there are subtle nuances in every single one of those EXCELSIORS, I'll have you LOL

Bibi Reber, whose children attend the Waldorf-inspired Greenwood School in Mill Valley, had her children vaccinated only for what she sees as the deadliest diseases. Greenwood has a 79 percent opt-out rate among its kindergartners.

"I don't think dirt or getting sick makes you a weak person; your immune system needs to work with things," said Reber, whose children attend the Greenwood School in the San Francisco Bay area town of Mill Valley. "We certainly don't want to go back to having polio, but on the other hand, I don't think we need to eradicate all the childhood diseases

Public health officials say that, regardless of why parents choose not to vaccinate their children, the result is the same: an increased risk of an outbreak of whooping cough or other communicable diseases.

― buzza, Wednesday, September 12, 2012 3:52 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Greenwood School offers a dynamic education that recognizes the developmental phases of childhood and fosters the emerging capacities of each child. And whooping cough.

Enlivened education is filled with vitality, enthusiasm and spirit of imagination. And whooping cough.

― buzza, Wednesday, September 12, 2012 3:54 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I suppose it's nice that the tradition of the old-fashioned childhood diseases will be kept alive forevermore by artisanal practitioners of suffering and debility. You wouldn't want to see the classic clinical syndromes of mumps or diphtheria vanish entirely under the tide of soulless modernization and health, like an old theatre with gilded painted ceilings torn down to build another condo building and another Starbucks.

We need a Society for the Preservation of Historic Diseases. We can outfit the sick children in britches and pinafores, have their nurses wear the old fashioned white caps with red crosses, hire only bearded doctors in suspenders who don't wash their hands. It'll be a mark of culture and sophistication to have an outbreak of whooping cough in your community, like having a soda fountain that makes its own secret cola recipe or a an old-time barber shop where they use straight razors.

Of course true hipsters will roll their eyes at these increasingly corporatized North American diseases, making a point of exposing their little darlings to dengue or yellow fever instead, or at least have them contract a nagging case of neurocysticercosis.

― Plasmon, Wednesday, September 12, 2012 6:05 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Our artisanal disease sommeliers have the training and experience necessary to recommend the infection that's right for your child. Nothing disfiguring or damaging to their long term intellectual or reproductive abilities, don't worry, just a quick sprint around the block for little Jethro's immune system and the proud feeling for the family that he's now entwined in humanity's endless struggle with death and decay. Our expert photographers will capture professionally lit medium format photographs of little Ruby's febrile exanthem and upload them to the social media platform of your choice -- with your permission, of course.

― Plasmon, Wednesday, September 12, 2012 7:24 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

(long despite editing, sorry, but all of those posts made me LOL. Well, except the first one, which made me enraged.)

omg, all-time

posts that are almost too good to be wasted on a message board

who is Plasmon?

Artisanal disease sommeliers lol

Your maladies are locally sourced, I assume?

free-range chicken pox

I just got a flu shot and a tdap booster in honor of Plasmon's hilarious posts.

is that from the quidities thread?

presumably the jenny mccarthy thread

Yes.

*blushes and waves*

Hi ILX, I'm a neurologist, I've been reading these boards forever. Awfully proud moment to be excelsiored. If I make it into the zing thread my life will be complete.

^^ This dude gets on people's nerves.

Just drumming up business.

Do you already have that on a coffee cup somewhere? I feel like I've just stumbled upon my second calling in life.

Oh I just got that lol I was wondering why the insult >_<

Gosh, you sure sound touchy.

Just feeling the new guy out.

Didn't mean to make anyone nervous.

Grow a spine if you can't handle it.

(Apologies to everyone. These joaks just come to me automatically.)

s'ok pplains they're all just slow on the reuptake

his humor is a little cerebral for my taste

is s. korea really reduced to "lol crazy" stereotypes that often? i've always thought of it as having a pretty westernized pop culture, esp. compared to say, japan.

― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, September 13, 2012 11:09 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

stereotypes:

japan: omg japanese are so crazy!
korea: omg japanese are so crazy!

― goole, Thursday, September 13, 2012 11:11 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

On tit and tat and the charitable giving

I thought this was going to be another Amanda Palmer thread.

― NR’s resident heavy-metal expert (Nicole), Thursday, September 13, 2012 6:02 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

guys, these men called their album "dingleberry jam". These four...adult...men.

― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Friday, September 14, 2012 9:04 AM (2 minutes ago)

Well, they were on drugs.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, September 14, 2012 9:05 AM (1 minute ago

Uh, Hurting... I should probably tell you something...

― emil.y, Friday, September 14, 2012 9:05 AM (1 minute ago)

oh, hahahaha, durrr

did I mention I was in the office until 4am?

four...adult...men.

4am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgmHOcPDSso

In re Kickstarting and Amanda Palmer and etc

--

i still can't believe the free food thing. there is oblivious and there is oblivious. people really bring her food before every show??? amazing. and even if it sucks she still has to eat it. so strange. and awkward! i wouldn't let my fans anywhere near me if i had fans. unless they paid at least 5 grand. and brought me food from a reputable restaurant.

― scott seward, Friday, September 14, 2012 5:20 PM (34 minutes ago)

I'm a paranoid type, I would worry about food being poisoned or unsanitary or whatever.

― controversial cabaret roommate (Nicole), Friday, September 14, 2012 5:26 PM (28 minutes ago)

especially goth food!

― scott seward, Friday, September 14, 2012 5:26 PM (27 minutes ago)

here, amanda, try some of my deviled absinthe salvia eggs!

― scott seward, Friday, September 14, 2012 5:27 PM (26 minutes ago)

I thought goth food was just taco bell 69 cents

― Ask The Answer Man (sexyDancer), Friday, September 14, 2012 5:28 PM (25 minutes ago)

no it's 7-11 nachos

maverick nachos in the intermountain west

Maverik with no c!

Bela Lugosi's bread.

:D

Soy Division's Labneh Will Tear Us Apart

"A Forest Gateaux"

http://i.imgur.com/LIB2s.gif

Jerk

(that was an a+ brownie joint btw)

it was p good, tis troo

Albini, Palmer, Lowery, Lefsetz, or an NPR intern

The Traveling Wilburys 2.0

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, September 13, 2012 6:00 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

damon lindelof should be imprisoned

― max, Monday, September 17, 2012 4:11 AM (1 hour ago)

on an island, in space, with god

― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Monday, September 17, 2012 4:14 AM (1 hour ago)

hmm strikes me that this may well be his outlook anyway

― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Monday, September 17, 2012 4:18 AM (1 hour ago)

i am feeling that carson palmer gif

can someone explain this magazine? http://acquiringman.com/magazine/

“Some men spend a lifetime in an attempt to comprehend the complexities of women.
Others preoccupy themselves with simpler tasks such as understanding the theory of relativity.” -Albert Einstein
Understanding and knowing what women want doesn’t have to be difficult anymore.

Why?

Because I’ve partnered with some of the brightest and most insightful women on this planet, and they’re going to literally tell you everything that you need to know.

No holds barred.

― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Monday, September 17, 2012 12:58 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

THE CODE OF THE ACQUIRING MAN

TO BE A MAN OF THE HIGHEST CHARACTER

TO BE A MAN OF THE UTMOST RESPECT

TO BE A MAN WHO REVERES HONESTY

TO BE A MAN WHO IS PROUD OF WHO HE IS

― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Monday, September 17, 2012 1:12 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

in a just world that would be an email harvester for a symbionese kidnapping ring

― goole, Monday, September 17, 2012 1:13 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

irl lol

Akin family dinner:

Lulli: I ordered in Chinese for dinner, is that ok with you?
Todd: Sure thing hunbun. I could use a good meal. I was raped in the office today, absolutely raped.
Lulli: Same here. Gary came by with about the thousandth round of revisions on the interim strategy document and he raped me with his edits, it was brutal.
Todd: Can you pass the remote? I want to see if there are any shows about rape on.
*Telephone rings*
Todd: Hello?...What...? You gotta....you gotta be raping me. Unbelievable.
*Hangs up*
Todd: (muttering) you gotta be raping..this is...
Lulli: What is it?
Todd: That was the Chinese place. They're out of spring rolls.
Lulli: We're getting raped from every direction, similar to the American Revolution.
Todd: RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

― Thanks WEBSITE!! (Z S), Monday, September 17, 2012 8:43 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

RT @AZEALIABANKS Just met Samantha Cameron... She told me she loves 212...... *mind blown*

― lex pretend, Monday, September 17, 2012 9:02 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"Looks like that cunt went to Eton..."

― ella fingerblast hurls forever (suzy), Monday, September 17, 2012 9:22 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

LOL