Fashionistas you have arrived 3-25-03 - 10-3-03

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by coleman youngster
Lame ass somethingorother - what was it - rap or something?

Thank god nothing rhymes with nfh.

[evenodds]

Originally posted by coleman youngster
I agree, so I'm back and this board needs to Show Me its Soul (verse 1).

Now that is what we have been missing.

[Anttwat]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Now I'm not typically one to cast stones regarding what is or is not boring conversation. But are you two really having a conversation about dayplanners?!? Can't be. Perhaps you are using code words to discuss vibrators. That must be the case.

Someone, anyone, post something about sex. GWINKY got any more In Case of Emergency Break Glass stories saved up? Cause there's a typhoon of boring going on here!

goddamnit woman you're hard to please.

Those of you who sit back and wait for the entertainment to begin need to contribute yourdamnself and quit bitching about the state of the union.

shit.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Dualit
It is obvious that he did not run his "cover letter" by the folks in career planning. True, most career planning offices are useless, but I bet they would have had some helpful suggestions for DORK.

I did talk to career planning, but in this job market generic advice is off limited value. I thought I would send this as a targeted approach to three firms I had heard were "cutting edge" and which look at issues "creatively." I certainly did not expect this posted on the internet.

By the way, I only sent this to 3 firms. Jones Day (Cleveland) and Baker Botts (Houston) would not be where TM received my application. That means, TG is likely actually Steve Kumble of the NY office of Finley Kumble.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Anttwat
goddamnit woman you're hard to please.

Yes, but the benefits of doing so far outweigh the hassle of the task. Or so I've been told.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by Anttwat
goddamnit woman you're hard to please.

Those of you who sit back and wait for the entertainment to begin need to contribute yourdamnself and quit bitching about the state of the union.

shit.

I find you more and more loathsome, Ant Snot. Not as loathsome as, say, December RotAF, but loathsome nonetheless.

ncs was right. pj and I were being boring. date books are boring. and I appreciate ncs pointing that out.

See, if the FB is really a giant virtual cocktail party, then it's the job of one's friends to let you know when you have a huge streamer of toilet paper hanging off the bottom of your shoe. that's what ncs was doing...nudging me gently to point out something that might embarrass me in the crowd.

You, on the other hand, continue to stand up and scream "Hey, I farted!". It's not funny. And it's not appropriate.

So please sit down and shut the fuck up. That is all.

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
This is, I think, true. There's certainly a lot more "sir"ing and "ma'am"ing between black and white in the South, and successful interracial transactions have a more genuine warmth instead of wariness.

However, the fact that Northern racism is more latent and less patent does not in all cases make the Southern way better. For example, I like the fact that in California (latent racism region), you're not invited back to cocktail parties if you use a slur, even in jest. Giving voice to racist beliefs is an utter social dead-end. In my experience of the South, those who express patent racism (like a hotheaded use of the "n" word) are dismissed as relics (at least in the public forum), but are never ostracized. Outside the South, I can feel embarrassed to be in the presence of persons who voice racist beliefs, and the local culture supports that reaction instead of quietly closing ranks around those who are "old fashioned" in their thinking.

If you could combine the "sir"ing and "ma'am"ing of the South with righteous indignation, instead of mild clucking, at vocal racial generalizations, both regions would be better off.

From my experiences having lived both within and without the South, I agree with this assessment.

My only additional observation is that those who would be dismissed as "relics" for overt racist remarks typically seem to be either (a) occupying lower rungs of the social ladder, or (b) true relics (e.g., old people). IMHO, Southerners tend to avoid ostracizing the true relics because too often they're related to the relics by blood or marriage.

[Anttwat]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
So please sit down and shut the fuck up. That is all.

Fuck you and your horse and all your other barn animals.
Who the hell are you to criticize someone you've just met at a cocktail party.
If this is how you behave, that's why you'll see people standing away from you, however pointing and laughing.
It's not all in your mind.
Honk.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by cheval de frise
CDF (simple low-$$ nassau is more my speed, maybe with a "wolf" or "snakes" kicker to keep things interesting.)

You still have money left to bet?

TM

[cheval de frise]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
You still have money left to bet?

TM

Sure. I'm paigow's dealer.

CDF

[Fugee]

Originally posted by Puft Daddy
Which reminds me. I read somewhere that John Molloy (sp), the author of Dress for Success is coming out with a book advising women on how to land a man and make him marry you. The only advice I remember from the tease was that he had a 6 month rule -- if you don't have a commitment to head for the altar within 6 months, it's not going to happen. That, at he found that men ages 28-33 were especially susceptible to the marriage thing.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...910793-9189649

Good grief, it's like The Rules combined with corporate strategy. That reminds me, I bought a copy of The Rules at a garage sale for a quarter. It was so awful it was hilarious.

So if women run out and buy this book, does that mean we'll see lots of engagement announcements on the FB?

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Gattigap
From my experiences having lived both within and without the South, I agree with this assessment.

My only additional observation is that those who would be dismissed as "relics" for overt racist remarks typically seem to be either (a) occupying lower rungs of the social ladder, or (b) true relics (e.g., old people). IMHO, Southerners tend to avoid ostracizing the true relics because too often they're related to the relics by blood or marriage.

I saw a relic get called on it the other day.

Some asshole sitting at a table next to mine at lunch was looking for his waitress and yelled across the patio, "Hon? Could you come over here?" For the rest of the meal the four other people at his table berated him for the use of the word "hon." He tried to "aw shucks" away, and then he tried a very half assed apology to the waitress ("My wife says I offended you when I called you 'hon' before, and I should offer an apology.") But the rest of the table wouldn't let up on him, and despite his protests that his father and grandfather have been calling waitresses "hun" for years and it's something that you say down south, I think that it sunk in that it's not an acceptible term to someone you don't know.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Anttwat
Those of you who sit back and wait for the entertainment to begin need to contribute yourdamnself and quit bitching about the state of the union.

Are you quoting back the minister Fugee knows pretty well when she asked her question?

TM

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by Fugee
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...910793-9189649

Good grief, it's like The Rules combined with corporate strategy. That reminds me, I bought a copy of The Rules at a garage sale for a quarter. It was so awful it was hilarious.

So if women run out and buy this book, does that mean we'll see lots of engagement announcements on the FB?

And six months later, after having woken up from completely morphing themselves to snag some fuckhead, lots of divorce announcements.

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
despite his protests that his father and grandfather have been calling waitresses "hun" for years and it's something that you say down south, I think that it sunk in that it's not an acceptible term to someone you don't know.

Does this mean that waitresses will stop calling me "hun" and "sweetie"? Sic transit gloria mundi, I suppose.

(thanks to the Bar Bitches link someone posted a while back, I now know that they are only doing it to increase their tips. Accordingly, I have reluctantly scrapped all plans to fly off to the Riveria with the goth girl barista who hands me a tall cup of "free-trade" every morning.)