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Random SMS Poll #23

So I am in the habit of asking my friends (via SMS) random questions that pop into my head and polling them... Here's todays question. Q. Why to trannys dress like they shop in 1982? Do not understand this. JS: Because the last time they were the other sex was 1986. Yours Truly: Good explanation. | So basically they're stuck in whatver year they transition? Rod: LoL (Rod is not the most erudite fellow.) LELemay: I know! It's like they are all trying (sic) to get a part as a secretary in 'Working Girl'... or interviewing for a job as an 80's JC Penney's sales girl. YT: Totally. This one I saw in UDist just now was wearing a silver blouse, black leather pencil skirt and gathered black leather ankle boots. | Ick. MM: LoL :-) (Another less than witty character - has more to say in person.) Scartozzi: They're confused and transitioning? | I don't know. YT: Or stuck in the year they transitioned. JS: That's what I think. TA Hazel: Because time stands s

Instant Gratification

We live in society that values instant gratification, almost to the exclusion of all else. I can't tell you how many of my friends gripe and groan about their body-images, and yet, they don't go to the gym, change their diets or their lifestyles for longer than a few weeks at a time, citing failed results. Anything worth doing is worth the time invested. If we don't invest the time to get it done right, the return will be exactly what you put into it... nothing. The advent of the internet means that we can "search" for bit of information, however obscure, or that product that we believe is out there - with near-instant results. If we can't find it in just a few moments, then we stop searching, believing that it's just not out there. Instant entertainment. We sit on our sofas and "surf" through television shows searching for that instant fix. And when we don't find it, what do we do? Throw the remote and declare, "There's nothing on r