Fashion Board 4-6-04 to 5-7-04

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Man to bet all on Vegas roulette spin
Now the subject of TV show
Thursday, April 8, 2004

Will it be red -- or black? Or zero or double zero? Ashley Revell's life savings is riding on one spin.

LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- A British man who has sold all his possessions, including his clothes, will stand in a rented tuxedo on Sunday and bet everything on a single spin of the roulette wheel.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/0...eut/index.html

Shouldn't he be doing this in Monte Carlo, where the wheel has only one green space? With that kind of money, you might as well give yourself the best possible chance.

TM

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Not Bob
Mike's on fire, but
boys from Shea need more pitching
Bring back Ron Darling!


Sweep's under radar
up in land of Labatts Blue
Leafs year for the Cup


Brown shut down the Rays
but bullpen woes continue
Rivera's gone soft?

Does anyone write baseball sonnets? Fuck this haiku shit, we need more sonnets.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
But clearly he wasn't "marriage material."

His assets weren't sufficient.

And I didn't want to have ugly kids.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
His assets weren't sufficient.

And I didn't want to have ugly kids.

You didn't need to spell this out, sweetie.

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by dtb
Kelly A looks ridiculous in the "after".

Kelly A (the "loser") got a brow lift and a lot of lipo on her neck and cheeks, but not a lot of structural stuff. I actually think they damaged the nerves around her mouth somewhat, because her smile is sort of fucked up now and it looks like something went wrong.

The other one [Rachel, the "winner"] looks completely different too, but not like a different person. Also, a little too "hostess of The Price Is Right" but at least they kept her basic features.

They actually did more serious structural work on her face - nose job and chin implant (and not a good chin implant, I think - it looks weird when her jawline is still so weak), and I think they did something to the shape of her eyes to bring the corners up. I thought her face looked more different after - but I do know what you mean about her not "looking like another person." I thought Kelly looked like she was playing dress up in a big wig while Rachel looked more comfortable the whole time.

So, I guess the lesson learned here is that if you ever need to completely change your identity and go live in South America to escape some bad guys, (which happens to me - every day!) Kelly A's "experts" are your go-to team.

Or, if you want surgery and don't want to look like a blow-up doll, do not call these guys. (They had the same team.)

Don't know any of the psychological undercurrents as I didn't watch the show -- what did the husbands say?

Kelly was a total mess, sobbing hysterically when she was selected, sobbing hysterically when talking about how miserable her whole life was because she wasn't pretty, sobbing hysterically while she explained that her husband had only gotten laid about 6-7 times in the last 3 years because she felt so unattractive, generally sobbing hysterically a lot. Her husband was really nice about it, holding her while she sobbed hysterically and telling her that she got what she wanted, diplomatically merely saying that her image problems put some "strain" on their relationship, and he just wanted her to be happier with how she looked.

Rachel's husband seemed to avoid her calls while she was going into surgery and was in recovery, and if she caught him he'd just say "oh, hi, how you doing?" and basically said, like, nothing at all, just noncommittal grunts and mumbles and stuff. She apparently talked about what a void he was constantly in her therapy sessions.

BR(omigod, I sound like I actually paid attention to this show, that just cannot be)C

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
You didn't need to spell this out, sweetie.

Just trying to help out those who don't know me as well as you do, sugarplum.

[sunnybunny]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
Kelly A (the "loser") got a brow lift and a lot of lipo on her neck and cheeks, but not a lot of structural stuff. I actually think they damaged the nerves around her mouth somewhat, because her smile is sort of fucked up now and it looks like something went wrong.
They actually did more serious structural work on her face - nose job and chin implant (and not a good chin implant, I think - it looks weird when her jawline is still so weak), and I think they did something to the shape of her eyes to bring the corners up. I thought her face looked more different after - but I do know what you mean about her not "looking like another person." I thought Kelly looked like she was playing dress up in a big wig while Rachel looked more comfortable the whole time.

Or, if you want surgery and don't want to look like a blow-up doll, do not call these guys. (They had the same team.)

Kelly was a total mess, sobbing hysterically when she was selected, sobbing hysterically when talking about how miserable her whole life was because she wasn't pretty, sobbing hysterically while she explained that her husband had only gotten laid about 6-7 times in the last 3 years because she felt so unattractive, generally sobbing hysterically a lot. Her husband was really nice about it, holding her while she sobbed hysterically and telling her that she got what she wanted, diplomatically merely saying that her image problems put some "strain" on their relationship, and he just wanted her to be happier with how she looked.

Rachel's husband seemed to avoid her calls while she was going into surgery and was in recovery, and if she caught him he'd just say "oh, hi, how you doing?" and basically said, like, nothing at all, just noncommittal grunts and mumbles and stuff. She apparently talked about what a void he was constantly in her therapy sessions.

BR(omigod, I sound like I actually paid attention to this show, that just cannot be)C

If you read the recap on the swan website, it tells you what work they had done.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by AnotherSarcasticSock
Would you rather be married to an incredibly hot and nice person person who was an absolute limp fish in the sack or an okay looking nice person (not ugly) who was great in bed?

Alternatively, hot limp fish v. ugly sex machine?

I vote the latter in the first situation and former in the second.

It doesn't matter. Either way, she's not sleeping with your ugly ass, anyway, Skippy.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Does anyone write baseball sonnets? Fuck this haiku shit, we need more sonnets.

I started one and then I recalled how much of a bitch it is to write in iambic pentameter. So I just wrote a heroic couplet:

Yankees pitching woes give Big Stein a stroke
Sox no better with the change-up of Foulke




Edited to add that at least I get some joy out of knowing that some posters will check to see if I have the proper amount of feet. Screw you Milton timmies.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
Just trying to help out those who don't know me as well as you do, sugarplum.

Enough of the love talk, already. Just start making out, I finally got a new roll of film.

[mmm3587]

Originally posted by dtb

So true. (But why misogynistic? You assume that men don't need to be "trained"? Sigh.)

Just a terminology thing. I used misogynistic because trained sounded a little like a weird power differentiail, like "training" a kid or a dog. Contrast to "teach" or "made" or "work together to make sweet love" or some other similarly gag-worthy phrase.

And I'm sure that men have to be trained in the horizontal arts. I just have never been in a position to train any of them (and I don't plan to be), and I was just speaking from personal experience.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
This show is so utterly repulsive sounding to me that I could not watch. I recently saw on mTV " Iwant to look like britney spears" or something about this Britney impersonator (nojoke, and its a female not a male) getting fake tits so she can be a better Britney. Fucking psycho. But I am glad you are watching so you can sum it up every week.

i.e., I am right now making a note in my daybook to TiVo this show for the entire season asap.

I love the twins on the MTV show who looked like Johnny Rotten and tried to look like Brad Pitt, but came out post-surgery looking like Roger Waters.

Didn't you have that one chick in your high school class with the huge nose whose dad got her rhinoplasty for her 16th b-day. I thought every hs had at least one of those...

[mmm3587]

Originally posted by barely_legal
Is that why you dumped your girlfriend b/c she didn't orgasm enough for you? I guess that makes you a pretty shitty "trainer."

Who, Slot C girl? We broke up for non-sex reasons. Or maybe that's just an afactual dig.

I've been with women before who didn't orgasm very often (cue jokes!) before we started doing sexual things, and it can be a tough thing in a relationship. But I'm generally very pro mutual oral sex, so those issues can generally be worked through that way. That was all when I was younger, though, and most of the women I've been involved with for the last half-decade or so have been proficient orgasmically. I think that the late 90s were good for the porn and vibrator attitudes of otherwise repressed women.

On the training issue, I always wonder whether you can really get a woman who previously isn't very good at blowjobs or into giving them to actually enjoy it and be good at it. I like to think that I have, but, then, the real test would have been if we were together for a long time and ended up getting married or something like that. I guess that I should resign myself to blowjob frequency "going down" after marriage, though.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Man to bet all on Vegas roulette spin
Now the subject of TV show
Thursday, April 8, 2004

Will it be red -- or black? Or zero or double zero? Ashley Revell's life savings is riding on one spin.

LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- A British man who has sold all his possessions, including his clothes, will stand in a rented tuxedo on Sunday and bet everything on a single spin of the roulette wheel.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/0...eut/index.html

Shouldn't he be doing this in Monte Carlo, where the wheel has only one green space? With that kind of money, you might as well give yourself the best possible chance.

TM

He's not really that much of a gambler:

"He added that if he won he would probably take his winnings rather than spin again."

Let it ride, Ashley.

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
The Swan.

And, besides, it appears from one show that they will give all the girls horrible inflata-lips. Something tells me they will all come out looking like second-rank porn actresses.

This is like MTV's new plastic-surgery show where someone wants to be morphed into a famous person. This week, the bimbo du jour chose Pamela Anderson as her ultimate role model, and was distraught to find that, while she had acheived her life's ambition of making Playboy's "Nubile Coeds" edition as a modestly flattish girl-next-door, she now had such a disproportionately bulbous rack relative to her teeny frame that she barely was allowed into the "Vivacious Vixens" issue on the grounds that she was more freak-porn material at that point.

Her mom, of course, was totally supportive.