The New And Improved Fashion Board

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I think that's her in the front.

4 more, demonstrating all 100 ways it can be worn.

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by patentparanyc


And Manfred, your posts are long and tedious and although I am sure thougtfully written, do not flow well and are hard to decipher and are typically not funny nor interesting.

This is both untrue and amusing, though perhaps not in the way you intended.

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I think that's her in the front.

Where did these pics come from? Was there actually a gigantic, blissful, Wonderbra convention that I was simply unaware of?

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by Gattigap
This is both untrue and amusing, though perhaps not in the way you intended.

I prefer Sebby's or Bad Rich Chic's, long but amusing.

And I understand irony. I really do--a little birdie told me mine are uninteresting and indiciperherable. pot kettle living in a glass house and all that.

Actually, maybe I've hit upon something. the posters I usually find amusing don't typically have that hate level for me as the ones that I flatline when I read their posts. Maybe it is a sense of humor differential and how that is finely tuned or calibrated one way or the other.

Okay, I must be fucking cranky because as nice as these wonderbra pics are it's getting old. Can't we have just coltrane do the pooty pic of the day? When the bored gets flooded with pooty pics...it's a little much, boys, only inasmuch as it gets old fast and that these women would not give mortal men the time of day. Spanky excluded Mr. Stripper Banger himself.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Gattigap
Where did these pics come from? Was there actually a gigantic, blissful, Wonderbra convention that I was simply unaware of?

Yes! There was some debut of it in London. The Sun

Front-page photo essay:

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I think that's her in the front.

Casting call for an homage to Robert Palmer?

[Replaced_Texan]

I found my black beret when I was looking for something else this morning.

I'd hunted high and low for it two weeks ago and ended up having to wear a black velvet do-rag thing that I bought in London a dozen years ago. I love the black velvet do-rag thing, but it wasn't what I wanted to wear that night. I wanted to wear my black beret. I had found my pink beret. And a sort of green velvet beret. And a lot of other soft hats. But I wanted the black beret.

Somehow it had ended up in the basket that I keep my dry cleaning in.

I am wearing my black beret today. Oolala.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I found my black beret when I was looking for something else this morning.

I'd hunted high and low for it two weeks ago and ended up having to wear a black velvet do-rag thing that I bought in London a dozen years ago. I love the black velvet do-rag thing, but it wasn't what I wanted to wear that night. I wanted to wear my black beret. I had found my pink beret. And a sort of green velvet beret. And a lot of other soft hats. But I wanted the black beret.

I am wearing my black beret today. Oolala.

1.) Very stylish and chic. Perhaps someone could post an Audrey Hepburn black beret pic in homage.

2.) A gossip magazine is in my elevator bank, and the 20 something employees annoy the shit out of me. "Like, omigod" "omigod!, omigod" "like yeah, like Lindsey" "like, we are going skiing in St. Moritz, no you did SO WELL on powder, omigod"

I'm all like STFU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ARGHG!!! [**note to self, Ipod at all times, even if simply going to Starbucks intrabuilding]

3.) I used the term "batshit crazy" yesterday and that person looked at me like, huh, what?

4.) raspberry beret refernce is AWESOME good for you.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan

I am wearing my black beret today. Oolala.

the kind u find in a second hand store?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by patentparanyc

3.) I used the term "batshit crazy" yesterday and that person looked at me like, huh, what?

Was the reaction like when you call someone "hard to decipher" here?

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Was the reaction like when you call someone "hard to decipher" here?

you don't like my "hard to decipher?" am I incorrectly using that?

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I'm with you. I have stayed true to it. Others have failed, but have thoughtfully avoided the word "fag".

Yes, I've certainly gone over the top with that post. How dare I stifle the fag-calling hilarity of the board? I can see why this bothers you so much.

I realize (though, I note, not all casual readers of the boards would) that most or all of you are calling each other fags in the most enlightened, ironic sense of the word, but I sort of made a vow to myself, after years of living in Dallas (a.k.a. the bible belt) and hearing people make perfectly serious homophobic and derogatory statements and jokes that I wouldn't just sit by silently. If that means that once every 1000 or so times someone here calls someone else a fag I mention that I don't find the jokes funny, I'm not sure how I'm infringing on your enjoyment of the boards.

In answer to your question, no, calling something "gay" is not nearly as offensive to me as calling people "fucking fags". I guess I typically filter the jokes through whether my gay friends would appreciate (or even make) the joke. So calling TM's princess bed "gay" is not overly offensive to me. However if my gay friends came across a chat board where people spend 5 pages calling each other fags, fucking fags, faggots, even in a joking context, I don't think they'd want to hang out here or participate in the discussion. I think that sucks.

If you want to sit around calling each other fags, and it is really really amusing to you, fine. Be my guest. I just happened to mention (and I can't promise I'll never mention it again, though I think I'm fairly restrained in how often I point it out) that I don't find it funny.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Yes, I've certainly gone over the top with that post. How dare I stifle the fag-calling hilarity of the board? I can see why this bothers you so much.

I realize (though, I note, not all casual readers of the boards would) that most or all of you are calling each other fags in the most enlightened, ironic sense of the word, but I sort of made a vow to myself, after years of living in Dallas (a.k.a. the bible belt) and hearing people make perfectly serious homophobic and derogatory statements and jokes that I wouldn't just sit by silently. If that means that once every 1000 or so times someone here calls someone else a fag I mention that I don't find the jokes funny, I'm not sure how I'm infringing on your enjoyment of the boards.

In answer to your question, no, calling something "gay" is not nearly as offensive to me as calling people "fucking fags". I guess I typically filter the jokes through whether my gay friends would appreciate (or even make) the joke. So calling TM's princess bed "gay" is not overly offensive to me. However if my gay friends came across a chat board where people spend 5 pages calling each other fags, fucking fags, faggots, even in a joking context, I don't think they'd want to hang out here or participate in the discussion. I think that sucks.

If you want to sit around calling each other fags, and it is really really amusing to you, fine. Be my guest. I just happened to mention (and I can't promise I'll never mention it again, though I think I'm fairly restrained in how often I point it out) that I don't find it funny.

I agree. And surely we can find a more biting insult that doesn't refer to anyone's sexual preference.

So, I'd suggest we use the word "Hankish" where people are tempted to say "Fag". I think it gets the point across.

[Secret_Agent_Man]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
I had a dream last night that there was a snake in my bed. The dream was so real that I leapt out of bed and whirled around, ready to see a snake all coiled up on my bed.

"Paging Dr. Freud . . . "

S_A_M

[tmdiva]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
If you want to sit around calling each other fags, and it is really really amusing to you, fine. Be my guest. I just happened to mention (and I can't promise I'll never mention it again, though I think I'm fairly restrained in how often I point it out) that I don't find it funny.

FWIW, 2.

tm