The New And Improved Fashion Board

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Fugee

Spanky: Please please please go back to posting about strippers, models in Japan, and A List Actors who stumble into your hotel room wanting to buy drugs and leave all the lengthy political screeds for the PB.

Hear hear! I have not really been reading the board since last Wednesday (apart from a little read yesterday), so I am just going to pretend that everything is the same as it was prior to Thanksgiving and nobody is more or less annoying now than they were back then, myself* included.


*I believe this is the correct use of myself. If I am wrong, forgive me.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Spanky
I am Dim? Did you read what you are responding to? GGG accused me of leaving the subject. And he questioned the veracity of my statement when I stated that you said I stuck to that one issue like a bull dog and kept repeating it. Now you are just backing up the argument I was making to GGG by admitting I stuck to the same subject.

We were debating one issue. In your mind you ascribed all sorts of statements to me and argued against them, but those argument were purely a creation of your imagination.

Do I have to go back to the video tape. In bold is all the stuff you ascribed to me that I didn't say, and that was just on your first post.

Me: The first comment I made on the subject:

"I believe in individual responsiblity, not familial or racial responisibilty. Am I responsible for my father's sins? - no. Am I responsible for the sins other people of my race have committed? - no.

Racism cannot be justified because you have been a victim of racism (or that other people of your race have been victims). Racism or racial slurs are either wrong or they are not."

TM:

I'm not going to spend too much time on this because I think it's pointless, but historical racism is responsible for the current state of affairs in this country. The stigma attached to being black permeates every aspect of life, from what socio-economic class you're born into, to your job prospects, to your everyday social interactions (especially with the police). Likewise, the position you're in if you're white, relative to black people, is a result of the same, whether your family came here yesterday or 200 years ago.

So don't give me that load of bullshit about slavery happening long ago and how you weren't personally involved. No one is accusing you of intentionally trying to benefit from it and no one is making you personally responsible for it. But the imprint of the impact of slavery, jim crow and everyday racism from the beginning of the slave trade until now is felt every single day. You can choose to walk around pretending that that time is long over, because the only negative impact you feel is when, as pony said, a black person can feel comfortable making a racial joke at your expense because of the truth of historical racism and who it affects. And look at the fit you throw when someone even mentions the prospect.


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Where did that stuff in bold come from? I had only made one post on the subject and it is right there. Do you always make stuff up and put it in peoples mouth so you can argue against it? You accuse me of going off on tangents when you make stuff up that I said. Please. You are pathetic.

Why did you give ppnyc your login?

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Spanky
Is TM black? Not that it really mattered to our conversation but I did not know that.

What?!!!! He doesn't post black . . .

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
What?!!!! He doesn't post black . . .

You know that whatever you post on this, Spanky will respond to, because he always gets the last word? I'm looking forward to his riveting riposte to this one.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by andViolins
Wait, so you dated Spanky in high school? What was it that attracted you to him? The big floppy red shoes and squirting lapel flower?

aV

A desire for a bad dating history.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Dear god. I get e-mails blessing me at the end. I get e-mails with stupid background patterns that fuck up my signature block and font color when I try to reply to them. I get e-mails with someone's kid's growth chart shown in cute little HTML at the bottom.

I submit that the appearance of an e-mail from a work account reflects more on the professionalism of the sender than whether or not she wears open toed shoes to work.

I change my work e-mail signature line pretty much every day. It always contains an inspiring lyric from a song I heard at my last spin class and a description of the "profile" that went with that song (e.g., moderate hill in the saddle, standing sprint, etc.). Is that unprofssional?

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I'm in line for a prescription today. There isa very drugged out looking guy ahead of me. He's telling the pharmacist that his wife "lost the bottle" and need a refill. Pharmacist says "I just filled a 3 month Xanax prescription 3 days ago for her. You aren't getting any more."

People take Xanax to get high? My wife takes them to fly (thanks Via Rail) but when I told this story she was shocked that people would try to get high from them.

People abuse them to get numb. I had a neighbor in Houston who was addicted to xanax. She used to take what for me would be the equivalent of a week's xanax if I maxed out my prescription twice a day.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
They have the big cans of Fosters' in the bar cars situated at the top of the tracks at Grand Central.

Wow.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
I change my work e-mail signature line pretty much every day. It always contains an inspiring lyric from a song I heard at my last spin class and a description of the "profile" that went with that song (e.g., moderate hill in the saddle, standing sprint, etc.). Is that unprofssional?

Like what, "Everytime we touch" by Cascadia?

Very truly yours,

PLF

"everytime we touch I get this feeling, everytime we touch I swear I can fly"

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I don't think you are a drug abuser. my drug abusing source (besides me because I have never had a Xanax) would question why. she perceives the Xanax experience as pretty different than a nice Q-lude buzz.

where's Ironweed when we need him?

Picture an extended holiday dinner with the in-laws. Now picture that extended dinner with the aid of something that allows you to completely let them roll off your back, smiling the whole time.

For some people, life is like that dinner if the whole world is their in-laws. These are the people who abuse xanax. They take it because it takes them out.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I have also seen cans of Fosters in supermarkets. And they have it on tap in certain bars I've been to.

TM

Double wow.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
Like what, "Everytime we touch" by Cascadia?

Very truly yours,

PLF

"everytime we touch I get this feeling, everytime we touch I swear I can fly"

I have never heard of Cascadia. Currently, my e-mail signature line is:

Dear Client:

Enclosed is blah blah blah.

Regards,

Flower

"Baby I'm your slave. I'll let you whip me if I misbehave."
(Standing hill)

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
I have never heard of Cascadia. Currently, my e-mail signature line is:

Dear Client:

Enclosed is blah blah blah.

Regards,

Flower

"Baby I'm your slave. I'll let you whip me if I misbehave."
(Standing hill)

That is so funny. you are enclosing the administrative agreement and at the same time getting your sexy back.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Teaching a pig to sing

Practicing the scales?

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Once upon a time, patentpara tried to goad me by suggesting that I was unattractive, alone, childless (and, given the first two points, obviously not by choice), did not work in a big law firm (oh woe!), and lacked a distinctive online persona. She did not say any of those things to Taxwonk.

Sure, hide behind the designated fat guy to avoid her slings and arrows. Coward.