Her Husband's Asian Obsession
 

Actually, I think an unattractive husband is the least likely to cheat. I don't know if it's because ugly people are inherently more moral because suffering actually does build character; or it may just be that no one wants to sleep with ugly people.

Her Husband's Asian Obsession
 

How do you explain Springer, Ricki, Jenny, etc. then? I recently caught a portion of Maury Povich (it must have been Memorial Day?) in which some really ugly young husband cheated on an equally freaky looking young wife with some other chick from their town. The wife was even more upset than she otherwise would have been, she said, because the mistress "has no effing nose."

?????

Apparently this woman has some disorder where she has no protuding portion of her nose, just two holes. She was apparently the town whore, so someone wanted to sleep with the ugly girl.

more reality tv
 

How about some spoiler space, asshole?

Did you try out for the show?

Her Husband's Asian Obsession
 

this theory is like communism, it sounds good on paper but.....
I know some really ugly people who cheat. it may be that cheating is tawdry, and the really ugly learn to accept tawdry as the standard early on, so cheating is normal, and the ugly thus sleep together with less inhibition, or reliance on society's institutions like marriage.

Absinthe Cocktail for Sale in Britain
 

Perhaps "Deco" will be the cocktail of Summer 2003:

Potent Absinthe Mix Stirs Up Controversy

LONDON (Reuters) - Absinthe, the fiery tipple with purported hallucinogenic properties, has stirred up fresh controversy in Britain where it will go on sale in nightclubs and bars next month packaged to be mixed with beer.

"Deco" comes with a small bottle of Kronenbourg lager with a shot of absinthe attached. The idea is to down the 45 percent-strong absinthe and drink the five-percent strength lager as a chaser.

Popularly held responsible for painter Vincent Van Gogh's mutilation of his own ear, absinthe has been banned in many countries but was never outlawed in Britain.

Full text: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...in_absinthe_dc

Her Husband's Asian Obsession
 

wait there may be some non-white bread reason for her attractiveness.

Her Husband's Asian Obsession
 

Must be the status-grabbing effect of being able to brag at a bar to your friends, "Did I tell you I nailed this chick last night who had NO NOSE? It was freaky, man!"

P(didn't MJ's nose disintegrate off and now he has the same problem? so she's got someone to emulate)J

Unfaithful
 

I had two disturbing dreams last night... The first one was that my mom died while visiting some Eastern European country but that I couldn't get confirmation of her death because of some weird bureaucracy. Not likely to happen since my mom never travels out of the country, but still quite odd. The other one involved me having to climb out on a really unstable cliff/ledge to hit my golf ball that was perched up there. Once I got up there I realized that a golf game was really not worth dying over, so I starting trying to climb back down and was mid-descent when I woke up.

n(analysis anyone?)cs

Online Monday
 

perhaps I should e-mail her and ask her why she is using copyrighted material (my post) without my permission in a publication designed to turn a profit?

Just in time for Father's Day?
 

It's Fashion Insider Ken!

http://graphics7.nytimes.com/images/...on/01ken.1.jpg

And a link to the slightly amusing story:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/01/fashion/01KEN.html

Unfaithful
 

I'll have to think about the first one if I have time. But as for the second one ... have you reached any big understandings or got new insight into something big or made a big decision lately (or is one hanging over your head)? Usually climbing up a cliff or reaching the top of a cliff and gaining a new insight means that you have had gained heightened awareness or understanding in your own life (whether good or bad), or you are about to. The fact it was golf that got you there in the dream is pretty irrelevant - it was just a vehicle.

The insight that you experienced in your dream (i.e. that golf is not worth risking your life), is probably similar to that which you have or will experience - e.g. you understand that something may not be worth what you initially think it is - or something like that.

The fact that you woke up while climbing down probably means that you are still trying to digest this understanding - if you are on the brink of this understanding - you will take a while to digest it. Expect to have more climbing/trekking/heights dreams in the future for a while. It looks as if it is something big you are thinking about.

Online Monday
 

That would be fair use.

Online Monday
 

don't rain on my parade with your leagalities.

:smack:

Online Monday
 

So sorry.

:rolleyes:

Unfaithful
 

Now this is interesting. I think your two dreams are tied together. This is what I think:

You are pissed off about something or other - you are having a hard time communicating to someone why you are pissed off - or someone doesn't seem to be understanding you lately, so you are frustrated. The first dream is all about this frustration. Death of a parent usually means that you fear some sort of loss, but I think in this case it is an outlet you are using to express some sort of anger.

So you're not mad at your mother - you're mad because of something going on in your life that (I think) involves some inability to communicate or reach understanding with someone. You dream that your mother dies so that you can have an acceptable outlet to express this anger. But it doesn't work because you get all snagged up in red tape. (I think actually that this red tape is your own invention - that you are scared of expressing this anger and so you are deliberately thwarting yourself).

So that dream gets you nowhere but makes you realize that you have to make a decision about what has got you angry (or your subconscious has made the decision already - it just has to tell your conscious mind about it), hence the next dream.

Online Monday
 

That eight paragraph piece was touted as an in depth piece on the GA Findlaw debacle? That piece barely even gives a factual background on the history of the GA Boards. If I was virgin to the subject, I'd have learned absolutely nothing from that piece.

The brilliance of the piece is that it is so void of facts that it defies substance-based critique. Heather ought to write blurbs on new television shows for People Magazine because that's exactly what she wrote about Law Talkers.

Smith leaned over and spread them as wide as a desperate Tijuana hooker about to take it from a horse in front of a pack of drunken Americans for $500. Casting one's journalistic integrity to the wind for a miniscule bonus seems an awfully bad bargain... She probably could have kept more respect and wasted less effort for the check by just sucking off her supervisor.

Then again, what more can be expected in this economy? Everybody's a whore these days.

S(A shower probably won't cut it Heather... you'd better get some penicillin)D

Unfaithful
 

Interesting thoughts, gwincky. Thanks. I do have some communication issues, but if there is a momentous decision relating to that stuff it hasn't made it into my consciousness yet...

Online Monday
 

Here was my reaction - it'll be interesting to see how long it takes for SFTM to delete it. (Misspellings were required to get past West's filter.)
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SFTM: if I were you, I'd be pretty embarrassed by this article. If West is too pure of heart to be associated with GA's, it shouldn't have bought the site in the first place.

You were afraid you'd get sued, so you started deleting posts with content that you were afraid was too specific, defeating the purpose of the boards. You also deleted some smut. However, as I recall, some of the "potty mouth" words you deleted were "P@t@r Th@tt@m" and "www.l@wt@lkers.com".

Some folks decided that an alternative site would be more useful, and put a lot of hard work into setting it up. You plant an article smearing them, engaging in the very behavior you were afraid might happen here. You then accuse THEM of failing to "grow up." Here's a hint - your strategy for improving your corporate image is backfiring.

book recommendation
 

I just read Positively Fifth Street, by James McManus, and liked it. He went to the World Series of Poker (not sure I have the title right -- there are others) in Las Vegas to cover it, and used his advance to enter the tournament. Not worth reading if you don't want to read about poker. If you do, you might also pick up The Biggest Game In Town, by A. Alvarez, an account of the 1981 World Series.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/03...1.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Positively Fifth Street is just out, so you have to buy it in hardcover, but stores like Cody's are selling it for 30% off, and Amazon is selling it for 40% off.

Hipster Ironicus*
 

Me too.

Absinthe Cocktail for Sale in Britain
 

Are they using the fake Absinthe without the wormwood? I thought the real stuff was only legal in Spain.

On topicish: products!
 

I was just turned onto a new line of skin products by my fabulous new aesthetician, Epicuren Discovery. Not overly spendy, enzyme based line. ANyone try it?

Dawson's Creek--Plea for Help
 

Okay, who did Joey pick on the series finale, Pacey or Dawson?

I'm utterly embarrassed to be asking this so please be kind. I'm too wussy to Google it myself on my computer because I'm afraid it will pop up in the list of recent searches if anyone else here happens to use it.

P (I am so ashamed) J

Fetish
 

Definition 2 involves fetish's non-sexual meaning. So does Definition 4, which becomes merely a value judgment when applied to sexual arousal.

I like brunettes with pale skin and medium-sized breasts. Is that a fetish? I've never slept with a redhead, but a co-worker told me they taste different, and I'm curious to know whether that's true. Is that a fetish? Billions of Asian men will only sleep with Asian women. Is that a fetish?

We, a majority white society, categorize people who are attracted to Asians as "fetishists." This accomplishes nothing other than dehumanizing Asians. I think we're putting a little too much stock in which aspects of attraction get their own subcategories on persiankitty.com.

Dawson's Creek--Plea for Help
 

Pacey. She loves both of them, but she picked Pacey. Something about Jen's death showing them both that they had to be happy now, with what the reality of life was, and that they were happy together. The final scene was Pacy and Joey watching Dawson's movie in which the Joey character and the Dawson character get together and then calling Dawson to say the movie was perfect. So they sort of made everyone happy.

That said, I had not seen Dawson's Creek for about a season (at least). Who is the father of Jen's baby? What is that whole story? I didn't even know she was pregnant?

Online Monday
 

I was wondering when Infirmation would begin to see LawTalkers as a threat. Despite such attacks, the problem for both boards is that there is a dearth of practical and timely information about firms in the current legal economy.

There will always be a need for information about firms, salaries, QOL, etc... What we need even more are people who are willing to supply such information.

Dawson's Creek--Plea for Help
 

Goddammit! I hate being robbed of a sappy predictable ending! A charming fuckup like Pacey is the kind of guy you date, not marry! :mad:

No idea who's Jen's baby's dad. I'm shocked she chose to have it.

Dawson's Creek--Plea for Help
 

She picked Pacey, though she admitted that she and Dawson were "soulmates."

Edited to say "scroll, then post, scroll, then post."

Dawson's Creek--Plea for Help
 

The series finale was five years in the future from the last episode. Jen and Jack and Gran had moved to New York to live with Jen's mom, and Jen's then boyfriend (I'm blanking on his name) was also living in New York. In the interrum, it appears, Jack moved back to Capeside and hooked up with Doug. Jen drunkenly mentioned that her boyfriend knocked her up and left her, but she didn't mention who it was.

Online Monday
 

Oh, relax. It's a puff piece about West. Who knows whether it was always designed to be that way? Considering how many people she interviewed, and how none of it was used, Ms. Smith probably wrote a longer piece and it got cut down because it doesn't make for a very good story, except to us, and we're not the center of the target demographic for the American Lawyer. Otherwise, her editor should be pissed about how much time she wasted to get to this finished product.

My view is that it's a pretty rare journalist who would really think that a big corporation is right and a bunch of anonymous poo-flingers are wrong. It's hard for a PR flak to convince someone making <$40K that corporations are telling the truth. In any event, there were people on this board making the same point --- that the anticorporate purpose of the boards was fundamentally inconsistent with corporate ownership, and another move was inevitable. Making it about cuss words is just a convenient trope.

On topicish: products!
 

Never heard of it, but I am on the cusp of replenishing my supplies, so I want recommendations.

Oh, and my hairdresser has just started stocking a new fab shampoo by Dikson. It's a great product for color-treated hair, and, of course, part of the allure is that it is not widely carried. Link: http://www.planethair.it/sottoMar.as...=Muster-Dikson

Even(embracing her inner product snob)Odds

Online Monday
 

I was recently talking to one of our PR guys, and he was explaining to me that in the last five or so years, requests from the media for stories have changed dramatically. The reporters and producers expect everything to be ready to go and prepackaged. Interviews set up, consents obtained, and a press release or two ready to be cribbed. The PR guy in my company said that he's been in the media spin business for 18 years, and he's never seen the reporters so eager to just take what's handed to them.

I'd seen that "internet has grown up" comment at least two or three months ago in another publication, and it's obvious that West has it's prepackaged story ready for when a reporter comes calling about this issue. Deviations from whatever they've already put together will not be considered.

Maybe we should have our own little press package that we can put out there on the split from Infirmation. List posters who would be happy to be interviewed, put a couple of good quotes, maybe a timeline of the events. I can't imagine that there will be that many more stories about this issue, but you never know when something like that could be useful to counter the West media machine.

Dawson's Creek--Plea for Help
 

Huh. I am really confused now. I caught just enough of the finale to know that Joey picked Pacey but I had no idea that it wasn't "real time." Weird. I guess I'll have to catch reruns.

I do not find Pacey or Dawson attractive, or Jen for that matter. The only decent looking person on that show is Joey, who is annoying as hell.

Online Monday
 

That's an excellent idea. I've vetted press releases and I am always surprised at the number and quality of national newspapers who would publish our released with little or no alteration or reporting.

Fetish
 

Atticus, you do not get it. The fetish is focusing on something nonsexual (ie a race and its characteriftics; feet) and becomine obsessed with it, which can mean, only dating it, or only jerking off to it. But you are right that theperson who harbors such an asian fetish is dehumanizing the asians. This is prboably why an asian chick can spot a rice daddy a million miles away and will avoid him

As for your clear denial on this matter, it is what it is. Live with it, its who you are. For example, I forwarded the Prudence clip to my rice daddy friend (a ph.D is psychology- Dr. Rice Daddy). Now this guy is the first to admit he is an asian festishist and is actually toying with writing a book on how to be a successful rice daddy in manhattan (for example, he actually majored in chinese in college and taught ESL to chinese students in hopes of meeting FOB asians- backfired bc he could not tell by their names if they were male or female). Anyway, his response to the story , where Prudy suggested therapy was "wouldnt it be ironic if they ended up in my office?".

Wear your fetish proudly, Atticus. Just dont dehumanize any asians along the way.

Online Monday
 

This is a good idea, I'll write something up. People who would like to volunteer to speak to press if they ask for people please send me PM.

Dawson's Creek--Plea for Help
 

Which just goes to show, prime time's gone to hell in a handbasket ever since they cancelled 'Dynasty.'

Hell, even the butt-ugly cast of 'Falcon Crest' had the sleek Europimp look of Lorenzo Lamas going for it.

Italian for Beginners
 

Caught this on cable. It was really quite good. Because it's Dogme 95 certified, the cinematography and the pacing are entirely different from an American movie, and the humor is very dry and subtle. I recommend it as a sweet little ensemble piece about loneliness and modern European life.

Italiensk for begyndere ("Italian for Beginners") (2001).

The woman who plays Guilia is a hot little filly. She's apparently a rock percussionist in real life. She replaces Audrey Tautou in my "I no speak English" sex fantasies.

On topicish: products!
 

I had heard of the Epicuren facial and wanted to buy products but was told taht I should consult with an aesthetician who knew the line bc of the enzyme base of the products- could be harmful if the wrong products were used. I ended up getting the six step kit, which I had to wait like two weeks for bc the salon cannot keep it in stock. Just got it on Saturday and I love it. So far.

I would try to find a salon that does an epicuren facial in your neck of the woods. And give me feedback. You are my product hero.

Fetish
 

Hey, I clearly said I like brunettes with pale skin and medium sized tits. That's pretty open-minded. But if you can find me a redheaded Asian, I'll hit that with a quickness.