Fashion Board 5-7-04 to 6-9-04

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by mmm3587
I can never decide if it is better or worse than "incentivize."

Speaking as one who hears this crap day in and day out, I believe "incent" is just the short form of "incentivize". Seeing as neither are in the dictionary, it's hard to say whether I am correct. In any event, I loathe them both equally.

[Not Me]

Originally posted by ironweed
From my yahoo inbox. It's sad to see the once-proud purveyors of these kind of scams just phoning it in like this:

"I suggest you to become my partner. 2 ways to earn:
1st way is I transfer money into your account, and then you send it back to me through WU making 15-30%. 2nd way is that I take money from your account and claim it stolen and bank repays the amount, I send 50%-60% back to you. This can only work
once though. Or you may to find people for 1st and 2nd ways.
In any case you become a victim of fraud. For you all is lawful."

There is a return e-mail address. Has anyone ever reported one of these clowns to Da Man? I am tempted to fuck this guy just because his come-on is so shitty.

What is the return address? Whenever I have received those, the return address is in russia (ends in ".ru") or someplace like that. So the US probably cannot do anything to them until a crime occurs.

You can report them here, but I don't know how much good it does:

http://www1.ifccfbi.gov/index.asp
http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cid/fc/ifcc/ifcc.htm

[dtb]

Originally posted by mmm3587
*Hi, dtb! Your so sexy! P.S. How come we've never had the that/which descriptive/restrictive conversation here? There is rampant abuse!

Hi mmmm! My so sexy what?

You are indeed correct that abuse is rampant, but I can only fight on so many fronts at a time. Once people understand that the apostrophe in contractions is MEANT TO TAKE THE PLACE OF THE MISSING LETTERS (sorry for the outburst -- I just had to get that off my chest), we can move on to the more complex problems such as the that/which dilemma.

For example: "whose" means (roughly) "whom does it belong to" and "who's" means "who is". (See how the apostrophe takes the place of the missing "i" from "is"?) Similar thing going on with your/you're.

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by dtb
I hate, hate, hate (with the white-hot fury of a thousand suns -- that doesn't sound very poetic, does it?) when people use that as a verb. Such "banker-speak" inexplicably enrages me. Don't ask me why.

You cannot possibly hate it as much as I hate the nonexistent verb "to disrespect."

[dtb]

Originally posted by ironweed
From my yahoo inbox. It's sad to see the once-proud purveyors of these kind of scams just phoning it in like this:

"I suggest you to become my partner. 2 ways to earn:
1st way is I transfer money into your account, and then you send it back to me through WU making 15-30%. 2nd way is that I take money from your account and claim it stolen and bank repays the amount, I send 50%-60% back to you. This can only work
once though. Or you may to find people for 1st and 2nd ways.
In any case you become a victim of fraud. For you all is lawful."

There is a return e-mail address. Has anyone ever reported one of these clowns to Da Man? I am tempted to fuck this guy just because his come-on is so shitty.

Phoning it in indeed! What, by the way, is "WU"?

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by dtb
Phoning it in indeed! What, by the way, is "WU"?

Western Union, I would suspect.

[leagleaze]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Was there any particular controversy last time as to who got on the members' only list? Maybe leagl can answer, but I thought it was pretty easy to identify people who had been around a while, without regard to post count.

No. There was no controversy. I created a list of regulars with the help of E/O and Slave. Then I gave people the opportunity to ask me privately about anyone who concerned them. A couple people did speak up, but the people they were concerned about were not ever on the list.

As far as disabling right click, I did that last time. But people do need to understand that things can still be downloaded, and often, things end up downloaded just because that is how the browser works. There is no way to completely prevent it.

The best way I saw to make it harder to download an image is to place a clear image over it. I was unsure how they did this, but maybe you can figure it out Mr. Then, when someone tried to download the image, they just ended up with a blank square.

Originally posted by spookyfish
Western Union, I would suspect.

Maybe Big Baby Jesus is hard up for cash. No idea, myself.

[leagleaze]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
again with the realityblurred:


Amanda Bynum (The Swan) hosts this one too. Immersed for one week? Please.

If they want to do a real show they should have the guys stay in their own homes and jobs and come out. Then they'll see what it is like to live the "gay lifestyle."

[mmm3587]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
so tell me again why it was funny to intentionally misuse "whose" if you knew better. and why I should have known that your were? cause from where I sit this seems a little post hoc on your part. but whatever. not that I care that much.

Isn't it clear that intentionally incorrect grammar is a meta-joke on this board? Maybe I'm the only one in on it. I guess I just assume that everyone here is actually a lawyer, and that we all generally use correct grammar in our speaking and writing. If we occasionally do not, it's because we're being careless, not because we don't actually know what is right and what is wrong.

I guess that I send a lot of e-mails and I'm concerned about accuracy and grammae in them, so I proof my FB posts the same way.

P.S. There are numerous punctuation, capitalization and grammar errors in yours post.

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Speaking as one who hears this crap day in and day out, I believe "incent" is just the short form of "incentivize". Seeing as neither are in the dictionary, it's hard to say whether I am correct. In any event, I loathe them both equally.

From Dictionary.com

in·cent
tr.v. in·cent·ed, in·cent·ing, in·cents
To incentivize: “would use tax breaks to incent corporations to invest in their future”
[Back-formation from incentive.]

[PJ PJ PJ!!!]

Originally posted by purse junkie
You cannot possibly hate it as much as I hate the nonexistent verb "to disrespect."

Right on PJ. I hate that fake verb too.

[notcasesensitive]

Ali Landry and Mario Lopez are kaput. From E Online:

Ali Landry's marriage to Mario Lopez went stale faster than an open bag of Doritos.

The blink-and-you-missed-it union between the C-list couple is apparently over after Landry learned that Lopez was cheating on her, according to reports in both People and Us Weekly magazines.

The corn chips promoter is reportedly seeking to have her marriage to the Saved by the Bell star annulled, after walking down the aisle just over two weeks ago at a resort outside of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

Wasn't it someone here who reported that he was a classless (hi everyone) dickwad at a restaurant one time. apparently he cheated at the bachelor party and Ali was presented with irrefutable proof. let's see him get saved from these bells. (yes, I realize that was bad, but I have not much to work with here.)

oh, and, as an aside, I have no real idea who the Ali Landry person is, but E says she was made famous by a Doritos Super Bowl commercial. C-list? I'm not sure she ranks that high.

[john123]

Originally posted by leagleaze
No. There was no controversy. I created a list of regulars with the help of......... Slave.

Big mistake.

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
oh, and, as an aside, I have no real idea who the Ali Landry person is, but E says she was made famous by a Doritos Super Bowl commercial. C-list? I'm not sure she ranks that high.

Wasn't she the push-up bra with a head that had a Dorito fly into her mouth from a clothes dryer?