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

[LessinSF]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
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.

Cocaine, if if kills, does so quickly - during use. Long term health care costs are de minimis compared to those assoiciated with smoking or overeating. In fact, fat people should be force fed cocaine to slim them up a bit. Anorexics should likewise be required to smoke pot. Most lawyers should have to jack up some horse each morning. And birth control pills should contain MDMA.

[dtb]

Originally posted by bilmore
Maybe the operative difference is, your heart disease isn't gonna kill ME.

Amen, brother Bilmore.

[SlaveNoMore]

LessinSF
Cocaine, if if kills, does so quickly - during use. Long term health care costs are de minimis compared to those assoiciated with smoking or overeating. In fact, fat people should be force fed cocaine to slim them up a bit. Anorexics should likewise be required to smoke pot. Most lawyers should have to jack up some horse each morning. And birth control pills should contain MDMA.

Itching for the weekend already, I see.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by LessinSF
Cocaine, if if kills, does so quickly - during use. Long term health care costs are de minimis compared to those assoiciated with smoking or overeating. In fact, fat people should be force fed cocaine to slim them up a bit. Anorexics should likewise be required to smoke pot. Most lawyers should have to jack up some horse each morning. And birth control pills should contain MDMA.

This is the only reasoned post, including my own, I've seen all day.

I'm still waiting for your newsletter.

[dtb]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I won't get near a fucking car when I'm drinking. You lose your goddamned license for a year in this state if you get caught. Fuck that.

I fear this was not a sarcastic comment.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by dtb
I fear this was not a sarcastic comment.

I assumed the "I don't want to hurt people" part is implicit. I guess I assumed wrong.

In all condor, however, if I knew I was in a desolate area where I wouldn't hurt anyone or get caught, I'd drive utterly shitfaced.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by dtb
I fear this was not a sarcastic comment.

If everyone's deterrent to driving drunk was the possibility of killing someone, we wouldn't need that lose-your-license law in the first place.

I am deterred by both.

And Atticus, you can live in most big cities and never have to drive drunk. Even if you get drunk fairly often. I've never even come close in Chicago.

[Fugee]

Originally posted by LessinSF
In fact, fat people should be force fed cocaine to slim them up a bit. Anorexics should likewise be required to smoke pot. Most lawyers should have to jack up some horse each morning. And birth control pills should contain MDMA.

And to think I thought it was radical to wish the government put SSRIs (anti-depressants) in the drinking water.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I ate two pounds of Brussel sprouts at boarding school. yum, brussel sprouts.

And today - I was just mentioning to someone, I have eaten 5 apples. (and I want another one). That is an achievement of sorts.

at the Mayberry-like suburb I live in, there's a 4th of july picnic with contests. So one year I'm looking at the competition for the pie eating contest and its 6 grandmas- 2empty chairs left.I enter and get ready for sure win- impress the kids!

Then the spectators start trying to talk in this man-mountain former football line for Vanderbilt. Not to bash, but to be descriptive, he's 6' 2 or 3, 350lbs. he seems embaressed, but to shut them up he takes the last chair.

The contest is first to finish an entire cherry pie- no hands. I'm wondering if there is a prize for second as the gun sounds. Eating away I glance at brutus, and he's eating daintily, tiny bites- WTF?

Then i get it. See he knows all the people who think like sebastian will think he's a pig who could eat the pie in one bite- so he doesn't. Like thurgreed wouldn't eat watermelon in the dorm cafeteria, because he didn't want the mmmmm385's of his college to see a sterotype.

I won because society had predisposed this guy not to try and win an eating contest and reinforce our sterotypes. See?

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by taxwonk
Whiff. I did not express any contempt for the less-endowed. Nor did I suggest that they were in any way responsible for their condition. I certainly never said I hate them. I only feel that way about lizards.

Fine. We understand each other. You disapprove of lizards and I disapprove of comments reminding you how you will never, ever be able to fully satisfy a woman.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
If everyone's deterrent to driving drunk was the possibility of killing someone, we wouldn't need that lose-your-license law in the first place.

Absolutely. But that ideally deters stupid highschool kids who think they are invincible and that they can drive better than anyone so they're not going to get into an accident, even while drunk. Not 30ish people with the alleged wisdom of experience.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield

In all condor, however, if I knew I was in a desolate area where I wouldn't hurt anyone or get caught, I'd drive utterly shitfaced.

It's okay to fly while drunk as long as you are a passenger.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Fugee
And to think I thought it was radical to wish the government put SSRIs (anti-depressants) in the drinking water.

What do you have against orgasms?

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield

In all condor, however, if I knew I was in a desolate area where I wouldn't hurt anyone or get caught, I'd drive utterly shitfaced.

That is why the condor is nearly extinct in California. You should know better than to look to them. stupid, drunk-driving birds.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Absolutely. But that ideally deters stupid highschool kids who think they are invincible and that they can drive better than anyone so they're not going to get into an accident, even while drunk. Not 30ish people with the alleged wisdom of experience.

It may deter the 30-ish person who has had, say, 5 drinks but feels completely sober. We've all been there. You eat a big dinner (overeaters!), have more than three drinks and feel perfectly sober. Without that law, you'd probably drive home.