When is your SO, your SO, to the extent that sleeping with someone else is cheating?

[TCO]

you rawk!!!!

Originally posted by LTEC!
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Now, how about a watch-buying recommendation. I am thinking something reasonably nice and ladylike looking. She had one before that was silver or gold colored. ~500 bucks or so. I'm looking to get away a little cheaper than that. But if I should spend equal to what she had before, tell me. She is a slim girl but decent height: 5-7. Has blondish-brownish hair. Dresses in a laig-back, but conservative manner. She had one of those ones before that was very rectangular in shape, without hour designators and it annoyed her (hard to tell time). So I am leaning to a more conventional look. I need to knowwhat sort to get and what kind of store is the best bet. jewelry in the mall, big, small, etc. I could go by someplace in NoVA on my way up to see her on Tuesday, if I was sure that they would have something nice.

[MichaeltheGreat]

You'll have to wait a few hours for that one. LTEC! is off to a baby shower, so Ian and I have the joint to ourselves for a while.

However, I'm sure you'll end up with several good options to choose from.

BTW, the Groovy Girl doll will likely be a hit - LTEC! has always been dead on when it comes to finding really cool toys that kids like.

[Solly]

Why are you spending that much, again?

[Al B. Sure!]

500 dollar watch? thats a bit much for a watch... then again, i'd do the same for the lady i love.

KrazyHorse and Jon:

(real quick so mtg won't get mad)... thats why i have always said i'm a fascist/populist. basically conservative, moderate in some areas, extreme in others, and with a few twists.


JohnT:

don't act like the 1960's had no effect on the rate of teenage pregnancy and drug use.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by reds4ever
once you a mutual agreement on the subject

I've always considered exclusivity as kind of old-fashioned and useless, and I don't think of it as being moral or whatnot.

However, my girlfriend doesn't think so. She thinks sleeping with another person is a horrible offense.

We made this difference clear and reached an agreement : as she gives much more importance than me to it, I respect her wishes of pure fidelity. The topic still makes her cringe.

[Dinner]

SPIFFOR SIGHTING!

Glade to see you're back.

[Al B. Sure!]

so spiffor, you dont believe in monogamy... what if your girlfriend did let you do whatever and you got another girl pregnant? what then?

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Albert Speer
so spiffor, you dont believe in monogamy... what if your girlfriend did let you do whatever and you got another girl pregnant? what then?

I am not stupid enough to have sex with someone else without using condoms Besides, my gf and I are very cautious about her taking the abortion pill.
If there was an accident and an unwanted pregnacy, I'd pressure as much as I could to have the girl abort. WHether she's my girlfriend or a random head (but random heads won't happen, since I swore not to cheat on my gf, at her request).

Oerdin :
Thanks !

[JohnT]

Speer: "don't act like the 1960's had no effect on the rate of teenage pregnancy and drug use."

I could argue that better statistical gathering techniques, the removal of societal blinders to what was really going on all along, and the rise of the hyper-media has as much to do with the "rise" of particular societal ills as the increase in drug use and other vices of "the 1960s."

Hell, before 1965 nobody really cared how many black kids were having kids... now 40 years later we have interest groups that exist solely to keep that number "up" to an acceptable level (an "acceptable level" is defined by the special interest group as the minimum number of people affected by Problem X needed to support a lobby group on their behalf - you don't want to go below that number or else you're out of a job. You can't support 8 salaries in the DC area if you only have 500 sufferers nationwide.)

Back then there were three TV stations, a number of local papers (like you had the time to read more than 2) and radio stations, no internet and party lines for your telephone. Information just crawled, and you most likely wouldn't have heard about teens having kids nationwide because the networks devoted a grand sum of 6 hours of news a day (one hour morning, one evening), all of them competing against the other in the same time slot.

So people didn't care and they couldn't even know if there was a problem due to the paucity of information... until the 1960s, that is, when a lot of things just seemed to hit critical mass and society exploded.

Personally, it seems to me that we have a situation where once teens were given the means to control their pregnancies, society became more relaxed in matters relating to a wide range of issues, from the way we dress to sexual mores to the problems of poverty. This has removed many of the "pre-libertine" (for want of a better word) assumptions that would've prevented kids from having sex, and the most important restraint still remaining, the church, is mocked by those very people who wring their hands and moan the loudest about the "poor black teens."

...

Plus there's also the fact that most 16 year old boys and girls are stupid and really don't care once they're in the heat of the moment. But you can't do anything about that.

[TCO]

I got her a nice watch. Several hundred dollars. Would have gone a bit cheaper, but the one she had before was in that range. It's no biggie in the end.

[Solly]

For your wife?

[TCO]

No. I don't even know if we will stay together. But no reason not to make her happy on her birthday.

[Atahualpa]

am I the only one wondering what a SO really is???

IS IT SO DIFFICULT TO EXPLAIN THE ACRONYMS YOU ARE USING?

Found with acronymfinder.com:
SO: Supply Officer, Security Officer, Source of Orgasm, System Overheat, Student Organization, Switching Office, Strike Out, Sold Out, Special Order, Sheriff's Office, Sims Online, Significant Other, Sales Out, .......

what? What?? WHAT????
Give me the answer ASAP and that could mean: As Soon As Possible, A Simplified Asset (disposal) Procedure, A Stupid Acting Person (Dilbert comic strip), Academic Strategic Alliances Program, Accelerated Situational Awareness Prototype, Always Stop and Pray, Antisubmarine Attack Plotter, ....

BR,
ata

[Spiffor]

SO : Significant other

gf : girlfriend - bf: boyfriend

ASAP: As Soon As Possible. Never seen any other use of this one.

[TCO]

Significant other (girlfriend).