Fashion Board 1-08-04 through 02-03-04

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
So you're saying that you have no contact with any childhood friends at all? 2 of my closest friends I met in 3rd grade.

Thesis: A person who attended private or Catholic K-12 is likely to identify a person they met there as their closest friend. A person who attended public K-12 is more likely to identify a person they met in college as their closest friend, except if they still live in the town where they grew up.

Related premise: Men generally identify a woman as their closest friend. Women generally identify a woman as their closest friend. Conclusion: women make better friends, probably because they usually smell better.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
PRobably adverbabble, but maybe the energy it takes to chew this new cardboard product burns up 2 carbs, so it's gross 8, net 6. Net 4.2 if you slow dance while eating them.

I'd like to know what the net carbs for celery are. Also sucking ice cubes. Not that I've ever really been tempted, but my step-sister used to suck ice cubes on the theory that she was burning calories.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
So you're saying that you have no contact with any childhood friends at all? 2 of my closest friends I met in 3rd grade.

I don't have regular contact with any childhood friends. Maybe moving 3000 miles from home affected those relationships a little. Not sure. We still e-mail and occasionally see each other, but not close friends.

My closest friends come from a variety of sources, but generally are a result of getting to know friends of friends and randomly meeting people in Dallas. I am pretty close friends with one of my law school friends too, but we live really far apart.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
I know way too many smart, hot, intelligent women who are unconnected.

I bet your definition of "hot" differs by a large degree with most people's.

TM

[evenodds]

Originally posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone
But are they, like, better than yours?

Damn right, it's better than yours.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I just try and give ncs a rough time. I think she likes that kind of thing. It's got to to work better than Penske's suck up approach.

unlikely. the best approach I've seen to date was the nutcase sock.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
unlikely. the best approach I've seen to date was the nutcase sock.

so its greedy you are attracted to? shit. back to the drawing board.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
How the fuck did this discussion become about me and my breasts ?

Is this a bad topic?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
I'd like to know what the net carbs for celery are. Also sucking ice cubes. Not that I've ever really been tempted, but my step-sister used to suck ice cubes on the theory that she was burning calories.

I can help her if she's looking for variety.
she available?

[mmm3587]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
Bullshit on your bullshit. Most men who want a chick to be smart still don't want her to be smarter than they are.

Dissent. First, I want to say that I'm not accusing you of any of these things or attitudes I'm about to describe, but I've never really liked this sort of statement. I associate it with the kind of people I hated in law school: people who thought that they had some sort of inherent intelligence which entitled them to better treatment, jobs, grades or whatever because they were "smarter" than others. Or because they tried to get people to believe they were smarter than others, even if they really weren't. The person described by this stereotype would want to be in relationships (either romantic or otherwise) with others so that they could get an advantage from these people without actually putting any worthwhile involvment into the relationship. I knew a bunch of people in school who exhibited this kind of "relationship selfishness," and they all ended up with spouses (of both sexes) who they could dominate. But I don't think that trait is gender-specific.

You seem to be ascribing a pretty despicable quality to all men: that they want to be married to some woman that they can subjugate, or just generally trick or outwit, and that they never want to be challenged intellectually or how their abilities questioned. Or, that their egos don't allow them to spend time around intelligent women without feeling emasculated. I don't see those kind of attitudes in anywhere near all men. Especially in the last few generations, many men have desired mates who are equals or superiors. I almost married a devestatingly intelligent woman, and the fact that we didn't get married didn't have anything to do with how her intelligence made me feel. I know a lot of guys who are with women who might be objectively be considered to be smarter than they are. Which brings me to my next point...

Intelligence is so subjective that you can't really make statements like "men don't want to be with women smarter than them." How do you define smarter? Everyone defines it in the ways that they are intelligent, and at lot of the marriages I know of involve intelligent people who are intelligent in different ways? Is the fact that someone's wife makes a killing in the stock market but couldn't fix a light switch indicative of a lack of intelligence?

Anyway, if you can really look at the men you've been around and say that they don't want to be involved with women smarter than them, I feel sorry for you. You haven't been around many decent men.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Or, if even this is not enough of an adrenaline rush for you, you can run waterfalls, with terrifying freefalls into the maelstrom of water below. Kayaking has something for everyone!

Or sea caves!

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Related premise: Men generally identify a woman as their closest friend. Women generally identify a woman as their closest friend. Conclusion: women make better friends, probably because they usually smell better.

My closest friends are guys. But then, my guy friends do smell nice.

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
I was the one who was saying this, and I was specifically saying it to Not Me, although I suppose it applies equally to you.

Kayaking is extremely relaxing, and is a great upper body workout. For lake kayaking, you have the serenity of gliding just above the surface of the water. Your paddle strokes evenly timed in a zen-like repetition. Or you can go kayaking in the sea or larger lakes, like Superior. Explore nature, go on kayaking "trails" up and down the coast, camping and getting away from it all. Paddling through the swells as the sun begins to burn off the early morning fog. I defy you to experience this and not be moved. Or, you can river kayak. Become proficient and perhaps someday experience the thrill of a first descent. Or, if even this is not enough of an adrenaline rush for you, you can run waterfalls, with terrifying freefalls into the maelstrom of water below. Kayaking has something for everyone!

I loved white-water kayaking, until I almost drown. Did a bit of sea-kayaking in Nantucket one year, but fighting the current and the wind on the way to Eel Point was not fun. I'll stick with canoe river trips. Allagash or St. John anyone?

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
Me too. But mostly, I'd rather be Paris Hilton.

With her tits or yours?

TM

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by evenodds
Damn right, it's better than yours.

I hate you for this.

I just got this out of my head yesterday.

It's back now.