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Did you just call me Coltrane? 09-04-2009 02:41 PM
Re: What happened to the blow jobs and the buttsex?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Fugee (Post 398779)

nyah nyah nyah
You sound like a spitter.

LessinSF 09-04-2009 02:45 PM
Re: Look at this Fucking Hipster
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane? (Post 398687)
"Douchebag" has been in my vernacular since the mid-90s.
You need to move on to "shitpurse."

Did you just call me Coltrane? 09-04-2009 02:47 PM
Re: Look at this Fucking Hipster
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by LessinSF (Post 398784)
You need to move on to "shitpurse."
I like that. And "twatwaffle".

ThurgreedMarshall 09-04-2009 02:48 PM
Re: Look at this Fucking Hipster
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by greatwhitenorthchick (Post 398698)
The most horrifying retail experience I have had ever was at Abercrombie & Fitch. My boyfriend got a gift certificate from a relative so we decided to brave it so he could get a pair of jeans. First of all, we had to LINE UP to get into the store. Like it's a nightclub or something. Thankfully, we only waited 5 min or so. Then, it's pitch black in there. I kept tripping over stuff. Also, the music is blasting so you can't say what you need to the salesperson, who isn't paying any attention to you anyway. Also, it stinks. Absolutely stinks.

And they wouldn't let me in the fitting room with my boyfriend even though I just wanted to see how his jeans fit and we had absolutely no intentions of having sex or whatever they thought we were going to get up to because it's the unsexiest atmosphere ever. Also it is filled with Eurotrash and tourists and kids from Jersey and Staten Island. I am never going back in there.
I try not to be on the same side of the street when I have to walk by their flagship store on 56th. There is no better example of how stupid tourists are than the fact that they will line up around the corner to get in that ridiculous store. Holy crap.

TM

Atticus Grinch 09-04-2009 02:51 PM
Re: This is the thread where the fringster comes back with teeth
 
Actual newspaper headline:

Man admits allowing animals to kill each other.

Oh, the humanity!

ThurgreedMarshall 09-04-2009 02:53 PM
Re: What happened to the blow jobs and the buttsex?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by John Phoenix (Post 398749)
Do you like a soft or firm mattress? I've slept on a bed with at least a latex top (if not latex the whole way through), and it was pretty nice. Good for allergies, too.
They make them in degrees. Mine is latex all the way through and soft and firm at the same time.* I would say it is between soft and firm, but more on the firm side.

TM

*Have at it, you perverts.

John Phoenix 09-04-2009 02:59 PM
Re: Back to the Douchebags
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan (Post 398781)
The Houston Press came up with a helpful diagram and definition. (We have a street that was once full of live music venues that has recently been taken over by high-ish end bars, and the indie music folk have been bitching for the last week about it because the last live music venue on the street announced it is closing at the end of the month.)

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/douchetool.jpg

Their definition: "(n) An individual who has an over inflated sense of self worth, compounded by a low level of intelligence, behaving ridiculously in front of colleagues with no sense of how moronic he appears."
You've never heard the word used until you've heard Tracey Millman use it in an argument.

ThurgreedMarshall 09-04-2009 03:00 PM
Re: Back to the Douchebags
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan (Post 398781)
the last live music venue
This is probably just me, but am I the only one that thinks that almost every time there is live music at a bar, it sucks ass? The music is almost always overbearing, the talent level almost always really low and almost always, it makes drunk people act even dumber. I know there will be people who talk about their favorite spots that they go to just for the live music, but I don't do that. And whenever I'm in a place that happens to have live music, it blows.

TM

Icky Thump 09-04-2009 03:05 PM
Re: What happened to the blow jobs and the buttsex?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 398788)
Mine is latex all the way through . . .
TM
.
It's much easier to just wear a diaper to bed.

Fugee 09-04-2009 03:06 PM
Re: What happened to the blow jobs and the buttsex?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane? (Post 398783)
You sound like a spitter.
Spitter would be pbbt pbbt pbbt.

bold_n_brazen 09-04-2009 03:09 PM
Re: Back to the Douchebags
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan (Post 398781)
The Houston Press came up with a helpful diagram and definition. (We have a street that was once full of live music venues that has recently been taken over by high-ish end bars, and the indie music folk have been bitching for the last week about it because the last live music venue on the street announced it is closing at the end of the month.)

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/douchetool.jpg

Their definition: "(n) An individual who has an over inflated sense of self worth, compounded by a low level of intelligence, behaving ridiculously in front of colleagues with no sense of how moronic he appears."

http://www.campussqueeze.com/post/69...Douchebag.aspx

evenodds 09-04-2009 03:09 PM
Re: Back to the Douchebags
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 398791)
This is probably just me, but am I the only one that thinks that almost every time there is live music at a bar, it sucks ass? The music is almost always overbearing, the talent level almost always really low and almost always, it makes drunk people act even dumber. I know there will be people who talk about their favorite spots that they go to just for the live music, but I don't do that. And whenever I'm in a place that happens to have live music, it blows.
It's just you. I go out to hear live music frequently, and it's often in bars, rather than clubs (which is what people are upset about closing in Houston). In fact, a jazz singer who I absolutely adore, plays at restaurants around town regularly. I bought her album on iTunes after hearing her on the radio. (iPod was out of juice.)

I happen to live in a town that prides itself on live music. Not all of it is great, but every once in a while, it's an absolute blast.

Replaced_Texan 09-04-2009 03:19 PM
Re: Back to the Douchebags
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 398791)
This is probably just me, but am I the only one that thinks that almost every time there is live music at a bar, it sucks ass? The music is almost always overbearing, the talent level almost always really low and almost always, it makes drunk people act even dumber. I know there will be people who talk about their favorite spots that they go to just for the live music, but I don't do that. And whenever I'm in a place that happens to have live music, it blows.

TM
Well, the venues on Washington Avenue were the types of places you go specifically to hear someone play as opposed to going to the bar and someone happens to be playing that night.

My boyfriend is like you though. He refuses to listen to or seek out local bands on the basis that they're generally crappy. I chalk this up to his working in the music business for 15 or so years, 8 of them in e/o's live music town. He has to listen to crappy live music for work all the time. He'd rather not do it for fun.

Sidd Finch 09-04-2009 03:49 PM
Re: Back to the Douchebags
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan (Post 398781)
The Houston Press came up with a helpful diagram and definition. (We have a street that was once full of live music venues that has recently been taken over by high-ish end bars, and the indie music folk have been bitching for the last week about it because the last live music venue on the street announced it is closing at the end of the month.)

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/douchetool.jpg

Their definition: "(n) An individual who has an over inflated sense of self worth, compounded by a low level of intelligence, behaving ridiculously in front of colleagues with no sense of how moronic he appears."
The best examples are found on hotchickswithdouchebags.com.

More or less SFW.

Sidd Finch 09-04-2009 03:51 PM
Re: This is the thread where the fringster comes back with teeth
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch (Post 398787)
Actual newspaper headline:

Man admits allowing animals to kill each other.

Oh, the humanity!
Oh, ugh. Don't click that link if you've just eaten.

Hank Chinaski 09-04-2009 03:54 PM
Re: Back to the Douchebags
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan (Post 398798)
the types of places you go specifically to hear someone play as opposed to going to the bar and someone happens to be playing that night.
this is it. a bar that rotates bands through so they can sell live music tends to have bands selected to appeal to as wide an audience as possible- way wider than any performer just doing their stuff would be- it's like wedding bands-

Fugee 09-04-2009 03:54 PM
Re: Back to the Douchebags
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 398791)
This is probably just me, but am I the only one that thinks that almost every time there is live music at a bar, it sucks ass? The music is almost always overbearing, the talent level almost always really low and almost always, it makes drunk people act even dumber. I know there will be people who talk about their favorite spots that they go to just for the live music, but I don't do that. And whenever I'm in a place that happens to have live music, it blows.

TM
I only like it if I'm going specifically to hear the group/performer. Blues acts from other parts of the country that aren't famous enough to book bigger concert venues play at one of the Famous Dave's BBQ places here. And we have a bar/club that books jazz performers.

Hank Chinaski 09-04-2009 04:00 PM
my newest pet peeve
 
i just realized that iPhone and blackberry email carry a logo that is simply an advertisement, "sent via blackberry by ATT." i don't need to know you sent me an email from your phone, and i'm not sure i want others to know when i do.

can one tailor that format?

Adder 09-04-2009 04:04 PM
Re: Back to the Douchebags
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Fugee (Post 398805)
I only like it if I'm going specifically to hear the group/performer. Blues acts from other parts of the country that aren't famous enough to book bigger concert venues play at one of the Famous Dave's BBQ places here. And we have a bar/club that books jazz performers.
I was going to mock you for picking the chain bbq joint out of all of the Twin Cities music venues, but then I remembered that the Uptown Famous Dave's is a psuedo-club and does do decent live music.

My desire to mock you is therefore dissapointingly unsatisfied.*


*This may be sign line material for me., if I knew how to do that.

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) 09-04-2009 04:04 PM
Re: my newest pet peeve
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 398807)
i just realized that iPhone and blackberry email carry a logo that is simply an advertisement, "sent via blackberry by ATT." i don't need to know you sent me an email from your phone, and i'm not sure i want others to know when i do.

can one tailor that format?
Yes. It's in preferences settings on both.

I'd like to edit it to something that explains the crazy typos, though. Something like the doonesbury strips that mocked the Apple Newton.

Not Bob 09-04-2009 04:14 PM
Re: my newest pet peeve
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 398807)
i just realized that iPhone and blackberry email carry a logo that is simply an advertisement, "sent via blackberry by ATT." i don't need to know you sent me an email from your phone, and i'm not sure i want others to know when i do.

can one tailor that format?
Yes. It varies by version of phone and (at least for my colleague's new phone) whether you use an enterprise server or blackberry internet service. I have a slightly older model and was able to change the "sent via . . ." ad to my normal email signature block by going into email settings on the options icon on my BB, but that may have changed.

Go here and noodle around for your model, provider, etc. http://forums.crackberry.com/f61/signature-change-4143/

Fugee 09-04-2009 04:14 PM
Re: Back to the Douchebags
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Adder (Post 398808)
My desire to mock you is therefore dissapointingly unsatisfied.*
Suck it up, grasshopper.

bold_n_brazen 09-04-2009 04:16 PM
Re: my newest pet peeve
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) (Post 398809)
Yes. It's in preferences settings on both.

I'd like to edit it to something that explains the crazy typos, though. Something like the doonesbury strips that mocked the Apple Newton.
I was working on a deal once and an email came in with a tag line that read something like "sent from my blackberry while I ignore my wife and children and they nag me to turn the stupid thing off".

I like that one.

1436 09-04-2009 04:17 PM
Re: my newest pet peeve
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 398807)
i just realized that iPhone and blackberry email carry a logo that is simply an advertisement, "sent via blackberry by ATT." i don't need to know you sent me an email from your phone, and i'm not sure i want others to know when i do.

can one tailor that format?
for the iPhone: Settings: Mail, Contacts, Calendars : Signature

You can customize it to say something more witty, like "typed with thumbs" or "dictated but not reviewed"

notcasesensitive 09-04-2009 04:24 PM
Re: Back to the Douchebags
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Adder (Post 398808)
I was going to mock you for picking the chain bbq joint out of all of the Twin Cities music venues, but then I remembered that the Uptown Famous Dave's is a psuedo-club and does do decent live music.

My desire to mock you is therefore dissapointingly unsatisfied.*


*This may be sign line material for me., if I knew how to do that.
Typo and all?

Adder 09-04-2009 04:26 PM
Re: Back to the Douchebags
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by notcasesensitive (Post 398814)
Typo and all?
Naturally.

Pretty Little Flower 09-04-2009 04:34 PM
Re: Back to the Douchebags
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by notcasesensitive (Post 398814)
Typo and all?
Technically, I think that was a misspelling.

Adder 09-04-2009 04:38 PM
Speaking of Douchebags
 
I'm surprised no one has comments on the "AIDS awareness" adds featuring Hitler, Stalin and Goebbels that have been stirring things up on certain parts of the internet. Here's a link to Jezebel (spree: a larger version of the image accompanying the post clearly be nsfw (nipple) but you can't really tell from the thumbnail)

LessinSF 09-04-2009 05:11 PM
Re: This is the thread where the fringster comes back with teeth
 
If you like your old BOC or the Minutemen - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4s9T...eature=related

Oliver_Wendell_Ramone 09-04-2009 05:44 PM
Re: This is the thread where the fringster comes back with teeth
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by LessinSF (Post 398819)
If you like your old BOC or the Minutemen - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4s9T...eature=related

On a somewhat related note, The Hold Steady covering the Minutemen and BOC (with a little Drive By Trucker assist):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCasXbSaq6A


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-68TiSakxo

Hank Chinaski 09-04-2009 06:14 PM
Re: This is the thread where the fringster comes back with teeth
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by LessinSF (Post 398819)
If you like your old BOC or the Minutemen - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4s9T...eature=related
thurgreed was right?

evenodds 09-04-2009 06:32 PM
Gilt and Fashion Sales
 
Since the downturn, I have been spending more time on sites like Gilt, Rue la la, HauteLook and even ideeli,which are the online equivalent to Last Call @ Neiman Marcus . . . i.e., the greatest store ever (there is seriously nothing better than picking up a fabulous $600 dress for 75% off, whether or not we're in a recession).

Gilt is supposed to be the best of the bunch, and I prefer it because it features more of the brands I actually wear (they are having a Milly sale right now and had a VW lavender label sale last week). WWD had a blurb about Gilt this afternoon sponsoring shows for Alexander Wang, Peter Som, Philip Lim, and Rodarte during NY fashion week, which, frankly, endears them to me even more.

There is a "waiting list" for Gilt although I don't think that it takes long to get in off of it, but I have a couple of invites, so pm me if you are interested in jumping the line.

Flinty_McFlint 09-04-2009 06:43 PM
Re: Gilt and Fashion Sales
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by evenodds (Post 398835)
Since the downturn, I have been spending more time on sites like Gilt, Rue la la, HauteLook and even ideeli,which are the online equivalent to Last Call @ Neiman Marcus . . . i.e., the greatest store ever (there is seriously nothing better than picking up a fabulous $600 dress for 75% off, whether or not we're in a recession).

Gilt is supposed to be the best of the bunch, and I prefer it because it features more of the brands I actually wear (they are having a Milly sale right now and had a VW lavender label sale last week). WWD had a blurb about Gilt this afternoon sponsoring shows for Alexander Wang, Peter Som, Philip Lim, and Rodarte during NY fashion week, which, frankly, endears them to me even more.

There is a "waiting list" for Gilt although I don't think that it takes long to get in off of it, but I have a couple of invites, so pm me if you are interested in jumping the line.
Hey, on a totally unrelated note, I'm thinking up a song parody and I can't think of a good rhyme for bourgeoisie.

evenodds 09-04-2009 06:47 PM
Re: Gilt and Fashion Sales
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Flinty_McFlint (Post 398841)
Hey, on a totally unrelated note, I'm thinking up a song parody and I can't think of a good rhyme for bourgeoisie.
So it's good I deleted the line about shopping those sites in my unending desire for more cocktail dresses, as I can never have enough with all the parties and events going on?

Flinty_McFlint 09-04-2009 06:53 PM
Re: Gilt and Fashion Sales
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by evenodds (Post 398842)
So it's good I deleted the line about shopping those sites in my unending desire for more cocktail dresses, as I can never have enough with all the parties and events going on?
I don't see how that's helpful for me and my unrelated rhyming issues.

Hank Chinaski 09-04-2009 08:21 PM
Re: Gilt and Fashion Sales
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Flinty_McFlint (Post 398846)
I don't see how that's helpful for me and my unrelated rhyming issues.
howcomenogirlswanttofuckme rhymes.

John Phoenix 09-04-2009 08:43 PM
Re: All Mattresses, All the Time
 
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Flinty_McFlint 09-04-2009 09:56 PM
Re: Gilt and Fashion Sales
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 398849)
howcomenogirlswanttofuckme rhymes.
Just because you hear that in your head all day doesn't make it rhyme.

taxwonk 09-04-2009 10:23 PM
Re: Look at this Fucking Hipster
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by evenodds (Post 398583)
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?
The last time PLF and Icky Thump got together

http://9.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kp3...zhzdo1_500.jpg

taxwonk 09-04-2009 10:30 PM
Re: Look at this Fucking Hipster
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by evenodds (Post 398672)
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.
Parents of adolescents and pre-adolescents are the people who shop at Hollister and Aeropostale. People your age* who shop there should really just shoot themselves.




*Or, really, anyone over the age of 18


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