e/o, you can make that check out to paigowprincess
 

PeopleNews is my favorite gossip site. Their quotes are always jacked -- a couple of days ago they quoted Beyonce lamenting her inability to fry "chips" -- but their information is good and snarky.

They always refer to Ben as lantern-jawed as many times as they can in each article.

e/o, you can make that check out to paigowprincess
 

So how do they refer to Jay Leno?

Bennifer and J.Lo
 

Phew!

The Track article didn't have the juicy details that People News had. I guess this means will be seeing Ben again in The People's Republik.

Link to today's Boston Herald article.
What was Tara Reid doing there?

Edited to add link.

e/o, you can make that check out to paigowprincess
 

NNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOoooooooooo!


What is left to believe in? Life is not worth living anymore . . .

How Would Jesus Park?
 

I've had it up to here (waving arm over head) with all this talk about how women are so mean. Frankly, I don't see it. Most women I know are real sweethearts. Friendly, supportive, kind etc. I don't see cattiness among my friends and although the occasional bitchy remark might come out, it's not as if it's undeserved in the circumstances and it really doesn't happen too often. We are not particularly nice people (i.e. not nicer than average) - I just think our behavior is pretty normal and that women are not these chronically catty creatures people here seem to be making them out to be.

True Confessions
 

Nah -- I thought it might seem like I was trying to sound hoity toity. (I will admit, however, that it was the reason I finally relented when my husband suggested we buy the monstrosity...)

We definitely need 4-wheel drive with the snow. It doesn't need to be this particular model of course, but everyone in the area has a 4WD car.

I think the Expedition is the F-series pickup, just with seats and stuff instead of the open area part (the name of which is escaping me now) on a pickup. (Flatbed? I don't think that's right... Help!)

How Would Jesus Park?
 

My friends are my friends because they aren't catty. The cattiness I experience isn't among my friends, it is among people I don't like and/or don't know well, and it comes from rank jealousy.

No, not all women are mean or catty, some are. Same with men though. It just so happens that the reality dress shows that women do are extremely catty. I saw one not too long ago on BBC America and I had to turn it off they were so mean to the woman.

True Confessions
 

It is starting to stink in here.

True Confessions
 

With that demeaning attitude, you should fit right in for the upcoming hotornot.com-esque boob--o--rama.

How Would Jesus Park?
 

If you are talking about What not to Wear, I don't think those two are catty. In fact, I think what you are calling catty is a difference between how British women interact and how American women interact. British women (at least in my family), do not shrink from criticism and are not gushy. A lot of jokes go on at other people's expense. But it is meant in the spirit of helpfulness, not meanness or jealousy.

Bandwagon
 

How can I compete with Uncle Jesse from Full House?

How Would Jesus Watch on TV?
 

Then you will love a TV that you can walk through. The new Walk-thru Fog Screen.

A Story for Leagl
 

http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/200...mom/index.html

Sounds like a writer has already taken your concept (maybe he was cruising the boards yesterday?).

How Would Jesus Park?
 

Otherwise known as the great british tradition of "taking the piss." I don't think this has anything to do with gender. Men are just as likely (probably more so) to do it.

You are correct, Americans very much do not get this fine british sporting tradtion, and tend to be insulted/shocked that someone would be so openly personally critical and use it for humorous effect. After some years I have actually gotten to where I can take it, though I still lack the skill (or experience, perhaps) to dish it out. But, yeah, generally this doesn't fly in America. We're too busy being sensitive to each others feelings. Fuckin' whimps.

BR(had to extract some friends from impending beatings once or twice because of this)C

How Would Jesus Park?
 

Shut up, bitch.


Seriously, such a show would be catty because it would be Hollywood, and purveying stereotypes is essential. Just like the ads for "queer eye" (another reality show I don't watch) suggest that gay men are all raging flames (and straight men are slobs who can't cook, clean, or dress), to suit the popular stereotype rather than to reflect reality.

Theory of the lingere shower
 

See, that makes perfect sense to me. The whole reason for a lingere shower is that the virginal (or "virginal") bride actually needs this stuff/advice. First time brides who, um, don't, can get away with it because of the willing suspension of common knowledge, so everyone can enjoy play-acting at her being an unworldly virgin about to be initiated into the amatory arts in an atmosphere of lightly ironic nostalgia. An already married woman can't even play-act at sexual innocence and ignorance, so the whole thing just seems sordid.

But with truly (more or less) innocent brides you can go all out with the kinky stuff, because there is no delicate balance between reality/pretense to maintain.

How Would Jesus Park?
 

We're a bunch of sensitive pussies. Always talking about our feelings...it's disgusting. That's why everyone was so offended by Simon Crowell. Whereas in the UK, he wouldn't be considered harsh at all. Here, he's a monster. He didn't seem offensive to me (the one time I watched the show)...

I blame Oprah.



How is the most powerful country in the world also the most insecure? Do we have a collective tiny penis?

How Would Jesus Watch on TV?
 

No, but I have a fertile imagination. No pun intended. nttawwt.

Theory of the lingere shower
 

Who, me? :sarcastic
My father would still like to believe that his baby girl, the mother of his only grandchild, is yet unsullied.

Is This Funny?
 

10 Things You Don't Know About Women, By Ana Gasteyer, in the August Esquire

http://www.esquire.com/features/arti..._gasteyer.html

Neither funny nor original.

How Would Jesus Park?
 

Maybe, but as long as yo mama can still wedge her toothless grin between the bikini lines I ain't changin' a thang.

Penske (fat n' happy) Account

Bennifer and J.Lo
 

You know it's a good source when they refer to her as "the inevitable Tara Reid".

But that question deserves an answer ... was she banging Christian Slater? Aff-Ho? Both? Neither (just friends)? Working on the same project and bored with nothing to do?

Maybe peoplenews has the answer.

Edited to add that Tara Reid would rank very high on my plastic-covered list of people I'd most like to visit a strip club with.

Is This Funny?
 

We shave our toes?

How Would Jesus Park?
 

I don't think it's concern with our own feelings (mostly), it's over concern with the feelings of others. Here, if your friend is being a fucking whiner, most Americans would have to think hard about how (or if) to mention it, and then only do it in a supposedly "constructive" way. Just saying "you're a fucking whiner," much less following that up with relentless taunting, just doesn't enter the equation here.

I blame PC.

I think that, because our cultural diversity means everyone takes everything differently, we've gotten used to assuming, though I hate to phrase it this way, that no one has a sense of humor, no criticism is legitimate, and no one will know if you are kidding about much of anything. 'Cause we're all supposed to live in harmony here, right? So we all limp around trying not to give offense.

Well, I think that fucking sucks. Offending people is fun. Offending people is funny. (NB: Causing people to feel physically threatened or in danger is not funny.) Everyone should have to deal with the fact that most people will not like you because of, or even in spite of, your faults. Your faults aren't what make you loveable or give you character, they are faults. People not calling you fat, or ugly, or stupid, or impotent, or cheap, or an asshole, to your face doesn't mean they don't know it, don't think it, or think its OK. So what's the point.

How Would Jesus Park?
 

Looked pretty nasty to me. And yes, that makes me a sensitive american. Like any of you are surprised I'm sensitive.

True Confessions
 

It just takes a little while, and a good sense of humor, to appreciate my schtick. Keep studying my posts, and it will come to you like a flash of light.

Is This Funny?
 

I have.

Is This Funny?
 

Just out of curiosity, why did you post this if/when it is so obviously not funny?

What would Uncle Jesse do?

A Story for Leagl
 

Damn, there go my millions.

Actually that is a great article. When I was coming out one of the things I actually wondered about was whether I would have to change myself externally, I really had no idea what a lesbian was supposed to be like. Fortunately, I realized somewhat quickly there was no way I had to be. There seem to be less stereotypes about lesbians, I've noticed, than about gay men. Except of course, we all like 3somes and need men to help us finish the job, and/or are just looking for the right man. But that is different from physical appearances. The only stereotype I hear is the butch, bulldyke sort of thing, and most people seem to realize that is a very small part of the lesbian community.

And Penske, you were fabulous last night honey. I loved your smooth legs and man skirt. You probably should touch up your fingernails though.

How Would Jesus Park?
 

Thank you, that is exactly what I was trying to say.

Keeping With the Current Theme
 

My theme, at least.

This guy is a fucking jingoist jerkoff.


BOSTON — An immigration judge was placed on administrative leave Monday after complaints that he made jokes about Tarzan to a woman who had been raped and tortured in her native Uganda (search).


The woman, whose first name is Jane, went before Judge Thomas Ragno (search) in June, seeking political asylum in the United States, saying government soldiers killed her husband and attacked her.

"Jane, come here. Me Tarzan!" Ragno said, according to the woman's doctor, who attended the June 20 deportation hearing to testify as an expert witness about the woman's claims.

"It was disrespectful and insulting, and in my mind it was racist to have a white judge making Tarzan comments to a black woman," said Dr. Sondra Crosby.

Ragno also dialed the weather number on his speaker phone so he could listen to the weekend weather forecast and talked in open court about looking for a new condominium, Crosby said. The judge rejected the woman's bid for asylum.

As part of the woman's appeal of Ragno's decision, Crosby filed an affidavit protesting Ragno's courtroom behavior.

The Executive Office for Immigration Review (search), a division of the U.S. Department of Justice, placed Ragno on paid leave Monday after learning of the complaint, first reported Monday in the Boston Herald.

Edited to add a link for The Man: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,93777,00.html

Edited by leagl to say the woman you dolt, not the man. Sheesh.

Is This Funny?
 

Well, if you're wearing that skirt with open-toed shoes, smooth-shaven toes are de rigeur.

How Would Jesus Park?
 

Let me give you an example. One of my cousin's nickname is "Porkie" because he was chubby. He is now considerably slimmer, but still known as "Porkie", "Fatty" etc. My nickname is "Bump", as in bump-on-a-log because I am very quiet and apparently pretty dull. I think some of my aunts and uncles don't know my name because I am (still) just referred to as "our little bump". My aunt is kind of naiive and she is referred to so often as the "silly cow" that it's almost her nickname. It sounds dysfunctional and nasty, but these nicknames are all terms of endearment - you wouldn't call someone an insulting name if you didn't love him. I'm not trying to defend it, it just seems to be the way things are for British people (less so now, they seem to be getting just as flaky over there as here).

Keeping With the Current Theme
 

When you post an article please post the link from which you got it too, proper attribution and all that.

Thanks

How Would Jesus Park?
 

I understand, I just think it is nasty and unnecessary. And yes, like everyone says, that makes me a wimp, and/or nice, you pick.

It is true, I don't like to be mean, but there are numerous people here and in life who can tell you I am perfectly capable of going after someone for the sake of humor and for the hell of it. Just in a different way.

So it probably is a cultural thing I simply don't understand. That's fine, but it doesn't stop me from finding it catty.

Keeping With the Current Theme
 

An excerpt and link to Monday's Herald article are posted in the Boston forum.

How Would Jesus Park?
 

I agree, and besides, they have made over some seriously unattractive women on that show, and they always find at least one positive thing to say about them. Such as telling a somewhat plus size gal that they loved her "bum."

How Would Jesus Park?
 

We ain't well hung but we got the tongue.

You need an avatar and to clean out your litterbox.

How Would Jesus Park?
 

Most intelligent societies look to the intent of the speaker when assigning offensiveness. We look to the understanding of the recipient, which means that "good morning" can potentially become an "offensive statement". We are weenies.

How Would Jesus Park?
 

My sister and I know Daddy loved us bc I was known as "Useless" and she was "The Smeller"