Posts by Danielle
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Oh, trivial PS: what women currently take for the morning-after pill - giant doses which make you feel like hurling - are the (still used by some people for various reasons) higher-dose type of contraceptive pill which ALL women on the pill took back in the day.
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to chris,
The first types of contraceptive pill had much higher dosages of synthetic hormones (testing before putting them on the market in 1960 was quite minimal, surprise surprise), so side effects - including, in a few cases, death - were prevalent.* The development of lower-dose and progesterone-only pills has helped (but you still couldn't pay me to take that shit again).
*This may be the first time I have seriously used any information from my MA thesis since 1997. Awesome.
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Contraception *is* gendered. We aren't making it so by discussing it.
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
Yeah, I think the vast majority of my experiences with condoms were 'stick it on and off you go'. I mean, they don't feel *as* good, and I'm glad I don't have to use them any more, but... not exactly a crisis.
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Heh. I went to 'last post' in this thread and knew it was James before I even scrolled upwards to see the name. All the talking points buzzwords leapt out at me so beautifully.
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Busytown: Sons for the Return Home, in reply to Paul Campbell,
Yes, perhaps one bit of advice could be"warn your kids that people will say dumb shit to them based on what appears to be an in-depth sociological study of random episodes of COPS and American Idol".
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Busytown: Sons for the Return Home, in reply to Paul Campbell,
(you need a way to subtly make the "I'm not an American, despite the accent, I was born here" point
When I met Jolisa she sounded excellently New Zildy to me. (But people occasionally mistake me for an American. So perhaps I have a tin ear.)
I'm sure with a lot of lamps you can just change the plug (or get one of those plug converters) and you're away laughing. (Disclaimer: I take no responsibility for any house fires.)
It *is* the timesickness that does you in. I wasn't away from NZ long enough to have this problem, but I know my husband does in reverse, having been gone nearly a decade. He will visit his hometown in the USA and every year or two it's mutated irrevocably. People don't live where they used to, or they died, or that thing everyone did - no one does that thing any more. So moving back to it *would* be like going to another country (albeit a vaguely familiar one).
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Cracker: Island Time, in reply to BenWilson,
Yeah, that kind of sounds like my ideal driving experience. I dream of a land of fellow Nana Drivers.
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Hard News: Just don't call it "Party Central", in reply to recordari,
Sorry y'all. Basically, I just want to hear that riff from 'You Again', all of 'Bitter', and then I am OUT.
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I'd like to note that my American husband said yesterday: "I don't want us to win. I just want us to score a try" and a minute later it happened. He is omnipotent! Or psychic!
(Or it was a cool coincidence.)