Fashionistas you have arrived 3-25-03 - 10-3-03

[evenodds]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Given all the health messages to drink more water, I can see where it's coming from.

Now, my question is, why do people willingly spend $1-2 on a small bottle of "spring" water, when the stuff is available completely free? NYC has always had some of the best tap water anywhere, so why so many water bottles?

We have a water service because the local water is (a) nasty tasting with a slightly metallic taste, and (b) from time to time launches illnesses throughout our fair city.

My favorite water is evian, which I drink at room temperature. Any other water, I chill or disguise with lime or emer-gen-c. I can no longer justify spending $2.39 a bottle, since we discovered we spent about $40 a week on bottled water, pre-water service.

Even(now drinking prole water)Odds

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?


What's wrong with Nalgene? I have three.*

Nothing. I figure those folks just filled up with tap water, or from one of those big E/O water-service tanks.

BTW, are the claims that Nalgene bottles don't leak accurate?

[evenodds]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Nothing. I figure those folks just filled up with tap water, or from one of those big E/O water-service tanks.

BTW, are the claims that Nalgene bottles don't leak accurate?

What is Nalgene?

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I don't understand the obsession with everyone walking around with one. Is America THAT dehydrated? Other countries seem to be doing just fine waiting until they get to an actual PLACE to get water. We apparently can't go five minutes w/out drinking some. I can understand if you're a tourist and you'll be walking around all day, but I see people with them for the walk/train/bus ride home for the office. Are these people going to pass out? Don't get me wrong, I'm the biggest hydration advocate in the world, but I think it's gone too far. Maybe drinking too much water is making us fat...

The GF ALWAYS carries one, and asks me every five minutes if I would like a sip. She pees every 20 minutes.

We didn't drink this much water when we were skinny did we? I'm talking '70s/80s skinny. You drank a glass when you were thirsty. Why are we forcing ourselves to drink more?

Edited to add that, lately, I've been forcing myself to drink more. Not water though...

I've bought a lot of water recently to bring with me to my morning workout, mainly because I'm too lazy at 6:00 am to refill one of the bottles with tap water and take it with me. At that time of the morning, my brain works easier stopping in a convienence store and handing over a dollar before getting to the workout. Lately, I've been drinking the Deja Blue brand.

I have a 44 ounce cup from a fast food restaruant on my desk at work, and I refill it probably three or four times a day. It's a habit I got into about two or so years ago. I keep busboys in restaurants busy, constantly refilling my water and iced tea glasses.

My kitchen sink has a filtration system underneath, so the water in my kitchen actually tastes pretty good, but the water in my bathroom sucks.

Originally posted by NotFromHere
Our doctor told us that you should be peeing about every hour - give or take.

Wow! That seems like a lot. How many times do you get up at night?

If I have to pee more than three times a day, or get up at night to pee I start worrying about my prostate.

DT

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Nothing. I figure those folks just filled up with tap water, or from one of those big E/O water-service tanks.

BTW, are the claims that Nalgene bottles don't leak accurate?

Yep, my Nalgene gets tap water.

I've never had one leak. They've really cornered the market on "liquid containers that fit nicely into the side webbing of your backpack/daypack"...

[ThurgreedMarshall]

The following list lost all credibility with me because it failed to list Kevin Costner in Robin Hood (which should have been number one -- Hell, even his American accent is painful and whiny). And Keanu should be number two.

POLL: WORST FILM ACCENTS

1. Sean Connery, "The Untouchables" (1987)
2. Dick Van Dyke, "Mary Poppins" (1964)
3. Brad Pitt, "Seven Years In Tibet" (1997)
4. Charlton Heston, "Touch of Evil" (1958)
5. Heather Graham, "From Hell" (2001)
6. Keanu Reeves, "Bram Stoker's Dracula" (1992)
7. Julia Roberts, "Mary Reilly" (1996)
8. Laurence Olivier, "The Jazz Singer" (1980)
9. Peter Postlewaite, "The Usual Suspects" (1995)
10. Meryl Streep, "Out of Africa" (1985)

-- Source: Empire Magazine

http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Movi...ent/index.html

I think Connery's accent isn't mocked as much over here because we don't really give a shit that there's a difference between Scottish and Irish. And when he's playing a Russian speaking English, his gruff Scottish accent sounds just fine because it's foreign. Hell, I was watching "Brotherhood of the Wolf" the other day (a french film set in France) and it was dubbed so that all of the actors had British accents. Makes no sense.

Anyone have any to add to the list?

Thurgreed(do NOT rent Brotherhood of the Wolf)Marshall

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
BTW, are the claims that Nalgene bottles don't leak accurate?

Yep, at least mine doesn't. I can toss it when it's full into my handbag and no matter how it tumbles around it won't leak.

However, please don't kick my ass if yours leaks and wrecks your stuff. I recall I got into a lot of trouble when I told a poster how to drink from a glass without getting lipstick on it and ended up being threatened with dry-cleaning bills when she stained her blouse trying.

[NotFromHere]

This has gotten out of hand. Who started this? Now it's on MSNBC!

Are you a metrosexual

June 30 — Turns out there’s a crisis in masculinity afoot. Not a new crisis, so much as the same crisis that comes along every couple of years, articulated by one of two questions: “Are men too manly?” or “Are men manly enough?” The latest rehashing of this issue is encapsulated in the term “metrosexual,” entertainingly explored in a recent edition of The New York Times.
ACCORDING TO Warren St. John’s article, this is a term coined by writer Mark Simpson several years ago “to satirize what he saw as consumerism’s toll on traditional masculinity.” But recently marketers have repositioned the term to denote guys who are secure in their need for, say, skin moisturizer or body spray-”straight urban men willing, even eager, to embrace their feminine sides,” as St. John puts it. (In some descriptions, the metrosexual idea seems to equate homosexuality with femininity in ways that suggest a Three’s Company level of analysis, but leave that aside.) We may, the Times says, “be on the verge of a metrosexual moment.”
What’s a little startling about this is that it seems like only yesterday that we were still enthralled with the New Piggery of the Maxim cohort, which has mustered enough of a cultural presence to inspire an “unapologetically male” TV network. Is that over? To answer this question we turn to the marketing efforts in support of a body spray deodorant called Axe, apparently a prime example of a metrosexual product, and according to its maker, Unilever, “A stylish brand [that] boosts young men’s confidence and attraction through the combination of a distinctive masculine fragrance and long-lasting deodorant protection.”

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by evenodds
What is Nalgene?

Preferred by kayakers everywhere. Or so it seems.

Note to Coltrane--looks like the new colors also sport a pre-caribinered version.

[evenodds]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Thurgreed(do NOT rent Brotherhood of the Wolf)Marshall

I loved Brotherhood of the Wolf, but you have to watch it subtitled.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
This has gotten out of hand. Who started this? Now it's on MSNBC!

[yet another metrosexual article]

Has Jayson Blair been hired by all of these publications?

Originally posted by purse junkie
I told a poster how to drink from a glass without getting lipstick on it.

Do you mind repeating the instructions for my edification. I don't wear lipstick, but it sounds like a cool skill to have in my bag of party tricks.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
And Keanu should be number two.

POLL: WORST FILM ACCENTS

You mean, in addition to number 6? What about his southern lawyer in the Devil's Advocate? Whoa. In a southern Keanu way.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Attaching the Nalgene to your belt loop via a carabiner makes you a dork.

Okay, attaching anything to your belt makes you a dork. There are no exceptions. I don't care if you have no pocket for your phone or pager or whatever. You look like a dumbass if you attach it to your belt. Don't do it.

TM