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

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
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When I was 14 and jacking off to Voctoria's Secret was great I appreciated the constant catalogs. However, I don't need 100 a month now, particularly since the magazine is utterly useless as some religious nut has brow beaten the company into airbrushing out any hint of nipples or pubes.

I don't read this. However I would guess that the pubes are gone bc they are so 1985. Could you imagine the outrage fromthe chris' of the world, who presumabley are VS's target audience, if ther were pubes? Keep it tiddy, ladies.

[QUOTE} Oh, and to whoever put me on a mailing list for "Yankee" magazine... Do I look like a 66 year old New England spinster to you? Who exactly reads this painfully dull piece of trash every month? [/QUOTE}

Hello??? I always read it once my fingers crap out from the crochet induced arthritis. It really hurts to put my softball glove on now, so I tend to spend my time off reading Yankee on the rocking chair on the porch. It really is inspirational stuff.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
exactamundo. while I may not remotely give a crap what your kid looks like and will gladly use the pics to stoke not quite seasoned logs in the fireplace, I am annoyed by the impersonal nature of the card I described eariler. the mailing label, and the "thinking of you" with no actual handwritten thought or human signature (which shows she was not actually thiking of me). Then I noted that bc it was so impersonal, it seemed that the only purpose it served for her was to massmail pics to everyone on her mailing list. I cannot think of other reasons. And I also noted how reccockulous it was to attribute this "thinking of you" horsefeathers to a five week old who is thinking of nothing but the next meal or how wet his diapers are. It is one step above putting little kids on the answering machine, or even just sayikng that "Susan, Tom and Junior (who is six weeks old) are not here to take your call". Like the six week old gets calls. My sisster does neither of these things.

Namaste

Well, in fairness this holiday photo shit isn't limited to parents. I get reams of photos of people I don't even stay in touch with anymore standing in front of their home, petting their lab or kayaking or soem other activity that makes them look like their in a Life snapshot of the Kennedy clan from '61.

To these assholes I say "Get some fucking therapy to cure your fixation with mimicing Ralph Lauren ads." Some fool sent me a photo of he and his wife in which he's wearing plaid pants. I shit you not - plaid pants. Unless you've a huge red nose, size 45 bright orange shoes and you drive to work with ten other similarly dressed people in a tiny little car, you should never wear plaid pants. It doesn't not make you look like you're living "the good life" - it makes you look like a country club pimp.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Fugee
No, these people are uber-geeks.

<cut>article about my sore ass</cut>

BTW, how did you get home at 1:30? I thought it opened everywhere at 12:01 and was 3 1/2 hours long?

The reviews are good -- I may have to break down and go yet this week.

Because, as I said before, I am an uber-geek. I went to the marathon, which started FotR at 2:00 pm, TTT at 6:00 pm and RotK at 10:00 pm. We got a two hour head start on the last one.

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Well, in fairness this holiday photo shit isn't limited to parents. I get reams of photos of people I don't even stay in touch with anymore standing in front of their home, petting their lab or kayaking or soem other activity that makes them look like their in a Life snapshot of the Kennedy clan from '61.

To these assholes I say "Get some fucking therapy to cure your fixation with mimicing Ralph Lauren ads." Some fool sent me a photo of he and his wife in which he's wearing plaid pants. I shit you not - plaid pants. Unless you've a huge red nose, size 45 bright orange shoes and you drive to work with ten other similarly dressed people in a tiny little car, you should never wear plaid pants. It doesn't not make you look like you're living "the good life" - it makes you look like a country club pimp.

I wear plaid pants. I ordered them from Yankee magazine

No wonder no man will fuck me.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
Penske, don't worry. You have not been placed on the Ignore List,

I heart you! Lester, eat your heart out.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
I don't read this. However I would guess that the pubes are gone bc they are so 1985. Could you imagine the outrage fromthe chris' of the world, who presumabley are VS's target audience, if ther were pubes? Keep it tiddy, ladies.

[QUOTE} Oh, and to whoever put me on a mailing list for "Yankee" magazine... Do I look like a 66 year old New England spinster to you? Who exactly reads this painfully dull piece of trash every month? [/QUOTE}

Hello??? I always read it once my fingers crap out from the crochet induced arthritis. It really hurts to put my softball glove on now, so I tend to spend my time off reading Yankee on the rocking chair on the porch. It really is inspirational stuff.

I dig it trim, but there's got to be at least some landing strip. The contrast of the hair against the skin is sexy. And I need the nipples. I have never jerked off to Barbie.

[evenodds]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
To these assholes I say "Get some fucking therapy to cure your fixation with mimicing Ralph Lauren ads." Some fool sent me a photo of he and his wife in which he's wearing plaid pants. I shit you not - plaid pants. Unless you've a huge red nose, size 45 bright orange shoes and you drive to work with ten other similarly dressed people in a tiny little car, you should never wear plaid pants. It doesn't not make you look like you're living "the good life" - it makes you look like a country club pimp.

Uh, we have a new board motto.

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
you should never wear plaid pants. It doesn't not make you look like you're living "the good life" - it makes you look like a country club pimp.

And here I thought my friends' dads were all just lower-upper-level management stiffs at insurance companies. Who knew?

[Flinty_McFlint]

Originally posted by barely_legal
You have some weird-ass holiday traditions. Does Michael Jackson fly to your house in a sleigh pulled by 8 magic chimpanzees and leave you presents, like the Elephant Man remains and the rights to the Beatles songs?

Leave my family out of it.

[Fugee]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
My hostility is not limited to the people sending these pictures - they just happened to be the topic de jour at the moment. The credit card company solicitations, 1800 Victoria's Secret catalogs, student loan refinancing soliciatations and "10000 FREE WEB HOURS" AOL discs are just as maddening. I have a table covered in clutter. Its invasive. I miss paying bills because I'm overwhelmed by the piles of shit I get every day.

The answer to this is very simple. Sign up with the DMA and you can get off the national mailing lists. (This is a legit organization.)
http://www.dmaconsumers.org/cgi/offmailinglist
(Spree: Direct Marketing Association web site)


Getting fewer VS catalogs (unless Mrs. Sebby wants that many) is even easier: http://www2.victoriassecret.com/html...tact/mailings/
(Spree: VS web site, reduce catalog mailings page)

So take a few minutes to sign up to stop getting so many mailings or stop bitching about it. Glad I could be of assistance.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by purse junkie
Do parents really expect you to keep these? If I like your kid, I know what it looks like, and may even give it a nice present. Otherwise, save the picture of junior shrieking in terror on Santa's lap for the relatives who are obliged by blood to be charmed.

I assume you are happy to receive photos of them if such photos accompany something alchoholic?

In some years past I have distributed libatory bottles with said photographic holiday cards to the folks who work on my stuff, and have always been thrilled to see those photos gracing all of their offices for months following the holidays. Yes, you are expected to keep these.

Originally posted by Fugee
The answer to this is very simple.
http://www.dmaconsumers.org/cgi/offmailinglist
(Spree: Direct Marketing Association web site)

Sign up with the DMA and you can get off the national mailing lists. (This is a legit organization.) Getting fewer VS catalogs (unless Mrs. Sebby wants that many) is even easier: http://www2.victoriassecret.com/html...tact/mailings/
(Spree: VS web site, reduce catalog mailings page)

So take a few minutes to sign up to stop getting so many mailings or stop bitching about it. Glad I could be of assistance.

Do you have the link for something that will stop the circulars from my local piece of shit store that sells manpanties, cheap stereo equipment and ritz crackers? Its always addresssed to "Resident" but this shit kills trees and really fills the mailbox.

[Fugee]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Because, as I said before, I am an uber-geek. I went to the marathon, which started FotR at 2:00 pm, TTT at 6:00 pm and RotK at 10:00 pm. We got a two hour head start on the last one.

Holy moly! You really *are* an uber-geek. For the love of all that is fashionable, please tell me you didn't go in costume.

I could never sit that long. The individual movies are interesting enough that I don't notice the time but all together (even with a good long intermission between), I'd get a serious case of the wiggles and have to walk around.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
As a matter of fact, I specialize in train sets. (only if I get to play with it for a while after though). I bought my nephew an excellent train set just this year and have already put it together on my dining room table (not looking forward to taking it apart for the trip).

I too like putting things together, but last year I was thoroughly defeated by some pirate ship that had roughly 3,265,941 different pieces. I got about halfway through (it took a looong time) and abandoned it. The kid had long since abandoned me and it. The fucking au pair finished it in record time. Damn Germans.

I shudder to think what would have happened had she not been around -- I'm by far the most put-y together-y person in my family.

Favorite traditions: the food.

Least favorite tradition: the power struggles.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Fugee
Holy moly! You really *are* an uber-geek. For the love of all that is fashionable, please tell me you didn't go in costume.

I could never sit that long. The individual movies are interesting enough that I don't notice the time but all together (even with a good long intermission between), I'd get a serious case of the wiggles and have to walk around.

The sons are already planning the uber-uber-marathon.

Imagine all three extended-version DVD's in one sitting . . .