Fashion Board 2-3-04 to 3-5-04

[robustpuppy]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Poll:

How many people have left voice messages or e-mails for someone else that could potentially change the entire relationship? Was it a good idea in retrospect?

Yes. Email. I knew it was a bad idea at the time, let alone in retrospect. "I lied when I said I loved you" is better left unexpressed, especially when that's the lie. (Allow me to clarify that this type of conversation only took place over email because he person was in Asia and we couldn't talk on the phone.)

Does anyone know of a long distance relationship that's worked?

Yes, but by worked, I mean that one of the parties moved to be with the other within a year or so. The only people I know for whom it worked over a longer period were within manageable-weekend-trip distance.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
AGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! YOU'RE KILLING ME! Stop.

Shut. Up.

TM

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by dtb
I'm sorry ncs, you know how I hate to disagree with you and shit, but Uncle Ben's SUCKS. (My ethnic, mysterious, foreign and glamorous husband knows from rice, and would rather go without than eat Uncle Ben's.)

He's not as glamorous as, say, someone from Greece, but he'll do.

here's the problem. I could care less about whether or not you or anyone else thinks a particular brand of rice sucks. the low is related to it as a topic of conversation at all, not the actual or perceived quality of Uncle Ben's.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
If white people are an ethnicity, Amazon counts as an ethnic store.

not only that, but it comes with its own FB-style slam:

"Luxury "Sushi" rice cooker smarter than some people!"

Indeed.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by dtb
He's not as glamorous as, say, someone from Greece, but he'll do.

Ever been to Turkey? Compared to the glamour of Greeks, Turkish men would strike you as royalty.

[Flinty_McFlint]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Shouldn't this be your avatar?:

http://www.musik-page.de/wall/2rsf1.jpg

or



TM

Fuck. Now I have that song going through my head. Thanks a lot.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Poll:

How many people have left voice messages or e-mails for someone else that could potentially change the entire relationship? Was it a good idea in retrospect?



Alternate poll question:

Does anyone know of a long distance relationship that's worked?

Poll number one:

Once, I was having an argument on the phone with a man I was dating. He hung up on me.

Well, what would you do? I immediately grabbed my smokes and took a walk to my friendly neighborhood bar, where I chatted with the bartender and several other local regulars.

When I got home, there were 23 (!) messages on my answering machine, each one more apologetic and sniveling than the one before. I was never able to look at him the same way again, and the realtionship died shortly after.

Poll number two:

Relationships that are temporarily long-distance seem to do okay. My husband was called to active duty about a year after we started dating. The 6 months apart was tough, but not insurmountable.

Relationships that start out long distance, or have no end to their long distance-ness in sight, are pretty much set up to fail. In my experience, anyway. And ussually the endings are not pretty.

[Can you hear me now?]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
No, we really don't. I'm not even going to thank you for playing on this one.

Too late missy! I was already here, lurking for the day that rice rose to its rightful place here. And I do have a degree in Rice Arts. So allow me to share.....

Forgetting Uncle Bennie and the 5 Minute versions that are staples of my diet, when I can get one of my lady lover pals to cook for me or when I go out to eat at an ethnic restaurant (not to be confused with an ethnic store), my fav-o grain of rice is The Basmati Rice, which as I'm sure NFH knows is a grain from the Indian Sub-continent. I love it! Less starchy but tastes great!

It also quite aromatic and is full of complex yet subtle flavors. I affectionately call it the "rice of love!"

Perhaps you should try a dish.

Originally posted by Flinty_McFlint
Fuck. Now I have that song going through my head. Thanks a lot.

I am mainly sure that Thurgreed will agree that I am mostly correct when I say this is a totally useless, pointless post. Didnt we have a discussion on this type of hooey sometime back?

[Can you hear me now?]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Ever been to Turkey? Compared to the glamour of Greeks, Turkish men would strike you as royalty.

Rice with a little olive oil, some crumbled feta cheese and greek olives is fantastic. What do the Turks have to compare?

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Is that why you were fasting? Poor RT. Did the reply unclench your stomach?

I wasn't really thinking about anything but that stupid e-mail all day yesterday. It probably has a lot to do with why I didn't eat anything until 8:00 last night. And it was unbelievable how much his reply made me feel better, even though it wasn't what I was hoping for.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
here's the problem. I could care less about whether or not you or anyone else thinks a particular brand of rice sucks. the low is related to it as a topic of conversation at all, not the actual or perceived quality of Uncle Ben's.

Just one more point- make sure you have a good rice paddle or none of the rest matters. I got the yellow one from Tanaka distributors.


http://starbulletin.com/2001/02/14/features/story1.html

[i]Some things you don't think about until they change. In this case, they're rice paddles.

The familiar flat pieces of bamboo that flare from handles to wide, rounded, slightly concave heads may be destined for the nostalgia bin as new and improved plastic models muscle into the marketplace.

And while the description "new and improved" is overused in this age of unrestrained consumerism, the latest rice paddles are a great leap forward. Really.

Why? Because rice doesn't stick to them -- not regular rice, not Uncle Ben's, or mochi rice, not fried rice or Thai sticky rice, not cold rice, not mushy rice.

Some might say, big deal, but it is a big deal. Really.

"Because you don't have to scrub them!" said Mildred Spence, a clerk-typist at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. "It just doesn't stick. At first I didn't believe it, but it works. It's so much easier to clean"

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
rice brand snobbery? this might even be a FB all-time low. I'll check the stats for comfirmation.

I experienced brand snobbery last week.

Some guy came up to me and said "hey, that's a great Tommy Hilfiger shirt."

I have since resigned my entire collection of English shirts. From now on, its solids.

I wanted to hit him, but I didn't.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
I am mainly sure that Thurgreed will agree that I am mostly correct when I say this is a totally useless, pointless post. Didnt we have a discussion on this type of hooey sometime back?

Yes, we did.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
I am mainly sure that Thurgreed will agree that I am mostly correct when I say this is a totally useless, pointless post. Didnt we have a discussion on this type of hooey sometime back?

There are times when useless, pointless posts nevertheless serve to bring up the average. This was one of those times.