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

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
I would not take my cues for "acceptable" medieval slang from the Miller's tale

Well now you tell me. I guess this explains why I can't make any friends on my time travelling adventures.

[dtb]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
on the shortening words thing ... I had a roommate in college who called the library "the berry." What a left tail (there was an apparent glitch in the admissions process). I wanted to slap her, for that and so many reasons.

No, no, no, no, no. That's all wrong. As any conversationally challenged person will tell you, the library is appropriately referred to as the "libe". (The "berry"?!? That is just RIDICULOUS!)

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by purse junkie
Okay. I propose a charity drive to raise funds to help Anna Nicole Smith buy the proper underwire support garments (or get the appropriate implant-deflating surgery) to support her enormous rack that is causing her such terrible back pain, thereby helping to alleviate her cleavage-induced Vicodin addiction. We could call it The BOOBS (Breasts On Overdrive Breaking Spine) Foundation.

p(feelin' her pain)j

Speaking of ANS, I saw a pic of her on E Online yesterday and she had light blue metallic eyeshadow all the way around her eyes. Can anyone explain why any woman (I think the particular crowd that likes the look is strippers) would think the eyeshadow under the eye look would be attractive? I just don't get it.

n(perhaps I'm not intended to be stripper-chic)cs

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by dtb
No, no, no, no, no. That's all wrong. As any conversationally challenged person will tell you, the library is appropriately referred to as the "libe". (The "berry"?!? That is just RIDICULOUS!)

In my neighborhood growing up and in junior high, lots of kids called it the "liberry."

These were the same kids that called the player in goal in hockey or soccer, "goldie." As in, "Ooooh oooooh! I wanna be goldie!"

Thurgreed(doubts anyone else here had this experience)Marshall

[Anne Elk]

May 4th at 9pm on E!
Everything you wanted to know about the Hilton sisters and more!!

Set your Tivos.

All the info is at www.eonline.com

[leagleaze]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Speaking of ANS, I saw a pic of her on E Online yesterday and she had light blue metallic eyeshadow all the way around her eyes. Can anyone explain why any woman (I think the particular crowd that likes the look is strippers) would think the eyeshadow under the eye look would be attractive? I just don't get it.

n(perhaps I'm not intended to be stripper-chic)cs

We have an employee here who wears very very heavy eyeshadow. She is also extremely tall, so she stands out anyway.

I think back in the 80s people wore heavy eyeshadow right? But I cannot see why these days, when most people it seems want invisible or natural makeup, anyone would feel the need to wear so much eyeshadow. Not to mention she must spend a fortune on eyeshadow the way she goes through it.

So I can't explain it, I don't get it either. I think it looks very unattractive.

[Mister_Ruysbroeck]

Originally posted by taxwonk
I think I'm going to start fooling around behind her back.

Start?

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
insult.
And although the analogy Not Bob used (relating it to the word "nigger") is helpful in seeing how it might be used in some cases, it's not the same. "Nigger" is designed and used specifically to reference a certain part of our history. The intent is incorporated into the word. I don't think that's the case with the word "cunt."

But if the n-word is not in fact intended that way by the speaker using it, it is still an unacceptable word. What makes the word an unacceptable is the way it's target can be expected to hear it, more than the specific (and unknowable) intent of the speaker. Your (correct) point about the n-word is that intent to bring up a certain part of black history can always be inferred, whether a user might argue that it wasn't intended or not, because, well, everyone knows what it means to the hearer given its historical baggage.

Everyone knows that about the c-word, too. The only question is, does the target of the insult's widely known understanding of the meaning matter? You say no. I say the fact that black people took the n-word "badly" used not to matter either; that was a result of the lack of power blacks had to assert their views on the subject. Surely the white people who used it did not have the right to define what black people were allowed to feel about it, and surely claims of different "intent," even if sincere in a specific instance, should have been met with the derision they eventually received.

And you're nuts if you don't think millenia of history (and widespread current practice) of women being the sexual and child-rearing posessions of men isn't inherently incorporated into the whole concept of verbally reducing a woman to her genitalia.

BR(I called you a "wetback," but I meant it to salute your excellent swimming skills)C

edited to insert a sarcasm siren after that last for the satire impaired

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Mister_Ruysbroeck
If I didn't know better, I'd say your wife and my wife are friends. Her college roommates (all 7 of them) do this shit all the time when they are together. It's so fucking annoying.

MR,

Since we're on this pet peeve of mine (like I need another), these are the most annoying things I hear from my wife's friends:

"He/she/it is so 'ON FIRE'"

- They use this to describe everything, even mundane shit. Is everything that great?

"Fabu"

-Taxwonk said it best - if your wife uses this, leave her.

"I live and die for her/him/it"

- Again, often used to discuss mundane shit, like "Your poodle is fabu... I just live and die for it" or "Bill just lives and dies for Mary". Hyperbole has no punch if its so overboard it becomes absurd.

"Grim"

- Everything that's not "fabu" is "grim".

When I was in school, the library was the "brary". I didn't care too much about that one because I never entered the building until midnight before exams and then only stayed for as long as it took to beg one of my wife's friends for her notes. Luckily, I was considered "fabu" so I got them. I'd have probably flunked if I were "grim".

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by leagleaze
I think back in the 80s people wore heavy eyeshadow right? But I cannot see why these days, when most people it seems want invisible or natural makeup, anyone would feel the need to wear so much eyeshadow. Not to mention she must spend a fortune on eyeshadow the way she goes through it.

So I can't explain it, I don't get it either. I think it looks very unattractive.

Doesn't Barbie have painted on pale-blue eyeshadow? Perhaps she is the source of the stripper aesthetic, head-to-toe. And I think ads for eyeshadow are getting much more colorful--seems to be a disco-influenced revolt against the nude look so perhaps it's coming back. I think all the dark colors though just make someone look like she got punched in the eye.

BTW, your avatar is really disturbing.

[evenodds]

That reminds me of a conversation we had at a party recently:

If you can go to one of two strip clubs -- one upscale, the other skanky -- which do you choose and why?

Even(it was better than talking about the economy)Odds

[Mister_Ruysbroeck]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Sebby,

Your post just reminded me that I had a dream about you last night. ..

This is so weird, because I also had a dream about FBers last night. Mostly, it involved FBers that I have never met. It was so strange, because these people did not appear in my dream as I typically picture them in my head.

For instance, DebtSlave/BRC was there (with her daughter and some disney videos?!?!?!?) and she had short blond hair, rather than the short brown hair I typically picture her with. TM was there and he was a white guy. Both of them were very nice (almost too nice), which I imagine DS to be, but not TM.

Anyway, it was really weird. Oh, and it was a dinner party with a really odd seating arrangement. And, for some reason, everyone arrived there and left on yellow school buses.

I have no idea what this dream means, if anything. GWNC?

[evenodds]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Since we're on this pet peeve of mine (like I need another), these are the most annoying things I hear from my wife's friends:

Sebby, your wife's friends should be quarantined.

We must stop that nonsense from spreading.

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by carp
Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary defines douche bag (ca. 1963) as an unattractive or offensive person. My question is, have you ever known a male to be called a douche bag?

I've also heard this applied to males.

It also brings to mind the old SNL sketch, where Buck Henry was Lord Douchebag discussing his most recent invention with Lord Sandwich, et. al.

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/79/79tdouchebag.phtml

Spree: Transcript of Lord and Lady Douchebag sketch.

Lord Salisbury: Spoken like a true Douchebag. I have often heard the King speak of your family.. [ to Earl of Sandwich ] ..and of yours, as well: "Give me a Sandwich and a Douchebag, and there is nothing I cannot do."

[ABBAKiss]

Originally posted by taxwonk
I think I'm going to start fooling around behind her back.

You mean like rim job?