The Derriere Debate

How do you classify the bum area? Is one's butt private or not? Robbie and I decided to settle this debate as adults. Via a text poll.

8:28:32pm. Sarah (To Many): Poll. Would you consider the bum/butt a "private part"?

8:29:03pm. Bob: No. Public. It's a public part.

8:29:34pm. Ani: Ikd! Haha why?!

8:29:44pm. Eli: Sorta

8:29:44pm. Ben: No unless its swimming

8:29:45pm. Jack: Not in our Ahlander family

8:30:04pm. Dave: Cheek is only semi-personal

8:31:20pm. Lizzie: It depends. Is someone saying "good game" while smacking it? If so, then no. If not, then maybe.

8:33:09pm. Sof Loaf: Yes, the least private but I dont want it public

8:34:21pm. Karin: Only the crack

8:39:06pm. HanBanBam: Hmmm no. Private parts are gender specific and everyone has a bum.

8:42:04pm. Christina Q: no. I dont technically cause its not really part of genitalia. I dont care if someone kicks my butt, But i dont think just anyone should touch it romantically.

8:42:17pm. Chrsitina Q: Then it is private. So why!

8:48:18pm. Julie: No

8:57:29pm. Rick: Tiff says it depends. I think it is private on a girl and not on a guy. But that is weird.

10:04:42pm. Eli: Sarah that was my friend who stole my phone she said that the bum is definantly a private part

4:57:26pm (the next day). Julia: Sorry I wasn't able to comment last night, but the rear end is private.

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And the results of our very scientific study concerning whether or not the bum/butt area is a private part...


Yes = 3
No = 4
Depends (Qualifying statements) = 7


I was adamant that it IS and Robbie was sure it IS NOT. Looks like our social circle is absolutely unhelpful in solving marital quarrels.

Practicing Critical Thinking Skills

"There’s been a retreat from marriage going on for awhile now," says Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia. "The economic fallout from the Great Recession has made the retreat from marriage accelerate."

Really, Mr. Wilcox? Are you claiming causation on a correlational study? Have you considered that perhaps stable marriages and families HELP the ecomony? So the current of influence (between the decrease in marriage and the down economy) may actually run in the opposite direction from what you implied?

Just a thought.

(Quote taken from this MSNBC news report. http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/13/9425241-where-is-mr-or-mrs-right-matrimony-suffers-slump-report-shows)

Tonight's menu: Two Faves

1) Local veggies.

Cooking a beautiful butternut squash soup from the farmer's market.

2) Sharks.

Listening to KUER's Doug Fabrizio interview on the radio.

"95% of people survive a shark attack."

two years later

Two years since we started dating.
So we celebrate.

You know you're in grad school if...

...you make and freeze 24 burritos to re-heat for meals. And then they only last you 12 days.

Yogurt a la Mom-In-Law

Making yogurt yesterday went much better than making mozzarella that one time. It helped that my mom-in-law is an expert and she walked me through it (Well, she pretty much did it and I watched. Until it got too late and I went to bed while she finished. Thanks, mom!).

Yogurt a la Mom-In-Law

1 gallon milk

1/2 cup sugar (or less if you like tart yogurt)

1/2 cup pwd milk

Heat SLOWLY on stove to 180 degrees.

(This should take at least an hour, so make sure

it's on a low/medium heat setting.)

Remove from heat, cool to 110 degrees, then add:

8 oz "live" yogurt

Vanilla

Pour into mason jars. Affix lids. Put in oven with

only the oven light on for 8 hours.

(Do not turn on the oven.)

Remove from oven and refrigerate.

Robbie's First Day of [graduate] School