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

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
I think I learned from a Friends episode that when asking someone out you cant be half assed and say "what is your schedule like" or "I have two extra tickets to the Knicks game". You have to say., " Would you like to have dinner with me Saturday night?".

I agree on this one 100%. You must issue definite invitations, or they don't count (or, they are the equivalent of "let's have lunch": unspecific invitations can be presumed to show friendliness but no actual desire to ever see the invitee again). That means specifying a day, starting time and activity. It gives her something concrete to reject.

If she doesn't accept 3 times (unless she offers a definite counter-invitation, e.g.: "I can't do it saturday, could we try dinner Sunday instead?"), stop asking, it's called harassment. If she (and you) have screwed up the process of asking others on dates so badly that neither of you is sure whether you have been rejected or not, if she wants to go out with you she needs to do the asking.

I'd suggest "Saturday dinner at 7," and if she doesn't accept that one, say "well, you seem to be awfully busy. Why don't you let me know when you have some time if you would like to get together" and don't ask her again until she does. If she's rules-ey, she won't (though she could drop a broad "hmm, a whole weekend with nothing to do" hint and still let you ask her), but if she is you don't want to date her anyway.

BR(Friends?)C

[purse junkie]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
OK, point taken. But why did she post an article on it from the NYT if it was relatively old news that was splashed everywhere? Thats why I thought it might be spoiler bc I didnt see the sense of posting this if it were not. If that makes any sense.

B/c it went into more edifying detail and analysis than our immediate responses, which run along the rather simple lines of, "Holy crap! I can't believe he did that with a double-fractured collarbone!" (It takes a few minutes for the more sophisticated arguments over strategy, import for Tyler's potential podium shot, reaction of Euskaltel team, etc. to set in).

Oh, and I heart Phil Liggett (a TdF commentator, Paigs)--I await his daily stage analysis on the TdF site with baited breath.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by paigowprincess


I think I may have to agree with Lester (!) that there are many posts of middling interest to various people (and I know I am guilty of this as well). I wonder if there is a way to ingore posts with a certain keyword in the header since sports dont stay on the sports board (and I usually only post tennis results for the people on my laminated list who are bangable and therefore it is FB apppropriate).

I find the scroll wheel and/or down arrow are particularly effective in moving past the uninteresting posts.


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damn. can't get enough of that emoticon.

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
I agree on this one 100%. You must issue definite invitations, or they don't count (or, they are the equivalent of "let's have lunch": unspecific invitations can be presumed to show friendliness but no actual desire to ever see the invitee again). That means specifying a day, starting time and activity. It gives her something concrete to reject.

If she doesn't accept 3 times (unless she offers a definite counter-invitation, e.g.: "I can't do it saturday, could we try dinner Sunday instead?"), stop asking, it's called harassment. If she (and you) have screwed up the process of asking others on dates so badly that neither of you is sure whether you have been rejected or not, if she wants to go out with you she needs to do the asking.

I'd suggest "Saturday dinner at 7," and if she doesn't accept that one, say "well, you seem to be awfully busy. Why don't you let me know when you have some time if you would like to get together" and don't ask her again until she does. If she's rules-ey, she won't (though she could drop a broad "hmm, a whole weekend with nothing to do" hint and still let you ask her), but if she is you don't want to date her anyway.

BR(Friends?)C

A Rules girl would never admit she has a weekend of nothign to do. The Rules are about playing hard to get, remember? It is a wonder you ever got married (hey burger, can I borrow your eyeroll emoticon?)

Yes, Friends. THe one where Jennifer Aniston's real life boyfriend Tate Donovan playeder her personal shopper customer and she offered him two tix to the Knix and he took the tix and his nephew. I am going to write a book called "everything I know I learned from Chandler Bing". It will include every beaten to death passe joke from the nineties (with the exception of "Not!")

Thanks for playing.

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by ThrashersFan
Okay, so there was this PhD chick on O'Reilly last night who said that cybersex is cheating.

Is reading bodice-ripping romance novels cheating, too? Penthouse?

Cybersex seems, to me, to be a matter of getting off on imagining what an amateurishly drawn fictional character is gonna do to you if she gets her hands on you, or getting off on imagining that while looking at pictures, at most. If that sort of sinning in one's own mind is cheating, then humans are not monogamous animals after all, and we are all a bunch of ho-bags.

BR(waiting for Lester's rebuttal of that last, but whatever)C

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
A Rules girl would never admit she has a weekend of nothign to do. The Rules are about playing hard to get, remember? It is a wonder you ever got married (hey burger, can I borrow your eyeroll emoticon?)

I should read the Rules at some point, I guess, for a lark. Anyhow, anyone playing hard to get such that she screws up basic social rules (i.e.: rejecting 3 invitations is the way civilized people say "I'm dropping you socially") deserves what she gets.

[evenodds]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
I think I may have to agree with Lester (!) that there are many posts of middling interest to various people (and I know I am guilty of this as well). I wonder if there is a way to ingore posts with a certain keyword in the header since sports dont stay on the sports board (and I usually only post tennis results for the people on my laminated list who are bangable and therefore it is FB apppropriate).

So basically if you are interested, then it is FB appropriate.

I posted after the re-air for people who are mildly interested in the performance of an American warrior riding alone with a broken collarbone but who don't actually watch or cannot get OLN (60% of cable hhs).

Samuel Abt is writing some of the best stuff available on the tour (and I would know since I read almost everything available in English), so the link to his article in particular is helpful for those who want a little more but don't want to check the Guardian, Velonews, OLNTV, cyclingnews, the age, and the rest.

Don't like it? Keep scrolling. You could always put me on ignore.

Even(interrupting my vacation)Odds

[evenodds]

I saw this article this morning in a media email and I wondered what an FB flash mob would do.

"how hundreds of people simultaneously get a message to gather someplace, like the rug department of Macy's._They get there, create a scene, and then leave. They call it "flash mobbing."

One is reportedly set for Minneapolis on July 30._Here is what seems to be a flash mob in the making for Boston.

One of the latest Manhattan flash mobs brought together more than 250 strangers at the Hyatt Hotel. They fanned out along the block-long balcony overlooking the hotel lobby and, at a precise moment, burst into 15 seconds of loud, unexplained applause, then drifted off into the night."

Here is a link to the Manhattan flash mob.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
If you eat enough soy protein, why do you need whey protein? Too much protein will give you kidney problems- we humans who arent body builders just dont need that much protein.

As for energy bars, they are little more than expensive candy bars, processed, loaded with sugar. You can get the same benefit by taking a supplement. They are the biggest scam around. .

ALL of this shit is a scam. Protein bars, Cliff bars, Powerbars, GU (for distance athletes). All bullshit. You can get what these things give you NATURALLY, i.e., in fruits, vegetables, tuna, soy, eggs, milk, etc., and your body will digest them better. How much protein does everyone think we need? Eat some eggs. The fat WILL NOT KILL YOU. Has no one else noticed the correlation b/w the fatness of the U.S. and the availability of low-fat foods? We need fat. I used to eat Cliff bars and take GU for marathon training. And then I woke up, realized it tastes like shit, and did some research to see what the elite athletes do. Well they sure as shit don't ingest GU at mile 19.

Yes, we eat way to many BAD carbs, but supplementing all of the carbs we eat with protein is unhealthy for other reasons. A banana won't give you the protein, but it'll give you GOOD carbs (sugar) for energy. Eat a banana.

Eat a peach.

Here I am.

Rock me like a hurricane.

[Sparklehorse]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
I should read the Rules at some point, I guess, for a lark. Anyhow, anyone playing hard to get such that she screws up basic social rules (i.e.: rejecting 3 invitations is the way civilized people say "I'm dropping you socially") deserves what she gets.

The good thing about The Rules is you can easily read the whole book in 15 minutes at Barnes & Noble or the chain store of your choice.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by ThrashersFan
Okay, so there was this PhD chick on O'Reilly last night who said that cybersex is cheating. Now, I have never understood how one gets off by typing things like "I have my mouth on your cock" to one another but to each his/her own I suppose and I can't see where it is cheating any more than having a crush on CZ-J or something.

I'm not sure I agree entirely, but I've seen a couple of marriages break up because of on-line interactions, and I have seen five babies and probably another dozen marriages spring up because of on-line interactions. I don't want to even begin to speculate on how many hookups I know about that arose out of on-line flirting.

The longer I've been on the net, the more I'm convinced that anonymity is pretty much a sham.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
I just got dumped for not being a practicing Christian. Jesus Christ. What was it David Cross said? I was willing to respect my SO's superstitions.

I say good riddance. You're better off without someone stupid enough to let a fantasy world infect his reality.

I recently heard someone say they were upset because a relative of theirs was marrying a non-Jew. I found the statement utterly fucking pathetic. There's no worse measure of a man than the heritage he happened to be born into and no lesser a person than one who values idiot traditions above peoples' feelings for one another.

I hope my kids marry way the fuck outside the Catholic Chursh - we'll all be a whole lot better off the more we dilute these imbecillic tribal/ethnic/religious notions that hold us back.

S(pardon the soapbox - this issue really irks me)D

[lookingformarket]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I hope my kids marry way the fuck outside the Catholic Chursh - we'll all be a whole lot better off the more we dilute these imbecillic tribal/ethnic/religious notions that hold us back.
S(pardon the soapbox - this issue really irks me)D

You're breeding? Are you sure that is a good idea?

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
ALL of this shit is a scam. Protein bars, Cliff bars, Powerbars, GU (for distance athletes). All bullshit. You can get what these things give you NATURALLY, i.e., in fruits, vegetables, tuna, soy, eggs, milk, etc., and your body will digest them better. How much protein does everyone think we need? Eat some eggs. The fat WILL NOT KILL YOU. Has no one else noticed the correlation b/w the fatness of the U.S. and the availability of low-fat foods? We need fat. I used to eat Cliff bars and take GU for marathon training. And then I woke up, realized it tastes like shit, and did some research to see what the elite athletes do. Well they sure as shit don't ingest GU at mile 19.

Yes, we eat way to many BAD carbs, but supplementing all of the carbs we eat with protein is unhealthy for other reasons. A banana won't give you the protein, but it'll give you GOOD carbs (sugar) for energy. Eat a banana.

Eat a peach.

Here I am.

Rock me like a hurricane.

That's fascinating, but I am specifically looking for whey protein, because a recent German study showed promise that whey protein boosts antioxidant production in people with autoimmune disorders. The test subjects were AIDS patients. I don't have AIDS, but I have an autoimmune disorder called Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic purpura. I'm in the very early stages and have been for years and could stay that way my whole life, but I'm always looking for ways to get better. Of course, there's no way you could have known any of this, and I agree, food is often the best source.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by ThrashersFan
Okay, so there was this PhD chick on O'Reilly last night who said that cybersex is cheating. Now, I have never understood how one gets off by typing things like "I have my mouth on your cock" to one another but to each his/her own I suppose and I can't see where it is cheating any more than having a crush on CZ-J or something. Oddly enough, the PhD chick seemed to be implying that even having a thought about sex not involving your mate was tantamount to cheating. This stuff goes beyond the "is a blow-job sex" debate and into a really weird place. I wonder if she would still consider it cheating if it turned out that a dude's cybersex partner was really a 50 year old fat bald guy rather than the "Marilyn Monroe look-alike" he thought he as chatting with. Does anyone here agree with the PhD chick?

This is O'Reilly we're talking about. Your time would be better served organizing your cat's shits by color than thinking about anything spoken on his program.

S(yellow to the left, than darker up to deep brown on the right... there... done)D