Fashion Board 11-2-03 - 12-09-03 - Page 227

Flinty_McFlint · 12-03-2003, 01:40 AM

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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
but. but. maybe you'll catch the attention of a bookish shy girl who dramatically changes into a beauty queen once someone removes her librarian glasses and shakes her hair out of the bun.

or maybe that only happens in 80s videos.

not sure.

Well, I am a sucker for librarian types who play hold em, so here's hoping they look past my suave Addias sweatsuit and see the real me.

Edited to add: Or maybe I'll just buy a ferrari.

12-03-2003, 09:12 AM

I hate you all. Please don't fucking cut me off while I'm trying to block you out of my lane. You will only cause a fucking accident. If you have a tree strapped anywhere on your vehicle, move over into the right hand lane and learn to fucking tie a knot. Don't expect me to slow down for you just because your dumbass didn't secure the tree to the roof properly.

If you are walking ahead of me, please don't start thinking. Because when you start thinking, you stop in mid stride and decide to turn around. I've already gotten used to looking at your fat ass and I've figured how to keep stride with you. When you stop I will hit you. Hard.

The stores are packed. They have used every ounce of space to stuff more garbage that I don't want in my way. If you are fat, please shop during the day, or try and find an alternative route around the ice cream maker and popcorn popper, avoiding me. I really don't want your fat but-tocks rubbing any part of me, or my belongings.

When you reach the top of the escalator, keep moving. I don't care if you have never been to the big city before and the lights are blinding, or that you don't know where the fuck you are going. Just get the hell out of my way. I will keep moving and I will hit you. Hard.

Salespeople. Go away. I don't want to know how the idiot gadget I'm looking at works. I'm actually thinking to myself what crackpot invented this dumbass thing and what idiot is going to buy it. Leave me alone. If I have a question, I will ask your dumbass, so that you can look at me with a stupid ignorant stare and tell me you don't know.

Parking. If I get to the spot first, it's mine. Just because you saw the spot open up from across the lot, doesn't mean I'm going to sing jingle fucking bells and let you have it. Back off.

People with strollers. SHop during the day or get a babysitter. THose things are fucking dangerous.

Happy holidays.

R(ghost of Christmas past)b

Hank Chinaski · 12-03-2003, 10:07 AM

quick! turn on CNN! the cops are trying to arrest michael right now!

evenodds · 12-03-2003, 10:09 AM

After spending five hours power-shopping with my mother and my aunt last week, I decided:

(1) I will do all of my holiday shopping online;

(2) I hate people;

(3) there are three people standing in front of everywhere I want to go at all times;

(4) motorized wheelchairs are a menace; and

(5) children under five roaming freely are a menace.

sebastian_dangerfield · 12-03-2003, 10:23 AM

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Originally posted by str8outavannuys
1) No they don't. They're very talented musicians. You might not care for their songs or Stuart's voice, but there's no doubting their talent. And I liked Moby back in 1993, when you had never heard of him. Now I admire his musicianship, but wouldn't call myself a fan.

2) Yes, I am 12. You figured it out. And I shop at Hot Topic; haven't you been paying attention to anything Paigow says? That's rhetorical, btw, fwiw, etc. etc.

Assboot.

1) I own a wall of cds of various types of music and have never even heard Belle and Sebastian. They sound like some sort of Samples-esque group by name alone, so they probably do suck.

2) Why is it that people think its the pinnacle of genius to have liked something before it became commercially popular? I think people who say shit like this are under the mistaken impression that it makes them look cutting edge. Well, here's a tip - that you liked it before it became commercial doesn't make it any less commercial, or make you any more cutting edge. So you're ahead on the curve. Big fuckin deal... I ate at THE new restaurant in town a few weeks ago because I got lucky and got a reservation when someone else was cancelling. I can't wait until a co-worker finally gets to eat there in a few months so I can tell him how passe the restaurant already is, and how those in the know have already moved on to something more cutting edge.

baltassoc · 12-03-2003, 10:46 AM

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Originally posted by evenodds
(1) I will do all of my holiday shopping online;

(2) I hate people;

Last night, I made a list of the people in my family I need to get gifts for, a total of 19 people. I then curled up with my newly wireless laptop (merry Christmas to me) and crossed 15 of them off my list in two and a half hours, and didn't have to interact with a single person. The Internet is man's greatest invention.

Of course, to find the gifts for the last four, it's going to take a couple of days at several malls, followed by a flurry in which I finally just grab the next gender-appropriate gift I stumble upon for each. Gran is such a bitch to shop for.

Hank Chinaski · 12-03-2003, 10:49 AM

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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Big fuckin deal... I ate at THE new restaurant in town a few weeks ago because I got lucky and got a reservation when someone else was cancelling. I can't wait until a co-worker finally gets to eat there in a few months so I can tell him how passe the restaurant already is, and how those in the know have already moved on to something more cutting edge.

Fuck that, I was invited there to try out the menu pre-opening.

baltassoc · 12-03-2003, 10:50 AM

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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
2) Why is it that people think its the pinnacle of genius to have liked something before it became commercially popular?...[more ranting]

Maybe if you spent more time finding the best new bands / books / zines / clubs / restaurants, and less time complaining about the fact you can't ever seem to catch up, you'd be cooler.

evenodds · 12-03-2003, 10:53 AM

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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Why is it that people think its the pinnacle of genius to have liked something before it became commercially popular? I think people who say shit like this are under the mistaken impression that it makes them look cutting edge. Well, here's a tip - that you liked it before it became commercial doesn't make it any less commercial, or make you any more cutting edge. So you're ahead on the curve. Big fuckin deal...

Actually, that is precisely the point. Discovering something "new" at the same moment as everyone else makes you a sheep, lulled into something by powerful marketing forces.

Discovering it for yourself is enjoying the experience on its own merits, without the thousandth mention on Clear Channel or MTV to tell you that it's great. Media manipulate you into thinking something is good because it is familiar and comfortable -- repetition is key.

Being bowled over by something new you hear for the first time at a small, smoky club is a powerful experience, like the first time you take a drug. Subsequent dosing may never recapture that high, but you keep chasing it.

It's not about the cool factor, it's about the purity of the experience.

ThurgreedMarshall · 12-03-2003, 10:53 AM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
Next time a huge rodent crawls up your ass, can you at least arrange for some of the tail to remain outside your body so we have some hope of yanking it out rather than having to wait while it dies and then decomposes slowly?

My suggestion that you drop the moronic avatar thing you have going is that tail, dumbass.

TM

bold_n_brazen · 12-03-2003, 10:55 AM

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Originally posted by baltassoc
Last night, I made a list of the people in my family I need to get gifts for, a total of 19 people. I then curled up with my newly wireless laptop (merry Christmas to me) and crossed 15 of them off my list in two and a half hours, and didn't have to interact with a single person. The Internet is man's greatest invention.

Of course, to find the gifts for the last four, it's going to take a couple of days at several malls, followed by a flurry in which I finally just grab the next gender-appropriate gift I stumble upon for each. Gran is such a bitch to shop for.

Might I make a suggestion?

For all the random people on my life I can't decide what to buy, I go to Harry and Davids and send them several months of fruit. You could also go to Calyx and Carolla or 1800flowers and send several months of flowers or several months of plants.

It's easy. It's pleasant. I'd like it if someone gave it to me.

That said...both my birthday and Hanukah (or Channukah or whatever) are impending. My mother, sister in law, and husband all keep asking me what I want. I cannot for the life of me think of a single fucking thing (this is very sad).

So....what does everyone want from Santa? Maybe I'll get some ideas...

evenodds · 12-03-2003, 10:56 AM

Robert Randolph & the Family Band are touring throughout the country with Los Lonely Boys.

Catch them live if you get a chance.

www.robertrandolph.net
(warning: contains sound)

leagleaze · 12-03-2003, 11:00 AM

When I don't know someone well I get them gift certificates. To amazon.com, b&n (which is good if they don't like to go online) a local restaurant, what have you.

Otherwise I like finding a nice, out of the way antique shop and looking for something that just says the person to me. I will not walk into any store where there will be a crowd of people this time of the year. So I have spent a lot of time on amazon.com, circuitcity.com, bestbuy.com etc etc.

I know we are supposed to love people this time of year, but I love them the rest of the year and hate them now. They drive like morons, they walk like morons, they shop like morons. People will run over their mother for a good sale. Heck someone just got trampled in a walmart the other day.

And how many people max out their credit cards for presents they can't afford? Hello people. Budget.

Fucking crazy.

Oh, and I don't want anything from Santa, or the Chanukah Chicken either. Just some peace and quiet.

Did you just call me Coltrane? · 12-03-2003, 11:00 AM

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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Anyone who posts on a lawyer's chatboard is automatically uncool.

Anyone who is a lawyer is uncool. At best, all we can be are corporate hipsters.

notcasesensitive · 12-03-2003, 11:00 AM

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The first episode was ok. It was sort of uncomfortable to watch how uncomfortable everybody was around each other. There's no way the family should have given the girls chicken to eat after they threw the hissy fit about "dressing" the chickens. If they were going to play some vegetarian card, that would have been one thing, but not doing it because of some problem with dead animals means no dead animals for you.

Funniest part IMO was when Paris was trying to drive the truck and was basically driving into a hangar b/c she couldn't get it in reverse.

Of course I will continue to watch, and some of the preview parts for the season looked pretty good... Esp. the macking down with local boys ("you are the cutest boy in all of Arkansas!").