Happy Birthday, Preston Michael Spears Federline and other Certain Special Someones! - Page 298

Sparklehorse · 10-19-2005, 01:41 PM

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Originally posted by SEC_Chick
This also doesn't answer your question, and not to go all Paigow on you, but L'Oreal still tests on poor little bunnies, which, given that all shampoos have pretty much contained the same ingredients forever, is pretty inexcusable. Bunnies eyes are most like human eyes, and that is why they are the favored test subjects.

See http://www.comedyclub.co.za/feature/feature130.html for a satirical take on what bunnies think of L'Oreal and their advertising campaigns.

Hmm. Since I use Kerastase products too, I thought this was worth checking out. From the L'Oreal site:

"Owing to the daily use of safety methods, of which reconstructed skin is the crowning glory, L’Oréal eliminated animal testing on finished products in 1989; as a result, L'Oréal became a pioneer in the development of such alternative methods."

While I imagine that "finished" can parse to permitting some bunny torture (and does this only apply to actual L'Oreal branded products?), it sounds like they are savvy about the unpopularity of these methods among their target (American) consumers.

Replaced_Texan · 10-19-2005, 01:45 PM

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Originally posted by NotFromHere
You can't say that around here without someone offering to give you a "lozenge" or tell you they have something that'll make your throat feel better.

Why is it a bad thing that people want to help make you feel better?

dtb · 10-19-2005, 01:45 PM

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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Time has a list of 100 best novels written in English since 1923.

I'm woefully behind in my reading. I've only read 13. It's cool, though, to see a graphic novel in the list.

I've seen a lot of the movies that the books were made into, though.

Why 1923? Seems sort of random. The books that I've read that are on that list were all good, but I have studiously avoided several on there, because I've heard they are pieces of shite.

NotFromHere · 10-19-2005, 01:45 PM

Who's the Vince fan here? Is she sitting on his lap? Because he's like 6' 8" or something right?

Hank Chinaski · 10-19-2005, 01:49 PM

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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Why is it a bad thing that people want to help make you feel better?

Depends. Some people may want to boycott some of these guys. For instance, I know lots of SS's sexual technique was first developed with animal testing.

notcasesensitive · 10-19-2005, 01:52 PM

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Originally posted by NotFromHere
Who's the Vince fan here? Is she sitting on his lap? Because he's like 6' 8" or something right?

6'4"

I was a Vince fan, but of late there may be a bit too much of him to love.

I have no idea what is happening behind the bushes there, but I am reasonably sure that Jen is not 6'4". Even on the internet.

Replaced_Texan · 10-19-2005, 01:53 PM

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Originally posted by dtb
Why 1923? Seems sort of random. The books that I've read that are on that list were all good, but I have studiously avoided several on there, because I've heard they are pieces of shite.

Apparently Time magazine started in 1923. Coincidently, as I was just told over IM, everything published before 1923 is in the public domain.

Alex_de_Large · 10-19-2005, 01:56 PM

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Originally posted by NotFromHere
Who's the Vince fan here? Is she sitting on his lap? Because he's like 6' 8" or something right?

it looks like he's sitting and she's stradling him.

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dtb · 10-19-2005, 01:59 PM

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Originally posted by Alex_de_Large
it looks like he's sitting and she's stradling him.

I think he's sitting, and she is sitting to his left and leaning over (torso only -- no straddling).

ETA: Upon closer inspection (and using my digital enhancement technology), I think she IS straddling his left leg.

dtb · 10-19-2005, 02:00 PM

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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Apparently Time magazine started in 1923. Coincidently, as I was just told over IM, everything published before 1923 is in the public domain.

I'm missing something, because I don't get what public domain has to do with choosing a book list. Wha..?

Hank Chinaski · 10-19-2005, 02:00 PM

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Originally posted by dtb
I think he's sitting, and she is sitting to his left and leaning over (torso only -- no straddling).

She doesn't look like Jennifer. the girl in the photo has a more exotic look.

Alex_de_Large · 10-19-2005, 02:01 PM

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Originally posted by dtb
I think he's sitting, and she is sitting to his left and leaning over (torso only -- no straddling).

ETA: Upon closer inspection (and using my digital enhancement technology), I think she IS straddling his left leg.

See my edit. There certainly appears to be some stradling.

NotFromHere · 10-19-2005, 02:03 PM

Two days after a nightclub brawl that hospitalized Seattle Seahawks free safety Ken Hamlin with a blood clot on his brain, police have this to work with: a victim who has no memory of the attack, a violent felon found slain four hours after the fight and the brother of the dead man, himself a convicted felon, trying to connect the incidents.

Club owner Larry Culp, basing his comments on the video and conversations with his employees, said Hamlin hit the man and was then knocked down and hit with a metal street sign. (Who hits a man with a street sign? What is this - Detroit?)

Seen milling in the crowd on the video is a man wearing a jersey with the number 45 on the back. Tramaine Isabell says the man is his older brother, 31-year-old Terrell Devon Milam. Isabell, who was not at the bar, insists it was Milam — a convicted killer who was supposed to be under curfew at a federal halfway house — who knocked the 6-foot-2, 209-pound Hamlin to the ground.

Authorities at the halfway house say they found a dummy in Milam's bed when they went to check on him, and it was unclear how long Milam had been away, according to the state Department of Corrections.

Milam was found shot to death four hours later near Seattle's Seward Park.

Seems too convenient to be a coincidence, but someone on work release could easily have been shot for other reasons in Seward Park.

taxwonk · 10-19-2005, 02:05 PM

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Originally posted by spookyfish
God help me, I actually think I miss Fringey. *sniff*

Where is fringey? I just assumed she has been busy or on vacation. Is she no longer with us?

barely_legal · 10-19-2005, 02:05 PM

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Originally posted by SEC_Chick
This also doesn't answer your question, and not to go all Paigow on you, but L'Oreal still tests on poor little bunnies, which, given that all shampoos have pretty much contained the same ingredients forever, is pretty inexcusable. Bunnies eyes are most like human eyes, and that is why they are the favored test subjects.

See http://www.comedyclub.co.za/feature/feature130.html for a satirical take on what bunnies think of L'Oreal and their advertising campaigns.

Everytime I lather, rinse, and repeat, I like to fantasize about the suffering of bunnies. I only wish the manufacturers of my tampons did testing on bunnies too.