Fashionistas you have arrived 3-25-03 - 10-3-03

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
I think that's right. But still, 24% of 60% of all women is still high, no?
That's like 14% of all women between 40 and 69 have never been married. Ever. I would have thought it was in the single digits.

I wouldn't have. The idea that absolutely everyone is supposed to be matched off in pairs is actually a fairly modern one. The marriage rate increased quickly during the middle of the last century, aparrently topping out sometime in the 1980s, and is now slowly declining back to 19th century levels.

Anyhow, based on my highly scientific google search which turned up census info, in 1997, 27% of men and 20% of women over 18 had never married, and in 1998 35% of all people between 25 and 34 had never married (so far). That's "never married," not widowed or divorced.

BR(it is a surprising pain in the ass to find statistics that exclude children and formerly-marrieds)C

When is the Bachelro on and when is it rerun?

I have a long night out ahead of me, is there any good reality tv that I will be missing?

and are any of the other new tv shows any good?

and what heppened on survivor last week? I missed it.

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

http://www.msnbc.com/news/973842.asp?0sl=-12

[spree: the French discover that cigarette packs with health warnings all over them are ugly, and "invent" cardboard covers to make them look better. Will somebody get these people some friggin cigarette cases, please?]

[bilmore]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
When is the Bachelro on and when is it rerun?

I have a long night out ahead of me, is there any good reality tv that I will be missing?

and are any of the other new tv shows any good?

and what heppened on survivor last week? I missed it.

Oh, please. You're going to be a one-stroke reality-TV bore here simply because of one post that you (I think mistakenly) took as insulting? That makes no sense. When did you become thin-skinned?

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
http://www.msnbc.com/news/973842.asp?0sl=-12

[spree: the French discover that cigarette packs with health warnings all over them are ugly, and "invent" cardboard covers to make them look better. Will somebody get these people some friggin cigarette cases, please?]

Well, in fairness, they have a long history of disguising unpleasant reality.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
By my senior year, in my major, there was clear differentiation between the two groups. One easy way to tell us screw ups was that we weren't in class much, so we couldn't hide- THEY knew who we were. The last year there's a group project class. The first day all the groups are set. All that would be in my group were two other useless screw ups, so we're one short.

The next day, Ms. Golden shows up, having missed the first day for an interview. Beautiful, tall, all A's student; she's on the short list for some competitive scholarship that only 2 kids in the whole US get. Her poor ass gets stuck in my group.

Near the end of term, I see this sheet where she's predicting her grades and ultimate GPA. She's predicting all A's and a C- from our group- or that's what she was hoping for. You can't imagine how guilty I felt knowing I was going to ruin her ambitions. I really needed a drink that night.

What she hadn't thought of was that as F'd up as we were, we were all graduating. We had the chops to fake it, and got her the B she needed to keep her GPA national comp level.

I sort of think the ability to walk into a test cold/hungover-drunk still, and hit class average was good experience for thinking on your feet when a judge or witness hits you with something unexpected. I mean every test in my last 31/2 years of college was pretty much being hit by the unexpected.

Yeh, I hear ya. I never flunked a course in my whole life and graduated with an enviable average... not fantastic, but enviable, and for my bahavior, pretty damn surprising. But I've always had a good bit of dicsipline. I knew enough not to drink the kool aid the night before the exam. That's the survival instinct that separates the partiers from the casualties. You have to work a little bit at times...

The cut-throats crack me up to this day because they're still trying to leverage themselves upward through the corp world by creating these silly barriers to entry. My favorite fake barrier to entry is "industry-speak", i.e., buzzords that those "in the know" who "pay attention" recognize. I deal with these nitwits using buzzwords at meetings to keep the lowly litigator confused and look inportant - like they know something I don't. I could do the same thing to them by using legal terms in my presentations, but what do I have to gain by making things tough on people? My job is to help them understand, not confuse them and make myself look smart. In the end, most of what everyone does is uncomplicated and dull, and if we really sat back and stripped away from it all the industry-speak and politics, we'd see that we need about 15% of the current workforce to actually do what needs to be done. We're all on stage all day, justifying our pay with inumerable silly constructions aimed to complicate things. The reason is because there's many of us, and we need to do something lest we starve. The ct throats love this environment becuase it allows them to maximize their best skills - memo writing, hyper-analysis and ass licking.

Its really comedy when you think about it - by college, we're all pretty much the people we will be for the rest of our lives.

[NotFromHere]

DALLAS, Sept. 30 — A Texas high school has apologized after the school band waved a Nazi flag during a performance on Friday, the start of the Jewish New Year holiday of Rosh Hashana. “We had an error in judgment,” band director Charles Grissom told the Dallas Morning News. DURING A HALF-TIME show, a student from Paris High School went running across the field waving a Nazi flag.
The director said the musicians didn’t anticipate the reaction of the crowd at Hillcrest High School. “We were booed,” he told the newspaper on Monday. “We had things thrown at us. We were cursed.” Now, Grisson said the show will only include the American flag. “The kids and myself, we caused a reaction, and we certainly didn’t mean to,” he told the Morning News. “We’ll use it as a learning situation.”

So was this an overreaction to a simple "show about WWII" or was this guy an idiot?

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by evenodds
I read something a couple of years ago that said men were most turned on by the scent of vanilla.

True?

Yum

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield


Its really comedy when you think about it - by college, we're all pretty much the people we will be for the rest of our lives.

So I'm a C minus student with a drinking problem, a tendancy towards anorexia, and a bit of a slut?...

Oh yeah, that's right......

Originally posted by bilmore
Oh, please. You're going to be a one-stroke reality-TV bore here simply because of one post that you (I think mistakenly) took as insulting? That makes no sense. When did you become thin-skinned?

Not thinskinned. Just a reality check that there are two kinds of posters- those that post something that contributes to the community, and those who sit in the audience and heckle . I have decided not to be the entertainment anymore bc there are too many freeriders who arent returning the favor. I am going to channel my energies into far more rewarding arenas, like the law, so that someday, I might too be a partner with a flabby, average looking spouse and a house in the suburbs.

I used to think the world was divided into two kinds of people. People who took acid and those who didnt. Now I realize it is divided between the entertainers and the hecklers from the audiecne (actually there is a third group, the plain old audience, but they dont actulaly post so are not on my radar). Until entertainers get paid, this is just an open mic night and I would be better off watching reality tv. or reading about the law.

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by bilmore
Well, in fairness, they have a long history of disguising unpleasant reality.

No doubt. My boggle is that they apparently think this is a new problem, and the solution they come up with - crappy cardboard covers - is vastly inferior to the longstanding solution of which they appear totally ignorant.

This is on par with solving the problem "paper tissues are a dissolving, revolting mess" by deciding to "put the plastic-wrap kleenex case into a crappy chintz holder, which might even coordinate with your makeup bag" but ignoring the option of handkerchieves.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
Until entertainers get paid, this is just an open mic night and I would be better off watching reality tv. or reading about the law.

Balls. You get paid every day. You can't just selectively ignore whole categories of currency.

Originally posted by bilmore
Balls. You get paid every day. You can't just selectively ignore whole categories of currency.

I only accept cash, direct deposit, credit, tapes of reality shows I missed, cocktails, pot, shrooms (thanks SD!), club sponsorships and burned CDs of my favorite bands live. If you know someone I might be especially compatible with, I might accept a setup but probably not. Is what you speak of one of these? bc I dont think the check has hit my mailbox yet.

when is the bachelor on? for real. and a survivor recap would be nice.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by paigowprincess


when is the bachelor on? for real.

Wed., at 9, ABC (7 in DC)

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
This is on par with solving the problem "paper tissues are a dissolving, revolting mess" by deciding to "put the plastic-wrap kleenex case into a crappy chintz holder, which might even coordinate with your makeup bag" but ignoring the option of handkerchieves.

I have mixed feelings about the handkerchief. A French Jesuit missionary wrote that the "savages" in the Huron tribe in the 1500s were disgusted by the Europeans' use of handkerchiefs: "They say, we place what is unclean in a fine white piece of linen, and put it away in our pockets as something very precious, while they throw it upon the ground."

The Huron would agree that a revolting mess of tissue paper is probably a quantum leap forward in santiation, though, admittedly, a handkerchief looks cooler and more gallant to whip out when one has made a woman to cry.