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PostPosted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 9:05 pm    Post subject: South Korea Reply with quote

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1914471,00.html

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In May, the city government started to paint 4,929 public and private parking places pink throughout the city, with thousands more slated to go under the brush next year. The pink parking spots, reserved for women drivers so they don't have to walk so far to work or the mall, are part of the South Korean capital's Women Friendly Seoul Project, an effort for the notoriously macho Asian city of more than 10 million to transform itself into a safer, more heel-friendly "space for women."


I feel like it would have been more efficient to ban women from wearing high heels, but I've gotta admire their originality.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 10:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

They do tend to trip when walking over uneven ground...or pushed into uneven ground, as we have seen.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 10:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

At malls in and around Boulder (as well as other major venues), there are spaces reserved for pregnant women. They're usually right next to, but sometimes closer to the door than, those spaces reserved for the handicapped.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 10:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

We've got pregnant spaces here, too. I keep telling Katie she needs to take one for the team and get pregnant to save us 30 feet from our walk around the mall.

No luck yet.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 10:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

lugo wrote:
We've got pregnant spaces here, too. I keep telling Katie she needs to take one for the team and get pregnant to save us 30 feet from our walk around the mall.

No luck yet.


She clearly isn't dedicated.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 10:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

jaster wrote:
lugo wrote:
We've got pregnant spaces here, too. I keep telling Katie she needs to take one for the team and get pregnant to save us 30 feet from our walk around the mall.

No luck yet.


She clearly isn't dedicated.


Being actually pregnant only gets you a couple months worth of the good parking spots (you can't really use them during your first trimester because you don't look pregnant yet and other women will give you dirty looks). Plus afterward you're stuck with a baby. It's much more cost efficient to get one of these:

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 11:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

lizakova wrote:
Being actually pregnant only gets you a couple months worth of the good parking spots (you can't really use them during your first trimester because you don't look pregnant yet and other women will give you dirty looks). Plus afterward you're stuck with a baby. It's much more cost efficient to get one of these:



These are all very important points.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 4:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes, but the most important point is since we are witches after she has a baby we get to eat it.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 9:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

lugo wrote:
Yes, but the most important point is since we are witches after she has a baby we get to eat it.


Don't you just eat the placenta?
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 10:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Placentas are gross.
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