Fashion Board 1-08-04 through 02-03-04

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by leagleaze
We still do things to help people pick up on it, but it tends to be pretty subtle. Jewelry....

Is this where the "only lesbians wear silver jewelry" thing comes from?

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Aloha Mr. Learned Hand

One time, a buddy of mine lost his footing, did a face plant and left his top two front teeth in the ice.

Woman in my freshman dorm, an athlete, played the second week of school. Broke her leg. Full leg cast for 4 months. Limp for the rest of the year (she was a bitch, so I didn't try to find out if she fully recovered). Quit the broomball career before it started. Stuck with safer hockey.

[evenodds]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
What was wrong with the NFH module?

Too much crappy MSNBC coverage.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by leagleaze
I understand sister, I most certainly do. I embrace and appreciate your efforts to understand the lesbian mind through television, and welcome you as an honorary lesbian. I have no doubt that you can truly and completely appreciate the trials and tribulations of the lesbian through modern media.

Did you like the L Word? It had very little sex this week. How distressing. Perhaps it will have more again next week. Otherwise what is the point of a show about lesbians? The nerve of some people.

I tried to like it. I kept waiting for it to get funny, or dramatic, or for more sex. But nothing much happened. No laughs, no pathos, nowhere near enough tits. It's like a gay Seinfeld, but not funny. Which, I guess, makes it more like Ellen*


*Weird that. Her standup act is hilarious, but she can't do sitcoms worth shit.

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
What if Sebby's daughter wants to go out with a Lord of the Rings geek? Or the Lizard Boy (not to be mistaken for our own Reptile Boy, Shape Shifter)? Or, heaven forbid, some nerd on the debate team who thinks he wants to be a lawyer and gets her on the academic decathalon team? Sebby is going to have to deal with the fact that his kid is likely going to be hurt by someone he could give a rat's ass about, and that, likely, she's testing the values that he's tried to raise her with. Doesn't mean that Sebby is going to not let her date these guys, it jsut means that he's not going to like it.

Bingo. Spot on.

One of the joys* of being a parent is watching your child wrestle with the demons of becoming an adult. Making choices, dealing with the consequences, ignoring the advice of their wise parents, etc. You don't want them to get hurt, but sometimes you see it coming and are helpless to prevent it.

Relationships are one of those areas. And boys and girls are different. (Note to Sebby -- I wouldn't want to know about my son's sex life, either.) Girls are the ones who get pregnant, and are at a higher risk than boys of being sexually assaulted. Some sexually transmitted diseases are much more dangerous for girls than they are for boys. Girls that start having sex before they finish developing can be physically injured by the act.

And don't minimize the social differences, either. Despite our best efforts, there is still a double standard about sexual activity. And although Sebby may tell young Sabrina that "sex is natural/sex is fun," Sabrina's friends at JP Donleavy High School may not be from such enlightened families. It's easy for a parent to say "who cares what those neanderthals say"; it's not so easy for the kid who is surrounded by those neanderthals 6 hours a day, and hearing "slut!" whispered about her by people who used to be her friends.

*In both an ironic (sic) and Not Ironic way.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by evenodds
Too much crappy MSNBC coverage.

What, you prefer fox news?

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Woman in my freshman dorm, an athlete, played the second week of school. Broke her leg. Full leg cast for 4 months. Limp for the rest of the year (she was a bitch, so I didn't try to find out if she fully recovered). Quit the broomball career before it started. Stuck with safer hockey.

Yeah, the Yuppie Twister analogy is more flawed the more I think about it. Many of the teams we play are not particularly urban or professional. Many are ex-hockey jocks, clinging to past glory. Even in no-checking leagues, the "incidental" contact can get rough. I have never seen anything too bad, but in the last three years, injuries on teams I play on have included two concussions, a broken nose, and a total of about twenty facial stitches (on three different players). I have already seen two fist fights this season (neither involving any team I play on). But maybe Bilmore is accustomed to rougher games of Twister than I remember having.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by evenodds
Yahoo has added an RSS module to the My Yahoo! page so you can have constantly updated news streams from news sources and blogs.

That's great. Because we don't get enough news already, everywhere we look, at all times, over and over again, until we're sick to our stomachs of the same damn "newsworthy" image or story.

TM

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by dc_chef
Just another day at the office for me.



I hope not the friggin' "huggin' the curves good" series of commercials. If I had a gun, I would shoot the tv when those came on.

Uh, I have an issue with commercials, if you hadn't noticed.

Yep, that's the ad campaign. My personal least favorite is the "weekend without boys good" ad. When we found out that she was doing "The L Word" Mrs. Wonk and I cracked up.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Aloha Mr. Learned Hand
One time, a buddy of mine lost his footing, did a face plant and left his top two front teeth in the ice. After having replacements put in he was a big hit at parties with a blacklight, as his front teeth glowed purple...

Yeeaowch! I'm cringing and my body's all tensed up and my front teeth hurt! I took a header over bicycle handlebars when I was 5 or so and went through a lot of dental hell to save my front teeth. As a result, my reaction to stories of tooth trauma is analogous to mens' reactions when they see somebody else get kicked in the nuts.

This is why I can't watch hockey.

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Yeeaowch! I'm cringing and my body's all tensed up and my front teeth hurt!

You have to quit having those sex dreams about Hank.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by spookyfish
You have to quit having those sex dreams about Hank.

You're telling me. This morning I saw a man with a toupee and a cheap suit and I had to stop myself from goosing him.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
But maybe Bilmore is accustomed to rougher games of Twister than I remember having.

On my staff at the moment are a total of eighteen broomball-induced facial stitches. Kids' stuff. I bet you never played the Twister version that involved mouthguards and a spotter.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
You're telling me. This morning I saw a man with a toupee and a cheap suit and I had to stop myself from goosing him.

Don't fight the urge.
My "agenda" as it were, is to get some play for the disheaveled across this great country of our's.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by bilmore
On my staff at the moment are a total of eighteen broomball-induced facial stitches.

I'm glad you insisted they use the finer facial sutures, but I'm surprised there was room for eighteen.