Fashion Board 2-3-04 to 3-5-04

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Fugee
Don't lay all the intolerance at the doors of the religious. There is plenty to go around. For every idiot Alabama judge who decides to plop a big-ass granite 10 Commandments in the courthouse rotunda, there is someone else who tells a school teacher she can't wear her cross necklace to school, says the Muslim girls can't wear their head coverings to school, decides NYC schools can have displays of menorahs and Ramadan stuff but not creches, and decides that giving equal access to public meeting space to religious groups violates the First Amendment.

You're absolutely correct. The PC police are every bit as noxious as the fundamentalists.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
OK fine, but do I sound femininely bitter or masculinely bitter?

Paigowishly bitter.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Paigowishly bitter.

That was uncalled for.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Fugee
I can't believe we don't have a FB death pool. Or am I just not invited because I'm at the tool table?

There could be a tool table death pool. I pick F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
There could be a tool table death pool. I pick F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.

Fine. I'll take Hemmingway. Any of them.

And Courtney Love.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Fine. I'll take Hemmingway. Any of them.

And Courtney Love.

I'll go with Courtney Cox. She's been looking peaked the past few years.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
I'll go with Courtney Cox. She's been looking peaked the past few years.

If we're going that route, someone tell Teri Hatcher her window has closed.

[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
soon none of this will matter. How many of you outside of New York or Boston have any real hope for this year?

Cub's fans are a good example for the future baseball fan in most markets. We all need to start enjoying the unique ways to be defeated.

Spring training is just starting and only a few teams have any real hope of competing. The team that made the bigest off-season moves is the Yankee's?

My local team is little more than the Washington Generals, waiting for its versions of the globetrotters to come to town and kick its butt.

I can't imagine baseball will be anything like it is now in 20 or 30 years. There simply won't be the fan $$ to support it.

Baseball needs a salary cap AND revenue sharing AND deaffiliation of minor league teams AND a relegation/promotion system. Then you'd freakin have something.

As a fan of an AL East team that is not NYY or BOS, I'm as disgusted as could be. Or, as Conan's audience would say, Go LEAFS!

[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
see Hank, you have hit on the death pool picking conundrum. sure there will always be Keith Richards and Scott Wylands out there who prove their hardiness year in and year out. but there will also be some Elvis Presleys and Kurt Cobains. It is up to us, the death pool participants to try to discern who among the living falls into which category.

dear Courtney's behavior has been markedly more erratic in the last six months. will it result in her untimely demise? who knows. is it worth betting on? almost certainly. because at the end of the day, if she dies this year you don't want to be the only schlub who didn't see it coming.

A perennial solid death pool pick, John Daly, suddenly looks like a waste of a third-rounder. How money was that 3 wood he smoked on the playoff hole? And how much more money was that bunker shot immediately thereafter?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys
Go LEAFS!

I go see bowling tournaments.

[dc_chef]

Has anyone recently remodeled a bathroom? Or maybe I should ask if anyone has had their bathroom recently remodeled? If so, do you have any recommendations for a new commode? The toilets in our house are horrifically bad in terms of flushing power (wow, who wants to talk about that?), and I'm thinking about replacing them. Top on my list is the new Kohler Cimarron Comfort Height toilet. It runs about $280 or so. Any others that you'd recommend at that price point and below?

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by dc_chef
Has anyone recently remodeled a bathroom? Or maybe I should ask if anyone has had their bathroom recently remodeled? If so, do you have any recommendations for a new commode? The toilets in our house are horrifically bad in terms of flushing power (wow, who wants to talk about that?), and I'm thinking about replacing them. Top on my list is the new Kohler Cimarron Comfort Height toilet. It runs about $280 or so. Any others that you'd recommend at that price point and below?

I have no input, but am curious what "Comfort Height" entails. Is it adjustable? Do you press a button or something to raise and lower it? That'd be pretty cool.

And it seems like flushing power could have to do with overall water pressure or whatever, but Bilmore or someone is probably more suited to opine on that. Plus those first generation low-flow toilets are just sucky in general and you might be unlucky enough to have those.

[lookingformarket]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
I have no input, but am curious what "Comfort Height" entails. Is it adjustable?

I think that it means it is a comfortable height for a short dude. That way their legs don't dangle like they probably do when they sit on the adult toilets.

Additionally, if you'd cut down on the fiber, you might be ok with the flow.

[dc_chef]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
I have no input, but am curious what "Comfort Height" entails.

It means that the seated height is very close to the standard height for a chair, which apparently is a little higher than that of standard height toilet.

Originally posted by ltl/fb
And it seems like flushing power could have to do with overall water pressure or whatever, but Bilmore or someone is probably more suited to opine on that. Plus those first generation low-flow toilets are just sucky in general and you might be unlucky enough to have those.

The toilets are pretty new, but also pretty sucky. Most flushing mechanisms are gravity-fed. In other words, when you hit the handle, it flips open a flap, and water rushes out of the tank into the bowl via gravity (as opposed to a power-assisted flush, like in commercial applications). I don't know that water pressure would help or detract from that, but maybe that's my lack of knowledge showing through.

[tmdiva]

Originally posted by dc_chef
The toilets are pretty new, but also pretty sucky. Most flushing mechanisms are gravity-fed. In other words, when you hit the handle, it flips open a flap, and water rushes out of the tank into the bowl via gravity (as opposed to a power-assisted flush, like in commercial applications). I don't know that water pressure would help or detract from that, but maybe that's my lack of knowledge showing through.

Water pressure shouldn't affect the power of the flush, since only the stored water from the tank is used during the flush.

When we remodeled a few years ago, we got Kohler Memoirs toilets (we live in an old house, so wanted older-looking toilets; I'm sure they have other styles that work as well). They are gravity flush, but do have dual flushing capability. A regular flush (push down and release the handle) uses only half the water in the tank; for larger jobs you hold the handle down and the whole tank empties. It's a nice thing to have.

tm