Fashion Board 4-6-04 to 5-7-04

[Dualit]

Originally posted by Anne Elk
[Disturbing photo]

Sexual orientation aside, any parent would be troubled by the fact that there 17 year old child was involved with someone who was 32.

Link to tree article here

This was not me. I am not attracted to males in thongs, particularly if they have breasts.

[evenodds]

At a party with some mutual friends, I met a man who works in a business related to my primary area of practice. After the party, I shot him an email and invited him to lunch. It took us weeks to find a time that worked, but we finally did.

I gave him some calendar options via email. He called to pick one and then picked the time and the restaurant before I could tell him that we would be having lunch at my club (so as to avoid the awkwardness of who picks up the check).

I assume that I pick it up because I invited him, but I also assume that he will offer because I am a woman and he picked the (ridiculously expensive) restaurant.

Do I pick it up? Do I offer? Do I insist? Do you care?

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by evenodds
At a party with some mutual friends, I met a man who works in a business related to my primary area of practice. After the party, I shot him an email and invited him to lunch. It took us weeks to find a time that worked, but we finally did.

I gave him some calendar options via email. He called to pick one and then picked the time and the restaurant before I could tell him that we would be having lunch at my club (so as to avoid the awkwardness of who picks up the check).

I assume that I pick it up because I invited him, but I also assume that he will offer because I am a woman and he picked the (ridiculously expensive) restaurant.

Do I pick it up? Do I offer? Do I insist? Do you care?

Are you going to sleep with him? If so, he should pick up the check.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by evenodds

Do I pick it up? Do I offer? Do I insist? Do you care?

Yes, but not to the point of coming to blows.

But if requests that you piss on him, then let him get the check.

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
I think racism is bad.

Bite me. Sebby was implying that I thought open racism was better than hidden, when I was just taking issue with the idea that it's somehow a surprise when cities in the North are racist.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by evenodds
At a party with some mutual friends, I met a man who works in a business related to my primary area of practice. After the party, I shot him an email and invited him to lunch. It took us weeks to find a time that worked, but we finally did.

I gave him some calendar options via email. He called to pick one and then picked the time and the restaurant before I could tell him that we would be having lunch at my club (so as to avoid the awkwardness of who picks up the check).

I assume that I pick it up because I invited him, but I also assume that he will offer because I am a woman and he picked the (ridiculously expensive) restaurant.

Do I pick it up? Do I offer? Do I insist? Do you care?

If you're doing it for marketing you have to pay, or at least offer strongly. Tell him you've an expense account.

[Alex_de_Large]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Yes, but not to the point of coming to blows.

But if requests that you piss on him, then let him get the check.

Yeah, but from what I gather this is a first-date-like situation, so maybe she should get the check. Unless, of course, the OddMan is filming the whole thing, then he should get the check and sell the video rights to that company that is releasing "One Night in Paris."

[Alex_de_Large]

Originally posted by purse junkie
Bite me. Sebby was implying that I thought open racism was better than hidden, when I was just taking issue with the idea that it's somehow a surprise when cities in the North are racist.

I don't think that is what he was implying at all.

[baltassoc]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Baltimore is one fucked up town for bigotry. I have some friends from that town who harbor some really repulsive views. Its strange - they seem to cling to bigotry like its a tradition that should be passed down. Very strange phenomenon for a city so North.

I can't disagree with this; that's why I think we're a generation or two away at best.

That said, I didn't grow up here, and I don't live in the area I would consider most prone to such problems, so I'm really an outsider looking in to those communities.

I'd note that my bigotted grandparents are all from upstate NY and MI.

[evenodds]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
If you're doing it for marketing you have to pay, or at least offer strongly. Tell him you've an expense account.

The problem is we are peers and he is as interested in my business as I am in his.

We're both "married" for purposes of this lunch, so all pissing aside, it's really just about business.

I assume.

[Berry Hunter]

Originally posted by evenodds
all pissing aside, it's really just about business.

board motto!!

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by evenodds
We're both "married" for purposes of this lunch

I'm not sure what this means, although it could just mean that I'm dense. Are you both pretending to be married even though you're both not so as to make sure there is no sexual tension?

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by evenodds
The problem is we are peers and he is as interested in my business as I am in his.

Who needs whose business more? And who has the more generous expense account? If it's relatively equal, pay since you proposed it.

At least you have 18 hours of nothingness, less 7 minutes of actual draft-pick announcements, over the weekend to figure it all out .

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by evenodds
The problem is we are peers and he is as interested in my business as I am in his.

We're both "married" for purposes of this lunch, so all pissing aside, it's really just about business.

I assume.

Take off the blinders. He may be talking business, but in his mind he wants you on your back faster than a Klitschko brother in a title fight. Let him pay. And order an appetizer.

[Berry Hunter]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
What is Mean Girls? Some SNL movie? Never heard of it.

Coming soon to a theatre near you. Supposed to be, more or less, "Heathers" done 2004-style. Commercials are reasonably funny.