Psychedelic Mini-Mouse???

I'd hit it but I got say I don't get it...

Strange Pommie git...

Uhm -- I agree. There's nothing wrong with a glass of wine while pregnant.

So, wait, I shouldn't take medical advice from someone who's not actually a doctor?

http://glossedover.com

2nd !

Damn.. I can't think of anything clever to say...poop

Most half-assed costume EVER

http://www.celebslam.com

I'd hit it!

http://www.scandalsnappers.com/

I'm not commenting on whether or not it's ok to drink a glass of wine in the 3rd trimester. I'm commenting on her "It's ok, they do it in Europe" mentality.

You have to love people that defend an action based on the fact that they perform that action somewhere else.

Gee Rachel, all over north africa they slice off women's clits so I guess it's ok to do that isn't it? In Iceland (Part of Europe) they burry a shark in the sand until it putrifies and then eat it, it is one of their national dishes so I guess you're be trying that soon also huh?

One more thing, a few decades ago girls with names resembling Rachel Weis were killed by the millions....that ok too?

Every time I forget how stupid celebrities are somebody like this reminds me.

um, one glass of wine, fish? no caffeine or chocolate either i suppose. And if she walks under a ladder, she'll give birth to a black cat?

Since alcohol's responsible for a lot of pregnancies anyway, why not?

one glass of wine is fine, ask any doctor.

Actually, she's right. It's fine for women to have an OCCASIONAL glass of wine during pregnancy. Not everyday or all the time, obviously, but occasionally is fine. And I also think she's right that in the West it's primarily only in North America where people make such a big deal out of one glass of wine during pregnancy.

Well, what about all the women that don't know they're preggers for a while and keep going about their lives? It does happen that people don't find out until a month or two down the line.

In england its also common for kids to be given guinness by their parents. not to mention the fact that up 'til maybe 20 years ago pregancy books only talked about limiting alcohol intake - not getting rid of it all together. I don't think there's anything wrong with a glass of wine during pregnancy - we're all just too sensitive about it. If people were responsible and used moderation it'd be fine. But in the US people are so weird about it, they go so overboard.

My wife had plenty of wine when she was pregnant and everything turned out ok. My son claps with all four hands whenever she walks in the room.

of course it's okay...

if you want your kid to have eyes on the sides of their head like britney spears!

fetal alcohol syndrome- everybody's doin' it

SpinDoc and Rich: i love you guys.

I think instead of Europe being the benchmark for healthy prenatal living, we should have celebrities step up to the plate and be our role models. Kate Moss's kid seems to be doing alright. Frances Bean Cobain is okay. Who else? ANNA NICOLE SMITH'S kids are oka........well, 50-50.....Pam Anderson's kids seem to be okay and they got a double whammy, much like the Cobain kid.

LOL@13.....He'll make a great dishwasher one day.........

I agree with hey, there's nothing wrong with one glass of wine. As for her "It's ok, they do it in Europe" mentality", as someone put it, how do we know if she wasnt taken out of context? The quote was ONE LINE. We have no idea if she explained herself any better than that or not. Its a pretty big topic, I'm sure she said more about it thatn that.

God shit like this annoys me- a not-even-that-offensive quote from someone, and people get on their moral high and start bitching.

ROFL, retarded babies are fun! Some even become presidents (cough)

Using her mentality, you can be sure the first time your kid gets drunk, he'll be with you.

If it's good enough for the Europeans, it's good enough for my progeny.

Who the fucking hell is Rachel Weisz?

(Not a doctor, apparently.)

Right on Louise you tell them! (holds torces and pitchforks in the air) lets get the fucker who made this post! ROFL jk =D love you.

drunk babies are funny!

Stoned babies are funny!

You American's kill me. She's European, of course she's going to think this way, she says that it's done that way in Europe cause she knows. It's like giving your kids a spanking... people go nuts in America if it's done yet everyone over 30 was spanked or disciplined in one way or another growing up & we're all fine for it. You will notice a rise in the last decade of youth crime though... interesting isn't it?

& fetal alcohol syndrome... god, she said a glass of wine... not chug a freaking bottle of rice wine.

@19: haha yeah.
@21: actress--the mummy, behind enemy lines. i'm pretty sure if you don't live under a rock, you know who she is.

As for her comment, I'm sure it was taken out of context. She's never been known to say stupid/ignorant things, so this seems a bit odd. And of course she's not a medical expert, that's why on her IMDb profile, it says 'actress'.

RE people in Europe do it: Yeah, about 60 years ago, rounding up millions of people and gassing them to death was all the rage in Europe, too. So points off for that bit of logic.

But she's right. One glass of wine every now and then is not gonna hurt a kid. Fetal alcohol syndrome is what happens when hardcore alcoholics get pregnant and drink themselves into a stupor nearly every day. Doctors just say never drink while you're pregnant because they don't wanna get sued in case somebody has a retarded kid and tries to blame it on the OB/GYN because he/she said it was OK to have wine every now and then. Nowadays, if a kid comes out crosseyed, people are ready to sue everyone they met while they were pregnant.

I can't vouch for Ms. Weisz's drinking habits, but she doesn't look like a hardcore alky to me. Anna Nicole, on the other hand... that's the kid we should all be worried about. And I'm pretty worried about Britney's kids, too. I mean, you start out with those genetics, there's no telling what could happen if you mix with alcohol. Some kind of super hillbilly that cannot be killed and has an insatiable appetite for Cheetos and 40s and tobaccy. And sex tapes.

Oh and RICHPORT RULES!

Nyt--thanks for clarifying that for us and for the commentary. Now, could you shut your pie hole?

For serious, after the first three months of pregnancy it doesn't make a difference. And be honest people, half of you were conceived while your parents were trashed anyway.

I'd hit it too, but only if she's wearing the ears.

Well, okay, I'd be willing to wear the ears.

#25

I still get spanked.

If someone tells me, Well, the Europeans do it....then that's a dead giveaway to do the exact fucking opposite.

@26- Can I help it if I don't watch shitty movies? Thanks for the useful info.

#33
Ed,Blockbuster called - "White Chicks" is overdue.

33, Ed, she was in that one movie about pharmeceutical companies in Africa, what the fuck was it called? I think she won Best Supp. Actress, which thankfully means her career is over. I can't remember the title but it was pretty good. Oh! The Constant Gardner.

This story TOTALLY reminds me of the time I didn't give a shit about Rachel Weisz. Oh wait, that was just now...

My mom smoked, and drank throughout her pregnancies and all her children are healthy, I think Americans are FREAKS when it comes to this subject. I remember the post about Gwenyth Paltrow being in a sushi bar while preg, drinking Guieness (sp?) and everyone had a stroke not only about the beer but about the sushi, and she wasn't even eating sushi she was just at a restuarant (Paltrow is a vegan)

jrzmommy...

aw... did i upset you? are you planing on saving enough for jr'z bail in a few years?

I love how America will defend the first amendment to their last breath, yet if someone uses that right & it contradicts the unwashed masses, they get ostracized. Just ask the Dixie Chicks.

I love the libertarians who say you shouldn't discourage drinking while pregnant. You'll be the first to sue somebody when anvil-head comes out.

I personally would have a stroke if I saw Gwenyth Paltrow, because I hate her with the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns. I wish her mother would have knocked back several six-packs an hour while she had her in the oven, then she'd never be famous and I wouldn't have to be subjected to her and her fucking snotty, non-talented, hoity-toity fucking assholeness and her stupid fucking movies and her kids with the stupid fucking names. GOD I AM BORED.

that's because you're intellectually limited, my child.

Nyt, I'm totally for the first amendment, just not for you. You don't do it right. And Jrz doesn't mean "Junior's", you scary bald pink penis.

hee hee!!! 41. That's funny. But I don't believe in you.

Nyt is right about the first amendment in this country. Too bad the point is being made by an asshole.

aw... how do you know. You don't even know me or... maybe you do & I'm your neighbor or looking at you right now through my high power binoculars? & you really make no sense in your argument... but I guess that's asking too much from the unwashed masses. Now go get a haircut & have a tic-tac, I think you need it.

Nyt, I don't want to ask the Dixie Chicks anything for fear they will harmonize their answer.

#37 Your Mom obviously doesn't love you. Your're trying to convince yourself she does by saying that smoking and drinking are healthy but both are untrue.

and #38 I just asked the Dixie Chicks and they said the first amendment doesn't protect you against ostracization but your right TO OSTRACIZE. That's the point. They also say HI.

I rest my case about the first amendment. Even Richport hates me for speaking my views... I guess he's unwashed too. We should just load you all up into a convertible & drive through the car wash at this rate.

There's nothing wrong with a glass of wine? Oh really. I'll tell you what's wrong with a glass of wine. It's not enough god damned wine.
I'm sorry. I drink to get drunk. I don't see the point in having "a glass" if you can't have more.
Now if you'll excuse me.

yup, i understand jrzmommy, I'm not fond of their style of music either. but they are the most obvious example that I could think of.

I try not to think about the Bill of Rights on Tuesdays. That's such Thursday thing.

Actually I'm kind of a Dixie Chicks fan (so sue me). And the point to be made addresses tolerating dissent as a truly free society, not enforcing legal rights as a completely technical exercise. But my people (leaders with working brains) just returned to power, so none of this is bothering me now.

My Ma done drunk alchyhall with me. I am a real brainiac. I done gratuated ferm the 6th grade. I be a real smart bastard. What the heck does Post YOur CoMMas mean????

Nevermnid, it says comments not commaaass. I can tye my shoes and scratch my ass ant the same time. All that whiskey ma drank done make me learned more.

Hiya Fishies!

Nyt - the problem with the Dixie Chicks expressing their First Amendment rights, is WHERE they said their opinion about Bush, NOT that they had one.

Most Americans could care less what the stars think about in politics. I vote the way I want to, not cuz a fellow Texan is embarassed.

It is obvious by your post you really know nothing about us at all. Most people I know spank their kids, the ones that dont were usually beaten as children or have seen child abuse. People can go extreme on views.

Where are you from?

Did they return to power? I thought they just became a huge thorn in the side of the existing power. While not having true power, they can mess with those that have a bit of it.

Whoever calls it "free speach" doesn't pay a phone bill.

#27 - LL is dead on right. Advice against _any_ drinking during pregnancy is not a medical opinion, it is prophylactic measure by doctors against being sued by scumbag lawyers if anything goes wrong with the baby. Obstetricians have to spend something in excess of $250,000 per year on malpractice insurance.

Nyt - you seem to have a common misunderstanding of the First Amendment. The First Amendment keeps the government from preventing speech (except people complaining about their congressmen thanks to McCain-Feingold). It does _not_ mean that when private citizens exercise their free speech that other private citizens will not be offended and maybe stop buying stuff from the offending speaker. Dixie Chicks pissed off their fans and those fans stopped buying their music. First Amendment had nothing to do with that.

By the way, I'm a scumbag lawyer.

Not to be a nag, but the Dixie Chicks would have been bashed no matter where they made their comments. Country music is one of the last bastions of intolerance celebrated as a virtue. Sure, they made things worse by speaking out while abroad, but they would have been strung up (metaphorically speaking...maybe) in their own country as well.

OMG! Glass of wine and all..gimme a break.

#57

(crickets)

Rich - oh, shit. *speech*

It's all the cough medicine. I need another swig.

#58

Right on.

#49 Your the smartest fucker on this thread!!

#64

Fuck wine! I've been sipping Histussin all day. I'm all hydrocodoned up!

#52 Rich, I suspect you would like to lance the Dixie Chickx. Is your sizable cock thinking for ya there!?

Until the nazi birth police are in charge, a woman can do whatever the fuck she likes with her body. No one seems to give a flying shit when some bimbette shows up half dead from bad elective plastic surgery. I don't hear any wailing and gnashing of teeth when someone gets oversized water-flotation tits.

It's all ok unless the precious god-like fetus is involved. Someone's pregnancy is no one's god damn business but their own.

I'm with George Carlin anyway 'Fuck the children'

#65 (Mr.comissioner should be prepared to bone you all night since it is doubtful you'll be sleeping much and you'll be bouncing all around like a bunny)

Oh... ok... see, i'm not in the US, so it didn't occur to me that the location was more important then the jist of what they said was. So what was wrong with where they said it? Because it was not in the US? That makes a difference? Everyone knows that the US foreign policy that exists right now makes it a bit difficult for US citizens to travel & actually tell the truth of where they are from & not just claiming they are Canadian. It's not like they told the European audience that American's are bad... just that they were embarrassed of the Prez being from their home state.

#67 Listen Real Well- Fuck YOU

There are so many posts that have me ROTFLMFAO that I can't list them all! You all are to be commended for being on your game today!

#7 - you took the words right out of my mouth. She is a lemming, about to follow all the other lemmings into the sea to her death.
Kind of reminds you how Jenna Elfman said "AIDS isn't a disease, it's a state of mind." Yah, right!! Now STFU<C!
There is no "out of context" here. Doing something because other people do it isn't a sane and just reason. Oops, we are talking about an actress . . . why would I believe that sanity is involved here.

#40 - if Gwynneth wouldn't have made you feel that way, some other crazy Hollywood bitch would have.

#43 - You'd better believe that there is a God. Otherwise K-Earl and Brit would still be a happy couple and he'd be performing to sold out crowds all over North America supporting his double platinum CD!!

Even in "What to expect when your expecting" (which is considered a must-have manual for mothers-to-be) it says if you would like to have a glass or two of wine for celebratory reasons, etc. it's just fine.

I'm not saying let's all go drink 'em when were pregnant, but crikey let a pregnant lady have a little enjoyment. Soon it'll be all dirty diapers, and a screaming baby...then you'll really need a drink!

#67 Harsh but true (especially Carlin). Hopefully last Tuesday will hold off the nazi birth police for awhile. They've come much closer to taking charge while the hydrocephalic prince has been on the throne.

#69 - It had nothing to do with where they were, but had everything to do with the demographics of their fan base. They are _Country Western_ music stars. _Country Western_ fans are probably more likely to support the President and his foreign policies than Ska or Hip Hop fans. It was like the Dixie Chicks insulted their mom or sister -- many fans took it personally and decided they no longer wanted to give their money to people with whom they disagreed. Simple as that. This notion that there was censorship or some nefarious government involvement is just poppycock. Private citizens decided they no longer wanted to financially support people who had insulted their beliefs. This is the entirely rational behavior of sensible people.

#67 "precious god-like fetus" I think you are sssick and I hope to God you are barren.

#71 - STFU and LTC.
Fish's friggin' site still doesn't post symbols. The ampersand doesn't work. What a hack!

#67 I can't get over you- Your comments have absolutly pissed me off beyond belief and I NEVER get mad on here. It is not a question of being pro-life or pro-abortion. Most pro-abortion people don't hate fetuses you psycho!!

Even if you have the sexy Rich on your side, I still am just all worked up at you.

Fuck- I need a cocktail.

So what? When I was pregnant with my seventh kid from that one guy, I took a lot of painkillers so that the sounds of my other crying babies would drone out. Then I would drift off to my happy place and eat a lot of cheese. To a baby, wine tastes just like juice! My crack dealer told me so.

She's beautiful. Any child she has will be beautiful.

However for the rest of the population, at least cut it at 2 and a half months.

What really chaps me are nazi waitstaff who decide that they'll be your OB/GYN for the evening and refuse to give you that glass of wine. They're on my list, right next to the pharmacists that won't distribute the morning after pill.

#78

Ha, ha. Sounds like a great pre-natal diet.

Nyt - to alot of people the location DID make the difference, expecially to people from Texas...you dont air your dirty laundry in public, and by saying that in England that is EXACTLY what they did.

Granted - they would have gotten bashed here, too, but what made it worse is they said it in a foreign country when America was at war. Southern Americans dont forgive bashes to the Country like that.

You know I don't entirely disagree with all of what that bitch said but I do have one major problem with it.
So if we are gonna talk about the Dixie Chicks lets get the issue right. I don't care if they have opinions. I don't care if they want to give interviews to any reporter who will listen.

However, listen to this Natalie Maines you self righteous holier than though fuckwit... If someone pays money to come see a performance, keep your fucking politics out of said performance. Get your bitch ass on the stage and sing me some "Wide Open Spaces" (her vag I wonder?) and twang some fucking Banjo. No one needs to hear your bullshit blather about politics. Entertain the people who PAID their money for a SHOW. If we wanted fucking politics we would tune into Larry King. In fact, go on Larry King and talk all the shit you can come up with. But listen here, bitch. Stage time is performance time and the cost of tickets means no bullshit politics on stage. Assholes.

#83
Didn't I see you at the Streisand concert a few weeks ago?

#83

Exactly. Crazy Natalie got mad at the "shut up and sing" signs. So much for "free speech".

I drank a glass of wine almost every day of both pregnancies and my kids are awesome swimmers! They look SO cute with their little flippers, just kicking ass all over the pool.

For real, though, it's totally fine. American OB's are just terrified of malpractice, so they have to say 'absolutley not'. Because there will always be the morons who are told 'one glass is fine', and they hear 'one bottle is fine'.

#83 - Harshly put, but right.

83 - absolutely. I dont pay for a ticket to hear someone spewing their politics...I pay it to be entertained and to GET AWAY from politics and anything going on in the world and escape for a couple hours.

It would be like paying for a movie, then 1/2 into the movie they stop it and show a clip of the actors spewing their political views. Pulls me right outta my happy place!

Yep - Americans are sue happy. With all the warnings about everything it is amazing we have survived.

LMAO 84 - Not in this lifetime....
Next you will say I frequent shindigs at Hanoi Janes...

I love all the stupid speculation these days... I guess back when water was not even that drinkable (most people drank Ale or wine if they could afford it) the gene pool must have really suffered....
1 glass? Give me break...

Think early middle ages BTW if you did not follow my last post...

#89
Christ, no - I was gonna compliment you on your aim - she's obnoxious as shit. Everyone's a Bill Maher wannabe these days.

I don't blame my mother for drinking during all 7 pregancies she had with me & my siblings, I blame her for using a bottle instead of her teet.
Cause we're all addicted to drinking out of bottles now for some strange reason.

and what does this nyt know about the First Amendment?? It's not even a fucking American, anyone who says "you Americans" is definitely from a country where they still think a monarchy is a ruling authority over god & land. I mean, royalty?? get with the times you eurofreaks.

At least we have a chance to respond to misinformation about how we feel about things and react vice them just continuing to print incorrect info on our culture or clinging to stereotypes.

thats probably why europeans are retarded.

Right or wrong, the woman is still amazingly beautiful. And being beautiful makes her opinion more valid then any number of med-school classes.

She could come out in a conductor's hat, and advocate throwing babies under steamrollers while doing crystal meth off of Michael Jackson's child defiling wang, and she would still be more persuasive then the majority of the six-fingered nazi fetus worshipers.

It wouldn't even have to be an authentic hat, either.

Slow news day huh?

and can someone explain to me why a european keeps bitching about "unwashed masses" when those people shower like once every 5 months? And let's not even get into the lack of deodorant & toothbrushing.

I think we're all forgetting the most important point here: That the Dixie Chicks' music deeply and profoundly sucks. I'd rather hear those three reading out of Marx's manifesto than listen to what sounds like live cats being dragged across violin strings.

#67--Nazi birth police, I love it! Those fetuses have had a free ride for too long. About time someone knocked them down a peg.

RichPort & jrzmommy are hilarious - they make the site worth reading!

There aren't any Europeans "bitching" about unwashed masses. Just commenting since, to be fair, the USA is the one that wants unwashed masses, you fellows did ask for it first.

#101

No, no. We asked for "your huddled masses". Not big asses, unwashed masses or even a vat of molasses.

nyt - here's some cash, buy a sense of humor and rip that stick out of your ass. idiot.

#74. ok, I think I get it, well, the concept anyway. But a bit confused with your explanation. You mean to say that the Chicks disagreed with the beliefs of these people by saying they are ashamed of the prez coming from Texas? What kind of belief is that? ok... more of a round about answer... they don't like that he's from Texas... Bush is republican... so they are against Republicans? or Bush caused this clusterf**k of a war so they are against the war? (no, not talking about the war on terror, talking about the charge into Iraq for no reason other then he was a convenient scapegoat when they couldn't find Osama & he has oil) if they are against the war they must, ergo, be against the troops?

Sorry, I'm not getting that part yet... I still don't see any sensible people being rational, as you put it.

remember in an earlier post a very smart commenter discussed how infuriating it is to pay $100 for a concert ticket only to be talked at like you're attending a UN Convention? Well, keep the politics out of here as well. Go read a newspaper if you're that boring.

It was a lot more than people not buying Dixie Chicks CD's. They were blacklisted by corporate America - most recently NBC and received death threats.

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/27/dixie-chicks-advertisement-nbc/

I think I see some of the posters here in the clip !!

biatcho - dude, you need to take a pill & relax. I didn't attack you & yet you seem to feel the need to personally attack me. I think I see how American's really are & why every other country hates you, you seem to be a great example, people that attack others for no reason other then feeling they were slighted some random way. I like to think I've been very calm in learning more from you people, yet some of you don't want to reciprocate, to each their own.

commissioner - haha, thanks for that clarification. My mistake, thats one I assure you is not just me, but meh. "The wretched refuse of your teeming shore" that must be were I got that confused with, pardon me.

Folks, sorry to disappoint, but I only posted #13. The rest were posted by one of my trolls. I have a pretty good idea which one, because most them are fucking too moronic to spell or punctuate correctly. This guy needs a hug... trying to be me is a desperate cry for help... pay my bills, fuck my wife, and have a hard time buying boxers that are long enough for your cock head to not show out of the bottom… then you’ll be me, asshole.

Commish, you're too fucking cool to get (crickets). I fucking hate country music in all of its incarnations... except for Kenny fucking Rogers and Willie "Pass that shit" Nelson. nyt, you need to chill the fuck out; it’s more fun if you play along. You're right about the wine, and my kid only has 2 arms, but he can count to 17. LL, Spin & Jrz, you all fucking rock. I am more Libertarian than not, and don't regard it as my guys that won last Tuesday. Better than before? Yesirfuckingree. Mine? That remains to be seen...

So my little troll, if you are who I think you are, you spend more time here than I do! I have no idea how to write in someone else's style, just my own. You seem to have been studying me quite closely (parentheses, ellipses, punctuation). I'm not sure if I should be flattered, scared, or just feel fucking sorry for you. I never come at anyone here except as RichPort. Stop being a little bitch and get at me. Idiots like you always look at their feet when people like me walk by.

By the fucking way, I have no idea what "hydrocephalic prince" even fucking means. I guess I could look it up, but why? My brain tells me I just might know, and not even know that I know. You know? Now fuck off.

Oh and I hate when you cut and paste from Word and the apostrophes come out as "’". Fucking Bill Gates!!!

Bill Gates' Mom drank when she was preggers with him...

Big deal. There's no evidence to support that an infrequent glass of wine hurts the baby. And beautiful, talented women like Rachel Weisz should reproduce more often!

CARRIS, you dumb cunt, I'M STATING A FACT, none of the kids are un-healthy, all have levels of success, personally I wouldn't do what my mother did, BUT HERES ANOTHER FACT, until the 70's a large majority of pregnant women smoked and drank , hell I think even Lucille Ball smoked on I Love Lucy while pregnant. I'm not nor did I ever say IT was healthy, I'm saying not all babies born with mothers who drink/and or smoke are deformed or mentally challenged, except you, I guess your mom shot heroin

And one more thing CARRIS, my mom died in a car accident a few years ago, so YEA, she doesn't love me anymore

If only I could go back in time like the Terminator, I'd kill the mothers of all the Dixie Chicks and also Barbara Bush (George's mom, not his drunken daughter), then we wouldn't have to (first) hear about all that stupid bullshit back when it happened (country singers saying something bad about our retard president - who gives a rat's ass?), and people wouldn't be rehashing it here now. Help me, Jebus....

What has Lohan done lately? Has she hooked up with K-Fed yet? It's only a matter of time. Anyone seen her crotch lately? C'mon, people, more Lohan, less politics!

And oh yeah - screw Bill Gates. I curse his name every time that fucking paper clip shows up on my desktop. I wish I could take all the minutes of my life his programs have wasted and have them deducted from his life. I bet it'd shorten his life by at least a couple years. Yeah, I know he gives shitloads of money to charity, whatever. Don't care.

nyt, maybe the world does hate Americans, but where do you think we came from? I'm a basic European mutt (English, Irish, Polish, misc.) and like everybody else in America my family is not from here. We all came here from the countries that 'hate' us. And just like other countries we have our share of psycho leaders. Do you hate the people of Iraq because Sadam was a psycho?

I love Rachel, think she's gorgeous and sexy, and she can think what she wants.

Americans need to fucking relax. Go have a glass of wine. And I'm American too.. I'm just one that's traveled, has a World View, and doesn't think the world ends at the US border.

Fuck. Where's the next Britney post when you need it?

Overdrinking is harmful to a fetus, not a single glass of wine.

111. I agree, Rachel Weisz should reproduce often, and I'd like to help her achieve this goal, and I'm pretty sure she would appreciate my enthusiasm and work ethic. But, I don't think she'd be amused by my miniscule penis, massive ego, or blatant homosexuality.

Bummer.

BJLTC ;^o

Oh it is fine, why Barbara Bush did it and look... oh, sorry bad example.

http://www.holisticwisdom.com

@33: I'm pretty sure she's won an Oscar, so you can quit acting like your Olsen movies are better. Thanks.

@118 "I don't think she'd be amused by my miniscule penis, massive ego, or blatant homosexuality."

LOL!! I love ewe lawn thyme, BigJim! That was excellent lol

She was INCREDIBLE in "The Constant Gardner" ..even if the movie was depressing as shit.

121. I'm not really BigJim, but I occasionally play one on the internet, ...

I love you long time too.

LOL @119. Yes, bad example!!! Especially when naming her other son JEB. WTF. But, you know if your gonna run for office, ya gotta be a drunk or a stoner...America will love ya for it.

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome does not always occur, and there is no way to know how much alcohol will cause it to happen. Also, the infant is most vulnerable before most women know that they are pregnant.

The reason why doctors say no alcohol, is because they don't know how much alcohol is dangerous and experimenting on humans would be unethical.

# 104 Nyt - The Chicks said they were ashamed of the President. The clear implication was because of his foreign policies. Most, or at least many, of their fans _like_ the President and voted for the President. Their fans come from the Red states afterall. So their former fans decided the Chicks stood for a position they didn't. Simple as that.

It's worth pointing out something I missed earlier: the Chicks' comments also signalled a subtle but very significant change in their character. They had been pretty authentic Country Western people, but now they come off as elitist snobs. Their fans didn't really leave them, they left their fans.

I think in general there's also a feeling among the Right in America that the Chicks are now of a piece with many other Hollywood lefties who espouse their political opinions when they have no more (and often less) expertise than anyone else. Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Ed Begley, Martin Sheen, Ed Asner, etc., ad nauseam.

An accident of fame gives them a bigger bullhorn, but that does not mean that their opinions should carry any more weight than anyone else. And in view of the fact that their former fan base is probably more egalitarian than most other elements of American society, turning into self-important Hollywood liberal blowhards just alienates them more from their fan base.

It did not help that the Chicks reacted not by apologizing to their fans but crying about censorship and how they were wronged by America. This did nothing to mend the rift.

Obviously, any death threats are unacceptable. Having said that, just about any public person in America gets death threats and it pretty much never pans out. People get much more outrageous when acting anonymously. See this websites' comments for all the proof of that you could ever need.

And the fact that NBC dumped them, well that's business. NBC is a private company. Not like BBC where the government nominally controls them. NBC figured that putting up _unpopular_ and controversial people on their network was bad business and who are we to question their judgement? It's not like the elitist New Yorker-reading PBS crowd was going to tune into Country music, for goodness sake.

Geez, this is a long post. Sorry. But I think this is important stuff. I hate how America seems always to be on the receiving end of malign comments from abroad when we are, in fact, among the last places on Earth willing to actually defend the Western ideals of free speech, etc., which are our Legacy from the Enlightenment. Europe has succumbed to stupid and silly speech laws where you cannot insult people anymore. Thank God we have not fallen into that yet.

gimme a break, it's waaaaaay simpler than all that. they got rich and famous making music that's supported by intolerant rednecks. briefly one of them spoke her mind, and the rednecks tried to lynch her. same-old same-old here in the good ole usa.

Being half-Russian half-American, I am doubly offended.
Well actually, not really. Unfortunately everyone is entitled to their opinion no matter how unbearable irritating or narrow-minded they may be.

#61 - HA!!

*unbearably

#93: in case you missed Geography AND History lessons: Europe is not one country, most European countries are NOT ruled but a monarchy, they merely HAVE 'royalties'. And when people say 'you Americans' it doesn't mean that they are from 'Europe' (which makes you probably only think of Nazi Germany 70 years ago and the modern UK) - they could be from many other places in this world where English is the lingua franca.

But I do agree with you, anyone should STFU about anything that they know nothing about.

I'm just gonna throw more fuel on the fire by saying the reason us Europeans don't need to wash so much as Americans because we're not so fat and sweaty. AND we don't need to clean our teeth as much because we don't eat so much crap.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Anyway, gotta fly. Just off for my neonatal scan and it takes me ages to drive there when pissed. Hic.

#115
... wasnt it the americans who chose to put saddam in power in the first place??

I don't think drinking a glas of wine is the biggest harm for fetusses. Air pollution and chemicals in food is a bigger problem and we can't stop breathing & eating.

#126 Karl? Karl Rove? Is that you?

#116, your misuse of "world view", and that you capitalized it to call extra attention is so funny. Did you mean "global perspective" or "worldly view"? Ahhh, that made me laugh.

The beautiful thing about America is any fuckhead could come here and stand right outside the gates to the White House and on the steps of our Capitol and scream how much they hate the USA and our policies and George Bush and anything else they want. You could even form an organization who's entire purpose is to try to get whatever politician you dislike removed from power. You could even be a muslim dickface and rejoice in the streets of Jersey City on 9/12/01 that 3,000 Americans were killed, as they did...even if you don't belong here....and not a goddammed thing is gonna happen to you....no jail, no beatings, no beheadings, your wife and daughters won't be raped, your sons won't be slaughtered or taken away and forced to fight in an army....you're free to talk as much shit as you can muster up. Go do that in Iran, numbnuts. Go do that in Venezuela. Go do that in the middle of the Red Square. Try it in Burma. Try it in Indonesia. They tried it in Tianamen Square...didn't go over so well in Beijing. You see, if you pull that shit in most countries in the world, you're fucked. So don't tell me America sucks. We're pretty fucking righteous.

Oh, and all the other shit....the obesity, etc. etc......who fucking cares? Is that all you can come up with? Did you know that the UK is right behind America in obesity? No? Well you are.

And those fat Americans you hate so much aren't responsible for the war or our foreign policies. Stop blaming the citizens of a nation for the actions of the political elite. I've said it before and I'll say it again...with that mentality, you need to then hate every person in the Sudan because of the policies of the Sudanese government. You need to hate every Somali, every Chinese, every Iranian, every North Korean, every Venezeulan, and just about every person residing on the Pacific Rim.

#130 - I am smart enough to tell when someone is clearly a Brit but thanks for your valued input. Oh, how I love the stupid! They make grey, rainy days so much brighter from all the laughter!!

Jrz is on political fire today (though I disagree with the Venezuelan part). I love it when fucking foreigners, even those we love (Brits, Irish, Aussies, non-American Hispanics and Asians) talk shit about how much this country sucks, then eat crow when it's time to send one of their kids to a top university (that's right, we have most of them). In this country you have a right to be a bigot, lazy, obese, anorexic, a drunk, a scholar, or even a fucking asshole. Not too many other countries give you that array of choices. They may seem like false choices to those used to limited ones, but people continue to come here because it's human nature to desire these same freedoms. Absolute power corrupts absolutely, so its no surprise that any politican anywhere is a fucking dirtbag. So, to my foreign friends who revel in our "arrogance" (not those of you with actual brains and useful dissent), keep talking shit until you need our boys to come bail you out of your next fiasco, but don't talk shit when we end up using it to our advantage.

Rich, Hugo Chavez is an oppressive, power-hungry, authoritarian, maniac dictator who is aligning himself with psychopaths like Kim Jong Il, that communist shitbag dictator in power in Belarus, and that Yakiov Smirnoff lookin' mother fucker in Iran, Ajzbiabniaofgnoabnanfnadfzeeess or whatever the fuck his fucking name is. (I don't care what his name is because he is a terrorist fanatical scumbag.) I respecfully advise you to take another look at Chavez.

And while I'm at it, all you people who walk around wearing Che Guevara T-shirts.....do you know what fucking idiots you look like wearing the image of a brutal Marxist responsible for the illegal executions of thousands of people? He was an oppressive Marxist who appointed himself sole judge and jury. Why don't you go get yourself a shirt with PolPot on it, too. Or how about Idi Amin? Clueless!

Ajzbiabniaofgnoabnanfnadfzeeess? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Chavez is trying to broker a better deal for his people by cozying up to the same dictators we used to clink champagne glasses with. I just don't see him in the same evil light as the other dirtbags you described. He is a politician, so that makes him inherently dishonest and sheisty anyway. I don't like when 1% of a country pisses on the other 99% and calls it democracy (pre-Chavez Venezuela). I agree he is walking a fine line, and made an enormous fucking mistake denouncing Bush in such an undiplomatic, childish fashion. If anyone is gonna bash our president in our fucking country, it will be us US citizens, thank you very much. Just a different point of view I guess. My apologies Jrz, I actually shouldn't have said a thing about Venezuela in the first place, because I certainly have no right to tell you who's a scumbag and who isn't. Except for TC. He LTC you know...

#12 In england its also common for kids to be given guinness by their parents.

Ummm...No, it's not. I'm English through and through and I can honestly say just no.

Jrzmommy, what is the jrz, if you don't mind my asking? I am amazingly nosey.

No need to apologize, Rich. It's a respectful, informed difference of opinion. Like a tomato/tomahto type situation.

Jersey, as in New Jersey.

Good Morning All! It is ccccold here and my lovely pink nipples are all popping out--
Oh yeah. #67 I am still HIGHLY annoyed at your shit....

Who the fuck is Rachel Weisz, and why the shit does she have those ears on?

Ah, never mind. I Googled.

For those of you as uninformed as myself, Ms. Weisz is a huge A-lister with many hits under her proverbial belt, such as The Mummy, and The Mummy Returns.

148--Cmon now, give some props....she was very good in The Constant Gardner, which was a pretty heavy movie, and even won the Oscar that year. It's kinda like Hilary Swank, from 90210 to Million Dollar Baby.

I saw this porno called "The Constant Hardener"...

Yeah,as Borat says - the US is also the largest producer of porn. If the Dixie Chicks could just 'loosen up' a bit in a film perhaps they'd find their way back into the main stream.

Yes, the Dixie Chics should get fucked on film. But finding a porn dude that would fuck homely Natalie Maines is tricky. Maybe that super hairy guy from the Surreal Life would put his chubby cock in her. Yuck.

Now I am trying to think of a good name for the Dixie Chic's flic.

Dixie Cum Dispensers? Stupid.

Chicks with Dixies in their Bush? possibly.

Chicks with Bush Lick Dick Cum out of their Dispensers? Maybe, but a mouthful.

How about 3 fat Southern girls getting it on with themselves because nobody else will fuck them?

i'm out.

Chicks With Dick's ?

Inappropriate use of apostrophe #154 as usual. ( Actually I think they already got screwed enuff down there)

Dicks See Chicks?

yes, Rich. or vice versa.

jrz - What did you learn in the stupid flu symposium you attended? I've been sipping Histussin like hot chocolate and the only thing it's done for me is made me nicer. And stupider. More stupid. And everyone looks like cartoon characters. Snoopy just left my office.

Yea, I like Chicks See Dicks much better.

Commish, sounds like you got the good shit. Save some for me.

Awww, Rich, Deputy Dog just brought me a soda. I tried to read some of the earlier postings, but I just can't follow today.

Yeah Chicks see Dicks is the best however something involving Bush is good too

NYT,

The fact that you use the word "Unwashed Masses" would indicate that oh so typical of those who purport to be enlightened. What you really want is a world where you inform people of what it is they should be thinking. How nice for you, you'll have to let me know how that works out. As for American's not being able to tell people where they are from when they travel. Funny, looking at the news it would seem that French people can't even travel out to their own suburbs, Gypsies in the Czech Republic are tracked as they enter and leave their buildings. In Holland it was recomended that Dutch youth not wear anything Holland-identifying near neighborhoods with high immigrant populations because of the chance for violence. Additionally a filmaker in Europe was ritualisticaly murdered for a film defending the rights of women.

Hmm, sounds like there are a lot of places Europeans cannot go as well. But oddly enough, American isn't one of them. You can say what you will about us, but if you come here with your money you will be met with a smile. So when your own populace is rioting, you might want to catch a plane to Orlando, go to Epcot Center, at least there you can see a Europe that is clean with well mannered employees.

149 - She's one of those stars that kinda slip through the personal Care Radar, at least for moi.

For me, she's sort of like a Howie Mandel or the brother from Wonder Years... I'll read about them, but really don't care.

ps: I can't believe you implied that I watched a movie with "gardener" in the title. You know the only movies men watch involve Bruce Willis and uzis.

Spindoc: The USA sounds like heaven on earth! Can I really go ANYWHERE there without running the risk of being attacked? And are people EVERYWHERE in the States open-minded and tolerant and accepting like you and some other posters here on The Fish?

#164 laikiska

Apparently dry humor stops at Britains boarders and never made it to the rest of the continent, that said Take a look at Crime statistics, New York City's crime, both violent and non violent is far below any major city in Europe, so comparably, yes, you can walk anywhere here. As far as people being open minded. You mean open minded like Europeans? REally? Well gosh, if we were THAT openminded you'd have to tell us all you were Canadians when you got here and lie about where you were really from wouldn't you?

Now heres an idea, go out to the Racial tinderbox that are the Paris Suburbs, you know the ones, the ones where even the police won't go, then talk to me about people being open minded. That problem was created by the narrow minded bigotry over there.

And when you get to Epcot, don't forget to order a Churro, just one of the many gifts we have been open minded enough to accept from Mexico, they're Yummy!

ummmmmmmmmm... I am NOT British ;) I wasn't asking you to counter-attack either ;) I come from one of the most violent countries in the world, so I am DEFINITELY not casting any stones.

#164 & 166, you are nothing more than a hypocrite & a coward. Run along... but one question before you go. How do you have a computer where you are? It sounds so distant, ugly and archaic.

hypocrite? coward? LOL!! Thanks for the laugh :)

Actually, I am right next door ;) And I don't have a pc. Go figure.

jrzmommy - a bit late for you or anyone else to give a shit, but regarding your question @ 35 - she was in Runaway Jury with John Cusack, I think that's the movie you were referring to.

Nope, 169--I meant the Constant Gardner. I don't read John Grisham books and I certainly don't go see movies made out of John Grisham books, not said in an offensive tone to you whatsoever. Thanks though.

#168 - Your level of retardation astounds me. But then again, most foreigners do. Except for those foreigners that sing Double Vision, man that song rocks!

Commish @158: Swines are like mixing bowls and they can contract both the human flu virus and the avian flu virus and mix it all up and send out a fucked up mutation of both viruses that is contagious to humans and birds, which means humans then get exposure to an avian flu. Often times the humans and the birds remutate it and it then gets out there again. and again. and again. So save some of your Tussin for when the pandemic comes and the bodies start to pile up because no one is well enough to bury them, and no one is well enough to run the power grids and no one is well enough to work at the hospitals to run the ventilators and respirators, the banks, the schools, the reservoirs, the pharmaceutical processing plants that make the anti-virals, the psychotropics, the chemotherapy agents, etc. etc. you're gonna need a good buzz then.

jrz - I want my mommy.

oh, yeah, if it happens, we're fucked. The migratory patterns of birds from regions of the globe that have had bird-human transmission of H5N1 intersect a major migratory pattern that crosses over into North America where it then threads into three major flyways, and of course the central flyway is right in the middle of agriculture land...the midwest. Yep, a pandemic now would make the 1918 pandemic look downright jolly.

shk, no, Americans didn't support Sadam in power, only a few elite, scumbags supported him. Sr. Bush left him in power and it was a stupid mistake. So how are Americans as an entire group viewed as being supporters of Sadam? And again, the vast majority of Americans that I know are actually Europeans of some sort. So the world pretty much hates it's own people. If we are so terrible why do people keep immigrating in droves?
And as far as fat Americans for those that commented, I have traveled to a number of other countries and have seen way more fat foreigners than I see at home. So why is that? Try watching some travel shows and check out all of the fat residents of other countries. Are people just blind?

Didn't this thread start out with commentary about an ACTRESS in MINNIE-MOUSE EARS? ALL of you need to take a drink, not just the preggo Euros

yes, in europe we occasionally drink a glass of red wine while being pregnant. and i'm a medical doctor..

Let's just say, you can only talk about the country, town or even street for that matter, you live in.
I'm glad I live in a country where I can speak my mind 2 and I don't have to wear a burqua :)

I live in Belgium, but I guess the feeling is mutual. Europe isn't big and we don't really stick to each other, f.e. I don't feel Italian. It's only 1200 km away but it's another country, another language, another culture etc. I guess that NY-ers feel more related to peeps from LA just because it's one big nation. That would be the same like me saying I feel for Russians.
It isn't comparable.

Europe has no decent defense and we are geologicly closer to where it is all happening. And yes, a lot of immigrants (who benefit our system to the fullest)feel like they don't belong to the county they live in. And the country originally come from, also treat them like outsiders. They don't know what they are, where they belong.
It's very complicated.

Since there is no view for a quick solution (palestin situation etc) people get afraid of what's gonna happen when Bush gets trigger/oil (whatever it is he needs) happy.

It will only escalete. And no-1 wants war becuz it'll become 1 big geurilla. Of course we hate Sadam 2, but he can't invade every country that has "bad leaders". If he's all about bad leaders taken to justice, then he has a lot of wars 2 start. And give his job 2 some-1 else too. If even Bill goes down cuz he got a BJ :)
At least he tried 2 do something bout the Palestin situation.

And I don't think any-1 blames the american folks cuz you guys have to live under it 2.
We all live in a bit of fear of what the future will bring.
Unfortunatelly but true, America can bring a lot of good, or it can bring a lot of bad. The only thing we can do is sit and wait. We don't have the manpower, we don't have the unity, we don't have the funds and we don't have the guns..

i absolutely adore your waffles

#178 you lost me when you started using numbers as words. It hurts my brain the same way time travel movies do.