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

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Please describe the rest of the outfit. And what brand were they?

They were Guess, if he had any class.

Originally posted by dtb
As to the first, just what did he say exactly? What was he trying to say?

As to the second (and this may obviate any need to answer the above questions), if he's saying what you seem to imply he's saying (viz. I'm smarter than most everyone ...), what a freakin' tool. It's one thing to think it (unbecoming as it may be to have such thoughts...), it's completely another to announce it. It doesn't work on so many levels (very much unlike "Man Getting Hit in Crotch with Football").

I thought I explained the peripatetic here. He made plans to call me one night. He went out after work, came home, called, didnt get me, then went out again. The next day I said something like "my what a busy social schedule you have" and he said "I am sorry, I am not usually so peripatetic. . . " . Unless he is evolving the use of that word to include driving around the suburbs of VA to meet friends, its a misuse. And a damned pretentioussounding one I might add. If I am wrong here and possibly tossing a nice guy, feel free to tell me so. Seriously.

The cognitive minority. I am guessing you think he meant that he is a thinker and so is in inthe minority of people? I actually asked him what the hell he wastalking about bc I figured it was the race thing (actually I had no idea bc it was such a bizarre thing to say) and what he said is that he thinks differnetly than most people. Like, you know, he is outside the box! Asshole thing to say, yes or no?

I feel guilty bc obviously he is ten centing me bc he wants to impress me. I think. This si why I am wondering if I am being petty or shallow, or if this is legitimately annoying. Oh and he asked to watch the game with me tonight. Like I am sitting next to a fucking southern accent for game seven after Bellie May and the southrner fried red sox gang last ngiht. Bzzzzzzzzzzt. thanks for playing.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by purse junkie
FAB, this woman's lost all perspective. If you're an artist or a writer or a physicist or extreme athlete or Supreme Court justice, 'passion' makes sense. But a simple good-schools-prestigious-firm lawyer? Is she insane? Why would anyone get "passionate" about some contract that no-one's going to give a shit about after the statute of limitations for suing over it has passed? Even some constitutional stuff can be fairly routine and be on and off one's desk pretty quickly. If she means that she wants you to throw it all away and become a penniless nomad seeking your true calling, that's one thing. If she wants you to dream joyously of trusts-and-estates, or would sincerely think a guy who honestly lives for the soul-satisfying thrill of transactional work is someone she could even stand being in the same room with for more than five minutes, she's an idiot.

Find someone who still likes you when the conference call's over, and count yourself better off.

I messed around with an idiot a few years back who gave me a pile of shit because she said I was "wasting talent" because rather than go market myself by joining some local theatre or museum or young lawyer's board/organization, I was partying with my slcaker buddies in my off-hours. She turned out to be a fucking bag of cats. She said she loved "power" and liked to get physically hit and play psychological games. I stuck with the slackers and she moved somewhere. Last I heard she'd crapped out about four relationships and moved in with her folks. Goldiggers tend to be fucking psychos. This is the main reason I've never joined any social organization for up-and-comers and young professionals - they're all populated with jerk-offs trying to impress each other and fuck each other over for a very limited pot of business. Slackers tend to be a much better network and the conversations tend to be real.

S(People who can actually give you real business don't hang out with a pack of assholes clamoring for business)D

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
I thought I explained the peripatetic here. He made plans to call me one night. He went out after work, came home, called, didnt get me, then went out again. The next day I said something like "my what a busy social schedule you have" and he said "I am sorry, I am not usually so peripatetic. . . " . Unless he is evolving the use of that word to include driving around the suburbs of VA to meet friends, its a misuse. And a damned pretentioussounding one I might add. If I am wrong here and possibly tossing a nice guy, feel free to tell me so. Seriously.

You are not wrong. He's being pretentious. And wrong. If you care about that stuff.

Originally posted by paigowprincess
The cognitive minority. I am guessing you think he meant that he is a thinker and so is in inthe minority of people? I actually asked him what the hell he wastalking about bc I figured it was the race thing (actually I had no idea bc it was such a bizarre thing to say) and what he said is that he thinks differnetly than most people. Like, you know, he is outside the box! Asshole thing to say, yes or no?

Yes. This makes him an asshole...not the peripatetic thing.

Still, if he's really hot or has a great dick, you may be able to overlook all of this....

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
I can think of one. But he is in the closet.

Where's that closet? West Virginia?

[c2ed]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
Uh oh. I'm Chelsea Clinton. Shy of $7,000 (there is obviously no accounting for the price of drinks in NYC). 1.79 bathtubs. .04 Ferraris.

BR(I know those who have seen me blotto will find this incredible, but I don't go out very often)C

Ditto. Chelsea Clinton at $6336. Except for beers at the pubs, though, I found drinks in London to be comparable to NY/SF prices (I assume that's the price point used here).


C(oh, the shoes I could have bought with that money)deuced

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I'm confused. You seem to know where the Mason Dixon line is, but yet you don't know where Yankees come from?

In a world in which Boston College and FSU can be part of the same athletic conference, all bets are off.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
I feel guilty bc obviously he is ten centing me bc he wants to impress me. I think. This si why I am wondering if I am being petty or shallow, or if this is legitimately annoying.

Please, please, please stop describing it. My neck and shoulders are getting sore from the cringing. It is annoying because it is embarrassing. End it now!

Unless he's hot and ambitious.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by barely_legal
I couldn't make this shit up. He actually called me to tell me when he would pick me up (we were going to a comedy club for gods sake, not anywhere fancy) and I said "can I wear my jeans?" and he acted offended. He was like "well, I'm dressing nice-casual."

To me, "nice casual" means slacks and a shirt (no jeans or t-shirts). If he said "I'm dressing redneck mullet-sporting Nascar-watching nice-casual" then maybe I would have expected the black jeans he showed up in (yeah, I ended the sentence in two prepositions, kill me).

What are "jorts"?

Jorts are jeans shorts. If you see someone wearing them, he's challenged. Don't stare - its impolite.

Slacks??? They're called pants. Slacks is a creepy word for creepy people who sell pants at Sears. You should not buy pants from anyone who refers to them as slacks.

S(does Sears still exist or did Wl Mart buy them?)D

[leagleaze]

Unless he is either into Aristotle or traveling around on foot, he's not using the word correctly. There is no expanding it to mean hectic social life, that just doesn't fit. I guess he could use it to mean traveling place to place, but why?

It sounds like he is trying to impress you and going beyond himself to do it. This is the danger of using "big" words. It is a great way to make an ass out of yourself. No one else knows what it means anyway most likely, and when they go look it up they will think, wow he's (a) a moron and (b) pretentious.


Anyway the trying to impress could either be charming or irritating, depends on the guy. Generally, I find it irritating when people try that hard.

This returns us to the whole would you fuck a stupid person, cause otherwise, kick him to the curb. He's stupid.

[Dualit]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
Youre not confused, you are mistaken.

Compromise. You are both correct.

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Yan·kee ( P ) Pronunciation Key (yngk)
n.
A native or inhabitant of New England.
A native or inhabitant of a northern U.S. state, especially a Union soldier during the Civil War.
A native or inhabitant of the United States.


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[Probably from Dutch Janke, nickname of Jan, John.]
Word History: The origin of Yankee has been the subject of much debate, but the most likely source is the Dutch name Janke, meaning “little Jan” or “little John,” a nickname that dates back to the 1680s. Perhaps because it was used as the name of pirates, the name Yankee came to be used as a term of contempt. It was used this way in the 1750s by General James Wolfe, the British general who secured British domination of North America by defeating the French at Quebec. The name may have been applied to New Englanders as an extension of an original use referring to Dutch settlers living along the Hudson River. Whatever the reason, Yankee is first recorded in 1765 as a name for an inhabitant of New England. The first recorded use of the term by the British to refer to Americans in general appears in the 1780s, in a letter by Lord Horatio Nelson, no less. Around the same time it began to be abbreviated to Yank. During the American Revolution, American soldiers adopted this term of derision as a term of national pride. The derisive use nonetheless remained alive and even intensified in the South during the Civil War, when it referred not to all Americans but to those loyal to the Union. Now the term carries less emotion, except of course for baseball fans.

Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

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[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
I thought I explained the peripatetic here. He made plans to call me one night. He went out after work, came home, called, didnt get me, then went out again. The next day I said something like "my what a busy social schedule you have" and he said "I am sorry, I am not usually so peripatetic. . . " . Unless he is evolving the use of that word to include driving around the suburbs of VA to meet friends, its a misuse. And a damned pretentioussounding one I might add. If I am wrong here and possibly tossing a nice guy, feel free to tell me so. Seriously.

The cognitive minority. I am guessing you think he meant that he is a thinker and so is in inthe minority of people? I actually asked him what the hell he wastalking about bc I figured it was the race thing (actually I had no idea bc it was such a bizarre thing to say) and what he said is that he thinks differnetly than most people. Like, you know, he is outside the box! Asshole thing to say, yes or no?

I feel guilty bc obviously he is ten centing me bc he wants to impress me. I think. This si why I am wondering if I am being petty or shallow, or if this is legitimately annoying. Oh and he asked to watch the game with me tonight. Like I am sitting next to a fucking southern accent for game seven after Bellie May and the southrner fried red sox gang last ngiht. Bzzzzzzzzzzt. thanks for playing.

Ditch him. Now. Not kidding. If these things annoy you now, it will only get worse later. At some point he will be relaying a clever (?) story to a group of people and will do the 10 cent word misuse and it will be all the worse for you. If you can't bear him one on one, imagine how grating he will be to you in front of others. Whether they realize he's a self-important buffoon or not.

If someone annoys you in a noticable pinpointable way during initial dates, something is wrong. That is the time you should be thinking about how great this person would be to kiss, fuck, etc., not worrying about whether you are petty for being annoyed with his pretentious habits.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

[i]

...cognitive minority...

What the fuck does that mean?

S(I wouldn't fuck anyone who sounds like she's quoiting from American Prayer)D

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Slacks??? They're called pants. Slacks is a creepy word for creepy people who sell pants at Sears. You should not buy pants from anyone who refers to them as slacks.

S(does Sears still exist or did Wl Mart buy them?)D

concur. two of the worst words in our language. besides peripatetic, are slacks and trousers.