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

[barely_legal]

Originally posted by purse junkie
Can someone explain to me why that horrible whining bitch (yes, I know I said it's sexist and I barely ever use it--it was that or the "c-word") Jenna has survived this long? (1) she's not that pretty, but is constantly saying how beautiful she is and how men are so intimidated by her Aphrodite-ness; (2) she complains whenever she loses, so that she gets an entirely unfair result for herself, like when whatsername paid $300 for a letter from home at an auction and Jenna, who'd blown all her cash on peanut butter and chocolate, sobbed until everyone agreed to give her hers too, thus obviating whatsername's sacrifice; (3) I honestly cannot recall anything useful she's done.

Many thanks for any enlightenment.

Because people want to end up in the final two with a whiny bitch who has alienated everyone so noone on the jury will vote for her. You know how this show works, right? Would you want to go to the final two with someone nice and sweet who everybody loves?

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by barely_legal
Because people want to end up in the final two with a whiny bitch who has alienated everyone so noone on the jury will vote for her. You know how this show works, right? Would you want to go to the final two with someone nice and sweet who everybody loves?

Yes, precisely the strategy that made teh weakest link an incredibly boring game. Everyone voted to eliminate the strongest link, meaning all the idiots were left in the end unable to make any money for teh winner to take home.

Mmmm(Goodbye)Burger

[purse junkie]

by her emotionally traumatized ranch hand:

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/sto...2p-75218c.html

This concludes my lurid celebrity-gossip-of-the-day update.



:shame:

[SEC_Chick]

SPOILER BELOW

Originally posted by barely_legal


Best moment of the show was at tribal council where Heidi said that she deserved to win b/c she was a such a good player that the remaining men were all terrified of her.

I was even more amused when she bragged about how she was the mastermind behind every plan and plot in the game. While I understand that Rob was right to want to go up against Jenna in the final 2, part of me thinks that Jenna will go next and then whoever wins the final immunity will take Rob to the end. I think that the other guys would rather be up against Rob than Jenna. I can't decide whether everyone will be pissed at Rob and vote for the other guy or whether he'll get the you're-an-asshole-but-I-respect-how-you-played-the-game vote.

[evenodds]

Typing Monkeys Don't Write Shakespeare
By JILL LAWLESS, Associated Press Writer

"LONDON - Give an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of typewriters, the theory goes, and they will eventually produce the works of Shakespeare.
_
Give six monkeys one computer for a month, and they will produce a mess.

Researchers at Plymouth University in England reported this week that primates left alone with a computer attacked the machine and failed to produce a single word.

"They pressed a lot of S's," researcher Mike Phillips said Friday. "Obviously, English isn't their first language." "

Full text: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...monkey_authors

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With such a smart research plan, I'd rather associate with the monkeys than the researchers.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by purse junkie
by her emotionally traumatized ranch hand:

It seems a shame that she would waste her time on this guy when there are so many of us out here who would welcome a little Demi-grope.

[Mister_Ruysbroeck]

Originally posted by purse junkie
by her emotionally traumatized ranch hand:

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/sto...2p-75218c.html

This concludes my lurid celebrity-gossip-of-the-day update.

:shame:

That guy must be gay. Who the hell turns down Demi Moore? Granted, she's getting a little older, but I'm sure that dude is no spring chicken, either.

[leagleaze]

Originally posted by Alex_de_Large
I had a birthday "forgotten" before too. It sucked, but hey I got over it. I suggest you do so too. Life is too short.

Me too. The guilt alone when my mom realized that the date had passed and she had forgotten was enough for extra presents and sucking up for YEARS.

It was great. Sure I was a little hurt when she forgot, but I got over it pretty quick. She didn't mean any harm. And I have forgotten hers before.

[leagleaze]

Originally posted by evenodds
Typing Monkeys Don't Write Shakespeare
By JILL LAWLESS, Associated Press Writer

"LONDON - Give an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of typewriters, the theory goes, and they will eventually produce the works of Shakespeare.
_
Give six monkeys one computer for a month, and they will produce a mess.

At first, said Phillips, "the lead male got a stone and started bashing the hell out of it.


"Another thing they were interested in was in defecating and urinating all over the keyboard," added Phillips, who runs the university's Institute of Digital Arts and Technologies.



Ok, now I have thought of doing the former. The latter just seems a little, well, nasty.


I like that you can buy the results

http://www.vivaria.net/experiments/notes/publication/
http://www.kahve-house.com/society/shop/

[Mister_Ruysbroeck]

Originally posted by leagleaze
Me too. The guilt alone when my mom realized that the date had passed and she had forgotten was enough for extra presents and sucking up for YEARS.

It was great. Sure I was a little hurt when she forgot, but I got over it pretty quick. She didn't mean any harm. And I have forgotten hers before.

Didn't some columnist from the chicago sun times say something like "There is a time when you should stop expecting people to celebrate your birthday. That time is age 13"?

Or something along those lines.

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by Mister_Ruysbroeck
Didn't some columnist from the chicago sun times say something like "There is a time when you should stop expecting people to celebrate your birthday. That time is age 13"?

Or something along those lines.

Yes. That columnist was a joyless bastard.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Mister_Ruysbroeck
Didn't some columnist from the chicago sun times say something like "There is a time when you should stop expecting people to celebrate your birthday. That time is age 13"?

Or something along those lines.

That's one of Dave Berry's Twenty Five Things I've Learned in 50 Years.

My ex- forgot my birthday one year. I can't say that I was happy about it. I can't say he was happy about my reaction to his forgetting my birthday.

Edited to put a better link in.

[leagleaze]

Originally posted by Mister_Ruysbroeck
Didn't some columnist from the chicago sun times say something like "There is a time when you should stop expecting people to celebrate your birthday. That time is age 13"?

Or something along those lines.

I don't know, but I agree with him. At least as to concept if not as to age. I'd put it at about 16 or 18.

Edited to say that is a great list.

What was your reaction to his forgetting your birthday? Making him your ex?

[ThrashersFan]

Originally posted by leagleaze
I don't know, but I agree with him. At least as to concept if not as to age. I'd put it at about 16 or 18.

Isn't that one of the fucked up things about life? As soon as you hit an age when you need some extra fucking money or a new pair of pants or something everyone suddenly decides that you are too old to get presents anymore. What a load of shit -- it is precisely when a person is in his early twenties that he needs that extra 20 bucks grandma used to slip into a b-day card but now the old bag thinks he is too mature for birthday presents. Thanks bitch, now I can't afford to go out and celebrate my birthday. I have never been big into my birthday anyway, but sheesh that is some twisted shit.

ThrashersFan

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by leagleaze
I don't know, but I agree with him. At least as to concept if not as to age. I'd put it at about 16 or 18.

Edited to say that is a great list.

What was your reaction to his forgetting your birthday? Making him your ex?

He called me at one in the morning, totally ignorant of the fact that it was my birthday. He couldn't understand why I was a bit pissed off. I asked him to look at the calendar, and he still had no clue what I was talking about. It was a particularly bad year to forget, because I had recently moved to a city where I knew no one, so even token celebrations were at a minimum. I wouldn't have made him my ex- over something like that, but even in the years after he became my ex-, he still calls me on my birthday to prove that he remembers.


It looks like most Americans think that 26 is the age where we're grown up:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...fe_adults_dc_1

Are We Grown Up Yet? U.S. Study Says Not 'Till 26
Thu May 8, 6:37 PM ET Add Science - Reuters to My Yahoo!

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Most Americans believe someone isn't grown up until age 26, probably with a completed education, a full-time job, a family to support and financial independence, a survey said on Thursday.

But they also believe that becoming an official grown-up is a process that takes five years from about the age of 20, concluded the report from the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center.

The findings were based on a representative sample of 1,398 people over age 18 surveyed in person in 2002. It had an error margin of plus or minus 3 percent.