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

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
You either conform to his personal tastes or you are a complete loser . . . .
TM

You say this like it is a bad thing. I'm beginning to get the sense that someone is stuck back in the heady iceberg lettuce-revival days of the late 90s.

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
But I think most people are capable of looking at something they might not like for themselves and appreciate the fact that it still has value. ... I can ...

I think you're overly optimistic about the ability of most people (present company included) to let go of personal bias in such matters. Recognizing a fault in others doesn't mean one has overcome it in oneself.

You really should start directing your comments at the person you're talking about. You're not very good at being passive aggressive.

Now here, for example, we have a clear example of someone's personal reaction to a something clouding their objective evaluation. I am superb at being passive aggressive. Should I ever direct passive aggression towards you, you'll recognize it from the burning sensation around the solar plexus.

Originally posted by str8outavannuys
Insider sign that American Idol is in trouble: In the old days, 100 people would be lined up on Beverly Blvd. at 8:30 a.m. on a Tuesday hoping to get in. Yesterday at 2:30 p.m., as I drove back to work on my way back from Bloomingdale's, there were maybe 20 people lined up. Maybe. The ratings are still strong, but the writing's on the wall.

More writing ont he wall is taht fewer FBers write in about the show than they used to. Is there anyone that anyone is totally fired up about anymore? This group is just so uncaptivating. It awas better a couple of weeks ago for some reason, even though many of the chicks werent as good.

Are you still watching?

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
I think you're overly optimistic about the ability of most people (present company included) to let go of personal bias in such matters. Recognizing a fault in others doesn't mean one has overcome it in oneself.

I'm not overly optimistic. Most people I know don't talk in nothing but absolutes. In fact, my observation is based on personal experience.

Recognizing a fault in others...blah, blah, blah. You're not really saying anything.

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
Now here, for example, we have a clear example of someone's personal reaction to a something clouding their objective evaluation. I am superb at being passive aggressive. Should I ever direct passive aggression towards you, you'll recognize it from the burning sensation around the solar plexus.

Ooh. oh. Ow. Is that what I feel right now? I can hardly breathe!

TM

[notcasesensitive]

I caught up on some reality shows last night (watched Monday's The Swan and RW/RR Challenge and last night's QEFTSG and Showbiz Moms and Dads). Anyone seen Shwbiz Moms and Dads? It is on Bravo right after Queer Eye. It follows 5 or 6 families that are involved in one form or another of show business. Some of the parents were only mildly crazy, but there is this one pageant mom who is so insane that she started ranting about how the little girl who won (5 year old) over her daughter didn't deserve anything good to happen to her, etc. right in front of her 4 year old "loser" daughter. One would hope that someday the woman will view this show and realize what a fucking whackjob she appears to be in it. I doubt she'll come to her senses before her daughter is irreparably scarred however. And, Sidd, I don't think that the cameras following her made her a complete loon, I think they might have even prevented her from whacking her kid at least once when she appeared to want to because the 4 year old was tired and didn't want to get up to make herself "pageant pretty".

[bilmore]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Everyone else seems sick of my arrogant, immature, drunken time-zone skewed jibes....

Oh, yeah, give me talk of purses and reality TV and implant positioning instead.

Uh huh.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
I'll take the Leafs, Belfour and Nolan the cripple.

Bet: Whoever loses, quits posting on the FB for the next 12 months.

Everyone else seems sick of my arrogant, immature, drunken time-zone skewed jibes....

...and you are the poster child of copy-cat wannabes. To wit, we read you and think "I'm old, fat, suburban and boring - but I'll try to post like Multo and SI and pretend I'm hot and cool"

So bring it. Game fucking on.

I find it tremendously sad that you consider posting on the FB valuable enough to consider it high stakes in a Stanley Cup bet.

[john123]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
You either conform to his personal tastes or you are a complete loser . . . .

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
You say this like it is a bad thing. I'm beginning to get the sense that someone is stuck back in the heady iceberg lettuce-revival days of the late 90s.

The use of "loser" is oh so very late 90s.

The correct term for the Aughts is "looser". Get with the lingo dingo!

[bilmore]

Originally posted by john123
The use of "loser" is oh so very late 90s.

The correct term for the Aughts is "looser". Get with the lingo dingo!

No. Extrapolate from earlier posts. It's now "loseur."

[john123]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
I find it tremendously sad that you consider posting on the FB valuable enough to consider it high stakes in a Stanley Cup bet.

He is the loosest. Oooooooh!

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall

It seems to me that SD is incapable of that. You either conform to his personal tastes or you are a complete loser, doomed for a stereotypical classification of what he thinks your taste makes you.

TM

Would there be anything interesting at all to me saying "I'm not a fan of [insert personal taste choice here], but I understand why you'd like it" in response to others' posts? One of the - if not THE - sole benefits of this board is that it provides an outlet for the sort of commentary we're precluded from making durin our day to day lives. I cannot tell Tim at the watercooler that I think he dresses like a used car salesman or Mary in petty cash that her Beetle advertises lack of savvy in car buying. But those observations don't just leave my mind. They pop up here, and they create diversions for people to respond with sarcastic quips (PLF), venomous retorts (you), joinders (Paigow on the Mini issue) or factual rebuttals (Sunny). You seem to advocate a polite boring discourse, which is shocking, considering that you brandish one of the sharpest pens on the boards when your blood gets rolling...

Don't take my comment about your inconsistency as an insult. I think people who strive for consistency should be imprisoned. The very worst posters on these boards are the people who have nothing else to say but "Well, SD, you said exactly the opposite three weeks ago, so (harrumph harrumph harrumph)." Yes, I did think differently three weeks ago, and I'll probably think differently agin next week. I'll handle the cross exams in court. In this forum, I'm a fucking human, you drone.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Would there be anything interesting at all to me saying "I'm not a fan of [insert personal taste choice here], but I understand why you'd like it" in response to others' posts? One of the - if not THE - sole benefits of this board is that it provides an outlet for the sort of commentary we're precluded from making durin our day to day lives. I cannot tell Tim at the watercooler that I think he dresses like a used car salesman or Mary in petty cash that her Beetle advertises lack of savvy in car buying. But those observations don't just leave my mind. They pop up here, and they create diversions for people to respond with sarcastic quips (PLF), venomous retorts (you), joinders (Paigow on the Mini issue) or factual rebuttals (Sunny). You seem to advocate a polite boring discourse, which is shocking, considering that you brandish one of the sharpest pens on the boards when your blood gets rolling...

Don't take my comment about your inconsistency as an insult. I think people who strive for consistency should be imprisoned. The very worst posters on these boards are the people who have nothing else to say but "Well, SD, you said exactly the opposite three weeks ago, so (harrumph harrumph harrumph)." Yes, I did think differently three weeks ago, and I'll probably think differently agin next week. I'll handle the cross exams in court. In this forum, I'm a fucking human, you drone.

I wasn't being sarcastic.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall

Recognizing a fault in others...blah, blah, blah. You're not really saying anything.

TM

But it is amusing. In fact, I think its the building block of the lion's share of modern comedy.

I'm not pretending to offer some life truths here. Like David Gilmour recently said when asked about the profound impact of Dark Side of the Moon, "Its all just pop music."

Nobody's saying anything. I trust you won't take it as an insult if I remind you that you've not uttered a single revelatory syllable on these boards since I've known you. But you have amused me and made me think from time to time. You didn't owe me more, nor would I be arrogant enough to suggest I was owed more.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I don't know. She said that she's having dinner with him and her best friend, who, like the rest of Houston and cyberspace, knows all about the peeing request. My sister also is a little worried that, even if they can work through the peeing issues, how a long term relationship can be developed since everyone in Houston, including my mother, knows about the peeing thing. That may be a little hard to get past.

In other related news, he claims that he can't remember, due to excessive consumption of tequila, some points of the evening where he made the request. I asked her if he's pretending that the request wasn't made, and she says that she can't see how he can get around it since he repeated himself over 30 times in the course of the evening.

BTW, if you guys ever meet my sister, I never told you about any of this...

MOM knows about the pee thing? Damn, you girls definitely have a TMI ppolicy where your parents are concerned.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Catcher takes muscle relaxants and has a couple glasses of wine, and #2 has special workouts for his "push" muscles.

I would think.

Methinks the lady knows far too much to be "guessing."