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Posts posted by Tomcat0403
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oh mind you it has to be decently appropriate...lol
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i have numb/encore right now
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yeah....it's wintertime and i need a fulltime job....
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I'm working at HH Gregg and i need some suggestions for demo tracks for a home theater system. I know there are some audiophiles on here...I need a good wide range of suggestions for tracks that will make any home theater system sound amazing....ideas at the moment
Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire
running Blind - Godsmack
Lowrider -
Either Iris or Here is Gone - Goo Goo Dolls
Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns and Roses
Let it Rock - Kevin Rudolf
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i have that race recorded
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I'm out...forgot i have drill this weekend
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That machine shop is abandoned?!?!? hmmm...adventure is coming soon
otherwise it's pretty cool
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ask Mandie
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I might be in...
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i laffed...
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Welcome and Enjoy!
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at the Ohio State reformatory in mansfield that cannot touch you...at least five years ago they couldn't...the building is the scariest thing
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maybe if he would PULL UP HIS FUCKING PANTS!!! lol
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My physics teacher told me this 5 years ago...this exact thing...fucking hippies piss me off
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"Everyone in my office is a moron except me!!!!"
you know me so well
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the morons in my office are saying "wow that is so awesome" and "I'm glad he won the award"...jesus H christ
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Gawd, where was Kanye when he accepted this?
more imaginary rep to you sir
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whoa....wait...pool table???? where??? Pratts place???
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pizza delivery is great quick cash..did it for two years of and on, sometime i took home 150 a night
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fag
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I love it...
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Dont ask why i read it, but basically figureheads of the black community are saying shit like.....it reinforces a bad image for young black girls, why can't they have short kinky hair, or an afro or something? Bunch of other BS too...
Jesus I'm bored this morning:D
Mattel Introduces Black Barbies, Gets Mixed Reviews
Friday, October 09, 2009
This photo released by Mattel shows "Barbie So In Style" shows the Trichelle and Janessa dolls.
NEW YORK — Mattel has launched a new line of black Barbie dolls with fuller lips, a wider nose and more pronounced cheek bones — a far cry from Christie, Barbie's black friend who debuted in the 1960s and was essentially a white doll painted brown.
The "So In Style" line, which hit mass retailers last month, features BFFs Grace, Kara and Trichelle, each with her own style and interests and a little sister she mentors: Courtney, Janessa and Kianna. The dolls reflect varying skin tones — light brown, chocolate, and caramel — and Trichelle and Kianna have curlier hair.
Barbie designer Stacey McBride-Irby, who is black and has a 6-year-old daughter, said she wanted to create a line of dolls for young black girls that looked like them and were inspirational and career-minded. For example, Kara is interested in math and music.
"I want them to see themselves within these dolls, and let them know that black is beautiful," she said.
Many black women are praising Mattel for its efforts — Black Barbie hit the shelves in 1980 with white features shared by many of the dolls following her.
But some say the dolls with long straight hair are not "black enough" and do not address the beauty issues that many black girls struggle with. In the black community, long, straight hair is often considered more beautiful than short kinky hair.
Chris Rock highlights the issue in his "Good Hair" documentary, which opens in select cities on Friday and shows black women straightening their tight curls with harsh chemicals and purchasing thousand-dollar hair weaves.
"Why are we always pushing this standard of long hair on our girls?" asked Gail Parrish, 60, a playwright in Alexandria, Va., and a mother of four grown children. "Why couldn't one of the dolls have a little short afro, or shorter braids or something?"
McBride-Irby said she originally designed all the dolls with long hair. Combing her Barbie's long hair when she was a girl was the "highlight of my play experience," she said. She was advised to create some dolls with curlier hair, so she did.
There is a So In Style hairstyling set so girls can curl, straighten and style their dolls' hair over and over. (It costs $24.99, more than a pair of dolls at $19.99.)
That is troubling to Sheri Parks, an associate professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland
in College Park, because it actively involves girls in the process of straightening hair. She worries that it reinforces the message that there is something wrong with natural hair.
"Black mothers who want their girls to love their natural hair have an uphill battle and these dolls could make it harder," Parks said in an e-mail.
Aside from the hair, some black women are concerned about the dolls' thin frames. Barbie, which celebrated her 50th birthday in March, has for years come under fire for promoting an unrealistic body image, with her long legs, tiny waist and large breasts.
While white girls also deal with body-image issues, Kumea Shorter-Gooden, co-author of "Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America," believes Barbie has a more negative impact on black girls. They are already struggling with messages that "black skin isn't pretty and our hair is too kinky and short," she said.
Despite those complaints, Mattel seems to have gotten several things right.
Andrea Slaughter, 38, a mom of two in Newnan, Ga., said she likes how the designer highlighted values that are critical in the black community, such as education and mentoring.
Sheila Adams Gardner, 41, a mother of three in Woodbridge, Va., praised the varying skin tones. She said when her daughter was 4, she became very self-conscious about being lighter than everyone else in her family.
"She has always had African-American dolls, but rarely dolls with skin like her own," she said. "Often the lighter dolls were Hispanic or Indian. It was very heartwarming to look at a series of African-American Barbies and hear my daughter, now ll, exclaim, 'She looks like me!"'
Even Shorter-Gooden acknowledged the facial features "look like real black people."
Mattel doesn't release sales figures. But Michelle Chidoni of Mattel said the dolls are resonating with girls of all colors and ages.
The line will be expanding next year with Rocawear clothing, new dolls Chandra and her little sister Zahara, and Darren, who will have a little brother he mentors.
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Amazing....even a bigger joke than captain tree hugger gettn one for global warming..............................to bad that doesnt exist. have you heard the chants that a new jersey school has kids doing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Capt. Tree Hugger.....I just died laughing at work and got the "shhhh"
lets see your pumkins!!!
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