Fashion Board 3-5-04 to 4-6-04

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by spookyfish
I think everyone here would mostly agree that I am mainly correct that neither one of the aforementioned activities [one of which is buying Suarus] are cool.

Homophobe.

[notcasesensitive]

Halle Berry is perfecting her naughty business woman look:



And apparently Ashley Judd broke her leg or something:

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
Say no more.

Economists, like Burger, assume that people act rationally.

The economist's fatal flaw. No wonder their micro models rarely apply to reality.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
So fat is bad to talk about, but Robins are pretty. Today I saw a Robin eating a worm. Did anyone see a robin or another bird today? how's the weather there?

It was six degrees when I came to work. But it is pretty sunny out . . .

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive

And apparently Ashley Judd broke her leg or something:

Well, let's see that again.

She fell on the stage when jumping from the roof. it was too hot for that cat.

She gamely completed the next act, however.

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Homophobe.

Said the prancy kitty to the gay mormon.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
That's a cute name for it. Not perfectly descriptive, I hope.

For Swift, it's probably quite an achievement. There's no way Dryden could get it up.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
It was six degrees when I came to work. But it is pretty sunny out . . .

hoooo boy 6 degrees! I bet you don't see robins for 2 more weeks! Well maybe you can recommend a CD, but not something you first heard in your spin class okay?

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
For Swift, it's probably quite an achievement. There's no way Dryden could get it up.

Edited to say nevermind. Why kill it?

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
So fat is bad to talk about, but Robins are pretty. Today I saw a Robin eating a worm. Did anyone see a robin or another bird today? how's the weather there?

You are a bastard for bringing this up despite your knowledge of my Ornithophobia.

I saw dozens of pigeons swarming and vying for tossed bread crusts while I was eating lunch outside today. It is 65 and partly cloudy here. Sorry about that 6 degree thing, Flower.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Uh-oh. How do you feel about Eva Silverstein posts? This is a matter of ongoing concern.

My feeling is that you ought to stop posting your picture from freshman year and trying to pass it off as a girl. You're beginning to worry me. I may have to start reading up on dissociative disorder.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
hoooo boy 6 degrees! I bet you don't see robins for 2 more weeks!

No, they're here already.

They're lying out there frozen and dead, of course . . .

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
And further to the point, not all drunks get into their cars and drive home. That had to be the most ignorant thing Atticus has ever said, and he doesntt seem prone to ignorance.

Hey, thanks!

To the substance, where outside of Manhattan do drunks not drive --- frequently? Besides, not all overeaters die of heart disease, and even fewer of them take someone with them.

But I'm not real clear on your ultimate point. Are you in the column of people who thinks the overeating vice is (1) worse than drinking/drugs, (2) morally indistinguishable, and thus the drinking/drugs people should probably shut the fuck up, or (3) better? I really don't get how your cocaine doesn't hurt anybody (in America), but my In-n-Out double-double does. If you're against moral judgments for your personal indulgences, I really think you should leave fat people alone.

If the board concensus is to discourage personal behaviors that ultimately cost healthcare dollars, I'm going next door to slap the shit (hi, paigow!) out of some rooftop sunbathers. And then I'm going to the VD clinic to open a can on Less.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
The economist's fatal flaw. No wonder their micro models rarely apply to reality.

Incomplete models.

Either overeating is rational or it's not.

It's rational if people are doing it for enjoyment. If so, it's the same as smoking, drinking, drugs, rock-climbing, kayaking, whatever: it's activity with potential harm to the person engaging in it, and possibly external costs for health care when things go wrong (heart disease, lung cancer, liver cirrhosis, cracked skulls). If you rail against one, you're unprincipled not to rail against another. Otherwise, you should accept that people will do harmful things to their bodies. Sebby, I assume, won't be looking for a free liver when his gives up and runs off to Utah.

Or it's not rational, because it's a physical addiction of some sort, glandular or whatever. Sebby sez, well, I'm not attacking them, because it's a disease. Well, fine, let's not attack the irrational overeaters, because it's a disease. And we'll leave the alcoholics (non-driving) and crackheads alone as well. So go back and read the first paragraph and distinguish overeating from the other activities.

The thread wasn't about hating that fat people bitch and moan for acceptance and toleration. It was about how disgusting fat people are.

[Alex_de_Large]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield I drove shitfaced a lot in high school and thinking about it now gives me shivers... You lose your goddamned license for a year in this state if you get caught.

You get the shivers about drunk driving because you might los eyour license? Do I need to send you that powerpoint about the woman who got all burned because of an accident with a drunk driver?

Even better, maybe we can talk about my cousin, who was decapitated when a drunk driver decided that she didn't really have to slow down because of all that ice...