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

[bilmore]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
I hate when people try to build an argument whose crux relies on the exception and not the rule, or the minority, and not the majority, or the ten percent and not the ninety percent.

Yeah, that's as bad as when someone tries to build an argument on bluster. Doncha hate it?

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
bitch please, if the person is from India, it is legit, like someone from England saying Cheers. Its when pretentious or clueless follower type americans get in on the act that it become unacceptable. and I note you dont say she says hello.

Dear Gwink:

Namaste! Greetings from Calcutta. I miss you

Susan

I was not challenging you. In fact, I was agreeing that I have seen it as a signoff. I apologize if it came out the wrong way. The person is based in India, but is as Waspy as me or you. Probably should have mentioned that.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Now that they're interrogating Saddam Hussein, they're finding out all sorts of really awful things about him.

[notcasesensitive]

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/South/12/....ap/index.html
[tiger mauls child to death]


So what made the mother think that her sister, who happens to keep a tiger as a pet, would be an appropriate babysitter?

Montecore, any uprising in the tiger community as a result of this senseless slaughter of this tiger?

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
Then I guess Bilmore must live in an overwhelmingly hindu part of Minnesota to be on the receiving end of it semi daily.

I hate when people try to build an argument whose crux relies on the exception and not the rule, or the minority, and not the majority, or the ten percent and not the ninety percent. That was beneath you, Flower. You really are past your sellby date arent you? Did your brain decide to join your sense of humor on holiday in Balmour?

I think the most likely explanation for what is happening is that Bilmore works with someone who is Hindu, and that is why he hears the greeting around twice a day. That is also why he, unlike you, knows it to be a greeting, and not the Hindu equivalent of peace out. He was not trying to build an argument - he was simply pointing out to you that his understanding of the word is different than yours. I was not trying to build an argument - I was simply pointing out that there may be some non-ludicrously pretentious reason why Bilmore hears the saying twice a day. The only thing ludicrous is that you are so unable to remove yourself from your own poseur-filled reality that you convinced yourself that Bilmore either 1) is making the whole thing up, or 2) is surrounded by scads of poseur yoga namaste-sayers, rather than seeing a much more innocuous and obvious explanation.

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/South/12/....ap/index.html
[tiger mauls child to death]


So what made the mother think that her sister, who happens to keep a tiger as a pet, would be an appropriate babysitter?

Montecore, any uprising in the tiger community as a result of this senseless slaughter of this tiger?

They killed the TIGER bc some moron kept it as a pet and then decided to babysit? That is the most reCOCKulous thing I have ever heard. They should have slaughtered the child's mother and jailed the tiger's illegal owner.

I am definitley sending some money to PETA this week.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
and ps, how many hindu americans really go around saying namaste in greeting to white folk?

Two that I know of.

twice a day, bilmore? i think you better lose the hyperbole before it capsizes your kayak

If this is part of your new campaign to impersonate a reasonable adult, you should pause and maybe regoup. Maybe even take a breath.

(I assume our trip to Jamaica is off?)

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
I think the most likely explanation for what is happening is that Bilmore works with someone who is Hindu, and that is why he hears the greeting around twice a day. That is also why he, unlike you, knows it to be a greeting, and not the Hindu equivalent of peace out. He was not trying to build an argument - he was simply pointing out to you that his understanding of the word is different than yours. I was not trying to build an argument - I was simply pointing out that there may be some non-ludicrously pretentious reason why Bilmore hears the saying twice a day. The only thing ludicrous is that you are so unable to remove yourself from your own poseur-filled reality that you convinced yourself that Bilmore either 1) is making the whole thing up, or 2) is surrounded by scads of poseur yoga namaste-sayers, rather than seeing a much more innocuous and obvious explanation.

When Bilmore states he hears namaste twice a day to indicatehow ubiquitous the term is as a greeting, the implication is that more than one person uses it. and given that the whole crux of the arguemnt is that americans saying the hinde word namaste is worse than americans saying the English word cheers, you might think he would have pointed out that a HINDU MINNESOTAN was syaing it rather than let the implication that many a white person in Minnesota was using it so it must be a commmon greeting.

Clearly Petunia was the brains of your little operation there.

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
Not that they're interrogating Saddam Hussein, they're finding out all sorts of really awful things about him.

All right, that's the deal-breaker. Now I hate the sonofabitch.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
When Bilmore states he hears namaste twice a day to indicatehow ubiquitous the term is as a greeting, the implication is that more than one person uses it. and given that the whole crux of the arguemnt is that americans saying the hinde word namaste is worse than americans saying the English word cheers, you might think he would have pointed out that a HINDU MINNESOTAN was syaing it rather than let the implication that many a white person in Minnesota was using it so it must be a commmon greeting.

Clearly Petunia was the brains of your little operation there.

This is getting even better than I thought it would.

Originally posted by bilmore
This is getting even better than I thought it would.

Translation: paigow is right and I have been reduced to BotDs in rebuttal.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by spookyfish
Stop it right now, or we'll get into another discussion on self-loathing.

Edited to add: I was unclear when this story first came out whether she was contesting his will. Does anybody know?

Read the article.

TM

[bilmore]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
Translation: paigow is right and I have been reduced to BotDs in rebuttal.

A. What's a BotD? (nevermind, I just remembered.)

B. Yes, you turned out to be correct in saying that it's a greeting, and that I work with two people of Hindu-ness who say it to me regularly. I was wrong to contest these things. I must be drinking. I bow to your better knowledge of all things Hindu. No, wait, of all things, period.

[bold_n_brazen]

On my way into work this morning, I heard "Beth" by Kiss on Top Tracks on XM Radio.

I was instantly transported to 6th grade and reminded of a certain boy who was the first to kiss me with tongue and touch my fledgling boobies.

The moment smelled like Bubble Yum, Pop Rocks and school gym.

I am nostalgic beyond belief now.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
I assume that Thurgreed still has purse junkie on his ignore list, but I don't think he wants to miss this post.

Why? Because it was pointless, whifferific and not funny in the slightest? Really. Why?

TM