New Fashion Board 10-3-2003 - 11-7-2003

[pony_trekker]

Originally posted by barely_legal

How long is it ok to date someone who is really boring but really hot?

Until you say "I do" to someone else. I would just do the video at his house, bust a nut and leave three times a week. That's good therapy.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
PLus all y'all gots Pensky now!

-the other longtime lurking sock

Damn, I hate it when I blow a sock.

[SlaveNoMore]

Originally posted by Gattigap
Percent of capacity is not an unreasonable way to measure fan interest/devotion within a sport*. Otherwise, the default will almost always go to the biggest freakin' venue in the largest city. "Leading in attendance," without more, tells you nothing.

Shitty SF Giants fans fill tiny PacBell park to the rafters to eat Garlic Fries and yet barely know their own players.

43,000 routinely pack the "The House that Ruth Built" even when we put the smackdown on the Tigers.

This all measures exactly what?

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Gattigap
No, under that theory, they'd both be good, but Wrigley would be slightly better because they filled the house.

Percent of capacity is not an unreasonable way to measure fan interest/devotion within a sport*. Otherwise, the default will almost always go to the biggest freakin' venue in the largest city. "Leading in attendance," without more, tells you nothing.

Actually, so does the percentage of seats filled. You assume Chicago would or could fill a larger stadium at the same percentage. My apples to oranges analogy (I got your point the first time you posted it btw, you clearly missed mine) should have clued you in to the fact that that isn't necessarily true. But I know you just know it is, so whatever.

TM

[SlaveNoMore]

purse junkie
And they were being paid to play catch and not endanger their team's playoff chances by slicing their incredibly high-paid hands open on somebody's face over a stupid taunt. Who gives a shit who made it? A hundred fans screaming epithets were maybe two feet farther away from these guys than the groundskeeper; that's the distance it takes to turn a man into a squalling flailing two-year-old?

It's the difference between being able to be close enough to hit a player and to not hit a player. And this dickhead got his ass pummeled. Oops.

I would sure hope Timlin and Williamson would do the exact same thing if some Yankees employee standing 5 feet away from them starting waving a flag in their face.

[pretermitted_child]

Originally posted by leagleaze
I think you should date less quirky men.

Or perhaps that should be edited to read:

I think you should date less [strikethrough]quirky[/strikethrough] men [and more women].


pretermitted(What is this? The strikethrough tag doesn't work?!)child

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
Damn, I hate it when I blow a sock.

Yes, but what does the sock think? NTTAWWT.

[pony_trekker]

I would sure hope Timlin and Williamson would do the exact same thing if some Yankees employee standing 5 feet away from them starting waving a flag in their face.

That's my point: this would never happen at Yankee stadium. First, the fans (except for me) are too classy to fill baloons with piss in the bathroom. Second, the minute you get your yap in a player's face you get a free escort back to the 4 train.

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by taxwonk
There is only one God. The difference in denominations and faiths is all ritual.

Nonsense. Even if I accept the rather unsupported view that the Judeo-Christian god is modeled on the ancient Sun/Ivy god, where is the Goddess's place in the Judeo-christian god? Or, to compare apples to pears, at least, it is not unusual (or necessarily doctrinally inconsistent) to find Christians who believe that Jews and Muslims, in rejecting the tripartite nature of God, are not in fact worshipping the true God, but have chosen to worship a false non-deity instead (through confusion if not actual evil intent).

You are a damned Universalist Unitarian, aren't you?

Tax(sick of fucking baseball so I'm starting a religious war)wonk

Glad to oblige. I don't think we'll have much stuff.

[Aloha Mr. Learned Hand]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Translation: The last guy that dumped me hated Titanic.

TM

And the "very different view of relationships" was that he didn't agree that the guy drowning at the end was a beautiful thing...

[Sparklehorse]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Translation: The last guy that dumped me hated Titanic.

TM

Oh Thurgreed, you missed your calling....you should have become a psychic instead of a lawyer!:love:

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
I think (?) I or someone posted the underlying article - a re-think from the author:

http://slate.msn.com/id/2089756/ [contains a link to the original column, too.]

What I found interesting was the theory that divorced mothers of daughters are less likely to remarry than divorced mothers of sons because mothers don't want to expose their daughters to a potentially predatory stepfather. I wonder (1) whether this can be borne out in further research; and (2) what portion of this decision is actually conscious; and (3) whether the "I can't date men because he might sleep with my daughter" factor is a source of long-term resentment by Mom and destructive to the maternal relationship.

Also in the "worst nightmare" file, there's a serial molester on the prowl in Petaluma, California. In a series of incidents, one of which is identical to the Polly Klaas fact pattern, the molester breaks into homes in the middle of the night and begins fondling girls as they sleep. The reason I'm posting this is that I'm absolutely haunted by the fact that one set of parents only called the cops after others reported similar crimes by a similar perpetrator. WTF? If a hooded stranger tried to remove my 12-year-old daughter's pajama bottoms in her bedroom in the middle of the night YOU'D BEST BELIEVE there would be cops all over my goddamn house and every other house in my neighborhood. Some people shouldn't be allowed to breed.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by barely_legal
I just found out that a guy I've started dating refuses to go see movies in movie theaters. He hasn't given me an explanation yet. He'll go to the theater to see plays, but no movie theaters. Assuming that he doesn't have a really good explanation, like that he got assaulted by a gang of prepubescent ruffians on his way out of the last Power Rangers movie, is it wrong for me to judge him for this? I'm judging already anyway, I just want to know if this will put me a different circle of hell.

Honey, we're hitched. Its too costly to get divorced and you know I'd sue for custody of the pets, so just drop this already.

S(I have PPV, theater grade surround sound and a 40 in television... I can sit in the living room and drink beers in a t shirt and boxers while watching flicks... why in the hell would I ever go to a movie theatre?)D

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Aloha Mr. Learned Hand
And the "very different view of relationships" was that he didn't agree that the guy drowning at the end was a beautiful thing...

One time I was talking about my distaste for this movie with this chick. I was explaining how an editor in the movie was my hero because there was this one part that was so fucking hilarious -- it was when...

And she said, "The boat was splitting in half and people were falling down the length of the boat and when that one guy hit the propeller and you could hear that really quiet 'ding.'"

I knew then that she was my soulmate.

TM

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by purse junkie
I hold my own team's crying toddlers to the same standard

I knew you'd end up with toddlers some day.