Fashion Board 2-3-04 to 3-5-04

[mmm3587]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys
Baseball needs ... a relegation/promotion system. Then you'd freakin have something.

But, really, doesn't every sport need this? How many teams in every US sports league just phone it in all or a lot of the time, or at least once every few years, just because they can finish in last, and people will still come to the games, and they'll get a good draft pick

I hate to hold glorious, glorious soccer, especially the EPL, up as a shining example, but teams fight like hell every year[1] because the bottom three out of twenty go down to the lower league, and the top three of the lower league come up. And so on down the line of all the leagues.

And the market works pretty well to compensate winners and punish losers, because the differences in revenue are significant, and then the teams with lower or higher revenue (both as a result of success and as a result of failure) can buy or sell the contracts of players.[2]

[1] And I expect that you, str8, know this, as there must certainly be some soccer watched in that British-style trivia pub where you and the Mrstr8er are smiling for the camera.

[2] I admit that I can't really totally justify the "market" statement, since I admit that I don't know how much free agency there is and how that whole set-up works, but I think that might be preferable, from a health of the game standpoint, than the situation we have here, where there are a few guys with exorbitant salaries in long-term contracts and a majority of the guys around the same still very generous salary.

[mmm3587]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
[Real World arrests]

The most amusing part about all the former Real Worlders linked to at that page is that almost all of them are amazingly stupid arrests. The really intense guy from RW-Paris (who is the kid of Lionel Ritchie or somebody like that(Ok, I know that's Nicole Ritchie, but whatever)) runs up to a police car, then runs away? Of course you're going to get arrested.

And the guy who solicited prostitution at North and Ashland? That's the most obvious place, and used to be a huge hotbed or prostitution, until the rich white people in the neighborhood started complaining to their alderman, and the city started cracking down BY GOING AFTER JOHNS. The prostitues don't care about getting arrested, and the really, really low-end women (and men posing as women!) might hang out there, but geez. It's almost impossible to get arrested for prositution in Chicago, and this guy picked one of the two ways (the other being get busted in an obvious sting).

At least there are a few standard "I was drunk and got in a fight arrests." Stupid, but at least common.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
dear Courtney's behavior has been markedly more erratic in the last six months. will it result in her untimely demise? who knows.

Agree. It takes a special kind of idiot to lose your eleven year old child backstage at the Grammys, and then to miss your court appearance because of "security concerns."*

*No offense to anyone here who has done either of these.

[Jack Manfred]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
someone tell Teri Hatcher her window has closed.

No way. She beat up Charlize Theron, and Charlize was a hitman (woman?)/and is a serial killer. I'm not giving Teri any bad news.

[Adder]

Originally posted by Fugee
....someone else who tells a school teacher she can't wear her cross necklace to school

As a fine point of constitutional law, you are probably right. But nonetheless, I'm not sure its ignorant or intolerant to suggest to a public school teacher that this might be a wise course of action to avoid potential controversy. And, frankly, I'm not sure this as a clear a question of constitutional law as you imagine.

[Jack Manfred]

I'm looking for recommendations for a spa in San Francisco. Family will be in town, and I wanted to treat. Will probably spring for massage and some sort of wrap/body treatment. Especially interested in feedback from those who have tried Novella Spa.

Thanks for all helpful responses.

[SlaveNoMore]

Originally posted by Jack Manfred
No way. She beat up Charlize Theron, and Charlize was a hitman (woman?)/and is a serial killer. I'm not giving Teri any bad news.

As nice as Lois' cans are, have we not learned anything around here? We just do not F with the Charlize!

[SlaveNoMore]

RedSoxNation.com lost A-rod to us for what? 15 million? Oops.

Oh yes, I'll take a discounted Maddox and Travis Lee too.

wcS

[sunnybunny]

So, about right around when the littlest groom had to hack the women down from 25 to 5 and crush a whole lotta hearts quickly, rather than slowly over time, and then the life-size renta-bimbos came in to spice thigns up I realized that I can no longer have an obsession with dwarfs. I feel bad that their biggest marketability is exploitation of their size.

So my question is, do you think there is a chapter of Dwarflovers anonymous?



Thank you

Sunny

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by sunnybunny
I realized that I can no longer have an obsession with dwarfs.

Sunny

There's always midgets.

Originally posted by sunnybunny

I feel bad that their biggest marketability is exploitation of their size.

I guess this means a fetish for 6'11" former basketball players is also out of the question. (Sorry, Thurgreed and Hank)

[sunnybunny]

Originally posted by spookyfish
There's always midgets.

But they're jsut not as cute as dwarfs...they just look like gymnasts...sh*t, I think I'm falling off the wagon...

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
RedSoxNation.com lost A-rod to us for what? 15 million? Oops.

Oh yes, I'll take a discounted Maddox and Travis Lee too.

wcS

Yeah, yeah, yeah -- congratulations to slave and tm and all of the stormtroo...uh, Yankee fans out there for getting the best player in the game. Bastards. As George put it, it is like Reggie Jackson all over again.

Be careful; if the Boss signs Greg, the Not Bobette may well hunt you down and kill you for that -- she rivals TF in her love for the Braves. (Jesus, that reminds me -- I better start checking her room for empty Bud Ice bottles and crumpled cigarette packages).

Travis Lee would be a great pick-up for the Yanquis. Solid defense, decent offense, and apparently a good guy in the locker room. But he may not cost enough to be on their radar screen.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by dc_chef
Has anyone recently remodeled a bathroom? Or maybe I should ask if anyone has had their bathroom recently remodeled? If so, do you have any recommendations for a new commode? The toilets in our house are horrifically bad in terms of flushing power (wow, who wants to talk about that?), and I'm thinking about replacing them. Top on my list is the new Kohler Cimarron Comfort Height toilet. It runs about $280 or so. Any others that you'd recommend at that price point and below?

I would avoid the Comfort Height if there is any chance of small kids having to use it, or elderly, less-mobile types. Gets your floor all messy, and then they fall and get hurt. If you have the water pressure and GPMs available to the bathroom wall, consider any of the power-flush home units - louder, but impressive (and keeps your drainpipes cleaner.) Check for minimum pipe size requirement (all the way from main supply to wall) before buying one, though.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by Apropos of Nothing

Think about it this way -- since a few of the people in the wedding party at the Nothing nuptials were coke-fiends, does the Sebby Standard require that I should have had the caterers place a Scarface-sized mound of Bolivian marching powder next to the ice sculpture?

I think Sebby would mostly agree that I am mainly correct when I say that that sounds like a party that I'd like to attend.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by dc_chef


The toilets are pretty new, but also pretty sucky. Most flushing mechanisms are gravity-fed. In other words, when you hit the handle, it flips open a flap, and water rushes out of the tank into the bowl via gravity (as opposed to a power-assisted flush, like in commercial applications). I don't know that water pressure would help or detract from that, but maybe that's my lack of knowledge showing through.

You're right. Water pressure is irrelevant. I would recommend anything with power assist, or some similar mechanism. The non-power ones just don't cut it because of the low-flow regs. I would talk to several plumbers, about what they've installed, and also several fixture supply places.