For those of you looking to diet . . .
 

William "Refrigerator" Perry has qualified for the Nathan's hot-dog eating contest, which will be televised by ESPN on July 4, at noon.

For those of you looking to diet . . .
 

No way he's beating Kobayashi. That guy's a machine. I watched part of his training one Saturday afternoon when I was sick with the flu and all I could do is watch the food channel. It makes you sick to watch all these guys pounding down the dogs and the method they use to "facilitate" the pounding is to soak the buns in water. It really is nauseating. And yet, I couldn't turn away.

For Bike Geeks Only
 

Heh. We might also miss a repeat of the strange happenings at last year's Vuelta when the remaining diesels from Domina began riding for Heras, after Mario abandoned. No one knows why, but it was very cool since the Posties brought their C team (as usual) to support Roberto.

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You are both my SPs. Just got my first new car (only b/c I am mainly a house person so that was the main priority). That and I am traffic-adverse, so buying in the city was an absolute must. Perfect because the commute is less than 10 minutes and keeps the miles off my baby.

My debt adversity has caused me to refinance to a 10 year. I originally planned to only buy this place as an equity building vehicle and move to the REAL House in another 5 years or so, but I know I will never again see a 4% mortgage and don't know if I will be able to part with it once it's totally paid off which should be paid off by the time I am 35ish, if I do stay.

It has caused me great distress lately as the SO and I contemplate marriage. He's agreed to work from home/part time to take care of the chicklets (and I suppose I could pop out 2 before I would absolutely have to move). But, man, it really sucks to be the primary breadwinner. Of course, most of you all probably know that.

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Congrats on the car and bravo on the housing payoff moves. I was afraid (pattern here?) to refi for a shorter time period because I wanted the payments as low as possible in case I ever got laid off -- I figured I would just make extra payments if I wanted to and it has worked thus far. Being the primary breadwinner and female is stressful, at least for me, because most of the at-home duties still tend to fall on your shoulders. Men seem genetically predisposed to coming home from work and vegging out while women get to come home to their second full-time job -- at least that's my situation, YMMV.

Astroglide
 

And now you've gone and got me agitated.

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Congrats on everything. It's weird to be the primary breadwinner. The OM has also agreed to become the primary caregiver when the time comes, so I can keep working. It seems to be a more and more common decision among my friends, though I cannot quite figure out why.

Wow: TF is my hero
 

With 185K in student loans (and absolutely zero chance of buying a house in So Cal anytime soon with my debt to income ratio), I have to say, I am very impressed TF.

I find now that the debt (sadly) drives *all* of my decisions. Case in point, I filed for divorce in large part because there was no way to combine my debt service with my husband's transient military career (moving every 2-3 years around mostly rural parts of the country).

Be glad, be very glad, you made such good decisions. You may be boring, but the freedom to make decisions irrespective of the Citibank factor is worth it IMHO. I doubt Citibank will allow me to have kids...

Zak <----told you I was reformed

For those of you looking to diet . . .
 

It's competition, so of course you can't turn away.

No way he wins is right. He qualified by eating 12 dogs in 12 minutes. Hell, I feel like I could do that, and at least hold the chunder until after the whistle.

Kobayashi, for comparison, won with 50.5 dogs in 12 minutes last year.

For those of you looking to diet . . .
 

In looking up the name of the actor in "Meatballs" who won the only hot dog eating contest I have every watched, or will ever watch, I discovered that "Meatballs" was released in France under the transliterated title, "Stop Rowing, You Are Onto Sand." If there is this level of misunderstanding going in the other direction, I think we might just owe Jacques Chirac a big fucking apology. Preferably to be aired on Fox News.

For those of you looking to diet . . .
 

I think you are confusing this with the documentary about the Chirac foreign policy titled "Stop Rowing, You Are Onto Sand."

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The SO feels pretty strongly about not keeping the kids in day care, particularly with the kind of hours we work, and practically, I make about twice what he does, so it's logical. But it still makes me uncomfortable (the breadwinning part, I mean. He's slightly uncomfortable with the primary caregiver role, but as you said it is becoming more common).

It also bothers me that he would get to be with the hypothetical children, as it it something that I will very possibly feel both guilty and resentful about, even if it is him taking care and not daycare. But once again, it seems like that's because it is something I am supposed to do. It seems like a responsibility that I own, even though we have arranged otherwise. I just can't apply reason to how I feel about the whole situation.

The sort of double standard troubles me though. I am uncomfortable with the pressure of the breadwinner role, but that is the role men have traditionally been in, and even now aren't really allowed to complain about it.

Edited to say I did a really crappy job of sorting out my mixed feelings.

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Your mixed feelings are completely understandable, and you are not alone.

We've had to sort all this stuff out over the past couple of months as we make career and life decisions.

We're fortunate to get to make a conscious choice to have one of us unemployed or underemployed.

Maybe that law degree was worth it after all . . .

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You both suck! Where were either of you (or both-nttawwt) when I was marriage material?!?!?

Penske (born to be a house-husband or independently wealthy) Account

For Love or Money
 

Originally posted by purse junkie

In absolute numbers, perhaps, but in percantages, nope. Something like 70% of adults in the US are overweight, and something like 1/3 are obese. These people are disproportionately old. You can check it out for instance by checking the percentiles you get for a body mass index for a given height and weight at different ages. Keeping the same body mass index as you get older leaves you in a lower and lower percentile for your age group.

Check the body mass index calculator here: http://www.halls.md/body-mass-index/av.htm