The New And Improved Fashion Board

[Oliver_Wendell_Ramone]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
So wait? Last year, after you gave someone a gift, they gave it to someone else? And then you took it back and are planning to give it to yet another person?

Indian giver.

The acceptable term is "Native American giver."

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
So wait? Last year, after you gave someone a gift, they gave it to someone else? And then you took it back and are planning to give it to yet another person?

Indian giver.

Or octoroonian giver. That's never been determined.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Heh. I just saw a hyena taking a drink. Pretty cool stuff.

I watch for half an hour, and see nothing but bugs, and then you see a hyena moments after I shut it off. Damnit.

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I watch for half an hour, and see nothing but bugs, and then you see a hyena moments after I shut it off. Damnit.

You don't have to watch, just let the sound track play. The watering hole is miked so you hear the animal as they approach the watering hole.

The hyena was cool. After it's drink it seemed to stare at the camera like it could see me through the internets.

Flinty, are you testing prototypes of your internet stabbing device in South Africa?

[Oliver_Wendell_Ramone]

Originally posted by Anne Elk

Flinty, are you testing prototypes of your internet stabbing device in South Africa?

You think Botha died a natural death? HA!

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by dtb
As I read this post, the song started playing on the radio - that was a little weird. How did you do that?

Holy crap. The song has a wiki entry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Christmas

[LessinSF]

Originally posted by Cletus Miller
Actually, 4.1% to 4.3%: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness

Chemically that cannot be correct, assuming their advertisements about it having only 68 (or something like that) calories are true.

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by LessinSF
Chemically that cannot be correct, assuming their advertisements about it having only 68 (or something like that) calories are true.

Guinness has 210 calories per pint.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Anne Elk
Guinness has 210 calories per pint.

That's 2100 calories per happy hour without including snacks. Christ.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
That's 2100 calories per happy hour without including snacks. Christ.

but 0 fat calories!!!!! if you skip snacks.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
This is a link to a camera feed set on a watering hole in a wildlife preserve in South Africa. No one is thirsty right now, but my sister saw a group of monkeys playing in the water earlier this afternoon and someone else saw some yaks.

I think it's kinda cool.

I've been watching a herd of wildebeast this morning. Good times.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I've been watching a herd of wildebeast this morning. Good times.

Are you at Sponky's house?

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I've been watching a herd of wildebeast this morning. Good times.

That place is hopping right now. I saw zebra too, and some birds. I am assuming that the things that look like Deer are wildebeasts.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Because he's incapable of changing his mind? Some would argue that his joining in with the abandonment of the word, given his history with it, speaks volumes.

TM

I'm hoist on my own petard a bit there. It's hard for me to cite anyone for a lack of consistency.

I guess the queerness I see in his change of heart is that I still believe that the shit he wrote earlier, using the word, was funny, and opened a very honest race dialogue. There's a huge pile of great comedy that pours out of making fun of the way races perceive one another stereotypically. Walking away from a valid legacy of that humor, which I think requires a subversive embrace of the word, is an overreaction.

The better course, in my opinion, is to make fun of people who use the word stupidly. If black performers would start skewering blacks who use the word recklessly and cheaply, the word would fall out of vogue, or at least be used in a funnier, smarter way.

I don't think you can just kneejerk to giving it up. It's far too potent ammunition for good satire. And if black performers did give it up, it'd just regain its old racist meaning among diehards who still use it. Why give them back the word? This "ban" smacks of good intentions gone overboard. Debate is good; bans of any sort are usually failures. That the "solution" to such a complex matter could be so simple indicates it's probably not a solution at all.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone
I've been enjoying Russel's Reserve (from Wild Turkey) of late; a very nice thank-gawd-the-kids-are-in-bed sort of drink. And on sale here recently.

I have to go back to bourbon and give up this RedBull/Vodka thing. I got shitfaced last night and told my mother she needs to try LSD and give up going to church. I though she was going to shit herself for a second.