Re: Taibbi, Halperin
 

I recently had a guy get handsy and drive me nuts (kept petting me, asking for a threesome with a girl at the party to sweeten the deal, and offered me drugs). I don't think I'd like having him manhandle my junk, true. But over 40, and married forever, it's nice to be reminded you've still got solid market value.

Re: It's all about Hilary Clinton conspiring with the Russians
 

This makes two of us.

Re: Taibbi, Halperin
 

Kevin Spacey is playing a character. He isn't really a...oh wait. You're talking about someone else.

TM

Re: Taibbi, Halperin
 

So how was the threesome?

TM

Re: Scarlett O’Hara’s father still smelled like the bog, and he owned slaves.
 

What about cotton pants that aren't khaki colored? I'll admit to wearing these with a nice polo shirt (not one of the cool max golf shirts).

Re: Taibbi, Halperin
 

Again, we're in agreement that what men and women experience here is different in many ways, but, to get a little closer, now imagine that he's your 70 year old managing partner, or that he's a significant client on whom you depend for a big chunk of your income....

Still just an "ego boost"?

Re: Taibbi, Halperin
 

Even President Underwood is teetering on the edge today....

Re: It's all about Hilary Clinton conspiring with the Russians
 

Whiff-a-roonie!

Re: Taibbi, Halperin
 

Exactly. I can't even imagine hitting on one of my associates, but if I did, I doubt it would be an ego boost for him. I expect he'd be weirded out, uncomfortable and definitely not want to work with me anymore.

Whenever the shoe was on the other foot (when I was an associate and this happened), I felt humiliated. I'm not sure if a male associate would feel the same degree of self-doubt and humiliation, but I think it's definitely possible.

Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.
 

I imagine a lot of Trump voters would fundamentally approve of how the UK is changing, even as many of us are appalled.

Re: Taibbi, Halperin
 

We’ve met. If I were the associate, I’m thinking initial response is, “So that’s how you roll...”

Then I’m thinking, “Allright, allright...”

(In my dreams, where I’m as smooth as Wooderson.)

Re: Scarlett O’Hara’s father still smelled like the bog, and he owned slaves.
 

It’s more about the cut and style.

The “khaki” isn’t really about the khaki color at all. That’s just the color these uncreative, formless pants tend to come in, as it goes with almost every other color. (Shit, people even wear them with grey shirts, which should never work, but somehow does.)

It’s a heavy fabric, boring ulitity pant. The sort favored by men who wear socks in every season. It’s the dam that holds back the male muffin top of skinny-fat to porky middle managers the world round. Karl Lagerfeld once said, “Never wear sweatpants. They are a sign you’ve given up.” The standard Dockeresque khaki is one ladder rung away — the style of a man who’s but an earner, a 401k enhancement device... a man who’s not even much interested in masturbation anymore. It is the wardrobe choice of the asexual... he who’s greatest excitement of the week is acquiring an enviable Saturday tee time.

Nobody’s in a hurry to tear off someone else’s khakis. And that’s about all you need to know about anything to avoid wearing it.

Re: Taibbi, Halperin
 

Now, correct me if I'm wrong people, but in reading this, don't you all just see Sebby as a short little dude in khakis and dockers?

Re: Taibbi, Halperin
 

Meh. Too much really slow kissing.

And no one bought me brunch.

Re: Taibbi, Halperin
 

You’re stereoptyping, badly, and incorrectly.

Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.
 

Speaking on behalf of 70.8 year olds everywhere, I trust that age and experience have taught most of us that we are no longer the godlike creatures who once strode the earth with confidence and ease. That which we are, we are. See you at my 50th college reunion in the spring. And it is true that age and cunning can still, in our chosen profession, defeat youth and skill.

Yours in attempting to stay reasonably fit, and sockless in the warmer months,

Ferrets.

Re: Scarlett O’Hara’s father still smelled like the bog, and he owned slaves.
 

You're lecturing us about fashion and you're someone who goes to work/dinner without socks? Yikes.

Re: Scarlett O’Hara’s father still smelled like the bog, and he owned slaves.
 

I'm not talking about dockers, but rather tailored cotton trousers. And you're saying that cotton is a heavy fabric - have you worn cotton before?

Re: Scarlett O’Hara’s father still smelled like the bog, and he owned slaves.
 

He walks to the local Margaritaville restaurant in his board shorts and flip flops.

Re: Scarlett O’Hara’s father still smelled like the bog, and he owned slaves.
 

And you know that mf is blaming a woman...

Re: Scarlett O’Hara’s father still smelled like the bog, and he owned slaves.
 

and don't forget the comb-over. This image has to have a comb-over.

Re: Taibbi, Halperin
 

When I was a musician there was one manager who wouldn't manage me unless I let her suck my dick. And she was nasty.

Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.
 

Did Papadopoulous wear a wire this summer?

Re: Taibbi, Halperin
 

You’ve all heard of white privilege? Well that right there is “rock star privilege.”

Re: Scarlett O’Hara’s father still smelled like the bog, and he owned slaves.
 

Not only not bald. Not even gray.

(But I do wear board shorts. And now and again, I enjoy a cheeseburger in them, in southern locales.)

Re: Scarlett O’Hara’s father still smelled like the bog, and he owned slaves.
 

No. As I noted at the outset, it’s all about the cut and style. Perhaps I should have included weight of fabric.

The docker and its ilk are made of a canvass-like material. Bulky, boxy. Bad stuff.

I’m sure you have delightful, high fiber count, perfectly tailored trousers.

They are not analogous to Dockers (or any of the other ill fitting pants those Cubicle Mole KKK wannabes were wearing in Charlottesville.)

Re: Scarlett O’Hara’s father still smelled like the bog, and he owned slaves.
 

No underwear, and no socks. Except when I’m wearing a suit (socks, that is). But even then, as soon as weather allows, I switch to ankle boots.

No one should ever see socks. Ever. They’re like an exposed t-shirt at the neck, or a wife beater t-shirt under a thin shirt that exposes its outline.

I wear mocs a lot in warm weather. You ever see anybody wearing socks with mocs?* (Someone not walking off a short bus.)

* Pseudo-Seussian (Pseu-pseu-seudian?)

Re: Scarlett O’Hara’s father still smelled like the bog, and he owned slaves.
 

Hey hey hey, elevator boy... I’ve never had a creepy crush on a co-worker.

Re: Taibbi, Halperin
 

This ends with that night when you reciprocated, yes?

Re: Taibbi, Halperin
 

Hell no. If I ever want to "slow down" I just think of her teeth.

Re: Taibbi, Halperin
 

BJ from someone with rotten teeth is safe. They know the teeth might break, rather than cutting dick skin, if they don’t keep them choppers out of the way.

Re: Taibbi, Halperin
 

Ugly nasty or kinky nasty?

Re: Scarlett O’Hara’s father still smelled like the bog, and he owned slaves.
 

You really have the most bizarre set of rules.

TM

Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.
 

Since this recent discussion has brought forth the remnants of the Fashion Board, I propose a question for Paul Manafort, a former neighbor.

Please enlighten us, Mr. Manafort, as to how a man who has, one presumes, a complete gentlemen's wardrobe for all occasions, thereafter spends $850,000 of laundered money on men's clothing?

Think about your current closet(s). Now supplement those garments with whatever you wish. Buy nothing but the best. Fill the closet in your summer home and your urban hideaway as well. I'm still going to have about $500,000 left out of that $850,000 to supplement my liquor cabinet and my wine cellar. With something left over for my chronometer collection.

Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.
 

Custom made Tom Ford suits can reach $15-20k. Notice how many of Manafort's suits have wide peak lapels? That's a classic Tom Ford feature. It's come back into style recently and is made by lesser brands (I've picked up a few jackets in the style). But I'm willing to bet Manafort's are all Ford. I also read somewhere that he shopped at Bijan, where a suit could run $30k.

And his knock around wardrobe was probably custom Brioni and Kiton, which run crazy expensive.

Throw in dozens of custom shoes (John Lobb or better), boots, a bunch of Savile Row suits (anyone doing business with the Russians as much as he did is in London a lot), a couple dozen $10-20k topcoats (it's cold in Moscow), some furs for the Russian hook-- er, girlfriends, and I think you can get to the high six figures.

Re: Scarlett O’Hara’s father still smelled like the bog, and he owned slaves.
 

One of the best pieces of a advice I've ever heard from a woman:

"Never be seen in nothing but socks."

Pre-coital warning. And I swear she was almost ready to call the whole thing off -- just from that faux pas.

And so, applying the logic of Remo in the anteroom scene in Casino, "Why take a chance?"* Indeed. Why ever expose socks?

_________________
* The BOSSES are gathered around a conference table as the
lawyers and nurses silently walk out the door as if on cue.

NICKY (V.O.)
See, when something like this happens,
you know how things are gonna work
out. It's always better with no
witnesses. So, what about Andy?

THE CAMERA PANS FROM ONE BOSS TO THE OTHER.

FORLANO
(Putting down his
oxygen mask once the
door behind him is
shut)
He won't talk. Stone is a good kid.
Stand-up guy, just like his old man.
That's the way I see it.

BORELLI
I agree. He's solid. A fuckin' Marine.

CAPELLI
(Holding his oxygen
mask)
He's okay. He always was. Remo, what
do you think?

GAGGI
(Pause)
Look... why take a chance? At least,
that's the way I feel about it.

Re: Taibbi, Halperin
 

I think of Clint Howard making out with the subway ghoul in Ghost.

Re: Taibbi, Halperin
 

I totally regret accepting a blow job from that insanely kinky chick.

This exact arrangement of words has never previously existed. (And it's not because of the arguably superfluous adverb.)

Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.
 

I've been assuming this is part of the laundering scheme, and that somewhere along the way paying $33,000 for a $3,000 suit resulted in some Russian or Trumpian "businessman" covering his "overhead" for $30,000 (repeat and rinse).

My Gucci Addiction
 

Buzz Bissinger, on spending $600k on clothing in two years (much of it, apparently, awful): https://www.gq.com/story/buzz-bissin...ucci-addiction