Non-Sequiturs: 03.23.07
* With the advanced state of medical technology, it won't be long before some pol subjects every pregnant woman to a recording of her fetus pleading, "Please, Mommy, don't kill me!" [MSN]
* What on earth was he planning on doing with all that money? I'm thinking a tragic Gatsby-esque scenario. [ABA Journal E-Report]
* Did Craigslist receive a threatening phone call from the Starbucks legal department? I've never been a barrista, but even I could not help but shake my head in amusement and utter, "So true, so true." [Starbucks Gossip]
* In law school, I stuck to those guys in the backrooms of dive bars, who lent me tuition money on a handshake. Now that's honest business… Of course, now they've pimped me out to a law firm. [New York Times]
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Posted In: Abortion, Attorney Misconduct, Craigslist, Law Schools, Money, Non-Sequiturs, Rudeness, White-Collar Crime
I dated a Star$$ barrista who I got to know because I studied there effing constantly in law school (not by choice really, it was the only coffee shop that had sit down tables in my hood).
It's amazing how people treat them sometimes. And that list is really funny and true. I haven't ordered a Frappuccino in years. I hate those ginormous effing strollers that take up a city block. The one nice things about kids when they're little is that they're FUCKING LITTLE. Don't hog the entire sidewalk/starbucks with a stroller that really doesn't need to be that big.
Whew, that felt good.
P.S. There's a starbucks gossip blog?!? Wow, that place really is a juggernaut.
I read the story on that Starbucks about the little old lady who was thrown out b/c they thought she was homeless.
This really pissed me off.
Not b/c I feel for the old lady but b/c I assume this will scare other stores from throwing bums out.
First it was bathrooms... in NYC you can't go in a Starbucks bathroom; they are now homeless shelters... Now they're stinking up the plush green chairs... Where will it end????
Is that a doctored piture with the baby foot?
yeah, please say that picture is fake..
There is absolutely no way that the picture is real:
1) The uterus is a thick muscle. It is at least an inch thick at that point in pregnancy. Try poking a baby's foot through a steak that's an inch thick and see if you can get any definition from an image on the other side. There is such a thing as an abdominal pregnancy where the baby is freely floating within the abdomen in nothing but an amniotic sac protecting it (with the placenta attached to inconvenient places like over the aorta). Even then, see number two.
2) In addition to the thick muscle called the uterus, even the skinniest person has, at a very minimum, at least one to two inches of tissue between the outer layer of skin and the inside of the abdomen. There is the layer of skin and subcutaneous fat, there's the fascial layer (that is the connective tissue that holds the internal organs in place, and then there's the muscles (rectus abdominus, the washboard / 6-pack muscles - though they do thin considerably during pregnancy), and finally the pre-peritoneal layer with fatty tissue (less in skinny people) with its peritoneum.
3) How in the world would they time that picture and get it just right? They would have to have been photographing her stomach for whatever reason and just got lucky? I guess that part is at least plausible, but realistic?
Here's a link to more discussion online discussion on it: http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_fetus_footprint.htm
8:58 a.m., you are an abortionist. We all get why you feel the need to make this detailed post, and that is to promote abortion.
"8:58 a.m., you are an abortionist. We all get why you feel the need to make this detailed post, and that is to promote abortion."
Nice try troll.