I attribute my own infatuation with gingers (and the curse that comes with it) to one of my early pubescent imprints associated with my proclivities towards all things musical and my 8th grade choir teacher, the ravenous Ms. Jane Polnick.

Her drop-dead gorgeous sister (both with piercing blue eyes and succulent, unblemished figures) was also a chanteuse and a rockin' blonde!

She was also an insatiable flirt.

Hellspawn, demon wench!

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Blue eyed, Morton's toe, detached ear, tongue fold enabled, and natural wisdom-teeth-lacker here. Possibly ccw hair rotation, don't have that memorized

No, but a quiet smirk is usually appropriate.

This is one of those rare times that a song really feels like it is being sung for me, even though that is clearly all coincidence and ego. But seriously, I'm a 31-year-old atheist spending Christmas in the Southern hemisphere ~9,000 miles away from my beautiful blue-eyed infant daughter. That's a lot of coincidences in one song.

You guys guys gonna trust a blue eyed devil?!

@kceaton1 - bit of an over harsh critique there i felt. We don't know for sure that he didn't try and get the dog accustomed to the car normally but he just kept being scared, front or back. No point forcing the dog to be terrified when all he wants is a bit of affection/security from something which must be utterly freaky to a dog...

I personally believe the dog whisperer is spot on about being a pack leader. With a pack of dogs. If you've got one, you need to form a balance between pack leader and friend that you're happy with and the dog is comfortable with. Why else have a dog if you're not enjoying the company?

Also, a friend of mine has a dog like this called Blue. Has extremely blue eyes. It doesn't chew through stuff, and it's more or less the same as any dog i've ever had. It may be closer or further away from its natural wildness depending on what breeder you buy it from. And without a shadow of a doubt it depends how you raise it.

I believe there's a happy point between pack leader and best friend that gives both me and my dog the most out of living together, and i also believe there is more than one way to raise a dog correctly. One's rules are not necessarily better than the other, because the desires are different.

Eg. My mum has no discipline over her dogs, they run about, go crazy, drool over food right next to your face while you eat... she's not a pack leader, but she likes having dogs with a "personality" as she calls it, so that's what she wants. The dogs are definitely happy

Eg2. I give my dog his own lead to "walk himself" home. He loves carrying it and you might criticise me for giving him the symbol of power. But actually he listens to me better when he can carry his own lead than if i walk him on the lead - by now i know my dog better than any expert

This post is also way too long.

"It's only life."
...A shockingly direct and sincere statement from such young piercing blue eyes.

That really got me.

@ShakaUVM: "How? If all the poor suddenly earned $60k a year in constant dollars and could afford all the health care, food, and whatever else they wanted, do you think there's going to be "social consequences" because Warren Buffet and his friends made an extra billion that year? No, there wouldn't be."

Most people won't get mad if one person is richer than them and can have golden toilets and they have "whatever else they want" (which is ridiculous - we're imagining a place where people have all they want?). Though, to be fair, some will. Some people will be (and are) mad that someone is making a billion dollars, especially if they don't do much work.

More generally, imagine the opposite ridiculous analogy. Imagine a situation where nobody can afford food. Later, 40% of the population (say, ones with blue eyes) can afford food while everyone else gets only a modest increase in income. Do you think the green eyes are going to be happy because, oh well, they're making as much as they did before? Of course not. They're going to see themselves as getting poorer while the blue eyes are getting richer, and they're going to be mad and want to steal food.

There's factors involved in how this plays out - very important ones are:

1. How significant are the amenities one class gets that the other doesn't (obviously food, housing, electricity are going to make more of a pinch than "rich people drive nicer cars").
2. Does the division of wealth feel arbitrary and permanent? Do people feel like they might one day move into the richer class? Do they feel the rich have "earned" their position?
3. How does the population break down? Is there small percentages of outliers, or is there a clear division between haves and have-nots?

So yeah, it's not simple (and wouldn't happen in magic world where people have everything they want and where prices for goods didn't change relative to each other), but it's not a non-existent problem. I don't think the US is close to serious social problems, but with a little prodding it could be and "revolution" isn't the first step. There's also "tipping points" that may come up. For example, if poor people begin to generally feel like a "good education" (the kind that gets a job, which at times raises in price much faster than CPI) is only possible for rich people, that's going to be bad. Right now there's a sense that anyone can work hard and progress - if that feeling evaporates you're going to get more labor unrest and support for radical populist politicians.

Don't think that could happen? Look at history.

*pssst, you're babbling*>> ^bareboards2:

Ah. I see. Well, I always take these kinds of comments as symbolic, and convert them to something meaningful. And I say again, she is right that there is a universal truth -- humans evolved with the need for something like religion.
But it is also like blue eyes -- some humans have blue eyes, some don't. Just because some humans have no need for religion, that doesn't negate the need for the millions who do need it.
So she's right, universally speaking. You don't happen to be in that building. Me either. But it is profoundly irrational to try to talk a blue-eyed person out of being blue-eyed, just because my eyes are brown.
And yes. Separation of church and state. And yes -- help those poor folks trapped in the religion closet, afraid to speak up and say -- I have brown eyes, stop telling me they are blue.
>> ^rottenseed:
The assumption that religion points to some universal truth. That's why she's a big dummy.

Ah. I see. Well, I always take these kinds of comments as symbolic, and convert them to something meaningful. And I say again, she is right that there is a universal truth -- humans evolved with the need for something like religion.

But it is also like blue eyes -- some humans have blue eyes, some don't. Just because some humans have no need for religion, that doesn't negate the need for the millions who do need it.

So she's right, universally speaking. You don't happen to be in that building. Me either. But it is profoundly irrational to try to talk a blue-eyed person out of being blue-eyed, just because my eyes are brown.

And yes. Separation of church and state. And yes -- help those poor folks trapped in the religion closet, afraid to speak up and say -- I have brown eyes, stop telling me they are blue.

>> ^rottenseed:

The assumption that religion points to some universal truth. That's why she's a big dummy.

@NetRunner: agreed that it's not the worst, nor is my anecdote...

and certainly odd changes in policy and illogical requirements do increase bureaucracy... but i'm not certain that i can agree that there isn't any valid reason for change...

think back through the last 11 years of us elections, in particular the previous three presidential elections... claims of voter fraud, hanging chad, dead rolls, acorn, etc -- now, i don't know if or what impact wisconsin's regulatory changes have on that... but that's the nature of government: we expect incompetence, and success is generally just a fortunate coincidence

from my tale, our overseas missions weren't always as i described... they changed, radically so, post 9-11 -- i used to be able to phone my nation's consular services and be shown respect and have my questions answered... help was given freely and easily, as one should expect

not so anymore - now we're herded in like infected cattle and treated as a possible terrorist - the 'help' has morphed into a hindrance... but are the reasons for such valid? how can we say...

and no, i wasn't dealing with the department of immigration... just my embassy in filing a consular report of birth abroad (CRBA), and those policies have changed recently too... for no apparent reason

i'm an american citizen, not an immigrant - there wasn't one iota of reason to suspect my not being a citizen... and soooo many reasons to accept that i was...

my family came to north america in the early 18th century... i'm tall, blond, and blue-eyed... i speak perfect american english with a non-regional accent... i served my country for six years in the usmc and am a veteran of the persian gulf war... and this is in addition to all the documentation i presented...

instead, i was treated as 'suspect' by a foreign- and indifferent-looking woman speaking to me in broken english... quite rudely questioning ME regarding something i have always assumed was fundamental: my being a us citizen

i guess my point is that videos like this present the particular situation as being 'scandalous' ... when in fact it's commonplace... and while annoying, it's not really insulting -- try visiting a us consular mission abroad and then complain about the bureaucracy, invasion of privacy, and being treated in a demeaning way

honestly, watching the domestic situation in my home country from overseas for the last 15-odd years is amazing... the partisanship is ridiculous, and so are most of their claims -- it's like having your body (the nation) infested with two distinct groups of intestinal parasites--like an old-south, grangerford-shepherdson blood-feud--the attacks from both left- and right-leaning tapeworms have risen to the level of threatening the very health and life of the host

videos and other seeming vitriol like this appear to me as symptomatic of such an unhealthy bent: a bloody feces-laden discharge

>> ^dag:
Exactly. It's a scourge. We're all citizens of planet Earth.>> ^blankfist:
Nationalism
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And us green eyes must fight to ensure the blue eyes and brown eyes don't get what is rightfully ours.