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idgiehkt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-10-06 07:55 PM Original message |
Is sex work degrading? |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-10-06 07:58 PM Response to Original message |
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xchrom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-10-06 07:59 PM Response to Original message |
2. like everything else in life -- it depends on the individual. |
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HarukaTheTrophyWife (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-10-06 08:01 PM Response to Original message |
3. Overall, no. |
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idgiehkt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-10-06 08:06 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. I like this: |
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mongo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-11-06 02:50 PM Response to Reply #3 |
84. Well said |
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blondeatlast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-11-06 07:15 PM Response to Reply #3 |
93. Completely sensible way of looking at it. |
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Guava Jelly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-10-06 08:04 PM Response to Original message |
4. I think if anyone of free will and healthy mind |
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mainegreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-10-06 08:10 PM Response to Original message |
6. Well, I used to be the driver for a couple of local agencies |
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La Lioness Priyanka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-10-06 08:11 PM Response to Original message |
7. depends on the individual circumstances |
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kiahzero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-10-06 08:34 PM Response to Original message |
8. Right now, probably |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-10-06 08:37 PM Response to Original message |
9. Depends on the individual |
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Whoa_Nelly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-10-06 09:33 PM Response to Reply #9 |
29. Hey, Xemasab! |
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In_The_Wind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-10-06 08:42 PM Response to Original message |
10. It shouldn't be. |
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evirus (782 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-10-06 08:44 PM Response to Original message |
11. Only if the work is forced |
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idgiehkt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-10-06 08:51 PM Response to Reply #11 |
15. but that is where the argument about force comes in |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-10-06 11:51 PM Response to Reply #15 |
49. yeah women don't have so many great choices |
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sendero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-11-06 06:36 AM Response to Reply #49 |
62. Millions.. |
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Tyrone Slothrop (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-11-06 11:35 AM Response to Reply #49 |
76. Hey -- as a white male, I didn't seem to have all these "great choices" |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-11-06 09:13 AM Response to Reply #15 |
67. There's something not quite right in that line of thought |
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idgiehkt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-11-06 04:11 PM Response to Reply #67 |
90. I would say |
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SlavesandBulldozers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-10-06 08:45 PM Response to Original message |
12. i wouldn't want my wife or girlfriend doing it. |
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HarukaTheTrophyWife (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-10-06 08:48 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. What you want your wife or girlfriend doing has ABSOLUTLY NOTHING |
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evirus (782 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-10-06 08:51 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. I think what he meant was... |
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SlavesandBulldozers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-10-06 09:11 PM Response to Reply #14 |
19. thanks for the help. but I'll defend my position. n/t |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-11-06 04:45 AM Response to Reply #19 |
59. Open message board. People can post where they want n/t |
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SlavesandBulldozers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-11-06 11:17 AM Response to Reply #59 |
72. thanks for the heads up |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-11-06 11:49 AM Response to Reply #72 |
80. I don't know. Why don't you tell me. |
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SlavesandBulldozers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-11-06 12:09 PM Response to Reply #80 |
81. no, why don't you tell me. |
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SlavesandBulldozers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-10-06 08:58 PM Response to Reply #13 |
16. what you think of my thoughts has nothing to do with it either, when you |
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sendero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-10-06 09:51 PM Response to Reply #16 |
35. I wouldn't date .. |
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SlavesandBulldozers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-10-06 10:07 PM Response to Reply #35 |
40. i guess i just don't see the distinction. |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-10-06 11:58 PM Response to Reply #40 |
50. i guess i don't see it either |
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SouthoftheBorderPaul (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-11-06 08:24 AM Response to Reply #50 |
66. is working in a child care center degrading? |
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SlavesandBulldozers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-11-06 10:47 AM Response to Reply #66 |
71. wow. |
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idgiehkt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-11-06 04:02 PM Response to Reply #71 |
89. not weighing in on the argument on that contrast |
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SlavesandBulldozers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-11-06 07:23 PM Response to Reply #89 |
94. oh yeah an ex worked in day care |
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SouthoftheBorderPaul (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-12-06 08:32 PM Response to Reply #71 |
99. who said crack-whore? |
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HarukaTheTrophyWife (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-10-06 11:41 PM Response to Reply #16 |
48. You're right, but I still get to respond to posts on DU, much like you did |
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Irreverend IX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-11-06 07:21 AM Response to Reply #12 |
63. I ain't racist or nothin... |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-11-06 11:26 AM Response to Reply #63 |
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youthere (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-10-06 09:02 PM Response to Original message |
17. I don't know much about it... |
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philosophie_en_rose (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-10-06 09:04 PM Response to Original message |
18. Not inherently, but usually. |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-10-06 09:12 PM Response to Original message |
20. allowing oneself to be used as a semen receptacle? |
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kiahzero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-10-06 09:16 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. Is that an inherent characteristic of sex work? |
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HarukaTheTrophyWife (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-10-06 09:18 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. Not all sex work involves being a "semen receptacle." nt |
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bicentennial_baby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-10-06 09:44 PM Response to Reply #20 |
31. Can always count on you for the judgmental perspective |
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SlavesandBulldozers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-10-06 09:58 PM Response to Reply #31 |
39. wrong response |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-10-06 10:31 PM Response to Reply #31 |
42. am expressing an opionion |
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kay1864 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-10-06 10:58 PM Response to Reply #42 |
44. Saying it twice doesn't make it true |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-11-06 01:44 AM Response to Reply #44 |
52. back up what? |
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bicentennial_baby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-10-06 11:21 PM Response to Reply #42 |
47. Well that's entirely lame of you... |
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Phillycat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-11-06 08:14 AM Response to Reply #20 |
65. Skittles, have I told you lately that I love you? |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-11-06 12:35 PM Response to Reply #20 |
83. It's degrading because they're semen receptacles? Hmm. |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-10-06 09:18 PM Response to Original message |
23. i am able to understand where it could be... |
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HarukaTheTrophyWife (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-10-06 09:20 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. I have about a dozen cards from bars. |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-10-06 09:26 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. pft, when i was dancing in NYC, lesbian business women all dressed... |
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idgiehkt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-10-06 09:32 PM Response to Reply #26 |
28. wow. |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-10-06 09:42 PM Response to Reply #28 |
30. huh... |
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idgiehkt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-10-06 09:50 PM Response to Reply #30 |
34. my favorite poet is a former prostitute. |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-10-06 09:52 PM Response to Reply #34 |
36. i like it... |
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lildreamer316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-11-06 04:38 AM Response to Reply #26 |
57. NAIL ON HEAD. |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-11-06 06:21 AM Response to Reply #57 |
61. cheers, lildreamer... |
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Rabrrrrrr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-10-06 09:20 PM Response to Original message |
25. Only if the sex worker thinks it is. |
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Kali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-10-06 09:30 PM Response to Original message |
27. It certainly can be and is for many. But then so are a lot of jobs. |
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Vidar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-10-06 10:55 PM Response to Reply #27 |
43. Good answer. |
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deadparrot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-10-06 09:44 PM Response to Original message |
32. Generally? No. |
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bicentennial_baby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-10-06 09:45 PM Response to Original message |
33. Lots of jobs are degrading |
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sweetheart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-10-06 09:53 PM Response to Original message |
37. No it is honest. |
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bertha katzenengel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-10-06 09:55 PM Response to Original message |
38. Don't know - never done it. IMHO it ought to be made legal in the U.S. |
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tigereye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-11-06 10:03 AM Response to Reply #38 |
69. best answer so far, Bertha |
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johnnie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-10-06 10:09 PM Response to Original message |
41. This question is too hard to answer completely for me on here. |
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noamnety (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-10-06 11:07 PM Response to Original message |
45. Degredation, promotion of rape and violence |
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HarukaTheTrophyWife (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-10-06 11:18 PM Response to Reply #45 |
46. What about legalized prositution, such as in the Netherlands? |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-11-06 12:10 AM Response to Reply #46 |
51. the netherlands |
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Heidi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-11-06 01:54 AM Response to Reply #51 |
53. Perhaps they have skills that some of us don't understand or value. |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-11-06 02:52 PM Response to Reply #51 |
85. Are you talking about prostitution? |
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PVnRT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-11-06 07:38 AM Response to Reply #45 |
64. As long as our society views sex as prudish as it does now |
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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-11-06 09:21 AM Response to Reply #64 |
68. Even if society's attitudes changed, there will be people out |
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Downtown Hound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-11-06 02:00 AM Response to Original message |
54. I think criminalization of it makes it more degrading than it needs to be |
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idgiehkt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-11-06 04:03 AM Response to Reply #54 |
55. lol |
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SlavesandBulldozers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-11-06 12:25 PM Response to Reply #54 |
82. i agree wholeheartedly. |
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lildreamer316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-11-06 04:33 AM Response to Original message |
56. I've gotten into this so many times here I don't have the strength to |
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idgiehkt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-11-06 03:48 PM Response to Reply #56 |
87. thanks |
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Withywindle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-11-06 04:42 AM Response to Original message |
58. I look at it like this... |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-11-06 04:46 AM Response to Original message |
60. It is what the person employed thinks it is. |
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leftofthedial (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-11-06 10:27 AM Response to Original message |
70. no matter what you do in a capitalist economy |
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mark414 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-11-06 11:27 AM Response to Reply #70 |
74. i think this is the winning post |
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mainegreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-11-06 11:39 AM Response to Reply #70 |
77. Yup. nt |
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lildreamer316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-11-06 08:04 PM Response to Reply #70 |
97. HELL yes. |
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lildreamer316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-11-06 08:04 PM Response to Reply #70 |
98. dupe. |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-11-06 11:31 AM Response to Original message |
75. Working for a large corporation in a cubicle is degrading. |
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Jade Fox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-11-06 11:46 AM Response to Original message |
78. To quote a friend and former..... |
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cwydro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-11-06 11:47 AM Response to Original message |
79. I think it really must depend |
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Oeditpus Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-11-06 03:02 PM Response to Original message |
86. I don't think anyone can be degraded |
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mondo joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-11-06 03:52 PM Response to Original message |
88. No more than flipping burgers for minimum wage. |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-11-06 04:31 PM Response to Original message |
91. If you believe it is, then yes |
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Nikia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-11-06 07:08 PM Response to Original message |
92. In most cases, I think that it is |
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RedCloud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-11-06 07:26 PM Response to Original message |
95. As a former stunt man for the industry... |
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dback (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-11-06 07:30 PM Response to Original message |
96. Depends on if you HAVE to do it, or if you WANT to do it |
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