New Fashion Board 10-3-2003 - 11-7-2003

Originally posted by evenodds
Nope. They are fake. When the OM knew her pre-LA, she was relatively flat-chested.

Yeah, but she is flat chested now, yes? She was for sure on Surivor and I dont remember noticing big tits on the Surreal life. Imissed her "spread" in Playboy.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Just saw a girl wearing the Burberry plaid boots. I tried to vomit on them but only managed dry heaves. I know nothing about women's fashion but I know I hate that plaid. Walking advertisement. Why don't they just bust out their Coca-Cola and Pepsi shirts from the late '80s.

Speaking of the '80s, I Love 1985 brought up Mr. Belvedere...it's still FUNNY! For different reasons of course. High comedy. Who knew this would be the show that stood the test of time? That Bob Ueuker (sp?).

[mmm3587]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
Yeah, but she is flat chested now, yes? She was for sure on Surivor and I dont remember noticing big tits on the Surreal life. Imissed her "spread" in Playboy.

She was almost certainly real in Playboy. She looked decent, but not great.* She had a weird ass-crease thing thing going on where her buttock met the back of her thigh.

* Although, maybe I just hated her on the show so much that I wasn't objective. I thought she was more pretty than great-bodied, but I can't dig up the picture right now.

[mmm3587]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Just saw a girl wearing the Burberry plaid boots. I tried to vomit on them but only managed dry heaves. I know nothing about women's fashion but I know I hate that plaid. Walking advertisement. Why don't they just bust out their Coca-Cola and Pepsi shirts from the late '80s.

Aside from the obvious comments (Burberry is so 2001, which Paigow invented, etc.), it's even worse when you see guys with some Burberry stuff on. Especially when it's a scarf, and they're otherwise kind of slobby, and it's obvious that their wives just bought them something small but expensive from Burberry so they don't bitch about the wife spending thousands on that stuff. "But honey, you've got a Burberry scarf, too!"

[baltassoc]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I'm just wondering who would pay over a dollar fifty for a six pack of any soft drink.

Um. Guys. Especially "busy" professional type guys. I don't know when was the last time I paid attention to the price of anything in the grocery store, especially for non-fungible goods.* I might manage to buy the brand of pasta that's on sale, because I really can't tell the difference between the blue box and the red box on my plate; but I don't care if Coke is twice as much as Pepsi this week, I'm not buying Pepsi. I'm not waiting until next week. And I'm not running over to another store either.

Of course, I don't really drink even Coke anymore, but this reasoning holds true for about anything. If I want chicken breasts, I'm not waiting for it to go on sale. It's the beauty of being a relatively well paid person. I do recognize that this is a luxury, however.

* I am excluding from this alcohol, which I and many men do perform a complicated price-benefit analysis when purchasing. This exclusion goes without saying in Maryland, where supermarkets do not sell any alcohol, but I know this is not the case elsewhere.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by baltassoc
It's the beauty of being a relatively well paid person.

Another beauty is having a house with a sizable pantry/basement to store coke/pasta/cereal/etc. when it goes on sale. Safeway and Giant play the suckers' game of high/low pricing in DC, so in order to get a decent price (or not get ripped off), you almost have to stock up when sales are going.

But feel free to keep lining their pockets.

[lookingformarket]

Originally posted by baltassoc
Um. Guys. Especially "busy" professional type guys. I don't know when was the last time I paid attention to the price of anything in the grocery store, especially for non-fungible goods

My wife does not like me shopping because I don't know anything about prices. I come home with stuff, she asks me how much it costs and my response is always "Not so much that I noticed". If she complains, my standard response is "if I get fired, I'll start worrying about grocery prices"

[Pretty Little Flower]

"Underwear seduction courses in a department store?

Bien sûr.

Here in Paris, porno-chic has gone mainstream."

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/06/in...ARI.html?8hpib

[evenodds]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
Yeah, but she is flat chested now, yes? She was for sure on Surivor and I dont remember noticing big tits on the Surreal life. Imissed her "spread" in Playboy.

His impression after watching her on Surreal Life was that she had gotten implants since the mid-90s when they were working together and hanging out.

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by rufus leeking
I need helpful suggestions:

Each year we do a family xmas card with a photo and a short phrase.

Any ideas?

I hate to be the one to say this, but I tried to stop myself and I just can't. I apparently have no self control today.

I friggin' hate those things. I suggest sending a real christmas card with a personal message in it rather than an ostensibly humorous pic of the kiddies with a catch phrase.

Only once in my life have I seen one of those "aren't my kids cute" christmas cards work, and that was a friend who sent around a copy of his kid's letter to santa, which read something like "Dear Santa, this year for Christmas I have been very good and I want: Legos, a flashlight, a dump truck, a flamethrower, a tent to camp in the back yard, a Mom Vaporizer, an axe (pre sharpened)..." It only worked because the kid was objectively funnier than most adult stand-up I've seen. Otherwise, sorry, no one else thinks its cute.

BR(letting my inner holiday-ruining bitch crap all over other people's happiness, I know, sorry)C

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by lookingformarket
My wife does not like me shopping because I don't know anything about prices. I come home with stuff, she asks me how much it costs and my response is always "Not so much that I noticed". If she complains, my standard response is "if I get fired, I'll start worrying about grocery prices"

This is not a purely guy phenomenon. I have no idea of grocery prices. I buy groceries less frequently than my bf does (we live separately, so, alas, he is not buying them for me). I might go to the grocery once per month, and I expect my bill to be somewhere around $50 (mainly because I can only buy what will fit in a basket, because carts are way too big of a commitment). Beyond that, no idea.

Have you guessed yet that I eat out a lot?

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
I hate to be the one to say this, but I tried to stop myself and I just can't. I apparently have no self control today.

I friggin' hate those things. I suggest sending a real christmas card with a personal message in it rather than an ostensibly humorous pic of the kiddies with a catch phrase.

Only once in my life have I seen one of those "aren't my kids cute" christmas cards work, and that was a friend who sent around a copy of his kid's letter to santa, which read something like "Dear Santa, this year for Christmas I have been very good and I want: Legos, a flashlight, a dump truck, a flamethrower, a tent to camp in the back yard, a Mom Vaporizer, an axe (pre sharpened)..." It only worked because the kid was objectively funnier than most adult stand-up I've seen. Otherwise, sorry, no one else thinks its cute.

BR(letting my inner holiday-ruining bitch crap all over other people's happiness, I know, sorry)C

I was just going to comment that they were putting WAY too much thought and effort into stupid Christmas cards.

I typically run to the store around Thanksgiving, find cards that don't limit the celebration to Christmas and call it a day. Then it becomes a challenge to see if I actually end up sending any of them out (odds are approx. 50-50)...

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
[huge thing on icewine]
http://www.winesofcanada.com/icewine.html

Holy shit, dude.

FWIW, I understand some areas of upstate NY also make icewine. I have not heard that it is very good.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by lookingformarket
My wife does not like me shopping because I don't know anything about prices. I come home with stuff, she asks me how much it costs and my response is always "Not so much that I noticed". If she complains, my standard response is "if I get fired, I'll start worrying about grocery prices"

Maybe you would get a greater appreciation of her perspective if the two of you changed jobs. That's the standing offer at my house. My wife hasn't taken me up on it but I'm sure that she appreciates my continually offering it up.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
I was just going to comment that they were putting WAY too much thought and effort into stupid Christmas cards.

I typically run to the store around Thanksgiving, find cards that don't limit the celebration to Christmas and call it a day. Then it becomes a challenge to see if I actually end up sending any of them out (odds are approx. 50-50)...

My immediate family has a very big Christmas party at the beginning of the holiday season. We consider the invitation to that party to be our Christmas card, even if some of us are not living in Texas or going to be attending the party that year. The invitation design used to be a big group thing, but then one of my sibs went to architecture school, declared that em knew more about design than the rest of us, and took over the invitation designing. Em said that em would have it done last night. Em lied. Some of us may be slightly bitter about the hostile takeover of the invitation design.