Fashion Board 12-09-03 through 1-08-04

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by mr. bob dobolina
Some authority? That's the understatement of the month.

I was careful not to say "good" authority.

[ThrashersFan]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
I seriously don't use it. I think there are only two who call me on it with any regularity, and they both only use it if they really want to talk to me and I don't answer at home. Other people only call me on the cell if they know I'm out of town, and that's when I tend to use it, too. Or to call and tell people I'm running late, or get directions. I think the refinancing loan person once tried to get in touch with me using it (despite my saying I don't use it) and realized her mistake when I didn't even get the message for two or three days. Anyway, my total lack of dependence on it was the only reason I was willing to try to port my number to a different provider -- it wouldn't affect me if it got fucked up.

But I like having it, especially when I'm doing a 250-mile drive alone through nowhere, and the majority of the trip is after dark.

And, Hank, damn you -- but all you and your relative accomplished was losing Cingular a customer, so nyah nyah.

Somehow I knew this about you. Thank you for not being like those morons in my office who sit at their desks, within a finger's reach of a landline, and make calls on their cell phones. I would also like to banish those women in the grocery store who push around their carts while jabber-jawing -- the men who are calling from aisle 12 to see if their wives use super or super-plus I can forgive. And anyone who chats on a cell at hockey should be banished and his seat given to someone who cares.

[Penske_Account]

I'm not a performance anxiety plagued pussy. These guys make me want to puke. <RETCH>

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/14/fashion/14CIAL.html [article from today's NYTimes about how the modern male needs to take Viagra as "insurance" against performance anxiety because modern female's sexual assertiveness and performance requirements make them nervous. Added bonus: features an old friend of the GAs, the watch gifting HH from Yahoo dayz).

<RETCH>

[Caught Like a Rat]

Originally posted by Not Me
Been gone for awhile so I don't know if this topic has ever been discussed here, but what is up with Girls Gone Wild?

Believe me when I say that I have been, inter alia, plenty drunk many times in my life, but never would I think it was cool or fun or hip or whatever to show my tits for the purpose of someone else making money!

Your point is moot, the videos are called GIRLS Gone Wild. Perhaps you could market your tits for the GUYS Gone Wild series but I'm not sure that is the type of flashes those boys are looking for.

[leagleaze]

Originally posted by ThrashersFan
Phone rant

I will join your ranting, if I may.


I'm pretty well fed up with people having their phones ring on full blast at work. It's extremely irritating. I got a new phone, the default ring on it is so loud and so annoying it sounds like a siren is going off down the street. That can be changed, you know? Lower the sound.

Never mind restaurants. Who the hell has to talk on the phone in a restaurant? If you have an important call get up and leave, cause if it is that important you'll need to be leaving anyway. Otherwise leave the phone off. Very few people are so important that they can't be out of touch for a few hours. And if they are that important, someone else answers their phones for them anyway. Heck I'm not important and my secretary answers my phone if I am out. She leaves me a message. It's a good system. People should try it. Oh wait you mean it worked for decades before cell phones? Go figure.

People bitch at me all the time. You didn't answer your cell phone. Why do you think I have voice mail? Leave a message. I'll call you back. If I feel like it. When I feel like it. If I don't feel like it, try again. If I don't feel like it enough times, maybe you'll get the clue, I hate you and want you to stop calling me.

Hey...who says inter alia on the fashion board? What's up with that?

Oh, and if these men can't get it up maybe they shouldn't be breeding. Society would be better off. "Poor poor us. Oh no, women are too aggressive, they are judging how good we are in bed, and expect us to actually focus on their needs too! What ever will we do? Woe. Woe. Woe is us." Morons.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
<RETCH>

Concur. What a sorry state of affairs.

[ThrashersFan]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
I'm not a performance anxiety plagued pussy. These guys make me want to puke. <RETCH>

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/14/fashion/14CIAL.html [article from today's NYTimes about how the modern male needs to take Viagra as "insurance" against performance anxiety because modern female's sexual assertiveness and performance requirements make them nervous. Added bonus: features an old friend of the GAs, the watch gifting HH from Yahoo dayz).

<RETCH>

Why don't men just take a page from the "Women's Handbook" and say "I don't feel like it tonight" if they don't? Absent a health issue, a guy can get it up and perform well if he wants to -- and shouldn't be forced to if he doesn't. Women can't possibly have sole ownership of being stressed or tired or just not feeling funky at the moment.

Ya'll put too much emphasis on sexual prowess -- quality, not quantity, baby.

[Not Me]

Originally posted by leagleaze
Never mind restaurants. Who the hell has to talk on the phone in a restaurant? If you have an important call get up and leave, cause if it is that important you'll need to be leaving anyway. Otherwise leave the phone off. Very few people are so important that they can't be out of touch for a few hours. And if they are that important, someone else answers their phones for them anyway. Heck I'm not important and my secretary answers my phone if I am out. She leaves me a message. It's a good system. People should try it. Oh wait you mean it worked for decades before cell phones? Go figure.

Although I can see how a ringing cell phone is annoying, I don't see how someone talking on a cell phone is any different than someone talking to the person sitting across the table. Unless they talk more loudly or something like that. But if they turn their cell phone on vibrate and it doesn't ring and they talk at the same volume level they would be talking at if they were speaking to others at their table, I don't see why it would be annoying.

Originally posted by leagleaze
People bitch at me all the time. You didn't answer your cell phone. Why do you think I have voice mail? Leave a message. I'll call you back. If I feel like it. When I feel like it. If I don't feel like it, try again. If I don't feel like it enough times, maybe you'll get the clue, I hate you and want you to stop calling me.

I never answer mine, either. It is a control thing. I want to be the one who dictates when I speak to someone.

Originally posted by leagleaze
Oh, and if these men can't get it up maybe they shouldn't be breeding. Society would be better off. "Poor poor us. Oh no, women are too aggressive, they are judging how good we are in bed, and expect us to actually focus on their needs too! What ever will we do? Woe. Woe. Woe is us." Morons.

No one should breed ever. There are too many people in this world. We don't need any more people right now.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by leagleaze
I got

for a Pennslyvanian, I thought it was "I've got"

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
I'm not a performance anxiety plagued pussy. These guys make me want to puke. <RETCH>

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/14/fashion/14CIAL.html [article from today's NYTimes about how the modern male needs to take Viagra as "insurance" against performance anxiety because modern female's sexual assertiveness and performance requirements make them nervous. Added bonus: features an old friend of the GAs, the watch gifting HH from Yahoo dayz).

<RETCH>

I like that the NYT places this sex story in the fashion category.

[ThrashersFan]

Originally posted by Not Me

No one should breed ever. There are too many people in this world. We don't need any more people right now.

I disagree. The problem is that good fashionable people like many on this board (but Not You) have taken that well-meaning position and left the "classy" proles to populate the world. We need selective breeding. You know, that good genetics thing ya'll are always talking about. With no breeding, the "good" people will eventually be extinct and the world will be run from a trailer park.

Knowing my inherent semi-proleness, I only bred once - he has a fifty-fifty shot.

[leagleaze]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
for a Pennslyvanian, I thought it was "I've got"

What is a Pennslyvanian? Someone from Pennsylvania who is sly? And what are you talking about? I got a new phone. As in I bought a new phone. Or I received a new phone. Not I've got a new phone. Of course, I do have a new phone, but that didn't fit what I was saying. If you are going to be both rude and timmyesque (and by the way being a timmy is by definition rude) you could at least be correct about it.

It is rude for several reasons Not Me (and thank God for that.) One is people tend to leave it on ring. Two is they are likely having lunch with someone else, say me, and they are so rude that they begin a phone conversation when they should be talking with whomever it is they are dining. They also tend to speak at a high volume. Cell phones aren't that clear and people speak loudly when they speak on them.

Manners people.

[Not Me]

Originally posted by ThrashersFan
[eugenics is good]

If I thought you knew what the word eugenics meant, I would bother to debate this with you.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by leagleaze
What is a Pennslyvanian? Someone from Pennsylvania who is sly?

I won't listen to this. Evenodds and Slave and the others who took the time to build this board didn't incluse a spell checker. I suffer, sure. but I never complain, and I think for you to complain after all they did to build the board, is sort of ungrateful. NTTAWWT

[leagleaze]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I won't listen to this. Evenodds and Slave and the others who took the time to build this board didn't incluse a spell checker. I suffer, sure. but I never complain, and I think for you to complain after all they did to build the board, is sort of ungrateful. NTTAWWT

Give me money, I'll pay someone to incluse a spell checker. You mannerless clod.

Sincerely yours,

The Others