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Was that 'why would a man have sex with a woman'?

Is there any position a man & woman could use to have sex that would make sense?

A British university lecturer is getting a $20,000 payout for unfair dismissal — after being fired for aggressively using too many question marks in messages. Dr. Binoy Sobnack was fired last March as the warden of a residence hall at Loughborough University following complaints that his excessive punctuation created an “intimidating” tone, according to a court ruling. Text messages to other staff included one asking “Do you have to stay for dinner????,” and another asking, “Why don’t you listen?????? Stick to what has been decided!” An employment tribunal in Leicester ruled that Dr. Sobnack — who is still a physics lecturer at the university — was unfairly dismissed from his role as warden, which he held for 18 years, because the complaints against him were unproven and never fully investigated. However, Judge Richard Adkinson reduced the planned payout amount by 25 percent, leaving the lecturer with $20,000 — because his “conduct contributed to his dismissal.” Sobnack had ignored warnings and his “brusque, blunt and unnecessarily aggressive” messages amounted to “culpable and blameworthy conduct,” the ruling said. “The use of multiple exclamations or question marks… might make an otherwise neutral text appear aggressive, intimidating or suggesting disbelief,” the judge wrote.

I don't know about the former Mrs. Arnaz Jr, but the girls, of course, are infinitely so.

Not necessarily... I started my senior year 3 weeks after my 16th birthday.

I came across this old thread whilst searching for something else and thought others might find it interesting in light of covid.

I thought this was going to be about the NCAA Women's Basketball Championship. And to answer your question, not even the teensiest bit.

John Oliver rips Meghan McCain for hypocrisy of 'Stop Asian Hate' tweet On Last Week Tonight With John Oliver Sunday, Oliver opened the show addressing the rise in violence against Asian Americans over the last year, which many believe is due to rhetoric used by people in power when referencing COVID-19. Former President Donald Trump came under fire for constantly referring to it as “the China virus,” and refused to stop using the term despite warnings of where it might lead. “Just last year, many were loudly warning that Trump calling COVID names like "the China virus" was likely to lead to a rise in violence against people of Asian descent,” Oliver said, “an argument that at the time, not everyone seemed to find convincing.” As for those who did not find those warnings convincing, Oliver singled out The View co-host Meghan McCain, who last year had this to say when discussing the phrase “China virus.”. “I think if the left wants to focus on PC labeling this virus, it is a great way to get Trump reelected,” McCain said. “I don't have a problem with people calling it whatever they want. It's a deadly virus that did originate in Wuhan (China). I don't have a problem with it.” Oliver castigated McCain for not heeding the warnings about the consequences of such rhetoric at the time. “Oh, good, Meghan McCain doesn't have a problem with it,” Oliver said. “Listen not to the scores of Asian Americans telling everyone that the term is dangerous and offensive! Instead, gather round, and take the word of a wealthy white woman who's dressed like she's about to lay off 47 people over zoom.” Following the shooting spree in Georgia last week that left eight people dead, six of them Asian women, McCain posted a tweet in support of Asian Americans. But to Oliver, the damage caused by the sentiment McCain and others espoused has already been done. “A fine sentiment to throw up on Twitter after the fact,” Oliver said, “but there has to be an understanding that saying ‘I don’t have a problem with calling it the China virus’ is very much giving space for that hate to grow.” BTW, apropos of nothing, wouldn't this thread be more interesting if the headline read Meghan McCain & Joy Behar threw UP on live TV today?

After transporting a Florida Woman to jail following her arrest on DUI charges at a McDonald’s drive-thru, cops discovered that she had an eight-pack of vodka stuffed in her bra, according to an arrest report. Responding to a 911 call about a “drunk female that is driving all over the drive thru,” police Monday night found Brandi Stanley, 31, behind the wheel of a Pontiac SUV idling outside the McDonald’s in Lady Lake, a town about 60 miles from Orlando. Stanley, who had been eating in the vehicle, smelled of alcohol, had glassy eyes, and her face was flushed, an officer noted. Additionally, when Stanley exited her car at the cop’s request, she swayed from side to side. After refusing to perform field sobriety tests, Stanley was handcuffed and placed in the rear of a police car. En route to jail, Stanley reportedly uttered, “Just take me home, let’s forget this” and “I’m so stupid I should know better.” Upon arriving at the county lockup, Stanley “continued to yell and scream” at cops, resulting in “several deputies assisting in removing the defendant from the vehicle.” It was only after Stanley was extracted from the cruiser that police located an eight-pack of Deep Eddy Vodka under her bra. One bottle was missing from the pack, cops reported. While court filings do not indicate the size of the individual vodka bottles, physics dictates that they were 50-milliliter nips [how approppriate!] , the shot-size serving associated with airplane imbibing. http://www.thesmokinggun.com/sites/default/files/assets/brandistanley21.jpg Pictured above, Stanley was charged with a pair of misdemeanor DUI counts. After a night in jail, Stanley was released from custody after posting $2000 bond. She is scheduled for an April 19 plea negotiation conference in Circuit Court.

After transporting a Florida Woman to jail following her arrest on DUI charges at a McDonald’s drive-thru, cops discovered that she had an eight-pack of vodka stuffed in her bra, according to an arrest report. Responding to a 911 call about a “drunk female that is driving all over the drive thru,” police Monday night found Brandi Stanley, 31, behind the wheel of a Pontiac SUV idling outside the McDonald’s in Lady Lake, a town about 60 miles from Orlando. Stanley, who had been eating in the vehicle, smelled of alcohol, had glassy eyes, and her face was flushed, an officer noted. Additionally, when Stanley exited her car at the cop’s request, she swayed from side to side. After refusing to perform field sobriety tests, Stanley was handcuffed and placed in the rear of a police car. En route to jail, Stanley reportedly uttered, “Just take me home, let’s forget this” and “I’m so stupid I should know better.” Upon arriving at the county lockup, Stanley “continued to yell and scream” at cops, resulting in “several deputies assisting in removing the defendant from the vehicle.” It was only after Stanley was extracted from the cruiser that police located an eight-pack of Deep Eddy Vodka under her bra. One bottle was missing from the pack, cops reported. While court filings do not indicate the size of the individual vodka bottles, physics dictates that they were 50-milliliter nips [how approppriate!] , the shot-size serving associated with airplane imbibing. http://www.thesmokinggun.com/sites/default/files/assets/brandistanley21.jpg Pictured above, Stanley was charged with a pair of misdemeanor DUI counts. After a night in jail, Stanley was released from custody after posting $2000 bond. She is scheduled for an April 19 plea negotiation conference in Circuit Court.

A man accused of trying to sell an ancient marble statue has been arrested by Greek police. On Friday, authorities said that an unnamed suspect had been trying to sell the artifact, a 5th-century B.C. statue, for 100,000 euros ($119,000). He was arrested Wednesday in the southern town of Corinth, about 50 miles west of Athens. The statue was turned over to the Greek Ministry and Sports Culture by the Attica police, according to the Greek Reporter. “It is an exceptional work of art, of the kind not easily found, not even in systematic excavations,” archaeologist Dimitris Sourlas said during a presentation at police headquarters in Athens, The Associated Press reported. The statue, measuring about 37 centimeters (14.5 inches) high, portrays a seated young male, but his head, arms and a large portion of the legs are missing. According to police, it likely adorned a temple on Athens’ Acropolis or the slopes around it. Investigators said that the artifact was recovered after a months-long investigation that involved the police and the country’s Cultural Heritage and Antiquities Department. Attica Security Police chief Petros Dzeferis said that the recovery was among a number of successful cases carried out by the collaborative effort. Authorities are now trying to determine how the statue came into the suspect’s hands, and whether he has succeeded in finding a buyer. Images released by the police suggest that statue was buried for a long time. It also shows possible damage potentially caused by digging tools, according to the AP. It is against the law to buy, sell or excavate antiquities without a permit in Greece.

A man accused of trying to sell an ancient marble statue has been arrested by Greek police. On Friday, authorities said that an unnamed suspect had been trying to sell the artifact, a 5th-century B.C. statue, for 100,000 euros ($119,000). He was arrested Wednesday in the southern town of Corinth, about 50 miles west of Athens. The statue was turned over to the Greek Ministry and Sports Culture by the Attica police, according to the Greek Reporter. “It is an exceptional work of art, of the kind not easily found, not even in systematic excavations,” archaeologist Dimitris Sourlas said during a presentation at police headquarters in Athens, The Associated Press reported. The statue, measuring about 37 centimeters (14.5 inches) high, portrays a seated young male, but his head, arms and a large portion of the legs are missing. According to police, it likely adorned a temple on Athens’ Acropolis or the slopes around it. Investigators said that the artifact was recovered after a months-long investigation that involved the police and the country’s Cultural Heritage and Antiquities Department. Attica Security Police chief Petros Dzeferis said that the recovery was among a number of successful cases carried out by the collaborative effort. Authorities are now trying to determine how the statue came into the suspect’s hands, and whether he has succeeded in finding a buyer. Images released by the police suggest that statue was buried for a long time. It also shows possible damage potentially caused by digging tools, according to the AP. It is against the law to buy, sell or excavate antiquities without a permit in Greece.

A crewmember on ABC's The Conners died Thursday after suffering a medical emergency on the show's set. The man, whose identity is being withheld, was working on the show's stages at CBS Studio Center in Los Angeles when he suffered a "fatal medical event," per a statement from The Conners producer Werner Entertainment.

A crewmember on ABC's The Conners died Thursday after suffering a medical emergency on the show's set. The man, whose identity is being withheld, was working on the show's stages at CBS Studio Center in Los Angeles when he suffered a "fatal medical event," per a statement from The Conners producer Werner Entertainment.

Netflix’s ‘Country Comfort’ may sound like ‘The Nanny,’ but reminds Katharine McPhee of ‘The Sound of Music’ Give Fran Fine of “The Nanny” a drawl and some cowboy boots and you’ve got Netflix’s new comedy series, “Country Comfort.” The show centers on a down-on-her-luck wannabe singer, Bailey (Katharine McPhee), who stumbles upon a ranch and ends up getting hired as a nanny for a cowboy and his five kids, each with enough quirks to drive every other nanny out of town. It’s a well-known premise, and showrunner Caryn Lucas even got some of her first writing credits on “The Nanny” in the late ’90s. But McPhee found more familiarity in “The Sound of Music.” “She’s a less-gracious Julie Andrews,” the 36-year-old actress joked to the Daily News. “She needs a new job and he needs a new nanny so they’re kind of forced into each other’s lives.” “Country Comfort,” premiering Friday, finds Bailey on the worst day of her life, dumped by her boyfriend and kicked out of their band all in one go. So she brings her mayhem to cowboy Beau (Eddie Cibrian) and his family, which is still reeling from the death of his wife and their mother several years ago. All of the predictable hijinks ensue: a jealous girlfriend, a runaway daughter, a horny teenage boy. It’s silly and simple and sweet. LeAnn Rimes, Cibrian’s real-life wife and country singer, even appears in a few scenes. “I don’t know if it’s going to be one happy family,” Cibrian, 47, told The News. “You’ve always got to throw a wrench in every now and again. There’s going to be struggles. But I think you’re going to see this family grow and learn from each other and heal each other.” But where “The Nanny” was dropped into Manhattan and Queens and “The Sound of Music” sent Maria yodeling through the Austrian hills, “Country Comfort” calls the South home, full of horses and handsome bachelor cowboys and twangs. Cibrian, a California native, not only had to learn the accent but then coordinate pronunciations with the five young actors playing his children, Ricardo Hurtado, Jamie Martin Mann, Pyper Braun, Shiloh Verrico and Griffin McIntyre. Los Angeles-born McPhee, who played a Southerner in “Waitress” on Broadway in 2018, had a bit of a jump-start on her drawl, but she had an added challenge, singing with the accent too. Bailey, a failed musician who hasn’t given up yet, knows how to do little but sing. “They hired a girl from the Valley, this is what they get,” she laughed at her accent efforts. For Bailey’s chaotic speeches, usually made up of defenses, pleas and insecurities, McPhee found it helpful to go more high-pitched. “More nasal,” the “Smash” star said, the same description often used to describe “The Nanny” star Fran Drescher. The first four episodes of “Country Comfort” were filmed in front of a live studio audience before the COVID-19 pandemic made that untenable. What’s left is a story about a family searching for a savior and a woman searching for a home. “This last year has been so crazy on so many levels in every way,” McPhee said. “Going to work was such a breath of fresh air for us. It was a real haven. So we hope that the show is that as well.”

Netflix’s ‘Country Comfort’ may sound like ‘The Nanny,’ but reminds Katharine McPhee of ‘The Sound of Music’ Give Fran Fine of “The Nanny” a drawl and some cowboy boots and you’ve got Netflix’s new comedy series, “Country Comfort.” The show centers on a down-on-her-luck wannabe singer, Bailey (Katharine McPhee), who stumbles upon a ranch and ends up getting hired as a nanny for a cowboy and his five kids, each with enough quirks to drive every other nanny out of town. It’s a well-known premise, and showrunner Caryn Lucas even got some of her first writing credits on “The Nanny” in the late ’90s. But McPhee found more familiarity in “The Sound of Music.” “She’s a less-gracious Julie Andrews,” the 36-year-old actress joked to the Daily News. “She needs a new job and he needs a new nanny so they’re kind of forced into each other’s lives.” “Country Comfort,” premiering Friday, finds Bailey on the worst day of her life, dumped by her boyfriend and kicked out of their band all in one go. So she brings her mayhem to cowboy Beau (Eddie Cibrian) and his family, which is still reeling from the death of his wife and their mother several years ago. All of the predictable hijinks ensue: a jealous girlfriend, a runaway daughter, a horny teenage boy. It’s silly and simple and sweet. LeAnn Rimes, Cibrian’s real-life wife and country singer, even appears in a few scenes. “I don’t know if it’s going to be one happy family,” Cibrian, 47, told The News. “You’ve always got to throw a wrench in every now and again. There’s going to be struggles. But I think you’re going to see this family grow and learn from each other and heal each other.” But where “The Nanny” was dropped into Manhattan and Queens and “The Sound of Music” sent Maria yodeling through the Austrian hills, “Country Comfort” calls the South home, full of horses and handsome bachelor cowboys and twangs. Cibrian, a California native, not only had to learn the accent but then coordinate pronunciations with the five young actors playing his children, Ricardo Hurtado, Jamie Martin Mann, Pyper Braun, Shiloh Verrico and Griffin McIntyre. Los Angeles-born McPhee, who played a Southerner in “Waitress” on Broadway in 2018, had a bit of a jump-start on her drawl, but she had an added challenge, singing with the accent too. Bailey, a failed musician who hasn’t given up yet, knows how to do little but sing. “They hired a girl from the Valley, this is what they get,” she laughed at her accent efforts. For Bailey’s chaotic speeches, usually made up of defenses, pleas and insecurities, McPhee found it helpful to go more high-pitched. “More nasal,” the “Smash” star said, the same description often used to describe “The Nanny” star Fran Drescher. The first four episodes of “Country Comfort” were filmed in front of a live studio audience before the COVID-19 pandemic made that untenable. What’s left is a story about a family searching for a savior and a woman searching for a home. “This last year has been so crazy on so many levels in every way,” McPhee said. “Going to work was such a breath of fresh air for us. It was a real haven. So we hope that the show is that as well.”

I don't. Minnesota family pleads for return of granny’s cross-stitch heirloom sold during estate sale A mix-up at an estate sale sent a precious piece of one Minnesota’s family history out the door — grandmom’s giant cross-stitched map of America — and now they’re desperate to find it. It took Rae Elizabeth Kellgreen more than a year to painstakingly create the item — a 3-foot by 2-foot-tall cross-stitch of the United States. The work includes every state and every capital except Topeka, which was left out by accident, her grandson, Tyler Redden told KSTP. If a cross-stitcher makes a mistake, they have to start over, so Kellgreen had started the project with the East Coast “because she knew that was going to be the hardest part,” Redden said. “If she was going to mess up, it was going to be over there. So she started stitching it from the top right and kept going down, knowing that it would get easier as she went,” Redden said. Kellgreen completed the work in 1990 and wanted to submit it to the state fair until she realized she’d left out the capital of Kansas. So the work hung in her living room until her death in August. It was accidentally sold during a subsequent estate sale for just $10. “This cross stitch is so important to my family,” the grandson told the station. “It was the piece that, you know, the centerpiece in her living room for the three decades before she passed.”

I don't. Minnesota family pleads for return of granny’s cross-stitch heirloom sold during estate sale A mix-up at an estate sale sent a precious piece of one Minnesota’s family history out the door — grandmom’s giant cross-stitched map of America — and now they’re desperate to find it. It took Rae Elizabeth Kellgreen more than a year to painstakingly create the item — a 3-foot by 2-foot-tall cross-stitch of the United States. The work includes every state and every capital except Topeka, which was left out by accident, her grandson, Tyler Redden told KSTP. If a cross-stitcher makes a mistake, they have to start over, so Kellgreen had started the project with the East Coast “because she knew that was going to be the hardest part,” Redden said. “If she was going to mess up, it was going to be over there. So she started stitching it from the top right and kept going down, knowing that it would get easier as she went,” Redden said. Kellgreen completed the work in 1990 and wanted to submit it to the state fair until she realized she’d left out the capital of Kansas. So the work hung in her living room until her death in August. It was accidentally sold during a subsequent estate sale for just $10. “This cross stitch is so important to my family,” the grandson told the station. “It was the piece that, you know, the centerpiece in her living room for the three decades before she passed.”

Who were some of the has-bens? Affleck? Gazzara? Kingsley? Stiller? Gentle?