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wtf is up with that line? i've never been to a house that had more than 3, so don't make this an american thing. my house has two, but we only use one because the other one's shower hasn't worked for years.

oh and jason mcgerr from death cab walked past me at a show, but i don't think that counts because i was too much of a pussy to say anything to him. :embarassed: he's really tall.

i've met neko case, and members of arctic monkeys on three occasions :heart:

i think i'm a good sister. my sister's 20 and my brother's 23 and we all get along just fine, especially these past two years.

omg a few months ago i listened to a rilo kiley interview by that guy and i almost tore off my ears!

YAOUNDE, Cameroon (Reuters) -- Worried that her daughters' budding breasts would expose them to the risk of sexual harassment and even rape, their mother Philomene Moungang started 'ironing' the girls' bosoms with a heated stone. "I did it to my two girls when they were eight years old. I would take the grinding stone, heat it in the fire and press it hard on the breasts," Moungang said. "They cried and said it was painful. But I explained that it was for their own good." "Breast ironing" -- the use of hard or heated objects or other substances to try to stunt breast growth in girls -- is a traditional practice in West Africa, experts say. A new survey has revealed it is shockingly widespread in Cameroon, where one in four teenagers are subjected to the traumatic process by relatives, often hoping to lessen their sexual attractiveness. "Breast ironing is an age-old practice in Cameroon, as well as in many other countries in West and Central Africa, including Chad, Togo, Benin, Guinea-Conakry, just to name a few," said Flavien Ndonko, an anthropologist and local representative of German development agency GTZ, which sponsored the survey. "If society has been silent about it up to now it is because, like other harmful practices done to women such as female genital mutilation, it was thought to be good for the girl," said Ndonko. "Even the victims themselves thought it was good for them." However, the practice has many side-effects, including severe pain and abscesses, infections, breast cancer, and even the complete disappearance of one or both breasts. The survey of more than 5,000 girls and women aged between 10 and 82 from throughout Cameroon, published last month, estimated that 4 million women in the central African country have suffered the process. "You ask me why I did it?" said Moungang. "When I was growing up as a little girl my mother did it to me just as all other women in the village did it to their girl children. So I thought it was just good for me to do to my own children." Common in town The practice is now more common in urban areas than in villages, because mothers fear their children could be more exposed to sexual abuse in towns and try to suppress outward signs of sexuality, the survey said. Its findings have prompted a nationwide campaign to educate mothers about its dangers and to try to eradicate it. A similar campaign some years ago helped drastically to reduce rates of female genital mutilation in Cameroon. "A girl...has to be proud of her breasts because it is natural. It is a gift from God. Allow the breasts to grow naturally. Do not force them to disappear or appear," said a leaflet from the campaign. Moungang said she stopped ironing her daughters' breasts after one girl developed blisters and abscesses. "I took her to the hospital and the doctor scolded me and advised never to do it again because it could ruin my daughter," she said. "When Mariane married and delivered her first baby, it took a long time -- about a month -- for her breasts to start producing milk and the child almost died. I was told it was because I had ironed her breasts. I was frightened." The younger a girl develops, the more likely she is to have her bosom ironed -- 38 percent of girls developing breasts under the age of 11 had undergone the procedure. The practice is most common in the Christian and animist South of the country, rather than in the Muslim North and Far North provinces, where only 10 percent of women are affected. The survey found that in 58 percent of cases breast ironing was carried out by mothers worried that the onset of puberty could provoke sexual harassment, inhibit their daughters' studies or even stunt their growth. Many mothers were alarmed because an improvement in nutrition and living conditions had caused young girls' breasts to develop earlier than ever. Destroying breasts "Massaging the breasts with hot objects is painful, very painful, and can completely destroy the breasts," said Bessem Ebanga, executive secretary of women's rights group RENATA, herself a former victim. "Some girls could be traumatized throughout their lives and their sexual behavior could be disturbed forever." Thirteen-year-old Geraldine Mbafor could not hold back her tears as she narrated her ordeal. "I had just finished doing my homework when my mother summoned me to the kitchen. She boiled water and in the water she put a grinding stone. She then removed the stone holding it with a thick cloth to protect her hands, and placed it my breasts and started ironing them," she stated. "I felt so much pains that I started crying. After that she bandaged my breasts with a band called breast-band ... She did this to me for two and a half months." According to 14-year-old Amelia, who would not give her family name, her breasts started developing when she was 9. Her elder sister decided to massage them every evening with a towel soaked in hot water. "This was very painful, and every evening before I slept, she would put a big elastic belt well fastened round my chest to flatten my breasts." "Six months later the flesh that held my breasts was already weak. At 10, I already had fallen breasts and each time I undress I'm ashamed and it is a big complex." Nevertheless, support for and opposition to the tradition remains evenly balanced. According to the survey, 39 percent of women opposed it, while 41 percent expressed support and 26 percent were indifferent. For Ndonko, the campaign is a battle to respect the physical integrity of young girls -- with broader implications for human rights. "If nothing was done today, tomorrow the very parents may even resolve to slice off the nose, the mouth or any other part of the girl which they think is making her attractive to men." http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/07/07/cameroon.breastironing.reut/index.html ugh.

we've got the power now motherfuckers, it's where it belongs

spoon - sister jack

my dog has no nose

:dance:

neko case - favorite

they got all dirty at a festival :P

no, you don't get the right experience at a festival, hardly any fucking fans there. they're amazing live.

yeah, my sister said she heard alex say that after the san francisco show :)

the spinto band - brown boxes

i am the walrus! goo goo g'joob!

i don't have one, i can't afford that shit. :)

:nice:

the new pornographers - twin cinema spoon - gimme fiction

http://www.e6townhall.com/viewthread.php?tid=6612 well that was a fun thought for about fifteen minutes.

An unconfirmed post on rock collective Elephant 6's website says the frontman of folksy super-troupe Neutral Milk Hotel is releasing new material. Rumors are circulating that the mysterious frontman of the lo-fi folk collective, Neutral Milk Hotel, is compiling unreleased songs for a new album. After dropping In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, Neutral Milk Hotel's landmark 1998 album, Mangum's primary band went on permanent hiatus. Rumors circulated as to Mangum's whereabouts and activities, but the singer recently lived in Quebec where he recorded unreleased music. A post signed by "Jeff" on Elephant 6 Recording Company's website has caused more speculation about what Mangum has really been up to. "For the past few months, I've been putting together the pieces of everything I've written in the past three years, and its been a revelation," the post read. "Whenever I had the time, I've been writing melodies and keeping them in my head for later, and songs just accumulate. I'm not waiting as some have said." No street-date or track listing was revealed in the post, and Mangum's publicist was unavailable for comment as of press time. http://www.spin.com/features/everybodystalkingabout/2006/06/060627_mangum/ :wideeyed: UOH;WUEFHJWGELUFHGWAEJHGLWIUEFH WEJHGLWIEUFA;FA IUEF AEUFWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

danielle danielle danielle. you forgot the termite! :)