In case you haven't noticed, a lot of adults in general - and a lot of kids, too - are fat. Fast food franchises pull their workers from the general population, so it stands to reason that a lot of their workers will be fat, if a lot of the general population is. I'm not sure if you're trying to make some causal connection or bizarre political statement with this question, but I'd be willing to bet most of those fat fast food workers were fat before they started working there, Chief.
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Name : Ann L. Lowenstein, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Animist, Age : 37, City : K.C., State : MO Country : United States, Occupation : Administrative Assistant, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, You're running up against the fantasy of 'taming the bad boy.' You're not a challenge because you don't treat women like disposable accessories. I had a roommate who was approximately the biggest shit toward women I've ever seen, and he always had at least three he was 'dating exclusively' at any given time. Here's a suggestion: try dating women a little older than you. The whole 'older woman/younger man' taboo has crumbled to some extent in recent years, and generally by the time a woman is in her mid-30s, she's gotten past her need to 'tame' anyone, and is looking for an actual adult with whom to spend some quality time. One caveat: If the older woman in question dresses like a high-schooler or goes by a childish nickname ending in 'I', and further, dots that 'I' with a heart or a smiley-face, run screaming! (Yes, I have met a few of these sad cows).
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Name : Ann L. Lowenstein, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Animist, Age : 37, City : K.C., State : MO Country : United States, Occupation : Administrative Assistant, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, Iced tea is very popular pretty much that disgruntled me the most about living in Wiscillinonsinois was the fact that if iced tea was available at all, it was only available in the summer. As for Southerners liking it sweet enough to induce a diabetic coma, I don't know the whys and wherefores of that, but it might have something to do with showing off wealth, because refined sugar used to be very expensive.
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Name : Ann L. Lowenstein, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Animist, Age : 37, City : K.C., State : MO Country : United States, Occupation : Administrative Assistant, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, They act like children because they have been allowed to and encouraged to. American culture's youth worship manifests in men as emotional infantilization. These 'men' never matured much past early adolescense, and probably never will. They aren't looking for a life-partner or an equal, they are looking for a combination surrogate mommy and fantasy slut, and when a real live girl-person proves to be neither, they react to the disappointment with a tantrum, just like a child would. Disappointing, I know, but just imagine how I feel - 'men' in MY age range are behaving exactly the same way, and they've had a decade or more longer to grow the hell up! Don't give up, there are a few actual adults out there who aren't already married or gay, you just have to keep looking. Or at least that's what I tell myself.
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Name : Ann L. Lowenstein, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Animist, Age : 37, City : K.C., State : MO Country : United States, Occupation : Administrative Assistant, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, Your ex has watched too many softcore porns on cable. Both of you 'arriving' together is nice, to be sure, but rarely happens in real life. It has precisely not one thing to do with how attracted you are to her, it has to do with how much physical and mental stimulation you require to climax, and evidently, you needed a little more than she did. You'll go on to have a nice relationship with someone whose expectations are realistic, and she'll spend the rest of her life resentful and assuming she's being slighted. No big loss for you, I'd say.
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Name : Ann L. Lowenstein, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Animist, Age : 37, City : K.C., State : MO Country : United States, Occupation : Administrative Assistant, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, Let me guess, Leslie: When you say 'back West,' what you mean is The People's Republic of Califoregashingtonia, aka 'Land of Granola Munchers.' The crap you call food on the West Coast would make the cows you try so hard to resemble gag, much less an actual human being. Southern food is what it is, and too bad if you're offended by grits, boiled peanuts and people eating meat.
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Name : Ann L. Lowenstein, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Animist, Age : 37, City : K.C., State : MO Country : United States, Occupation : Administrative Assistant, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, I think the problem may not so much be 'Italians' per se. One of the vilest people I ever dated was a self-proclaimed 'good' Roman Catholic who was French/Irish on his mother's side and Italian on his father's side. He thought homosexuality should be a capital crime; referred to all minorities as 'monkeys' and all Jews as 'kikes' or 'shylocks'; and liked to brag about the meal of pork roast, scalloped potatoes, and green beans with bacon his dear dead sainted mother (intentionally) served the time he brought a Jewish girl home to dinner. This level of spiteful, hateful behavior is pretty much the same across the board among self-proclaimed 'good' Roman Catholics, irrespective of whether they're French, Irish, Italian, Mexican, Spanish, South/Central American, or some combination thereof.
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Name : Ann L. Lowenstein, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Animist, Age : 37, City : K.C., State : MO Country : United States, Occupation : Administrative Assistant, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, Same reason white sorority whores -er - sisters get triangular tribals in the same area: They're 'showing their individuality' by getting the exact same tattoo as all their friends have.
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Name : Ann L. Lowenstein, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Animist, Age : 37, City : K.C., State : MO Country : United States, Occupation : Administrative Assistant, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, Three factors may be at work here: 1) Kids are getting bigger again, and some of the children you see in strollers may be substantially younger than their size would suggest. 2) Some of them may very well be so completely spoiled rotten that, inconvenient as it is to cart a stroller around, it's easier by far to strap little Hillary or Aidan into a wheeled conveyance than to try and get them to behave on foot. 3) A fair number of parents are so completely brainwashed by the whole 'stranger danger' overkill they truly believe that if Tamarind-Marie and Lancelot Henry James are allowed to walk about on their own two feet in public, they will be snatched up and abducted by a wild-eyed madman in some nanosecond of parental inattentiveness, so it's 'safer' to keep pushing them in a stroller, even though they are being made fun of by their peers in the 3rd grade, and hate their parents because of it.
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Name : Ann L. Lowenstein, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Animist, Age : 37, City : K.C., State : MO Country : United States, Occupation : Administrative Assistant, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, You're 16. At your age, if you're in the right mood, going through a carwash might turn you on. When the old hormones get to percolating, curiosity can lead to arousal, even if you didn't think you were 'that way'. It may be that you're very attracted to her 'really awesome personality' and your body is interpreting that through the haze of budding sexuality. The British have a word for this sort of thing: 'Pash,' to wit a same-sex crush among teenaged girls. It doesn't necessarily mean you're gay or bi. It could simply be that her self-confidence and charisma are appealing to you, and are traits you'd like to see in a partner. If you have a trusted adult you can discuss your confusion with, I would, but for Gods' sakes, don't talk about this with your peers, unless you fancy being branded a 'dyke.'
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Name : Ann L. Lowenstein, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Animist, Age : 37, City : K.C., State : MO Country : United States, Occupation : Administrative Assistant, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, Here's a heads-up for ya sweetie-pie: Indonesians don't vote Republican either. What happened in the Gulf Coast was first and foremost a fine example of good old-fashioned Bureaucratic blundering. UNLIKE International relief procedures, there were no clear chains-of-command because responsibilities were shuffled around extensively after 9/11 and nothing was really ever finalized. Literally NO ONE knew who to turn to or who was in charge. Add to this the lacadasical attitude of the Governor of Louisiana and the Mayor of New Orleans - oh yeah, and the complete corruption of the Guv and Hizzoner - and you have a perfect recipie for EXACTLY THE KIND OF MASS-SCALE SCREW-UP WHICH HAPPENED. No one knew what the hell was going on, no one had clear authority, and after the large number of witch-burnings perpetrated by the US press and African-American 'leaders' like Jesse and Al over the last several years, NO ONE wanted to take responsibility and maybe make an honest mistake for which they'd be crucified later. No matter what Al and Jesse and all the other little hate-mongers claim to the contrary, the US Government DID NOT see this as an opportunity to mass-execute a lot of minorities who don't agree with them politically. I realize 'bureaucratic fuck-up' is a lot less emotionally satisfying to you members of the 'eternal victim' set than 'deep dark evil racist conspiricy,' but hey, them's the breaks.
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Name : Ann L. Lowenstein, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Animist, Age : 37, City : K.C., State : MO Country : United States, Occupation : Administrative Assistant, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, There are probably a lot of factors involved, including NIMBY (not in MY back yard) syndrome; a belief that the people who were affected somehow deserved it; a belief that caring about it would somehow call down bad luck on them; compassion fatigue; and a healthy dose of good old fashioned Midwest selfishness and insularity. For others, sheer unmitigated disgust at the behavior of so many of the people in New Orleans, (up to and including the Mayor), has made them rather cynical about donating anything, given there's no guarantee their money will go to Biloxi or one of the other affected locations, rather than New Orleans.
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Name : Ann L. Lowenstein, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Animist, Age : 37, City : K.C., State : MO Country : United States, Occupation : Administrative Assistant, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, By now, for a large population of 'African-Americans', blaming whites and the government for anything which goes wrong in their lives is a knee-jerk response. In this case, it's also a lot more politically satisfying than blaming an incompetent, corrupt black mayor who is a cum laude graduate of the 'Marion Barry/Coleman Young School of Racial Politics and Graft.'
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Name : Ann L. Lowenstein, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Animist, Age : 37, City : K.C., State : MO Country : United States, Occupation : Administrative Assistant, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, What these creeps were doing is a felony, dear. Report them. Their behavior is not normal, professional, moral or legal; and absolutely not the way a true mentor behaves. They targeted you and the other summer students because they figured (correctly it seems) that you would be too shy or unsure of yourselves, or afraid of being fired, to say or do anything about it. Prove those scumbag bastards wrong. Start with the EEOC, tell them what happened, and go from there.
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Name : Ann L. Lowenstein, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Animist, Age : 37, City : K.C., State : MO Country : United States, Occupation : Administrative Assistant, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, I think it's just generally lax standards in the workplace. My VERY Caucasian boss not only picks his nose, he scratches his crotch and butt, and generally behaves in a manner I would normally associate with a high school dropout or truck driver.
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Name : Ann L. Lowenstein, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Animist, Age : 37, City : K.C., State : MO Country : United States, Occupation : Administrative Assistant, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 
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