This is the thread where the fringster comes back with teeth

[LessinSF]

Originally Posted by cheval de frise

Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, and hate leads to suffering. Specifically, sitting at a crappy self-bought desk posting on the PB.

CDF

Peter Gabriel said it more succinctly - "fear is the mother of violence."

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by cheval de frise

Reduce the population?

CDF

actually, if it's good, maybe people avoid the pregnancy? Coltrane. when you planning on baby no. 3?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Sidd Finch

Well, it's not billable. Maybe for you, but not for most of us.

not to be a timmy, but e/o is considering a non-traditional fixed fee arrangement, which is outside the billable hour model.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

not to be a timmy, but e/o is considering a non-traditional fixed fee arrangement, which is outside the billable hour model.

She said she's getting $500 and that she usually takes about 15 minutes.

Even if she gets carried away and goes to 30, that's within my billing model.

[Oliver_Wendell_Ramone]

Originally Posted by cheval de frise

Reduce the population?

CDF

Skullfucking, perhaps (friction or no friction)?

[cheval de frise]

Originally Posted by LessinSF

Peter Gabriel said it more succinctly - "fear is the mother of violence."

Yes, but I wanted to get the Jedi Master flavor into it to complete the portrait of his pathos.

CDF

[cheval de frise]

Originally Posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone

Skullfucking, perhaps (friction or no friction)?

I'm thinking of one particular instance where it didn't work.

(Not that I'm blaming Less or anything.)

CDF

[notcasesensitive]

Originally Posted by Cletus Miller

That's not babelfish's fault. The tattoo artist just made up those characters.

Crap. He swore it said Pretty Lady!!!

Sadly, the thing I was trying to translate was a Yahoo Taiwan news article about a friend's dad and uncle who were swept out to sea while swimming there. Both have been found now. Her dad died one week after his 60th birthday.

[cheval de frise]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

actually, if it's good, maybe people avoid the pregnancy?

Empirical evidence and millions of years of evolution suggest otherwise, despite perfect information and the opportunity to behave as rational market actors.

Go figure.

CDF

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by evenodds

I had to run to the bank and went to the one in my neighborhood instead of in the business district.

It was "Look at this Fucking Hipster" come to life:

Skinny men in clam diggers and sandals? The facial hair, so deliberate, and yet so very odd. Ironic vans?

PLF, care to explain?

There is little to explain because there is little to understand. The tribes have their mandatory apparel. The hipsters have their unfortunate looking Vans and Converse. The douchebags have their Ed Hardy. The . . . well, I am not sure what tribe wears the Hollister and Aeropostale but they move with great numbers. There is nothing more to it than that, and there is nothing to be gained from loving, hating, or trying to study this axiom of modern life.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

There is little to explain because there is little to understand. The tribes have their mandatory apparel. The hipsters have their unfortunate looking Vans and Converse. The douchebags have their Ed Hardy. The . . . well, I am not sure what tribe wears the Hollister and Aeropostale but they move with great numbers. There is nothing more to it than that, and there is nothing to be gained from loving, hating, or trying to study this axiom of modern life.

how do you characterize the people that are so smug as to feel comfortable mocking the groups you list? think about it. all of you.

[evenodds]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

The . . . well, I am not sure what tribe wears the Hollister and Aeropostale but they move with great numbers. There is nothing more to it than that, and there is nothing to be gained from loving, hating, or trying to study this axiom of modern life.

Hollister is so horrifying from a retail perspective. I and one of my girlfriends wandered in there after a cocktail dress hunt at Neiman's and tried to figure out who shops at Hollister, spending a lot of money on nothing, in the dark.

We laughed our way through the store.

[evenodds]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

how do you characterize the people that are so smug as to feel comfortable mocking the groups you list? think about it. all of you.

Very, very happy.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by evenodds

Hollister is so horrifying from a retail perspective. I and one of my girlfriends wandered in there after a cocktail dress hunt at Neiman's and tried to figure out who shops at Hollister, spending a lot of money on nothing, in the dark.

We laughed our way through the store.

most boys in high school today might well tell you that girls in hollister t-shirts are likely to let them jizz in their mouths, for what that's worth, and believe the worth has been flagged at $100-500, depending.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

There is little to explain because there is little to understand. The tribes have their mandatory apparel. The hipsters have their unfortunate looking Vans and Converse. The douchebags have their Ed Hardy. The . . . well, I am not sure what tribe wears the Hollister and Aeropostale but they move with great numbers. There is nothing more to it than that, and there is nothing to be gained from loving, hating, or trying to study this axiom of modern life.

Thank you for this. My father recently asked "what's a douchebag?" and I had a bit of difficulty with the definition. Of course his follow up will be "what's Ed Hardy" but I can handle that.