Anyways, I was listening to a couple old woman Rhodesian ridgeback breeders. Both expressed frustration over and described as silly the fact it’s hard to get a lot of vets to euthanise ridgeless puppies and that they have to go to great lengths to find old vets who view animals as a resource to put down healthy puppies due to ridgelessness. When confronted about the fact “These puppies are healthy” one argued “We percieve their lack of ridge as a genetic defect.” So, because a dog doesn’t qualify as pedigree it’s “defective” despite that genetic difference having no impact on it’s health and wellbeing (except for the fact you kill it if that’s the case.) These people Godwin themselves.
What evil assholes.
The worst part is how easy it would be to find adopters for ridgeless puppies.
marinerachel
10 years ago
It’s so funny (not haha funny) because they argued extensively that “we’re making the dogs better by breeding out the bad traits and in the good ones” BUT LOOK AT ALL THE SHITTY HEALTH CONSEQUENCES THAT HAS HAD. It doesn’t matter what they’re trying to do, firstly, because their priorities are wack – there’s nothing inherently wrong with ridgelessness, that’s just superficial snobbery that in no way makes the breed or individual dogs better – and secondly, because they use inbreeding to reinforce the traits they like which also reinforces complications to their health like hip dysphasia and neural tube defects. If you can’t get a dog you like the look of without killing a whole bunch of them and producing others who spend their lives suffering, it’s not worth it. It’s not just.
There are a few breeds of dog I love and I think pedigrees are great in the sense you know how big they’re going to be, approximately what temperament they’ll have, etc. There’s certainty in that. I’m bananas over Frenchies and Shiba Inus and Pugs. It’s not worth the suffering of others though.
When you are literally advocating for killing puppies, you need to take a long hard look at your life choices.
(Even setting aside the breed health thing, they could just neuter them and adopt them out as pets and they’d have no effect on the breeding program. Why would you feel the need to kill them??)
Oh, man, my little brother has been pining for one of those sweaters for years! They don’t come ready-made in anywhere near his size, and he somehow hasn’t tracked down a knitter willing to devote a year of his/her life to making one for him. (I’m exaggerating slightly, but still. He’s a big fellah, with a very long back.)
Not by much! And if he did find someone to knit one, the price would be astronomical. Y’remember my multi-coloured Mick Aston coat? My knitting guru (who runs her own shop) says I’d need to charge $900 for that, and it’s just basic stocking stitch that doesn’t take long to do at all!
I finally got the sleeves on my purple-cream-sandy striped jacket finished last night. Now it’s just the back and sewing up to do. Fingers crossed the two balls of wool will be enough! I’m not sure Clegg’s have any more in stock.
There’s been an increasing trend in men’s clothing (at least in the U.S.) towards the same sort of sizing shenanigans that women have been suffering for ages. While men’s clothes might “technically” be based on measurements, it’s become standard practice to add a few secret inches onto the waist. Which is terrible for those of us who actually have narrow waists, since it means that most stores no longer carry pants that fit me. I’m lucky if I can find one or two pairs of pants that fit me in an entire store.
The other issue, at least for shirts, is that while there are “separate” neck and arm measurements, in practice there isn’t a wide diversity of sizes available. I have to choose, when I buy long-sleeved shirts, between getting a shirt with sleeves that are too short or a shirt with a collar that constantly attempts to strangle me. Both shirts will be way too large in the chest.
I think this is pretty much a U.S. issue. When I was in China, I was exactly the average height and weight and so could find clothing that fit me in every store. I’ve had fewer problems finding clothes that fit in Europe as well. Here, the only places that regularly stock clothing that fit me are H&M and Zara.
So I guess what I’m saying is the men’s clothing situation here is pretty much the inverse of what it is for women – it’s heavily skewed towards “bigger” guys whereas women’s clothing tends to favor smaller women.
Here are the numbers I’ve found: in the U.S., the most common clothing size for women is an 8, and for men it’s a 40 regular. The average size for a woman in the U.S. is 14, and the average size for a man is 44.
What that means is while the average man is 3 inches bigger in the chest and waist than the “average” size, the average woman is about 7 inches bigger in bust, waist, and hip than the average size.
*sigh* Body shape.
At my best (healthy range) weight, my hips were at least two sizes bigger than my waist. Big hips run in my maternal line. Nothing fit both waist and hips except skirts with totally elasticated waists..with them, I just had a waist, then almost totally horizontal lines outwards to my hips.
Where’s the fashion for hooped skirts when you need it ??! 😛
Now I’ve put on weight, one small silver-lining is that the difference between waist and hips has evened out, so it is less blatant, and I don’t have to choose between material stretched over-tightly over my hips, or being able to hold my waistband 3 inches away from me it is so loose.
@ marinerachel…results come back negative, ask provider?
Was out of the dating pool for a decade, thinking the turnaround time on HIV tests have improved a lot.
I’ve just put up my 80th post on Vignettes Across the Veil. I’d no idea I’d done so many, which tells you something about how seldom I do ’em! It’s all new pics and captions, I haven’t been in the writing mood for yonks, apart from commenting here.
Yay for Katz! That is exciting news! That is so cool!
In other funness, I got my cheap (but lightyears better than my laptop) microphone in the mail. It was exciting, and I redid the multi-track of MistyMountains/ISeeFire without the constant buzz of the fridge (Yay for directional mikes!!!!).
Only… now it is almost 4 am. I have to be somewhere a 25 minute commute away in about 3 and a 1/2 hours.
Whoops.
Worth it. Totally. At least tomorrow is a math day and not an EMS day. Occasionally, math makes better sense when you’re tired and well caffeinated, right? Maybe? Hopefully? 🙂
there’s nothing inherently wrong with ridgelessness,
That’s weird… I heard some people were deliberately breeding out the ridge because the genes for it were linked to the genes for back problems. Also, that some people were wanting it renamed to Zimbabwean Lion Dog for that reason (as well as the whole Rhodesia itself having been renamed). I don’t actually remember where I heard that though, or if anything came of it.
Myoo
10 years ago
Congratulations, katz.
Flying Mouse
10 years ago
Congratulations, katz!
Hope that the interview-a-thon is going smoothly, cloudiah!
I’m almost done. For some reason they packed a 1.5 hour break in at the end of the day before they take me out to dinner. I met with the big boss, hir 2nd in command, HR, the search committee (twice), the management team in my potential department, people in departments I’d be collaborating with, and had to make a public presentation and answer questions, Also had lunch, at which they luckily didn’t ask me any questions. I am done answering questions for the day. At dinner, when the server asks me what I want, I’ll probably throw the menu at hir and yell, “Why don’t you pick?!??!”
It’s like a trial by ordeal, is my theory. At the end of the day, if you’re still speaking in complete sentences, you get the job.
We Hunted The Mammoth
What evil assholes.
The worst part is how easy it would be to find adopters for ridgeless puppies.
It’s so funny (not haha funny) because they argued extensively that “we’re making the dogs better by breeding out the bad traits and in the good ones” BUT LOOK AT ALL THE SHITTY HEALTH CONSEQUENCES THAT HAS HAD. It doesn’t matter what they’re trying to do, firstly, because their priorities are wack – there’s nothing inherently wrong with ridgelessness, that’s just superficial snobbery that in no way makes the breed or individual dogs better – and secondly, because they use inbreeding to reinforce the traits they like which also reinforces complications to their health like hip dysphasia and neural tube defects. If you can’t get a dog you like the look of without killing a whole bunch of them and producing others who spend their lives suffering, it’s not worth it. It’s not just.
There are a few breeds of dog I love and I think pedigrees are great in the sense you know how big they’re going to be, approximately what temperament they’ll have, etc. There’s certainty in that. I’m bananas over Frenchies and Shiba Inus and Pugs. It’s not worth the suffering of others though.
When you are literally advocating for killing puppies, you need to take a long hard look at your life choices.
(Even setting aside the breed health thing, they could just neuter them and adopt them out as pets and they’d have no effect on the breeding program. Why would you feel the need to kill them??)
Not by much! And if he did find someone to knit one, the price would be astronomical. Y’remember my multi-coloured Mick Aston coat? My knitting guru (who runs her own shop) says I’d need to charge $900 for that, and it’s just basic stocking stitch that doesn’t take long to do at all!
I finally got the sleeves on my purple-cream-sandy striped jacket finished last night. Now it’s just the back and sewing up to do. Fingers crossed the two balls of wool will be enough! I’m not sure Clegg’s have any more in stock.
Re: men’s clothing sizes/body type issues
There’s been an increasing trend in men’s clothing (at least in the U.S.) towards the same sort of sizing shenanigans that women have been suffering for ages. While men’s clothes might “technically” be based on measurements, it’s become standard practice to add a few secret inches onto the waist. Which is terrible for those of us who actually have narrow waists, since it means that most stores no longer carry pants that fit me. I’m lucky if I can find one or two pairs of pants that fit me in an entire store.
The other issue, at least for shirts, is that while there are “separate” neck and arm measurements, in practice there isn’t a wide diversity of sizes available. I have to choose, when I buy long-sleeved shirts, between getting a shirt with sleeves that are too short or a shirt with a collar that constantly attempts to strangle me. Both shirts will be way too large in the chest.
I think this is pretty much a U.S. issue. When I was in China, I was exactly the average height and weight and so could find clothing that fit me in every store. I’ve had fewer problems finding clothes that fit in Europe as well. Here, the only places that regularly stock clothing that fit me are H&M and Zara.
So I guess what I’m saying is the men’s clothing situation here is pretty much the inverse of what it is for women – it’s heavily skewed towards “bigger” guys whereas women’s clothing tends to favor smaller women.
Here are the numbers I’ve found: in the U.S., the most common clothing size for women is an 8, and for men it’s a 40 regular. The average size for a woman in the U.S. is 14, and the average size for a man is 44.
What that means is while the average man is 3 inches bigger in the chest and waist than the “average” size, the average woman is about 7 inches bigger in bust, waist, and hip than the average size.
*sigh* Body shape.
At my best (healthy range) weight, my hips were at least two sizes bigger than my waist. Big hips run in my maternal line. Nothing fit both waist and hips except skirts with totally elasticated waists..with them, I just had a waist, then almost totally horizontal lines outwards to my hips.
Where’s the fashion for hooped skirts when you need it ??! 😛
Now I’ve put on weight, one small silver-lining is that the difference between waist and hips has evened out, so it is less blatant, and I don’t have to choose between material stretched over-tightly over my hips, or being able to hold my waistband 3 inches away from me it is so loose.
My novel got picked as an alternate in Pitch Wars.
Today is a good day.
@ marinerachel…results come back negative, ask provider?
Was out of the dating pool for a decade, thinking the turnaround time on HIV tests have improved a lot.
katz, hurrah! ::applause::
I’ve just put up my 80th post on Vignettes Across the Veil. I’d no idea I’d done so many, which tells you something about how seldom I do ’em! It’s all new pics and captions, I haven’t been in the writing mood for yonks, apart from commenting here.
Yay Katz!
Yay for Katz! That is exciting news! That is so cool!
In other funness, I got my cheap (but lightyears better than my laptop) microphone in the mail. It was exciting, and I redid the multi-track of MistyMountains/ISeeFire without the constant buzz of the fridge (Yay for directional mikes!!!!).
Only… now it is almost 4 am. I have to be somewhere a 25 minute commute away in about 3 and a 1/2 hours.
Whoops.
Worth it. Totally. At least tomorrow is a math day and not an EMS day. Occasionally, math makes better sense when you’re tired and well caffeinated, right? Maybe? Hopefully? 🙂
Yay, katz! I had a good feeling about it.
Yay, microphones!
Today’s my all-day marathon job interview. I should not be looking at WHTM right now, but I’m nervous. XD
contrapangloss, yay for microphone fun!
cloudiah, all the hugs and best wishes for the marathon interview!
All day interview? Oh boy. Pack snacks. (What can they possibly learn that they can’t learn from a regular length interview?)
Good luck!
That’s weird… I heard some people were deliberately breeding out the ridge because the genes for it were linked to the genes for back problems. Also, that some people were wanting it renamed to Zimbabwean Lion Dog for that reason (as well as the whole Rhodesia itself having been renamed). I don’t actually remember where I heard that though, or if anything came of it.
Congratulations, katz.
Congratulations, katz!
Hope that the interview-a-thon is going smoothly, cloudiah!
I’m almost done. For some reason they packed a 1.5 hour break in at the end of the day before they take me out to dinner. I met with the big boss, hir 2nd in command, HR, the search committee (twice), the management team in my potential department, people in departments I’d be collaborating with, and had to make a public presentation and answer questions, Also had lunch, at which they luckily didn’t ask me any questions. I am done answering questions for the day. At dinner, when the server asks me what I want, I’ll probably throw the menu at hir and yell, “Why don’t you pick?!??!”
It’s like a trial by ordeal, is my theory. At the end of the day, if you’re still speaking in complete sentences, you get the job.
Trial by ordeal is right! Talk about “let’s see how they perform under pressure”.
Cloudiah, I assume you are done by now. Can you still talk in sentences?
Yes, I can smeegle in spooty frugulences.
Thanks for smackalasking!