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I see you edited the post and, really disappointingly, you did so before I had a chance to see the whore joke you were concerned about. I'm now intrigued to know exactly what you put; presumably it was a dig at Joe's use of "wor" instead of "our". This, I can assure you, is a very common Geordie thing! Please feel free to reinstate the joke, I won't (and wouldn't) have been the least bit offended by it!
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The e-mail notifications I receive from getDare when posts are made to threads in which I've posted include the full unedited text of that post, so in the future you could try looking there first. This time I'll give it to you, but don't expect much, as it didn't sound as funny whilst well-rested at 2pm as it had at 7am on no sleep: "Supposedly we say 'fried cake' instead of 'doughnut' here, and pronounce 'roof' and 'creek' as 'ruff' and 'crick'. We do not. We do, however, avoid whores who say 'wor'." See? Not really worth asking after.
I'm not totally unfamiliar with the use of 'innit'; it's a word commonly used by John Constantine, a Cockney wizard from DC Comics. He, however, uses it specifically to replace 'isn't it?' whilst you use it in this week alone in place of 'couldn't you?' (once), 'haven't I?' (twice) and 'aren't I?' (twice). Is it really that versatile where you live?
Dan catching the blown kiss is simply too precious by half. I've only ever seen that done in movies, and then it was always to put the point across to the audience that the couple involved were ridiculously gaga about each other.
Dylan's 15 in week three is probably too high. I agree with Danielle that it's only worth 6, because everything done to him had zero permanence… and I see Phil agrees with us!
Generally the DAPAs have done an excellent job of scoring, especially considering that they don’t know what’s coming next. I’d’ve had them along on the dares and tabulating as they went, then just revealing their scores on the show. So far I’ve only seen one score in each episode I disagreed with — each time too high… and now I think they were a touch low on Special K; I'd've given him 10 total (5 each), possibly because he's how I would've likely ended up.
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“… Shanice is giving Matt a Mohican.
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I had to laugh at this. Being from the region where this hairstyle originated more than four hundred years ago, I can authoritatively state that it's a Mohawk, not a Mohican. Both are tribes (nations) of native American Indians, the names are similar and they both own big resort casinos today, but it's like calling an Englishman an Irishman.
Mohawks are part of the Iroquois Confederation whilst Mohicans are Algonquin Indians, the distinction being language family… and the fact that over a couple of centuries the Iroquois wiped out eight Algonquin tribes. One of the tribes that was destroyed was the Mohican.
This might beg the question of how a non-existant tribe now owns one of the largest resort casinos on the east coast. In the U.S. each tribe sets its own qualifying standards for membership. The most restrictive require ¼ ancestry from that tribe; the most liberal only 1/64. The Mohicans are among the most liberal, and they're still tiny. Supposedly there are no full- or half-breed Mohicans remaining, and there haven't been for over 250 years.
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I look at Maddie, who is focussed intently on the TV. Is that just because she’s hooked, or is it to avoid the possibility of any embarrassing eye-contact with one of us at this moment?
Glancing at Lissie, I am somewhat at a loss to know precisely where she is in her emotional development. She, too, appears engrossed in the on-screen action. But I wonder about her awareness of sex and her reaction to its mention.
Maddie glances at me, obviously feeling somewhat awkward at having to share this subject matter with her parents; particularly, I assume, her Dad. I smile reassuringly, but I don’t think it helps.
I look down at Lissie, to see how she is reacting to Trixie’s questions, but I can’t really tell. I assume that, at nearly 13, she does at least know what Trixie is referring to, but a nagging voice in the back of my mind tells me that, maybe, it’s time for an awkward sit-down talk with my younger daughter.
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These four paragraphs are wonderfully done. They read like they were written by someone who had been in the position of at least one of the three women.
Based on my experiences in the 1970s, by the age of nearly 13 Lissie has already become sexually aware. It happened to my sister and me when we were VERY young, had spread through half our classmates by sixth grade (ages 11-12) and was universal by eighth grade (ages 13-14). From what I gather by reading Time magazine, children are even more precocious today. By 'aware' I don't mean 'active', but that it was a frequent topic of discussion and curiosity amongst our peers.
Well, that's through the third weekly update. I'll try to get to episode four on Thursday.