Just In Case
 

From now on I am going to send all my email in binary code.

If you get one, go here to decode.

Shhhhhh.

It knows all! It sees all!
 

Look, why don't you come over, we'll get some ice cream, and we'll just spend the evening talking about your feelings about all of this, okay?

Enough Already
 

You have a lot to learn about writing questions for standardized tests/texts: answer choice 4 to the science question makes an impermissible assumption about gender roles, and the names Janet and Ralph are both too western european (and, to my mind and perhaps yours, too evocative of eating disorders).

It knows all! It sees all!
 

Stop. You're turning me on. anttwat

It knows all! It sees all!
 

I hope you're not equipped to render an opinion.

The Quiet Mayor

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Just In Case
 

One's enough.

It knows all! It sees all!
 

Did you just call me a fat?

Enough Already
 

Me neither.

For shame.

It knows all! It sees all!
 

I think women who do that often hang out together in flocks in the dressing room at Bloomingdale's. They have no body fat but want confirmation that they make Lara Flynn Boyle look like a farm animal.

I will make an honest but diplomatic assessment on how a piece of clothing looks on someone in a dressing room just once. After that, I am going out for coffee and dessert because I'm tired of shopping, and if they break the spell of my chocolote mousse with their whining about their ass size, I will cut them out of my life.

Just In Case
 

Every so often, you see a post that makes you immediately think "please, don't let's jump on this as some new cool toy/saying/concept and let it devour the next fifty posts."

It's like seeing a post about some new e-poll, where everyone spends the next two hours cutting-and-pasting "You, Buns-R-Hoppin', are a slimy frog!" with the same five-paragraph explanation as to why they're a frog and not a newt.

It knows all! It sees all!
 

Very nice.


A very sans penis comment.

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BR(I swear I won't do it again)C

It knows all! It sees all!
 

And now you sound like a man. If 2 women were going to get together to talk about their problems, there is definitely going to be alcohol involved. Then the crying. Then the ice cream.

A little help here please
 

Apparently I missed the memo. Anttwat?

Enough Already
 

Dude, I actually had to go back and check that I didn't type that.

Damn you all for teasing me about my spelling. You have destroyed my self-confidence.

Just In Case
 

You did not post a link (you know, to quell E/O's copyright concerns).

Just In Case
 

So predictable. Narcy is right; I am an asshole.

Edit: But you cannot deny the deck factor.

Enough Already
 

Sorry, but I had to do it. It was an open court lay-up....

Your spelling was very nice, BTW!

It knows all! It sees all!
 

I advise Bailey's or Kahlua. They taste like ice cream, but they're nominally alcohol, and they make great mixers with stronger alcohols. So you get drunk and dessert all in one sweet sitting--voila!

It knows all! It sees all!
 

How about Rootbeer schnapps?

It knows all! It sees all!
 

It knows all! It sees all!
 

I like to think of myself as Blair in the parlor with just a dash of Jo in the garage. Regrettably, I'm Mrs. Garrett in both the kitchen and the bedroom.

It knows all! It sees all!
 

Exactly what I'm sayin'. See, these guys think they can be women, but there are so many rules, so many rules.

It knows all! It sees all!
 

Nope. No way I sounded like a man. It was a trick question. I said we'd talk about our feelings.

Icky.

It knows all! It sees all!
 

These are excellent substitutes for milk in milkshakes as well. Or so I hear. And it's cold, which is a plus if you are sitting on the deck in TX in the summertime.

It knows all! It sees all!
 

My bad. You sounded like a man who was trying to sound like a woman, but forgot one of the rules. So many rules. Chick rules. Or was it chicks rule?

Oslo world's most expensive city
 

Cool little article, actually. I was very amused that they adopted the Economist's "Big Mac Index," but expanded it to hours worked, rather than just price vs. exchange rate.

I also want to note for everyone's reference that NYC kicked the SHIT out of all comers on the expense of clothing, both men's and womens. (Also kicked everyone's ass, including usual claimants Tokyo, London and Hong Kong, on apartment rents, but that's to be expected - though London about as outrageous as NYC when comparing the cost of rent vs. the cost of everything else.)

Oslo world's most expensive city
 

Does this mean that, as a non-golfer, the next time I go out and get a 200-something, I can tell everyone that I kicked the shit out of them?

(You have a perverse measure of victory.)

Oslo world's most expensive city
 

That is because you New Yorkers foolishly believe that Barney's has chic-er clothes than, say, L.L.Bean. If you merely accepted the inherent stylishness of duck boots and Polartec jackets, you would save a lot of money and be better-dressed, too.

Newly-Found Respect For South Africa
 

A giant nude sculpture - complete with a larger-than-life and hard-to-ignore wooden willy - is causing something of a stir in the ritzy village of Kloof at the top of Field's Hill - not to mention giving a whole new twist to the term "Woody Woodpecker".
[link to balance of article]

And while Kloof is likely not on the list of most expensive cties, what kind of loser believes that expensive city = some type of peronal attribute? That is like those fat fucks who, never having played a sport in their soon-to-be-heart-attack-shortened-lives, never shut the fuck up about their alma mater's football or basketball teams. I can dig Kloof.

Oslo world's most expensive city
 

I've been kicked in the nuts more times than you! I win!

Clothing is one of the few things that can be bought elsewhere and brought into NYC. It's one of the few ways to fight against the high cost of living of NYC. Can't do that with food or rent.

Oslo world's most expensive city
 

But then you might be dressed like a patch-dweller! The whole point of living in NYC is to be able to dress ridiculously, I mean, be able to dress on the cutting-edge of style.

Oslo world's most expensive city
 

Speaking of Barneys, I've grown to hate the Barneys guy on "I Love the '70s." Whadda total freakin' stereotype of the dried up old fashion biz queen. He has nothing nice to say about anyone or anything. Do we really need this vampire to snark about moon boots and velvet flair gaucho pants? Does he not realize that what he peddles for a living will by definition be shredded by whatever has-been style mavens VH-1 can drag up for its retro shows in 2030 (Carson Kressley, call your office)?

BTW, are gay people on the streets of NYC really wearing things that look like they've spilled, splashed, or spooged things on their clothes?

Oslo world's most expensive city
 

Actually, I think it's because they took the actual retail prices of things for their study. No New Yorker ever pays retail.

Oslo world's most expensive city
 

Untrue. NY is always stealing shit from Chicago and LA. It's the Microsoft of cities: big and unoriginal.

Oslo world's most expensive city
 

So people look stupid in LA and Chicago too?

I am your friend.
 

Why do young lawyers come here? For subsistence, but not that of beast or fauna, no people gather around this electric medium for the good will and emotional support that allows us to grind another day for our various taskmasters. And sometimes your constructive criticism stings a little too much- sometimes your "morsels of wisdom" provide no more subsistence that did the hamburger that sat simmering in my unpowered refrigerator just one week ago today. That's all i'm trying to get you to realize.

Oslo world's most expensive city
 

Speaking of which, I could use some advice on removing vegetable oil from a silk sweater. I've already blotted, but what should I do when I get home? I plan to dunk it in a tub of water and ivory dish soap.

And that's the last time I wear silk when meeting Shape Shifter for lunch. Dude, lay off the omega-3 supplements.

Epiphany.
 

I cannot believe I am saying this, but you're right. Although there may be a mean-spirited few who enjoy my patronizing barbs and cooler-than-thou schtick, the majority of posters on this board are here for affirmation, not bitter snipes. We share a community here and, though we may not know each others real names, we know each other's purity scores, whether an online algorithm thinks us male or female, and all sorts of other things thanks to infinite e-mode polls. Also, many of us have slept with others.

We post here when we are tired, or lonely, or need advice for a loved one or friend or even for ourselves. We post here because, deep down, we all seek the approval of our little virtual community. Indeed, even my cranky rants and condescending cut-downs are really nothing more than an attempt to be liked. Not too far below the surface of any of my posts, it is pretty clear that I want you to think I'm funny and I want you think I'm interesting. But I realize that I have been going about it the wrong way. I am like the kid on the playground who keeps going up to the girl on whom he has a crush and punching her in the arm, because he is too socially awkward to actually flirt. Well, after years of my self-idolization posts and impatient cut-downs, I think I am beginning to realize that I may have delivered a few too many cyber-punches to a few too many cyber-arms. And, although this may be a day late and a dollar short in a way that is both too little and too late, let me start to try to make things right by saying I'm sorry.