S'funny. From watching Merkin TV, IUDs seem the go-to solution.

I do not know anyone who has one. It's the pill or the three monthly injection.

Then again, I do not personally know anyone else who has the implant, despite me "selling" it for the last six years. I think that's the ick factor though.

So you're a cyborg.


I, for one, welcome etc.

IUD's and 'The Rod', are very common over here among women who have partners who worry about their manhood and stuff and wont get the snip.

I'll probably end up with an IUD, partly for that reason, and also a couple of others which I wont mention here cause they're probably just not anything anyone here would want to know about. lol Just the fact that I brought up tampons is almost too gross for some I think.

but the tampons... we want to know about that..

:snicker:

You mean ammo.

:lol2:

The bandolier is cool, I think that should be more common - we as a culture ought to de-mystify menstruation. Being jokingly open about carrying tampons is a start.

But I am rather disturbed by the ... device ... he is holding.

I actually came here to post, I like lychees. Partly, they are healthy and yummy, but also, I am amused by the confusion caused at the supermarket checkout ... "umm, what are these?"

I'll have to try them.

It's less amusing when asked the same question about broccoli, which has happened to me. (also with other somewhat common vegetables) Granted she was a young cashier in training, but still.

In our "big four" supermarkets they come pre-packed. So they have a barcode and there are no probs.

On the market you ask for them by name so again, no probs.

I do love me some lychees.
Hate the air-miles.
So I buy them by the box, figuring it's beetter that way.

Lychees are my second favourite fruit.
After cherries. But I try to hold off til they are in season.
Apart from anything else it does make them more special.
Who knows, perhaps Penny (my tree) might gift me one of two this year.

My son's new Boy Scout troop got a tour of the county jail. We convoyed over there, and I was expecting a hassle finding parking in this urban area, but was surprised when a scout in the lead car jumped out as we entered a parking garage that was unknown to me, and swiped the same transponder key as each car entered. I asked the other dad who had the key, and it turns out the troop leader is also a county judge. So we got an amazing tour of the jail, going basically everywhere. I was quite impressed. I don't ever want to go to jail, but if I ever do, I want to go there. Quiet and clean. Well run.

Sounds good, V.
We had a trip round the Police Station when we were Brownies (equiv Girl Scouts I think.) Including the cells. Scary.

Blimey I'm cold today.
Like really, seriously, bone-deep cold. I hate.

Coupla pics that don't fit anywhere else.
My gorge cat ring.
My nasty iron burn. Yes I am a clumsy mare. Glad I did the ironing though - burn is worth the points. I have long elegant fingers, but ugly hands.

I've been mistaken for glatt. this makes me flattered and happy today.

were your boys scared straight or did they just oooohhh at the spectacle?

Didn't see much of a reaction from the boys. The dads, myself included, were very interested in how the whole system worked. I was talking at length with the guy who ran the place.

My son was acting out A LOT for the rest of the day when we got home, so I wonder if it had scared him and he was looking for parental attention. There was one point that we were standing in the central area of a cell block, and inmates in their cells were looking quietly at us out the windows in their doors. I ignored them and forgot they were there, but I think the boys kept looking at them looking at us.

The thing that impressed me the most about the jail was how quiet and clean the place was, and how in control the guards were. Not in a tough guy bravado sort of way, but just simple matter of fact control. I felt perfectly safe. It's a sleek new modern place (almost 20 years old though.) The booking area was more like a doctor's waiting room or airport lounge than what I would think of as a jail. There were little rooms off to the sides where they could chain up an unruly person, but the rest of the booking area just looked like the most boring waiting room you have ever seen.

They said that the new jail has much better behaved inmates than the old jail did because the new jail feels more human. No bars anywhere. Heavy steel doors with bullet proof glass, but no bars.