Fashion Board--Penske . . . forever!

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I wouldn't have considered it rude, but then I have an off kilter sense of humor and have been actually reading the boards (instead of just posting on them) for the last six years. I can't imagine sex, prostitution, drugs or a combination of the same not coming up at an IRL GA meeting.

I'd give an example involving speaker wire, but what happened at ACL stays at ACL.

Shifter asked you to never mention that again. Poor lizard.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Shifter asked you to never mention that again. Poor lizard.

I forget. was the gerbil strangled by the wire?

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
You're talking to the wrong person. I've met literally over a hundred people from the internet, all of them at some point or another for the first time. Some I've slept with, some I've immediately started partying with, some I've hung out at the bar with and gotten hammered with, some I've taken home to meet my dogs, some I met by the pool at a hotel in Vegas, some I've gotten sunburned at outdoor concerts with, one I hopped in a car with and went on a 300 mile epic journey, and very few I've dismissed nearly immediately. Generally, in that first meeting, we talk about the stuff we talk about on whatever board we post at. In pretty much all the boards I post at sex, drugs, food, politics, music, and gossip pretty much dominate the conversation.

If any single one of the people I've met, including the creepy kissy hand guy from my Buffy board who I avoid like the plague, had made a joke like that one, I would have laughed and probably made some sort of self-depreciating comment about how many blow jobs I'd have to give in order to afford the bag.

I've met a fair amount of people as well, and I've gotta say he was not one who put me at ease instantly with his warmth and personable amiability and "great sense of humor" I'm married and and old fart but we had little in common little chemisty on an interpersonal level and by the end both of us were like gee, the train, gee banana republic until my next train.

That is a contributing factor to why I flatlined. We both did really, he's not my hypothetical type. I like down to earth gregarious funny smooth types, BSDs with all the right lines that type of smoove talker. he was too into being edgy. I also like polite. I can take rude or shocking or bawdy only if he's my type plenty of people I work with say crazy things to me and we laugh. I consider myself a shrewd judge of character and I've gotta say I think he has issues.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
Why am I going to bang my head against this particular wall? I don't know, but here goes. Even though so many others have done so before me.

Listen. No one cares what size you wear or what you look like. No one made it an issue. Except you. And no one is continuing to make it an issue. Except you. (And TM now too, since you pissed him off, and he's exacting revenge.)

I don't care what size you wear. I don't care if you are pretty or ugly. Whether you are pretty or ugly or slim or fat has nothing to do with whether I am pretty or ugly or slim or fat. They are unrelated.

I did not put myself out there for TM to evaluate for the board. You did. You didn't like what he had to say. Fine. We get it. You disagree with him.

But as we've all told you time and again, beauty is a subjective thing. TM did not find you attractive. Fine. Rather than trying to disprove his subjective findings, why don't you just accept them? Okay, so TM didn't find you attractive...big whoop.

What's happened here, however, is that you've become so focused on proving him wrong (by calling him too harsh, calling him a meanie, suggesting he's a liar, calling him unattractive, etc) that you've become a laughingstock. Not because you are unattractive or heavy, but because you are so self-absorbed and insecure that you actually care whether we think you are attractive and thin.

You have pretty hair.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by J. Fred Muggs
In an effort to make PPNYC a useful contributor to the board, I am going to use this post as a jumping off point for a discussion that may prove to be interesting.

Ignoring the stupidity and bad grammar rampant in this post, does anyone think that "being a member of the bar" is something that requires us to somehow show kind of special compassion and dignity in our ordinary life? I can see that if you're in court you should act like a grownup, but outside of when I'm actually at work and working on work stuff, the fact that I'm a member of the bar doesn't impact my behavior. In fact, if I stopped practicing law (hi ltl/fb!!) I don't think that I would be able to display any less dignity in my personal life than I do now.

You're just scared of Thurgreed, Chimp. You have no Klass.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
Q: if Junior Gotti came up to you in public or private...really anywhere except for a workplace locale.....let's say the men's steam room at your YMCA for sake of argument, and sang happy birthday to you, how would you react?

That depends. Is it my birthday?

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
I've met a fair amount of people as well, and I've gotta say he was not one who put me at ease instantly with his warmth and personable amiability and "great sense of humor" I'm married and and old fart but we had little in common little chemisty on an interpersonal level and by the end both of us were like gee, the train, gee banana republic until my next train.

That is a contributing factor to why I flatlined. We both did really, he's not my hypothetical type. I like down to earth gregarious funny smooth types, BSDs with all the right lines that type of smoove talker. he was too into being edgy. I also like polite. I can take rude or shocking or bawdy only if he's my type plenty of people I work with say crazy things to me and we laugh. I consider myself a shrewd judge of character and I've gotta say I think he has issues.

I think you flatlined because he didn't say what you thought he would say. I think that your impression of him and his of you was doomed for failure from the very beginning of this hairbrained scheme because of the contrived nature of the meeting. You didn't meet because you thought he was interesting enough and he thought you were interesting enough based off of your relative postings, which is how most people decide to meet IRL off the internet. You met because you wanted to prove something to him (and the board) that you ultimately couldn't prove to him. (What you proved to the board remains to be seen, but the board probably would have had more sympathy for you if not for the subsequent four days.) I think your meeting was too artificial for "chemistry" or "type" to come into play.

As for issues, we all have issues. This board is full of off-kilter people who I find to be a hell of a lot more interesting than most of the people I deal with on a regular basis, which is why I've put a lot of personal effort into keeping this place going. None of us fit the mold of the normal GA (whoever that poor soul may be). We're all rattling at our cages, and this is one of the only outlets we have. We're generally extroverts (with a bunch of voyeurs thrown in) who like our jobs to various degrees but have a lot of other issues and interests to keep us going. Our jobs are not the end all or be all of our lives. We're divorced or perpetually single or constantly moving jobs or hopping across the country or shocked as hell that somehow we became GPs or wondering how we managed to get older with kids and mortages but still feel pretty fucking young at heart. We don't want to necessarily become the GPs that we saw when we first entered this profession, but there are a shitload of expectations on us (usually from those very same GPs) that we do. Of course he has issues. We all do. It's the reason this board exists.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I think you flatlined because he didn't say what you thought he would say. I think that your impression of him and his of you was doomed for failure from the very beginning of this hairbrained scheme because of the contrived nature of the meeting. You didn't meet because you thought he was interesting enough and he thought you were interesting enough based off of your relative postings, which is how most people decide to meet IRL off the internet. You met because you wanted to prove something to him (and the board) that you ultimately couldn't prove to him. (What you proved to the board remains to be seen, but the board probably would have had more sympathy for you if not for the subsequent four days.) I think your meeting was too artificial for "chemistry" or "type" to come into play.

As for issues, we all have issues. This board is full of off-kilter people who I find to be a hell of a lot more interesting than most of the people I deal with on a regular basis, which is why I've put a lot of personal effort into keeping this place going. None of us fit the mold of the normal GA (whoever that poor soul may be). We're all rattling at our cages, and this is one of the only outlets we have. We're generally extroverts (with a bunch of voyeurs thrown in) who like our jobs to various degrees but have a lot of other issues and interests to keep us going. Our jobs are not the end all or be all of our lives. We're divorced or perpetually single or constantly moving jobs or hopping across the country or shocked as hell that somehow we became GPs or wondering how we managed to get older with kids and mortages but still feel pretty fucking young at heart. We don't want to necessarily become the GPs that we saw when we first entered this profession, but there are a shitload of expectations on us (usually from those very same GPs) that we do. Of course he has issues. We all do. It's the reason this board exists.

while I appreciate what you have to say. and hell I have issues too obviously, I don't like mean. He was serious when he said I seemed nice and i'm happy. Not happy like, my life is perfect but I am finally in an okay place now. this aside, and I like surrounding myself with somewhat positive people. dark and edgy freaks me the fuck out.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Yes, I think traditional sah-motherhood is slavery, as in being in a state of subjugation or captivity involving burdensome and degrading labor. This is why I did not have children with my former husband.

I am not arguing with you. I am merely curious. Would you say that those women who choose to be stay at home moms rather than go back to jobs outside the home are deluded, or otherwise incapable of appreciating that what they are choosing to do is burdensome and degrading? Or are you suggesting that there is some element of cultural force or coercion that deprives them of the ability to choose freely?

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Me too. Coltrane as Mr. Mom. I'm in.

Honey, if you call and I'm not home, I'll be at the gym or the gun club.

Having spent a couple of years as Mr. Mom to the Princess on weekends only while Mrs. Wonk did a weekend night shift nursing gig, all I can say is, I like you. You remind me of when I was young and stupid.

There are few things more grueling and exhausting than caring for a small child on a full-time basis. No fucking way I would do it on a permanent basis.

[tmdiva]

Originally posted by taxwonk
I am not arguing with you. I am merely curious. Would you say that those women who choose to be stay at home moms rather than go back to jobs outside the home are deluded, or otherwise incapable of appreciating that what they are choosing to do is burdensome and degrading? Or are you suggesting that there is some element of cultural force or coercion that deprives them of the ability to choose freely?

Oh, for heaven's sake. Do you think she wasn't speaking hyperbolically? Sahm-dom as slavery is pretty much a thing of the past, at least among those of us have the luxury of choosing it (not that I actually chose it, exactly, but that's another story). The most degrading thing I have to do any more is change the occasional poopy diaper, and that's hardly ruining my life. The rest of the distasteful stuff (scrubbing toilets, pulling weeds, getting up early in the morning) is contracted out (or in, in the case of the getting up part).

tm

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by taxwonk
I am not arguing with you. I am merely curious. Would you say that those women who choose to be stay at home moms rather than go back to jobs outside the home are deluded, or otherwise incapable of appreciating that what they are choosing to do is burdensome and degrading? Or are you suggesting that there is some element of cultural force or coercion that deprives them of the ability to choose freely?

see, you should have used the anon feature, because with you asking this question the fact that the hypothetical "she " has to also fuck you from time to time just makes the whole question too icky to consider. no offense.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by tmdiva
The rest of the distasteful stuff (scrubbing toilets, pulling weeds, getting up early in the morning) is contracted out (or in, in the case of the getting up part).

tm

you have robots?

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
You think the suggestion that if I wanted a little extra cash for my expensive purse I should volunteer to uh, you know? is okay? and not.rude? mmm maybe you are a tougher lot than I.

I have it on good authority that she is.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by spookyfish
I have it on good authority that she is.

no doubt my brother she takes boot camp classes and could easily kick my rumpus.