New Fashion Board 10-3-2003 - 11-7-2003

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by barely_legal
If he's unwilling to do something unpleasant to please me on a third date, well, you know where I'm going here. Clearly he's going to suck in bed.

How do these correlate?

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
I am guessing you saw David Cross as he is on some new show on Fox and was probably promoting it. He and Bob Odenkirk had a great sketch comedy show on HBo for maybe four years. David Cross is one of the funniest people I have heard. THe show, while not flawless, was quite funny in spots. And if I still smoked pot, it might have been funnier.

It was actually the Odenkirk guy. Is this the show that had a skit on a quadriplegic teacher teaching quad students and they all had the same simulated computer voice so the students were pretending to be the girl student to get her in trouble? Someone was telling me about this skit on an HBO sketch comedy show recently. Apparently I have a new tivo requirement.

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by taxwonk
I am a secular monotheist.

Oh behalf of poly- and pan- theists everywhere, I denounce your monotheistic oppression!

[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)

None, however, involve overpriced, oversized jujubes. Which, yes, is a rip. And, it's how theaters make most of their money. The margin on the tickets is very small (or so I'm told).

Make it ALL their money. Exhibitors' revenues from tickets (roughly speaking about half of the ticket gross - the other half goes to the studio) covers their costs of being in business. All profits are from concessions.

str(back at work before going on a weekend mini-moon)8

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
As Steve Winwood said, make us laugh or leave us alone.

I thought that was Winston Churchill who said that, no?

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by barely_legal
If he's unwilling to do something unpleasant to please me on a third date, well, you know where I'm going here.

Don't be so hard on yourself. You have other good qualities.

TM

[LessinSF]

More evidence that America is getting larger - http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...126EDT0409.DTL (statistics on the truly obese). Interestingly, the public health mental midgets (psychology has more credibility than nutritionists and dieticians, at this point) now posit that the obese are that way because their bodies are hyperefficient at storing calories as a result of evolution. God forbid, responsibility for one's actions should be at work.

This news that America has four times as many obese people as just fourteen years ago was followed by this -- http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...345EDT0622.DTL - study showing that chicks won't dig you as much if you have fat friends.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
Oh behalf of poly- and pan- theists everywhere, I denounce your monotheistic oppression!

Screw it, honey. It's just not working. I'll have to think up something more inflammatory.

I'd make fun of the gays, but I like all the gay people I know. And it's no fun making fun of Blacks, because Thurgreed has his attack too finely honed.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
You are sitting thisclose to any scumbag prole with ten bucks and a couple of hours. THey are breathign their prole germs on you. Your ass is itching from the nasty material ion the seat that some prole it in before you and probalby laid some gas into, from the popcorn drowned in orangey-its-not-butter-jizz.

On the plus side, it could be worse, you could be in a theatre in Jamaica.

[barely_legal]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Don't be so hard on yourself. You have other good qualities.

TM

I don't care how much sweet talking you do, I'm not letting you touch my penis.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
She hates british humor and wont even watch the office.

Speaking of which, Season 2, Episode 1 of "The Office" was somehow even more painful than anything in Season 1. The introduction of characters who don't silently put up with David's shit creates agonizing conflicts so that every moment is like the times when Jennifer called David on the carpet in Season 1. I wanted to melt into the carpet when David was doing his standup routine for the Swindon crew. I had to pause it and come back to it later b/c I can only take so much human degradation at a time.

There is no fucking way they can remake this in the U.S. How the hell do you rewrite a running gag about telling a racist joke involving the queen of England playing 20 Questions about a black man's cock? How can you translate the little jerk-off movement when David denies ever "coming over a little queer"? It just can't be done. I implore you, NBC --- it shouldn't be done. Maybe they'll give up on this ill-starred enterprise when Coupling USA tanks.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by barely_legal
I don't care how much sweet talking you do, I'm not letting you touch my penis.

He tried that move with you too?

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by taxwonk
Screw it, honey. It's just not working. I'll have to think up something more inflammatory.

Yeah. We tried, though.

So, no religious persecution, no race war, no gay bashing ... wanna try phonics vs. whole language?

[idle acts]

Originally posted by pony_trekker
My favorite movie food is a bag of popcorn with extra butter and salt with a large box of raisinettes poured in.

You know what that needs? More salt.

[baltassoc]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
What I found interesting was the theory that divorced mothers of daughters are less likely to remarry than divorced mothers of sons because mothers don't want to expose their daughters to a potentially predatory stepfather. I wonder (1) whether this can be borne out in further research; and (2) what portion of this decision is actually conscious; and (3) whether the "I can't date men because he might sleep with my daughter" factor is a source of long-term resentment by Mom and destructive to the maternal relationship.

Part 1 of two part response:

I thought the adoption explanation was interesting too, as an example of completely screwed up reasoning:

Other readers offered what they thought was counterevidence: Adoption agencies report a higher demand for girls. But this is exactly what you'd expect in a world where parents prefer boys. In such a world, boys will tend to be put up for adoption when there's something seriously wrong with them, but many girls will be put up for adoption simply for being girls. So, if I'm looking to adopt a bright healthy child, of course I'll choose a girl: I expect that among children put up for adoption, girls are on average brighter and healthier than boys. I could well make this choice even if I prefer boys to girls, as long as my preference for bright and healthy is stronger.

This ONLY applies if the person choosing to adopt knows of the preference for girls. It only works if someone games the system, and gaming the system requires knowledge thereof. Without knowledge, the presumption would be that whatever forces are in place to give preference to boys exists, exist equally for adopted children.

An equally valid explanation for why parents of girls try to have children again is that the first experience was a pleasant one worth repeating, while on average parents of boys say to themselves: "another kid? no way in hell."

An equally valid explanation for the divorce rate is that mothers (who are still the primary caregivers post-divorce in this country) are more likely to be scared of having to raise a hellion/boy alone. This also serves as an explanation for remarriage rates.