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

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Are you really asking me this?

I talk incessantly on the cell phone in the car and consequently drive pretty goddamn recklessly. Why is that behavior, which is more culpable than a drunk (who is mentally comprimised) driving, not equally villified? No one calls for the heads of chronic speeders or cell phone abusers like me. Yet if I drive drunk, I'm the boogeyman. Why is that? It seems that I, as the conscious undiminished negligent actor, should be subject to MORE scorn than the drunk.

Man you are all over the place today. More than usual, I mean. By making this argument, you're blowing holes in at least three of the others you've made.

Please, for the love of God, quit now.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
How did I know it would relate back to you somehow?

TM

I put that line in there just for you.

Now you owe me.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic

BR(I have assigned the Mr. reading on evolutionary psychology in re: this point, but he has come up empty)C

http://nhlbisupport.com/bmi/bmicalc.htm

[BMI calculator so y'all can figure out what I mean by "pleasantly plump BMI of 26 or 27" and let me know if you think I'm a skinny-nazi or a chubby-chaser.]

I don't think you're a chubby chaser at all. I think that the BMI as a standard measurement has the same amount of scientific validity as dunking did back in the Salem Witch Trial days. According to the BMI chart, to hit the border between normal and overweight, I would have to lose 70 pounds. Now, I don't claim to be thin; I never have. But enough of you have met me to know that I'm not anywhere near 70 pounds overweight. If I were to lose 70 pounds, I'd make Calista Flockhart look healthy.

My personal feeling is that with certain posters, Sebby and Coltrane among them, the way they display total contempt toward overweight people is a sign of an almost pathological level of personal insecurity. I just write it off to their having very teeny tiny penises.

[Oliver_Wendell_Ramone]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Halle Berry is perfecting her naughty business woman look:



And apparently Ashley Judd broke her leg or something:

Meanwhile, Slave's girl is getting high through an apple.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
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?

I went to the beach last weekend.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone
Meanwhile, Slave's girl is getting high through an apple.

That's gotta be photoshopped. Everybody knows you have to use a Rome Apple to do that, not a Granny Smith.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

I bet I can out-eat anyone here. Any takers? You? You, Lt. Wineburg?

POLL: State your greatest eating achievment. With food, gutterminds.

I'm either going with 4 pizza puffs in ten minutes or 10 hot dogs at a Cubs game.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by dtb
Well, at least you didn't preface this with some variation on the "I am sure that everyone on this board will mostly agree that..."

But your first sentence makes no sense with the second. Animals shun unhealthy ones because they don't want to catch whatever disease the unhealthy one has. If you are proposing to draw an analogy to the wild-animal kingdom, then fault has no relevance whatsoever.

"The guy who ate too much became a drag on the group"?!?!? Come on -- if you're talking about cavemen times (that's the scientific term), "the guy who ate too much" ipso facto (I'm guessing on that usage -- I really have no idea what it means) ruled the roost, as he elbowed everyone out of the way as he made a beeline for the buffet table.

The analogy you're making is straight-up wacky. See, when you actually write something down, instead of just ad-libbing verbally, people can look at your words over and over again, and see how silly they are. (Anecdotally, this is how traders can get away with "putting lipstick on that pig" in an ORAL conversation, but are nailed to the wall the moment they write their bullshit down.)

You're right - fault has no relevance on first appearance. Its strict instinct - people see something unhealthy on its face and are repelled by it. Should they find the condition is willingly self-inflicted, the more intellectual reaction of disgust enters the picture.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by taxwonk

My personal feeling is that with certain posters, Sebby and Coltrane among them, the way they display total contempt toward overweight people is a sign of an almost pathological level of personal insecurity. I just write it off to their having very teeny tiny penises.

Yeah, but my rants* weren't half as malicious as Sebby's, which means my penis is the least teeny!!

*not sure I even posted one

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Ever see how animals in the wild shun unhealthy animals? People who look like hell through no fault but their own raise a primordial disdain in others.

Fat greyhounds never get laid.

TM

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I bet I can out-eat anyone here. Any takers? You? You, Lt. Wineburg?

POLL: State your greatest eating achievment.

I'm either going with 4 pizza puffs in ten minutes or 10 hot dogs at a Cubs game.

I came in second once in a jalepeno eating contest in college. I think it was something like 40 in a minute. I was pissed off cuz I needed the first prize money for spring break. Actually, I ended up puking them all up again shortly thereafter, so does that count?

[Alex_de_Large]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Are you really asking me this?

I talk incessantly on the cell phone in the car and consequently drive pretty goddamn recklessly. Why is that behavior, which is more culpable than a drunk (who is mentally comprimised) driving, not equally villified?

I think the drunk driver is cuplable. Just becasue he* is drunk and then drives, doesn't make him any less culpable, in my view

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
No one calls for the heads of chronic speeders or cell phone abusers like me. Yet if I drive drunk, I'm the boogeyman. Why is that? It seems that I, as the conscious undiminished negligent actor, should be subject to MORE scorn than the drunk.

Really? What are all of those anti-handheld-cellphone ordinances that are being adopted all over the country about, then?

BTW, buy a fucking headset before you kill somebody.







* Fuck gender neutrality in this instance.

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Fat greyhounds never get laid.

TM

And they need mentors at the racetrack bc the skinny ones always win.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone
Meanwhile, Slave's girl is getting high through an apple.

I cannot believe Charlize Theron shat in Atticus' bed.

Lucky bastard.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I bet I can out-eat anyone here. Any takers? You? You, Lt. Wineburg?

POLL: State your greatest eating achievment. With food, gutterminds.

I'm either going with 4 pizza puffs in ten minutes or 10 hot dogs at a Cubs game.

I can't name one event in particular, but I'm sure it must have involved an NFL game and my couch.