paigow.

This is not to say there are not issues where people on both ends of religious and political belief want to force everyone to accept things their way, such abortion, homosexuality and religious expression in public. I just haven't experienced a lot of it with the smaller issues like food and drink.

Appropos of nothing.
 

Haley Joel Osment

Respect
 

Good god. You sound much more bitter than me. Have a drink for buddha's sake.

Of course I'd have been hanging out with him - only outsiders call him F Scott. Guess we won't be seeing you at Zelda's next crazy party. They're usually pretty insane.

Respect
 

OK fine, but do I sound femininely bitter or masculinely bitter?

And I don't know who you have been partying with, but I think the Fitzgeralds are kinda you know like dead or something.

Respect
 

Don't lay all the intolerance at the doors of the religious. There is plenty to go around. For every idiot Alabama judge who decides to plop a big-ass granite 10 Commandments in the courthouse rotunda, there is someone else who tells a school teacher she can't wear her cross necklace to school, says the Muslim girls can't wear their head coverings to school, decides NYC schools can have displays of menorahs and Ramadan stuff but not creches, and decides that giving equal access to public meeting space to religious groups violates the First Amendment.

Courtney Love death watch
 

I can't believe we don't have a FB death pool. Or am I just not invited because I'm at the tool table?

Respect
 

You're absolutely correct. The PC police are every bit as noxious as the fundamentalists.

Respect
 

Paigowishly bitter.

Respect
 

That was uncalled for.

Courtney Love death watch
 

There could be a tool table death pool. I pick F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.

Courtney Love death watch
 

Fine. I'll take Hemmingway. Any of them.

And Courtney Love.

Courtney Love death watch
 

I'll go with Courtney Cox. She's been looking peaked the past few years.

Courtney Love death watch
 

If we're going that route, someone tell Teri Hatcher her window has closed.

ARod for Soriano.
 

Baseball needs a salary cap AND revenue sharing AND deaffiliation of minor league teams AND a relegation/promotion system. Then you'd freakin have something.

As a fan of an AL East team that is not NYY or BOS, I'm as disgusted as could be. Or, as Conan's audience would say, Go LEAFS!

Courtney Love death watch
 

A perennial solid death pool pick, John Daly, suddenly looks like a waste of a third-rounder. How money was that 3 wood he smoked on the playoff hole? And how much more money was that bunker shot immediately thereafter?

ARod for Soriano.
 

I go see bowling tournaments.

Remodeling talk.
 

Has anyone recently remodeled a bathroom? Or maybe I should ask if anyone has had their bathroom recently remodeled? If so, do you have any recommendations for a new commode? The toilets in our house are horrifically bad in terms of flushing power (wow, who wants to talk about that?), and I'm thinking about replacing them. Top on my list is the new Kohler Cimarron Comfort Height toilet. It runs about $280 or so. Any others that you'd recommend at that price point and below?

Remodeling talk.
 

I have no input, but am curious what "Comfort Height" entails. Is it adjustable? Do you press a button or something to raise and lower it? That'd be pretty cool.

And it seems like flushing power could have to do with overall water pressure or whatever, but Bilmore or someone is probably more suited to opine on that. Plus those first generation low-flow toilets are just sucky in general and you might be unlucky enough to have those.

Remodeling talk.
 

I think that it means it is a comfortable height for a short dude. That way their legs don't dangle like they probably do when they sit on the adult toilets.

Additionally, if you'd cut down on the fiber, you might be ok with the flow.

Remodeling talk.
 

It means that the seated height is very close to the standard height for a chair, which apparently is a little higher than that of standard height toilet.

The toilets are pretty new, but also pretty sucky. Most flushing mechanisms are gravity-fed. In other words, when you hit the handle, it flips open a flap, and water rushes out of the tank into the bowl via gravity (as opposed to a power-assisted flush, like in commercial applications). I don't know that water pressure would help or detract from that, but maybe that's my lack of knowledge showing through.

Remodeling talk.
 

Water pressure shouldn't affect the power of the flush, since only the stored water from the tank is used during the flush.

When we remodeled a few years ago, we got Kohler Memoirs toilets (we live in an old house, so wanted older-looking toilets; I'm sure they have other styles that work as well). They are gravity flush, but do have dual flushing capability. A regular flush (push down and release the handle) uses only half the water in the tank; for larger jobs you hold the handle down and the whole tank empties. It's a nice thing to have.

tm

blah blah EPL yadda yadda
 

But, really, doesn't every sport need this? How many teams in every US sports league just phone it in all or a lot of the time, or at least once every few years, just because they can finish in last, and people will still come to the games, and they'll get a good draft pick

I hate to hold glorious, glorious soccer, especially the EPL, up as a shining example, but teams fight like hell every year[1] because the bottom three out of twenty go down to the lower league, and the top three of the lower league come up. And so on down the line of all the leagues.

And the market works pretty well to compensate winners and punish losers, because the differences in revenue are significant, and then the teams with lower or higher revenue (both as a result of success and as a result of failure) can buy or sell the contracts of players.[2]

[1] And I expect that you, str8, know this, as there must certainly be some soccer watched in that British-style trivia pub where you and the Mrstr8er are smiling for the camera.

[2] I admit that I can't really totally justify the "market" statement, since I admit that I don't know how much free agency there is and how that whole set-up works, but I think that might be preferable, from a health of the game standpoint, than the situation we have here, where there are a few guys with exorbitant salaries in long-term contracts and a majority of the guys around the same still very generous salary.

reality tv penis spoiler
 

The most amusing part about all the former Real Worlders linked to at that page is that almost all of them are amazingly stupid arrests. The really intense guy from RW-Paris (who is the kid of Lionel Ritchie or somebody like that(Ok, I know that's Nicole Ritchie, but whatever)) runs up to a police car, then runs away? Of course you're going to get arrested.

And the guy who solicited prostitution at North and Ashland? That's the most obvious place, and used to be a huge hotbed or prostitution, until the rich white people in the neighborhood started complaining to their alderman, and the city started cracking down BY GOING AFTER JOHNS. The prostitues don't care about getting arrested, and the really, really low-end women (and men posing as women!) might hang out there, but geez. It's almost impossible to get arrested for prositution in Chicago, and this guy picked one of the two ways (the other being get busted in an obvious sting).

At least there are a few standard "I was drunk and got in a fight arrests." Stupid, but at least common.

Courtney Love death watch
 

Agree. It takes a special kind of idiot to lose your eleven year old child backstage at the Grammys, and then to miss your court appearance because of "security concerns."*

*No offense to anyone here who has done either of these.

Courtney Love death watch
 

No way. She beat up Charlize Theron, and Charlize was a hitman (woman?)/and is a serial killer. I'm not giving Teri any bad news.

Respect
 

As a fine point of constitutional law, you are probably right. But nonetheless, I'm not sure its ignorant or intolerant to suggest to a public school teacher that this might be a wise course of action to avoid potential controversy. And, frankly, I'm not sure this as a clear a question of constitutional law as you imagine.

San Francisco Spa Recommendations (cross post with SF/SV board)
 

I'm looking for recommendations for a spa in San Francisco. Family will be in town, and I wanted to treat. Will probably spring for massage and some sort of wrap/body treatment. Especially interested in feedback from those who have tried Novella Spa.

Thanks for all helpful responses.

Courtney Love death watch
 

As nice as Lois' cans are, have we not learned anything around here? We just do not F with the Charlize!

oh well
 

RedSoxNation.com lost A-rod to us for what? 15 million? Oops.

Oh yes, I'll take a discounted Maddox and Travis Lee too.

wcS

I'm giving up my dwarf fetish
 

So, about right around when the littlest groom had to hack the women down from 25 to 5 and crush a whole lotta hearts quickly, rather than slowly over time, and then the life-size renta-bimbos came in to spice thigns up I realized that I can no longer have an obsession with dwarfs. I feel bad that their biggest marketability is exploitation of their size.

So my question is, do you think there is a chapter of Dwarflovers anonymous?



Thank you

Sunny

I'm giving up my dwarf fetish
 

There's always midgets.

I guess this means a fetish for 6'11" former basketball players is also out of the question. (Sorry, Thurgreed and Hank)

I'm giving up my dwarf fetish
 

But they're jsut not as cute as dwarfs...they just look like gymnasts...sh*t, I think I'm falling off the wagon...

oh well
 

Yeah, yeah, yeah -- congratulations to slave and tm and all of the stormtroo...uh, Yankee fans out there for getting the best player in the game. Bastards. As George put it, it is like Reggie Jackson all over again.

Be careful; if the Boss signs Greg, the Not Bobette may well hunt you down and kill you for that -- she rivals TF in her love for the Braves. (Jesus, that reminds me -- I better start checking her room for empty Bud Ice bottles and crumpled cigarette packages).

Travis Lee would be a great pick-up for the Yanquis. Solid defense, decent offense, and apparently a good guy in the locker room. But he may not cost enough to be on their radar screen.

Remodeling talk.
 

I would avoid the Comfort Height if there is any chance of small kids having to use it, or elderly, less-mobile types. Gets your floor all messy, and then they fall and get hurt. If you have the water pressure and GPMs available to the bathroom wall, consider any of the power-flush home units - louder, but impressive (and keeps your drainpipes cleaner.) Check for minimum pipe size requirement (all the way from main supply to wall) before buying one, though.

Appropos of nothing.
 

I think Sebby would mostly agree that I am mainly correct when I say that that sounds like a party that I'd like to attend.

Remodeling talk.
 

You're right. Water pressure is irrelevant. I would recommend anything with power assist, or some similar mechanism. The non-power ones just don't cut it because of the low-flow regs. I would talk to several plumbers, about what they've installed, and also several fixture supply places.