I bought a pair of the flex titanium frames a year ago. They weren't very expensive and I thought they were great because I don't treat glasses very well. I tend to fall asleep in them, sit on them, whatever.

Two days ago I was wiping the lenses clean and they snapped in half at the bridge. It was weird. I have no clue why. I took them back to the place I bought them. A lot of those frames have great warranties. Mine would've been replaced for free but they had been discontinued. So I'll be buying a new pair of glasses this week. But if I could do it again I would've bought the same frames. They weren't very expensive and they were very light weight. I did like them a lot.

As for kids grabbing them, I remember being so frustrated when my daughter did this. So I switched to contacts until that phase was over. I only remember her doing it when she was around one.

Anonymous wrote:Ugh, I feel your pain. I just got back from my checkup and realized that the urine test is becoming an exercise in seeing how thoroughly I can pee on my hand, as I can no longer actually see to position the cup.

Try doing this with glasses on! I will only wear contacts for my OB appointments now.

Anonymous wrote:In DC when you try to get insurance on your own, i.e. not through some bigger employer, you will not get maternity coverage if you are already pregnant. DC law allows ins co to treat this as a preexisting condition.

When I get my act together, can't right now because baby is only 4 weeks and taking all my strength, I will do some legislative work to get this changed.

And it's not just DC. I don't know of an insurance company that will offer maternity benefits for individual coverage, if you are already pregnant. Most have a 10 month waiting period. The rules are completely different for group coverage through an employer. The have to offer coverage regardless of any pre-existing conditions. I found this all out the hard way when I was pregnant with my daughter. The insurance agent told me it was like insuring a burning building. He had a point.

Anonymous wrote:Wow. The OP must have a bit too much time on her hands to be thinking about this. Feel free to come over and help me out w/ real issues. I've got a few (and none of them involve animals).

If this was the gauge for everyone to post on DCUM, the boards would be empty. You could say the same thing about almost all the posts. Give the OP a break. She noticed something odd about her kid and thought she would ask about it. OP if it was my child I would have been wondering why she didn't know those things as well. So I don't think it's overkill for you to ask.

No it's not illegal. Just not advisable. If you don't a backseat you don't have a choice. That's why two seaters have an option to turn off the passenger side airbag.

I've often wondered this myself. I've been trying to figure out for years why we tend to treat our friends better than our spouses. It just seems like you can can go from 0-60 in no time with a spouse over nothing, but would give a friend the benefit of the doubt more often than not. I will agree with everyone else that having young children tend to exaggerate situations that normally wouldn't even matter. It's the constant stress, especially with toddlers. I hope things get better for you OP. I definitely wouldn't make any decisions based off a horrible dinner. Things usually tend to look up after a few days and you're not caught up in the emotion of the moment.

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Anonymous wrote:Because you take this virtually unheard of name, it has a "De" in the beginning, and automatically it has to be a black kid's name.

Well, yes, precisely! It is a longstanding practice in African-American to invent names (i.e. "virtually unheard of"), and a very large percentage of those names begin with De! You have hit the nail on the head as to why people would think it is an AA name. Since there is nothing wrong with AA names, I'm not sure why anyone thinks these thoughts are somehow racist.

This is so ridiculous it ceases to be offensive. Presenting your generalizations as truth is certainly interesting though. We do agree on one thing though. It isn't racist to believe as you do. Just sad and misguided.

Not the PP, but I am seriously curious--are you saying that there are NOT a lot of African-American names that are made-up? Not a rhetorical question. Because while I won't get into the Declan issue, I do think it is unobjectionable to comment on the obvious, that yes, African-American often make up names. By "often," I obviously don't mean the majority of the time, but obviously more often than other ethnic groups. (The book Freakonomics even had a comment on this, if I recall correctly.)

I think if it makes you feel better about yourself as a person, to take potshots at an ENTIRE race of people across the United States then go for it. It would take a lot of time and effort on my part to fully explain what I think of the "most African Americans make up their kids names" posts, not to mention a waste of time, considering you would still feel the way you do. Believe it or not we're not all the same. And when you lump all African Americans into a group without regard to where and how people are raised etc., it's irritating.
Honestly when I read the "haha, that sounds like an African American name" posts I told my husband people are just having some fun. I'm sure you don't mean any ill will. It did remind me of how different I really am from the majority of people on this board, so that would explain why I don't see things the same way you do. Different generations, environment, upbringing will do that of course.

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Why not speak the truth and not worry so much about who's offended by the truth?

You're just trying to stir up the whole "working moms don't raise their kids" debate, which is unnecessary, played out, and needlessly cruel. (SAHM again.)

Really you can't even pay attention when people like 19:07 say silly things like that. If she really felt that working was deserting your children all day she wouldn't have married someone that would do that. Not to mention that chances are she's not homeschooling those precious children and at that point deserting them is ok right? At the ripe old age of 5. Anyone on the extremes of any debate have to automatically be canceled out.

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Anonymous wrote:Because you take this virtually unheard of name, it has a "De" in the beginning, and automatically it has to be a black kid's name.

Well, yes, precisely! It is a longstanding practice in African-American to invent names (i.e. "virtually unheard of"), and a very large percentage of those names begin with De! You have hit the nail on the head as to why people would think it is an AA name. Since there is nothing wrong with AA names, I'm not sure why anyone thinks these thoughts are somehow racist.

This is so ridiculous it ceases to be offensive. Presenting your generalizations as truth is certainly interesting though. We do agree on one thing though. It isn't racist to believe as you do. Just sad and misguided.

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Yep. It is sad sometimes to see how people really think. "Many African American names, eh?" I can't think of one in my family or that I've known growing up. And I have a huge family. 17 aunts and uncles and countless amounts of cousins. I would be interested to know how many anyone has personally met. Come on, let's back up that stereotypical assumption.

I would take your son to Texas. Not because I wouldn't want to leave him with the in-laws, but because if your mother lives in Texas she probably doesn't get to see him nearly as much. He can visit with your in-laws anytime.
I would pick a flight with a long (2 hr) layover in Texas so you can give him to your parents without having to pay for separate flights or anything.

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Love him or hate him there won't ever be another Michael Jackson. He was a brilliant musician that millions around the world will miss. He put out so many amazing songs. I still can't get over the images of his fans fainting when he came out on stage.

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Anonymous wrote:People, people, people!!!! Listeria has NOTHING to do with SOFT. It has to do with unpasteurized. I doubt that anything DQ serves is unpasteurized given their mechanization of the stuff.

I am not even sure that there is actual dairy in their ice cream, ha ha!

Nonetheless, this is news to me and I have eated a LOT of soft ice cream between this pregnancy and the last so I hope it is ok!

Dairy Queen's product cannot even be called ice cream. You won't find the words ice cream anywhere in their store. It's actually called ice milk. Their product has the maximum amount of air allowed to be in a product (over run) at 100%. Don't ask me how I know this.

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Anonymous wrote:There should be no choice after first trimester unless medically necessary to protect the life of the mother and that ends the debate. I actually think that is giving a lot because most pro life people think abortion at all is wrong. Killing a baby is wrong and with babies living and thriving at such a young gestational age we are in a new territory of what is right and should be legal. I notice that a lot of people who are pro abortion and I call it pro abortion since I am tired of the marketing jargin (privacy, choice) to make something that is pretty evil sanitized will not look at the photos of what a baby looks like that has been murdered at at 25 weeks. It is beyond awful and should have the same degree of outrage that we place on a mother who kills her baby shortly after delivery. What is the difference?

This post is a pretty good example about why dialogue on this issue cannot be had by many, many people. You talk like this and I will completely shut down (unless it is to respond pretty strongly, which gets nowhere). And, I'll leave it at that. For now.

Which part exactly, makes you shut down?

Because they don't like to think of it realistically. They don't like to picture the actual baby murdered at 25 weeks. They prefer to keep this "choice".

Because calling it murder lets everyone know that you are unable to have a rational conversation about abortion. Murder is against the law everywhere. People that are accused of murder get arrested, go to trial etc. It's not murder even if you would like to think of it that way. This is why people who like to actually look at different sides of an issue and have a debate about it wouldn't bother to do so with you.