Fashion Board 5-7-04 to 6-9-04

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Don't get me wrong, I am not pro-crack. But, I sometimes think that crack has, relatively-speaking, gotten bad rap. It has been portrayed as this drug that can get you addicted if even think about smoking it. But, there are actually a fair number of people who are able to smoke the drug and maintain relativly normal lives. Is crack any worse than meth, or heroin, or oxycontin in terms of how likely it is to derail an otherwise normal life?

It is no worse than powdered cocaine that is for sure. I agree. Crack has gotten a bad rap and the reason it has is racism and classism.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan

Update: Fainting kid is still in it, just spelled "scheherazadian" correctly, and is going to win it all or come in second.

Dunno why, but now I'm imaging Howard Cosell announcing this stuff, and yelling something like "Down goes Frazier; Down goes Frazier . . . "


oh, and linky to down goes Frazier

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Not Me
It is no worse than powdered cocaine that is for sure. I agree. Crack has gotten a bad rap and the reason it has is racism and classism.

It's far more glamorous to snort powder into your nostrils. More classy, so classism may have something to do with it.

eta Doh! No PMs necessary. I was asleep at the wheel.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Not Me
It is no worse than powdered cocaine that is for sure. I agree. Crack has gotten a bad rap and the reason it has is racism and classism.

The Yugo got a bad rap, too, for the same classist reasons. It was cheap shit.

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by bilmore
The Yugo got a bad rap, too, for the same classist reasons. It was cheap shit.

Apropos of nothing, their "buy a little freedom/buy a Yugo" ad jingle always cracked me up. That Marshal Tito was *such* a card!

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Dunno why, but now I'm imaging Howard Cosell announcing this stuff, and yelling something like "Down goes Frazier; Down goes Frazier . . . "


oh, and linky to down goes Frazier

Should I post the final round results with picture of the kid who won? I'm worried about spoiling people. ;-)

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Not Bob
Apropos of nothing, their "buy a little freedom/buy a Yugo" ad jingle always cracked me up. That Marshal Tito was *such* a card!

I think he did some stand-up before his rampaging mass murderer stint. Only later did everyone realize how funny he really was.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Should I post the final round results with picture of the kid who won? I'm worried about spoiling people. ;-)

Was he from Minnesota?

(ETA - Never mind, found it. Damn.)

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

So is it any surprise that KFC's ad campaign about its healthy food was found to be deceptive?

FTC release

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by bilmore
Was he from Minnesota?

No.

ETA: The lasst Minnesotan went out in the sixth round.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
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"Scheherazadian" and "lyophilize" I'll give you, although I don't know what one of them means and can't pronounce the other.

But "schwarmerei"? "Gaminerie"? WTF? No wonder the furriners are beating the tar out of us. Shouldn't there be some sort of requirement that you're only expected to know English words?

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
So is it any surprise that KFC's ad campaign about its healthy food was found to be deceptive?

FTC release

Hope Jack's not suicidal.

"The ad depicts a man surprised when he recognizes a friend who is sitting on the tailgate of a truck eating KFC fried chicken. 'Jack?' the first asks, 'Is that you? Man, you look fantastic! What the heck you been doing!?' 'Eatin’ chicken,' Jack replies."

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
"Scheherazadian" and "lyophilize" I'll give you, although I don't know what one of them means and can't pronounce the other.

But "schwarmerei"? "Gaminerie"? WTF? No wonder the furriners are beating the tar out of us. Shouldn't there be some sort of requirement that you're only expected to know English words?

I generally feel like an idiot when I look at the list of words they're expected to spell. I don't know a majority of them, and spelling them would be a guess at worst. I always went out in the third or fourth round in our elementary school spelling bee, and I never advanced to the school finals.


ETA Picture of "furriner":

[Not Me]

Originally posted by bilmore
The Yugo got a bad rap, too, for the same classist reasons. It was cheap shit.

It is the lower price of crack that makes it more of a problem, not anything intrinsic in smoking it verses snorting it in powder form. Because it cost less, it is easier for those in poorer areas to get it. So it became a drug used by poor blacks in high crime areas and got this rap that it somehow was responsible for all the violence that occurs when you mix concentrated poverty and making drugs illegal (and thus profitable for criminals to sell).

There is zero evidence that smoking it is in any way more addictive. Cocaine is not physically addictive like heroin is. Cocaine is only psychologically addictive like pot is.

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Should I post the final round results with picture of the kid who won? I'm worried about spoiling people. ;-)

What is the fascination with the spelling bee thing? I mean, ESPN is showing it live? WTF? They aren't even real words, for crying out loud.

Call me crazy, but the idea of watching a 12 year old crumble under the pressure of spelling "zrygisticghtrmthges" on live TV (while his stage mother chews on her nails) just doesn't do it for me.