Fashion Board 3-5-04 to 4-6-04 - Page 24

robustpuppy · 03-09-2004, 02:06 PM

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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
the woman pushes ... herself ... a gentleman ... can pretend to help by applying mild pressure to the back ... but the woman reaches between her knees to grab ... and does all the work by ... dragging it to where she wants it. (And then says "thank you" for the vital assistance. ) In both cases, you don't actually want to let someone who may be clueless push things around behind you so they can smack into you from behind or jam you ... at gut-level.

... But it is nice to make men feel useful.

Because I am bored.

As for elevators: get the fuck in, get the fuck out, and get the fuck out of my way, I have stuff to do. Thanks.

ltl/fb · 03-09-2004, 02:06 PM

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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall

Doors

People (and it's almost always women) who let you hold the door for them without taking it from you and holding it for the next person should be smashed with the door. I'm not your personal fucking man servant. Catch the door and hold it for the next person you selfish bitch.

TM

There are so many factors here, though. If there's a big crowd and someone has gone through the door already and remains in the "go" position, holding the door with an arm extended behind them, I take the door and do basically the same thing for the next person. If someone goes up to the door, pulls it open, does not go through, and stands aside, I go through. If there is not a big crowd and the person does not seem to be pausing briefly to avoid letting the door slam in my face, but instead seems to be holding open, I go through. However, on that last one, I guess it could generally mean something different here than in the City of Wolves. I tend to think that it's frequently crowded enough there that the first rule would nearly always apply.

Again, if the concern is efficiency (and not some kind of paradigm shifting), it's all about figuring out what system is in place and going with the flow. Here, if I'm in the back of an elevator with a bunch of men, if I don't hurry up and get off the elevator there's an uncomfortable, inefficient pause. So I just haul ass out.

dtb · 03-09-2004, 02:08 PM

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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
This is a HUGE pet peeve of mine, especially when a person enters the door first but stops pushing when another person enters.

Heh heh heh...

I often do this when I don't like the attitude of the person following me through the revolving door.

Never you mind how I know --- I just do.

(And the "just push faster than the person walks" is nearly impossible when the door isn't going very fast to begin with -- those things are freakin' HEAVY!)

My favorite trick is to get into an already-moving revolving door without touching it so that it comes to a neat stop just when I need to get out. It has taken years of practice for me to perfect that move, I don't mind admitting.

Did you just call me Coltrane? · 03-09-2004, 02:08 PM

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Originally posted by spookyfish
Solution: Push faster than that person walks.

It seems like some doors have governors on them.

sebastian_dangerfield · 03-09-2004, 02:10 PM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
WTF, do you wear a poncho to work every day? Or do all the women you work with wear skintight pants? Perhaps you lack an ass, but for those who don't, your trousers (pants, whatever) drape across them quite nicely if the underlying ass is nice. And shirts reveal shoulders etc. etc.

What??? You clearly don't work with fat guys. I see loads of guys wearing very billowy shirts which hide their rolls. Its comical. They wear these huge shirts and a lot of them still wear pleated Dockers. They look utterly formless. They also never get their suits brought in in the middle, which makes them look like big grey boxes in their suits. And a lot seem to favor the oxford cloth button down shirt with the suit. If you've got a double chin, the button down collar gets squashed and flares out and you look like Chris Farley doing his motivational speaker skit.

I hate being assless. I almost got thrown out of J Crew a few weeks back for complaing - for the 5th time - about why they don't carry pants in regular cut anymore. Everything is "relaxed cut," which for a guy with no ass and skinny legs, may as well be MC Hammer pants. I snapped to some dude "What the fuck? This town needs a goddamn diet." He just grinned and gave me the "You're upsetting our larger customers behind you" stare.

I'm suing someone. Its fucking unfair that I have to ordermy pants through the catalog while my fat friends are rewarded for their sloth by being given an entire wall of huge fatassed pants to choose from. Its discriminatory. What if I got ink on may pants and needed a new pair immediately? I could not get one because I'm not fat enough.

This isn't America... this isn't even Mexico.

ltl/fb · 03-09-2004, 02:11 PM

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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Of course. I didn't say it was impossible. Relatively speaking though, it's much easier for us.

And what else to dress shirts reveal besides shoulders? Pecs? No. Arms? No. Gut? Only if it's fairly large.

SPOILER SPACE FOR COLTRANE -- DO NOT READ IF YOU WISH TO CONTINUE BELIEVING YOU CAN GET AWAY WITHOUT GOING TO THE GYM UNTIL IT WARMS UP IN CHICAGO

You can tell fat vs. muscley vs. skinny. And in my world business casual is the rule, not the exception, which reveals lots of arms.

Please. You can't tell whether breasts are perky or just pushed up, nor can you tell most of the other stuff, unless the chick is wearing (inappropriate for the office?) tight pants.

However, you may continue to think

ltl/fb · 03-09-2004, 02:12 PM

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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
What??? You clearly don't work with fat guys. I see loads of guys wearing very billowy shirts which hide their rolls. Its comical. They wear these huge shirts and a lot of them still wear pleated Dockers. They look utterly formless. They also never get their suits brought in in the middle, which makes them look like big grey boxes in their suits. And a lot seem to favor the oxford cloth button down shirt with the suit. If you've got a double chin, the button down collar gets squashed and flares out and you look like Chris Farley doing his motivational speaker skit.

OMG!!!!! I never realized any of those guys were fat!!! They hide it so well . . .

Moron.

Did you just call me Coltrane? · 03-09-2004, 02:13 PM

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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
What??? You clearly don't work with fat guys. I see loads of guys wearing very billowy shirts which hide their rolls. Its comical. They wear these huge shirts and a lot of them still wear pleated Dockers. They look utterly formless. They also never get their suits brought in in the middle, which makes them look like big grey boxes in their suits. And a lot seem to favor the oxford cloth button down shirt with the suit. If you've got a double chin, the button down collar gets squashed and flares out and you look like Chris Farley doing his motivational speaker skit.

I hate being assless. I almost got thrown out of J Crew a few weeks back for complaing - for the 5th time - about why they don't carry pants in regular cut anymore. Everything is "relaxed cut," which for a guy with no ass and skinny legs, may as well be MC Hammer pants. I snapped to some dude "What the fuck? This town needs a goddamn diet." He just grinned and gave me the "You're upsetting our larger customers behind you" stare.

I'm suing someone. Its fucking unfair that I have to ordermy pants through the catalog while my fat friends are rewarded for their sloth by being given an entire wall of huge fatassed pants to choose from. Its discriminatory. What if I got ink on may pants and needed a new pair immediately? I could not get one because I'm not fat enough.

This isn't America... this isn't even Mexico.

I can't get a fucking slim fit shirt* to save my life. Most shirts are made for guys with at least 38 inch waists.

*also known 30 years ago as a regular fit shirt.

robustpuppy · 03-09-2004, 02:14 PM

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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I can't get a fucking slim fit shirt* to save my life. Most shirts are made for guys with at least 38 inch waists.

*also known 30 years ago as a regular fit shirt.

You should go shopping with Sebastian.

Sidd Finch · 03-09-2004, 02:15 PM

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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
there are lots other kinds of state-sponsored perks (the legal presumptions of authority to act for each other, joint ownership of assets, etc.), religious perks (admission to heaven after having sex, primarily)

Hate to break it to you, but when your husband says you'll go to heaven if you put out, he's not necessarily telling the truth.

03-09-2004, 02:15 PM

answered: 2
made: guesstimate of 5. (including cell)

Can we have a pool for this?

Did you just call me Coltrane? · 03-09-2004, 02:16 PM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
SPOILER SPACE FOR COLTRANE -- DO NOT READ IF YOU WISH TO CONTINUE BELIEVING YOU CAN GET AWAY WITHOUT GOING TO THE GYM UNTIL IT WARMS UP IN CHICAGO

You can tell fat vs. muscley vs. skinny. And in my world business casual is the rule, not the exception, which reveals lots of arms.

Please. You can't tell whether breasts are perky or just pushed up, nor can you tell most of the other stuff, unless the chick is wearing (inappropriate for the office?) tight pants.

Does business casual mean short-sleeve polo shirt? I'll agree then. But I'm talking about dress shirts. I honestly see very few men, even in the summer, wearing short-sleeve polo shirts to work.

NotFromHere · 03-09-2004, 02:17 PM

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Originally posted by spookyfish
Solution: Push faster than that person walks.

Or just don't push. The person in front of you will have to do something if they want to get out. This assumes of course that there's no one behind you. Because you don't want to piss them off just because there's an idiot in front of you.

Side note, there's a woman who works in the other firm in the building who always uses the goddamn handicap button. Lazy bitch. Open the door. She never holds the door open for you if you're 3 feet behind her, and if she sees you at the door, hits the fucking handicap button anyway so that the door flings open in your face and you have to jump back. She will also not hold the elevator for anyone ever. Rant over.

sebastian_dangerfield · 03-09-2004, 02:17 PM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
OMG!!!!! I never realized any of those guys were fat!!! They hide it so well . . .

Moron.

Yes, I truly believed my comment was revelatory - that somehow you didn't realize those guys were fat. I didn not - repeat - did not, just use your comment as a jumping off point for a rant... I'd never do that.

Moron?

Moron.

barely_legal · 03-09-2004, 02:18 PM

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Originally posted by robustpuppy
You should go shopping with Sebastian.

If they really were roommates, they could share clothes! What fun! Coltrane would get all bitcherrific when Sebby borrowed one of his slim-fit hipster shirts and spilled single-malt on it! So, in retaliation, Coltrane would borrow one of Sebby's tailored suits and wear it commando! Oh, the adventures they would have.