Fashionistas you have arrived 3-25-03 - 10-3-03

[ThrashersFan]

Originally posted by purse junkie
Yeah, she sounds like a *great* driver!

I think of a bad driver as someone who intentionally disregards others on the road and the driving laws (or just doesn't give enough of a shit about either to pay attention). The old broad who hit me was different in my view (the view I have now, not the one I had when I flipped over her hood). She probably had every intention in the world of being a "good" driver but her age-induced physical maladies hindered that and while her skills may have been just fine her bad eyesight and slowed reflexes inhibted her use of those skills. Bad drivers should be summarily shot while people whose age or injuries/disease* prevent them from safely participating in the daily "race" should just be made to sit it out.

*Neither being a fucking jerk nor driving with your head up your ass is a qualifying disease/injury.

[Sparklehorse]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
OK, this is a cross between politics and fashion - really.

Why are Liberian soldiers wearing fright wigs?
Few things exemplify the chaos of Liberia more than the sight of doped-up, AK-47-wielding 15-year-olds roaming the streets decked out in fright wigs and tattered wedding gowns. Indeed, some of the more fully accessorized soldiers in Charles Taylor's militia even tote dainty purses and don feather boas. Why did this practice begin and what is the logic behind it?

The cross-dressing combatants blipped onto the Western press's radar screen right around the time the Liberian Civil War started on Christmas Eve in 1989.
According to the soldiers themselves, cross-dressing is a military mind game, a tactic that instills fear in their rivals. It also makes the soldiers feel more invincible. This belief is founded on a regional superstition which holds that soldiers can "confuse the enemy's bullets" by assuming two identities simultaneously. Though the accoutrements and garb look bizarre to Western eyes, they are, in a sense, variations on the camouflage uniforms and face paint American soldiers use to bolster their sense of invisibility (and, therefore, immunity) during combat.

cool picture of a Liberian in a pink wig

I won't go too deep here since this is probably a Politics Board topic but I believe this phenomenon is also related to the very high prevalence of child-soldiers in this part of the world.

[drhathaway]

Originally posted by bilmore
Deal.

Running generates endorphins, which affect the body in very much the same way as do the opiate-based hobbies. So, yes, what I said was completely correct. You can develop an endorphin threshhold just like a heroin threshhold.

I read this entire post with the voice of (the apparently not sexy (although I think she's quite cute)) Reese Witherspoon in my head.

Exercise creates endorphins. Endorphins make you happy. Happy people don't kill their husbands. They just don't.

I need help. Can anyone recommend a good movie that does not include the words red, white or blond in the title?

[SlaveNoMore]

Did you just call me Coltrane?
...I think it's a common misconception that running is bad for the knees. Even M.D.s say this, and I think they're wrong...

Typical lawyer - knows more than the doctor.

My biggest complaint doesn't involve the knees - it is agonizing shin splints after Mile 2.

not7yS

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by drhathaway
I need help. Can anyone recommend a good movie that does not include the words red, white or blond in the title?

Too easy. Gigli.

[drhathaway]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Too easy. Gigli.

A board member in need asks for sincere help and this is what she gets. Typical.

On a related note, Mr. Hathaway and I rented Punch Drunk Love this weekend (yes, I know, three years after it came out - we're slow). Normally I cannot not finish a movie, no matter how bad. I've never walked out on a movie (different from being thrown out). Mr. Hathaway made it through ten minutes, I made it through an hour. Was I just missing something (i.e. no appreciation for real art?) or did this movie just suck?

[bilmore]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
My biggest complaint doesn't involve the knees - it is agonizing shin splints after Mile 2.

Get up off of your heels.

[bridge of love]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
I have been having a midlife crisis thinking that my creative skillz are rotting away as I toil my life away in the law. But it is definitely the creative skillz as in arts and entertainment, not creating babies

in long meetings try to get to "open mind", then sketch on your note pad. don't think of what to sketch, just do it. if you end up with patterns, try making rugs, if you end up with sketches of landscapes or peple buy paints. if you end up with thoughts for follow up on other files or grocery lists, perhaps the arts are not for you.

[idle acts]

Originally posted by ThrashersFan
Anyway, I already said I am a 38DD so it would be like you guys viewing mug shots when there are 15 white guys and one black man -- duh, which one is TF?

Actually, there would be two of us (36DD actually, but who could tell the difference from a photo?)

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by mmm3587
I'm annoyed that it's just old people who may finally be seeing an end to their terrible driving and driving skills not preventing them from keeping their licenses. There are plenty of terrible drivers regardless of age. And I don't just mean the people who drive crazily, too fast, etc. .....

This rant reminds me of my favorite pet peeve, why are there so many different ages at which you are considered an adult?

You can drive a car in your teens, you can't drink until 21, but you can vote and be drafted at 18. Then throw the Age of Consent for sex and marriage into the equation, I haven't even thought about how old you need to be to have a gun license.

I fail to see the logic in the idea that someone in their early teens is mature enough to decide to get married, but is not mature enough to vote.

Anne
If Uncle Sam is going to send you to war, the least he can do is allow you to have a drink before you go.

Keeping it short because I have a lunch appointment.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
This year is the first in a while that I'm not running the Chicago marathon. Partly b/c I'm TIRED, and partly b/c I'll be running Boston in '04.

Oh come on, just suck it up you wuss. Go out there and coast a 2:58 or something, just to keep up the streak. You'll still have 5 months to recover before Boston.

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?

There are some costs to long runs though. Shrinkage. It's like taking a 20 minute FREEZING shower. Direct quote from the girlfriend after an 18-miler: "What the hell happened to it??!!"

Adding to the problem, my favorite recovery after a long run is to sit in an icewater bath for 15-20 minutes afterwards. Shrinkage?!? My balls are recessed into my throat at that point.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I know you're kidding, but you're not going to blow out your knee running. Soccer, tennis, hoops, football maybe, b/c they require lateral movement. I think it's a common misconception that running is bad for the knees. Even M.D.s say this, and I think they're wrong (but I'm no doctor). I had major knee surgery at 17 and my knees couldn't be stronger. If you make sure you have decent form and try to avoid cement, your knees should be fine...

Concur.

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by Sparklehorse
I won't go too deep here since this is probably a Politics Board topic but I believe this phenomenon is also related to the very high prevalence of child-soldiers in this part of the world.

And the fact that most of the child soldiers are very high. They are usually sent into battle after smoking large amounts of cannibis.

[ThrashersFan]

Originally posted by idle acts
Actually, there would be two of us (36DD actually, but who could tell the difference from a photo?)

:hi: Or at least I hope that I would "know my own," so to speak.

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by drhathaway
I need help. Can anyone recommend a good movie that does not include the words red, white or blond in the title?

Seabiscuit was quite good.