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

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
Let's be honest. If the primary reason that you marry someone is anything other than that you love them, you are setting yourself up to be disappointed, at the very least.

Unless you *are* pimping yourself, in which case, if you marry rich and s/he doesn't skid into the poorhouse, you may be a very Happy Hooker indeed.

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys
I heard yesterday about how some radio morning show had plugged for a week that they were going to be making a big special announcement for the whole family. Turns out, the announcement that they made, with much fanfare and hullaballoo, was:

"THERE IS NO SANTA CLAUS."

Parents are up in arms, the morning show clowns are apparently in trouble with the station, etc. etc. I think as far as lame morning show stunts go, this one isn't bad.

What kind of fucking idiot parents trust a couple of obnoxious morning-show assclowns to make helpful family announcements to their little kids anyway? People that stupid deserve to have to spend thousands of dollars on family therapy to comfort Junior.

And anyway, everyone knows those talk-show bastards are lying.

[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen

1. Neither of us wants her in day care or with a Nanny.
2. Both of us agree that I'd be happier staying at home with her, and she'd be happier if I didn't leave every morning.
3. No one is more shocked by the fact that I want to be a SAHM than me.
4. Husband needs to find a better job.

There's probably about a 60% chance that this is my and Mrs. Str8 in two years (despite her love of her career) and it means I'm probably going back to law firm life, and that scares the piss out of me. Motherfuck.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by purse junkie
Unless you *are* pimping yourself, in which case, if you marry rich and s/he doesn't skid into the poorhouse, you may be a very Happy Hooker indeed.

Disagree. You'll eventually find yourself looking around thinking "this is what I sold out for?".

It's almost always easier to be single. No amount of money will change that.

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I seen several people helped by this type program, have been helped by it, and have helped others. Granted it needs to be set up for the right reason and use the right mentors. If done properly it can help otherwise good lawyers avoid doing stuff that would harm a career.

I think the success of mentoring, however, depends more on luck or on the mutual sympathy of the two people involved than on a "program" being set up properly. I just think that the extent to which a formal firm-set-up mentoring program helps people find truly helpful mentors with good advice any more frequently than they would find such people and advice without such a program is sort of minimal.

BR(caveat - people new to a firm are shy and hesitant to ask for help and don't know who knows what yet, and giving them an official "go to" guy can be useful. But for long term (over the first year or two) career mentoring, you just can't "assign" that)C

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys
There's probably about a 60% chance that this is my and Mrs. Str8 in two years (despite her love of her career) and it means I'm probably going back to law firm life, and that scares the piss out of me. Motherfuck.

Actually, it means you need to go in house at a dot-com, get a bunch of stock options, and .... oh wait. Fuck. 1999 is over.

Nevermind.

[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
I was given a Belle & Sebastian album a few years ago and have never checked it out, so I listened to it during my commute this morning, and I kinda liked it. So my question is, does this mean I'm gay? If so, I'm thinking I should tell my wife.

God I love December. All kindsa time for reading and posting.

1. Anyone who was picked on or otherwise didn't quite fit in in school could find something about B&S to like. I'm confident that description fits everyone here, except maybe Pushy the Puppy. Hell, it fits everyone I've ever met, except my wife (who, not coincidentally, dislikes B&S).

2. You're still gay; don't tell your wife.

[dtb]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Actually I've known several men (with and without kids) whose wives decided they should stop working against the advice and counter to the preference of their husbands. In at least one case, that was part of the reason for their later divorce.

Thank you for reminding me -- I meant to include before that, if these issues are not discussed and agreed upon prior to getting into a marriage, it likely doesn't bode too well for the marriage. (And you've helpfully provided anectodal evidence -- so thanks again!)

[str8outavannuys]

Anyone know that song "I Chase The Devil" by Max Romeo, circa 1976? Is the whole song as cool as the sample Jay-Z uses on the Black Album?

[baltassoc]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
The real st. nicholas is a lot more fun than Santa. [blah, blah , blah]... Which also explains why most european christmas traditions don't actually have santa.

I've really got to watch those rhetorical question around DS. (Actually, I knew all of this, as does probably the entire board, from when you explained it last year. Not that I want you to stop. It's what I find most endearing about you.*)



*I recognize that this may make me sound like an asshole. But I really mean it.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys

Str8, nice sentiment, but judging by its cover, I think this book is useless. I find it hard to believe that any over-35 woman, after all those years of waiting for a husband, would settle for a wedding ring made of yellow gold, and even more difficult to believe that someone with a Harvard MBA would suggest that anything less than platinum is acceptable. Really.

And since a simple platinum band would look just like sterling silver or white gold (the horror! the fakery!), she really should have used a channel set diamond band for the cover.

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Str8, nice sentiment, but judging by its cover, I think this book is useless. I find it hard to believe that any over-35 woman, after all those years of waiting for a husband, would settle for a wedding ring made of yellow gold, and even more difficult to believe that someone with a Harvard MBA would suggest that anything less than platinum is acceptable. Really.

And since a simple platinum band would look just like sterling silver or white gold (the horror! the fakery!), she really should have used a channel set diamond band for the cover.

I never realized my channel set diamond platinum band actually signaled to some that it wasn't fake... unless of course, it's cz or moisenite. I must start running in different circles.

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by purse junkie
What kind of fucking idiot parents trust a couple of obnoxious morning-show assclowns to make helpful family announcements to their little kids anyway? People that stupid deserve to have to spend thousands of dollars on family therapy to comfort Junior.

And anyway, everyone knows those talk-show bastards are lying.

That's not as bad as your teacher telling you the Santa is a fake...santa is a fake

MIRAMAR, Fla., Dec. 4 — As far as some Florida parents are concerned, first-grade teacher Geneta Codner is a true grinch after she told her class that Santa Claus was “make-believe.”

SANDRA JOLLY said her 6-year-old son’s Christmas was spoiled when the substitute teacher made the statement in class on Monday.
“He had this sad, lost puppy dog look on his face. This unhappy, empty look,” Jolly said. “He said his teacher informed the entire class that Santa is make-believe.”
“It’s all been blown out of proportion,” Codner said. “I’m sorry (parents) think I meant it that way. We were just having a discussion. I don’t know where all this hurt came from.”

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys
Does Melt Banana have anything to do with the Banana-Grabber character, and animation and theme park rights thereto?

That is very possible. The Melt Banana I know is a chick-fronted Japanese noise-rock band with kind of spastic songs and weird staccato off-kilter vocals. Does that sound like the Banana-Grabber character? Similar?

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

...or MP3 if you know how to use one (I don't)?

(1) Wilco: Summerteeth (can't get enough)
(2) Outkast: the new one (following the masses (hi E/O!))
(3) Pearl Jam: Lost Dogs, etc. (angry Eddie)
(4) John Denver & the Muppets (nothing is better than hearing Beeker chime in on "The 12 Days of X-mas")
(5) The "High Fidelity" soundtrack (always finds its way back)

And you?