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Sara R

Member since: Jul 26th, 2006

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Parent groups have a cow over campaign pushing chocolate milk as 'health food' (Daily Finance)

Nov 11th 2009 9:09AM My friends and I drank chocolate milk at lunch EVERY DAY from kindergarten until middle school. We're 28 now, and we're all a healthy weight and active.

The big DIFFERENCE is that we had 1/2 mile hikes and bike rides to the pool every day to go swimming for hours at a time, held "Olympic" races to prove who was faster, and played hide-and-seek until our moms said we needed to come inside.

When we finally got a Nintendo in the house when I was around 10 years old, we didn't get to sit and play it all day. There were many other people in the house that were fighting over that single, solitary tiny tv, and our turn was simply over when we had used our share. So...we went outside. Being inside was "soooo boring".

In 2009, families have a tv in the living room, the parent's room, and the kid's rooms. No one has to take turns...they just sit and veg out to their chosen programming. Instead of kids walking four blocks in 90 degree weather to their friends' houses, they sit at a desk and send them instant messages. Instead of begging mom to drive them to the mall so they call buy CD's and listen to the new songs on those big music store headphones, they simply lay on their bed while they point and click to get any song they want.

Don't get me wrong- I love my computer. I love that I can look up anything I want in 20 seconds. My girls love playing little games on the computer. I love the fact that I can tell you what I think about this here article right now.

But when the day is over, my daughters have played little league baseball for three hours in the hot sun. They've challenged each other to handstand contests against the hallway wall. They've wrestled and raced the Australian Shepherd.

Amongst everything that they achieve in a day, the fact that they drink an itty-bitty carton of chocolate milk at school is of no concern to me.

Ad Rant: David Spade brings pal Chris Farley back from the dead to shill for Direct TV (WalletPop)

Oct 27th 2009 8:23AM I totally agree!

Billy Mays pitches from beyond the grave (Daily Finance)

Jul 10th 2009 3:02PM It's the same thing as showing The Crow or The Dark Knight after Brandon Lee and Heath Ledger died.

Pregnant By Swimming? (ParentDish)

Jul 10th 2009 2:52PM How does the mother know for sure that her daughter got pregnant during the vacation? Sure, her daughter might not have been with any boys during the trip, but what about BEFORE? Or right AFTER?

Also, how is it the hotel's fault if someone wacked off in the pool?

Potent Quotables: Ja Rule Gets Ugly (Spinner)

Sep 24th 2007 7:11AM I don't support homosexuality either, but this is the wrong person to be spouting off about it. After all, he is in the business of teaching kids their very first cuss word, but I think the thing I hate most about rap is how they want to talk all about their diamond greeeellllsss and their houses, fast cars, and the other crap you can accumulate with a couple million dollars, but then they want you to think they're all ghetto. Has one of these douches driven through the ghetto lately? Kids are beating and shooting each other, for what? TO GET THE CRAP THESE SO-CALLED "MUSICIANS" RAP ABOUT.

Potent Quotables: Lyle Lovett's Tech Phobia (Spinner)

Sep 24th 2007 7:01AM After watching "The New Guy", I just about piss everytime I see a picture of him. I keep seeing him getting hit in the eye by a flaming marshmallow!

Pop -- Culturally (AOL Food Blog)

Jul 10th 2007 8:40AM From Ohio here. If we are talking about the product in general, we say pop. If we are talking specifically, we say the brand name (unless it's root beer, then you just say "root beer", not Barq's or Mug). If a server were to ask me what I wanted to drink and I just said "pop" she would probably look at me like I was a little ignaorant and ask what kind. If you want a light-color pop, you say Sprite, 7-up, Sierra Mist, etc., if you want the dark color, you just say Coke, Pepsi or root beer. The only time ever say soda is when I'm baking. And cola- well that just sounds weird, lol.

Sprint Dumps Problem Customers (Switched)

Jul 10th 2007 7:23AM My husband and I have a Sprint Family Share plane right now, and we have until February 2008 before our 2 year contract is up. I am so sick and tired of them changing my plan every month without my authorization, so that for Jan.-May I got charged $1500 in roaming fees, even though roaming is included in my plan. Twice it's been changed so that I gotten $30/month charge for internet access. Once it got changed so that I only have a couple hundred minutes. Every time I call customer service they say they don't know who changed it or why, but they'll fix it immediately. Then after I call 11 more times over the course of 5 days, it'll finally get fixed. I'm surprised I didn't get a "termination letter". I think I've called there maybe 150 times since January of 2006. They might see me as a "problem customer", but I can't exactly be the shining example of their customer base when the screw my stuff up every two weeks.

Sony's Robo Dog Back from the Dead (Switched)

Jul 10th 2007 7:01AM Wow, if there's anything that makes me want to cry more than a $600 phone, it's a $5000 dog.

Girl Gets Lexus, Yells at Mom (AOL Video Blog)

Jun 28th 2007 12:29PM Wanna know what I got for my fifteenth or sixteenth birthdays? Not a car!! My mom wouldn't even let me get my license until I was 18!! And she said her mom ruined her life! You wanna know what ALMOST ruined my life?! When my father molested me from the time I was an preschooler until I was 8, and then my step-father molested me from the time I was 10 until I was 15. I survived. Get over getting a god damn Lexus a day or two too soon you spoiled bitch.